| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xxxiii, 249 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-235). |
| Contents |
pt. 1: The fall of soul into time. An Egyptian Gnostic creation myth / Marie-Louise von Franz ; Genesis 2:2-7: King James version ; The angel and the unborn soul / June Singer ; The Arabian creation myth / Raymond Van Over ; The Tasaday soul / John Nance ; Conceptions of the soul among North American Indians / Åke Hultkrantz ; The essential whatness / Aristotle ; The etymology of soul / Edward Burnett Tylor ; The origin of the numinous / Rudolf Otto ; The origin of the Buddha's No Soul doctrine / Huston Smith ; When are we ensouled? / Uta Ranke-Heinemann ; Soul, conception, abortion / Étienne-Émile Baulieu with Mort Rosenblum ; The over-soul / Ralph Waldo Emerson ; The fall of soul into time / William Irwin Thompson ; The birth of soul / Ray Charles and David Ritz -- pt. 2: The seat of the soul. The second Khanda Upanishad ; Scipio's dream / Cicero ; Lucretius and the material soul / George Santayana ; When in the fullness of time / Hildegard of Bingen ; The soul is oned to God / Julian of Norwich ; The signature of all things / Paracelsus ; The interior castle / Saint Teresa of Avila ; Whether the soul is a body? / Thomas Aquinas ; The seat of the soul / Rene Descartes ; The soul of the voice / Henry David Longfellow ; The circling river of psyche / Carl Gustav Carus ; The physicians / Paul Jordan Smith ; The marriage of heaven and hell / William Blake ; I sing the body electric / Walt Whitman ; The perennial female soul / Aldous Huxley ; The flaming tongue / Nikos Kazantzakis ; The appearance and disappearance of the soul / Jacob Needleman ; Marsilio Ficino's astropsychology / Thomas Moore ; The architecture of the soul / Keith Critchlow ; The empirically justified psyche / Carl Jung ; Our unknown soul / William Barrett ; The diverging ways of soul and spirit / James Hillman ; "Body and soul: Coleman Hawkins, 1939" / Al Young -- pt. 3: Heart and soul. When desire enters heart and soul / Plato ; When the soul is joined to her beloved: Gnostic Gospel adaptation / June Singer ; Tearing heart from soul : a letter / from Heloise to Abelard ; The divine love of the soul / Meister Eckhart ; Let us love this enduring beauty / Marsilio Ficino ; Sonnets from the Portuguese / Elizabeth Barrett Browning ; Salvation in a concentration camp / Viktor E. Frankl ; The rapture of divine love / Evelyn Underhill ; The soul's silence, exile and cunning / James Joyce ; The significance of soul for women / Christine Downing ; Eros and Psyche / Diane Wolkstein ; The soul rush / Milan Kundera ; Your breast is enough / Pablo Neruda ; The vase / Gabriela Mistral -- pt. 4: Soul crisis. A song of lamentation: a sixteenth-century Mesoamerican myth ; The soul-eater: a West African folktale ; Dark night of the soul / Saint John of the Cross ; Faust's pact with the Devil / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ; A soul boiling / Robert Louis Stevenson ; Ishmael's November soul / Herman Melville ; The anguish of the infantry officer / Herbert Read ; Waking the sleeping soul / Albert Schweitzer ; The pilgrim soul / anonymous nineteenth-century Russian Christian monk ; The soul agony of abortion / Sue Nathanson-Elkin ; Freud's soul lost in translation / Bruno Bettelheim ; The Kingdom of Soul / Willa Cather ; Rage in the dark, the wind / Fernando Pessoa ; The annihilation of the soul / Susan Griffin ; Soul on ice / Eldridge Cleaver ; They want your soul / Alice Walker ; The postmodern soul / Sam Keen ; The end, the beginning / D.H. Lawrence ; A lien on his soul: the legend of Robert Johnson / Greil Marcus -- pt. 5: Soul work. Psalm 23: King James version ; The smith of my soul / Bayazid of Bistun ; Soul and beauty / Plotinus ; Frankenstein, or the modern Prometheus / Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley ; Fashioning a soul / Isabelle Eberhardt ; The soul of the work / Ferndand Pouillon ; Journal of a solitude / May Sarton ; Farming the soul / Robert Bly ; Soul and the art of memory / Francis A. Yates ; The soul of poetry and painting / Gaston Bachelard ; On the vibration of art in the soul / Wassily Kandinsky ; Story as soul-journey / Paul Zweig ; Cultivating the soul / Thomas Moore ; Stretching our souls / Alan Jones ; What is soul music? / Peter Guralnick -- pt. 6: The world soul. The