Creating Heaven on Earth: The Psychology of Experiencing Immortality in Everyday Life

By Paul Marcus

The art of living the "good life" requires skilful attunement to the lovely presences in everyday life. Lodged in a psychoanalytic sensibility, and drawing from ancient and modern religious and spiritual wisdom, this book provides the details, conceptual structures, and inner meanings of a number of easily accessible, everyday activities, including gardening, sport, drinking coffee, storytelling, and listening to music. It also suggests how to best engage these activities, to consecrate the ordinary in a way that points to experiential transcendence, or what the author calls "glimpsing immortality", a core component of the art of living the "good life".

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1782201785
• ISBN13: 9781782201786
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.1" x 7.7"