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This book is a celebration. It celebrates the power of reflective thought, diversity of perspective, and the creativity that becomes available when the mind moves out of its familiar confines. It is a book, however, that is extremely difficult to review. The first difficulty is due to the effect it has on the reader. One wants to jump right in and have a voice to meet the many voices expressed here. This is a collection of writings that stimulate more than they conclude. New thoughts abound and they reach out to the reader for a response. My mind went into thinking about all kinds of alternative metaphors by which people might come together for the purpose of sharing ‘visions’ that extend into the full range of human concerns, taking what is gleaned in the analytic experience to address the dynamic issues of our day. Recently I have poked around at such meetings (unfortunately not the ones sponsored by the San Francisco Institute) and found a world pulsing with the hunger for a depth encounter with the psyche in relation to the unfolding of our world. Jung's approach to the psyche now finds an audience well beyond the traditional mental health practitioners. This book links to those people and their concerns.
Another profound difficulty in reviewing this book is the basic fact that each and every chapter deserves its own review. These are big people with big ideas needing, I think, to be considered as individuals. While Dr Singer has done a Herculean feat in organizing the book into sections with identifiable themes, each chapter does stand apart and separate, and each is worthy of intense consideration. Therefore, I feel compelled at least to mention their names as an acknowledgment of their very substantial contributions. They are: John Beebe, US Senator Bill Bradley, Betty Sue Flowers, Judith Grahn, Joseph Henderson, Alexander Laban Hinton, Samuel Kimbles, Thomas Kirsch, Martin Krasney, Betty Meador, Renos Papadopoulos, Peter Rutter, Andrew Samuels, Craig San Roqu