Close to the Bone
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Jean Shinoda Bolen. Close to the Bone
Praise for the First Edition of Close to the Bone
BOOKS BY JEAN SHINODA BOLEN, M.D
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. My Thanks and Appreciation
PREFACE TO THE REVISED EDITION
INTRODUCTION
1. CLOSE TO THE BONE: ILLNESS AND THE SOUL
Illness and the Soul
Threshold Between Life and Death
Illness as a Psychological Ordeal
Soul Moments
Soul Questions
Close to the Bone
2. THE GROUND GIVES WAY UNDER US
Encounter with Hades: Loss and Vulnerability
The Underworld of Fear
The Underworld of Depression
The Underworld of the Soul
The Underworld of the Spirits
Descending in Stages into the Underworld: The Inanna Myth
The Underworld of Shadow and Depth: Ereshkigal's Realm
Inanna and Jesus: Transformation of Suffering
Responding to Unchosen Circumstances
Living in the Shadow of Death
Entry to the Underworld: Ready or Not
3. PSYCHE'S JOURNEY
Enacting the Psyche Myth: Illness and Soul Growth
The Lamp and the Knife
Inner Wisdom
Psyche's Tasks
The Need to Say, No!
Taking Psyche's Story to Heart
Discriminating Actions
Warrior Marks
4. LIKE GREEN MEAT ON A HOOK
Seeking to Know What Lies Below
Symbolic Death, as in a Chrysalis
Angry and Rejected Ereshkigal
Competent, Loyal Ninshubur
Taking this Myth to Heart
We Are All Ereshkigal
5. PROCRUSTEAN DISMEMBERMENT
Recovering Dismembered Parts of Ourselves
Integrating Ereshkigal
The Exceptional Patient
Gratitude and Wholeness
Life-Threatening Illness as a Soul-Shaping Experience
Healing Circles
Experiencing Unconditional Love
6. ILLNESS AS A TURNING POINT
Finding Your Myth
Archetypes
Innate Aptitudes
Inner Sources of a Creative Life
What Is True for You?
Achieving Detente Between Disease and Health
Kairos and Kronos
Personal Answers
7. SOMETIMES WE NEED A STORY
I-Thou Physician Bedside Manner
Recovery Begins with a Positive Emotional Response
The Healing Power of a Story
Like Snowballs on a Hot Stove
Remissions and Remarkable Recoveries
Mom Says: “What You Believe, Will Be”
If He Could Do It, Why Can't I?
Stretching Belief to Heal the Body
Time Enough
Hermes the Messenger
Sometimes We Need a Story
8. SOUL CONNECTIONS
I-Thou Relationships as a Lifeline
What We Know in Our Bones
Life-Threatening Illness and the Soul
Moments of Truth
Relationships Enter a Crucible
Mutuality Even When One Is Ill and the Other Is Well
Soul Connections
Circles of Support
Soul Links
Inanna and Persephone: Myths of Recovery
9. SUMMONING ANGELS: PRAYER
Angels and Prayer
Healing Effect of Prayer
“Dear God / Goddess / Spirit / Powers Greater Than My Small Self”
Prayer Expressed Through the Body
Healing Touch
Therapeutic Touch
Life Force and Healing Energy
Powers of Repeated Prayers
Prayer and I-Thou Links
The Alchemy of Prayer
10. PRESCRIBING IMAGINATION
Visualization
Visualization and Cancer
Imagination and the Immune System
Visualization and Physiological Changes
Why Not Try?
Visualization and Reversing Heart Disease
Affirmations
Affirmations and Louise Hay
Programming Positive Thought
Effective Affirmations
Imagination Comes First
11. RITUALS: ENACTING MYTH
An Instinct for Ritual
Rituals Prior to Surgery
Elements of Ritual
Metaphor of Journey
Parallels to Initiation
Ritual in the Operating Room
Post-Surgery Rituals of Transformation
Chemotherapy as Ritual
The Magic of Ritual Words
Everyday, Ordinary Life Rituals
Sacrifice or Scapegoat
Anniversary Rituals
Celebrating Becoming a Crone
Composing a Ritual
12. HELPING EACH OTHER
Compassion as the Turning Point
A Life of Significant Soil
Reunion with Persephone as a Return of Health
Illness as a Life-Altering Passage
Compassion in the Midst of Suffering
Transformation of Ereshkigal
Dissolving the Shell Around One's Soul and Heart
Helping Others, Healing Ourselves
Compassionate Action
Seeds of Experience
13. MUSINGS
Why Me?
Must It Be Someone's Fault?
Holding the Opposites
Earthquakes—Real Ones and Metaphors
When It's My Time, I Want to Be Conscious
Life-Threatening Illness as a Test
Return of Persephone Accompanied by Hecate
Eleusinian Mysteries
Great Mystery
Messages from Andy
Such Is Life
NOTES
INDEX
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“This is the book I needed when my daughter was sick. It would have helped me through it, like a map of the underworld. Myths, stories, prayer, touching, visualization, rituals, and especially love are some of the tools and wisdom that this extraordinary book gives us. Thank you, Jean.”
—Isabel Allende
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To be brought “close to the bone” through the adversity of illness, the closeness of death, and the knowledge that we are not in control of the situation, is to come close to the essence of who we are, both as unique individuals and as human beings. Like X-ray films on which the bones are the most distinct because they are the strongest and most indestructible elements of the body, so it is that adversity reveals the eternal, and thus indestructible, qualities of the soul.
In coming to terms with having a life-threatening illness, a person often is stripped of emotional defenses as well. Denial, intellectualization, and rationalization may go, exposing a person to the painful realities of their lives as well as of this illness. Addictions that kept feelings at a distance are taken away. People who use work and activity alcohol or drugs to numb their feelings no longer can do this (though television, which may be the most common addiction, is immediately turned on at many hospital bedsides).
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