Alessandra Beccarisi

The concept of the Ground of the Soul (German: Seelengrund) is a term of late medieval philosophy and spirituality that also appears in early modern spiritual literature. The concept was coined by Meister Eckhart (d. 1327/1328) and refers in a figurative sense to a "place" in the human soul where, according to spiritual teachings, God or the divine is present and a union of divinity with the soul can come about. From antiquity, philosophers and theologians proposed theories that later became pre…