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# Living in the Borderland:The Evolution of Consciousness and the Challenge of Healing Trauma

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Living in the Borderland:The Evolution of Consciousness and the Challenge of Healing Trauma

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## Customer Reviews

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    Borderland Personalities and Trauma
  

*by W***I on Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2008*

This author clearly describes what constitutes a Borderland Personality and the effect having access to non-ordinary states of consciousness may have on the lives of individuals. The description of his work as a Jungian Analyst, also utilizing Navajo healing modalities expands the horizons of Western psychotherapy. I was interested in the differentiation between dissociation occurring as the result of personal trauma and the transition into Borderland states. He addresses this issue by noting that Borderland Personalities find acceptance of their Borderland states by a healing professional extremely healing in itself and that these states are experienced as sacred. Bernstein also utilizes his own countertransferential bodily sensations as clues. I found his hypothesis that Borderland Personalities' intimate experiences of nature such as communication with animals represents an evolutionary correction to the human ego's development and split from nature, especially in the West, interesting.

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    How connected we are with the world, & those we importantly share it with.
  

*by A***R on Reviewed in the United States on November 9, 2018*

A great book that shows the close relationship with Native American Shamanism, Borderland Personality, & Jungian psychological concepts.

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    Livng in the Borderland.  Jerome S. Bernstein
  

*by M***A on Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2006*

In his book Living in the Borderland, Jungian Analyst Jerome Bernstein provides a fascinating account of the development of the Western ego from an historical interpretation of the Bible down to our present post-Cold War environment. The author posits that this development has moved the Western psyche away from its roots in Nature into an ever more abstracted intellectual consciousness. As the human species approaches the very real potential for self-annihilation through nuclear assault and ultimate environmental degradation, an evolutionary shift in psychic consciousness has begun, a shift that appears in a growing number of individuals.  In a Darwinian sense, it is an evolutionary manifestation of species survival. This shift is evidenced as the psyche's reconnection with Nature, to Nature in all its forms, animate and inanimate, that over the millennia the collective Western ego has neglected as it has developed increasingly toward abstraction of thought and the illusion of control. Through the years of his therapeutic practice Bernstein has seen many patients who are exhibiting this psychic shift.  He calls these people Borderlanders, they live in a borderland between rational intellect and an emerging transrational consciousness.For some Borderlanders, this awareness of the transrational as a dominant and controlling  force in the psyche can be traumatic, not infrequently causing the individual to worry that he or she may be "crazy."  Traditional psychological approaches to therapy often exacerbate this fear in that most therapists are unaware of the "normalcy" of this evolutionary shift in consciousness.  They therefore tend to consider their Borderland patients as suffering from a psychic pathology. And herein is a major emphasis of this book: to alert psychological and medical practitioners as well as the patients themselves, that certain patients' experiences, while evidencing symptoms of psychic trauma, may not be pathological. The situation is often complicated, however, when a patient may evidence psychological illness that is genuinely symptomatic of traumatic experience, yet is unrelated to a patient's borderland consciousness.  In this case it is the formidable task of the therapist to differentiate the pathological from the new evolutionary consciousness that is beginning to manifest.The book is extremely well researched and thoroughly documented with personal testimonials, bibliographic references, and case studies, and contains an exhaustive bibliography. It is essential reading for all psychotherapists and medical practitioners and their patients, and is especially relevant to those suffering from or treating environmental illness. Individuals interested in Jungian psychology  and early childhood educators who may be encountering this psychic phenomenon among children will find the guidance of this book invaluable.Reviewed by Mari Graña, writer.  Santa Fe, NM

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