Is there any place for the ancient myths of our ancestors in modern times? Could their shadowy presence in our common imagination be more influential than we realize? Across the globe many societies still believe in an Otherworld of spirits, gods and daimons, which the West has banished to the unconscious mind and now only visits in dreams.
Yet this visionary tradition continues to subvert the rational universe, erupting out of the shadows in times of intense religious and philosophical trans.
Wooden Books Philosophers' secret fire, paperback/patrick harpur
