Psychic Politics

Book excerpt: "The ego rises from the civilization of the psyche just as a leader rises from the masses of the people: appointed, chosen, or taking control according to an inner politics first existing within the greater inner mind." Jane Roberts, Psychic PoliticsPsychic Politics is Jane Roberts's search for the rules that govern our inner life-the links between daily, subjective experience and the greater Reality that nourishes all of our existence. This is not only her most challenging book, but a very personal investigation in which the sources of dream and myth, and the creative wellsprings of sex and spirituality, appear in their full and breathtaking relationship to daily life.And, here for the first time, Roberts introduces her theories of "counterparts, " the "library, " and the "codicils, " concepts that are key to understanding her entire body of work.