“Using the Wisdom of Homer’s Odyssey to Navigate Life’s Perils and Pitfalls”

Well, that hooked me.

I read The Odyssey because the “Get Help Now” group was reading this book. Who am I to go in unprepared?

By the time I had read all these books, the “Get Help Now” group was… over. So I had to get help later.

The first counselor I saw wanted to exorcise my demons. After reaching the extent of his expertise, a groundbreaking “You’ve gotta let that go,” sent me on my way…

… to a new therapist who associated just about everything to Alcoholics Anonymous and scorned Western culture for having no rites of passage into manhood.

Insightful as he was, he tended to pull from Zen masters and other religious paradigms. I’m not knocking it. It was just new to me, something I had shunned for many moons.

This book is just such a thing. Fischer asks the reader to meditate a lot, which isn’t a foreign concept to Christians, but it was often weirder than I cared for it to be. And the solutions to certain issues were strange. But they weren’t even solutions. Just suggestions.

It was just weird, ok?

But really, I was just reading it so I could get to the next one.

Stay tuned.