Bone: Dying into Life (Compass)

Marion Woodman is a woman to be admired and her experience with cancer is inspiring. She shows vulnerability and expresses her mindset and thoughts like I've not encountered before. I've read and re read this book and started in on a couple of her others. A Jungian analyst, she speaks the language of the subconscious for herself and others so concisely. I love her! This is a great book for anyone. You don't have to have cancer or know anyone with cancer to benefit from this book. Being a woman will help you identify with her amazing perspective, but it's not necessary. Classy, sweet, strong woman with vinegar humor at times;)

This intimate look at Marion Woodman's experience through cancer is profound. Written in her compelling personal style, it takes the reader on the journey as a kind of confidant. I couldn't put it down.

Marion Woodman's journal (November 1993 to April 1995) during her struggle with uterine cancer contains, at one level, the story of her illness and healing, and at another, her beliefs that guided her journey. These are interspersed with very human perceptions and descriptions like `...that blissfully unaware diabetic woman for a roommate. She did tests all day with totally crazy results and ate boxes of chocolate cherries her daughter brought her all night. I remember lying ... watching her silently, systematically licking her lips over one chocolate cherry after another. I remember being startled when I realized I wasn't chuckling over that little morsel of Divine Comedy... It was my loss of connection to the dark feminine and her lust for life and creativity.' Throughout the book Woodman's long-standing advocacy for the integration of matter (body) and psyche comes strongly to the fore - at different levels - as does her deep, inner wisdom. If death is the meaning director of the cycles of life and ultimately life itself, then this is an appropriate book to hone our sensibilities towards those ends. Alongside the author we can find our inner archetypes, whether for transformation or honour, to give them their rightful place in our on-going journey towards wholeness while creating our own supportive practices in the presence of the unavoidable final curtain call. But, the final resolution (on April 1, 1995) for moving from that place of feeling stuck and into life again seemed more literary than psychologically faithful to me, which in this regard left me disappointed as the value of Bone definitely lies in its contributions at the psychological level. Even so, this is a book very worth reading if you want to age with consciousness.

Once I picked up this book I could not put it down until I finished it completely, then I went back and made notes on it. My own world view is different than Marion Woodman's but I picked up some valuable insights from this book anyway. It also contains the most horrific account of a cancer treatment I have ever read anywhere. It makes me shudder weeks later just thinking about it. Marion Woodman's own beautiful personality shines through this book. It will also inspire you to try to eat ten servings of the brightly colored vegetables and fruits a day. Go ahead and buy it, it is well worth it.

A great book of one of the most important junguian therapist. She tells whit simplicity, sincerity and courage her descent into her soul' deepness while she struggles whit a dangerous câncer.

Marion woodman is a treasure who in this discourse through her illness never loses her insight to the joy of life. Great read for anyone who wants to prepare for their own ending.

I bought this book because I thought a Jungian analyst going through cancer would have some interesting things to say. It was interesting; however it's important to note this is her journal rather than an autobiography, and it does contain a LOT of what most of us would consider over-analyzation -- even for people who study Jung. The most riveting parts of the story are her struggles with the medical community as an older woman with her own opinions and ideas about her health, and her responses and ideas about aging. BUT like a soup where you have too much of certain ingredients, you have to sift through the rest of the more journal-y type entries to find the "meat" you're looking for, which is the story itself. Add to that, there is an almost-ignorance of the rarity of her incredibly privileged life she lives (she tosses off sentences about lunches at Sardi's and toasting newlywed friends on the QE II, as well as heading the the family cabin/beachouse/island every year, as if everyone can relate to them). So kind of a mixed bag for me.

Thank you for carrying this book it has helped me thru a hard time

I am very grateful to Marion, and though her life is no longer here, I believe her soul can hear the Gratitude. A tale of the last throws of life, the battles, the treatments. How she could pursue treatment with one of the Doctors I do not know... and I do, Inner Wisdom told her, he may not be humane and he is good at this job. Lots of insight and wisdom to be learned through this book.

The writing is exquisite and the messages are amazing. I have just sent a copy to a friend.

i recommended this to my friend who has cancer, without reading it myself (i have read all of Marion's other books) she said how incredible it was, so bought a copy for myself. Marion Woodman is my favourite writer, she is so loving and deep and individual. She has been with me for a long time, and thanks to her, i continue to grow x

Love love love this book. Thought provoking and wise yet so human and personal. I have journaled and grown through reading this book and feel I have got to know more about Marian Woodman.

Marion woodman is just wonderful Hugely recomended to Anyone interested in depth psycholgy