On December 20th, 2010 I began the twenty-four hour trip from New York State to Beirut, Lebanon. On the evening of the rare lunar eclipse that coincided with the Spring Equinox, suspended over the Atlantic ocean, I opened the pages of James Hollis', The Archetypal Imagination. A few summers ago I went through a James Hollis book each week and by September I felt a little weary, heavy. The Archetypal Imagination left me in a very different place. I was inspired and re-committed to the life of the symbolic. Each chapter of the short book (124 pages) begins with this sentence, "What we wish most to know, most desire, remains unknowable and lies beyond our grasp." Hollis then takes us to a place where we experience the desire and accept the unknowable. He reminds us that the Mystery is what leads us on our quest for meaning. This is a book to read numerous times, savoring the language, the possibilities, the devotion to the symbolic, and the call to unite psyche with soul. |
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