Bringing Your Soul to Work

Chapter 1: Table 1

12

Historical Themes of Soul

Theme	Origins	Examples
The underworld, depth, shadowy realities; connection to unconscious facets of ourselves	Early Greek	Homer’s Odyssey, the necessity of journey into Hades. Carl Jung wrote, “The dread and resistance which every natural human being experiences, when it comes to delving too deeply into himself is, at bottom, the fear of the journey to Hades.”2 Soul as metaphor for our own personal odyssey, the journey into the darkness of our own underworld.
Vitality, source of animation, essence, renewal, transmutation, and metamorphosis	Greek, Hindu, and American Indian stories	Latin root anima (animation) meant breath or soul. Greek word for soul, psyche, also meant butterfly, indicating ...