The Lady of Shalott Weaving, 1881, by Howard Pyle for Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s The Lady of Shalott. Illustrated by Howard Pyle. New York: Dodd Mead & Co.
Sharing this blog-sibling’s wonderful article, linking back to a 2015 article here at Sophia’s Children when I mentioned an InterSpiritual gathering just after last year’s Aries New Moon (late April 2015).
I’m loving the first image here … an image speaks a thousand words, and then some.
Spiritual warriors in each generation … or each ‘volunteer-soul wave’, as Dolores Cannon called it … have helped to contribute to, seed, explore these possibilities, helping to create a layer of foundation (both material and energetic, seen and unseen).
They, and perhaps we, explore into different possibilities, inquire into various questions and possibilities, looking for common threads to weave a bridge over the chasm of what divides us.
This particular InterSpiritual perspective offers just one thread or possibility in an ongoing, emerging conversation.
How the Occupy Generation Is Re-Envisioning Spirituality
“We must all achieve our identity on the basis of a radical authenticity.. [for] it is only in the real world of the person – neither singular nor plural – that the crucial factors influencing the course of the universe are at work.” – Raimundo Panikkar, “The Silence of God,” Introduction p. xviii
There can be little doubt that traditional religious frameworks are no longer speaking to new generations as they have in the past, especially in the West. In a recent article in the LA Times, Philip Clayton, Dean of Faculty at Claremont School of Theology, writes that the fastest growing religious group in the United States is “spiritual but not religious,” containing a shocking 75 percent of Americans between the ages of 18 and 29. Clayton argues that young people are not necessarily rejecting a sense of God, rather they feel that religious organizations are…
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That’d be in sync with the Aquarian Age virtues and values, wouldn’t it. 🙂 That the conversations, experiments, and explorations are happening is hopeful and encouraging (whether I agree with every last bit of each of those conversations or not!). xoxo Love, Jamie
It’s pretty wild, isn’t it Joanne? For me, on one hand it feels like just a few months ago, and on the other, it feels like quite awhile ago. And/both. 🙂 It’d be wonderful to explore the possibilities and conversation, not necessarily *only* via the model that Kurt was presenting (drawing deeply from the Advaita-Vedanta tradition) but also other possibilities, too (like drawing from early/mystic Christianity, or Jesianity!). xoxo Jamie
Could be, Joanne. I’ve been ‘nudging’ here and there, but even calling together a ‘conversation salon’ for ongoing dialogue and exploration (not a committee or planning group, though I think you’ll know what I mean!). Stay tuned … 🙂 xoxo Jamie
Sounds like there’s an inspiration stirring, then. I like the ‘salon’ approach, too … and very Feminine (I think of the conversation salons of old, like those of Margaret Fuller, etc.! 🙂
February 7, 2016 at 8:23 pm
Thank you for this share Jamie… Many are now re-awakening and re-evaluating.. 🙂
February 8, 2016 at 4:39 pm
That’d be in sync with the Aquarian Age virtues and values, wouldn’t it. 🙂 That the conversations, experiments, and explorations are happening is hopeful and encouraging (whether I agree with every last bit of each of those conversations or not!). xoxo Love, Jamie
February 8, 2016 at 1:53 am
I have been thinking about interspirituality a lot lately. Hard to believe it has been less than a year since the conference.
February 8, 2016 at 4:38 pm
It’s pretty wild, isn’t it Joanne? For me, on one hand it feels like just a few months ago, and on the other, it feels like quite awhile ago. And/both. 🙂 It’d be wonderful to explore the possibilities and conversation, not necessarily *only* via the model that Kurt was presenting (drawing deeply from the Advaita-Vedanta tradition) but also other possibilities, too (like drawing from early/mystic Christianity, or Jesianity!). xoxo Jamie
February 8, 2016 at 8:28 pm
It’s too bad that there wasn’t more follow-up after the conference. Maybe something will spring forth, as you suggest?
February 9, 2016 at 4:54 pm
Could be, Joanne. I’ve been ‘nudging’ here and there, but even calling together a ‘conversation salon’ for ongoing dialogue and exploration (not a committee or planning group, though I think you’ll know what I mean!). Stay tuned … 🙂 xoxo Jamie
February 9, 2016 at 5:45 pm
A salon would be great! Each person could share insights and experiences without having to stay within a certain framework or approach.
February 9, 2016 at 6:03 pm
Sounds like there’s an inspiration stirring, then. I like the ‘salon’ approach, too … and very Feminine (I think of the conversation salons of old, like those of Margaret Fuller, etc.! 🙂
February 9, 2016 at 6:06 pm
One of my poet-friends is thinking of convening salons at some point. Perhaps it is an old tradition ripe for resurgence.
February 10, 2016 at 3:30 pm
That’d be lovely to have a resurgence of the conversation salon tradition!