There is a new spiritual movement that trancends and includes not o­nly the Interfaith movement it also trancends and includes the best of todays progressive Eco-spirituality, Women's spirituality, Integral spirituality, Participatory spirituality (P2P) and Evolutionary spirituality movements. If fact, it strives to include the best of all religions without their worst. In some ways it is a child of the Internet generation where all human knowlege is rapidly becoming accessable, yet it is far, far more than just a new synergy of spiritual data.

Have you been in o­ne or, do you know someone in an authoritarian religion with a Guru or particularly dominant leader? Do you feel that something was very wrong with this form of religion and this leader? The following is o­ne of the two chapters that we have been given permission to republish from John Heron's great new book Participatory Spirituality: A Farewell to Authoritarian Religion. It is a great read for anyone who has been harmed by the projections of dominant leaders in authoritarian religions or who seeks what healthy forms of religion would look like…

 

Welcome to the Deep Time Integral Spirituality Word Puzzle Contest! If you love difficult word puzzles, this o­ne will show you just how much conceptual complexity you can break down and manage as well as how integratively smart you really are. This is a whole new kind of creative word association puzzle that for depth of challenge rivals the New York Times’ or for that matter, anyone else’s word association puzzles. Would you like to play this genius new puzzle and enter the contest?

 

In the reoccurring deepest patterns of the 14 billion years of successful evolutionary process and progress you can see the most basic patterns and laws for success that every individual, family, organization, corporation, nation, system or thing must sooner or later acknowledge and follow --- if that grouping or thing wishes to survive and/or thrive. Evolution “is a general condition to which all theories, all hypotheses and all systems must bow… Evolution is a light illuminating all facts, a curve that all lines must follow.” Pierre Teilhard De Chardin...  Explore these deep evolutinary success patterns in this article and test how your life can improve!

There are many implicit or implied genesis stories within the diverse cultures and religions of our world. Genesis stories are more than just stories about origins. They instill a powerful behavior molding sense of identity, values, entitlement, natural truth and destiny. As we are now a new type of global tribe with far more information about our world than our ancestors, it is well past the time for the Great New Genesis story to be completed for the use of all humanity. This new story will greatly facilitate humanity naturally evolving, improving and shifting it’s identity self concepts, worldview, values and perspectives o­n natural truth so that we collectively and individually can better manage our potentially biocidal global challenges and shared future. Luckily the future-critical work o­n humanity's shared Great New Genesis story is progressing nicely...

Have you been o­n o­ne or, do you know someone in an authoritarian religion? Do you feel that something was very wrong with this form of religion? The following is o­ne of two chapters that we have been given permission to republish from John Heron's great new book Participatory Spirituality: A Farewell to Authoritarian Religion. It is a great read for anyone who has been harmed by authoritarian religion or who seeks to know what healthy forms of religion would look like…

What if the current Webster's dictionary definition of peace and the popular definition of normalcy were so wrong that if you used them to evaluate your life or the world you would probably not o­nly come up with incorrect evaluations, but you most likely would also feel deeply frustrated about how things are going. What if simply knowing what science has discovered about the deepest success patterns of 14 billion years of evolution and what those success patterns indicate about what the real definitions of these words should be could radically enhance your whole perspective and attitude about your life and the world? Would you take 3 minutes to explore this new information...

Almost everyone has had an experience where they skipped or underestimated a simple earlier step and then noticed that everything later becomes considerably harder or less effective until they go back and fix or do the skipped or under done earlier step. This principle is just as true with building an empowered and authentic spiritual lifestyle. Consider the following 5 minute exercise and see if there a simple and easy way to expand your spiritual lifestyles' richness and effectiveness…

When lived in a balance, the list of virtues and values found in this article are the resultant authentic fruits of the Spirit. These fruits of classic, modern and post modern virtues are a reliable and observable broad spiritual community validity "proofs" for the results of authentic and effective spiritual practice, spiritual growth and a congruent spiritual lifestyle for an individual within the world. Compare your current spiritual lifestyle against these virtues criteria now...

A Protestant theologian, who has written provocative books about Archbishop Rowan Williams and the disestablishment of the Church of England, says that Christianity must dismantle the concept of church and become a faith of spontaneous celebration and action.

Theo Hobson is author of 'Against establishment: An Anglican Polemic and Anarchy', 'Church and Utopia: Rowan Williams on Church'. Writing recently in The Guardian newspaper, he claims that "the dominant trend of contemporary Christian theology might be called ecclesiastical fundamentalism."