WE ARE EXPLORING THE PRACTICE
OF STILLNESS
…work out your own salvation… (Philippians 2:12)
What does it mean
to come into the great inner silence, the cognizant stillness of consciousness?
How do we find and open our inner door to the sacred? Words, formal prayers,
and guided meditations can point the way, but only our own action, only our
investigation of our private experience, only our own inner experimentation and
observation can give us the taste, the understanding, and the ability to enter
the spiritual depths.
-–
Joseph Naft in an Inner Work post on Spiritual Efficacy offered in May
2013.
Each of us has our own path, our own styles. I really appreciate what Ed Bastian offers.
He has developed a dynamic process of discovering what works for each unique
person. He has identified 12 important
spiritual styles and offers a tool for discerning your natural inclinations and
your strengths and weaknesses. I urge
you to check out www.spiritualpaths.net. He has written a groundbreaking book on this process: Mandala: Creating an Authentic Spiritual Path: An InterSpiritual Process.
The course will help you:
· Create a spiritual path and contemplative practice that give your life meaning, purpose and direction.
· Find answers, traditions and practices that most powerfully align with your personal spiritual styles.
· Discover consilience among spiritual, psychological, mythological and scientific traditions.
· Gain an appreciation and integration of diverse spiritual traditions, modalities, beliefs and practices and learn to meditate and pray with people from those diverse traditions.
· Cultivate a calm, focused, empathetic and centered state-of-being.
+ You can always find a link to any of the
Spiritual Explorations posts by going to http://abundancetrek.com/sepostsaccess.html
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