Robert Keck
The Evolution and Future of the Human Soul

About the Author
L. Robert Keck, Ph.D. is an evolutionary theologian, an independent scholar, and one of the nation's leading religious thinkers, lecturers, and seminar leaders. Keck has been a United Methodist minister, served on the medical school faculty of the Ohio State University, and was president of Boulder Graduate School. Author of Sacred Eyes, he lives near Boulder, Colorado.

Book Description (from the publisher)
Robert Keck's new science of the collective human Soul's evolutionary journey makes sense of current, worldwide paradigm shifts and faith-quakes, and it promotes our participation in spiritual emergence.

Scientists, examining "Lucy's" ancient remains, learned much about how she lived, but nothing about what she valued in her heart. Keck's original Deep-value Research, going beyond science, investigates the deep causal values that shape human cultures and determine why certain thought and behavior become dominant. Despite our longing for stability and predictability, science suggests that the universe is not a steady-state reality. Keck's research suggests a similarity in the spiritual realm: change, evolution, and transformation are basic ingredients of the Soul's history.

Keck's model divides the Soul's evolution into three stages. Epoch I, lasting from about 35,000 to 10,000 years ago, corresponds to "childhood." Epoch II, from 10,000 years ago to the present, is the soul's "adolescence." We are now experiencing the chaos of the transformation to Epoch III, our spiritual adulthood. Keck explains the unique confusion within which we live by identifying those spiritually adolescent values that are dying and those adult ones being born.

"Questions for those on a quest," which conclude each chapter, encourage us to seek the meaning and purpose of our connections-to other people, to nature, and to the Spirit that creates, permeates, and sustains the universe.

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