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The Faust Woman Poems

noreply@blogger.com (Genoa House) — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 21:58:00 +0000

What Became of Our Fierce Flowering?

The Faust Woman Poems
by Naomi Ruth Lowinsky

What became of our fierce flowering?

In the 1960s and '70s the long forgotten and forbidden Great Goddess roused herself from millennia of slumber and took possession of young women’s imaginations. That cast out She offered a Faustian bargain—She would rip you out of your narrow domesticated self image, thrust you into the wilds of sex, power and creativity, initiate you into the mysteries of Earth and Starry Heaven, but you would owe Her your soul. A generation of women followed Her. Some knew her as Feminism, some knew her as the Deep Feminine, many as both.

The Faust Woman Poems trace one woman’s Faustian adventures through that time. Most of a lifetime later the Great Goddess returns to the poet. As oceans rise and species die She demands Her due.

About the Author:
Naomi Ruth Lowinsky lives at the confluence of the River Psyche and the Deep River of poetry. The Sister from Below: When the Muse Gets Her Way tells stories of her pushy muse. She is the co-editor, with Patricia Damery, of the new collection Marked by Fire: Stories of the Jungian Way. In addition to the Faust Woman Poems, Naomi is also the author of three books of poetry, including the recently published Adagio & Lamentation. Her poetry has been widely published and she is the winner of the Obama Millennium Award. She is a member of the San Francisco Institute and has for years led a writing circle there, called Deep River.

Cover image Papilla Estelar is a painting by Remedios Varo, used with permission from the Varo Estate, © 2013 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VEGAP, Madrid.

Product Details
Paperback: 90 pages
Publisher: il piccolo editions; 1st edition (April 10, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN: 978-1926715971

HOW TO PRODUCE JOY : The Myth of Eros & Psyche

noreply@blogger.com (Genoa House) — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 15:00:00 +0000

A workshop with : Howard Teich, Ph.D., Psychotherapist

Saturday, September 22, 2012 (1-6PM)

San Francisco Zen Conference Center / 308 Page St.

With over 50 years as a psychotherapist, Howard Teich will guide you through this workshop through the inner alchemy of how to produce joy in every aspect of your life.

For more information :

http://www.facebook.com/events/451623348201876/

To reserve, contact Camille :

415-425-6515 / ocaramia@me.com

www.camillecusumano.com/writingblog/how-to-produce-joy

The Opening Scene—Toni Wolff and Emma Jung

noreply@blogger.com (Genoa House) — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 02:13:00 +0000

Opening Scene of Elizabeth Clark-Stern's OUT OF THE SHADOWS: A STORY OF TONI WOLFF AND EMMA JUNG featuring Rikki Ricard as Emma Jung and the author as Toni Wolff. A two-character play of passion and ideas chronicling the relationship between the two central women in the life of psychiatrist Carl Jung. Recorded in Seattle and performed throughout the US and for the International Jungian Congress in South Africa. Videographer John Stern; Sound operator Donna Lee. The play is available as a paperback and eBook.

Imagination and the Soul: Writing Your Soul Story

noreply@blogger.com (Genoa House) — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 02:10:00 +0000

The C.G. Jung Society of Seattle Presents:

Imagination and the Soul with Elizabeth Clark-Stern

Lecture: Friday, Sept. 14, 2012, 7 to 9 p.m.
Good Shepherd Center, Room 202, 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N., Seattle
$15 members, $25 nonmembers

“Once you enter into a deep relationship with the Archetypal, you'll have Her with you, always, through all the hubbub and challenges of everyday life. You are transformed.”
— Katherine Sanford, Jungian Analyst

Elizabeth Clark-Stern invites you to explore how symbol-making and imagination can be used to help develop a more intimate relationships with the soul. This magnificient treassure, the right side of the brain, is a powerful tool for learning to cope with, work through, and ultimately heal from the traumas in our lives.

Elizabeth will combine lecture, exemplary classic literature, and interactive exercises, to open our minds and hearts to the rich country of the imaginal world. In readings from her book, Soul Stories, Elizabeth will illustrate how the process of transforming your own story into archetypal symbols can provide the "royal road" to healing and to the divine. She will include Jung's concept of Active Imagination, and explore how his concept can be expanded to incorporate a daily practice of Imaginal Meditation.

Writing Your Soul Story
Workshop: Saturday, Sept. 15, 2012, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Good Shepherd Center, Room 202, 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N., Seattle
$50 members, $70 nonmembers
One hour lunch break

Preregistration for workshops is encouraged.
Tickets available at the door or at: www.brownpapertickets.com.
This workshop invites participants to descend into their imagination with the intention of forming a deeper connection to the soul. Elizabeth will provide guided meditation, and creative writing exercises, as guideposts for this process. Participants are encouraged to choose a path that is both nourishing and safe, while opening their minds to new forms of their story. Please bring paper , pen, and notebook.

Learning Objectives

Experience the connection between symbol-making, imagination, and the soul.
Use writing, reflection, and creative brainstorming to locate a core theme or story in your life.
Understand the different layers of story, and the power of learning how to frame "what happened" in a way that gives you a new perspective.
Experience the necessary significance of play and fun, and explore how to bring these into your life.
Using a symbol of your archetypal spirit guide within, further explore the benefit of Imaginal Meditation as a daily practice.

BOOK RELEASE CELEBRATION: After the September 14th Friday lecture 8:30 pm - 9:30 pm, Seattle Jungian analyst Ken Kimmel will join Elizabeth to provide his own insights about myth, story, imagination, and interview the author about her own writing process and healing the soul.

Elizabeth Clark-Stern is a psychotherapist in private practice in Lake Forest Park. Before embracing this beloved work, she worked as a professional writer and actor. Her produced plays and teleplays include: All I Could See From Where I Stood, Help Wanted, and Nana Sophia's Oasis. Her play Out of the Shadows was performed at the International Jungian Congress in South Africa in 2007, with the author portraying Toni Wolff. Out of the Shadows and her new book, Soul Stories, have been published by Genoa House, a division of Fisher King Press.

