Book III
INTRODUCTION, Page xiii
Book III, the last book of the Goddessslands Trilogy, is the conclusion of an odyssey that began as a soul birth in a French hamlet in the Pyrenees in 1993 (I), and travels onward in search of the mysteries in Ireland and England, including a few returns to America (II). In composite, The Trilogy is a series of vignettes, journal entries, and dialogues with inner voices. It is the personal myth of Pamé La Calmette grounded in and exiled from her “goddesslands.”
In the present volume, I allude to the movie “Lost Horizons,” for here is a journey of having lost one’s way from paradise; and here is the age-old, mythic struggle of finding the way back home.
It is only fair to warn readers that though the search through countries and soul in this book appears at times chaotic, kaleidoscopic, and often neurotic, the underlying meaning of the individual’s myth remains. For, as Pamé endeavors to release the blocks to her authentic self while seeking the way back to re-settlement in her goddesslands—with madness, grace, fear, and trust—she continues writing her fairy tale in her own way. And her way is a movement of spiraling forward, back, around and around; back and forward. She does it in the Feminine way. And so this may not be the book for those who seek restfulness in reading, or for those who may expect a story of psychological/spiritual transformation with little suffering.
I am indebted to all the characters in this book that provided shelter to Pamé in her search for the way back to home. I am grateful to the teachers who guided her way: C.G Jung, Marie Louise Von Franz, Marion Woodman, Robert Graves, to name a few.
Special thanks to the CP foundation and to Ann Yeomans, archetypal therapist and spirit companion.
Pamela Preston
Truth or Consequences, New Mexico
April, 2010
