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Title: Shadow Culture: Psychology and Spirituality in America by Eugene Taylor ISBN: 1-58243-080-2 Publisher: Counterpoint Press Pub. Date: 02 May, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.86 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Development Of The Transpersonal In America
Comment: I feel compelled to review this book because of the several bad reviews its received so far. I agree strongly with the review below by A Reader from San Francisco. This is a remarkable history of what I see as the true spirit of America, which is about as far removed from the Puritan ethic as one can get. For better or for worse, only in America could the developments described here take place. What Taylor very successfully shows is that there is nothing at all "New Age" about this attitude toward the conventional. Above all, though, I like SHADOW CULTURE for an entirely different reason. This was the first of several recent books I've read that discuss how the 60s counter-culture really *was* successful in bringing about a change in the American mindset. Again, for better or for worse, this is *not* the same country it was 50 years ago. There continues to be strong resistance to this from the far Right (take, for instance, the *viscious* hatred they hold for Mr. & Mrs. Clinton). But, as Taylor shows in this book, the "alternative" approaches to almost everything have decidedly permeated our culture. (I even read recently a newsletter from a medical malpractice company *strongly* advising doctors to become familiar with alternative practices, as the doctors are likely to do harm and get sued if they don't know how those things interact with prescription medications!) There's no turning back from this. Where it's heading, though, remains to be seen.
Rating: 2
Summary: A Shallow Analysis Masquerading as Scholarship
Comment: Taylor does indeed present an overview of a certain sort of tradition that has not been well-surveyed to this point. His historiography, while not deep, is adequate, given the wide range of material. However, Taylor's own agenda so overwhelms the history that his assessment of particular figures is nearly useless. To contrast broadly the "Western rationalist tradition" with the "Western visionary tradition" - as he does in various ways at every opportunity - is little more than name-calling. His "faith" in something called "pure religious experience" is almost 100 years out-of-date -- has the author not realized that all experience (including religious experience) is shaped by language, culture, and tradition? Unsuspecting readers, beware: a position as a psychitrist at Harvard does not make up for a history that is little more than an advertisement for his own personal spiritual predilection.
Rating: 1
Summary: Not useful and not very well written
Comment: Like some of the other reviewers I cannot say that this is an interesting book. I have read many New Age books, many of them quite scholarly. This is just not a good book. Sorry, Mr. Taylor -- better luck in the next life, eh?
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Title: The Discovery of Being: Writings in Existential Psychology by Rollo May ISBN: 0393312402 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 December, 1994 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Modern Man in Search of a Soul (Harvest Book) by Carl Gustav Jung ISBN: 0156612062 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1955 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Grand Inquisitor by Fyodor Dostoyevsky ISBN: 0804461252 Publisher: Ungar Pub. Co. Pub. Date: 01 December, 1981 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
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Title: Re-Visioning Family Therapy: Race, Culture, and Gender in Clinical Practice by Monica McGoldrick ISBN: 1572308249 Publisher: The Guilford Press Pub. Date: 29 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: VARIETIES OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE by William James ISBN: 0684842971 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1997 List Price(USD): $8.00 |
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