Bøker av Rick Haltermann

Rick Haltermann''s follow-up to Curriculum of the Soul explores diminishment of the sacred through short essays about personal stories, observations and elaborations. How does this loss appear? Through decreased civility, lack of imagination, and an abandonment of our innate intuition, instincts and common sense for the illusion found at the alters of technology.Our world, for the most part, is fear-based. That collective fear has created nuclear proliferation, war, prejudice, racism, misogyny, inequality and a fight against everything from drugs, cancer, heart disease, even nature. The dire consequences of this kind of thinking are at hand and on the rise.What if we rekindled a relationship to the sacred by slowing down and becoming more human? What if the brain became a partner with the heart and the gut? What if we shifted away from fear to a love-based vision that seeks the luminescence of the ordinary? This is the path-to find a new way to rescue ourselves so we can help all living things and beings along with our precious planet, Earth.

This book is an invitation to consider a new perspective on how to navigate your life. Regardless of age or background, there is a commonality to human experience, from the tools we are all given to help with life's suffering, to the challenges we face. How can one be in the world while staying true to one's higher self? What is the purpose of living a soul life? And can it prepare us for the inevitability of death? The 150 poems collected within these pages span many ages and cultures, having been selected for their capacity to affirm, to comfort, and perhaps even to advise us in the course of our day-to-day struggles. We live in a world that has been drifting away from the metaphorical as a way to describe and understand the mystery of being alive. Many people define their lives in terms of extremes, the need for survival, or the possibility of success rather than cultivating a love toward one's self so that it can be extended outward to others and the world. There is no method or program here. What you will find is a general guide to discover your soul's own curriculum. How will you know when you are there? When you are back in your loving. Take a deep breath, sit, read. It's time to consider your soul.