The Seven Gates of Soul: Reclaiming the Poetry of Everyday Life

 

Paperback: 457 pages
Ancient Tower Press: August 2004
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0974762601
ISBN-13: 978-0974762609
Dimensions: 8.9 x 7.4 x 1.1 inches
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In this illuminating book, Joe Landwehr traces a fascinating 6000-year history of ideas about the soul.  Using the ancient Mesopotamian myth of goddess Inanna’s passage through seven gates as a metaphor, the author explores the barriers to a true understanding of soul erected by religion, philosophy, science, and psychology, while offering insightful solutions.

In Part One, Mr. Landwehr examines the religious concepts of immortality and sin, showing how these ideas interfere with the soul’s ability to understand its journey as a neutral learning process, taking place in the here and now.  In Part Two, the author looks more closely at the limitations of the rational mind, the scientific notion that our understanding of truth must be objective, science’s insistence on causality as an explanation for everything, and other implications of the scientific worldview,  In Part Three, the author tracks the history of science’s influence on psychology, and shows how, liberated from its scientific trappings, all psychological process is the reflection of an intimately personal struggle toward spiritual awakening.

Throughout the book, but especially In Part Four, the author demonstrates in some detail how a modified form of astrology can help us transcend the barriers posed by these other disciplines and add a rich dimension to our understanding of ourselves that is currently missing in our culture. Taken as a whole, the book is a multi-disciplinary approach to an age-old question that breathes new life into the quest of every individual for a life of deeper meaning and purpose.

Table of Contents

Introduction

About the Author

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