Underworld Archetypes Fully Illustrated Author:James Bennett In this book James Bennett examines the concept of Hell, interpreting it from many original perspectives. Since many still describe the experience of recovery from illness, trauma or addiction as ?going through hell?, might not the stories of mythological journeys through hades become helpful guidebooks when translated into modern psychological ... more »terms? Bennett states ?I am a psychotherapist who is also a student of mythology and observer of the culture through the lens of mythology and archetypal perspective. "Allow the stories, pictures and images to sit with you and speak to you. Perhaps this will spark your own connections and associations and open doors for you in unexpected and meaningful ways.? In one chapter he dismisses the imaging of hell as a threat of future demonic persecution, and considers that to be a corruption of descriptions of real experience in the present. In another Bennett proposes that heaven and hell represent the polarized intellect and body, becoming destructively antagonistic. ?The purpose of this book is to heal the split between heaven and earth, in ourselves and in the wider culture. My book is a small contribution to something much larger than any of us?.« less