Cultural Dreams: windows to the future (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781986223065)

I hold a doctorate in Consciousness Studies (1999). My thesis concerns the theme of "the end of the world", based on my own extreme experiences lasting many years. At first it seemed to me that I was undergoing a purely personal psychological/spiritual crisis but over time I discovered that I was also participating in the historical process of a transformation of the soul, as reflected in the enormous, even apocalyptic, changes occurring in our culture. During this difficult period of my life, I wrote two books: Living in Uncertainty, Living with Spirit and Poems of Making. My next three books, Mouthpiece, The Imperative, and Hearing Voices, explore the meaning of "the end of the world" more fully, while subsequent books, including Animal Soul and Manifesting Possible Futures, establish a firm theoretical ground for the claim that the soul is urging us towards the development of new inner capacities that can help us face the uncertainty of modern life and, as well, address the unknown future. Making New Worlds begins the work of articulating an art form emerging in response to the soul's movement of "incarnation in the real world". I develop this theme more fully in The Coming Guest and the New Art Form. I have also written an unusual book, UR-image, which tells a story of four friends whose lives are interrupted by an intrusion of four possible futures, while its companion piece, Oblivion of Being, is a story of three friends caught up in our epochal transformation of being. I currently live with my wife Anita in Sydney, where I teach, write, and consult with others concerning their own journey through the present "apocalypse of the interior", as it has been called, in my capacity as a practicing Jungian psychotherapist. Anita and I also work with couples in a therapeutic setting. My books may be found at: amazon.com/author/johncwoodcock/