Love and the Soul: Creating a Future for Earth

by Robert Sardello

Expanding on the ideas in Thomas Moore's Care of the Soul , his longtime colleague and the author of Facing the World with Soul discusses the relationship of the individual to the soul of the world and how awareness of this relationship helps ensure our future.

Genres: Spirituality, Psychology, Philosophy

Paperback

First published January 1, 1995

About the author

Dr. Robert Sardello is one of the six founding Fellows of the Dallas Institute, the co-founder and co-director of The School of Spiritual Psychology, and the co-editor of Goldenstone Press.

Reviews

[Eric Hansen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love and the Soul is the most important book of our time by any author. I have reread it many times, and Sardello always takes me to deeper (and higher) places I don't remember from the last reading. The book challenges our most fundamental contemporary worldview, that everything is for me, for my benefit, even noble spiritual intention. Yet the problems with egotism, including inner work pursued as a turning away from the world, are illustrated with patience. Parts of the book are frightening in their startling identification of evils around us, especially the phenomenon of the double and the ubiquity of potentially soul-destroying radiation. I trust Sardello through his most challenging material because he writes with such integrity and none of the sentimentality (and denial of evil) of New Age authors. He confronts hard stuff. Yet the book stays true to its title and offers a vital alternative to egotism and evil; indeed, Sardello makes clear why egotism and evil are necessary to lead us toward love. We are given everything--far more than we usually notice or sense--and, rather than keep it all as "ours," must give back to Sophia, the Earth, befriending every being we encounter. This text, matched with Sardello's Silence as well as his three new anthologies, offers years of fruitful and much-needed study.

[T · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very deep, and very good. Took me a while to finish, a few pages at a time, with lots of contemplation in-between. I could probably re-read (not right away) at least once or twice and continue to learn. Good stuff!

[Dunja Tomić · Rating 5 out of 5]

this book feels like home

[Cynda Wolfe]

Love and the Soul, Creating a Future for Earth is a study from the foundations of deep psychology, founded primarily in Jungian psychology. It aims at re-forming the ego through the power of grief and other strong transformational experiences, into a life giving force which extends from the inner soul deeply into and through the outer world, becoming one.

I'm still reading it, but so far it seems like a wonderful, deeply imaginative creative tool for those of us like myself who grieve the starving children, the maimed veterans, the broken families, the abused children, who feel helpless against the travesties. It empowers us to extend ourselves further from a new ego, combined with soul, and shows us how to do it. At the very least its a good read about mythological ideologies edging into the world of reality. So, when I finish it, I'll let you know what comes of it.

[Roger Buck · Rating 4 out of 5]

Profound, heartfelt observation of the plight of the soul in the post-hiroshima world, drawing together Jung and Steiner - but without succumbing to Anthroposophical maladies. Valentin Tomberg is also there in the mix and no doubt helped the author to deepen the Christian content of this quest ...

I speak much more about this book in a series of blogs at my site inspired by Tomberg, of which this is perhaps the most relevant:

http://corjesusacratissimum.org/2011/...