Living a Soulful Life and Why It Matters - Francis Weller

[Larry Robinson]

Here is an invitation and offering of soul from my friend Francis Weller:



Dear Friends,

I am happy to announce that the audio recordings from my series, Living a Soulful Life and Why It Matters are available for purchase and download. You can find the link here <http://www.francisweller.net/living-a-soulful-life-10-week-series.html>. I hope you will enjoy listening to these talks again and again. Deep gratitude, Francis 

Here are some comments from participants in the series: 

"Thank you Francis. I was deeply and profoundly impacted by your talks. I feel my very being re-arranging/re-aligning itself. It's as if you've spoken the truth out loud about important ways in which we are meant to live that we've only had vague intuitive knowings about. Now the fog has cleared and the truth is settling into our bones and nervous systems."
   
"Francis, I would like to thank you for this work of yours. Your course on Living a Soulful Life has helped bring me back home to what resides deep within my bones, to continue to remember who I am. You gave words to my feelings and "knowing" in a way that allows(ed) me to bring it out into the world as well. For this, I say Thank you." 

"The course was amazing!  I am in a women's group that has been meeting for over 10 years, and all 5 of us were part of the class.  The content energized us, and the result is that we are making positive changes, including incorporating your work into our group."

"Francis, thank you for the powerful work you do, and for bringing this beautiful wisdom into our lives.  I found your way of communicating to be so very poetic, that's why I wanted to slow it all down and take my time with each sentence that you shared.  Many times your sentences almost reminded me of what it would sound like to weave silk, but with words.  I experienced your lectures and your way of sharing to be like hearing a poem...a poem that will sit with me always.  I can already see how transformative and 


Living a Soulful Life and Why It Matters Audio Download Available Now. 
            
                                                                                   
                                                                                      
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Recorded live over ten concentrated evenings, we granted audience to soul. We listened and leaned into an ancient cadence, a rhythm rooted to soil and place, ancestors and Dreamtime. There we found stories and tears, a rough and robust language that quickened our imaginations and strengthened our intimacy with the entire gleaming world. These were nights of wonder and poetry. We were enticed into the essence of an existence less confined by domesticity and more aligned with the soul's wild love of life.

These gatherings restored the old ways of working with soul. Through conversation, imagination, ritual, poetry, literature, and other practices of the soul, we built a community of the heart. In ancient times, this was the Convivium, a gathering of friends devoted to the care of the soul. We wrestled with central concerns in our lives: Loss and suffering; love and beauty; death and grief; our creative longings, our hunger for community and more. ​
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Distilled from over 35 years of study in psychology, anthropology, alchemy, mythology and poetic traditions, this series of talks offers an in-depth exploration of the practices and perspectives that enrich the life of the soul.

Session 1. The Geography of Soul
Session 2. The Necessary Wound
Session 3. Giving Shape to the Universe: The Life of the Imagination
Session 4. Beguiled by Beauty
Session 5. The Third Body: Touching the Mysteries of Love and Friendship
Session 6. Anima Mundi: The Soul of the World, A World Ensouled
Session 7. The Artful Life: The Necessity of Creativity   
Session 8. Ritual, Community and the Sacred
Session 9. Loss and Sorrow, Darkness and Duende
Session 10. Elders, Ancestors and the Eternal 

© 2018 FRANCIS WELLER
Audio Editor: JOSE ENCISO
Production engineer: ALAN FITCH
​Musical introduction: KAYLEEN ASBO
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