L.C.S.W. This column takes suggestions for topics. Hermes is liar and thief, messenger of the gods, guide of souls to the underworld, and god of the journey to the imagination's borderland. Hermes, god of meaningful connections, leads one on circuitous paths which often as not result in more questions than straight answers. But the questions lead to deeper insights, different ways of seeing through. The human adventure is a wandering through the vale of the world for the sake of making soul.
Life is the odyssey of connection with soul.
It is a journey on which one is marked by the twistings and turnings of life experiences. It is a journey on which one is marked by soul, by encounters with soul. These markings chart the course of one's connection with soul. If the human adventure is a wandering through the vale of the world for the sake of making soul, it is an adventure in which soul pursues us for the purpose of making life soulful. In the epic of life, soul points toward itself.