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The Soul-Self Inquiry: Research and Initiation in Being, Memory, Sacred Learning, and Everyday Life - Softcover

Kwame-Ross, Terrance

 
9798997594602: The Soul-Self Inquiry: Research and Initiation in Being, Memory, Sacred Learning, and Everyday Life

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What am I? Why am I here? What remains when everything changes?
The Soul-Self Inquiry begins with questions that resist easy answers. Moving across philosophy, spirituality, memory, consciousness, lived experience, and sacred learning, the book explores what it might mean to inquire seriously into the possibility of a soul-self without demanding certainty about what the soul is—or whether it can finally be known.
Rather than offering a doctrine or a system of belief, the inquiry follows traces: experiences, inheritances, intellectual traditions, memories, questions, and recurring patterns through which human beings have attempted to understand themselves. Comparative soul traces place different traditions into conversation while preserving their differences. Reflective questions invite readers to examine their own assumptions about identity, suffering, love, freedom, truth, death, God, and the good life.
The book then turns inquiry into practice through a series of Sacred Learning Practices designed for noticing, reflection, memory, silence, truth-telling, and sustained attention to one's own life.
Scholarly grounded yet written for a broad readership, The Soul-Self Inquiry does not attempt to prove the soul, prescribe a faith, or reduce consciousness to a single explanation. It offers something more provisional and participatory: a disciplined way of asking what we are, attending to the traces through which we become knowable to ourselves, and continuing an inquiry whose deepest questions may remain open.

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