Soul

<p><b>Revives the concept of Soul urging an understanding of Soul as expression.</b></p><p>Contemporary culture is soulless. A dead concept to contemporary thinkers Soul has been displaced by philosophical and scientific abstracts. Yet argues Joseph Grange in this timely and thought-provoking book without Soul we are left defenseless against the negative constructs of our culture; neither matter nor mind nor brain nor consciousness has the power to restore the quickness of our existence. Indeed without Soul ethics particularly honesty easily turns into its opposites: spin sophistry artful deception.</p><p>Providing a speculative systematic cosmology based on the methodology developed by Alfred North Whitehead and referencing a variety of philosophers Western and Eastern classic and contemporary Grange offers an understanding of Soul as expression. Grange lays out the basic characteristics of Soul as transformative social and conscious power and goes on to discuss the possibility of mystical reason and experience. Actual steps to reconstruct Soul including meditation are offered. Spinoza's Ethics Vipassana meditation and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy are shown to have particular resources for soul transformation.</p><p>This volume concludes Grange's trilogy of cosmologies. Nature: An Environmental Cosmology and The City: An Urban Cosmology discussed the natural environment and the cultural environment. The Soul complements these with an account of the spiritual environment.</p>