The Quest for Silence
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"Wilmer points out how silence gives meaning to words, dreams, thought, action and music. From his long experience as a Jungian analyst, he weaves his ideas into an eminently practical treatise on the phenomenology of silence.
With many references to literature as well as his personal life experiences and crises, he offers a readable and important new story of the universal and spiritual significance of silence in a world of jackhammer noise."
- from the Preface by Joseph Henderson
Contents
Preface by Joseph L. Henderson
Foreword by Elizabeth Silverthorne
1. A Gap-Filling Society
A Case in Point
Silent Gaps
Tell Me About Silence
Noise Treatment
When Silence Needs a Noisy Companion
Silent Treatment of Nations
2. The Nature of Silence
Philosophers and Poets
3. Pandemonium and Silence
A Patient Seeks Sanctuary in Silence
The Off-and-On Phenomena
My Most Daunting Experience
4. Listening
On Doing Nothing
Let Us Not Forget Pooh Bear
Prophesy at the Threshold
Threat of Death
5. War
A Noiseless Blast
The Sky Gaps
The Mountain Gaps
Synchronicity?
Max Cleland: Vietnam Triple Amputee
It Is So, But the Prophesy Is Not Fulfilled
On Not Being Able to Talk
The Seventh Seal is Silence
Home of the Brave
Savages Attack: Who is Possessed by Demons?
Wartime Secret
6. MA
The Japanese Word MA
MA in America - Not
MA Is Sometimes Ma
Crafted MA
The Significance of MA in Japanese Culture
The Tao
7. Spirit and Death: The Ultimate Ordeal
Dream One
Dream Two
Dream Three
Synchronicity
My Death
The Unfillable Gaps: Death and the Black Hole
The Black Hole and the Death of the Sun
Avoiding Another Dark Age
8. Patience
The Great MAW
Patience and Waiting
The I-Thou/I-It Cycle
Meditation, Contemplation, and No-Mind
A Word on the Temper of Our Times
Meditation and Yoga
The Monastery
Entering the Contemplative Monastic Life
Solitude
Seeking Another and Sex
Kathleen Norris
In patientia vestra habetis animam vestram:
An Alchemical Exhortation
And What Can We Do About Silence and Noise?
The Quest for Silence
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