Loss of connection to our soul. By Pennie Quaile Pearce
Tue, 27 November 2012
The great malady of the twentieth century, which is implicated in all of our troubles and is affecting us all individually and socially is “loss of connection to our soul”. When soul is neglected, it doesn’t just go away, it appears symptomatically in obsessions, addictions, violence, acting out, negative thought forms, destructive patterns of behaviour, and loss of meaning. Our temptation is to isolate these symptoms or try to eradicate them one by one; but the root problem is that we have lost our wisdom about the soul, even our interest in it. We have today few specialists of the soul to advise us when we succumb to moods and emotional pain, or when as a nation we find ourselves confronting a host of threatening evils. But within our history we do have remarkable sources of insight from people who wrote explicitly about the nature and needs of the soul, and so we can look to the past for restoring this wisdom. In this blog I will draw on that past wisdom, taking into account how we live our lives now, to show that by caring for the soul we can find relief from our distress and symptoms and discover deep satisfaction and pleasure.
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