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About The Story Of Raphe Rapherty
The person who relates The Story of Raphe Rapherty is by no means an omniscient narrator who can tell you everything that has occurred, but certainly does know how to get into Raphe’s free-associating head, and to let you know a great deal about what he happens to be thinking and feeling and remembering, from childhood through old age. Raphe is an ‘introvert’, not in the current sense of being shy, but in Carl Jung’s original sense: A person whose attention tends naturally to be focused primarily on what’s happening within himself, rather than being focused outwardly toward the world. Most of us are sensibly focused in the latter direction. Jungianly speaking, we are ‘extroverts’. Raphe gradually transformed the Supernaturalist world-view into which he’d been born and attentively raised into an alternate view, one graced by scientific Naturalism. This helped him, at least in one respect, since he’d taken his Catholicism with such a painful degree of seriousness as a child (amplified during his Jesuit education at Holy Cross College). And it’s this Naturalism that comes across robustly to his readers. Our human separateness from the rest of the Universe(s) provides us — or so Raphe eventually claimed — with a breathtaking view of ‘What Is’ (also known as God), so much so that he believed we should throw ourselves into each day of our lives with the zest of a small child set loose in a candy store.
