The acclaimed author of The Middle Passage explains why a connection with our mythic roots is crucial for us as individuals and as responsible citizens of our age. The great Americal novel Moby-Dick is a psychological document which, like a dream, needs interpretation and elaboration of its images for its meaning to emerge fully. The subtitle of this work underscores the correspondence between Melville's deep internal struggle and the hidden complexities within us all. Like its companion volume, The Mysterium Lectures , The Aion Lectures is a invaluable resource for understanding symbolic images in dreams, art and active imagination. New Age pursuits are on the wane.
People are hungry for substance.
This inventive learning experience is Book Three of the Brillig Trilogy. Yet much of the time we are lost in the quicksands of guilt, grief, betrayal, depression and the like. Hollis examines the possibility that the goal of life is not happiness but meaning.