A bestselling author shows how we can reclaim and make peace with the "shadow" side of our personality.

The most devastating consequence of the spread of American culture across the globe has not been our golden arches or our bomb craters, but our bulldozing of the human psyche itself. American-style depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and anorexia have begun to spread around the world like contagions, and the virus is us. Traveling from Hong Kong to Sri Lanka to Zanzibar to Japan, acclaimed journalist Ethan Watters witnesses firsthand how Western healers often steamroll indigenous expressions of mental health and madness and replace them with our own. In teaching the rest of the world to think like us, we have been homogenizing the way the world goes mad.

From Haruki Murakami, internationally acclaimed author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Norwegian Wood, a work of literary journalism that is as fascinating as it is necessary, as provocative as it is profound.

In March of 1995, agents of a Japanese religious cult attacked the Tokyo subway system with sarin, a gas twenty-six times as deadly as cyanide. Attempting to discover why, Murakami conducted hundreds of interviews with the people involved, from the survivors to the perpetrators to the relatives of those who died, and Underground is their story in their own voices. Concerned with the fundamental issues that led to the attack as well as these personal accounts, Underground is a document of what happened in Tokyo as well as a warning of what could happen anywhere. This is an enthralling and unique work of nonfiction that is timely and vital and as wonderfully executed as Murakami’s brilliant novels.

Psyche is the most beautiful woman in the world, yet the oracle at Delphi foresees she will fall in love with a creature feared even by the gods themselves.

Magically, Psyche finds herself in a magnificent castle fitted with sweet music, attentive servants, and a charming but invisible host. Soon she falls in love with this man she has never seen, but in a moment of doubt she betrays his trust. To win back his love, Psyche must show that she is as brave as she is beautiful by performing three impossible tasks.

Perhaps the greatest love story of all, Cupid and Psyche is unsurpassed in its richness and drama. Marie Craft's lively, suspenseful retelling of this classic Greek myth will appeal to young and old alike. And these legendary lovers have inspired forty lush luminous paintings by award-winning artist Kinuko Craft.

Lavishly illustrated and thrillingly told, here is a book to be treasured forever.

First-time author Marie Charlotte Craft and her mother, award-winning illustrator Kinuko Craft combine detailed oil-over-watercolor paintings and easy-to-read text to introduce the story of the arrow-shooting Cupid, god of love, and the beautiful Princess Psyche to younger readers. Though the story is about their union, the book unfolds as a fairy tale, skirting over the details of love so that it's appropriate for even the smallest children. Cupid's nocturnal visits are for conversation only and the two don't marry or have their child until the last sentence.

This book brings to us a new understanding of the psyche that gives us the Cosmic perspective on our true human potential. The basis for the author s groundbreaking discoveries is their new version of the ancient Chinese oracle, published under the title, 'I Ching, the Oracle of the Cosmic Way.' It shows humans as part of the harmonious order of the Cosmos. 'The Psyche Revealed Through The I Ching' explains how the psyche, as the invisible side of our being, enables each of us to fulfill our unique Cosmic destiny.// Psychic malfunctions such as depression, phobias, and stress indicate that humans have separated from the harmonious order of the Cosmos through developing a mindset that places humans at the center of the universe. From this disharmonious perspective, humans have created a world order based on conflict and lack where there could be harmony, peace, and abundance. This book helps the individual who wants to free himself from the suffering caused by this mindset, to recognize the total goodness of his true nature, and to see with clarity the ideas that have brought him harm. Another cause of harm are unprocessed traumatic experiences. The book's Appendix shows the reader how to research these causes and deprogram them with Cosmic help, thereby to free himself enduringly from their harmful effects.// Perhaps most extraordinary, the I Ching, through the authors discoveries, is found to be an advanced psychology that reflects our deepest inner truth.// It is perhaps no accident that this book appears nearly simultaneously with the publication of C.G. Jung s Red Book. It was thanks to Dr. Jung that the I Ching was introduced to the English-speaking world in the early 1950 s. Were he still alive, he would have been happy to read this book that gives the answer to the riddle he hoped to resolve by undertaking the dangerous journey into his own psyche: It was his search for the origin of the demonic figures that were haunting the unconscious of his patients. As Carol Anthony and Hanna Moog discovered, these figures are the product of words that are not grounded in the harmonious order of the Cosmos, and therefore, they create conflict in our nature.// Once taken into the psyche (often at a very young age) these words take on a life of their own. Through the fears and self-doubts they create in us, they dominate our lives until such time as they are discovered and deprogrammed with Cosmic help. Deprogramming takes away the validity we have formerly given them, freeing us of their harmful effects.