Creating Heaven on Earth

The art of living the good life requires skilful attunement to the lovely presences in everyday life. Lodged in a psychoanalytic sensibility and drawing from ancient and modern religious and spiritual wisdom this book provides the details conceptual structures and inner meanings of a number of easily accessible everyday activities including gardening sport drinking coffee storytelling and listening to music. It also suggests how to best engage these activities to consecrate the ordinary in a way that points to experiential transcendence or what the author calls glimpsing immortality a core component of the art of living the good life.