Yearning to Connect: Psyche and Spirit.

Patrick Mahaffey's Integrative Spirituality: Religious Pluralism, Individuation, and Awakening is a sophisticated and deeply considered series of relationships between Jungian and archetypal psychology and several religious traditions and practices, including Buddhism, Hinduism, Catholicism, and Yoga as well as contemplative and mystical ways of being and seeing. The overriding concern and focus of the book is the "cultivation of interiority" as a major path to awakening people to their full potential and humanity in the world. In drawing on his own numinous experiences early in life, Mahaffey began a quest that, while including his Catholic background, nonetheless extended out to Eastern traditions and their practices that encourage awakening as well as into the depth of Jungian thought to bridge the gap between psyche and spirit. His study ends with a chapter that reveals his own daily spiritual/psychological meditations that encourage his further awakening. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]