Time and the Soul Where Has All the Meaningful Time Gone -- and Can We Get It Back?

Jacob Needleman, shows how to take a bold and unconventional approach to time. The aim: to get more out of it by breaking free of our illusions about it. Due to the current economic trend, the "time poverty" issue is timely and challenging. In Time and The Soul Needlemen offers a fresh and thoughtful approach to the topic. Needleman dispenses with tricks and techniques that only serve to make our obsessiveness more "efficient." Instead he shows how we can understand what our days are for.

Jacob Needleman is Professor of Philosophy at San Francisco State University, former visiting professor at Duxx Graduate School of Business Leadership in Monterrey, Mexico, and former Director of the Center for the Study of New Religions at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. He is the author of several bestselling books, including Money and the Meaning of Life, A Little Book on Love, and The American Soul: Rediscovering the Wisdom of the Founders.

Foreword by John Cleese
Introduction to the Paperback Edition
Prologue

PART I: Once Upon a Time
CHAPTER 1: The Man with the Soft Brown Eyes
CHAPTER 2: Time: A New Question
CHAPTER 3: Time: Problem, Question and Mystery
CHAPTER 4: Time and the Great Self The Dejection of Arjuna

PART II: Real Time
CHAPTER 5: From Fiction to Reality The Time Famine
CHAPTER 6: What to Do?
CHAPTER 7: A Modest Exercise
CHAPTER 8: The Other Door
CONCLUSION: “You’ve Only Just Begun”
References
Further Reading
Index
About the Author