History of Arrogance: Psychology and Limits of Development; Care Of The Soul: A Guide For Cultivating Depth And Sacredness In Everyday Life (2 BOOKS)

Luigi Zoja, Thomas Moore

The history of Western civilization can be narrated also as a history of displacement of the agricultural lifestyle with its annual cycle of work, its satisfaction of constant needs and taboos of prescribed limits. But somehow we were transformed, we went to the unlimited expansion that absorbed even God, and an optimistic and arrogant belief in the endless development began to determine our consciousness. But why are we increasingly anxious about our future, and why do the apocalyptic scenarios become so popular and always profitable for cinemas and publishing houses? In order to answer this question, according to the author of the book, we should turn to the tools of deep psychology, as well as try to extract wise insights in arrogance and an inevitable requital for it from the Ancient Greek mythology and literature.

Care of the Soul is a bestseller by the modern American psychotherapist, a former monk, Thomas Moore (born 1940), which has sold millions of copies worldwide. This is a powerful and inspiring book that offers a new approach to understanding everyday life, its problems and creativity. Care of the Soul will help to better understand emotional problems and recognize the sacred in everything familiar: friends, communication, work and experiences that remain in our memory and touch our hearts. In creating this book which analyses the links between spirituality and problems of individual and society, Thomas Moore relied on his own experience as a psychotherapist, on his experience of teaching the psychological doctrine of Carl Gustav Jung and teaching art therapy as well as on his own religion and art research.