Dark Side/Shadow

Code	Name	Price	Description
00308	Bly, Robert What The Shadow Knows	$11.95	Bly says that as children, we tried to figure out what everyone else wanted and abandoned our selves. In doing that, the self was deeply betrayed. Then we spend the rest of our lives trying to regain our shadow. (Taken from FACES OF THE ENEMY CONFERENCE -entire conference available) - 1983 San Francisco - One Audiotape
02810	Bateson, Gregory It Used To Matter	$11.95	Referring to Accidie, the medieval devil representing sloth that arises from hopelessness, Bateson contrasts modern-day society to the 19th Century, particularly in relation to the lustiness or enthusiasm of the 19th Century and its activities. - 1980 Esalen - One Audiotape
04001	May, Rollo Violence and The Daimonic	$11.95	May traces the sources of violence and aggression in our culture and man's relationship to evil and the daimonic. He explores the concept that evil can be used for good and that in every act of justice, we need to be sensitive that there is also an injustice. - 1970 Esalen - One Audiotape
04003	May, Rollo Creativity And The Daimonic	$18.95	In psychotherapy and the creative process, May considers it necessary to confront and wrestle with the daimonic. He defines the daimonic as any natural function which has the power of taking over the personality - sex and eros, anger and rage, and the craving of power - and discusses the curious phenomenon that a creative person always lives with, and produces partly by virtue of the daimonic. - 1968 Esalen - Two Audiotapes
04201	Naranjo, Claudio Goodness Of The Devil	$11.95	Naranjo talks about mythology, theology, poetry, psychological states and drugs in relation to the "devil." - 1969 Esalen - One Audiotape
04202	Naranjo, Claudio Dante's Way To The Stars	$11.95	Midway in our life's journey I went astray from the straight road and woke to find myself alone in a dark wood. Thus Dante begins his journey, which may lead one to one's full spiritual goal after knowledge of hell. Naranjo relates Dante's way to mystical schools, religions and modern psychology. - 1968 Esalen - One Audiotape
05701	Keen, Sam Paranoia, Propaganda and Projection	$11.95	Keen looks at the deeper causes of the antagonistic mind and the roots of the human capacity to wound, kill, and make enemies. He discusses what we do to dehumanize other human beings in order to allow us to kill them with a clear consciousness. (Taken from FACES OF THE ENEMY CONFERENCE -entire conference available above) - 1983 San Francisco - One Audiotape
05705	Faces Of Enemy Conference	$56.95	This conference examines the darkness, the shadow within us, which leads to the destruction of ourselves and others. The premise is that hope begins when we acknowledge and face our dark side, re-owning our projections and learning to change the habitual patterns of our antagonistic mind. Speakers and topics include: Sam Keen - Paranoia, Propaganda and Projection; Ashley Montague - Is There Any Way Out?; Valenyin Berezhkov - How Russians Perceive Americans; Arthur Cox - How Americans Perceive Russians; Susan Griffin - The Need for an Enemy; Robert Bly - What the Shadow Knows; Richard Baker-Roshi - An Eastern Perspective; and William Sloane Coffin - A Western Perspective. - 1973 Esalen - Six Audiotapes
33005	Kramer, Joel Spiritual and Violence	$11.95	Spirituality and violence have been deeply intertwined historically says Kramer creating the current planetary contex of morality and power. Evolution uses crises and necessity to forge change. He states that our survival depends on a more evolved relationship to spirit that bring together things traditionally considered opposits, such as egoism and alturism, control and surrender, and competiton and cooperation. - - One Audiotape
40006	Hoeller, Stephan Integrating Evil In Society	$11.95	Hoeller says that when individuals or societies lack self-knowledge and interior integration, they project the evil or shadow content of the unconscious and make the presence of an evil and loathsome enemy a veritable psychic necessity. - 1981 Los Angeles - One Audiotape
JN004	Maslow, Abraham Criteria For Judging	$11.95	There is embedded in most discussions of instinctoid needs the belief that our most primitive impulses are only greedy or evil, selfish or destructive: this is innaccurate. Maslow argues that neglecting these impulses causes psychological illness. - 1963 Washington, Dc - One Audiotape
JT001	Meeting The Shadow (Book)	$15.95	A collection of 65 wide-ranging articles by Jung, Bly, Campbell, Wilber, Hillman, Peck, and many others. The collection presents an overview of the dark side of human nature. It also offers tools for individual "shadow work." - - One BOOK
40004	Hoeller, Stephan Devil As Shadow Of God	$11.95	eller traces historically the many views and definitions of evil, from the most ancient people and their matter-of-fact attitude, to today's attitude of evil as a great and awesome metaphysical concern and mystery. - 1982 Los Angeles - One Audiotape
40005	Hoeller, Stephan Servents Of The Shadow	$11.95	Through history many individuals and groups have been taken over by the shadow of their own nature, or by the universal shadow. Hoeller explores the inevitable aspect of human nature that attempts to rid itself of the dark, the unacceptable and evil side of itself by projecting that shadow in someone else. - 1982 Los Angeles - One Audiotape
33004	Kramer, Joel Moral Wars and Survival	$11.95	Kramer states that the basic battle on the planet today is for people`s minds. Who has the right to decide what`s right and what gives anyone the right to do so is central in this struggle. Kramer says that any morality that polarizes altruism and egoism, cooperation and competition, is authoritarian, and thus cannot cope with acceleration change. Such dysfunctional moralities, our operating systems, are at the core of social breakdown and the problems threating humanity. - - One Audiotape
33003	Kramer, Joel Decoding Social and Spiritural Control	$11.95	Authoritariam hidden in culture, values and our minds is an age-old planetary "social virus" geared at maintaining power. It is at the core of many basic global and personal problems - including social breakdown and difficulties with addiction, self-control, and intimacy. This talk extending the ideas of The Gugu Papers: Masks of Authoritarian Power shows that people are not the problem, but rather traditional morality - our guidelines for relating - is dysfunctional in today`s complex world. - - One Audiotape
KR001	Kramer, Joel and Diana Alstad The Gugu Papers (Book)	$15.95	Easily the most comprehensive, erudite, and timely book in print to explore authoritarianism in religion, institutions, power, the family, intimacy and sexual relations, and personal problems such as addiction.... Argues persuasively that any system of values that places tradition and the past above the imperative to question the present is destined to become increasingly lethal. - Keith Thompson, San Francisco Chronicle. - - One BOOK