From the beginning, Laurens van der Post has been aware of a dimension in life far larger and more significant than the outer eventfulness of everyday living. His perception of life's mysterious power began with the Bushmen, the first people of his native Africa, and grew in the universal imagery of dreams, the fertile legends and stories of ancient civilization, the intuitive teaching of prophets, poets and other pioneers of human awareness. In this text, he has brought together two of his most deeply-felt and far-reaching essays, and has extended their message by exploring the potential in all men and women to acquire self-knowledge and to live life according to its fundamental precepts.