Two Strange Tales by Mircea Eliade How many people are even aware that the late renowned scholar of religion and author of such works as The Sacred and the Profane even wrote fiction at all? Not too many, probably. But here is some of the fruit of his little-known spare-time activity: two eerily intriguing novellas

Out of This World: Otherworldly Journeys from Gilgamesh to Albert Einstein by I. P. Couliano From Homer to Dante to Swami Yogananda, from Hades to the Seventh Heaven to LSD trips, the late scholar of altered states takes us on a journey through the wild world of ecstatic visionary experiences as they've occurred throughout the

The Heroine's Journey: Woman's Quest for Wholeness by Maureen Murdock This was a best-seller for us in the late 1980s. Maureen recognized that the "Hero's Journey" that Joseph Campbell had written about so memorably missed important aspects of the process for women. The fan mail poured in for this book that spoke so profoundly to

Individuation in Fairy Tales by Marie-Louise von Franz Here's another one from the days when we published extensively in Jungian psychology-and it's arguably one of the best. Von Franz was likely Jung's closest student, and her insights into how fairy tales can tell us who we are can be world-view transforming.