A Modern Parable

I have just finished a wonderful parable by Paulo Cuelho

called "The Alchemist". In it, the author relates the initiation

of a young shepherd into the mysteries of the world as seen

by the alchemists. In the alchemist vision which is very close

to Jung's Collective Unconscious concept, the Soul of the World

is there to be discovered by those who believe in it so that

they be connected to the Universe and the natural elements

like the wind, the air, the sea or the desert, and the animals.

The young shepherd, after going through several rites of

initiation, succeeds in being connected to the Soul of the World

which intuits his quests and accompanies him wherever

he goes, whatever he does.