Let me be the first Gibbs, (to overlook the breach of group etiquette
{no marketing links}) and extend a hearty congratulations on the
publication of your book! What a long, but hopefully worthwhile road
it must seem in retrospect. I hope you will keep us up to date on the
reception of it, and the insights that public feedback will bring.
Again, I wish you all the best with your big work.
On Feb 9, 11:55 pm, "Dr Gibbs Williams" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Meaningful Coincidences Are Not Supernatural.
> They’re Completely Natural.
>
> New book by noted psychoanalyst challenges Jung’s anti-scientific
> conclusion on ‘synchronicities, while providing readers with tools
> of empowerment for expanding self-awareness.
>
> New York, NY, February 2010 — Beginning in the late 1960s, noted
> New York psychoanalyst Dr. Gibbs Williams began investigating the
> fascinating and perplexing subject of meaningful coincidences,
> more commonly know in his trade as synchronicities, in which a
> person experiences two or more events that are causally unrelated
> but occur together in a meaningful way. Williams, after several
> decades, hundreds of patients, thousands of observations, millions
> of reflections—and the surprising realization that the founder of
> analytical psychology, Carl Jung, missed the mark—has published
> a fascinating book on the topic called “Demystifying Meaningful
>
> Coincidences (Synchronicities): The Evolving Self, the Personal
> Unconscious, and the Creative Process.”
>
> This new book (Jason Aronson Publishers, 330 pp.)
> offers an original theory on the nature of synchronicity which
> advances the idea that they are self-generated messages arising
> from our own unique creative processes.
>
> Based on a critical evaluation of many of Williams’
> most captivating cases, “Demystifying Meaningful Coincidences”
> is bound both to inform and provoke readers around the world:
> it will inform all those who are intrigued by notions of life
> purpose, identity, self-development, mysticism, consciousness
> studies and other similar disciplines; and it will provoke all
> those who consider the renowned Jung to be nearly infallible in
> his psychoanalytic explanations.
>
> It can also help the many people who struggle from time to time
> with the meaning of their own sometimes mind-boggling synchronistic
> experiences.
>
> “Jung spent a great deal of his life investigating the nature and
> purpose of these anomalous occurrences. His partly psychological
> and partly mystical/magical theory has dominated the field for the
> past half-century,” Williams says. “In my book, I objectively
> challenge his basic assumptions concerning the nature of reality,
> how we are thought to have knowledge of reality, and what that
> knowledge really consists of.”
>
> This book is a fascinating journey into an equally fascinating
> topic that will be as of much interest and value to the general
> public as it will be to professionals in psychiatry, psychoanalysis
> and psychotherapy.
>
> In addition to providing many thought-provoking facts and ideas,
> the book can also serve as a blueprint to help readers identify,
> decode and interpret the self-generated messages of synchronicity
> in ways that are intellectually and emotionally innovative and
> beneficial.
> “In short,” Williams adds, “the book will stimulate self-awareness
> and, in doing so, expand consciousness.”
>
> Dr. Williams has had a richly colorful 44-year career as a psychologist
> and psychotherapist, including a pioneering role in an addiction
> treatment program in New York City called Odyssey House.
>
> Along with upcoming speaking engagements, a continuing
> practice and additional psychoanalytical research, Williams has
> also begun writing his next book, which will recount his work with
> addicts in the 1960s.
>
> “Demystifying Meaningful Coincidences (Synchronicities):
> The Evolving Self, the Personal Unconscious, and the Creative Process,
> ”published by Jason Aronson Publishers (an imprint of Rowman &
> Littlefield),
> is available from all major online booksellers, including amazon.com.
> Dr. Gibbs Williams can be reached at [email protected].
>
> Order your copy athttp://www.websiteinfo.net/email/link.php?M=1027&N=7&L=6&F=T
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