New Releases by James Hollis

Tales told by shadowy elders around ancient campfires offered both explanation and comfort. Life hasn''t changed that much; our dependence on explanation and comfort still lies just under our busy ambition and constant yearning. Most of the time, the basic assumptions of our early years were so viscerally absorbed that we have never made them articulate, and therefore never had any way to evaluate their relevance for us now. What if they are outdated? Immature? Beside the point? In this new volume, James Hollis shows us a way to bring those stories to consciousness -- what questions to ask, and when. And also what to expect of ourselves in the process. This is not a quick fix book; in fact, waking up to our truth is sometimes very painful. But it''s real. And it may be the only way to discover that sense of meaning and personal authenticity that no amount of outer success can provide. Book jacket.

É bem conhecido o pensamento que vale mais ensinar um faminto a pescar do que apenas lhe dar um peixe, pois assim, quando sentir fome, ele mesmo poderá providenciar seu alimento. Nós apreciamos um jantar bem preparado entre amigos, em ambiente confortável e envolvente. Mas isso é uma exceção, uma celebração. No dia-a-dia, só com trabalho e esforço conseguimos nos alimentar e adquirir independência, desenvolvendo nosso próprio caminho. Ao longo dos anos, James Hollis tem oferecido nos generosos banquetes, muitas vezes, alimentos com os quais não estamos acostumados; porém crescemos apreciando o sabor de seus alimentos, que combinam de forma inédita o doce e o amago. Dessa vez nos é oferecido algo diferente - é mais um trabalho em grupo do que uma refeição preparada. É este o Hollis que compartilha nosso barco, navegando questões sem os mapas que usamos. Ele reconhece a unicidade e o valor de cada jornada, partilhando experiências pessoais apenas para que possamos encontrar nossa própria compreensão. Este não é um livro de verdade reveladas. Mais do que isso, dedica-se as questões guiadas apenas pela intuição, persistência e energia que, tomara, cada um de nós tenhamos.

Also available in an open-access, full-text edition at http: //oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/handle/1969.1/85764 "What we wish to know, and most desire, remains unknowable and lies beyond our grasp." With these words, James Hollis leads readers to consider the nature of our human need for meaning in life and for connection to a world less limiting than our own. In The Archetypal Imagination, Hollis offers a lyrical Jungian appreciation of the archetypal imagination. He argues that without the human mind''s ability to form energy-filled images that link us to worlds beyond our rational and emotional capacities, we would have neither culture nor spirituality. Drawing upon the work of poets and philosophers, Hollis shows the importance of depth experience, meaning, and connection to an "other" world. Just as humans have instincts for biological survival and social interaction, we have instincts for spiritual connection as well. Just as our physical and social needs seek satisfaction, so the spiritual instincts of the human animal are expressed in images we form to evoke an emotional or spiritual response, as in our dreams, myths, and religious traditions. The author draws upon the work of the poet Rainer Maria Rilke''s Duino Elegies to elucidate the archetypal imagination in literary forms. To underscore the importance of incarnating depth experience, he also examines a series of paintings by Nancy Witt. With the power of the archetypal imagination available to all of us, we are invited to summon courage to take on the world anew, to relinquish outmoded identities and defenses, and to risk a radical re-imagining of the larger possibilities of the world and of the self.

Commonly, in environmental and ecological populations, neighboring units within a finite population may provide similar information. In an attempt to obtain the most informative picture of a population, researchers may not want to collect information from similar units within the obtained sample. Moreover, when sampling from such populations, the selection of dispersed units may result in a reduction in the variance of estimators. Hedayat, Rao, and Stufken (1988a and 1988b) introduced balanced sampling designs for the exclusion of contiguous units. Under the assumption that contiguous units provided similar information, finite populations of N units arranged in a circular, one-dimensional ordering were considered. Sampling plans that excluded the selection of contiguous units within a given sample, while maintaining a constant second-order inclusion probability for non-contiguous units, were investigated. Stufken (1993) extended the ideas of balanced sampling avoiding contiguous units to balanced sampling avoiding adjacent units-units that are within [alpha] spaces of each other-from circularly ordered populations and provided necessary conditions for the existence of such sampling plans. In this paper, two direct search algorithms for identifying generators of cyclical balanced sampling plans excluding adjacent units from circularly ordered populations are detailed. Generators for plans with [alpha]=1 and n[less than or equal to]15 and with [alpha]=2 and 3 with n[less than or equal to]10 are presented, including the first known sets of generators of plans for n[greater than or equal to]9 with [alpha]=1, n[greater than or equal to]6 with [alpha]=2, and n[greater than or equal to]5 with [alpha]=3. Furthermore, the necessary conditions for existence of balanced sampling plans excluding adjacent units from circularly ordered populations are shown to be sufficient for n=5 and 6 with [alpha]=1, n=3, 4, and 5 with [alpha]=2, and n=3 and 4 with [alpha]=3. Techniques for obtaining supports of balanced sampling plans excluding adjacent units from linearly ordered populations using plans from circularly ordered populations, and vice versa, are also presented. In addition, various sampling schemes involving balanced sampling plans excluding adjacent units from circularly ordered populations and variance approximation techniques are compared through a simulation study.

Ask yourself, ''When do I feel most real?'' What comes up on the screen? All of us have had moments in our lives when we felt whole or wholly present, or experienced a sense of well-being, an intuition of a higher order of reality. Such moments are transitory, alas, and cannot be summoned up by will or mind or right conduct, just as the person who seeks humility finds more and more that pride and one-sidedness push the goal further and further away. - excerpt from Creating A Life

James Hollis examines society''s fixed views and fantasies in regards to relationships. This text is not a practical guide on how to fix a relationship, but rather a challenge to greater personal responsibility, a call for individual growth as opposed to seeking rescue through others.

Arguing that the pursuit of happiness is futile, the Jungian perspective asserts that the goal of life is not in happiness, but in meaning which is real, rather than a fruitless ideal. This book shows how to find life''s dignity by uncovering its deepest meaning and discovering errors made.

Whatever our cultural and religious background or personal psychology, a greater intimacy with myth provides a vital link with meaning, the absence of which is so often behind the neuroses of our time. Here the acclaimed author of The Middle Passage (title 59) explains why a connection with our mythic roots is crucial for us as individuals and as responsible citizens of our age.

Por que grande número de pessoas passam por tanta perturbação na meia-idade? Por que a consideram uma crise? A passagem do meio da vida apresenta-nos a oportunidade de reexaminar a nossa vida e perguntar - ''Quem sou eu, para além da minha história e dos papéis que representei?'' Trata-se da ocasião para redefinir e reorientar a personalidade, um rito de passagem necessário entre a adolescência prolongada na primeira idade adulta e o nosso inevitável encontro com a velhice e a mortalidade. Este livro mostra como podemos percorrer conscientemente a meia-idade, tornando a vida mais significativa e a segunda metade da vida imensamente mais rica.

Saturn was the Roman god who ate his childern to stop them from usurping his power. Men have been psychologically and spiritually wounded by this legacy. Hollis offers a rich perspective on the secrets men carry in their hearts.

Title #59. Why do so many go through so much disruption in their middle years? Why then? Why do we consider it to be a crisis? What does the pattern mean and how can we survive it? The Middle Passage shows how we may pass through midlife consciously, rendering our lives more meaningful and the second half of life immeasurably richer.