Abstract
When we were exploring psychosynthesis in last year's cohort of post graduate students in emotional education at Atlow Mill, I learnt an enormous amount about myself through the discovery, identification and awareness of what I would later call my ‘Gollum Concrete Overcoat’.
Many people will recall Gollum from J.R.R Tolkien's trilogy, ‘The Lord of the Rings’. In this story Gollum is depicted as being a monstrous creature that had degraded from the most innocent and gentle of creatures, Sméagol. This fall from grace occurred through his possession of the ‘One Ring’ and, through years under the ring's evil influence, his demeanour solidified like concrete around his very heart.