Joe Landwehr has finally bridged the gap between Mind and Soul with "The Seven Gates of Soul." Yes, it is packed with interesting and insightful bits of history, philosophy, and religion, but it is also refreshingly creative in applying those disciplines to our modern search for soulful connections. His style is accessible and articulate which made me want to keep reading, but every page has so much to digest that I had to take it slowly to appreciate the wisdom that it contained. I highly recommend this book, not only to serious astrologers, but to all thinking and feeling individuals who have an interest in who we are, and could be, in the grand scheme of things.
Fran Laakman

Philosopher and astrologer Joe Landwehr presents The Seven Gates of Soul: Reclaiming the Poetry of Everyday Life uses the passage of a goddess through seven gates as a metaphor to permeate barriers to a true appreciation of the qualities of the soul. Religion, science, philosophy, and psychology each strive to comprehend yet interfere with understanding of the spirit; The Seven Gates of the Soul explores how to connect with one's innermost self and highest wisdom, from discerning the myth of immortality to reclaiming the sexual nature of the soul, how the deification of the rational mind in the 20th century has eroded understanding of the soul, how shedding scientific objectivity for the language of subjectivity can extend a deeper comprehension of truth, and much more. A serious and intense work of prolonged thought and feeling, written to speak against common exhortations that obfuscate the process of understanding with the intensely human yet ultimately misleading need to believe what we want to believe.