There are moments in a person’s life when a portal opens into an unknowable, unseen, unidentifiable “Other” — a place both strange and extraordinary, like Alice falling down the rabbit hole. This is the mystical realm of poetry and art, wild beasts and helpful animals, flying and falling, paradox and wisdom. Anyone who accepts the invitation has a uniquely transformative experience. And then the portal closes again.
For three years, Diane Croft had access to a hidden, animated realm described by C.G. Jung as “the collective unconscious,” where she took part in an initiatory process of death and rebirth, as retold by countless others — from Dante’s journey to the underworld to Rumi’s ecstatic encounter with the Beloved. Her beautifully illustrated book of Eros-awareness speaks the metaphoric language of symbol, art, and poetry. Follow Croft’s uniquely embodied experience of a universal reality outside the boundaries of time and space, and discover the source of our longing for an Other that lies within.
A graduate of Wittenberg and Harvard, Diane Croft has spent most of her career as a publisher at National Braille Press in Boston. She has been the recipient of numerous awards from the blind community on behalf of her efforts to promote braille literacy and access to technology. She edited the first illustrated biography of the inventor of braille, Louis Braille: A Touch of Ge...
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