Signs of life : the five universal shapes and how to use them

by Angeles Arrien

Paperback, 1998

Publication

Imprint: New York : Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, 1998. Context: Originally published Arcus Pub. Co., Sonoma, CA, ©1992. Edition: First Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam edition. Responsibility: Angeles Arrien. Physical: Text : 1 volume : 93 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Features: Includes bibliography, index, notes.

Call number

Psy / Arrie

Barcode

BK-08581

ISBN

9780874779332

Collections

Your library, Adult Materials, Philosophy and Science, New Arrivals Being Processed

CSS Library Notes

Description: Shapes have significant psychological and mythological meanings embedded in our minds. Understanding the messages they convey and our attraction to them opens up a door to the secret workings of our inner selves and to a fuller appreciation of the art itself.As in her widely popular The Tarot Handbook, Arrien applies her background as a cultural anthropologist to the import human beings attribute to shapes. Examining her results, she has developed an effective tool to determine the connection between a person's preferences for certain shapes and the same person's inner, subjective states. In the course of using Arrien's book, individuals, parents, teachers, and therapists will experience the universal processes of growth embodied in images and myths.

Life, we discover, is art, and through Arrien's fascinating journey in Signs of Life, we gain a new perception of the omnipresent patterns and symbols that surround us. -- from publisher

Table of Contents: Part One : The significance of the five shapes
Part Two : The Preferential Shapes Test
Interpreting the test results : Meanings of the positions
Interpreting the test results : Meanings of the five shapes
The circle
The equidistant cross
The spiral
The triangle
The square
Part Three : Personal integration and professional applications
Personal integration
Mandalas
Professional applications
Part Four : The making of this book
Part Five : Notes, etc

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Physical description

93 p.; 23 cm

Awards

Benjamin Franklin Award (Winner — 1993)

Description

"The soul never thinks without an image," claimed Aristotle. Indeed, as Angeles Arrien displays in this reissued edition of Signs of Life, shapes have significant psychological and mythological meanings embedded in our minds. Understanding the messages they convey and our attraction to them opens up a door to the secret workings of our inner selves and to a fuller appreciation of the art itself.As in her widely popular The Tarot Handbook, Arrien applies her background as a cultural anthropologist to the import human beings attribute to shapes. Examining her results, she has developed an effective tool to determine the connection between a person's preferences for certain shapes and the same person's inner, subjective states. In the course of using Arrien's book, individuals, parents, teachers, and therapists will experience the universal processes of growth embodied in images and myths. Life, we discover, is art, and through Arrien's fascinating journey in Signs of Life, we gain a new perception of the omnipresent patterns and symbols that surround us. Illustrated throughout with drawings and photographs… (more)