- Looking
for One's Shadow at Noon, vol. 1,
- Looking
for the Self in Family and Society,
- by
Mary M. Leue
From the back
cover:
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- This series of essays,
written over a period of several decades by a complex and
sometimes quixotic woman now in her seventies, brings together the
entire collection of her periodic "soul meanderings" brought out
from her "shadow self" and into the light of manifestation during
the most intense phase of her struggles to grow inwardly. They
cover a period of two decades - the seventies and eighties - plus
one essay ("Labyrinth") begun during that time but completed in
the nineties.
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- Although none of them
could be said to be in any sense definitive, taken as a whole, the
author's self-searching process goes a long way to provide a basis
for understanding her life's work in the area of birth, death and
family life within the context of community. The latter focus
provides the content for volume II.
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- Like the sacred labyrinth
at Chartres Cathedral whose schema appears on the cover, this
first volume could be called the symbolic inner context for that
work. Remembering that in human affairs, the reality can never
truly attain the reality of the City of God which is the center,
the author believes it is still the proper work of human beings to
tread the symbolic pathways of that labyrinth; to do the work of
manifestation to the best of one's limited human abilities and
within the context of periodic failures. She cites Voltaire's
remark about the beheaded saint who was said to have picked up her
head and walked from Orleans to Paris, "In such a journey, the
first step is the hardest." This collection is such a first
step.
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U.S.A. $7.95 ISBN: 1-878115-02-2 Canada $8.95
- (suggested)
U.K. £10.95
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