Sunus: The Way of the Heroic Soul

Sunus is an exploration of the "art of dying" in order to live! The hero of this 21st century myth is Psyche, whose name means soul. Her experience of rebirth, following a climactic labor of love, is a metaphor of being open to anyone undergoing crisis or spiritual transformatio Psyche is the most beautiful infant in the world when she is born. Through the terrible difficulties of everyday life ~ not to mention encounters with evil ~ however, the purity of her soul is lost. Psyche ends up in the Wasteland. Fortunately, she is touched by Eros, the god of love, who comes to deeply care for her. By ill fate, nevertheless, she soon loses him. Psyche must undergo an inner journey in order to find and regain her lost love. For her most difficult task, she must confront death directly. In the end, filled with Eros, Psyche is triumphant. Ever since, her life illustrative of The Way of the Heroic Soul.

Stephen Slade Tien, Ph.D. is a practicing Zen psychoanalyst. Educated at Harvard, C.U.N.Y. and New York University, his writings include: "The Self in Transformation," "Psychogenesis: A Theory of Perinatal Experience" and "Re-Visioning Psyche." The son of immigrants from China and England, he lives in Ithaca, NY with his wife and children.