The Seeker's Guide to Harry Potter
by Geo Trevarthen
The Seeker's Guide to Harry Potter offers 'seekers' of all kinds profound and fascinating insights into the narrative themes, symbols and mythic elements encountered in the Harry Potter books. Drawing from diverse spiritual and scholarly sources, it is an open-minded guide to the rich layers of meaning and symbolism we encounter in all seven of the novels.The Seeker's Guide doesn't try to 'read' J.K. Rowling's mind about the symbolism she may or may not have meant to put in the books, but to read the symbols as they appear, with some of the layers of meaning that they have traditionally held. Drawing from anthropology, theology, psychology and the history of the human experience of the Sacred, The Seeker's Guide to Harry Potter offers fans of any or no spiritual faith a deeper sense of magic and meaning in the novels and in their own lives.
Dr. Geo Trevarthen has produced what I have to call a magical work -- scholarly but not boring, spiritual but not restricting, enlightening without being stuffy; in short, a rewarding read for anyone who may have wondered what was behind the Harry Potter phenomenon and why it reaches so deeply into our core beings. I urge you to shout, "Accio The Seeker's Guide to Harry Potter" ... I guarantee you a mind and heart opening experience awaits.
Written with fluency and vigour, this represents a very interesting and unusual way of relating J. K. Rowling's work to wider issues concerning the nature of magic, the lived imagination and the experience of alternative states of consciousness. This is a really remarkable achievement: a book which tells us lots of perceptive things about the Harry Potter stories, but also about the nature of magic itself.
"The Seeker's Guide" is aptly named. The questing reader will find an extraordinary range of insights into the deeper meanings and thematic substrata of the Harry Potter books that illuminate the magnitude of JK Rowling's achievement in responding to the spiritual void of our times. The underlying message is our alchemical capacity for transformative action, the triumph of love over fear and death, the transcendence of petty concerns and limiting beliefs. The author brilliantly illuminates the ambiguities of the human situation depicted in the novels as well as our ultimate ability to reconcile the polarities in our lives. A "tour de force".
A compassionate and enchanting commentary by an experienced shaman and seeker. Geo Trevarthen's 'Seeker's Guide to Harry Potter' unlocks the door to the rich alchemical material in Harry Potter, not for its own sake, but for the wealth of wisdom hidden beneath its surface, wisdom that can help us magically transform our lives, and the life of the world.
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