Beyond the Mask: The Rising Sign Parts I & II

noreply@blogger.com (Genoa House) — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 23:51:00 +0000

Beyond the Mask: The Rising Sign
Parts 1 & 2 (combined edition)
by Kathleen Burt

Shipping July 27, 2012

"Beyond the Mask will speak deeply to many--to astrologers and lovers of astrology at every level, archetypally minded people, depth psychologists and seekers from many walks of life."
—Monika Wikman Ph.D., Jungian Analyst and author of Pregnant Darkness: Alchemy and the Rebirth of Consciousness

Well known and respected internationally for her ground breaking work in Archetypes of the Zodiac, Kathleen Burt now offers us a phenomenal distillation of her life work in: Beyond the Mask: The Rising Sign - Part 1 & Part 2 illustrates how midlife urgings bring forth cycles of death and rebirth. Antiquated identities and roles must die, old 'masks' must be pealed away before we can discover a new path in life. Kathleen Burt addresses specifically how the twelve rising sign patterns guide us into new life and fresh experiences. With the keen eye of an astrologer examining the biography of creative writers and inspired people, Kathleen Burt brings a depth of understanding to the Rising Sign. This unique volume of wisdom offers decades of scholarly study and practical experience in esoteric astrology, psychology, mythology, and biography and examines the underlying archetypal patterns inherent in our lives.

An astrologer in private practice for 30 years, Kathleen Burt is the author of Archetypes of the Zodiac, a book about Sun Signs from the perspectives of mythology, psychology, and esoteric astrology, and the phenomenal distillation of her life work, Beyond the Mask: The Rising Sign. A Fulbright scholar to India, Kathleen completed her graduate work in South Asian history at the University of Chicago. She has taught at Roosevelt University, Chicago and Mira Costa College in CA. Patterns in Health, a two-year program on archetypes, dreams, ritual and Active Imagination led by Jungian analysts has influenced her life and client work. She currently teaches Viniyoga classes (sequencing and breathwork) in the tradition of T.K.V. Desikachar.

Paperback edition: 394 pages
Large Page format - 9.25" x 7.5"
Publisher: Genoa House (July 27, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1926975081
ISBN-13: 978-1926975085

News Release: The History of My Body

noreply@blogger.com (Genoa House) — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 20:00:00 +0000

2011 Book of the Year Award Finalists Announced

The History of My Body is a finalist for the 2011 Book of the Year Awards in the literary fiction category.

ForeWord Reviews is pleased to announce the 2011 Book of the Year Awards list of finalists. Representing more than 700 publishers, the finalists were selected from 1200 entries in 60 genre categories. These books are examples of independent publishing at its finest.

A twist on the traditional coming-of-age novel, Sharon Heath's The History of My Body is the story of Fleur Robins, daughter of an alcoholic mother and an anti-abortion crusading father, whose preoccupation with God and the void ends up thrusting her into the center of a culture war over the reach and limits of the human imagination.

Sharon Heath is a Jungian Analyst who writes fiction and non-fiction exploring the interplay of science and spirit, politics and pop culture, contemplation and community. The History of My Body is published by Genoa House, an imprint of Fisher King Press.

ForeWord Reviews' Book of the Year Awards program was established to help publishers shine an additional spotlight on their best titles and bring increased attention to librarians and booksellers of the literary and graphic achievements of independent publishers and their authors. Award winners are chosen by librarians and booksellers who are on the front lines, working everyday with patrons and customers.

ForeWord is the only review trade journal devoted exclusively to books from independent houses.

News Release: Solar Light, Lunar light

noreply@blogger.com (Genoa House) — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 20:00:00 +0000

Solar Light, Lunar Light:

Perspectives in Human Conciousness

by Howard Teich

“This is a significant, life changing book. Howard Teich’s work is crucial to understanding and healing the damage our rigid ideas of gender have done to us all, women and men alike.This is a book that can change how you see every problem you encounter and point you toward deeper more creative responses. Here is a psychology that has the potential of restoring us all and our world to wholeness.”

—Susan Griffin, author of A Chorus of Stones and Woman and Nature

“The perception that masculine and feminine traits represent oppositional forces has contributed to a long history of personal and cultural dysfunctions.Through a skillful interweaving of modern psychology, mythology and ancient history, Howard Teich offers a thought provoking thesis that these polarizing traits are actually cooperative partners in evolution’s dynamic dance. Solar Light, Lunar Light is a healing journey that encourages readers to transcend misperceived limitations so that we may write a new empowering chapter in human evolution.”

—Bruce H. Lipton, Ph.D., Cell biologist and bestselling author of The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter and Miracles

About the Author

Howard Teich, Ph.D. is a psychologist and consultant who lives and works in San Francisco, California. In addition to his private psychology practice for over 40 years, he has taught at the University of California, the California Institute of Integral Studies, Sonoma State University, and the Esalen Institute. His writings have appeared in publications such as Chrysalis, Parabola, San Francisco Jung Institute Journal, and Noetic Science Review, and have been included in several anthologies, including Use of Comparative Mythology: Essays on the Work of Joseph Campbell. His seminal work defining solar and lunar psychology is described at length in John Beebe’s book Integrity in Depth.

Product Details
Paperback; eBook editions: 120 pages
Publisher: Genoa House (April 17, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1926975057

ISBN-13: 9781926975054

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Solar Light, Lunar Light: Perspectives in Human Conciousness, along with the entire list of Genoa House publications, can be purchased at the Fisher King Press online bookstore.

Accessing your Creative Spirit

noreply@blogger.com (Genoa House) — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 03:14:00 +0000

The Creative Soul: Art and the Quest for Wholeness
by Lawrence H. Staples.

