Here is an intriguing forum on the soul-journeys of gay men and lesbians, from the perspective of Jungian psychology. Same-Sex Love is the first book to examine the unique ways gay men and lesbians make the journey toward the psychic wholeness and balance needed in everyday life. Features 18 essays by prominent therapists and writers.

A woman is set up on a blind date with the same man twice, years apart, on two different coasts. A singer?s career changes direction when she walks into the wrong audition. A husband gives his wife an unexpected gift--after she repeatedly dreams about that very same item... It was Carl Jung who coined the term "synchronicity" for those odd coincidences, when events seem to conspire to tell us something, to teach us, to turn our lives around. They are the strange "plot developments" that make us feel like characters in a grand, mysterious story. How do we identify these coincidences as something special? How do we recognize their significance and use them as turning points toward a more meaningful life story? In this book, a Jungian psychotherapist explores the nature and role of synchronicity--teaching us to examine our own stories, and tap into its power to strengthen our work, love, and spiritual lives.

This collection of folk tales, legends, and narratives about the life of Francis of Assisi and his followers appeared about seventy-five years after the saint's death, in the early fourteenth century. The writings have remained popular ever since due to their beauty and charm, and because they are the nearest thing to a biography of Francis that exists. They are the source of many of the most famous stories about Francis--including the accounts of his preaching to the birds and of his receiving of the stigmata--and they are based on stories that circulated about him in the years after his death. Robert Hopcke and Paul Schwartz provide the first truly new translation of the Fioretti in forty years, and in doing so they bring the spiritual classic up to date, using contemporary language to show Francis to be a living, breathing human being who walked the streets of Assisi in a state of spiritual, physical, and social enlightenment, through his own existence making Christ real in the world. The translators have also edited the work to present the stories that most powerfully present Francis's spirit and teaching.