1. Why Ancient Egypt? 2. The Miracles of Ancient Egypt 3. What is Sacred Science? 4. The Psyche-to-Matter Problem 5. Modern Materialism and the Loss of Soul 6. Contemporary Pioneers of the New Sacred Science 7. Jungian Psychology and the Search for Soul 8. Personal Insights to a Modern Psychotherapy Grounded in the Principles of Sacred Science 9. Conclusions
Todd Hayen is a psychotherapist in private practice in Toronto, Canada. He received his Ph.D from Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara in depth psychology with an emphasis in psychotherapy.
"Todd Hayen's book does what all good, creative scholarship does:
it opens our minds to new ways of seeing something we thought we
already knew. But it does more than this: it shows how we today can
benefit from exploring the remarkable "sacred science" of ancient
Egypt. We need not "walk like an Egyptian" to profit from
understanding how they did, and their insights into the
much-neglected soul seem to me to present better ways of healing
our own fractured psyche than any amount of modern pharmacology.
Hayen does not solve the "mysteries of Egypt;" he invites us to
share with him his evident passion for embracing them. The first
step in any psychotherapy is taking our inner world seriously. The
reader of this book soon sees that Hayen does." Gary Lachman,
associate professor in Transformative Studies at the California
Institute of Integral Studies and author of The Secret Teachers of
the Western World"Despite the fact that Todd Hayen draws from a
very ancient culture, his views of modern psychotherapy are fresh
and insightful. He confronts us with the shadow of modern society –
materialism and an accompanying empirical science – that robs us of
a vital connection to soul. By pointing out that the locus of
intelligence has moved from the heart to the head, he recalls the
sacred science of ancient Egypt where the heart was the threshold
to the soul. As a psychotherapist, Todd knows first-hand the wounds
suffered by this dislocation, and presents us with a new marriage
between a sacred sensibility to what really matters in life, and
how to revive the neglected soul in therapy. Anyone interested in
this ancient wisdom tradition and who longs to "wake up" to the
splendor that lies hidden amidst the turmoil of modern society is
advised not only to read this book but alchemically bring its words
to life!" - Thom F. Cavalli, PhD, psychologist and author of
Embodying Osiris and Alchemical Psychology: Old Recipes for Living
in a New World."A major theme of Ancient Egypt and Modern
Psychotherapy: Sacred Science and the Search for Soul is that the
psyche of an individual has a direct influence on the material
world that individual inhabits. In this courageous, well
documented, and heartfelt book, the talented composer and depth
psychologist Dr. Todd Hayen draws from his personal experiences as
well as his research into the consciousness of ancient Egypt to
illustrate his concern with the lack of soul in our modern
materialistic and rationalistic paradigm, a concern that he places
squarely in the depth psychological tradition stemming from C.G.
Jung, particularly Jung’s research into the relationship between
psyche and matter. The mysterious architectural achievements of the
ancient Egyptians open the door to a wide-ranging survey of Hayen’s
metaphysical and parapsychological interests, and to a compelling
reflection on what a sacred science might look like today,
especially in the context of psychotherapy. At the core of this
book is a meditation on the mystery of the relationship between
inner and outer, psyche and matter, and subjectivity and
objectivity that opens the reader’s mind to new thoughts and
intuitions concerning both ancient and contemporary experiences of
the interconnections between the seen and unseen worlds." - Thomas
Elsner, J.D., M.A., Jungian Analyst, faculty Pacifica Graduate
Institute, USA
"Todd Hayen's book does what all good, creative scholarship does:
it opens our minds to new ways of seeing something we thought we
already knew. But it does more than this: it shows how we today can
benefit from exploring the remarkable "sacred science" of ancient
Egypt. We need not "walk like an Egyptian" to profit from
understanding how they did, and their insights into the
much-neglected soul seem to me to present better ways of healing
our own fractured psyche than any amount of modern pharmacology.
Hayen does not solve the "mysteries of Egypt;" he invites us to
share with him his evident passion for embracing them. The first
step in any psychotherapy is taking our inner world seriously. The
reader of this book soon sees that Hayen does." Gary Lachman,
associate professor in Transformative Studies at the California
Institute of Integral Studies and author of The Secret Teachers of
the Western World."Despite the fact that Todd Hayen draws from a
very ancient culture, his views of modern psychotherapy are fresh
and insightful. He confronts us with the shadow of modern society –
materialism and an accompanying empirical science – that robs us of
a vital connection to soul. By pointing out that the locus of
intelligence has moved from the heart to the head, he recalls the
sacred science of ancient Egypt where the heart was the threshold
to the soul. As a psychotherapist, Todd knows first-hand the wounds
suffered by this dislocation, and presents us with a new marriage
between a sacred sensibility to what really matters in life, and
how to revive the neglected soul in therapy. Anyone interested in
this ancient wisdom tradition and who longs to "wake up" to the
splendor that lies hidden amidst the turmoil of modern society is
advised not only to read this book but alchemically bring its words
to life!" - Thom F. Cavalli, PhD, psychologist and author of
Embodying Osiris and Alchemical Psychology: Old Recipes for Living
in a New World."A major theme of Ancient Egypt and Modern
Psychotherapy: Sacred Science and the Search for Soul is that the
psyche of an individual has a direct influence on the material
world that individual inhabits. In this courageous, well
documented, and heartfelt book, the talented composer and depth
psychologist Dr. Todd Hayen draws from his personal experiences as
well as his research into the consciousness of ancient Egypt to
illustrate his concern with the lack of soul in our modern
materialistic and rationalistic paradigm, a concern that he places
squarely in the depth psychological tradition stemming from C.G.
Jung, particularly Jung’s research into the relationship between
psyche and matter. The mysterious architectural achievements of the
ancient Egyptians open the door to a wide-ranging survey of Hayen’s
metaphysical and parapsychological interests, and to a compelling
reflection on what a sacred science might look like today,
especially in the context of psychotherapy. At the core of this
book is a meditation on the mystery of the relationship between
inner and outer, psyche and matter, and subjectivity and
objectivity that opens the reader’s mind to new thoughts and
intuitions concerning both ancient and contemporary experiences of
the interconnections between the seen and unseen worlds." - Thomas
Elsner, J.D., M.A., Jungian Analyst, faculty Pacifica Graduate
Institute, USA
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