Synopses & Reviews
What is the history of the human soul? What is its future? And what is our individual role within the collective whole, particularly in today's world of unprecedented change?
Scientists have mapped the human genome, but they have not discovered DNA's spiritual equivalent, the embedded coding that shapes what we value and why we think and act as we do. Now, in Sacred Quest, L. Robert Keck frames a compelling science of a collective soul that investigates the deep causal values determining why certain beliefs and behaviors become culturally dominant.
This collective soul, like a butterfly, undergoes transformative stages. Keck explores three distinct phases in the soul's evolution. Epoch I, from 35,000 years ago to 10,000 years ago, corresponds to spiritual "childhood" and is marked by unity with nature, nonviolence, and reverence for the feminine. Epoch II, from 10,000 years ago to the present is the soul's "adolescence," an era of patriarchy, hierarchical control, and violence. We live in the "chrysalis" stage of change to Epoch III, our spiritual adulthood, in which the ego will yield to the heart. Current revolutionary transformations reflect the death of humanity's outworn adolescent values and the birthing of new, adult ones.
Sacred Quest is not just a theoretical construct, but is a call for the engagement of one's whole life. Keck shares his own personal struggles to embody the emergent values of Epoch III -- reconnection to nature, democratization of power, respect for diversity and inclusivity, and the expansion of self, to name a few.
Synopsis
Transformations promote our individual spiritual emergence, but cause great distress. Using his deep-value research, Robert Keck investigates the causal values that shape human culture, determining why certain thought and behavior patterns become dominant.
He discovers that the human soul has evolved through three stages: a "childhood" lasting from 35,000 to 10,000 years ago; an "adolescence" from 10,000 years ago to the present; and an emerging "adulthood," into which we are presently maturing. Keck explains the sources of our unique confusion and examines the spiritually adolescent values that are dying so that adult ones can be born.
Synopsis
Sacred Quest is not just a theoretical construct, but is a call for the engagement of ones whole life. Keck shares his own personal struggles to embody the emergent values of Epoch III-reconnection to nature, democratization of power, respect for diversity and inclusively, and the expansion of self, to name a few. The books questions for those on a quest” are designed to catalyze the readers personal transformation by probing the meaning of his or her connections to others, to nature, and to the Divine.
About the Author
L. Robert Keck, Ph. D. is an evolutionary theologian, and independent scholar, and one of the nations leading religious thinkers, lecturers, and seminar leaders. Keck has been a United Methodist minister, served on the medical school faculty of The Ohio State University, and was president of Boulder Graduate School, Author of Sacred Eyes, he lives near Boulder, Colorado.