Thresholds of Initiation

I was happy to find this book by psychiatrist and Jungian analyst Joseph Henderson. Though published in 1967, it's still useful, particularly on dream images of death and re-birth (chapter VII and following.) He discusses levels of initiation. I'd known that the bear was a symbol of the feminine/Great Mother, but glad to learn more about it in the appendix, where he links bears and young girls' rites of passage to Athenia as well as Artemis. If you or your friends have dreamed of dancing bears, you might find it interesting.