OUR IMMORAL SOUL
A Manifesto of Spiritual Disobedience

2001
ISBN: 1-57062-882-6
Shambhala

Book Review:

In Search of a Biology of the Soul

(A rare perspective showing verse and reverse with no guilt -
O Globo, the largest newspaper in Brazil)

The Immoral Soul presents a perspective where religion and biology, tradition and survival, continuity and mutation are interconnected. In a world that is rediscovering the body, there is need for a new language to describe the human nature. The millennial concept of body and soul is seen as an ancient biological proposal for understanding life and its laws.
Preservation and evolution as well as tradition and treason are seen as interchangeable concepts, to the extent that the soul and the body are also notions often enough mistakenly taken one for the other. The human nature is designed not only to fulfill the function of procreation, but also that of transcending itself. It is by betraying ourselves as a vital act of preservation that we create the notion of a soul.
The author sees the soul as an aspect of the body that is committed with alternatives outside of the body. And, while the body engenders morality to guarantee survival by means of procreation, the soul engenders transgressions also with the same purpose. The soul that challenges morality, many times assuming an immoral trait, is presented through several examples of transgressions seen as normative by tradition.
It is a book of profound impact in our thinking about "right" and "wrong", "obedience" and "disobedience", as well as "fidelity" and "betrayal". A reading that brings together marginality and sanctity, body and soul.