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Wilber and Keating on Spirit, Religion, Faith, and Transformation

Posted on Sep 18th, 2007 by maryw : ponderer maryw
This discussion between Ken Wilber and Father Thomas Keating was originally posted at Integral Spiritual Center -- but today I see it's been posted at YouTube! In this first video, Ken recounts several ideas presented in his book, Integral Spirituality, commenting on the stages of spiritual development and how one's interpretations of the Divine are colored by experiences during those stages; in the second video, Father Thomas responds, offering a unique definition of faith and examining the role that religion and contemplative practice can serve in the transformative process.

The Spirituality of Tomorrow

Religious, But Not Spiritual?

Wonderful comment from Keating in the second video: "Contemplative prayer will bring you to the ... state of feeling that your life as you're living it is unmanageable .... That's a triumph, not a disaster."
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From the Shalom Center: A Call to Fast

Posted on Sep 24th, 2007 by maryw : ponderer maryw

The Network of Spiritual Progressives has been sending me e-mails on this upcoming event, and I thought I would share it here:

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WE CALL FOR A NATION-WIDE FAST ON OCTOBER 8
TO DISCOVER THE TRUE AMERICA;
TO MOVE FROM CONQUEST TO COMMUNITY,
FROM VIOLENCE TO REVERENCE

A Call from the Tent of Abraham, Hagar, & Sarah

America stands in great danger of becoming addicted to violence, at home and overseas.

Pervasive violence in American culture, society, and policy is expressed in mass murders like those at Columbine and Virginia Tech; in daily murders on the streets of our cities; in physical and sexual abuse in families and communities; in the obsession of our media with grotesque violence; in our government's decision to wage an unnecessary, morally abhorrent, and disastrous war; in its effort to make torture a legitimate instrument of policy; indeed, most lethal of all, in the ecocidal violence we are imposing on the earth itself.

This fall, in an unusual convergence, many of our faith traditions share a season of sacred self-assessment and self-transformation. This holy season includes the month of Ramadan and the Night of Power (Islam); the High Holy Days and Sukkot (Judaism); the Feast Day of Francis of Assisi and Worldwide Communion Sunday (Christianity), Pavarana / Sangha Day (Buddhism) and Mahatma Gandhi's birthday. Some communities of the First Nations have already begun to observe Columbus Day as Indigenous Nations Day, with practices that transform its meaning.

Since each of our traditions recognizes the power of fasting as a spiritual discipline, we call on all people of faith to join in a fast from dawn to dusk on Monday, October 8.

For more, see the Shalom Center website:
http://www.shalomctr.org/node/1270

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