"Lovingly crafted, deep, richly engaging, and wise." --Jack
Kornfield
"An important resource...for many years to come." --Sharon
Salzberg
"...brilliant and utterly engaging." --Tara Brach
This "glorious book" explores the essence of connection through 5
essential types of relationships, "[guiding] us into the infinite
mysteries of human attunement" (Bessel van der Kolk, New York
Times-bestselling author of The Body Keeps the Score).
Do you long to connect more deeply with other human beings? Do you
wonder if you're living up to your human potential to make these deep
connections happen--and perhaps missing out on this most compelling
aspect of a vital life?
In this groundbreaking book, bestselling author Stephen Cope invites us
to explore the most important questions in this domain: What is the
nature of human connection? Why, precisely, is a capacity to connect
deeply so important to the development of our minds, bodies, and
spirits? What are the actual mechanisms of connection that we must
master during the course of life? How can our lack of connection inhibit
our happiness and satisfaction in life? Can we learn to connect more
wisely than we do?
Cope is well known as a master storyteller, and he seamlessly blends
science, scholarship, and storytelling, drawing on poignant stories from
his own life as well as the lives of famous figures--from E. M. Forster
to Sigmund Freud to Queen Victoria--whose formative relationships shed
light on the nature of connection itself. In the process, he lays out in
stunning detail the precise mechanisms of human connection, which he
distills into five helpful categories: containment, twinship, adversity,
mirroring, and conscious partnership. Then he invites us into a
remarkably practical reflection on how these forms of connection appear
in our own lives, helping us work toward a fuller understanding of deep
human connection--and a more satisfying and fruitful life.
Deep Human Connection was originally published as Soul Friends.
