Orpheus Redux: A Memoir

This short book offers itself as a third installment in John O’Meara’s series of memoirs, which began with Defending Her Son, 2000 and continued with The Bereaved Writer, 2008/2017. Here the author brings forward more emphatically than ever the main mystical experience in his life out of which his work as a literary critic emerged: a personal experience of “the death of the beloved” which at some point transforms into an encounter with the Anthroposophia Being. From this encounter, and from the author’s further separation from this Being, who is as if Herself returned to death like another Eurydice, from this and from all his efforts to continue in the line of creative energy that opened up from this, his main critical work emerges spreading over some thirty years.