Facing the Dragon: Confronting Personal and Spiritual Grandiosity

by Robert L. Moore

Book Overview

Structured around a series of lectures presented at the Jung Institute of Chicago in a program entitled "Jungian Psychology and Human Spirituality: Liberation from Tribalism in Religious Life," this book-length essay attacks the related problems of human evil, spiritual narcissism, secularism and ritual, and grandiosity. Moore dares to insist that we stop ignoring these issues and provides clear-sighted guidance for where to start and what to expect...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 188860221X
• ISBN13: 9781888602210
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Chiron Publications
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

ideological sameness

Dr. Moore discusses how narcissism demands that others think and behave like us. It's something I struggle with daily. He draws out this and many other hidden patterns (sizes, shapes and colors) of ideological fundamentalism. To me this is an important idea for developing imagination or an open heart.

Facing The Dragon, The Best Book on The Great Self Within

When you take a look around at this latest rising wave of darkness in our world, there are few voices speaking with clarity about the fundamental psychological and spiritual sources of that darkness, and, what can realistically be done on both an individual and global scale about it. Many are talking naively or in terms of divisiveness out of their own grandiosity. Robert Moore's new book, Facing The Dragon, is a wonderful insight into the full spectrum of grandiosity and how it functions to create both great peace and beauty, and, great evil and chaos when not faced on a personal and global scale. Dr. Moore synthesizes many sources of understanding: psychology, religion, spirituality, and culture, and brings his perspective and research together with real examples to clearly help the reader see how grandiosity works in their lives, their families, their churches, and their governments. I highly recommend this book to anyone in academia, government, religious or spiritual study, business, or anyone otherwise on a personal spiritual journey. The book is yet another in a cohesive series of works Dr. Moore has given us intended to bring our collective psychology closer together as a planet. Thank you Dr. Moore for this continued work. I can't wait until The Dragon rears its head in the next book, Riding The Dragon! David Merkel

This is an important work

Men in recovery - or anyone actually who has ever had to adjust some personal behaviour to save their own life - eventually comes to realize that the time has come to face the Dragon. Or the devil within, or the beast within, or whatever you want to call it. And whatever it was that you were avoiding with the substance or behaviour ingested - it is exactly that Dragon which must now be faced. Be it anger, fear, lonliness, what hve you. This is generally not good news. And despite the wealth of revovery material available in the world today; there is not nearly enough which approach these problems from this perspective. This is an important work.