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Purpose Guides Institute Presents

Ageless Soul

The Lifelong Journey toward Meaning and Joy


A LIVE VIDEO BOOK CLUB

With Soul Guide and Author

Thomas Moore

Thomas-Moore

Join Soul Guide and author of the classic Care Of The Soul for his first online book club.
We’ll be reading, studying, dialoguing and engaging with
his newest book, Ageless Soul.

Thomas will guide our book club readers how to:
  • Embrace life and its richness fully.
  • Accept invitations to new vitality.
  • Feel fulfilled as we go through life’s transitions from young adult to middle age and onward to elderhood
Begins Thursday May 23th, 2019 11:00am Pacific / 02:00pm Eastern
(click here to find your local time)
Register to tune in LIVE or recieve the video recordings
Cost: $125 (early bird price of $95 through May 12)

Join a community of spiritually alive individuals who long to live an existence of embodied purpose in service to life.


This book club gives you the opportunity to interact with Thomas Moore LIVE from anywhere in the world via video conference on your computer screen. If you can’t make the LIVE meetings you can still register and watch the video recordings at any time.

Spirituality & Practice writes that Ageless Soul is, “A wonderful, wise and winning exploration of the soul’s role in aging...an uncommonly good companion for your spiritual journey.”


Preview call + 2-meeting special event:
PREVIEW CALL - Pre-recorded (1 hour)
  • Watch the 1 hour Introductory call recording of Thomas teeing up our group exploration of our soul-level purpose in preparation for our deep dive into the 2-session bookclub. Recorded May 9th.
  • Hear the story of how Thomas was called to write a book on growing up and showing up with a deeper sense of purpose in life
  • Get introduced to Thomas, the book Ageless Soul, and the book club community

SESSION #1 - Ageless Soul - LIVE May 23 (2 hours)
(We’ll all arrive at this meeting having read Parts 1-2 of Ageless Soul)
  • Expand your awareness of the authentic calling at the center of your being
  • Deepen your understanding of rites of passage throughout the aging process
  • Explore what it means to become a deeper person as you age
  • For young-to-middle aged adults: discover the soul-level aspects to aging during your rites of passage.
  • For older adults: imagining retirement as a portion of one’s life work.

SESSION #2 - Ageless Soul - LIVE June 6 (2 hours)
(We’ll gather for this book club meeting having read Part 3-5 of Ageless Soul)
  • Discover how to imagine soul-based evolution, transformation and maturing
  • Learn how to open your heart to new life stages, transitions and challenges
  • Develop a “Spirituality Of Aging”
  • Explore methods for activating deeper purpose throughout life transitions

What you will receive:
  • Two LIVE sessions and one pre-recorded meeting with Thomas
  • Video recordings of all three meetings
  • Audio recordings of all three meetings
  • Interactive exercises and questions for each meeting
  • Membership in an online community Hub for group interaction between meetings

Bonuses
  • Full length interview with Thomas Moore exploring soul-level purpose
  • An exclusive essay on soul-level purpose written just for Purpose Guides Institute
  • Two small group meetings with the host of the Book Club and Purpose Guides Institute Founder, Jonathan Gustin


The Book: Ageless Soul

In Ageless Soul, Moore reveals a fresh, uplifting, and inspiring path toward maturing, one that need not be resisted, but rather embraced and cherished. In Moore’s view, growing up is the process by which one becomes a more distinctive, complex, fulfilled, loving, and connected person.

Using examples from his practice as a psychotherapist and teacher who lectures widely on the soul of medicine and spirituality, Moore argues for a new vision of growing up: as a dramatic series of initiations, one that each of us has the tools―experience, maturity, fulfillment―to live out. Subjects include:

*Why melancholy is a natural part of aging, and how to accept it, rather than confuse it with depression
*The vital role of the elder and mentor in the lives of younger people
*The many paths of spiritual growth and learning that open later in life
*Sex and sensuality
*Building new communities and leaving a legacy

 


Praise for the Book

“After reading this beautifully and eloquently written book, getting older seems much more
like a blessing than a curse! Thomas Moore convinces us that we age best when we embrace our
age, live agelessly, and remember every day to find the endless joy nestled inside our soul."
—Dr. Rudolph E. Tanzi, Harvard Medical School, and NYT bestselling author

“Destined to become a classic, Ageless Soul brilliantly illuminates one of life's most enduring
mysteries: ‘Why―and how―do we grow old?’ A pioneer pointing the way forward to a new
world of aging… A precious book, Ageless Soul offers a richly textured vision of how,
in Moore's own words, to 'age well.'”
      — Pythia Peay, author of American Icarus                                                         

"With warmth, intimacy, and rare depth of wisdom [Moore] guides his readers through each of
[growing up’s] stages. Grounded in years of psychological research and spiritual reflection on
the human enterprise,this wonderful book lays out for us what it is to live a full and creative
life all the way to its end. This book should be read by everyone…
— Sister Joan Chittister, author of The Gift of Years                                 

"With Ageless Soul, Thomas Moore extends a magnificent invitation to reflect, grow up with joy
and intention, and give back with an open heart."
          — Marc Freedman, , founder and CEO of Encore.org and author of The Big Shift



The Teacher

Thomas Moore published his classic Care of the Soul in 1992 and has since written twenty-five books on spirituality, sexuality, myth, religion and depth psychology. His books have been translated into thirty languages. He has taught religious studies and psychology and has been a psychotherapist for over 30 years. He often speaks at C. G. Jung societies and has done special work consulting at major medical centers with the idea of bringing soul to medicine. He was a close friend and collaborator with James Hillman and published an anthology of Hillman’s work with extensive introductions and commentaries.

Join us for this live and intimate opportunity to engage with Thomas Moore and explore how we can continue to embody and enjoy our soul’s higher calling at any stage in life’s journey.


Praise for Thomas Moore

“I soulfully recommend it without reservation.”
— John Bradshaw, author of Homecoming

“The sincerity, intelligence and style -- so beautifully clean -- of Tom Moore’s Care of the Soul truly moved me. The book’s got strength and class and soul, and I suspect may last longer than psychology itself.”
— James Hillman, author of Re-Visioning Psychology

“This book just may help you give up the futile quest for salvation and get down to the possible task of taking care of your soul. A modest, and therefore marvelous, book about the life of the spirit.”
— Sam Keen, author of Fire in the Belly

About Thomas Moore

Thomas Moore is the author of the number one New York Times bestseller Care of the Soul. He has written twenty-four other books about bringing soul to personal life and culture, deepening spirituality, humanizing medicine, finding meaningful work, imagining sexuality with soul and doing religion in a fresh way. In his youth he was a Catholic monk and studied music composition. He has a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Syracuse University and was a university professor for a number of years. He is also a psychotherapist influenced mainly by C. G. Jung and James Hillman. In his work he brings together spirituality, mythology, depth psychology and the arts, emphasizing the importance of images and imagination. He often travels and lectures, hoping to help create a more soulful society.