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  • Soul Story: Evolution and the Purpose of Life

  • By: Tim Freke
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  • Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
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The emergence of soul, meaning, and immortality

The grand religious stories that gave meaning to life and death in the past have crumbled under sceptical scrutiny. The dominant mainstream philosophy is now scientific objectivism, which describes a universe that exists for no reason and a life that ends in oblivion. 

Pioneering philosopher Tim Freke addresses the "soul crisis" in modern culture that has arisen from lack of meaning. He offers an intelligent "spiritual" perspective on life and death to help us make sense of a paradoxical world, which is sometimes bleak and banal, but also can be magical and full of significance. He presents a revolutionary paradigm shift in our understanding of reality that integrates the deepest insights of science and spirituality to create a new model of human identity, which makes the idea of the immortal soul intellectually credible. 

He explores the process of evolution, not as blind chance, but as the momentous story of the self-realising universe. The development of the material world has led to the emergence of "psyche" or "soul," which you are experiencing right now as a stream of thoughts and images that don't exist in space and aren't made of matter. 

We are not insignificant specks in a vast purposeless cosmos. We are significant participants in the magnificent and meaningful story of soul. The universe is coming to know itself through each one of us and this process doesn't end at death, because the evolution of soul has also been the evolution of immortality.

©2017 Tim Freke (P)2019 Watkins Publishing

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A great perspective on marrying the best parts if science and spirituality without dogma from either side

Philosophy books- especially those dealing in metaphysical concepts such as this; often spiral into overwhelmingly complex language to the point where I just shrug and give up. By contrast, I found Freke’s book easily understood and succinct yet poignant; even ‘fun’ and ‘entertaining’; which are not words which often come to mind in this genre.
I didn’t agree with *everything* Freke put forward, but it is a truly monumental achievement for somebody to encapsulate a worldview like this into digestible words. You can feel Freke’s passion behind his writing.
His vocals are clear and well enunciated. If not a philosopher, he’d have a fine career as a radio host or voice actor.

My only criticism is that I’d like to have had more references for further reading. Maybe the print book has an appendix, I don’t know? I could pick up a few parts where hermetic/gnostic/eastern spiritual etc ideas had clearly had an influence on the text- but it left me wondering what else I could dive into to develop these thoughts further.

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