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Wholesaling the Sacred |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / FEATURED BOOK: Thomas Moore's Care of the Soul |
| Author: Paul V. Mankowski |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 7/1/1992 |
| Size: 2,998 Words, 17,447 Characters |
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Thomas Moore's Care of the Soul describes itself as a "guide for cultivating depth and sacredness in everyday life." The author makes his pitch to those of our generation who feel their lives to be superficial and profane, lacking in meaning and devoid of fulfillment, and he draws on some of the more appetizing notions of religion, psychology, magic, and myth to construct what he calls a "fiction of self-help"--a process of alchemy for extracting the gold of contentment and self-esteem out of the base metal or ordinary experience.
The path of fulfillment endorsed by this book, the path that Moore himself has taken, is a kind of genial paganism--a paganism that is broad minded, tolerant, intellectually curious, eclectic, and detached from strong conviction. The author champions a retu...
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...mething other than spirituality, something infinitely more important: some Truth, in fact, that is more precious than comfort, or happiness, or life itself. Moore's project is stillborn, precisely because he has failed to grasp this fundamental law of the life he would have us lead. Care of the Soul is no remedy for emptiness but an example of the disease for which it purports to be the cure.
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