Facing the World with Soul

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PSYCHOLOGY/INNER DEVELOPMENT
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For over a hundred years psychologies have sought methods for heahrig the individual soul. Now the being in need of care is the world. All the organizing forms which ought to enrich life with beauty, purpose, and depth no longer do so. To heal ourselves we need to re-imagine the world.
Beginning with the myth of Sophia, the Soul of the World, Sardello evokes a sense of the world as filled with her presence. He goes on to suggest that the soul's primary parts—its arts of concentration, meditation, imagination, contemplation—rather than belonging to individual consciousness, constitute a giving over of subjective, personal states to the consciousness that is the soul of the world. He shows how, practicing these arts, we can begin to approach daily life in a new way. The chapters that follow build up a psychology of the world—of architecture, money, the city, medicine, food, technology.
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Fülszöveg

PSYCHOLOGY/INNER DEVELOPMENT
$14.95
FACING tke WORLD
wit
SOU
For over a hundred years psychologies have sought methods for heahrig the individual soul. Now the being in need of care is the world. All the organizing forms which ought to enrich life with beauty, purpose, and depth no longer do so. To heal ourselves we need to re-imagine the world.
Beginning with the myth of Sophia, the Soul of the World, Sardello evokes a sense of the world as filled with her presence. He goes on to suggest that the soul's primary parts—its arts of concentration, meditation, imagination, contemplation—rather than belonging to individual consciousness, constitute a giving over of subjective, personal states to the consciousness that is the soul of the world. He shows how, practicing these arts, we can begin to approach daily life in a new way. The chapters that follow build up a psychology of the world—of architecture, money, the city, medicine, food, technology.
Whatever Sardello touches breaks open with startling new meaning. Now he enters the great arena of our cultural disorders so that we suddenly see them afresh. 1 have thieved privately from his mind for fifteen years. At last his work is out, available to anyone recognizing the need to reimagine the soul's plight in a world astray. James Hillman
For over twenty years Robert Sardello has been something of a legend. Now here in this book is the genius of the man-the subtle thought, the wry wit, the spiritual depth, the astounding insights. There is simply no better guide to the healing of our times.
Randolph Severson
This book is a classic in the making. Robert Sardello is one of the few modern thinkers who genuinely sense how to deal with the barrenness of modern life. Not only is this work about the soul, it also is food for the soul. Facing the World with Soul is recommended for anyone suffering from the spiritual emptiness of our time. Larry Dossey, M.D.
ROBERT SARDELLO is co-director of the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture and a psychotherapist in private practice.
COVER ART: Beatrice, Odilon Redon. Courtesy of the Ian Woodner Family Collection. COVER DESIGN: Barbara Richey and Mary Giddens.
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