The Soul’s Upward Yearning: Clues to Our Transcendent Nature

The Soul’s Upward Yearning

by Fr. Robert Spitzer, SJ

Since the early twentieth century, “scientific materialism” has so undermined our belief in the human capacity for transcendence that many people find it difficult to believe in God and the human soul. The many signs of the widespread loss of confidence in our ability to soar upward were validated in 2004 by a study published in the American Journal of Psychiatry that linked the absence of religion with a marked increase in suicide, meaninglessness, substance abuse, separation from family members, and other psychological problems.

How ironic it is that the evidence for transcendence is greater today than in any other period in history. The problem is, the evidence remains, largely, un-compiled and is not widely available. Father Spitzer aspires to meet that challenge with this intriguing book.

This book shines a bright light into the darkness by presenting traditional and contemporary evidence for God and a transphysical soul. It shows that we are transcendent beings with souls capable of surviving bodily death; that we are self- reflective beings able to strive for perfect truth, love, goodness and beauty; that we have the dignity of being created in the very image of God.

Note – This is the second book of what will become the quartet, Happiness, Suffering and Transcendence (the first in the series was, Finding True Happiness).

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Reviewer’s Praise for “The Soul’s Upward Yearning”

“Fr. Spitzer displays a broad range of arguments in favor of the reality and the compelling importance of the transcendent dimension of our existence on the basis of religious literature; our interior awareness of transcendent reality; the cosmic struggle between good and evil; metaphysics; our natural desire to experience perfect goodness, love and beauty; the evidence from near-death-experiences; and contemporary science, especially astrophysics.”

— Cardinal Dolan

“An intellectual triumph. Those who think faith is a matter of emotion and self-delusion could not intelligently defend that position if they read this book with an open mind…magnificent.”

— Dean Koontz
#1 NY Times Best Selling Author

“We have, with the publication of Fr. Robert Spitzer’s quartet of books on “Happiness, Suffering, and Transcendence”, a major event in Catholic intellectual history, indeed in the history of philosophy.”

— James V. Schall, S.J.