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It is always hard for those not mystically minded to define the language and ideas of the mystical. This is the reviewer's dilemma with DeBary's book. As the title indicates it is an attempt to wrestle with the problem of death and to develop a view of death which has consoling possibilities. The general point seems to be that the individual ego survives in the social memory of a progressive society. One's life after death is the memory that others have of one, especially as represented in their dreams. We survive in the dream lives of others, as they do in ours. DeBary has studied his own dream life from this standpoint, taking journeys, meeting people, heeding their speech. After death we find membership in "an immortal collective person" and through this "collective persona" we ourselves find immortality. This may not be fair to the author but it is the best the reviewer can do with the Jungian verbiage.