Falling Upward: A Spirituality For The Two Halves Of Life

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People who know how to creatively break the rules also know why the rules were there in the first place. unless people have done their inner work, at least some shadow work, and thereby entered into wisdom, or non-dualistic thinking". I’ve read Bourgeault’s "Centering Prayer;" Chodron’s "Start Where You Are;" rather much of the Jung, the Xavier, and Pearson’s "Six Archetypes We Live By.

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I have nothing against that crowd crediting Victor Turner with some of their basic tenets, but he wasn't some big Male Spirituality Guru. A vital spiritual experience, according to Wilson, is the foundational healing of addiction, much more than mere “recovery”—which is just getting you started.

I’ve been reading about the Center for so long and I didn’t know what it would look like but I thought I knew what it would feel like and it feels like what I thought it would feel like. If the packaging will no longer hold you with your new thoughts, knowledge, ideas, and actions the book suggests you become a new package! We are developing habits and letting ourselves be shaped by the norms and practices of our family and community. Maybe being a grandparent and seeing parents in their later years gives me pause to ask "where do I fit in?

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He slams orthodoxy and fundamentalism constantly and essentially rules it out as a path for growth and “enlightenment. Maybe the best day of the vacation was listening to six hours of tapes on my journey home ripe with the quest to explore more in-depth spiritually.It was “an evacuation plan for the next world” to use Brian McLaren’s phrase—and just for their group. No science will ever replace myth [the communicator of meaning], and a myth cannot be made out of any science. One falls, perhaps on hard times, or perhaps ‘from grace,’ or perhaps from a high estate or a good reputation. BB: Well, we’re going to do a two-parter that you’ve generously agreed to do, and the first part is the two books, I think all of your books, have had messages for me that… I told you this before we started, changed me and really made me angry. So, this cult of innocence, you see it in the quick need a lot of Christians have to blame other people.

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Whereas the first half of life is characterised by ego-goals, the second half is concerned with ‘soul goals. To do that, I try to set an example by striving for the best version of myself, and I have a coaching practice. The people who know God well—mystics, hermits, prayerful people, those who risk everything to find God—always meet a lover, not a dictator. Salvation” “heaven” and “hell” are all just made up terms that are actually connected to modern psychology. The first is where we establish our primary identity, including a career, personal values, relationships, etc.Rohr and Morrell have given us a liberating and yet totally orthodox invitation into the life of God. It doesn’t create a flexible personality that is ready to change, which is the first words Jesus used. A Heretic's Christ, a False Salvation: A Review of The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope for, and Believe Richard Rohr". But inevitably you discover, often through failure or a significant loss, that your conscious self is not all of you, but only the acceptable you. For the sake of clarity, media outlets with advertising models are permitted to use excerpts from the transcript per the above.