Season 5 "Book Lunch": Thomas Moore and his new book, "The Eloquence of Silence"

We are so very delighted to share our first "Book Lunch" of Season 5 featuring the incandescent author, spiritual teacher and great human, Thomas Moore as we celebrate his new book, The Eloquence of Silence. It is extraordinary to me that since I first read Moore's groundbreaking Care Of The Soul way back in the golden year of 1992 . I am now going to speak with Moore face to face in 2023 on the occasion his newest book #TheEloquenceOfSilence. Thomas Moore was one of our earlier guests on the show but this will be the first time for us to see one another! (link to that interview here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ditfProyS8) Moore is, amazingly, 82 years of age as of our meeting, and as I savored his text. It is organized around so many and diverse stories: Oscar Wilde's cucumber sandwiches in his celebrated play, Jesus Christ's sermons on the Kingdom, Nicholas Of Cusa's teachings on Christ, Dietrich Boenhoffer's fight against Nazism, Shunryu Suzuki's talks on Zazen, a chapter on the Heart Sutra, teachings from Sufi, and much more. I very much look forward to seeing what he has to say on some of this. Discussion of Emptiness and Silence is perhaps most suited to our current moment where we happen to find ourselves. ABOUT THOMAS Thomas Moore is the author of the number one New York Times bestseller Care of the Soul. He has written twenty-four other books about bringing soul to personal life and culture, deepening spirituality, humanizing medicine, finding meaningful work, imagining sexuality with soul and doing religion in a fresh way. In his youth he was a Catholic monk and studied music composition. He has a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Syracuse University and was a university professor for a number of years. He is also a psychotherapist influenced mainly by C. G. Jung and James Hillman. In his work he brings together spirituality, mythology, depth psychology and the arts, emphasizing the importance of images and imagination. He often travels and lectures, hoping to help create a more soulful society. His family members are also deeply involved in spiritual approaches to the arts: His wife, Hari Kirin, is an accomplished painter and teaches a course she has created on Yoga and Art; his daughter Ajeet is a musician and recording artist and spiritual teacher; his stepson Abraham is an architect focusing on design related to the social aspects of building. Thomas also writes fiction, arranges music and plays golf in New Hampshire, where he has lived for twenty years. #sufi #Buddhism #Christianity #Islam #Jung #jameshillman #zazen #oscarwilde #heartsutra #prayer #meditation #spirituality #religion #soul #spirit #body #history #time #beginnersmind #kenosis #samuelbeckett #daimon #TheEloquenceofSilence