This is a book of poetry; but, it is first and foremost a psychological work. As such, it is a spiritual one, for the aims of psychology are (or should be) inseparable from those of religion and philosophy; namely, to define human consciousness. Based on the psychology of C. G. Jung and inspired by Goethe's Faust, this book is a chronology, in poetic language, of the change in perspective prompted by the mid-life transition. Jung wrote that the unconscious has been engaged in this process over hundreds of thousands of years, and for most, it guides them through it with relatively little...