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Number of CDs: 2
Release Date: 19-07-2006
Label: Sounds True
Catalog Number: AW00118D
Barcode: 600835011891
Musical Style: Spoken Word / Death & Dying
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Description:
As an analyst working with the dying, Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés has developed seminal methods to help ease the fear that can accompany the dying process. On The Radiant Coat, this best-selling author shares myths and stories first told at the bedsides of the dying to comfort them and their loved ones. For other cultures, Dr. Estés teaches, death holds no terror. It is in fact characterized as an ally, a wise and caring figure, leading departed souls through the starry night into the next day. This application of storytelling as a precious medicine for the terminally ill has attracted worldwide attention to the work of Dr. Estés. Fusing stories with useful psychological analysis, she removes the cloak of fear that surrounds the dying process. The Radiant Coat is a uniquely helpful collection of teaching stories, offered to help all listeners who seek to understand death - not as the end of life - but as another beginning.
Additional Contents: Death as a companion; consciously preparing for death; the four tasks in crossing between the worlds; dreams of the dying; medical intervention; the split archetype of the doctor as both life-bringer and escort through the doorway of death. Stories include: Godfather Death; The Water Glass; The Radiant Coat; and more. 1½ hours
Biography:
Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ph.D. is an internationally recognized scholar, award-winning poet, Diplomate senior Jungian psychoanalyst, and cantadora in the Latina tradition. In addition to her national bestseller Women Who Run With the Wolves (over 3 million copies in print worldwide), books by Dr. Estés include The Gift of Story, and The Faithful Gardener.
