Toby Johnson: This review was originally published in White Crane Journal (issue #49). It is reprinted with permission from www.whitecranejournal.com online.
That gay men have so embraced The Wizard of Oz is only partly about Judy Garland. It is more about the experience of being an outsider and a seeker,
longing for a better world ‘over the rainbow' that helps us identify with innocent Dorothy.
In Spiritual Journeys, Darren Main explores the story of Oz from a modern spiritual viewpoint. He explores each character and place as symbols of spiritual evolution. Filled with wisdom and common sense, it is a useful, entertaining and delightful guidebook and an interesting explication and expansion of a familiar, contemporary myth.
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