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Two previous bestsellers by Moore, Care of the Soul and Soul Mates, struck a resonant chord with people seeking a life infused with meaning. Here he again offers encouragement along with challenges to allow life's mysteries to nurture one's soul. We are much too obsessed with goals, progress, "evolution," in our mental processes to let the spirits that are among us touch our soul. Re-enchanting life is not another task to add to the to-do list but the result of a new attitude that actually lets go of the fundamentally meaningless preoccupations imprisoning us.
Moore's very style of presentation seems imbued with enchantment. Framing his thoughts as a series of essays on various dimensions of life, he unleashes in each a poetic blending of wisdom from mythologies, religions, Jungian psychology, alchemy, astrology, and his own experience as a therapist. It's almost dizzying, disorienting-as he perhaps intends. Restoration of enchantment, he asserts, requires for most of us a "mental backflip."
With such a broad sweep of sources for his inspiration, one might suspect some indiscriminate use of materials, but all evidence is to the contrary. Instead, Moore is adept at bringing forth the core insights of the numerous human philosophies he has plumbed. With degrees in theology, musicology, and philosophy, the former Catholic monk and professor of religion and psychology is well equipped as well as deeply motivated to bring the richness of human experience and insight through the ages to the attention of a befuddled modern generation.
Jeannie Crawford-Lee is a freelance editor in Nashville, Tennessee
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