My recent reading - alas not full enough - of "The Red Book" (please see http://the-edge-of-town.blogspot.com/) seems to have enabled me to return to Janet Stone's blog, and I would particularly like to draw attention to the work of the Philemon Foundation - http://www.philemonfoundation.org/ - which has itself enabled the long-overdue publication of Carl Jung's "Liber Novus".
Jung's spirit companion in what some have called his inner grail quest is an elderly-winged man called Philemon : an important part of the inspiration for this figure was the sighting of a kingfisher bird. Whether Philemon is the Fisher King of the Grail Mystery is unclear from my inadequate reading, although I imagine this allusion was intended. The magnificent illustrations of "The Red Book" certainly depict a journey through Western (and Eastern) spiritual realms. It was only an emerging interest in the subject of alchemy which eventually took Jung away from these. He had found the Philosopher's Stone !
In my own case, a long-term interest in the much heralded "Ecological Age" - with it's very own green alchemy - has been lately transmuted.
