Discovering Your Soul's Purpose: Finding Your Path in Life, Work, and Personal Mission the Edgar Cayce Way, Second Edition

by Mark Thurston PhD

Overview

A new edition of the classic guide to using the spiritual and psychological insights of renowned mystic and psychic Edgar Cayce to find your authentic mission in life.

The medical clairvoyant Edgar Cayce (1877-1945) left the world a wealth of intuiitive readings on everything from health and spirituality to psychology and past lives. Now the most significant teacher of Cayce's teachings, Mark Thurston, updates and revises his classic book, Discovering Your Soul's Purpose, to help you use the Cayce teachings in the twenty-first century to find greater purpose in your relationships, career, and overall mission in life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780143130857
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	06/20/2017
Pages:	304
Sales rank:	380,196
Product dimensions:	4.90(w) x 7.70(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Mark Thurston, Ph.D. is an educator, psychologist, and author of more than a dozen books about personal spirituality, dream psychology, meditation, and mind-body well-being.  Among his publications are The Essential Edgar Cayce (2004) and Willing to Change: The Journey of Personal Transformation (2005). Mark worked for the Association for Research and Enlightenment (A.R.E.) and Atlantic University in Virginia Beach, Virginia, for 36 years.  In 2009 he moved into a new phase of his own soul's purpose, becoming the Director of Educational Programs for George Mason University's Center for the Advancement of Well-Being. In that capacity he focuses on teaching undergraduate and graduate courses about consciousness, mindfulness, and the science of well-being. Mark and his wife of many decades Mary Elizabeth Lynch are co-founders of the Personal Transformation and Courage Institute, a non-profit educational organization begun in 2000 which offers small-group learning intensives. Mark and Mary Elizabeth are parents to two adult children.

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Table of Contents

Preface to the 2nd Edition vii

Introduction xv

Part I The Four-Step Pattern

Chapter 1 Cooperation, Meaning, and Mission 7

Chapter 2 Self-awareness and Your Soul Talents 29

Chapter 3 Values, Ideals, and Intentionality 91

Chapter 4 Faith and the Experience of a Call 111

Part II Living Your Soul's Purpose

Chapter 5 A Personal Research Project 141

Chapter 6 Money and Resources for Living Your Purpose 166

Chapter 7 Long-term Thinking: Jobs, Avocations, and Callings 203

Epilogue 223

Appendix I A Theory of Creation 231

Appendix II The Theory of Reincarnation 247

Index 261

About the Author 271

About Edgar Cayce and A.R.E. 272

Editorial Reviews

"Mark Thurston introduces the full range of Edgar Cayce's work in a contemporary and refreshingly straightforward manner." —Sidney D. Kirkpatrick, author of Edgar Cayce: An American Prophet

"What of serious and lasting value can be found in the voluminous Cayce readings? No one is better qualified to answer this question than Mark Thurston ... the leading scholar on Cayce."
—K. Paul Johnson, author of Edgar Cayce in Context

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