Search -
Soul and Sensuality: Returning the Erotic to Everyday Life
Soul and Sensuality Returning the Erotic to Everyday Life Author:Roger Housden Over the past few hundred years our culture has looked upon sensuality with apprehension and guilt. The pleasures and pains of the physical life have been so separated from the life of the soul that we have all but forgotten how heaven and hell are nowhere if not on earth, not only in our hearts and minds but also in the way we taste and touch, ... more »hear and see and smell.
In Soul and Sensuality, Roger Housden sets out to reclaim what he regards as the true legacy of Eve -- the acceptance of both the joy and the suffering that are inseparable aspects of the life fully lived. To live a full life is to live an erotic life; to be open to the many-faceted messages of each of our senses; to touch, taste and see both above and below the surface of things and in doing so to infuse our waking and sleeping lives with our own sense of meaning.
Intensely personal, evocative and challenging, Soul and Sensuality is a journey through the senses which offers each of us a myriad of ways in which we may more deeply see, hear, taste, touch smell -- and, in doing so, eroticise our lives.« less