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Education Spirituality Forum

Fri, 25 May 2012 07:50:15 -0400

Baptized Christians in grace are said to live in the super-natural order. I was taught that the beauty of one in santifying grace is beyond the beauty of the natural universe. Receiving clerical orders, however, I felt no super-natural change in wearing the religious habit, getting the tonsure, receiving priestly powers, including supposely ch... Read More

Education Spiriutality Forum

Wed, 23 May 2012 20:52:05 -0400

14th century Richard St. Victor said: contemplation alone enables us to see God, and then only 'in a glass, darkly.' Contemplation varies from simple musing/sensing God's ominipresence in nature (amidst foliage, hillside, mountain top. . .) or the more elaborate Ignatian imagining events in Jesus' life like a movie and stopping for talk-prayer... Read More

Education Spirituality Forum

Mon, 21 May 2012 21:25:57 -0400

Parallel to Erikson, Abraham Moslow saw stages of (spiritual) self-actualization: Conventional experience of culture, independence in self-growth, self acceptance of one's own imperfect nature, deep feelings of kinship, appreciating blessings in life, real humor vs hostility, increased efficiency and originality, focus on basic issues and moral... Read More

Education Spiriutality Forum

Mon, 21 May 2012 21:02:18 -0400

What does spiritual development mean? Erik Erikson pointed at stages to a healthy personality, key points to spiritual change: Basic trust (vs mistrust), autonomy (vs shame, doubt), initiative (vs guilt), industry (vs inferiority), identity (vs role confusion), intimacy (isolation), generativity (vs stagnation), and ego integrity (vs despair... Read More

Education Spirituality Forum

Sat, 19 May 2012 22:11:52 -0400

Pseudo-physicists say Yogis do tommo-- sit naked on a mountain all night, overcome the winter cold with heat energy from mind consciousness. Reducing physical reality to an illusion or maya has been man's difficulty for ages. The report that 70,000 pilgrims failed to see the Virgin in Fatima but saw a whirling sun that dried their clothes is ... Read More

Education Spirituality Forum

Wed, 16 May 2012 00:23:21 -0400

Since the Constantine era (4th-5th century), Gentile Christianity assimilated pagan ideas. Faith centered on the Redeemer Jesus Christ, embellished by the Roman priesthood, 7 sacraments (with private confession in the 11th century), honor due to Mary as Mother of God, Papal infallibility, sale of relics and indulgences, etc. Protestanism in t... Read More

Education Spirituality Forum

Mon, 14 May 2012 19:59:01 -0400

Socrates saw absolute beauty as the essence of beautiful forms in the physical universe. Contemplating with the inner mind, man sees it and becomes a friend of god, turns immortal. The 1999 movie American Beauty shows Lester overcoming a middle age crisis, recalling in a rare second the beauty of his past life: at Boys Scout Camp sitting on his... Read More

Education Spirituality Forum

Fri, 11 May 2012 20:28:40 -0400

Dr. Lawrence LeShan asks a relevant question: Why do people meditate? Why do more and more people practice Yoga, Tai Chi, TM? Why do people pray? Actually meditation and prayer cross roads. Traditionally, people pray-- with its meditative forms of formula repetition, light procession, chants and songs, ritual gestures like genuflecting and maki... Read More

Education Spirituality Forum

Tue, 08 May 2012 21:06:09 -0400

In "How to Meditate," Dr. Lawrence LeShan discusses contemplation as taking an object (nature objects, jewelry piece, etc.), looking, binding the mind at the present moment. Daily, I sit daily in my flower garden and contemplate-- passive, conscious, relaxed sensation of nature objects. From objects, I raise my thought on how these reflect the ... Read More

Education Spirituality Forum

Sun, 06 May 2012 09:27:10 -0400

Meditation is natural to man. Rest, play and leisure-- like travel, sports, artistic activities-- are forms of meditation. Formalized forms of meditation are the Hatha Yoga poses and Sense Awareness programs. In religion, Bible reading, inspirational book reflection, prayers (the Mass, rosary, candle processions, church service, etc.) are forms ... Read More