hidden soul / Kabir ; Lure / Orpingalik ; Hestia: the soul of the hearth / Barbara Kirksey ; The Melanesian concept of mana / R.H. Codrington ; His soul lies naked in letters / Samuel Johnson ; The vale of soul-making / John Keats ; The soul of the night / Chet Raymo ; The spirit of place in the Western world / J. Donald Hughes ; Facing the world with soul / Robert Sardello ; The green fields of the mind / A. Bartlett Giamatti ; The soul-spark / James Hillman ; The secret soul of plants / Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird ; The soul of community / Eliezer Shore ; Soul and business / Gary Zukav ; The soul of the road / Jack Kerouac ; Espresso / Tomas Transtromer ; Soul food / Sheila Ferguson ; The soul of the computer / Tracy Kidder ; Waiting for Tyler / Keith Thompson ; The soul hunger of children / Valerie Andrews ; But what about the world's soul? / James Hillman ; The wind, one brilliant day, called / Antonio Machado -- pt. 7: Soul and destiny. The last hours of Socrates / Plato ; The shape-shifter / Taliesin ; The death of Beowulf / anonymous eighth-century bard ; When I have sacrificed my angel soul / Jalal-Uddin Rumi ; The soul-searcher / retold by Joseph Campbell ; The Celtic doctrine of immortality Stuart Piggott ; The aboriginal death-expanding into the dreamtime / Robert Lawlor ; The two streams of soul / Rudolf Steiner ; The soul of the fierce people / Napoleon A. Chagnon ; The Sioux soul-releasing ceremony / Black Elk ; The Haitian notion of the zombie / Maya Deren ; The immortality of the soul / Mircea Eliade ; Maya, Toltec, and Aztec conceptions of soul / Ptolemy Tompkins ; Is there such a thing as reincarnation? / Sri Ramakrishna ; Why do we not remember our past lives? / H.B. Blavatsky ; From "A dialogue of self and soul" / William Butler Yeats ; The legend of St. Elmo's fire / anonymous nineteenth-century sailor ; The beautiful soul of Don Damian / Juan Bosch ; Her soul descending out of sight / retold by Alexander Eliot ; A child asks about the soul / Robert Coles ; Her pilgrim soul / Alan Brennert ; Meditation on a line from Saint Teresa / Raymond Carver ; Continuity / Heber D. Curtis ; The soul's distinct connection / Emily Dickinson. |
| Summary |
What does soul mean? Is it, as in Aristotle's classic definition, the "life-giving principle"? Is it the shiver up your spine when Aretha Franklin sings the blues? Or is it the simple, breathtaking beauty of a Pablo Neruda poem? Soul defies definition, yet it surrounds us, permeating every aspect of our lives and culture--from art, music, and literature to religion, society, and identity. Long fascinated by the conundrum of the soul, author Phil Cousineau set out to follow its elusive trail by collecting the voices of those who have, since ancient times, sought their own understanding of the "inner universe." Scanning "history's long bookshelf," Cousineau harvested a rich collection of writings that trace the evolving definition of soul, from an ancient Sufi master's eternal question to a reflection on soul food, which somehow makes you feel "that all's right with the world." A captivating "soul reader," Soul offers a spectacular range of stories, essays, poems, myths, and songs that sample the ways in which soul has been expressed through the ages and explores its myriad dimensions--philosophical, spiritual, theological, and even alchemical. |
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Soul.
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Soul. (OCoLC)fst01432098
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Begriff.
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Geschichte.
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Quelle.
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Seele.
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| Added Author |
Cousineau, Phil.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Soul. 1st ed. [San Francisco, Calif.] : HarperSanFrancisco, ©1994 (OCoLC)872653141 |
| ISBN |
0062502395 (alk. paper) |
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9780062502391 (alk. paper) |
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0062502433 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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9780062502438 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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