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Where Dreams Come Alive documents the initiatory patterns embedded in the journey of a Zulu woman's heroic confrontation with her calling to be a healer. The rich symbolic world of the African healer can be considered an image of a creative individuation that demonstrates the autonomy of deep psychic processes. Archetypal phenomena in the cosmology of the African healer are amplified through the stages of the alchemical opus and the psychology of C.G. Jung. These phenomena arise when there is a serious attempt to engage with the autonomous psyche. This in turn, suggests a return, with consciousness, to the instincts, to an inner numinosity, to the phenomenon of psyche and matter, and spirit in nature. A main focus in this work is the idea that there is a remarkable parallel between the valences given to dreams in the African healing realm as there is in the psychology of C.G. Jung. In a similar fashion to the analyst, the healer approaches the dream with respect for the numinosity of the dream images and messages. Attention to dream material is understood as essential for healing. The author's direct and personal collaboration with various indigenous healing communities in South and Southern Africa, Namibia and Botswana provides a rich backdrop to and foundation for her work. The meeting of two cultures in the therapeutic temenos and the ceremonial rituals of the African healing initiation provides the vessel for the transformation necessary for the emergence of something new and as yet largely unarticulated.

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Where Dreams Come Alive is a beautifully written book that illustrates in depth an initiation process of becoming an African healer. Using Jungian psychology and alchemical associations, Dr Radomsky skilfully describes the process through which her patient comes to understand and accept the need to combine her initial pull toward becoming a medical professional in the Western world with following the call from her unconscious to become an indigenous healer. This book offers many valuable insights into both the complexities and benefits of cross-cultural understanding and the reader will experience the gift of exploring initiation rites as well. Rose-Emily Rothenberg, Jungian analyst, author of The Jewel in the Wound: How the Body Expresses the Needs of the Psyche and Offers a Path to Transformation. What makes Where Dreams Come Alive particularly valuable is that Dr Radomsky has followed the call to two paths of individuation: Zulu healing and Jungian analysis. Her ability to understand the common threads illuminates every page. She offers a rich, integrated view of psyche, soul, and nature that is the hallmark of the African spirit - a view shared by C.G. Jung and alchemy. At a time when the world is in danger of forgetting, Dr Radomsky illustrates the profound harmony with inner and outer nature that is restored when one heeds the easily resisted and demanding call from the depths. Charles T. Zeltzer, Jungian analyst, author of Awakening to the Depths: Kundalini, Alchemy, and Individuation (forthcoming).

Where Dreams Come Alive is a beautifully written book that illustrates in depth an initiation process of becoming an African healer. Using Jungian psychology and alchemical associations, Dr Radomsky skilfully describes the process through which her patient comes to understand and accept the need to combine her initial pull toward becoming a medical professional in the Western world with following the call from her unconscious to become an indigenous healer. This book offers many valuable insights into both the complexities and benefits of cross-cultural understanding and the reader will experience the gift of exploring initiation rites as well. Rose-Emily Rothenberg, Jungian analyst, author of The Jewel in the Wound: How the Body Expresses the Needs of the Psyche and Offers a Path to Transformation. What makes Where Dreams Come Alive particularly valuable is that Dr Radomsky has followed the call to two paths of individuation: Zulu healing and Jungian analysis. Her ability to understand the common threads illuminates every page. She offers a rich, integrated view of psyche, soul, and nature that is the hallmark of the African spirit - a view shared by C.G. Jung and alchemy. At a time when the world is in danger of forgetting, Dr Radomsky illustrates the profound harmony with inner and outer nature that is restored when one heeds the easily resisted and demanding call from the depths. Charles T. Zeltzer, Jungian analyst, author of Awakening to the Depths: Kundalini, Alchemy, and Individuation (forthcoming).

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Lynne Radomsky, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and Jungian analyst with a professional focus on private practice, and post-graduate clinical training and supervision. She has published on this topic, and she lectures internationally on the amplification of African symbolism and the psychology of C.G. Jung.

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