Barque: Thomas Moore

Moore talks about new book in Course 6, Lesson 5

noreply@blogger.com (Editor) — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:15:00 +0000

Imaginal Psychology Course Six begins Friday 27 March 2026 with readings for the first lesson, "Living with Art." The live 1.5 hr. webinar for this lesson is the following Wednesday, on 1 April 2026 at 12:00 noon ET. Join Thomas Moore online as he discusses his new book, The Cure at Walden Pond in Lesson 5 of this course. This book is released 7 July 2026 and may be pre-ordered now.

1. Living with Art
2. Hephaistos: Archetypal Spirit of Craft and Technology
3. The Soul of Sex
4. Insights from Fairy Tales
5. Thoreau’s Secrets to a Good Life
6. Aging: Becoming a Deeper Person

Register now to begin this Friday. The Cure at Walden Pond
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Publication date: July 7 2026
Language: English
Print length: 256 pages
ISBN-13: 979-8897101290

The Cure at Walden Pond available July 7, 2026

noreply@blogger.com (Editor) — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 02:06:00 +0000

Thomas Moore's new book The Cure at Waldon Pond is available July 7 2026, published by Pegasus Books.

"Thoreau was disillusioned in his day by the same kind of frantic consumerism, round-the-clock work, and narrow imagination that trouble us today. Moore will help readers slow down, be more present and mindful in their relationships with their loved ones, and appreciate the beautiful world we share. For Moore, as for Thoreau, there is immense spiritual power all around us."

"New Hampshire’s Mount Monadnock is a “natural temple” for all New Englanders, a place of reverence and renewal, and Moore encourages us to find our own places of rejuvenation. There is neglected spirituality—and humanity—in the everyday objects that sustain us too. Moore explores his own memories of an old farmhouse, a grinding stone, and an out-of-tune piano that bring him back to his childhood and his family history."

Publisher: Pegasus Books
Release: July 7, 2026
Length: 288 pages
ISBN13: 9798897101290

The Eloquence of Silence has lessons for today

noreply@blogger.com (Editor) — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 20:16:00 +0000

Thomas Moore's most recent book is The Eloquence of Silence, published in 2023. At the time David Crumm talked with Moore in this Read the Spirit article in which Moore shares his thoughts on emptiness and his meaning of the word hope. Read it before the release of Moore's next book about Thoreau and theology.

Celebrate Plato's birthday with Course 4, Nov. 7

noreply@blogger.com (Editor) — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 02:20:00 +0000

Course Four of Imaginal Psychology with Thomas Moore is open for Registration. It begins Friday 7 November 2025, the date celebrated as Plato's birthday in Renaissance Florence when people were encouraged to talk about soul. Topics in Course 4 are:
1. Artemis: The Goddess of Integrity and Naturalness
2. The God Dionysos: Loss of Control and Extraordinary Vitality
3. Coupling/Uncoupling: Loving Another and Tending Self
4. The Soul of Things
5. James Hillman’s Anima: Living the Soul
6. A Religion of One’s Own: Living with the Mysteries of Life

Course 4 begins its live sessions on Wednesday 12 November 2025 at 12 pm ET. During the hour-long presentation participants are encouraged to ask questions which Moore answers during the following 1/2 hour online. Short readings are sent to participants for the first lesson on Friday 7 November 2025. The live session is recorded and made available soon after the webinar. They remain accessible for 360 days. You are encouraged to participate in 24/7 conversations among participants in chat form throughout the week.

Register for Imaginal Psychology course 3 now

noreply@blogger.com (Editor) — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 19:12:00 +0000

Registration is now open for Imaginal Psychology Course Three with Thomas Moore. Topics for this course are:
1. Aphrodite/Venus
2. Senex/Puer: Timeless Youth and Age
3. Work as Opus of the Soul
4. How Images House Spirit
5. Natural Magic
6. Emptness: Eastern Non-Attachment and Natural life
Course 3 begins its live sessions on September 10, 2025 at 12 pm ET. Short readings will be sent to you on the previous Friday, September 5, 2025. All live sessions are recorded and made available soon after the presentation and remain accessible for 360 days. You are encouraged to participate in 24/7 conversations among participants in chat form.

