Dear Readers –
It’s been two weeks since The Book Project began and I am still here with you!
Thank you for returning to check in and to read this message, and thank you also for joining me in reading this incredible book – truly, it is one of the great books of our time.
First off, I hope you did find the opportunity to read Man’s Search for Meaning. I was able to read it in twenty minute blocks scattered throughout a busy fortnight. If you weren’t able to find the time, and you would like to join for the next book, may I suggest swapping out swiping on social media for a few minutes and reading instead. If you do not do social media, just like my husband, try reading before bed or in the morning while your coffee brews.
If you did find the time, I hope you were touched by the honest and raw account of the Holocaust experience Frankl shares with his readers. And also drawn in and fascinated by his description of logotherapy – a school of psychotherapy he created based on the meaning of our existence and the search for healing through pursuit of meaning in one’s life.
I was particularly moved as Frankl described a method of mental escapism he employed while performing forced labor as a concentration camp prisoner. He writes, “In spite of all the enforced physical and mental primitiveness of the life in a concentration camp, it was possible for spiritual life to deepen.”
He describes creating a rich spiritual world involving thoughts of his beloved wife and their everyday lives together. A thought of ultimate truth comes to him even in his current experience of horror and death, “The salvation of man is through love and in love. I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved.” Thoughts of his love allowed him to continue to live, even in unimaginable circumstances.
Thank you again for joining me here for Book One of The Book Project. If you feel moved to do so, please use the Comment space below to share your thoughts on and personal experience of reading Man’s Search for Meaning.
If you would like to purchase my copy of Man’s Search for Meaning with a special inscription written just for you, please mention this in the Comments section, message me through the Contact section, or send me an email to bookprojectjsc@gmail.com.
Be on the lookout for the Book Two announcement tomorrow, October 30th, 2022.
-Jade St. Claire
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