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"Show me a drunk and I'll show you someone in search of God" (or any spiritual experience as the individual recognises it) is a saying that could be attributed to Carl Jung, the renowned swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. Jung once wrote to Bill Wilson, founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, about his understanding of a patient's alcoholism: "His craving for alcohol was the equivalent, on its most basic level, of the spiritual thirst of ones being, for wholeness, expressed in medieval language as: union with God." Encouraged, even inspired by Jung's writings, Bill Wilson resolved to promote the spiritual aspect of recovery, as opposed to the conventional medical model which had proven consistently ineffective. The twelve steps of AA as they are known today, were constructed and intended as a step by step process towards attaining an individual apotheosis or "spiritual experience" as a means to cure alcoholism, through a recognition of something infinitely greater than the difficulties encountered by the alcoholic; it is a recognition of the divine, and on a deeper level in conjunction with this; a dissolution of the shadow archetype that so drives the being's negative impulses. Jung once spoke of the shadow as something which needed 'spiritual amputation' in order for healing to commence, a destruction of the dark and a liberation of the light. The short stories contained within this book, as a collective, is a personal spiritual pilgrimage (Twelve Steps) through the dark recesses of the authors own fragmented psyche, the literary equivalent of what Jung described as 'embracing the shadow' or, acknowledging the negative aspects of one's unconscious character deficiencies that we bury and hide; as opposed to introducing the reality of their existence, into the conscious, to confront and dissolve their influence. Through an acknowledgement of the authors own perpetual and alcohol fueled shadow, this book is intended as a purge of inadequacies that persist within the dark corridors of the psyche, and the short stories perhaps exemplify the deep abyss which may well, persist within us all. Through this bleak sojourn of horror and surrealism, it's hard not to get completely absorbed by the melancholy that D A Ellis so masterfully commits to page, and one can only selfishly hope, that at its end, some of that dark shadow still exists.


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  • ISBN-13: 9781981698691
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1981698698
  • Publisher Date: 14 Dec 2017
  • Binding: Paperback


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