“In 2016, I entered a personal Dark Night of the Soul,” Alexandra A. Chan explains. She had lost a beloved father, plus the external world bombarded her with Covid-19, Trumpism, devastating natural catastrophes, and a rise of violence against Black people. Chan began her journey towards healing and individuation using meditation, recalling family stories, learning traditional Chinese art, and connecting with the myths in her personal and the collective unconscious. Chan’s story of her five year journey is informed by the Chinese astrological calendar.
Chan shares her family history. Her grandfather’s progressive politics garnered a death sentence, so he fled China for America. Her brilliant father, whose career was capped by his ethnicity. Her parents’ love story, told in wartime letters. The pages are filled with family photographs. She probes the intergenerational trauma that was passed down.
“Logos” can tell you where you are, Chan ends, but it is mythos that tells you how and where to go from there. Trust the journey. It will bring you home.
Chan offers an alternative way out of darkness, not through medication or logic, but by tapping into the spiritual, probing the unconscious, and finding expression through art and storytelling.
Thanks to the publisher for a free book through Bookish First.
Chan shares her family history. Her grandfather’s progressive politics garnered a death sentence, so he fled China for America. Her brilliant father, whose career was capped by his ethnicity. Her parents’ love story, told in wartime letters. The pages are filled with family photographs. She probes the intergenerational trauma that was passed down.
“Logos” can tell you where you are, Chan ends, but it is mythos that tells you how and where to go from there. Trust the journey. It will bring you home.
Chan offers an alternative way out of darkness, not through medication or logic, but by tapping into the spiritual, probing the unconscious, and finding expression through art and storytelling.
Thanks to the publisher for a free book through Bookish First.