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The author presents this slim volume as ‘a collection of articles and brief thoughts orientated towards Jungian and transpersonal analysis’. The neutral tone of this description belies the power of feeling expressed and the evangelical tenor of the writing. The short articles are not soft philosophical musings but dire warnings. The underlying premise throughout is that the world is out of kilter, as people have lost touch with their origin and soul. This retrograde trend is fuelled by economic progress and post-modernity, which belittle nature and the cosmos. We are dissociated from our psyches or true nature and need to get back to the unity of all things. The book is a rallying call to societies, particularly in the West, to mourn the death of metaphysics and to move from fragmentation and psychic impoverishment to a rediscovery of unity and psychic wholeness.
The social malaise that the author portrays is easily recognizable but his sweeping statements have an accusatory edge. The reader may be left with an uncomfortable sense of responsibility, blame or guilt for profligacy and for doing insufficient to advocate, or even recognize the need for change from a materialistic worldview to a resacralizing of spiritual and mythic phenomena. It is likely that most therapists, of whatever persuasion, would stand with the