Hearse offers a revolutionary new reading of the great psychologist Carl Jung as a mystic, gnostic and prophet of our time.

This book is the first major re-examination of both Jung and his work since the publication of The Red Book in 2009 year, and its only serious assessment by a classicist who understands the ancient Greek, Hermetic and alchemical foundations of Jung's thought. At the same time, it skillfully tells the forgotten story of Jung's relationship with the great Sufist scholar Henri Corbin and the Persian Sufi tradition.

The strange reality of the "Red Book" or "New Book" as Jung called it, hits close to home "Hearse." With painstaking care, Peter Kingsley reveals its great secret, hidden in plain sight and yet - as if by magic - unnoticed by all those who are unable to understand its mysterious incantatory text.

But the hard truth about who Jung was and what he did is only a small part of what this book reveals. It also shows the full breadth of that great river of esoteric tradition which reaches to the origins of our civilization. It reveals the astonishing realities behind Western philosophy, literature, poetry, prophecy - both ancient and modern.

In short, Peter Kingsley shows us not only who Carl Jung was, but who we are as Westerners. More than just a brilliant spiritual biography, Hearse offers the key to understanding why our Western culture is dying. And being an incantatory text in itself, it points the way to understanding what we should do in these times of great crisis.