Soul Mentor, Richard Stromer, Ph. D. – PersonalMyths.com – Essays
For myself, I think this last aspect of Hermes\’ role as guide of souls—his role as the guide into and out of those passages in our lives which are inherently liminal in nature—is the most powerful one. As someone who has been dealing for the past several years with the particularly momentous life passage called “midlife,” I have had considerable opportunity to experience this aspect of Hermes\’ energy. As Stein observes, “at midlife there is a crossing-over from one psychological identity to another” (3). As a consequence, he writes (and I concur), “in our reflecting on the midlife transition and the experience of liminality within it, the world of Hermes therefore immediately suggests itself as a mythic, archetypal backdrop” (8).
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