Sacred Earth Sacred Soul
Gold Winner of the Nautilus Book Award for Spirituality and the Religious Thought of the West
The wisdom of Celtic spirituality is needed today to help heal our planet, overcome our conflicts, and reconnect us to the sacredness of Earth and one another. John Philip Newell shows us how this creation-centered spirituality can help us rediscover our connection with God, with each other, and with Earth.
“We know things in the core of our being that we have not necessarily been taught, and some of this deep knowing may actually be at odds with what our society or religion has tried to teach us. This book is about reawakening to what we know in the depths of our being, that Earth is sacred and that this sacredness is at the heart of every human being and life-form. To awaken again to this deep knowing is to be transformed in the ways we choose to live and relate and act.”
- John Philip Newell, Sacred Earth Sacred Soul
HarperOne, July 2021
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‘In Celtic wisdom we remember Earth as sacred. Every tree and bush, every flower and creature, every hill and mountain is on fire with the divine. … What we do to the body of Earth is what we do to the divine.’
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‘In Celtic wisdom we remember that our soul, the very heart of our being, is sacred. What is deepest in us is of God. Every child, every woman, every man, and every life-form is in essence divine. This is the truth that the Celtic tradition is inviting us to remember.’
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‘The crises that we are in the midst of today, whether ecological, political, or societal,
stem from the fact that we treat Earth and one another as less than sacred.’
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‘Celtic wisdom remembers the sacredness of the feminine. Deep within us and deep within the matter of the universe is a conjoining of masculine and feminine energy. Both are of God.
Both are essential to us. Both are to be reverenced.’
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