About
Dr. Jean Raffa is an author, speaker, and leader of workshops and dream groups. Formerly a television producer and college professor, Jean changed directions in mid-life to write about her passions: Jungian psychology, empowering the feminine in all of us, and psychological and spiritual growth. Her books—The Bridge to Wholeness: A Feminine Alternative to the Hero Myth, and Dream Theatres of the Soul: Empowering the Feminine Through Jungian Dreamwork—have been used in university classes and dreamwork courses throughout the country. Her book, Healing the Sacred Divide: Making Peace with Ourselves, Each Other, and the World, received the 2013 Wilbur Award from the Religion Communicators Council. Her newest book, The Soul's Twins: Emancipate Your Feminine and Masculine Archetypes, is about creating partnership between femininity and masculinity. It is scheduled for release in 2020.
Website: http://www.jeanraffa.com
Blog: https://jeanraffa.wordpress.com
Facebook Author Page: https://www.facebook.com/jeanraffa.
Featured Work
Healing the Sacred Divide: Making Peace with Ourselves, Each Other and the World
As issues of faith and gender drive our political dialogue at national and local levels, Healing the Sacred Divide offers a highly useful window into troublesome assumptions about ourselves, others, and our God-images that are rarely recognized. Bringing these into the open can be enormously helpful for resolving conflicts and promoting fruitful compromise between entrenched parties. Raffa explores eight common ways of thinking about God that create strife in ourselves and contribute to the rampant divisiveness in our world. She invites us to explore our inner conflicts between dualistic opposites -- such as masculine/feminine, good/evil, relationship/individuality -- and to entertain an integrated God-image which can resolve them. This work begins with each individual and makes available nine wisdom gifts. These enable us to make peace with ourselves and one another, and to contribute together to humanity’s noblest dream of universal peace, justice, and love.
