Nurse Sparks

Barbara Dossey, PhD, RN


Nursing is truly a unique profession and transpersonal journey. Heart-centered, compassionate, and creative nurses can effectively become the kind of practitioners they desire with focused intentions that are enhanced with education and certifications. They begin to live their story the way that they envision it. This nursing anthology demonstrates the challenges and the soul searching that is involved in such endeavors— the archetypal vision quest. Collectively, these stories share many pathways to healing based upon the nurses’ direct experiences when they identify an innate call to action. These nurse pioneers and innovators stories’ interweave heroic deeds and triumphs, their challenges and heartaches, and how they are change agents in a changing world.

Barbara Dossey, PhD, RN, AHN-BC, FAAN, HWNC-BC
Author: Florence Nightingale, Mystic, Visionary, Healer, Holistic Nursing: A Handbook for Practice, and Nurse Coaching: Integrative Approaches for Health and Wellbeing.

Gaining Archetypal Vision

"Book Review Critique" Perspective Magazine

Mary K Greer Review

Bonnie Cehovet Review

Tarot Examiner: Cher Green

Tero Hynynen Blog

“Attune Magazine”: Mary Nale


“Toni Gilbert’s Gaining Archetypal Vision: A Guide for Using the Archetypes in Personal Growth and Healing is a very accessible exploration of the archetypes. Based on Carl Jung’s original treatise and other rigorous archetypal research, this book assists us to better understand self and others and how to engage in self-renewal and self-discovery. Recognizing our archetypes is a way to open to a new level of clarity and understanding about how to live life from our soul’s purpose.” Barbara Dossey, PhD, RN, AHN-BC, FAAN, Author of Holistic Nursing: Handbook for practice. International Co-Director, Nightingale Initiative for Global Health

“Gaining Archetypal Vision is a deeply thoughtful and soulful weaving of the personal evolution of a nurse/healer with diverse traditions of self-knowledge and healing that have both ancient origins and very contemporary applications. Appropriate to a book about archetypes, it's a book that conveys messages on multiple levels, affecting both heart and mind." Martin Rossman, MD, guided imagery pioneer and author of The Worry Solution

“This beautiful, inspirational book takes archetypal psychology to a new level, showing the reader how the archetypes can be identified and engaged in the service of personal growth and healing.  Bravo!”  Mark Robert Waldman, co-author of How God Changes Your Brain and Associate Fellow, Center for Spirituality and the Mind, University of Pennsylvania

"Gaining Archetypal Vision: A Guide for Using the Archetypes in Personal Growth and Healing by Toni Gilbert is a daringly personal and heartfelt look at how an archetypal approach to life can transform and deepen it. Gilbert's own story and those of others show how to use the authenticity and integrity that results from an archetypal vision as a guide to one’s life path. Furthermore, she offers tools for achieving these and exercises for exploring the archetypes. This is a practical manual as well as a book of inspirational examples of the process." Mary K. Greer, author of Tarot for Your Self and 21 Ways to Read a Tarot Card

Messages from the Archetypes

Lynn Keegan, RN, PhD, AHN-BC, FAAN

Perspective magazine of the Associations of
Humanistic and Transpersonal Psychology

New Connexion-Journal of Conscious Evolution

Meta Arts Magazine

American Tarot Association

Imagery International Newsletter

Statesman Journal

In Messages from the Archetypes, Toni Gilbert defines the meeting point between modern medicine and Tarot with enlightening results. Balancing her intuition and intellect against her solid grounding in holistic nursing, she shows us how the traditional imagery of Tarot can spark interior associations leading to new realms of meaning and healing for both client and practitioner.
~ Christine Payne-Towler, author of The Underground Stream: Esoteric Tarot Revealed

For those not familiar with the Tarot archetypes, Toni Gilbert's descriptive writing makes them easy to understand. She lends credibility to Tarot's capacity to reveal emotional and psychological information from the level of the psyche. Her real life stories are alive and insightful.
~ Susan Ezra, RN, HNC, founder of Beyond Ordinary Nursing

Toni Gilbert deftly blends the complementary disciplines of nursing and the intuitive arts. Based upon synchronicity and a caring creative process, she allows the archetypal imagery of the Tarot to gently guide clients towards manifestation of their mental, physical and spiritual health.
~ Peter Moore, editor Alternatives for Cultural Creativity Magazine

Messages from the Archetypes explains Tarot, imagery, symbolism and synchronicity in such a clear way that any person unfamiliar with the cards would get it! I particularly like the way in which Toni Gilbert weaves in different healing and energy modalities.
~ James Wanless, author of Voyager Tarot book and deck


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