The focus of this sequel to Hermann Hesse's celebrated The Journey to the East is the mysterious organization known as the League, an ancient spiritual teaching that has taken the form of a new age religion. As the League attempts to compete in the spiritual marketplace, a single initiate puts its claim to preeminence among other spiritual groups-and his own loyalty-to the test through a determined effort of questioning and investigation. The result is The Lost Slipper of Soul-a frank and honest narrative that offers an engrossing blend of personal experience and spiritual insight.
The Lost Slipper of Soul is nothing less than a guidebook to contemporary spirituality. It illustrates the necessity of becoming detached from those ideas, viewpoints, and expectations that are all too easily formed in the process of following a spiritual path. Framed as a series of personal encounters with genuine spiritual leaders and students, it addresses such questions as:
We live in an age in which spirituality is sold to us as a kind of commodity-increasingly equated with self-reliance and allied with success. The Lost Slipper of Soul is an antidote to this reigning myth of our contemporary self-help culture. It asserts that spirituality is not about getting what we desire in life or even about guaranteed salvation in the next. It is only about living up to our full potential in order to become an agent for a higher cause.