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Good news - the new book is in galleys.  That translates these days as a bound pre-release book that looks about ready to market.  In the old days it meant a big sheaf of printed pages loosely stitched together, and with huge margins so that one could note printer’s errors and so on. The item that sits on my desk right now looks like an actual book, and very handsome it is too.

The book’s title should say it all, but it’s worth noting that if we are invited to go on a personal journey towards personal authenticity, and if that journey will take us through the six stages, then we have to ask what the overall lesson is that we’re expected to learn along the way. The answer, I suspect, is as simple as it is demanding.  We’re here on earth to learn about how to love each other.

It’s a lesson we need now more than ever, as war seems in no danger of going out of fashion.

It’s only 158 pages and has pictures as well, so it’ll be an easy read.  The pictures?  They’re of the Tarot pack, which mirrors the six archetypes about as precisely as anyone could wish. As I was researching the book I kept finding more and more examples of those same six archetypes in our cultural history, to the extent that it became overwhelming.  Try going into any art gallery with pre 1900 art in it and you’ll be falling over the archetypes at almost every step.  Of course, once abstract art appeared on the scene it got harder to identify the archetypes because the painters and scupltors transferred the emphasis from outer rendition into an inner feeling about the archetype - and that gets more complicated.

The book can be pre-ordered from Amazon.  I’d recommend that way of buying it as the pre-order price is $10 and a few cents, and Amazon doesn’t keep that sort of discount going for very long.  You’ll have to wait for Fall for the release date, though.

And as Grandma says, all good things are worth waiting for.