Book Contents

CONTENTS

PART I: Soul Foundations

1. Get acquainted with your soul

How to start a dialogue: making friends with your soul. Connecting soul and personality. The levels of resilience. How to use this book.

2. Journey of souls: a useful map

Michael Newton’s mapping of the soul’s journey, including soul clusters, guides, and how souls choose their incarnation.

3. Drink with the beloved: Sufis and soul

Wisdom and joy from Sufi poets like Rumi, Hafiz and Shabistari. Earthly delights as a compass for the divine. Inverting reality. The Soul and the Tavern.

4. Old wisdom for new times

Original truths from Jesus and the Qu’ran. Connecting small self and divinity. Your soul’s role in creation. Islam and the tranquil soul. The 99 Beautiful Names.

5. Modern humans in search of a soul

Insights from Carl Jung, Thomas Berry, Thomas Moore, Joanna Macy, Cynthia Bourgeault. The collective unconscious, active imagination, care of the soul, planet soul. The Work that Reconnects, the Wisdom way of knowing.

PART II: Nourishing, Discerning: the Soul in a Body

6. Entry shock: helping your soul to arrive

Finding support. Gathering voices at Wisdom’s Table. Entry shocks, life traumas, and the healing odyssey.

7. Nourish your soul

Natural Happiness. Tending the soul’s garden. The soul at home, work and leisure. Embodiment through dance. Friends and guides.

8. Widening and filtering

Expanding receptivity. Connecting with non-human souls. Goethean observation: deepening soul vision. Facing the shadows. Filtering, protection, and discernment.

9. Exploring soul groups

Your soul cluster. Soul’s Journey Exploration Group. Human circles. Support from a spirit group. Attunement process. Nature and group souls.

PART III: Why am I here? Soul gifts in a crisis time

10. Facing the crises: weaving your soul response

Welcome to the polycrisis. Crisis = opportunity. Artificial Intelligence and zombification. Gathering strength for the soul adventure. Crafting a soul response. Walking into the future.

11. The Dark Night of the Soul

Symptoms. Perspectives. Clearing Karma. Navigating a Dark Night. Keep the trains running. Filling with inner light.

12. Wisdom from far out

Hospicing modernity. Outgrowing modernity. The only planet of choice. Earth healing meditation.

13. Beyond the beyond: life transitions

Ageing and healing. Beyond the Terminal. Departure preparation. Lift-off. Arrival: Testimony of Light. Reaching back.

14. The soul in action
    What the soul needs. What the world needs. The community dimension. Receiving a vision: processes. Manifestation.
15. Sustaining your soul resilience

Stars to steer by. Gratitude journalling. Celebration.

Acknowledgements

Appendix 1: Soul Curriculum