Facing the World with Soul: The Reimagination of Modern Life - Softcover

Robert Sardello

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1584200146 ISBN 13: 9781584200147

Publisher: Lindisfarne Books, 2003

Synopsis

For more than a hundred years, the various fields of psychology have sought methods for healing the individual soul. Today, the being in need of care is the world. All the organizing forms that ought to enrich life with beauty, purpose, and depth no longer do so. To heal ourselves we need to reimagine the world

Beginning with the myth of Sophia, or “Soul of the World,” Sardello evokes a sense that the world as filled with her presence. He goes on to suggest that the soul’s primary aspects―its arts of concentration, meditation, imagination, and contemplation―do not belong simply to individual consciousness, but constitute a surrender of subjective, personal states to the consciousness that is the soul of the world. He shows how we can begin to approach daily life in a new way by practicing these arts. The chapters that follow establish a psychology of the world.

Contents:

• The Soul and the World
• House and City
• Learning through Soul
• Disease
• Economics and Money
• Technology
• Things
• Violence and the Longing for Beauty
• Food: A Case History
• World Soul and Hermetic Consciousness

About this title

From the Publisher:

"Fascinating work on soul in the world. . . . He constantly surprises with the freshness of his approach."--Thomas Moore, author of Soul Mates.

About the Author:

Robert Sardello, PhD, is cofounder (with Cheryl Sanders-Sardello, PhD, in 1992) of the School of Spiritual Psychology. At the University of Dallas, he served as chair of the Department of Psychology, head of the Institute of Philosophic Studies, and graduate dean. He is also cofounder and a faculty member of the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture, as well as author of more than 200 articles in scholarly journals and cultural publications, and is a former faculty member of the Chalice of Repose Project in Missoula, Montana. Having developed spiritual psychology based in archetypal psychology, phenomenology, and the spiritual science of Rudolf Steiner from more than thirty-five years of research in this discipline, as well as holding positions in two universities, Dr. Sardello is now an independent teacher and scholar, teaching all over the U.S., Canada, and the U.K., as well as the Czech Republic, the Philippines, and Australia. He is a consultant to many educational and cultural institutions and a dissertation adviser at numerous academic institutions. He is author of several books, including Facing the World with Soul; Love and the World; Freeing the Soul from Fear; The Power of Soul: Living the Twelve Virtues. and Silence.

About this edition

• Publisher: Lindisfarne Books
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1584200146
• ISBN 13: 9781584200147
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 240