Connie Zweig, Ph.D., is a retired psychotherapist, former executive editor at Jeremy P. Tarcher Publishing, former columnist for Esquire magazine, and contributor to the LA Times. Known as the Shadow Expert, she is the coauthor of Meeting the Shadow and Romancing the Shadow and author of a novel, A Moth to the Flame: The Life of the Sufi Poet Rumi. She lives in California.

PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION
A Call for Spiritual Awakening
A Call for Shadow Awareness

PROLOGUE
My Longing for the Light
A Meditation on Up

PART 1
Before the Fall
A Guide for Faithful Believers

ONE
The Holy Longing

Awakening to Holy Longing

God Longs for Us as We Long for God

The Inner Marriage: A Story of Holy Longing in the Sufi Poet Rumi

TWO
Longing for God
The Hidden Object of Desire

The Changing God Image: Involution or Down

The Changing God Image: Evolution or Up

The Inner Marriage: A Story of Holy Longing in the Hindu Master Ramakrishna

THREE
Longing for the Human Beloved
The Search for Romantic Union

Beloved as Parent: The Psychology of Love

Beloved as God: The Archetypes of Love

The Inner Marriage: A Story of Holy Longing in the Sufi Lovers Majnun and Layla

FOUR
Longing for the Divine Human
The Search for Spiritual Communion

Priest or Teacher as Parent: The Psychology of Spirituality

Priest or Teacher as God: The Archetypes of Spirituality

Priest or Teacher as Divine Human: The Teacher/Student Relationship

The Inner Marriage: A Story of Holy Longing in the Christian Saint Catherine of Siena

PART 2 After the Fall
A Guide for Disillusioned Believers

FIVE
Meeting Spiritual Shadow
Darkness on the Path

Encountering the Spiritual Other: The Breakdown of Communion

Tales of Religious and Spiritual Abuse

SIX
Understanding Spiritual Abuse
Detecting the Patterns across Denominations

The Consequences of Spiritual Abuse

Who Is Susceptible to Spiritual Abuse?

Meeting the Shadow of Addiction

Death and Transcendence

MIDLOGUE
My Longing for the Dark
A Meditation on Down

SEVEN
Rekindling the Flame
Shadow-Work for Spiritual Abuse and Disillusionment

Communal Shadow-Work

Individual Shadow-Work

EPILOGUE TO THE NEW EDITION Through the Shadow to the Light

Acknowledgments

APPENDIX ONE
The Association for Spiritual Integrity (ASI) Code of Ethics and Good Practice

APPENDIX TWO
The Code of Ethics for Insight Meditation Society (IMS) Teachers

Bibliography

Index

About the Author