Death is not the opposite of life but of birth - life is a continuous realm out of which we are born; that (as Plato says) we can dimly remember during our existence; and to which we return when we die - to that totality of life compared to which mortal existence seems but a dreamlike fragment.

The soul needs feeding - where “feeding” signifies heeding.

There are many other worlds - but they are all in this one.

The unconscious reflects back at us the face we show to it.

Imagination, not reason, is the chief faculty of the soul.

Death is a portal into that greater reality that can already be glimpsed in this world as an imaginative experience of the Otherworld.

The task of the human soul is simply to return from its exile in our shadowy, less-than-real material world to an ecstatic union with the One Source of all reality.

Each of us is an individual manifestation of the collective world-soul … we are also and paradoxically contained by the world-soul, like droplets in the ocean.

The trick is to cultivate “double vision” … A sense of metaphor, of translation - of two worlds interpenetrating - must be maintained. But this is also the essential movement of the imagination. We see through the literal world to the shape-shifting Otherworld behind.