This mythic memoir is about Sam's midlife transformation, beginning with the painful death of his sixteen-year marriage. A month after separating from his wife, he feels the impulse to jump to his death from a five-story building. But instead of literally suiciding, Sam commits a symbolic suicide-an egocide. His ego-identity is obliterated, as he digs into his soul and confronts his dependency and anger problems. pSam frames his spiritual journey in the terminology of Jungian psychology and with the images, ideas, and symbols of the Christian myth. He opens himself to being radically transformed by the unconscious-his soul and the Self. Within the fertile womb of his soul, he discovers some of the fruits of the feminine. Sam realizes his experience has been an inward journey toward the Self, a process of self-realization. Ultimately, he arrives on the shore of the Infinite Mystery.pIn this spiritual memoir, Sam shares his spiritual experiences, personal insights and professional conclu