Love and the World: A Guide to Conscious Soul Practice - Softcover

'Whatever Sardello touches breaks open with new meaning.' -- James Hillman, author of The Soul's Code and The Force of Character 'Robert Sardello is one of the most creative thinkers I know. He writes from a combination of breathtaking originality and heartfelt compassion.' --Thomas Moore, author of Care of the Soul and The Soul of Sex 'An author of considerable integrity, warmth, and insight who is contributing very significantly to the emergence of a new, genuinely spiritual psychology in America.' -- Lee Irwin, Ph.D., Religious Studies Chair, University of Charleston, and author of Awakening the Spirit, Visionary Worlds, and The Dream Seekers

From the Introduction by Robert Sardello: 'Spiritual psychology is an active practice. It develops embodied, conscious soul life to make that life open and receptive to the spiritual realms. This is done as an act of loving ourselves, others, and the world. 'Psychology, I want to claim, is more than the study of the human soul. It is not possible to make such a study without the student undergoing inner changes in the process. Psychology, since it is we who study it, necessarily requires that the psyche be utilized to study the psyche. It therefore belongs inherently to the realm of practice. It is not a theory wandering around seeking application. We must do our psychology rather than theorize about the soul. And the doing of psychology is the doing of love-consciously, actively, and for the sake of others and the world. If you enter into the interior of these words, your soul will awaken, and begin to move in this direction. It follows, too, that this is not only a book about psychology, it is also the very speech of psyche itself.'