For a long time now, religion in the West has been polarized between a
democratic kind of faith meant for simple believers, and divine mysteries
so high that hardly anyone can claim to know much about them. The vital
connecting link between them, that of metaphysical religion, is all but
lost..." (From the Introduction.)

There are many books that seek to answer the fundamental questions of life:
Who am I? Does life have a purpose? How should I live? Dr Bolton's book
brings to these universal questions an extraordinary degree of metaphysical
insight. It contains in highly condensed form a veritable library of
traditional wisdom, offering a systematic reconstruction of our
understanding of the soul and its relation to archetypal reality. Its
starting-point is the fact that increasing numbers of people seem to lack
spiritual and material power over their own lives. Modern man feels like a
victim. But true power, real freedom, is closer than we think. Our
mistake lies in accepting a false view of the self, and neglecting the
metaphysical dimension that gives access to eternity.

Dr Bolton's book offers a crash-course in liberation. It can liberate us,
specifically, from a common sense idea of reality which is profoundly
false, and which holds us in unconscious slavery to time and
appearances. The book defends the capacity of the human mind to obtain
objective insight, despite the obfuscations of postmodernism, and
represents a bold development of the Platonist tradition associated with St
Augustine, Plotinus, and Proclus.

"This book is like a diamond: a diamond placed not in a necklace, but at
the business end of a drill. It is up to us to use the drill to penetrate
reality. Writing the book was a great achievement. Reading it invites us
to make the achievement our own." - Stratford Caldecott (G.K. Chesterton
Institute for Faith & Culture)