The Soul's Journey: A History of Human Being

The challenge for a task of a subtle nature like the nature of the soul is that in our recent culture, aside from a variety of religious doctrines holding fast to traditional definitions, we encounter the absence of soul from serious consideration. Past efforts like William Barrett's The Death of the Soul (1986) described the decline in philosophy and culture in general and its replacement by our intense interest in the nature of consciousness. This shift effectively removed an expansive vi...