Soul Story
Evolution and The Purpose of Life
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Publisher Description
THE EMERGENCE OF SOUL, MEANING AND IMMORTALITY
The grand religious stories that gave meaning to life and death in the past have crumbled under sceptical scrutiny. The dominant mainstream philosophy is now scientific objectivism, which describes a universe that exists for no reason and a life that ends in oblivion.
Pioneering philosopher Tim Freke addresses the "soul crisis" in modern culture that has arisen from lack of meaning. He offers an intelligent "spiritual" perspective on life and death to help us make sense of a paradoxical world, which is sometimes bleak and banal, but also can be magical and full of significance. He presents a revolutionary paradigm shift in our understanding of reality that integrates the deepest insights of science and spirituality to create a new model of human identity, which makes the idea of the immortal soul intellectually credible.
He explores the process of evolution, not as blind chance, but as the momentous story of the self-realising universe. The development of the material world has led to the emergence of "psyche" or "soul," which you are experiencing right now as a stream of thoughts and images that don't exist in space and aren't made of matter.
We are not insignificant specks in a vast purposeless cosmos. We are significant participants in the magnificent and meaningful story of soul. The universe is coming to know itself through each one of us and this process doesn't end at death, because the evolution of soul has also been the evolution of immortality.
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In this wide-ranging guidebook, Freke (The Jesus Mysteries) urges readers to enter the slipstream of time and memory as the soul and body evolve to an awakened state that is "an experience of oneness, which is felt as all-embracing love." Along the way, he drops little tidbits of esoteric wisdom such as "you don't have a life, you are a life" and "Destiny is your curriculum in the school of life, which gives you the opportunity to realise your soul potential." In a book that looks more like a blog come to life than a sustained argument about any particular idea illustrating his point that reality follows no pattern Freke dances along from one topic to another, illustrating that an emergent spirituality can grow out of the meeting of an esoteric perennial philosophy and the best of an objectivist science. Freke's magical mystery tour of a book concludes dreamily that "life is good, death is safe, and what really matters is love."
