James Hollis, PhD, is an American Jungian analyst and author of sixteen books focused on asking people to tap into what is authentic and inherent within each person while avoiding easy, feel-good answers in the search for living a meaningful life.
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Is the purpose of life to achieve happiness? Who does not long to arrive some distant day at that sunlit meadow where we may abide in pure contentment? In reality, we know life is not like that; our road is often dreary, the way unclear.
If we think our life dull and routinized we may profitably think more on our predecessor, Odysseus, and why someone 2,700 years ago thought it so important to write about the twin perils of fear and lethargy.
Why do so many go through so much disruption in their middle years? Why then? Why do we consider it to be a crisis? The Middle Passage presents us with an opportunity to reexamine our lives and to ask: "Who am I apart from my history and the roles I have played?" It is an occasion for redefining...
In Living Between Worlds, Hollis broadens his lens to encompass the relationship between our inner struggles and the rapidly shifting realities of modern human existence.
To learn what fear makes us do, or keeps us from doing. There is that summons to each of us, to face all of this. It is a moment of accountability, when you ask, “Am I going to accountable to what wants to enter the world through me?”
