Love and the World : A Guide to Conscious Soul Practice

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Summary: one of today's most original thinkers
Review: (c) 2001 Sheridan Hill--- To follow Robert Sardello's writing and to attend his workshops is to participate in the ongoing creation of one of today's most original thinkers. I have not found another author who so eloquently steps out of the accepted structure of spiritual clichés, synthesizes ancient wisdom and writes so intelligently from the heart of the future, and possesses true understanding of spiritual worlds and depth psychology. He throws absolutely nothing out while maintaining that to live, to love, and to not know is the real work of the day.

Sardello's fourth book, "Love and the World," addresses the necessity of the individual "I" and its relationship not just to the world but to the soul of the world. Along the way, he debunks today's popular notions of soul (he has been known to say, "It is not a pet that we care for.") He carefully dismantles pervasive, romantic notions of spiritual love and leads the reader into a new realm of thinking about individual nature and soulful relationships.

This new idea of intimacy involves a rich feeling life, one that includes but transcends personal feeling and returns us to a way of living and loving that includes soul as a quality already present in the world.

To understand Sardello, all that is required is an open heart and the ability to imagine ourselves, the world, and soul in a way that we have never seen before.

If you only read one more book on love, or relationships, or "finding" yourself, make it this one.

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Summary: Draws the definitions for a new type of psychology
Review: Love And The World: A Guide To Conscious Soul Practice draws the definitions for a new type of psychology: spiritual psychology, "an active practice that develops embodied, conscious soul life to make that life open and receptive to spiritual realms. This is done as an act of love toward ourselves, others and the world." Author Robert Sardello takes the theories of psychology to another level, recreating psychology based on the anthroposophical writings of Rudolf Steiner. Love And The World presents the ultimate goal of spiritual psychology through the many types of love, including love as friendship, love as grieving from loss, love as knowing a soulmate. The result is an insightful, profound book on the hidden depths of the human mind's interaction with the heart and soul.

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Summary: Primer on Love
Review: Suppose that soul is not yours or mine, but rather a quality in the world that we enter into? What if soul has a connection with the current of the future that has been largely overlooked, and each human individual is the living,loving connection between soul and the future of the world?

What is felt in the new millennium as an emerging, urgent turning toward soul is, Sardello contends, a calling for us to realize our capacities as creators in the world. In order to do this, we must discover what it means to love (not "I love myself" or "I love you" but simply "I love," and what self knowledge is. Goethe ssaid, "Man knows but himself insofar as he knows the world, for he sees the world but in himself, and himself in it alone." Sardello observes that one knows another only insofar as one knows the world, and our relationship with the world is rightly characterized by a never-ending curiosity for truth and the ability to observe the world through a heart that thinks.

Robert Sardello's fourth book, "Love and the World," addresses the necessity of the individual "I" and its relationship not just to the world but to world soul. Along the way, he debunks popular notions of soul (he has been known to say, "It is not a pet that we care for.") He carefully dismantles pervasive, romantic notions of spiritual love and leads the reader into a new way of imagining individual nature and soulful relationships.

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