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Ira Progoff (1921–1997)

Autor/a de At a Journal Workshop

25+ obres 1,456 Membres 10 Ressenyes 3 preferits

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Obres de Ira Progoff

At a Journal Workshop (1975) 564 exemplars
Death and Rebirth of Psychology (1956) 67 exemplars
Depth Psychology and Modern Man (1973) 45 exemplars

Obres associades

The Cloud of Unknowing (1957)algunes edicions; algunes edicions1,576 exemplars
Mysticism (1955) — Pròleg, algunes edicions1,041 exemplars

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This seemed like a great book, full of ideas, until I tried doing some of its exercises. It's very formulaic and prescriptive, doesn't encourage free-form journaling.

It didn't work with the way I like to think and how like to journal.
 
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mykl-s | Hi ha 5 ressenyes més | Feb 25, 2023 |
I gave this book a try roughly twenty-five years ago and soon put it aside. I now realize what the problem was. This is one of those books that reads like the script Progoff may have used in a live workshop setting. A speaker often restates the same point in various ways to make sure that point has gotten across. A writer doesn’t need to. When he does anyway, he risks having his reader’s eyes glaze over, and the reader risks missing valuable material.
The primary beneficiaries of this book, then, would be those who attended a Dialogue House workshop, where Progoff or another facilitator introduced intensive journaling. Having this text would be a handy way of refreshing its method for continued work on the journal after the workshop.
Nevertheless, there is useful material here for those of us who are on our own as we work with the raw material of our lives to detect its movement through time with the hope of integrating its varied facets and experiences. The book reflects throughout Progoff’s conviction that each individual life is a potential work of art.
This may sound solipsistic, even narcissistic, but balanced against it is an image Progoff uses that I found enlightening: Our exploration of our lives, with its excavation of ever-deeper layers, is like going down a well. When we reach the bottom, we discover that this well is fed by the same underground springs as many other wells. We come away from this experience not only with a deeper recognition of the unique course of our personal lives but also its connectivity with the rest of humanity.
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HenrySt123 | Hi ha 5 ressenyes més | Jul 19, 2021 |
Half the book is formatted so that one page is a "meditation log" which the reader is supposed to write on, and the facing page is a fustian, zen-like, contrived poem; for example: "Everything we behold/ We draw into our Self./ So we draw it into our Self./The underground stream/Is one with us." I can't. I just can't. Even though he's a Jungian.
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deckla | May 29, 2018 |
 
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Baku-X | Hi ha 1 ressenya més | Jan 10, 2017 |

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