New Visions and New Voices

Pioneering scholar and teacher Clifford Mayes expertly marshals the creative talents and insights of six emerging scholars as they lead us on an exciting foray into the field of archetypal education. Informed throughout by C. G. Jung’s understanding of archetypes as the root principles of human nature, perhaps even of Being-at-large, the contributors offer a range of diverse and stimulating perspectives on the significance of depth psychological theories and practices for shaping and inspiring the educational experience, in the classroom and beyond. The result is a profoundly spiritual book, grappling with life’s ultimate concerns, and yet pragmatic and immediately personal in its application. In an affirmation of the power of symbolic imagery, and in its attendance to the depths of individual experience, New Visions and New Voices revitalizes and transfigures our view of what education can and should be.

-- Keiron Le Grice, professor of depth psychology in the Jungian and Archetypal Studies Program, Pacifica Graduate Institute, Santa Barbara, and author of The Archetypal Cosmos and The Rebirth of the Hero

This unique, well-crafted collection of essays on archetypal education is a welcome addition to pedagogy. In an “evidence-based” culture, the return of soul and heart into the profession of teaching is a much needed correction. The editors, Clifford Mayes, Susan Persing, and Cynthia Schumaker are to be commended for their vision, insight and editorial skills in assembling this volume. The text itself serves as a point of entry into the experience it seeks to cultivate. Readers will not be disappointed, and will likely return time and again to dip into the wisdom found throughout.

-- Joseph Cambray, PhD, president/CEO, Pacifica Graduate Institute; author of Synchronicity: Nature and Psyche in an Interconnected Univ