--- product_id: 5309978 title: "The Second Half of Life: Opening the Eight Gates of Wisdom" price: "VT6993" currency: VUV in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.vu/products/5309978-the-second-half-of-life-opening-the-eight-gates-wisdom store_origin: VU region: Vanuatu --- # The Second Half of Life: Opening the Eight Gates of Wisdom **Price:** VT6993 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Second Half of Life: Opening the Eight Gates of Wisdom - **How much does it cost?** VT6993 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.vu](https://www.desertcart.vu/products/5309978-the-second-half-of-life-opening-the-eight-gates-wisdom) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description desertcart.com: The Second Half of Life: Opening the Eight Gates of Wisdom: 9781591795728: Arrien PhD, Angeles: Books Review: Fluff, truth or consequence - I wish I could get the wisdom of growing old and dying well. Jung said you only get faith to doubt. I don't simply believe the author is great and believable because she's a well read anthropologist and that I am wiser for reading her; that would be too easy and comfortable. I ask myself am I getting wiser and notice whether or not. I got a new perspective on faith (in old age) respecting my mother's incomprehensible so called resolution process stage toward death even though I didn't understand it and suspected she had lost her mind and was a vegetable. Dying properly will be important to me though I don't think I'll understand my own sense at the time any more than I do at the beginning of a physics problem. When a bunch of old people get together to talk about wisdom I worry they won't respect the wisdom process of youth and project their insecurities of losing their minds on youth. Meade had old men empower youth to think for themselves with open ended stories. I try to to read this book as an open ended story that makes me think and doesn't substitute inspiration for me thinking and doubting. I am very interested in discovering sexuality and romance untied to family in old age. I've missed having children and fear it would be unkind to have a child at my age. But, I have my own needs to have my inscrutable resolution process validated whether it be in dying or early confusions in research. It is a relief to read this book rather than risk finding or not finding my meaning of life in my research. It is a break from my very personal deep questions. Perhaps everyone's lives have extremely personal meanings that can't be turned into a science with such a book, but I must honor the fluff of a process and validate the author for trying so she'll get to a safer more productive place as I did my mother. Perhaps old folks need to validate each other as having grown peculiar and see where that peculiarity goes with reverent curiosity rather than control it away. Fear of abandonment in old age had my mother try to make me fear myself inadequate so I would need her. She could not let me go enough. I have unfounded insecurities I am overcoming. This sort of negativity can be projected as a so called electrode through generations. One gets infantile life scripts because one needs the protection of the critical parent ego state. This wound prevents us from writing our own story. One day I must read Arthur Franks in "The Wounded Storyteller"! The old must struggle for faith that we can actually attain wisdom and kindly impart it to help whole communities find freedom to find who they truly are rather than fear to be able to contrive other's approval and perhaps negative fear manipulation to merely achieve its appearance. I haven't finished this book yet. Perhaps ,when I get more read, the author will feel safe with me and share the vital wisdom of her process. Perhaps my mother also trusted me when she consciously said "I don't know what is wrong with my mind" and I kindly said "You are just very old and not making neural nets." in a sense, she was affirming my wisdom and that I still had my mind as I affirmed I loved her though she had lost hers. So this book can be good and true if approached by a person trying to be good and true. My church is using this in a wisdom circle powwow group. I wonder what this group will become with this book. We meet once a month a chapter and I'm already into the chapter on old sexuality. Review: An inspiring and thought-provoking read - This is a powerful book that our senior book study is discussing. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #146,322 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #104 in Midlife Self-Help #229 in Aging & Longevity (Books) #3,241 in Personal Transformation Self-Help | | Customer Reviews | 4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars (305) | | Dimensions | 5.2 x 0.45 x 7.9 inches | | Edition | 40696th | | ISBN-10 | 1591795729 | | ISBN-13 | 978-1591795728 | | Item Weight | 2.31 pounds | | Language | English | | Print length | 200 pages | | Publication date | August 1, 2007 | | Publisher | St. Martin's Essentials / Sounds True | ## Images ![The Second Half of Life: Opening the Eight Gates of Wisdom - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71yx74IFL4L.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Fluff, truth or consequence *by P***N on June 2, 2012* I wish I could get the wisdom of growing old and dying well. Jung said you only get faith to doubt. I don't simply believe the author is great and believable because she's a well read anthropologist and that I am wiser for reading her; that would be too easy and comfortable. I ask myself am I getting wiser and notice whether or not. I got a new perspective on faith (in old age) respecting my mother's incomprehensible so called resolution process stage toward death even though I didn't understand it and suspected she had lost her mind and was a vegetable. Dying properly will be important to me though I don't think I'll understand my own sense at the time any more than I do at the beginning of a physics problem. When a bunch of old people get together to talk about wisdom I worry they won't respect the wisdom process of youth and project their insecurities of losing their minds on youth. Meade had old men empower youth to think for themselves with open ended stories. I try to to read this book as an open ended story that makes me think and doesn't substitute inspiration for me thinking and doubting. I am very interested in discovering sexuality and romance untied to family in old age. I've missed having children and fear it would be unkind to have a child at my age. But, I have my own needs to have my inscrutable resolution process validated whether it be in dying or early confusions in research. It is a relief to read this book rather than risk finding or not finding my meaning of life in my research. It is a break from my very personal deep questions. Perhaps everyone's lives have extremely personal meanings that can't be turned into a science with such a book, but I must honor the fluff of a process and validate the author for trying so she'll get to a safer more productive place as I did my mother. Perhaps old folks need to validate each other as having grown peculiar and see where that peculiarity goes with reverent curiosity rather than control it away. Fear of abandonment in old age had my mother try to make me fear myself inadequate so I would need her. She could not let me go enough. I have unfounded insecurities I am overcoming. This sort of negativity can be projected as a so called electrode through generations. One gets infantile life scripts because one needs the protection of the critical parent ego state. This wound prevents us from writing our own story. One day I must read Arthur Franks in "The Wounded Storyteller"! The old must struggle for faith that we can actually attain wisdom and kindly impart it to help whole communities find freedom to find who they truly are rather than fear to be able to contrive other's approval and perhaps negative fear manipulation to merely achieve its appearance. I haven't finished this book yet. Perhaps ,when I get more read, the author will feel safe with me and share the vital wisdom of her process. Perhaps my mother also trusted me when she consciously said "I don't know what is wrong with my mind" and I kindly said "You are just very old and not making neural nets." in a sense, she was affirming my wisdom and that I still had my mind as I affirmed I loved her though she had lost hers. So this book can be good and true if approached by a person trying to be good and true. My church is using this in a wisdom circle powwow group. I wonder what this group will become with this book. We meet once a month a chapter and I'm already into the chapter on old sexuality. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ An inspiring and thought-provoking read *by M***I on April 5, 2026* This is a powerful book that our senior book study is discussing. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Must Buy *by S***R on August 14, 2016* This is a beautiful hard bound copy of a book I've read twice and gifted many times over. I had the privilege of being in a workshop w/ the author who was a cultural anthropologist. This is a MUST READ for anyone in their 50's and on. It is a spiritual book and not one filled w/ facts and stats. It's about our soul and what we feel and experience as we age. Each time I read it, I'm at a different place in life and glean so much insight and beauty. f I highly recommend it. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.vu/products/5309978-the-second-half-of-life-opening-the-eight-gates-wisdom](https://www.desertcart.vu/products/5309978-the-second-half-of-life-opening-the-eight-gates-wisdom) --- *Product available on Desertcart Vanuatu* *Store origin: VU* *Last updated: 2026-05-17*