Spirituality
An Interview with Deepak Chopra: You Are the Universe
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I felt it was incumbent upon me—along with the help of physicists, cosmologists, and quantum physicists including my co-author, Menas Kafatos—to really look at these two very fundamental questions. What is reality? What is existence? And how come we have awareness of that existence?
Pilgrimage: A Path of Practice for the New Activism
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To be a pilgrim is to be committed to a vision that is truly your own, to a vision that may not necessarily be defined by external values of society but by a deep and tenacious, close-to-the-core belief in yourself and in living your values in the world, to make a better world possible.
Mystical Anarchism: A Journey to the Borderlands of Freedom
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On Beginnings They say it takes a certain type of personality to be a radical. Questioning of the status quo, […]
A Dark Night of the Soul and the Discovery of Meaning
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By Thomas Moore A dark night of the soul is a kind of initiation, taking you from one phase of life into another. You may have several dark nights in the course of your life because you are always becoming more of a person and entering life more fully.
New Monasticism: An Interspiritual Manifesto for Contemplative Life in the 21st Century
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As we look out at the world today, we take inspiration from what is happening around the globe, from young people participating in movements like the Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street; to the new monastic movement among evangelical Christians dedicated to prayer and radical service to the poor; to the conversation among Protestants of an ‘Emerging Church’ (“. . . not a new religion, but a new way of being religious”); to small groups of Muslims who are gathering together, allowing women to lead worship, and reinventing what it means to answer God’s call; to ‘engaged Buddhism,’ blending the sublime practices and compassion of the Buddhist path with social activism; to the ‘spiritual but not religious’ youth who are beginning to take responsibility for their own spiritual lives outside the walls of our traditional religious institutions.
Collective Presencing: A New Human Capacity
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This is the first in a series of articles introducing the phenomenon and practice of Collective Presencing, a new capacity evolving in humanity at this time. Great thinkers have foreseen its coming—we recognise it in Aurobindo’s descent of the supramental and Teil-hard de Chardin’s noosphere. But what exactly do those terms mean? Where these gifted individuals intuited and envisioned the birth of this new collective capacity at the dawn of the last century, we are now starting to be able to describe it from experience. While many might recognise the phenomenon from transpersonal group work and other such practices, so far as we are aware, this is the first attempt to articulate it as a path and a set of capacities that can be intentionally developed.