Who we most deeply are is mirrored in our artistic work. Our need for mirroring simultaneously attracts us to and repels us from our creative callings and relationships. It is one of life's great dilemmas.

Artist's block and lover's block flow from the same pool. Often, we fear deeply the very thing needed to create original art, to experience intimate relationships and to live authentic lives: we are frightened by the impulse to be fully revealed to ourselves, and to others, as this most often entails exposing the unacceptable shadowy aspects of our humanity and risking rejection.

Mirrors in all their manifold guises permit us to safely see and experience ourselves in reflection and become better acquainted with the rejected, ostracized aspects of our personalities. Creative work is one of the few places where we can truly express and witness lost aspects of our authentic selves.

Within us a treasure beckons. This is what we spend our lives pursuing. What slows and distracts us is not the object we long for, but where we search. To find this precious gem, we must eventually return to our own creative spirits.

A few of the topics explored in THE CREATIVE SOUL include:

THE CREATIVE INSTINCT
OUR UNIQUE IDENTITY
SOME ELEMENTS OF CREATIVITY
SOME PREREQUISITES OF THE CREATIVE PROCESS
GIVING VOICE TO THE MANY LIVES WITHIN
DREAMS AND ACTIVE IMAGINATION AS TRIGGERS TO CREATIVITY
CREATIVITY AND INDEPENDENCE
ART AND THE QUEST FOR WHOLENESS
THERAPY AS ART
FEAR OF SELF-REVELATION BLOCKS CREATIVITY
INTIMACY AND CREATIVITY
CREATIVITY, GUILT, AND SELF-DEVELOPMENT
CREATIVITY AND LONELINESS

The Creative Soul, along with the entire list of Genoa House publications, can be purchased at the Fisher King Press online bookstore.

News Release: The History of My Body

noreply@blogger.com (Genoa House) — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 20:15:00 +0000

Just Published by Genoa House

The History of My Body
by Sharon Heath

A twist on the traditional coming-of-age story, The History of My Body is young Fleur Robins' own telling of her quixotic attempts to save her beloved grandfather amid a hectic household composed of a crusading pro-life father with a distaste for actual children, a helpless wreck of an alcoholic mother, a middle-aged nanny with all the finesse of a Mack truck, a flatulent ex-nun, and a peripatetic population of babies saved from "the devil abortionists." Is Fleur autistic or gifted? Most people find her more than a little odd, with her penchant for pinching and flapping, fondness for fanciful word play, and preoccupation with God and the void. When Fleur fails to revive a dying baby bird in her father's garden, she sets in motion a series of events that thrusts her into the center of a culture war over the reach and limits of the human imagination.

About the Author

Sharon Heath writes fiction and non-fiction exploring the interplay of science and spirit, politics and pop culture, contemplation and community. A certified Jungian Analyst in private practice and faculty member of the C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles, she served as Associate Editor of Psychological Perspectives and Guest Editor of the special issue The Child Within/The Child Without. She has given talks in the United States and Canada on topics ranging from the place of soul in social media to gossip, envy, secrecy, and belonging.

Product Details
Paperback & eBook editions: 300 pages
Publisher: Genoa House (Oct. 15, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0981393022
ISBN-13: 978-1926975023

International Shipping.
Credit Cards Accepted.
Phone Orders Welcomed. US & Canada: 1-905-906-7799

The History of My Body, along with the entire list of Genoa House publications, can be purchased at the Fisher King Press online bookstore.

Soul Stories: Safari to Mara and Aria of the Horned Toad

noreply@blogger.com (Genoa House) — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 15:20:00 +0000

News Release

From the author of Out of the Shadows: A Story of Toni Wolff and Emma Jung, Genoa House brings you:

Soul Stories
Safari to Mara &
Aria of the Horned Toad
by Elizabeth Clark-Stern

"The characters in Soul Stories are so alive and compelling that they jump off the page right into your heart. Clark-Stern has the rare ability to blend her imaginative poetic voice with exciting page turning plots. Soul Stories will not only touch and engage young readers but are great adventures that will appeal to all ages."
—Beverly Olevin, winner of Kirkus Discoveries Best Fiction 2010 The Good Side of Bad

Soul Stories explores two worlds: the world we know with our feelings and senses -- sight, scent, touch, belonging, joy, loss, renewal -- and the parallel world of dreams, intuition, imagination, and the dimension of the unknown. Together these realms inform, shape, challenge, and nurture the soul.
Safari to Mara finds our heroine on the brink of womanhood in Masai society. The only daughter in a sonless family, she is drafted to do work in the modern world, yet tradition calls her to prepare for initiation as a wife. In the wilderness of her namesake, Kenya’s Masai Mara, she finds an improbable guide who leads her into the mysterious recesses of her awakening heart.

Aria of the Horned Toad begins with the dream of a horned toad crawling out of Beatrice’s eyes, “so real I could feel his prickly little feet on my nose.” And so begins an odyssey to the source of all dreaming. Beatrice believes that in this dark and luminous place, she can find someone to fashion a dream to fix her Mama’s terrible ways, and soothe the longing in her own wild spirit.

Elizabeth Clark-Stern is a psychotherapist in private practice in Seattle,Washington. Before embracing this beloved work, she worked as a professional screenwriter. Her produced plays and teleplays include All I Could See From Where I Stood, Help Wanted, and To See The Elephant. Her play, Out of the Shadows: A Story of Toni Wolff and Emma Jung (Genoa House 2010) was performed at the International Jungian Congress in South Africa in 2007.

