Ideas can change the world and Hazel Marshall’s new book is about just such an idea. Our hero is bound by honour and family tradition to avenge a past wrong, for this is a tale of vendetta. Long-lasting family feuds are not rare; in his play Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare wrote of such a case and, as so often, things did not work out well. Vendettas can also sour relations between tribes and between nations; we need only recall the long-standing confl icts all over the world: ‘past wrongs cannot be forgiven and
must never be forgotten’.
Vendettas are about revenge and retribution — the situation young Orestes found himself in. Family honour obliged him to avenge his father’s death but in doing so, he laid himself open to retribution for his action. He was in a desperate situation, one without any prospect of a happy ending — that is, until the gods themselves stepped in. The goddess Pallas Athene had a brilliant idea.
She solved Orestes’ diffi culties by fi nding another way for honour to be satisfied; she set up a Court of Justice. Invoking the sense of justice we all carry deep within our hearts, she chose twelve good men and true to hear the evidence presented by
both sides, and to weigh that evidence in their hearts. Which case best appealed to their sense of justice?
Until I read the drafts of Hazel’s book, I hadn’t realised just how much we owe to those wise, ancient Greeks. You may find similar gems in this fascinating retelling of a little-known Greek Drama.

Author Biography

Hazel Marshall M.Ed is a qualified psychotherapist and has, since 1989, been running Transpersonal courses based upon those of Ian Gordon-Brown and Barbara Somers. Her profound knowledge of, and admiration for their work enabled her to edit it into four volumes, which became known as the “Wisdom of the Transpersonal” series. These have now become classics and form the basis of transpersonal courses and counselling training both here and abroad. Hazel has since authored two successful books of her own and this is currently her third.

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