New Wasichu, Crossing: Our Story Is Just Beginning

Gary Lindorff's New Wasichu, Crossing: Our Story is Just Beginning, is the distillation of several decades of experience, study and practice in three over-lapping fields of access to certain wellsprings of healing and transformation: Jungian Psychology, Native American wisdom traditions and shamanism. What is offered here is a way through the gathering darkness of our times. The author has braided together a carefully researched, sometimes autobiographical narrative-lifeline that guides the reader ever deeper into a landscape of dreams, intentionality, revelation and real answers to the problems that we face as human beings. Chapter by chapter the path to the future becomes less metaphorical, more substantial and walkable.The writing circumambulates certain archetypal themes. One such theme is crossing for spiritual survival. At the same time the reader is equipped to orient him- or herself by a new (or older than old) set of coordinates, facilitating participation in an epic crossing to something more human and more sustainable. Another recurrent theme is the return of the doppelganger or our soulful double, which, it turns out, embodies the template of the undamaged self. The reader must expect a wild ride calculated to cover a lot of territory fairly quickly but, in the end, we must each carry our own weight as the journey continues. This is a book for the stout-hearted. It poses questions that pop-psychology and New Age faddism will never address. The currents Lindorff taps are deep and clear, the pools of reflection are intellectually, emotionally and intuitively quenching.