John Perkins, a Christian Jungian psychoanalyst, student of the great mythologist Joseph Campbell, has written a magical book about the legend of Tristan and Isolde. A life lesson about the integration of the spiritual and the sensuous and the sensual. These myths and legends are to be found in pre-history, and are alive in our subconscious at this very moment. The anti-sexuality, "us-them" clericalism of medieval Christianity is so far removed from the divinization of Theosis , the Truth of genuine Christianity as to be a horrible perversion of what Christianity truly is. Everything is not what it seems. In line with true Christianity, intense suffering can be a sign of Awakening, Enlightenment. As Carl Jung taught. Superficial concepts don't stand a chance in this book. Love potions don't cause love, they make you aware of the Love already there. Death brings New Life. Is this not the message of true Christianity ? Pyramus and Thisbe, Romeo and Juliet, Tristan and Isolde. Love immolation. While reading this book I constantly heard Wagner's Prelude to Tristan and Isolde as conducted by Arturo Toscanini in my head. And the piano version by Franz Liszt as played by Vladimir Horowitz as well. Deep Myth, Tantric Yoga, the Blood of Christ.