Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 0060976187, Paperback)

Beginning with the myth of Sophia, the Soul of the World, Sardello evokes a sense of the world as filled with her presence. He goes on to suggest that the soul’s primary parts—its arts of concentration, meditation, imagination, contemplation—rather than belonging to individual consciousness, constitute a giving over of subjective, personal states to the consciousness that is the soul of the world. He shows how, practicing these arts, we can begin to approach daily life in a new way. The chapters that follow build up a psychology of the world—of architecture, money, the city, medicine, food and technology.