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ALCHEMICAL MARRIAGE
ARCHETYPES OF LOVE
ASTRAL PROJECTION
Author_Richard Grossinger
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CONSCIOUSNESS
CRANIOSACRAL THERAPY
EMOTIONAL VULNERABILITY
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ESOTERIC STUDIES
forthcoming
INTIMACY
JUNGIAN ANALYSIS
JUNGIAN DREAMWORK
LONG-TERM RELATIONSHIP
LOVE AND DESIRE
MALE PERSPECTIVE
PARTNERSHIP TRANSFORMATION
REBIRTHING
SEXUALITY
SEXUALITY AND SPIRITUALITY
SHADOW WORK
TAI CHI CHUAN
Product details
- ISBN 9798888504864
- Weight: 884g
- Dimensions: 165 x 241mm
- Publication Date: 08 Oct 2026
- Publisher: Inner Traditions Bear and Company
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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A story of love, sex, and the evolving mystery of intimacy
• A fifty-year journey through love, desire, and transformation that balances storytelling with philosophical inquiry and cultural analysis
• Offers a male perspective on sexuality, marriage, and emotional vulnerability, with contributions from the author’s wife to deepen the relational narrative
• Draws on craniosacral therapy, t’ai chi ch’uan, and psychic work to examine how relationships reflect the deeper forces that shape identity and consciousness
In this nontraditional, nonfiction novel, Richard Grossinger documents fifty years of his relationship with poet Lindy Hough. He traces the arc of their partnership from youthful idealism through the alchemical transformations of marriage, parenthood, infidelity, and aging. Exploring the forces that shape intimacy, Grossinger shares a deeply personal narrative that is couched in an esoteric framework.
Written primarily from a male perspective, the novel explores male sexuality and fantasy. The author shares meditations on marriage as a spiritual crucible, reflecting deeply on the libidinal forces that animate human experience. A chapter by Hough, along with her editorial interventions throughout, offers a female counter-voice to complicate the narrative and enrich the relational dynamic that underpins the story.
Grossinger draws on decades of esoteric and psychological study, including Jungian dreamwork, breath alchemy, Breema, and psychic healing. These studies provide a framework as he explores the archetypes of love and transformation that emerge and evolve in long-term partnerships. By situating personal experience in the cosmology of eros, Grossinger treats sex not as a discrete act but as a portal into the confluence of shadow and soul, of trauma and revelation.
In exploring the paradoxes of eros and the long shadow of desire, Episodes in Disguise of a Marriage investigates the inner logic of love and the psychosexual depth of creation.
• A fifty-year journey through love, desire, and transformation that balances storytelling with philosophical inquiry and cultural analysis
• Offers a male perspective on sexuality, marriage, and emotional vulnerability, with contributions from the author’s wife to deepen the relational narrative
• Draws on craniosacral therapy, t’ai chi ch’uan, and psychic work to examine how relationships reflect the deeper forces that shape identity and consciousness
In this nontraditional, nonfiction novel, Richard Grossinger documents fifty years of his relationship with poet Lindy Hough. He traces the arc of their partnership from youthful idealism through the alchemical transformations of marriage, parenthood, infidelity, and aging. Exploring the forces that shape intimacy, Grossinger shares a deeply personal narrative that is couched in an esoteric framework.
Written primarily from a male perspective, the novel explores male sexuality and fantasy. The author shares meditations on marriage as a spiritual crucible, reflecting deeply on the libidinal forces that animate human experience. A chapter by Hough, along with her editorial interventions throughout, offers a female counter-voice to complicate the narrative and enrich the relational dynamic that underpins the story.
Grossinger draws on decades of esoteric and psychological study, including Jungian dreamwork, breath alchemy, Breema, and psychic healing. These studies provide a framework as he explores the archetypes of love and transformation that emerge and evolve in long-term partnerships. By situating personal experience in the cosmology of eros, Grossinger treats sex not as a discrete act but as a portal into the confluence of shadow and soul, of trauma and revelation.
In exploring the paradoxes of eros and the long shadow of desire, Episodes in Disguise of a Marriage investigates the inner logic of love and the psychosexual depth of creation.
Richard Grossinger is the curator of Sacred Planet Books at Inner Traditions and the cofounder and former publisher of North Atlantic Books with his wife, Lindy Hough. He holds a PhD in ecological anthropology and has written over 40 books on alternative medicine, cosmology, embryology, and consciousness, including Embryos, Galaxies, and Sentient Beings; The Night Sky: Soul and Cosmos; and Bottoming Out the Universe. He lives in Portland, Maine.