Soul Stories

ISBN 13: 978-1-9269750-09-0

Fiction

Trade Paperback

Publication Date: June 21, 2011

Price: $17.95

Size: 6 x 9

180 Pages

Author: Elizabeth Clark-Stern

Publisher: Genoa House

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The History of my Body

noreply@blogger.com (Genoa House) — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 18:55:00 +0000

News Release

A twist on the traditional coming-of-age story that tackles themes of individuation, the shadow, and the religious function of the psyche -- imagine The World According to Garp meets The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. The History of My Body is young Fleur Robins' own telling of her quixotic attempts to save her beloved grandfather amid a hectic household composed of a crusading pro-life father with a distaste for actual children, a helpless wreck of an alcoholic mother, a middle-aged nanny with all the finesse of a Mack truck, a flatulent ex-nun, and a peripatetic population of babies saved from "the devil abortionists." Is Fleur autistic or gifted? Most people find her more than a little odd, with her penchant for pinching and flapping, fondness for fanciful word play, and preoccupation with God and the void. When Fleur fails to revive a dying baby bird in her father's garden, she sets in motion a series of events that thrusts her into the center of a culture war over the reach and limits of the human imagination.

Fleur's obsession with black holes brings her to the attention of Stanley H. Fiske, a quantum physicist with a face like a frog and a flair for magic tricks. When Fiske brings Fleur to Caltech, she develops a controversial theory of dematerialization. But Fleur has more than physics to learn about. She must surrender precocity, pride, and a crippling attachment to the past to repair a ruptured friendship and savor the luminous lunacy of her own youth.

About the Author

Sharon Heath is a Certified Jungian Analyst, a faculty member of the C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles, and a past Associate Editor of Psychological Perspectives, as well as Guest Editor of the special issue The Child Within/The Child Without. She lectures on a wide range of topics. Her article Gossip, Envy, Secrecy, and Belonging appears in the 2007 issue of The Journal of Jungian Theory and Practice. Sharon is currently at work on another novel.

Product Details

Paperback: 326 pages (estimate)

Publisher: Genoa House (July 1, 2011)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0981393022

ISBN-13: 978-1926975023

Out of the Shadows performance in Seattle

noreply@blogger.com (Genoa House) — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 21:46:00 +0000

Mars Hill Graduate School and Elizabeth Clark Stern present:
OUT OF THE SHADOWS
A Play By Elizabeth Clark Stern

Performance is May 7, 2011 (time and directions below)

The year is 1910. The work of Sigmund Freud, and his heir-apparent, Carl Jung, are transforming the way the world thinks about human nature and the inner recesses of the mind. It is a time of experimentation, expansion, and new frontiers of intellectual power. Into the heart of this world steps a 22 year old woman, a new patient of the now famous analyst, Carl Jung. Toni Wolff brings a new voice into this creative vortex that also includes Jung’s wife, Emma. The three of them form an unconventional triangle where the women compete for the role of Jung’s intellectual muse with more passion than they care about who shares his bed.

Who were these women to each other? We know that both were intellectual, independent, self-educated, at a time when Swiss women did not attend university. They were arguably quite hungry for another woman to talk to about ideas.

The play also explores the nature of Emma’s clandestine correspondence with Sigmund Freud, the separate relationship each woman had with C.G. Jung, and how this informed the women’s connection to each other. The themes of this story are endemic to our modern world: the nature of power, the complexity of relationships, oppression, betrayal, corruption, and redemption.

Saturday, May 7, 2011 Doors open 7:30pm and Curtain at 8pm
Mars Hill Graduate School
$8 Student/$12 General - Pay at the Door
Directions

Purchase Copies of this fine play from the publisher at the Genoa House Online Bookstore.

About the Author
Elizabeth Clark-Stern is a psychotherapist in private practice in Seattle, WA. Before embracing this beloved work, she worked as a professional writer and actor. Her produced plays and teleplays include All I Could See From Where I Stood, Help Wanted and Nana Sophia's Oasis. Out of the Shadows began as an independent study at Antioch University. Revised some years later, the International Association of Analytical Psychologists invited the original production to be performed at the International Jungian Congress in South Africa in 2007.

Snakes! Everyone should have at least one. . .

noreply@blogger.com (Genoa House) — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 09:18:00 +0000

Go West Young Lady! - News Release

Fisher King Press is pleased to
announce the publication of

Snakes, a novel
by Patricia Damery

Order Now

Go West Young Lady! Love – Sex – Naiveté – Family – Values – Commitment – Betrayal . . . Patricia Damery weaves a seductive tale about life’s insoluble contradictions. A Midwestern farm girl leaves the confines of her family heritage and is transformed by life’s vicissitudes. Snake stories, symbols of transformation, are cleverly intertwined in this highly entertaining novel as Angela, the heroine, undergoes numerous rights of passages, and comes to terms with life - her life – exactly where, when, and how it unfolds. Highly recommended, Snakes is deeply rooted in Mother Earth—and Soul.

—Literary Aficionado

Snakes is a poetic meditation about the intertwined cycles of life and farming . . . the memories, dreams and reflections of a nurturing mother claiming her authentic role within the natural order of children and husbands, kitchens and bedrooms, warm tidal pools and freshly ploughed fields—and gardens where snakes live amongst the flowers.

—Malcolm’s Round Table, Malcolm R. Campbell,

author of the novel Garden of Heaven: an Odyssey

So what is Snakes about? It is about the Risks we take, both major and minor, that coalesce over time to define our lives. It is about the Fear of the little things and Fear of the big things, and at the end of the day, the month, the season, and our lives, finding out that it was a shorter distance to Love than we thought. It’s about Mistakes and Regrets, and how necessary they both are to a life well and fully lived. It’s about the Earth and the Sea; the Individual and the Familial; Respect and Trust; Youth and Age. But most of all, Snakes is about finding one’s place in the Universe and how that journey is formed.

—New Mystics, Joey Madia, author of Jester-Knight

In addition to Snakes, Patricia Damery is the author of Farming Soul: A Tale of Initiation. She grew up in the rural Midwest and witnessed the demise of the family farm through the aggressive practices of agribusiness. With her husband Donald, she has farmed biodynamically for eleven years in the Napa Valley of California.

