Table of Contents
Acknowledgements viii
Introduction 1
Chapter 1 The Dark Man 6
A typical dark man experience
Storytellers, mythographers, poets and psychologists: explaining the dark man
Models of understanding
Chapter 2 Meeting the Dark Man 26
What the dark man looks like
What the dark man is associated with
Where we find the dark man
Chapter 3 The Underworld 53
Where is the dark man found? What is the Underworld?
What the Underworld contains
The passage through the Underworld
What lies on the other side?
Chapter 4 The Lord of the Underworld 75
The first encounter
The threshold
While passing through
The return
Why the dark man does what the does
Chapter 5 Introducing . . . Us 121
The dark man's relationship to us
What we should do when he arrives
What we should do while travelling through
What we should do at the other side
Do we have a choice?
Chapter 6 When It Goes Wrong 161
Interrupting the flow; Putting things right
Conclusion Walking with the Dark Man 182
Notes 190
