Local books with Fred Hughes: Robert B Clarke

I must introduce you to Robert B Clarke, a modest mild-mannered man who I’ve known for a good number of years. He is a person whose friendship I treasure as much as I admire his talents as a writer, philosopher and Jungian researcher.

Robert B Clarke is not a local author in the sense of historical interpretation and local knowledge; best to say that he is a writer who was born, brought-up and is living his life locally in Potteries’ town of Burslem. But more importantly his, so far two, published works have become international best-sellers in the genre of philosophy and spirituality and have been translated into a number of languages. I think you should know more about them and about the author.

In his first book, The Four Gold Keys, with a forward by the respected criminologist Colin Wilson, the subject concerns dreams, transformation of the soul and the historiography of Western mystery traditions. It is part autobiographical and sets out to examine not the meaning of dreams, but rather the explanation of why they come to us. The book is about consciousness and the elevation into what the author calls the Higher Self. In this study he promotes self-analysis and a concept of timeless progression.

His second book, An Order Outside Time, published three years later in 2005, dissertates on the origins of Western spirituality and its passage from Egyptian establishment and Jewish promulgation via Christian presumption to a modern state using personal theory allied to Jungian symbolism.

The books, read in tandem, take the reader on journey of self-examination with the invitation and challenge to explore a world of theoretical conversion and awareness.
Some readers have seen these works as tomes on Christian symbolism and chaste spirituality. But they are more than that. It is too easy to explain away the elemental religious process and ignore the fundamental line of collective consciousness. Robert B Clarke addresses this full on. He is an important researcher of the ego and of mankind’s conscious background concerning its past, present and the future.

His books are published by Hampton Road and can be bought online from Amazon.