From Archetypes of the Zodiac to Beyond the Mask

noreply@blogger.com (Genoa House) — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 10:12:00 +0000

From Archetypes of the Zodiac to Beyond the Mask: News Release

Press Release

Genoa House is pleased to present:

Beyond the Mask: The Rising Sign Volumes I & II

Well known and respected internationally for her ground breaking work in Archetypes of the Zodiac, Kathleen Burt now offers us a phenomenal distillation of her life work in: Beyond the Mask: The Rising Sign - Volume I: Aries - Virgo (ISBN 978-0981393933) and Volume II: Libra - Pisces (ISBN 978-0981393995).

Antiquated identities and roles must die, old 'masks' must be pealed away before we can discover a new path in life. Kathleen Burt addresses specifically how the rising sign patterns guide us into new life and fresh experiences. With the keen eye of an astrologer examining the biography of creative writers and inspired people, Kathleen Burt brings a depth of understanding to the Rising Sign. These unique volumes of wisdom offers decades of scholarly study and practical experience in esoteric astrology, psychology, mythology, and biography and examines the underlying archetypal patterns inherent in our lives. Both volumes of Beyond the Mask illustrates how midlife urgings bring forth cycles of death and rebirth. Volume I addresses the Aries - Virgo rising sign. Volume II addresses Libra - Pisces rising sign.

About the Author
An astrologer in private practice for 30 years, Kathleen Burt is the author of Archetypes of the Zodiac, a book about Sun Signs from the perspectives of mythology, psychology, and esoteric astrology. A Fulbright scholar to India, Kathleen completed her graduate work in South Asian history at the University of Chicago. She has taught at Roosevelt University, Chicago and Mira Costa College in CA. Patterns in Health, a two-year program on archetypes, dreams, ritual and Active Imagination led by Jungian analysts has influenced her life and client work. She currently teaches Viniyoga classes (sequencing and breathwork) in the tradition of T.K.V. Desikachar.

Genoa House kindle editions now available in Canada

noreply@blogger.com (Genoa House) — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 10:29:00 +0000

Now available in Canada.

Genoa House kindle editions are now available to Canadian kindle readers and other Canadian reading devices with kindle applications.

Canada kindle editions

US kindle editions

Genoa House publishes an eclectic mix of worthy books including Astrology, Plays, Poetry, Psychological Perspectives, Cutting-Edge Fiction, and a growing list of alternative titles.

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Press Release: Beyond the Mask: The Rising Sign - Part II by Kathleen Burt

noreply@blogger.com (Genoa House) — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 08:24:00 +0000

With great pleasure Genoa House announced today

Available January 1st, 2011

Beyond the Mask: The Rising Sign
Part II: Libra-Piscesby Kathleen Burt

Well known and respected internationally for her ground breaking work in Archetypes of the Zodiac, Kathleen Burt now offers us a phenomenal distillation of her life work in: Beyond the Mask: The Rising Sign - Part II: Libra - Pisces. Beyond the Mask Part II illustrates how midlife urgings bring forth cycles of death and rebirth. Antiquated identities and roles must die, old 'masks' must be pealed away before we can discover a new path in life. Kathleen Burt addresses specifically how the Libra - Pisces rising sign patterns guide us into new life and fresh experiences. With the keen eye of an astrologer examining the biography of creative writers and inspired people, Kathleen Burt brings a depth of understanding to the Rising Sign: Libra - Pisces. This unique volume of wisdom offers decades of scholarly study and practical experience in esoteric astrology, psychology, mythology, and biography and examines the underlying archetypal patterns inherent in our lives.

About the Author
An astrologer in private practice for 30 years, Kathleen Burt is the author of Archetypes of the Zodiac, a book about Sun Signs from the perspectives of mythology, psychology, and esoteric astrology. A Fulbright scholar to India, Kathleen completed her graduate work in South Asian history at the University of Chicago. She has taught at Roosevelt University, Chicago and Mira Costa College in CA. Patterns in Health, a two-year program on archetypes, dreams, ritual and Active Imagination led by Jungian analysts has influenced her life and client work. She currently teaches Viniyoga classes (sequencing and breathwork) in the tradition of T.K.V. Desikachar.

Published by Genoa House and available from your local bookstore, a host of online booksellers, and directly from Genoa House. Beyond the Mask: The Rising Sign, Part II, ISBN: 978-0981393995, Publication Date: Jan 1, 2011 Price: $35.00. To order your copy call 1-888-298-9717. International orders call: +1-831-238-7799

Loss of Farmland, Loss of Soul

noreply@blogger.com (Genoa House) — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 10:37:00 +0000

Article by Patricia Damery

What is the impact on the human soul of a people losing the land they farm along with their right livelihood?

Growing up on a small farm in the Midwest, I was of the last generation to be raised in a large, predominately rural culture. When I entered first grade, almost all of my classmates’ fathers farmed. Our small farms punctuated the landscape, all at least a half mile apart, on a square mile road grid system that reached for hundreds of miles in every direction.

We were a very local people. We knew everyone in town, worshiped in our small country churches, shopped locally, patronized our country doctor and dentist. Neighboring towns’ schools were our competitors. All winter everyone followed the high school basketball games. We intimately knew our landscape, its slightest variations, which would not be noticed by non-locals, the areas that were damp, the wooded creeks lining the horizon. But get three or four miles away and the landscape was strange. Even today I can get lost in this grid system if I get out of the three or four mile radius I was raised in.

The land we lived on was once a sea bottom and then, about 15,000 years ago, scraped flat by a glacier. Over centuries deep-rooted prairie vegetation built three to four feet of rich topsoil. In the last 150 years farmers have wiped out almost all of these native plants as they mined the riches of the soil. Perhaps one percent of the prairie survives and only along railroad rights-of-way and ditches. Prairie chickens, still abundant at the turn of the last century when my grandmother was a girl, are extinct. But the amazing thing is, the never-tilled areas, left unmowed and unsprayed, sprout big blue stem prairie grass and Indian grass, even after one hundred years.

