Soul-Purpose: Discovering and Fulfilling Your Destiny [Mass Market Paperback]

Mark Thurston (Author)

Book Description

Series: Soul-Purpose | Publication Date: October 15, 1997

Embrace your soul's true calling.

Edgar Cayce's pioneering life readings have helped millions of Americans break out of their day-to-day routines and discover fulfilling personal missions. Now, using Cayce's philosophy, Mark Thurston, Ph.D., has created a unique, five-step program of self-study to help you actualize the natural potential within you. This remarkable volume includes:

-How to explore and understand the two essential sides of your nature-the individual and the universal
-Ways to identify your inner resources and discover the "calling" that can lead you to happiness and fulfillment
-How jobs, money, and other real-life considerations fit into a meaningful life
-Why the rewards of living your purpose in life outweigh the efforts and extend far beyond individual benefits

Discover your path in life with the teachings of Edgar Cayce.

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"Each soul comes with a mission...we all have a mission to perform." --Edgar Cayce

About the Author

Mark Thurston, Ph.D., is an educator, author, and Executive Director for the Association for Research and Enlightenment, founded in Virginia Beach, Virginia by Edgar Cayce in 1931. Thurston's fifteen publications include Millennium Prophecies, Understand and Develop Your ESP, The Inner Power of Silence, The Edgar Cayce Handbook for Creating Your Future, Experiments in Practical Spirituality, and Paradox of Power. He is also the author of Dreams: Tonight's Answers for Tomorrow's Questions, another book in this series about the work of Edgar Cayce. His academic training in psychology provides the skills for translating concepts from the Cayce readings into modern daily life.

Thurston has worked with hundreds of individuals to help them find their purposes in life. He has presented workshops on this subject in virtually every major city in America, as well as in various locations in Canada and Europe.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks (October 15, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312963270
• ISBN-13: 978-0312963279
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.3 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #396,742 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very thought-provoking, July 21, 2002

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kyara - See all my reviews

This review is from: Soul-Purpose: Discovering and Fulfilling Your Destiny (Mass Market Paperback)

I picked this off the bookshelf at a bookshop and it is certainly one of the better books I have come across to help oneself work out one�fs soul purpose in life. This slim volume doesn�ft go into specifics of which path to follow, but through various exercises and examples of other people, leads you to discover what are your strengths and weaknesses. Using this as a base and through meditation and further exercises you can find what feels right for you. It does not necessarily mean finding the perfect job, but finding something in your life that fulfils you. One point that is not often dealt with by other similar books is that finding meaning in our own lives should not be self-centered: we should also include some form of service to others. Most of all, finding fulfillment does not mean we must all be high achievers and have some visible form of success. We can each find meaning and fulfillment in our lives by living our soul�fs purpose, which is unique to each and everyone and which in turn complements that of those around us.

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good review of Cayce material, August 12, 2005

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This review is from: Soul-Purpose: Discovering and Fulfilling Your Destiny (Mass Market Paperback)

Although Dr. Thurston has a patent manner of writing, with most books having a very similiar format, this book's content is excellent. The concept of the "Ideal" in the Cayce readings is without doubt the single most important function in a person's life and was the central tenet of most of the life readings. The relation of the soul to their purpose becomes active when and only when there is consideration and meditation on this core directive. Dr. Thurston approaches this heady subject, which oft times is difficult to navigate in thousands of readings through multiple channels (ie purpose, destiny, talents..), as well as Cayce contemporaries Jung and most importantly Guirdjeff's use of Self-Observation (which Cayce referred more than one curious soul to study).
All in all, a very good book, with some good ideas.