Sign up now.

Imaginal Psychology course 2 starts June 27, 2025

noreply@blogger.com (Editor) — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 00:24:00 +0000

Register now for Thomas Moore's Imaginal Psychology Course Two that starts with readings for Lesson 1 on Friday 27 June, 2025. Topics for this course include:

1. Eros and Psyche
2. Working with dreams
3. Hermes, guide of souls
4. Anima Mundi: Soul of the world
5. Alchemy basics
6. Psychological polytheism

The series of six courses is now called Imaginal Psychology. Previously it was known as Soul Psychology. Each course has six weekly lessons. You get five or six brief (one page to a page and a half) readings on Friday. The following Wednesday is a live session in which Thomas Moore gives a talk on the theme of the week for approximately one hour. Participants are encouraged to comment and ask questions during the presentation. Thomas Moore then scrolls through the chat to answer questions for approximately one-half hour.

Ruzuku is the platform for the series. It mainly uses a chat-style, type-in format. Students are encouraged to engage in active 24/7 conversations also in chat style. Each course ends with an hour-long Zoom gathering. After taking six courses, you qualify for an attendance certificate signed by Thomas Moore.

Watch a podcast with guest Thomas Moore

noreply@blogger.com (Editor) — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 21:19:00 +0000

Last year Thomas Moore spoke with Leanne Whitney for New Thinking Allowed in a podcast titled Connecting to Soul with Thomas Moore. In this hour-long episode, Moore talks about his interests and current work based on Henry David Thoreau. While Whitney asks intelligent questions, Moore considers his answers thoughtfully, touching on the work of the Transcendentalists, James Hillman, and Carl Jung.

Keynote mental health speaker on July 31, 2025

noreply@blogger.com (Editor) — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 21:30:00 +0000

Thomas Moore is a keynote speaker at the Lowcountry Mental Health Conference in 2025 in Charleston, S.C. He presents on Thursday, July 31 from 10:15 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. on Care of the Soul: A Therapeutic Way of Life. This conference is for mental health professionals and community members with an interest in mental health issues.

Continuing education contact hours are available for helping professionals that include:
--Counselors
--Social Workers
--Marriage & Family Therapists
--Psychotherapists
--Psychiatrists & other physicians
--Psychologists
--Nurses
--State Agency Professionals
--Addiction Professionals
--Healthcare Leaders

More information and conference registration is available at Conference Schedule.

Soul Psychology Course One starts April 25, 2025

noreply@blogger.com (Editor) — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 02:15:00 +0000

A new series of Soul Psychology begins Friday 25 April 2025 with Course One of Thomas Moore's online program that offers six courses with six lessons in each course.

Topics in Course One are:
1.What is the soul?
2. C. G. Jung
3. Myth and Psyche
4. Archetypal Psychology
5. Complexes
6. Metaphor, image and symbol

Ruzuku hosts the program that weekly includes brief readings, a 1.5 hr. live online session with Moore and asynchronous chat among participants.
Register now.

Soul Psychology course six Valentine's Day 2025

noreply@blogger.com (Editor) — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 01:44:00 +0000

Course Six of Thomas Moore's online Soul Psychology series begins Friday 14 February, 2025.

Topics for these six lessons are:
1. Living with Art
2. Hephaistos: Enchanting the World
3. The Soul of Sex
4. Insights from Fairy Tales
5. New England Soul: Emerson, Dickinson and Thoreau
6. Aging: Becoming a Real Person

Join online: Spiritual emptiness in everyday life

noreply@blogger.com (Editor) — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 06:02:00 +0000

Pacifica Graduate Institute hosts Thomas Moore's online course via Zoom Spiritual Emptiness in Everyday Life starting Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024.

