antigen2002
12-16-2002, 12:28 AM
Although I can't speak for anyone besides myself, what really strikes me about this book is that it seems almost as if Pinchbeck is a newborn crawling into the spirit world; the perspective given is not filled with the ennui, but innocence. Pinchbeck persues spiritual progression, but I can tell that he is an ordinary human being full of wide-eyed awe. Rather than carving a tortuous path through the jungles of Jung and other great thinkers, he merely brings in his own insights and puts them on display. I can see where the seems of his own mind are peeled apart during the process of introspection; his head is indeed "broken open" to illustrate the spiritual revolution to the reader.