DATES and SEASONS

DATES and SEASONSIf one has to find a label to suit this book it could be something like 'time consciousness' or 'reconciling history and myth.' The picture of Sherlock Holmes on the reverse cover points to the task of deciphering dates and other specifics, which involves conscious effort and purposeful research. For the rest we see vegetation, the coloration of which could evoke thoughts of the Fall or Autumn and beyond that the sequence of the four seasons within

If one has to find a label to suit this book it could be something like 'time consciousness' or 'reconciling history and myth.' The picture of Sherlock Holmes on the reverse cover points to the task of deciphering dates and other specifics, which involves conscious effort and purposeful research. For the rest we see vegetation, the coloration of which could evoke thoughts of the Fall or Autumn and beyond that the sequence of the four seasons within the annual cycle. Dates in our calendars record history but also reflect the mood of one or other of the four seasons. It is this correlation that is to be investigated in the first section of this book. The other sections draw attention to 'wandering,' the process of the mind to reconcile daytime experience and the intuitive operations of the mind which our cultures associate with the moon and the night. In the terms of modern psychological theories we may speak of the quest of the libido to achieve union with the anima, its female counterpart in the psyche.