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The Inner Story
. Crossroad Pub, clean copy, with dustjacket, owners sticker to end paper, occasional marking in text, Professional booksellers since 1981
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Published January 1, 1982
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February 26, 2026
Brilliant Jungian mystic essays covering everything from Isaac and Esau to Frodo's Mithril Coat. I came across a new myth I've never heard before, and all of the breakdowns were lovely. Hearing Helen speak on Saul and Esau, who I've always identified with, was a rich experience.
"This is an extreme situation, though perhaps not so rare as we may imagine, but day by day we are all in some way possessed by this god or by that, calling these gods by their modern names of complex, mood, depression, inflation, and so on. To the exact degree that we despise and reject a fact or a feeling, to the same exact degree are we blindly possessed by that very thing."
Feels like the kind of book I'm going to keep forever if permitted. It's a reference I can pull out that few others can or might. Now I have to buy more of Ms. Luke's books.
"This is an extreme situation, though perhaps not so rare as we may imagine, but day by day we are all in some way possessed by this god or by that, calling these gods by their modern names of complex, mood, depression, inflation, and so on. To the exact degree that we despise and reject a fact or a feeling, to the same exact degree are we blindly possessed by that very thing."
Feels like the kind of book I'm going to keep forever if permitted. It's a reference I can pull out that few others can or might. Now I have to buy more of Ms. Luke's books.
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