A Quest for Wisdom: Inspiring Purpose on the Path of Life [Paperback]

A comprehensive exploration of spirituality and philosophy

The essays explore philosophy, meaning and spirituality; consciousness, death and transformation; and responsibility, ethics and society. Perceptive and illuminating, they examine the nature of life and death, questions of meaning and purpose, and the challenge of how we can live more harmoniously together.

A Quest for Wisdomis a wide-ranging volume which brings together 25 of David Lorimer's highly acclaimed essays. David hopes that readers will be inspired, as Dr Albert Schweitzer put it, in our common task 'to become more finely and deeply human.'

David Lorimer, MA, PGCE, FRSA is a writer and editor who is a Founder of Character Education Scotland, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network and former President of Wrekin Trust and the Swedenborg Society. Originally a merchant banker then a teacher of philosophy and modern languages at Winchester College, he is the author and editor of over a dozen books. He is a founding member of the International Futures Forum and was also a Trustee of the St Andrews Prize for the Environment and a Churchill Fellow. He is the creator of the Inspiring Purpose Values Poster Programmes, which have reached over 300,000 young people.

A comprehensive exploration of spirituality and philosophy

CONTENTS

FOREWORD xvii

PREFACE xxi
Dr Peter Fenwick

FORMATIVE BACKGROUND xxiii

PHILOSOPHY, SPIRITUALITY AND MEANING
Victor Frankl and the Human Search for Meaning 3
The Absurd and the Mysterious 13
John Moriarty Memorial LectureRhythmica Mythica:
? Separation and Union, Exile and Homecoming 29
The Principles of Love and Wisdom in Swedenborg
? and Beinsa Douno (Peter Deunov) 45
Beinsa Douno (Peter Deunov, 18641944)a Prophet
? for our Times 55
Tao and the Path tol³6