Themes for each week are:
Week 1: The meaning of emptiness in the Heart Sutra and other classical sources
Week 2: Developing a secure and effective ego that is also relaxed and open
Week 3: Helping children and others be open and not anxiously in control of others
Week 4: Learning to let life happen, to live by inner guidance rather than by strict expectations

Tuition:
US $112.50 – Senior Rate (65+)
US $125.00 – General Rate

Archetypal Psychology of Relationships starts now

noreply@blogger.com (Editor) — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 05:42:00 +0000

Join Thomas Moore's online Soul Psychology series today with readings for the first lesson in Course Five. This week's live webinar is Wednesday, Dec. 4 2024 at 12 noon ET. The webinar is recorded for multiple viewings.

The six lessons for Course Five are:
1. The Archetypal Psychology of Relationships
2. Jesus as an Archetypal Figure
3. A Depth Approach to Creativity
4. A Psychology of Shadow
5. Dark Eros: Sado-Masochism in Daily Life

Register now for Soul Psychology Course 5 on the Ruzuku platform.

Study fairy tales with Moore through November

noreply@blogger.com (Editor) — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 20:30:00 +0000

Spirituality & Practices offers Thomas Moore's course on Fairy Tales beginning next week, from November 4 to November 29, 2024.

"Thomas Moore takes one fairy tale at a time and offers some of his ideas about it with the hope of opening up your thoughts. He thinks of fairy tales as being much like dreams. We don't want or need a solution to it or a final interpretation. It's more useful to let the tale spark discussion on issues central in human life, such as challenges we all have in our jobs, relationships, spiritual explorations, and the quest for meaning."

You are encouraged to join the discussions in the online Practice Circle during this month-long e-course. For each tale, Moore offers a spiritual practice related to its themes. You alsowill have access to the hour-long teleconference with Thomas Moore that was held in 2019.
Tales and topics in this course:
1. What is a fairy tale and why are they important?
2. Rapunzel
3. Jack and the Beanstalk
4. Sleeping Beauty
5. The Blue Light
6. Rumpelstiltskin
7. Fire and Ice
8. Cinderella
9. Beauty and the Beast
10. Three Feathers
11. The Ugly Duckling
12. Little Red Riding Hood

Register at SpiritualityandPractice.com/FairyTales2024.
Tuition: US $69.95

Soul Psychology course four begins Friday the 13th

noreply@blogger.com (Editor) — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 19:46:00 +0000

Register now for Thomas Moore's Soul Psychology Course Four that begins Friday, Sept. 13, 2024 with selected readings. The first live webinar is Wednesday, Sept. 18.
Topics for this course are:
1. Artemis (Diana)
2. Dionysos
3. Coupling / Uncoupling
4. The Soul of Things
5. Anima
6. A Religion of One's Own

The course includes directed readings, live webinars, on-going chat exchanges, and a one-hour concluding Zoom session with Thomas Moore.

Thomas Moore wins Nautilus gold book award

noreply@blogger.com (Editor) — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 20:21:00 +0000

Thomas Moore's recent book, The Eloquence of Silence: Surprising Wisdom in Tales of Emptiness wins gold in the 2024 Nautilus Book Awards category 20: Psychology / Mental & Emotional Well-Being. New World Library publishes Moore's book.

Study with Thomas Moore starting July 12, 2024

noreply@blogger.com (Editor) — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 01:02:00 +0000

Thomas Moore continues his series of Soul Pyschology courses, starting 12 July 2024 with readings for Lesson 1, Course 3. Topics during this course are:

1. Aphrodite as Myth and Inspiration
2. Senex/Puer: Youth and Age
3. Work and Opus
4. How Images House Spirit
5. Natural Magic
6. Emptiness (Non-Attachment)

Register now on the Ruzuku platform.

