Mythical Times: Exploring Life, Love and Purpose

Robert B. MacIntyre is head of the Centre for Relationship Therapy and
Education in Orangeville, Ontario.

This illustrated collection of stories, meditations, and fables explores
the theme of the soul’s purpose on earth. Turmel’s characters talk
with angels, their own souls, and God. Eventually, they learn to benefit
from the input of higher wisdom and to attune themselves to their own
soul nature. As each story ends, they find that “all was well with
their world.” The stories are gentle, simple, and could probably be
read to children as entertaining myths with an embedded higher moral
truth.

The author’s philosophy is rooted in a generic and nondenominational
form of Christianity. His God is a benevolent father figure, and his
message is a positive one that involves attending to the higher purpose
in one’s life, connect-ing to one’s soul, and working toward a
harmonious relationship with others and with nature. The book’s simple
message and presentation might appeal to the young and, when used as a
starting point for personal meditation, the unconscious mind. Its
“soft” theology will not likely appeal to the critically minded.