By the time I graduated from high school, many of my classmates’ fathers had sold their farms and prematurely retired or had taken jobs in the city 15 miles away. My mother started teaching as the youngest of us entered school, so my own father could keep farming. Empty storefronts were showing up in town. We lost our grocery store. Within a few years, the high school was consolidated with our nearby competitor. High schoolers no longer “walked beans” for summer money because herbicides stopped anything growing but soybeans. We all celebrated this. I hated walking beans! It was hot and dusty, tedious work.

We all knew most of my generation could not stay in the community, although it was never discussed. We were baby-boomers, born after the Second World War, and there was no place for most of us. The future was of large farms, using chemicals for fertility and weed and pest control. Less labor was required. We were told that this was the “only way to feed the world,” an arguable assertion, as it turns out. Of course, the small towns suffered. Statistics say that for every five farms lost, a local business in town closed. So over the next 10 or 20 years, a viable way of life was dissembled, largely through the corporate interests of chemical and seed companies. Large-holding farmers became wealthy while also receiving government subsidies, while more and more small farmers were snuffed out. The Midwest is riddled by what have become almost ghost towns and bedroom communities.

I am heartbroken about what has happened to the land, the communities, the people there. Whereas before, land stewardship was paramount, requiring a sense of reverence and humility, production became the god. And although these chemical solutions worked their magic, increasing production to levels that would shock our grandfathers, many of the people have cancer and autoimmune syndromes. People eat the same amounts they ate when they worked 16 hours a day, and for the first time, obesity is rampant. Last year my cousin complained that she could no longer have a garden because “overspray” from the fields kills everything— but corn and soybeans.

As a Jungian analyst, I question the impact of this separation from the earth through the demise of the small farm without care to maintaining respectful connection to the earth. What is the subsequent soul loss? One hundred years ago 98 percent of our country was agrarian. Now less than 2 percent is. Most of our immigrant ancestors were farmers and had been for generations, so this represents a sea change. Carl Jung asserted, “...he who is rooted in the soil endures. Alienation from the unconscious and from its historical conditions spells rootlessness. That is the danger that lies in wait for the conqueror of foreign lands, and for every individual who, through one-sided allegiance to any kind of -ism, loses touch with the dark, maternal earthy ground of his being.”¹

Are our current attitudes toward the earth impacted by the lack of grieving this loss of relationship to the earth, so necessary in re-establishing a renewed, updated sense of place? As Jung intimated, could our lack of grieving a way of life be connected to the mass migrations into America in the last two hundred or so years? My own relatives never spoke of Ireland and Wales, lands they had left only decades before. In contrast our Irish relatives in Ireland did remember who left, and still do. Did the shock of such migration affect the ability to bond again with a piece of earth?

Many farmers knew the old ways of communing with non-human living beings. There was a sense of reverence that is important in any relationship to nature, our earth, and our psyche. Yet, as it came down in the Midwest, farmers also became intermediaries in transforming native prairie into chemical minefields.

We need a balanced approach to the earth, one returning to ancient spiritual sensitivities, if we are to survive. We have developed our intellect as a people: however, intellect is not a god, nor is production, an outgrowth of intellect. The over reliance on production and intellect is one-sided and unbalances both the earth and the psyche .

We need both to be able to expand into and be in relationship with nature, recognizing ourselves only one part of it, and to consciously think about the relationships we experience. No longer able to rely on old ways, we need new ways to re-establish relationship with the earth. I have come to believe our planet— and our souls —depend on it.

Patricia Damery is the author of Farming Soul, a courageous offering that will help to reconnect us to our deeper selves, the often untouched realities of soul, and at the same time ground us in our physical relationship to self and Mother Earth.

Patricia Damery is an analyst member of the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco and practices in Napa, CA. She grew up in the rural Midwest and witnessed the demise of the family farm through the aggressive practices of agribusiness. With her husband Donald, she has farmed biodynamically for ten years. Her chapter, "Shamanic States in Our Lives and in Analytic Practice" appeared in The Sacred Heritage: The Influence of Shamanism on Analytical Psychology, edited by Donald Sandner and Steven Wong, and her articles and poetry in the San Francisco Library Journal, Jung Journal: Culture and Psyche, Psychological Perspectives, and Biodynamics: Working for Social Change Through Agriculture.

References:
¹C. G. Jung, Collected Works, Volume 5 ¶103

noreply@blogger.com (Genoa House) — Sun, 23 May 2010 20:28:00 +0000

Just Published by Genoa House:

Out of the Shadows a Play in Two Parts
by Elizabeth Clark-Stern

Out of the Shadows began as an independent study at Antioch University. Revised some years later, the International Association of Analytical Psychologists invited the original production to be performed at the International Jungian Congress in South Africa in 2007.

The year is 1910. Sigmund Freud and his heir-apparent, Carl Jung, are changing the way we think about human nature and the mind. Twenty-two year old Toni Wolff enters the heart of this world as Jung’s patient. His wife, Emma Jung, is twenty-six, a mother of four, aspiring to help her husband create the new science of psychology. Toni Wolff’s fiercely curious mind, and her devotion to Jung, threaten this aspiration. Despite their passionate rivalry for Jung’s mind and heart, the two women often find themselves allied. Born of aristocratic Swiss families, they are denied a university education, and long to establish themselves as analysts in their own right. Passionate and self-educated, they hunger for another intellectual woman with whom to explore the complexities of the soul, the role of women in society, and the archetypal feminine in the affairs of nations.

Their relationship spans 40 years, from pre-World War I to the dawn of the Atomic Age. Their story follows the development of the field of psychology, and the moral and professional choices of some of its major players. Ultimately, Toni and Emma discover that their individual development is informed by both their antagonism, and their common ground. They struggle to know the essence of the enemy, the “other,”and to claim the power and depth of their own nature.

