Your soul is an inner universe: vast, mysterious, powerful. Yet no aspect of the psyche is more neglected than the soul. Thomas Moore – distinguished scholar, bestselling author, and theologian – leads us to the farthest reaches of this complex realm on Soul Life.How the Soul Can Embellish Your Life
From the ashes of the Renaissance, Moore has retrieved the concept of the soul and studied its intricacies. Now he shares with you a series of ideas that can deepen your everyday experience – even life’s most routine tasks – with the exquisite sacredness that is the soul’s special gift. In the time of the ancients, Moore begins, people seeking an image of the soul looked to the night sky. Here they saw a mirror of the unknown self, the dimension of the psyche we know as the “soul.” Until the Enlightenment, when the first scientists attempted to reduce the mind to a field of rational study, the soul was considered the key to a higher spirituality. The clergy, philosophers, and alchemists of 500 years ago (Moore calls these the earliest therapists) did not seek a quick fix for the problems we all face. Instead, they sought to engage the soul as an infinite wellspring of transformative energy, to be applied to every aspect of life in need of nourishment. This approach to healing the complete person took place not on a scientific/mechanical level, but on the deepest human plane. It was (as it is today) profoundly life changing.
Thomas Moore describes this work as a “retreat” in the tradition of monastic learning. Six contemplative audio sessions help you focus on the defining areas of your life: work, family, art and creativity, spirituality, and more. Soul Life is for all listeners who seek to know the soul and its mysteries, while reaping the blessings of a deeper, more spiritual life.