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By Adam Bucko
Younger leaders of the recent monastic circulation introduce their imaginative and prescient for contemplative existence- person who attracts from the lengthy traditions of East and West but additionally seeks an interreligious and 'interspiritual' size to intentional dwelling in our time. With a preface through Mirabai Starr, a foreword via Sufi instructor Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, and an afterword through Fr. Thomas Keating.
The New Monasticism is an creation to the "new monastic movement," providing the authors' highbrow and religious reflections on what contemplative existence may perhaps appear like within the twenty first century. With chapters targeting non secular perform, vocation, contemplation and activism, dialogical discussion, the connection with conventional spiritual paths, contemplative psychology and the construction of intentional groups, the authors search to "cut around the obstacles of spiritual traditions, of contemplation and motion, and recreation to create intergenerational alliances among these immersed within the depths of our conventional non secular frameworks and people who are being known as to contemplative and prophetic lifestyles outdoor of these frameworks."
While drawing at the paintings of Raimon Panikkar, St. Teresa of Avila, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Ewert Cousins, Fr. Bede Griffiths, Thomas Merton, Brother Wayne Teasdale, St. John of the go and the Russian sophianic culture, between others, the ebook additionally accommodates a few well known modern-day educational, cultural, and contemplative theorists, akin to Ken Wilber and Fr. Thomas Keating, who communicate to teens approximately making a extra sacred and simply global whereas supplying them with refined instruments for mental research and built-in motion. It additionally bargains particular practices for a disciplined contemplative lifestyles and encouraged social justice activism.
"I were following Adam and Rory for many years now...As you can find, Rory and Adam are very clever, and this ebook is a transmission of the perennial knowledge reimagined for an rising globalized international. . . the recent Monasticism is lucid and hovering, arcing gracefully among the landscapes of theology and love poetry. . . . if you learn those pages, you step right into a international you may have continually was hoping used to be attainable and locate your personal position there. . . I did."
--Mirabai Starr, writer, God of Love
"Adam and Rory have answered either to their center s calling and the necessity of the time . . . . Their new monasticism isn't an get away from lifestyles, yet a party of what it rather potential to be alive."
-Llewellyn Vaughn Lee, writer, non secular Ecology: The Cry of the Earth
"The thought of this publication and its presentation of the recent Monasticism appears a real circulate of the Holy Spirit . . . . Adam and Rory have famous the advantages in addition to the risks of attempting to create a brand new set of non secular practices outfitted at the knowledge of conventional monastic buildings, yet with nice openness to the technological and clinical possibilities of latest tradition . . . . This nice love demands a private reaction from people that ends up in the main intimate dating a possibility. It awaits our consent.
-Father Thomas Keating, Trappist monk and writer, Invitation to Love
an exceptional, very important new e-book surveying an important new non secular flow . . . a wide a part of this stream in any of its many kinds is pushed via the truth that at the present time, for the 1st time in background, we've entry to the entire international s nice spiritual and religious traditions, and the numerous ways in which they supplement and in many ways whole one another . . . hugely urged for anyone who wishes their thumb at the non secular pulse of at the present time s non secular seeker, or who feels themselves that they're non secular yet now not spiritual.
-Ken Wilber, authorm intercourse, Ecology, and Spirituality
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In any new monastic formation deep retreats are essential to one's journey. It follows that a traditional monastic life can be, and will be, an authentic calling that a new monastic may also embrace. In other words, as one undergoes formation in new monastic life it may be discerned that one has a vocation for the life of a traditional monastic, that is, a full life of retreat, prayer, and solitude dedicated to the transformative journey. In addition, one may discern a particular calling to become a Catholic monk, or a Buddhist monk, or a Hindu monk, etc.
It puts a premium on a reciprocal sharing of these gifts in ways that change those who participate in the process. As such, it can lead to renewals and transformations of the religious traditions themselves. We believe interspirituality also offers a framework that can be embraced by a new generation of spiritual seekers who have grown estranged from traditional religious frameworks, while also allowing for the wisdom of our spiritual traditions to be passed on. As we will see, interspirituality allows for a diversity of spiritual paths and religious understandings and for intimate communities to be built within, and embodied by, that diversity.
The world is no longer something that can be used merely as a stepping-stone to one's own enlightenment; instead, the transformation of the world itself is given an equal ontological status to one's own. In other words, this new way sees one's spiritual path inextricably linked with the transformation of our global community into a connected, mature, and harmonious whole. Perhaps even more radically, the new monastic may or may not be drawn permanently into a particular religious tradition. While certainly open to embracing a single religious tradition, this new way also allows for the emergence of untrodden paths, where the boundaries among the traditions become porous, yet not without meaning.