About the Author

Elizabeth Clark-Stern is a psychotherapist in private practice in Seattle, Washington. Before embracing this beloved work, she worked as a professional writer and actor. Her produced plays and teleplays include, All I Could See From Where I Stood, Help Wanted, and Nana Sophia's Oasis.

Published by Genoa House and available from your local bookstore, a host of online booksellers, Out of the Shadows ISBN: 978-0-9813939-4-0, Publication Date: June 1, 2010, Price: $17.95. To order your copy call 1-905-906-7799

Press Release: Out of the Shadows

noreply@blogger.com (Genoa House) — Sun, 16 May 2010 06:05:00 +0000

With great pleasure Genoa House announced today:
Available June 1st, 2010

Out of the Shadows
a Play by Elizabeth Clark-Stern

About the Author
Elizabeth Clark-Stern is a psychotherapist in private practice in Seattle, Washington. Before embracing this beloved work, she worked as a professional writer and actor. Her produced plays and teleplays include, All I Could See From Where I Stood, Help Wanted, and Nana Sophia's Oasis. Out of the Shadows began as an independent study at Antioch University. Revised some years later, the International Association of Analytical Psychologists invited the original production to be performed at the International Jungian Congress in South Africa in 2007.

Published by Genoa House and available from your local bookstore, a host of online booksellers, and directly from Genoa House. Out of the Shadows ISBN: 978-0-9813939-4-0, Publication Date: June 1, 2010, Price: $17.95. To order your copy call 1-905-906-7799

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Press Release: RR Document

noreply@blogger.com (Genoa House) — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 07:05:00 +0000

With great pleasure Genoa House announced today
Now Available
The RR Document by J.G. Moos.

The RR Document is a crime thriller concerning technological misadventure and political machinations. Throughout this well-written novel the reader will discover a kaleidoscope of cultural experiences. The charms of Zurich are explored, as is the city of Bogota with its millions of inhabitants - many of whom live in squalor and a few with great riches. The RR Document shows to what ends political power and riches can lead: to uninhibited treatment of human beings and the outer bounds of depravity and perversity, yet, more importantly the heights of love, affection, and astounding beauty.

'The Bridge' was the working title for the RR Document, referring to an actual event that occurred near Geneva in the seventies. A highway ramp leading from the lake to the Geneva-Lausanne Autoroute sank several centimeters under one of its very elegant slender pillars during the loading test. This accident, when combined with a great variety of actual and fictitious experiences, and peopled with many attractive as well as less attractive characters, turns out to be the nail on which this novel's hat hangs.

About the Author

Born in Koenigsberg, East Prussia, to a Swiss father and a British mother, Jack Gustav Moos was schooled in England and Switzerland before moving to California. He and his twin brother Henry were in such Hollywood films as “A Yank at Eton” with Mickey Rooney, “Two Tickets to London” and “Senate Page Boys.” He graduated from Hollywood High School and studied art at the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles before returning to Switzerland and spending a full and fascinating life as a marketing consultant serving clients all over the world as well as The United Nations. Jack now resides in Küsnacht, Switzerland and spends most of his days—and many nights—working as a commissioned portrait and landscape painter. His last three one-man exhibitions 2007, 2008 and 2009 held in Erlenbach and Küsnacht were a remarkable success.

The Trade Paperback List price of the RR Document is $19.95 USD

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News Release: Beyond the Mask

noreply@blogger.com (Genoa House) — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 07:01:00 +0000

With great pleasure Genoa House announced today

Available January 1st, 2010

Beyond the Mask: The Rising Sign

Creativity and Spirituality in the Second Half of Life

Part I: Aries - Virgo

by Kathleen Burt

Beyond the Mask: The Rising Sign emerged from Kathleen Burt’s weekend workshops. It includes archetypal elder stories and examples taken from the lives of writers, artists, psychologists and several stories from Kathleen’s client work.

“Kathleen Burt analyzes and explains Rising Signs with brilliant insight, deft wit and scholarly skill. Beyond the Mask is a major addition to astrological literature; trenchant, sagacious—a riveting read.”

—Jeannette Scollard, author, Seeking Bliss, San Diego, CA.

“Beyond the Mask is a treasure that every professional and amateur astrologer needs to keep on his desk. As Kathleen Burt combines myth and legend, the Rising Signs jump off the page. Her detailed examples are entertaining and memorable, depicting the challenges and joys of each Sign.”

—Vicki Gloor, TV producer; author of the children’s book,

The King is Coming to Dinner.

An astrologer in private practice for 30 years, Kathleen Burt is the author of Archetypes of the Zodiac, a book about Sun Signs from the perspectives of mythology, psychology, and esoteric astrology. A Fulbright scholar to India, Kathleen completed her graduate work in South Asian history at the University of Chicago. She has taught at Roosevelt University, Chicago and Mira Costa College in CA. “Patterns in Health,” a two-year program on archetypes, dreams, ritual and Active Imagination led by Jungian analysts has influenced her life and client work. She currently teaches Viniyoga classes (sequencing and breathwork) in the tradition of T.K.V. Desikachar.

Published by Genoa House and available from your local bookstore, a host of online booksellers, and directly from Genoa House. Beyond the Mask: The Rising Sign, Part 1, ISBN: 978-0-9813939-3-3, Publication Date: Jan 1, 2010, Price: $25.00. To order your copy call 1-905-906-7799.

