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Fourth Instinct: The Call of the Soul [Hardcover]

Arianna Huffington (Author)
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May 10, 1994
A popular author and television personality explores how developing our Fourth Instinct, which leads toward self-knowledge, spiritual meaning, and can transform life, showing how to fulfill our better impulses. 40,000 first printing. $40,000 ad/promo. Tour.

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The individual's search for meaning is hardly a new topic, but Huffington ( Maria Callas ) adds fresh ideas to the discussion. Taking a high view of human nature, she maintains that the impulse toward spiritual fulfillment is another of our basic human instincts (the others are survival, sex and power) and identifies this often neglected "fourth" instinct as the tool given humanity for transforming the limiting effects of the other three. Choosing to respond to the call of the soul leads one beyond false goals of celebrity, consumption and physical perfection on to compassion, selflessness and service. Huffington envisions a genuine evolutionary breakthrough as more and more people, driven by society's widespread sense of "something missing," develop themselves under the direction of the fourth instinct. While the use of exclusively masculine language for both humanity and God detracts from her message, Huffington's book nonetheless challenges readers to evaluate their priorities and make meaningful changes in their lives.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal

Best-selling author of biographies of Maria Callas and Picasso, talk show host, and first woman president of the Cambridge Union debating society, Huffington has experienced relative poverty as a child in Greece and life as a New York socialite; she is now the wife of a U.S. congressman and the mother of two daughters. From her own wide reading, research, and hourlong daily meditation, Huffington supports her contention that there is, in addition to survival, power, and sexual instincts, a powerful spiritual instinct that drives human beings toward God, toward helping others, and toward the wisdom, strength, and inspiration that come from pain, loss, and art. This deeply spiritual and nonsectarian book reads with narrative ease and clarity. Highly recommended for public and seminary libraries.
--Carolyn Craft, Longwood Coll., Farmville, Va.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster (May 10, 1994)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0671692291
  • ISBN-13: 978-0671692292
  • Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.1 x 1.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #782,190 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Arianna Huffington is a nationally syndicated columnist, author of eleven books, and the co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post. She is also co-host of 'Left, Right & Center,' public radio's popular political roundtable program.

In May 2005, she launched The Huffington Post, a news and blog site that has quickly become one of the most widely read, linked to, and frequently cited media brands on the Internet.

In 2006, she was named to the Time 100, Time magazine's list of the world's 100 most influential people.
Originally from Greece, she moved to England at the age of sixteen to attend Cambridge University. She graduated with an M.A. in economics. At 21, she became president of the famed debating society, the Cambridge Union.

Her latest book is ON BECOMING FEARLESS . . . IN LOVE, WORK, AND LIFE. Her other books include:

' FANATICS AND FOOLS: THE GAME PLAN FOR WINNING BACK AMERICA, offers a scathing portrait of our contemporary political landscape with a bold, inspiring, and practical approach to restoring America to the promise envisioned by our greatest leaders. It was published in 2004.

' PIGS AT THE TROUGH: HOW CORPORATE GREED AND POLITICAL CORRUPTION ARE UNDERMINING AMERICA, became a New York Times bestseller when it was published in 2003.

' HOW TO OVERTHROW THE GOVERNMENT, on the corruption of our political system and the need for reform, was published in 2000.

' GREETINGS FROM THE LINCOLN BEDROOM, a political satire, was published in 1998.

' THE FOURTH INSTINCT, on the longing for meaning in a secular world, was published in 1994.

' PICASSO: CREATOR AND DESTROYER, a biography of Pablo Picasso, was published in 1988. It was a major international bestseller, translated into 16 languages. The book was also made into a film starring Anthony Hopkins as Picasso and produced by Merchant-Ivory for Warner Bros.

' THE GODS OF GREECE celebrates the power of myths as guides to forgotten dimensions of life and ourselves. Atlantic Monthly Press republished it with paintings by Fran'oise Gilot.

' THE WOMAN BEHIND THE LEGEND, a biography of Maria Callas published in 1981, quickly became an international bestseller.

' AFTER REASON, on political leadership and the intersection of politics and culture, was published in 1978.

' THE FEMALE WOMAN, on the changing roles of women, was published in 1974 by Random House and translated into 11 languages.

Huffington has made guest appearances on numerous television shows, including "Charlie Rose," "Oprah," "Nightline," "Real Time with Bill Maher," "Inside Politics," "Larry King Live," "Hardball," "Good Morning America," the "Today Show," "Countdown," and "The O'Reilly Factor."

She serves on several boards that promote community solutions to social problems, including A Place Called Home, which works with at-risk children in South Central Los Angeles. She also serves on the Board of Trustees for the Archer School for Girls, and on the board of the Reform Institute, which works on campaign and election reform issues.

Arianna Huffington lives in Los Angeles with her two daughters.

 

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5.0 out of 5 stars For Modern Spiritual Seekers, August 1, 2008
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If you're a person who believes, values, or longs for the spiritual, and you want a modern "guidebook" of sorts, to help navigate the world in a soulful yet open-minded way, this just may be a great book for you.

I (being one of those people) was thoroughly delighted by her wisdom, and found it to be a very mature and intelligent pondering on the "better angels of our nature."

Huffington breaks down human motives into four basic instincts: 1) survival 2) power 3) sex, 4) "the call of the soul." The book is based on the philosophy that the path to true enlightenment and a happy, meaningful existence is to let all four work in harmony, with the fourth "taking the wheel," so to speak, keeping the first three in check when they get out of control.

More a spiritual companion than a subscription to one religion (she draws on a variety, eastern and western), it's enlightening for the spiritual seeker, without insulting the intelligence of the modern mind (though if you're strictly atheist, I don't think you'll like it very much).
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