A Meaningful Life and a Solution to the “God Wars” Offered in Award-Winning New Book
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A Meaningful Life and a Solution to the ⨠God Wars†Offered in Award-Winning New
Book
"Return to Meaning: The American Psyche in Search of its Soul," by Dr.
Andrew Cort,
D.
C.
, J.
D.
, Redefines Religious Meaning and Its...
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A Meaningful Life and a Solution to the ⨠God Wars†Offered in Award-Winning New
Book
"Return to Meaning: The American Psyche in Search of its Soul," by Dr.
Andrew Cort,
D.
C.
, J.
D.
, Redefines Religious Meaning and Its Importance for a Scientific Age.
Boston, MA, April 29, 2009 -- â This learned and inspirational book,ât writes
noted author and social commentator George Gilder, âs rescues philosophy from the
mathematicians, sex from the hedonists, religion from empty sanctimony, and science
from barren materialism.
A must read for all of us who seek a guidebook for
meaningful life in the new millennium.
âr
Dr.
Andrew Cort has launched a new website, http://www.
andrewcort.
com, providing
information on his books and seminars, with Free Excerpts, customer reviews, and
related articles, on the topics of Religion, Spirituality, Education, Science,
Holistic Healing, and Contemporary American Culture.
(He has also begun a new blog,
âoReligion, Science and American Lifeâi which can be found at
www.
andrewcort.
blogspot.
com.
)
If there is a God, Cort asks, and if God is all-powerful and good, then why would
God create such a difficult world?
Does religion have a credible answer? Morality, as secularists know, does not
require a deity.
Blind faith, as atheists know, often leads to hatred, violence and
war.
Taking scriptural stories as literal accounts of history, as scientists know,
borders on the nonsensical.
There has to be more.
And there is.
In his new book, "Return to Meaning: The American Psyche in Search of
its Soul", Dr.
Andrew Cort demonstrates that when western myths and scriptures are
interpreted in an inner, symbolic, psychological way âe
literal history â they are all found to have the same underlying meaning and
purpose: the enlightenment of the human soul.
When this is understood, the
justification for religious bigotry disappears, the atheist observation that
âuthese stories are not rationalây becomes irrelevant (even if true), and the
enmity between science and religion is defused.
Through allegory and symbol, the stories in the Bible weave the tale of a soul your soul - that has descended into material life and must now do the work to find
its way home again.
This inner journey, the basis for all Sacred Quest legends,
has been called "The Return to the Promised Land", "Persephone s Ascent to
Olympus", "The Resurrection of the Soul", "The Quest of the Holy Grail", and many
other names.
Everything that happens along the way â
obstacles that are overcome - must all occur within oneself.
In Part 1 of this groundbreaking book, Dr.
Cort unlocks the universal symbolic code
(still preserved in Plato and other ancient writers) that is used throughout these
stories.
Part 2 describes the soulâ s journey of Creation and Return as it is
revealed in Greek Mythology, the Torah, the Gospels, and the Qurâtan, thus
revealing the stunning underlying unity of all our western religious traditions.
Lastly, Part 3 discusses the terrible cost that has resulted from ignoring,
trivializing, or misunderstanding these traditions, and the possibility of
restoring a genuine sense of meaning and purpose to our lives and culture.
Rev.
Janet Mckinstry has said of ânReturn to Meaning: The American Psyche in
Search of its Soulây, â Cort demonstrates that all religious traditions have the
common aim of teaching a method for enlightening our souls.
When this shared noble
purpose is understood, a sense of sacred meaning is restored to our lives and there
is no further need for religious hatred and bigotry.
All of this is made clear in a
book that is entertaining, inspiring, beautifully written, and filled with amazing
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