A Place Beyond Man: The Archives of Varok

A PLACE BEYOND MAN is a vivid creation of two alien species, disturbingly human in some ways but totally alien in their assumptions: the sensuous, amphibious ellls and the humanoid varoks, experiencing life with mindful awareness. How do twenty-first century humans react when they confront comparable intelligence residing in "their" solar system? A human biologist discovers that she is not free from human parochialism. Author/Psychiatrist Jean Bolen has called this book "a perfect metaphor of Jungian individuation." The story of inter-species contact plays against a backdrop of Earth trying unsuccessfully to move to a steady state economy.