Curing sadomasochism through transformation

noreply@blogger.com (Editor) — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 02:21:00 +0000

Spring Publications announces the third revised edition of Thomas Moore's DARK EROS: Curing the Sadomasochism in Everyday Life available for purchase. In his new afterword Moore writes:

"The Marquis de Sade wrote obscene and disgusting books — I don’t call them novels — that are dismissed and condemned when read literally. But if you can treat everything he writes as metaphor, as an image speaking about a more subtle level of experience, you may find that Sade is a psychoanalyst far ahead of his time. It’s as though he writes in code, asking you not to read him simplistically, but to explore the largely hidden human desires we all have for things like revenge, secrecy, control, and manipulation. Just because we think them doesn’t mean that we act on them. But the dark thoughts and feelings are significant and require our acceptance. We may think that psychology helps us get free of such negative emotions, but Sade tricks us into seeing them not only as necessary but, in a deeply felt way, desirable."

This edition contains a foreword by Adolf Guggenbühl-Craig.

Register for Soul Psychology, Course One now

noreply@blogger.com (Editor) — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 01:53:00 +0000

Although you don't need to start at the beginning, it is an excellent place to start. Thomas Moore offers his Soul Psychology Course One, Lesson One readings on Friday 15 March 2024.

This six-week course includes:

1. What is the soul?
2. The Psychology of C. G. Jung
3. Archetypal Psychology
4. Mythology and the Psyche
5. Psychological Complexes
6. Metaphor, Symbol and Image

Course 1 begins with a live session on March 20, 2024 at 12 Noon ET. Readings will be sent to you on the previous Friday, March 15, 2024.

Register now.

Thomas Moore speaks at Harvard University

noreply@blogger.com (Editor) — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 03:44:00 +0000

Thomas Moore delivers a keynote address for Harvard University's World Congress on Moral Injury, Trauma, Spirituality, and Healing on Monday 11 March 2024.

"The World Congress on Moral Injury, Spirituality, and Healing is bringing together thought leaders from across the globe in a dynamic on-line format to share research and insights on the institutional, and social drivers of moral injury. Our esteemed speakers will share a diverse perspective on strategies for the prevention of moral injury, and evidence-informed practices for healing those who are suffering from moral injury, anxiety, PTSD, and depression."

The Program Overview includes the speakers for this three-day event hosted by Harvard's Human Flourishing Program.

Start the new year, 2024 with Thomas Moore

noreply@blogger.com (Editor) — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 05:13:00 +0000

Course Six of Thomas Moore's online Soul Psychology series begins Friday 5 January, 2024.

Topics for this six-week offering are:
1. Living with Art
2. The Myth of Hephaistos: Enchanting the World
3. The Soul of Sex
4. Insights from Fairy Tales
5. Emily Dickinson and Henry David Thoreau as Teachers of Soul
6. Aging: Becoming a Real Person

Registration is open now on the Ruzuku platform. Please sign up.

Participants may start with any course during this six-course series.

Watch Moore's PBS Special about Christmas soul

noreply@blogger.com (Editor) — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 01:29:00 +0000

In his recent Patheos column, "The Joys of Finding Christmas Within", Tom Rapsas quotes Thomas Moore's book The Soul of Christmas about being a mystic.

Rapsas writes,"Moore tells us 'We are all potential mystics' able to achieve a direct connection with a power greater than ourselves. And it doesn’t have to be that hard. 'Just stand still in the presence of a beautiful sunset and your mysticism will be activated.'"

Moore's book about Christmas and the winter solstice, The Soul of Christmas shares how this time of year is for everyone, not just for the followers of Jesus. His 1997 PBS special about Christmas with the late Scottish musician Johnny Cunningham, featuring traditional Celtic music may be watched now on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=md3hLy0xMww.

Sit with Moore's latest, The Eloquence of Silence

noreply@blogger.com (Editor) — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 23:58:00 +0000

Thomas Moore promotes his new book, The Eloquence of Silence: Surprising Wisdom in Tales of Emptiness in online book talks and interviews. Watch three recent events about this book.

VIDEOS

Banyen Books and Sound shares a youtube video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pnh-1Q8pzqc. This talk is approximately one hour and 16 minutes.

Book Passage also talks with Thomas Moore in this youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sttIMgP71M. It is 53 minutes long.

