This is not a book review. More so, it’s a question, or an inquiry, into the nature of soul. As Hillman suggests, the soul is not a product of nature or nurture. It is a well established, already formed being, long before it materialises as a physical body.

This idea is very much in line with my own thinking. And during the course of this blog, I will be exploring this theme in more depth.

I’ll also introduce the idea that there is an intelligence at work, beyond our usual apprehension, guiding humanity along a path that we don’t yet have the imagination to fathom. Throughout history, individuals such as Hillman, Jung, Einstein, have stumbled upon this intelligence, and have interpreted its message in their own words. Both revealing new truths and at the same time, hindering growth, by freezing a snapshot of the message in time.

Although we cannot blame the individual for this freezing. As it seems that there is some collective responsibility, as in a desire to fix a set of ideas, so as to form what we refer to as Knowledge.

This reveals to us, the ignorance of knowledge. The ignorance of putting too much faith in an established set of ideas, assuming that nothing changes. The assumption that nature is a machine, the world is a dead rock, and that the universe is an unconscious, non living mechanical process.

These assumptions have held back humanity for centuries. Instead, we will explore the idea that the universe is a living, conscious organism. Neither purely material nor spirt in nature, and that the dichotomy of dualism is merely a quirk of our psychological conditioning.

We will explore why enthusiasm, motivation and interest are so important, and why the lack of imagination is literally killing us.

And lots of other things… stay tuned for re-edits and future posts…