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Sacred Quest: The Evolution and Future of the Human Soul

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When I came across this book I was looking for something to explain what seems to be happening to us as a humankind, and on a personal level, something to give me hope in the kind of world I want for my children. This book made me see the process of our "Sacred Quests" in a way that I had never considered before. It is a must for people who are seekers, who want to understand how to connect with life in order to derive meaning and purpose, joy and hope. I have passed this book on to my family as gifts in hopes that they too will feel the magnificent connection to something greater than themselves while reading it. It is absolutely an amazing work!

Keck imports the idea of evolution, usually confined to biology, to the spiritual realm and describes the entire human jouney as an evolution of Soul. Somehow, through the subtlety of Keck's prose, the reader begins to see their own life as part of this grand evolutionary journey.

What I really love is that Keck's book simultaneously confounds two ideological groups: conservative Christians and liberal scholars. Conservative Christians, for their part, view theories of evolution as a betrayal of Holy Writ. They will despise Keck's book. As strange bedfellows, liberal scholars would also be highly suspicious of Keck's evolutionary scheme because it presumes progress. To claim that human beings are getting better is a violation of the holy writ of "hard thinking."

Any book that skewers both professors and fundamentalists is a book worth buying.

Bob Keck continues to explore a new frontier in spirituality by leading us into Epoch III. It is an outstanding exploration, of the Soul. He provides the reader with personal insights as well as a continuation of Deep Value Research which he emphasized in his earlier book Sacred Eyes. This is a must book for anyone to read who wants to understand about the emerging spiritual direction, and our relationship to the Sacred.

The concept of evolution of the soul was very interesting and it was easy to acknowledge the progression that the author clearly pointed out. What was left out of the discussion was the "why" of the process along with the purpose of the resulting product. With physical evolution the process in place generally leads to a hardier species, one more capable of surviving the environment and competion with other species. With evolution of the soul, survival of the fittest doesn't seem to work, and surviving some future environment also does not make much sense, particulary if we assume that the time of turmoil and upheaval is coming to a close as we move from adolesence into maturity.
It seems the author was very good at leading others down a specific path but halfway there he appears to have gotten lost and confused on the subsequent direction or future destinations. It is an easy out to say we just can't know all things, but I for one was interested in seeing some clues to the "rest of the story". Also, based on the concept that we are in the adolesence of the soul which accounts for many of the issues we are facing as a collective species, I was left with the feeling that I have been short changed by fate. Rather than viewing myself as lucky like the author that we are witnesses to such dramatic change, I am instead left feeling that we are forced to live in this immature soul condition while the future generations get the benefit. They will lead a comfy soul existance without all the heartache. The benefit of inheritance without the necessity of the work. One would think that very physical world concept would not carryover so easily into the divinity of the soul.

Overall, interesting concepts but it only opened the door to a discussion, and at times it seems the discussion has no place left to go until the author can surmise what the purpose and ultimate goal of soul evolution would be.