The essential need is to connect with the self. Let me be who my highest self could be. Let me be on a soul path. We are encouraged to search out the soul path within personal experience, within the events of our daily life. Most of the writings in SAGA orbit around these two constellations, spirit and daily experience.
Some contributors look to the lives of contemporaries, others look to the past.
She refracts the light emanating from a modern star of music and the movies. What they sought may then be assimilated into our own myth. His mythic vision is not bounded by the intellect's predilection to interpret every event using the tools of modern science. Herein is the essential message of SAGA, to pay vigorous attention to the inner life, to expand the mind and imagination while staying attuned to reality and to how we feel about it. If there are fallow periods along the way, when the clouds cover our own heavens, it would be worthwhile revisiting this book and to savor its language.