Description
The many readers of Thomas Moore's Care of the Soul will extend their understanding of "soul work" in this new book by Moore's longtime colleague, Robert Sardello. Love and the Soul proposes that inner work must be constantly balanced by a care for soul qualities in the world in order to avoid falling into egotism and self-absorption. Actively taking up the task of standing in and for the soul realm and bringing what is revealed there to action in the world is described as the creative impulse of love. Love here extends beyond feelings, sentiments, emotions, and personal concerns to an abidIng interest in the future of the world. Such interest in the future, from the perspective of soul as love, does not involve taking up political, social, economic, or religious programs, but rather the act of inner, conscious awareness shaping, forming, and interiorizing the essence of each moment of experience, leading to the capacity to experience purpose and create beauty. The deeper we can enter into the individuality of soul, the more possibilities for creating soul in the world become apparent.
Drawing on images of the Grail legend and myths of Sophia-she who is called the Soul of the World-Sardello develops approaches to an intelligence of the heart, the world significance of grieving, the transformative power of radical receptivity, re-enlivening the senses, the creative power of dreaming, and a new basis for relation- ships and community. Based on a synthesis of the writings of C. G. Jung on the nature of soul, James Hillman on the work of soul-making, and Rudolf Steiner on the formation of a spiritual culture, Sardello's book establishes a ground of hope for the approaching millennium and a radically fresh direction for psychology, one concerned with what we can be rather than with what has influenced us from the past.
ISBN:0060170743
