The Labyrinths of Love

On Psyche, Soul, and Self-Becoming

Lee Irwin

Labyrinths of Love is an interdisciplinary examination of the self, psyche, and soul, providing a comparative analysis from religious, paranormal research and transpersonal theory perspectives. The book addresses ontological questions regarding the nature of the self in relationship to both psyche and soul, each differentiated to reveal attributes that are transphysical and commonly recognized in most religious traditions. The role of dreams, imagination, and paranormal perceptions, as well, contribute to a more fully realized sense of identity. A constructive use of pansentient ontology illuminates how human identity can incorporate transphysical aspects of self into a meaningful theory of self-development and evolutionary becoming.The work creates a unique synthesis that unfolds what it means to be human and demonstrates a visionary epistemology of the self.

Lexington Books

Pages: 230 • Trim: 6½ x 9

978-1-4985-9669-5 • Hardback • October 2019 • $117.00 • (£90.00)

978-1-4985-9670-1 • eBook • October 2019 • $111.00 • (£85.00)

Subjects: Religion / Spirituality, Body, Mind & Spirit / Spiritualism, Psychology / Movements / Transpersonal

The Labyrinths of Love

On Psyche, Soul, and Self-Becoming

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Labyrinths of Love is an interdisciplinary examination of the self, psyche, and soul, providing a comparative analysis from religious, paranormal research and transpersonal theory perspectives. The book addresses ontological questions regarding the nature of the self in relationship to both psyche and soul, each differentiated to reveal attributes that are transphysical and commonly recognized in most religious traditions. The role of dreams, imagination, and paranormal perceptions, as well, contribute to a more fully realized sense of identity. A constructive use of pansentient ontology illuminates how human identity can incorporate transphysical aspects of self into a meaningful theory of self-development and evolutionary becoming.The work creates a unique synthesis that unfolds what it means to be human and demonstrates a visionary epistemology of the self.

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Lexington Books

Pages: 230 • Trim: 6½ x 9

978-1-4985-9669-5 • Hardback • October 2019 • $117.00 • (£90.00)

978-1-4985-9670-1 • eBook • October 2019 • $111.00 • (£85.00)

Subjects: Religion / Spirituality, Body, Mind & Spirit / Spiritualism, Psychology / Movements / Transpersonal

Author

Lee Irwin is professor in the Religious Studies Department at the College of Charleston and author of Reincarnation in America: An Esoteric History (Lexington Books 2017).

Table of Contents

Prologue

One: Rhetorical Self

Two: Conscious Self

Three: Epistemic Self

Four: Cosmological Self

Five: Transpersonal Self

Six: Communal Self

Epilogue

Appendix A

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Reviews

What is our human potential in view of transpersonal psychology, the world’s religions, dreams, psychic phenomena, and quantum physics? In The Labyrinths of Love, Lee Irwin develops implications of his path into deeper understanding of who one is and can be. A provocative, open-ended exploration!
— Arthur Versluis, author of American Gurus, American Gnosis

Labyrinths of Love provides an expanded phenomenological description of the Self, capturing nuanced facets of experience at the borderlands of subliminal and psychic awareness, alongside the narrative, conscious/unconscious.
— Karen Ann Jaenke, John F. Kennedy University

The Labyrinths of Love

On Psyche, Soul, and Self-Becoming

Lee Irwin

The Labyrinths of Love

On Psyche, Soul, and Self-Becoming

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