Brian James talks with Moore at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qndGXTlHI18 on Medicine Path podcast #109. This exchange is approximately one hour and 11 minutes.

PODCAST
A recent podcast with Brian Pearson is at https://www.brianepearson.ca/post/the-eloquence-of-thomas-moore. Pearson writes:

"Thomas Moore is still at it with his newest book, The Eloquence of Silence. It was my great pleasure and privilege to have a conversation with him about it for The Mystic Cave. At eighty-two, and freed by Zoom from having to travel to audiences around the world (they now come to him, online), he was gracious, generous, and sparkling with insight. We explored the deep experiences of loss, absence, and emptiness. We also spoke of his old friend and mentor, James Hillman, another 'Soul man.'"

The conversation is approximately 50 minutes.

Soul Psychology course 4 starts July 28, 2023

noreply@blogger.com (Editor) — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 01:30:00 +0000

Join Thomas Moore's online Soul Psychology program for Course 4 beginning with the first lesson readings on Friday 28 July, 2023. The first live webinar on Wednesday 2 August at 12 noon ET will be recorded for later viewing. Each course has six lessons. Lessons for this course are:

1. Artemis
2. Dionysos
3. Coupling/Uncoupling
4. The Soul of Things
5. James Hillman's "Anima"
6. A Religion of One's Own

The registration link will be added when it's available.

Therapists invited to attend Zoom presentation

noreply@blogger.com (Editor) — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 23:20:00 +0000

Friends of Jung South hosts Thomas Moore on Zoom, Saturday 6 May, 2023 for his presentation Soul Therapy: The Art and Craft of Caring Conversations from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. ET.

"Participants will be able to:
— Appreciate the origins of the word “therapy” and its root meaning.
— Develop a sophisticated understanding of narrative, image, symbol, and myth in the context of therapy.
— Learn skills for creating a vessel or container in which another person may feel free and supported in exploring one's past and one's possibilities.
— Describe implications for clinical counseling and the therapeutic process."

"Therapy is largely about narrative and image, and it helps if the professional therapist is sophisticated about both of these things, as well as about transference, which this presentation will explore in some original ways.

Therapy involves one person who has lived fully and has dealt with life effectively, and another open to becoming more complex and individual. Therapy can happen outside professional context, as when a parent deals therapeutically with a child who is acting out, or when a teacher helps a student handle emotions and relationships. Here, the relationship is much like what the Irish have called Anam Cara, a guiding, caring friend.

In this time together, we will engage each other in memories of therapy and issues that can get in the way. We will also explore ways to prepare for this work and ways a therapist can care for himself or herself."

Tuition:
FOJS Member $60
New/Renewal Member $80 [$20 dues + $60 registration]
Non-member $70
Student $25

Join Moore online for Course Two this Friday

noreply@blogger.com (Editor) — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 20:14:00 +0000

Thomas Moore's Course Two of the current Soul Psychology series begins this Friday 24 March 2023 with the release of the first set of readings for Lesson One: Eros and Psyche. The live webinar for this lesson is Wednesday 28 March 2023 at 12 noon ET.
Register now on the Ruzuku platform to respond to the introductory prompts for this course.

Moore's message includes:

"I'm inviting you to join me for Course 2 in Soul Psychology — a deep exploration of dreams, myth and archetypal psychology. I have created a community of learning in which you can be exposed to great ideas and also gain insights into your own life. This course involves reading, conversation, live lectures and participation in an online community.

On Fridays during the course you receive short readings. Then on Wednesdays at noon ET (USA) I offer a live presentation on those lessons. The online presentations are recorded and you have access to them for 180 days. During the courses you can participate in a 24/7 conversation among participants in which I respond to questions and comments, as well."

Themes for Course Two are:
EROS AND PSYCHE
WORKING WITH DREAMS
HERMES, GUIDE OF SOULS
ANIMA MUNDI: THE WORLD'S SOUL
ALCHEMY: THE BASICS
PSYCHOLOGICAL POLYTHEISM