Author: Ptolemy Tompkins
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 030745133X
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
A journey through 20,000 years of history and myth in search of the answer to a single question: Do animals have souls? Anyone who has ever mourned the loss of a cherished pet has wondered about the animal soul. Do animals survive the death of the body, or are they doomed to disappear completely when they leave this world behind? Both scientists and religious authorities have long scoffed at the idea of animals in heaven. Yet the question endures. In this wise, immensely readable book, Ptolemy Tompkins embarks on a quest for the answer—taking us on a top-speed tour of the history of the animal soul. Equally at home with mainstream and alternative spiritual philosophies, Tompkins takes us from the savannas of Africa to the earth’s first cities to the early days of the great faith traditions of both East and West. Along the way, he shows that, despite what many of us have been taught, the world’s various spiritual traditions all have profoundly meaningful things to say about the animal soul, if we simply know where to look. Rescuing these ancient insights and blending them with vivid stories about animals today—from a dwarf rabbit named Angus to a manatee named Moose to a black bear named Little Bit—The Divine Life of Animals paints a gloriously inclusive picture of the cosmos as a place made up of both matter and spirit, in which animals are every bit as important, spiritually speaking, as the humans with whom they share the world. Though it is startlingly original, The Divine Life of Animals also feels strangely and instantly familiar, for it reveals truths that many of us have held in our hearts already, waiting only for someone to give fresh voice to one of the oldest and most trustworthy intuitions we possess. The Divine Life of Animals offers a compelling and timeless vision of the relationship between humans and animals that will have you looking at the animals in your life with new eyes.
The Divine Life of Animals
Author: Ptolemy Tompkins
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 030745133X
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
A journey through 20,000 years of history and myth in search of the answer to a single question: Do animals have souls? Anyone who has ever mourned the loss of a cherished pet has wondered about the animal soul. Do animals survive the death of the body, or are they doomed to disappear completely when they leave this world behind? Both scientists and religious authorities have long scoffed at the idea of animals in heaven. Yet the question endures. In this wise, immensely readable book, Ptolemy Tompkins embarks on a quest for the answer—taking us on a top-speed tour of the history of the animal soul. Equally at home with mainstream and alternative spiritual philosophies, Tompkins takes us from the savannas of Africa to the earth’s first cities to the early days of the great faith traditions of both East and West. Along the way, he shows that, despite what many of us have been taught, the world’s various spiritual traditions all have profoundly meaningful things to say about the animal soul, if we simply know where to look. Rescuing these ancient insights and blending them with vivid stories about animals today—from a dwarf rabbit named Angus to a manatee named Moose to a black bear named Little Bit—The Divine Life of Animals paints a gloriously inclusive picture of the cosmos as a place made up of both matter and spirit, in which animals are every bit as important, spiritually speaking, as the humans with whom they share the world. Though it is startlingly original, The Divine Life of Animals also feels strangely and instantly familiar, for it reveals truths that many of us have held in our hearts already, waiting only for someone to give fresh voice to one of the oldest and most trustworthy intuitions we possess. The Divine Life of Animals offers a compelling and timeless vision of the relationship between humans and animals that will have you looking at the animals in your life with new eyes.
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 030745133X
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
A journey through 20,000 years of history and myth in search of the answer to a single question: Do animals have souls? Anyone who has ever mourned the loss of a cherished pet has wondered about the animal soul. Do animals survive the death of the body, or are they doomed to disappear completely when they leave this world behind? Both scientists and religious authorities have long scoffed at the idea of animals in heaven. Yet the question endures. In this wise, immensely readable book, Ptolemy Tompkins embarks on a quest for the answer—taking us on a top-speed tour of the history of the animal soul. Equally at home with mainstream and alternative spiritual philosophies, Tompkins takes us from the savannas of Africa to the earth’s first cities to the early days of the great faith traditions of both East and West. Along the way, he shows that, despite what many of us have been taught, the world’s various spiritual traditions all have profoundly meaningful things to say about the animal soul, if we simply know where to look. Rescuing these ancient insights and blending them with vivid stories about animals today—from a dwarf rabbit named Angus to a manatee named Moose to a black bear named Little Bit—The Divine Life of Animals paints a gloriously inclusive picture of the cosmos as a place made up of both matter and spirit, in which animals are every bit as important, spiritually speaking, as the humans with whom they share the world. Though it is startlingly original, The Divine Life of Animals also feels strangely and instantly familiar, for it reveals truths that many of us have held in our hearts already, waiting only for someone to give fresh voice to one of the oldest and most trustworthy intuitions we possess. The Divine Life of Animals offers a compelling and timeless vision of the relationship between humans and animals that will have you looking at the animals in your life with new eyes.
The Life of God in the Soul of Man
Author: Henry Scougal
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
The Divine Life in Man
Author: James Baldwin Brown
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congregational churches
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congregational churches
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
The Life Divine
Author: Aurobindo Ghose
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Knowledge, Theory of
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Knowledge, Theory of
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
The divine life in man [sermons].
Author: James Baldwin Brown
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congregational churches
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congregational churches
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
The Life of God in the Soul of Man
Author: Henry Scougal
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
The Divine Life in Man
Author: Frederic Alphonso Noble
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congregational churches
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congregational churches
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Human Power in the Divine Life
Author: Nicholas Bishop
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368137808
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368137808
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.
A General Sketch of the New Testament in the Light of Christ and the Church
Author: Witness Lee
Publisher: Living Stream Ministry
ISBN: 0736307540
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Publisher: Living Stream Ministry
ISBN: 0736307540
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
The Divine Life
Author: Hilton Hotema
Publisher: Health Research Books
ISBN: 9780787304423
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
1963 Contents: What is Life?; Dust of the Ground; Breath of Life; Law of Creation; Law of Change; Creative Force; Origin of Life; Kinds of Life; Hidden Artist; When Man Begins to Live; Relation of Man to Life; Man is Not Life; Man Does Nothi.
Publisher: Health Research Books
ISBN: 9780787304423
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
1963 Contents: What is Life?; Dust of the Ground; Breath of Life; Law of Creation; Law of Change; Creative Force; Origin of Life; Kinds of Life; Hidden Artist; When Man Begins to Live; Relation of Man to Life; Man is Not Life; Man Does Nothi.