Other thoughts occur to the patient diagnosed as
terminal. What about that gift he had for music? What
became of the passion he once felt to work with the
sick and the homeless? Why do these unlived lives
return now with such power and poignancy?
Faced with our imminent extinction, Tom Laughlin
believes, all assumptions are called into question. What
does our life mean? Have we lived it right? Are there vital
acts we've left unperformed, crucial words unspoken? Is it
too late?
Tom Laughlin draws a diagram of the psyche, a
Jungian-derived model that looks something like this:
DIVINE GROUND
STEVEN PRESSFIELD