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A. Marina Aguilar’s Alchemy of the Heart: The Sacred Marriage of Dionysos & Ariadne offers a study of the archetypal myth of Dionysos through the lens of Jung’s spiritual alchemy. Focusing on the sacred marriage of Dionysos and Ariadne, the author illuminates the journey to wholeness, both horizontal and vertical, that culminates in the coniunctio of opposites, which has the power to heal not only a broken psyche on the road to individuation but also a broken world mired in destructive hedonism, deformed sexuality, and environmental crises. This is a penetrating reading of an archetypal Greek myth brought to life by a Jungian psychotherapist that is itself Dionysian in its analysis and insights. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]