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News Release: New Publication by Nigerian Physician/Author Kehinde Ayeni

noreply@blogger.com (Genoa House) — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 05:23:00 +0000

With Great Pleasure Genoa House announced today:
Available January 1st, 2010
Feasts of Phantoms a novel by Kehinde Adeola Ayeni
ISBN 978-0981393926

How is a well meaning mother to protect her daughter from a culture where the birth of a baby girl is met with despair because the only future open to her is that of sexual assault and teenage pregnancy, which would doom her to a life of illiteracy and poverty as it has doomed her lineage before her? Genital mutilation has many causes but at the root of all of them is fear. A fear that pushes a mother to do the unthinkable to a daughter that she loves? What does a scapegoat do with the fate she has been handed? Accept it and roll with it, or reject it? How is she to reject it when the acceptance of her role is needed for her culture's psychic equilibrium? In the theater of the mind where all springs forth, is there such a thing as an innocent victim, and a victimizer? 'Feasts of Phantoms' is a novel that explores of all of these questions, and much more.

Kehinde Adeola Ayeni, MD., a public health physician, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst was born in Nigeria. A mother of two children, she is private practice in Farmington Hills, Michigan. Her first novel Our Mother's Sore Expectations explored the plight of women under dictatorship government in Nigeria. Dr. Ayeni founded the Foundation for Indigenous Development and Advocacy (Foundida.org), a nonprofit organization whose goal is that every Nigerian child has at minimum an elementary school education, and she works closely with Educare Trust Fund based in Ibadan, Nigeria (Educaretrust1994.org)

Feasts of Phantoms
a novel by Kehinde Adeola Ayeni
-- ISBN 978-0981393926
Available your local bookstore, a host of online booksellers and directly from Genoa House.

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News Release: Main Street Stories

noreply@blogger.com (Genoa House) — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 05:20:00 +0000

With great pleasure, Genoa House announced today:

Available January 1st, 2010
Main Street Stories
a Novel by Phyllis LaPlante

Tales intertwine in the small town of Massey, Texas, whose quiet streets seem to breed infidelity, betrayal, mental illness, and violence, in Phyllis LaPlante’s highly entertaining character driven novel Main Street Stories. The townspeople love gossip even more than high school football. Nadine Coulter, a divorced hairdresser, fulfills her sexual desires with a much younger lover, while fretting about her teen-aged daughter who is quickly earning a bad reputation. Janice Tuttle commits suicide by drowning. Joe Eliot hallucinates enemies and nearly kills his brother-in-law. Did Danny Tomlin actually kill his illegitimate child? Wayne Pickens is whipsawed between the demands of his religion and the urges of his body. Dorothy Harmon agonizes over her lesbian lover’s penchant for young girls. Adam Robbins, the preacher’s son, is perpetually on the make, living out the shadowy un-lived life of his father . . .

About the Author
Phyllis LaPlante is a Jungian analyst who lives with her husband in Fairfax, Virginia. She received a B.A. in English from Valparaiso University, MSW from Catholic University of America, and diploma from the C.G. Jung Institute of New York. She is on the faculty of the C.G. Jung Institute of Philadelphia and a training analyst with the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts. She edited When the Body Speaks (Routledge 2000) and lectures on the archetype of abandonment. She is on the Board of THC, a non-profit partnership that combats homelessness in Washington, D.C. Main Street Stories is her debut novel.

Published by Genoa House and available from your local bookstore, a host of online booksellers, and directly from Genoa House. Main Street Stories, ISBN: 978-0-9813939-1-9, Publication Date: Jan 1, 2010, Price: $19.95. To order your copy call 1-905-907-7799

Genoa House to publish Kehinde Ayeni's 'Feasts of Phantoms'

noreply@blogger.com (Genoa House) — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:29:00 +0000

Feasts of Phantoms
a novel by Kehinde Adeola Ayeni
ISBN 978-0-9813939-2-6, 346 pp
Publication Date: January 2010

In a culture where the birth of a baby girl is met with despair because the only future open to her is that of sexual assault and teenage pregnancy, which would doom her to a life of illiteracy and poverty as it has doomed her lineage before her, how is a well meaning mother to protect her daughter from such a fate?

Genital mutilation has many causes but at the root of all of them is fear. A fear that pushes a mother to do the unthinkable to a daughter that she loves?

What does a scapegoat do with the fate she has been handed? Accept it and roll with it or reject it? How is she to reject it when her acceptance of her role is needed for her culture’s psychic equilibrium?

In the theater of the mind where all springs forth, is there such a thing as an innocent victim, and a victimizer?

Feasts of Phantoms is an exploration of all of these questions.

Kehinde Adeola Ayeni, MD., a public health physician, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst was born in Nigeria. A mother of two children, she is private practice in Farmington Hills, Michigan. Her first novel Our Mother's Sore Expectations explored the plight of women under dictatorship government in Nigeria. Dr. Ayeni founded the Foundation for Indigenous Development and Advocacy (Foundida.org), a nonprofit organization whose goal is that every Nigerian child has at minimum an elementary school education, and she works closely with Educare Trust Fund based in Ibadan, Nigeria (Educaretrust1994.org).

Publication Date: January 2010
Click on the following link to place an advance order for Feasts of Phantoms

Love Letters of a Musician

noreply@blogger.com (Genoa House) — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 06:49:00 +0000

Love Letters of a Musician
by Peter Alan Rush
—ISBN 978-0-9773237-0-8, 164 pp. $35.00

With elegant simplicity and passion, the lost art of the love letter returns to life in these pages. Welcome to a realm where the magic of love is illuminated through the written word . . . a timeless gift from one heart to another.

"In this world of confusion and chaos, we must not forget what is real. Love is the mysterious connection with life that can lead us back to our true selves."

This quality book comes in a beautiful gift box. This hard cover purple linen cloth is stamped in gold foil on the spine, front cover, and on the front of the gift box. The pages are of a lightly textured parchment paper and a purple ribbon marker adds to this tasteful limited edition publication and makes a great gift for any special occasion!

Love Letters of a Musician—by Peter Alan Rush
ISBN 978-0-9773237-0-8 Hard Cover Limited Edition
~~$35.00 USD~~ On Sales for $29.95