The Crown of Age

Woodman is talking about more than avoiding the reduced capacities of old age. She's a Jungian analyst and celebrated writer about male and female archetypes, and she gives a far-reaching account of how later life can be a positive integration of the forces in our culture and family that foreshadowed us. Though the program's first half lacks focus, the second is a magnificent picture of how to integrate the Western notion of willfulness with the powerful energies, seen and unseen, that bubble inside of us and befuddle our best attempts to live without respecting them. Woodman's ideas are so packed with meaning you'll rewind often to be sure you haven't missed something important. T.W. (c) AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine