Sand, Water, Silence - The Embodiment of Spirit: Explorations in Matter and Psyche by Mary Jane Markell

Joseph Mallord William Turner
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Sand, Water, Silence - The Embodiment of Spirit: Explorations in Matter and Psyche
by
Mary Jane Markell

We are pleased and honored to offer a compelling book by Mary Jane Markell, a renowned sandplay therapist, and child and adult therapist.

Sand, Water, Silence - The Embodiment of Spirit:
Explorations in Matter and Psyche
is a luminous book which delves deeply into the theoretical aspects of symbolic healing. Looking at the psyche, revealed through the medium of sandplay therapy, Sand, Water, Silence integrates Eastern and Western thought and ideas from quantum physics as it relates to healing. Healing at the deepest level, through the use of 'living symbols' is explored through clinical examples , mythology, teaching g stories and poetry. The principles of yoga, Tibetan and Zen Buddhism, and the concepts of Sacred time, Sacred Space and creating Temenos are examined in this wonderful book.

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Editorial Reviews
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Sandplay therapy, which combines the physical actions of play with observation and understanding through the use of imagination and symbolism, can be useful in treating clients who have suffered severe wounds or obstacles to emotional growth. This books focuses on theoretical aspects of sandplay therapy, building on Dora Kalff's ideas on the integration of Eastern and Western thought in relation to healing through sandplay. Markell is a founding member of the Sandplay Therapists of America and a teaching member of the International Society of Sandplay Therapists.

Book Description
Therapists often encounter people who have suffered severe emotional damage resulting in feelings of psychological fragmentation. Sandplay therapy, which combines the physical actions of play with observation and understanding through the use of symbolism, can be a useful method of treating this kind of damage. This book focuses on the theoretical aspects of sandplay therapy, presenting Dora M. Kalff's ideas and drawing out the significance of Kalffian sandplay for therapists.

Building on Kalffian ideas of the integration of Eastern and Western thought in relation to healing through sandplay, the author explores theories in quantum physics and Eastern philosophies. Her theoretical insights are illustrated with clinical examples, and her book will be of great interest to arts therapists and to students of related disciplines. Presents theoretical aspects of sandplay therapy and the integration of Eastern and Western thought in relation to healing. Uses Quantum physics, Eastern philosophies, and clinical examples to illustrate theoretical insights are. Halftone photographs are included. (courtesy: Amazon.com)

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Sand, Water, Silence - The Embodiment of Spirit: Explorations in Matter and Psyche
by
Mary Jane Markell

* * Paperback: 272 pages ;
* Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Pub; 1st edition (May 17, 2002)
* ISBN: 1843100789 *$28.95
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Table of Contents
Introduction.
1. The Vision.
2. Sacred Time, Sacred Space: Creating Temenos.
3. Meeting with the Serpent: The Divine Secret of Renewal.
4. The Flowering of the Serpent: Chakras as an Archetypal Path.
5. Origins and Source.
6. Ordering Rhythms: The Play of Subtle Energy.
7. The Loon and the Fish: The Emergent Integration of Opposites.
8. The Manifestation of the Compassionate Heart.
References.
Index.

Review

Mary Jane Markell has written an important book that helps elucidate why imaginal work in healing modalities such as sandplay therapy holds such transformational power. Sandplay therapists long have needed an in depth review and elaboration of what Dora Kalff taught about the transformational process in sandplay therapy as it affects the body. Kalff believed that working imaginatively with the elements of sand and water had the possibility of engaging a person in a transformative experience at a cellular level that touched upon the deepest sources of healing. This occurs at a non-verbal, symbolic level that has analogies in the ancient mystery religions. Markell writes "The logical conclusion of this process is the self as shaman, and it is in this area that the greatest changes in Western scientific and medical thought are now occurring." Jung intuitively knew about the unconscious connection between body and psyche at what he called the "psychoid" level, and it was Kalffian sandplay that demonstrated and offered the experience of this connection. Mary Jane Markell's book offers extensive amplification of this wisdom.
Sand, Water, Silence-The Embodiment of Spirit provides a container for the author's considerable creative and intellectual energies that focus on distilling and uniting a wide array of traditions and viewpoints. These include Eastern and Western, scientific and spiritual, spatial and temporal, body and mind. She draws on and integrates ancient and modern ideas and wisdom from such diverse sources as quantum physics, Mesopotamian myths, Taoism and Buddhism, and Jungian depth psychology. She points the reader towards an integrative view that she thinks is already happening in the human collective consciousness of a transcendent state of non-duality in the reunion of the mind-body disharmony that has plagued modern man. She believes that with the conscious balancing and reconciliation of opposing traditions and perspectives into a unitive world-view a deepening understanding of the cosmos as well as a personal, individual unfolding will evolve.
Mary Jane Markell has written a book that emerged from the currents of her own individuation journey that had one beginning in her relationship to Dora Kalff and her sandplay therapy process. In the years that followed, her connection to natural and internal landscapes as well as to the world of ideas incubated. Mary Jane Markell's inspiration springs from her own internal alchemy that began in the water and earth and in the "woods and valley" of her life experiences. These provided the foundations that led to writing this book. She integrates her intuitive connections that come directly out of her with objective learning from studies and reading that she shares extensively. This is a book both to savor and enjoy.

(Sandplay Therapy and Sources of Symbolic Healing, May 6, 2002
Reviewer: Lauren Cunningham from San Francisco, CA United States. Courtesy: Amazon.com)

Joseph Mallord William Turner
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Mary Jane Markell is a Founding Member of Sandplay Therapists of America and a Teaching Member of the International Society of Sandplay Therapists; she served on the Executive Board of ISST for four years. She studied for a number of years with Dora Kalff, both in the United States and in Switzerland. She worked for many years with children and was a founding director of a day treatment program and mental health clinic for children and their families in California. Ms Markell is currently an international lecturer on sandplay and resides in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

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