Seeker: Traveling the Path to Enlightenment (Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious, Vol. 3) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1585421898 ISBN 13: 9781585421893

Publisher: Tarcher, 2003

Synopsis

Collects works of art and literature designed to capture the American spirit, focusing on spiritual growth through works by L. Frank Baum, Alice Walker, Walt Whitman, Ronald Steel, and Doris Colmes.

About this title

About the Author:

Jean Houston, Ph.D., is the best-selling author of many books, including Jump Time, The Possible Human, The Search for the Beloved, and A Mythic Life.

From Booklist:

Readers of Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell will be familiar with the concept of archetypes, symbolic figures that embody key aspects of our contradictory nature, from the hero to the fool. The highly innovative and gorgeously illustrated series, Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious: Reflecting American Culture through Literature and Art, considers American variations on these ancient themes in volumes that combine provocative writings, Native American myths, and extraordinarily well chosen images, both handmade and photographic. America, writes best-selling author Jean Houston in introducing The Seeker, is "the seeker's paradise, the visionary land of freedom and opportunity" and a magnet for people on quests pragmatic or spiritual. The American psyche is shaped by both the nation's success and failure in living up to the dreams of seekers hoping for personal revelation and spiritual communion, and America is home to a dazzling diversity of spiritual perspectives and practices, which are reflected in such intriguing selections as excerpts from The Wizard of Oz; poems by Whitman, Frost, and Alice Walker; accounts of spiritual visions by Richard Russo and Rachel Naomi Remen; and the wisdom of Martin Luther King. Donna Seaman
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About this edition

• Publisher: Tarcher
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1585421898
• ISBN 13: 9781585421893
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160