Download E-books The New Monasticism: An Interspiritual Manifesto for Contemplative Living PDF

By Adam Bucko, Rory McEntee

Younger leaders of the recent monastic stream introduce their imaginative and prescient for contemplative lifestyles- one 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 through Sufi instructor Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, and an afterword by way of Fr. Thomas Keating.

The New Monasticism is an creation to the "new monastic movement," supplying the authors' highbrow and non secular reflections on what contemplative lifestyles may well appear like within the twenty first century. With chapters concentrating on non secular perform, vocation, contemplation and activism, dialogical discussion, the connection with conventional non secular paths, contemplative psychology and the development of intentional groups, the authors search to "cut around the limitations of non secular traditions, of contemplation and motion, and recreation to create intergenerational alliances among these immersed within the depths of our conventional non secular frameworks and those that are being referred to as to contemplative and prophetic existence outdoors 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 e-book additionally comprises a few renowned modern-day educational, cultural, and contemplative theorists, similar to Ken Wilber and Fr. Thomas Keating, who converse to youngsters approximately making a extra sacred and simply international whereas supplying them with subtle 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 will see that, Rory and Adam are very clever, and this booklet is a transmission of the perennial knowledge reimagined for an rising globalized international. . . the hot Monasticism is lucid and hovering, arcing gracefully among the landscapes of theology and love poetry. . . . should you learn those pages, you step right into a global you might have continually was hoping was once attainable and locate your personal position there. . . I did."
--Mirabai Starr, writer, God of Love

"Adam and Rory have replied either to their middle s calling and the necessity of the time . . . . Their new monasticism isn't an get away from lifestyles, yet a party of what it particularly capacity to be alive."
-Llewellyn Vaughn Lee, writer, religious Ecology: The Cry of the Earth

"The thought of this ebook and its presentation of the recent Monasticism appears to be like a real flow of the Holy Spirit . . . . Adam and Rory have famous the advantages in addition to the dangers of attempting to create a brand new set of religious practices outfitted at the knowledge of conventional monastic constructions, yet with nice openness to the technological and medical possibilities of up to date 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, vital new ebook surveying an important new non secular circulation . . . a wide a part of this stream in any of its many types is pushed via the truth that this day, for the 1st time in heritage, now we have entry to all the international s nice non secular and religious traditions, and the numerous ways in which they supplement and in many ways whole one another . . . hugely steered for anyone who desires their thumb at the religious pulse of at the present time s non secular seeker, or who feels themselves that they're religious yet no longer spiritual.

-Ken Wilber, authorm intercourse, Ecology, and Spirituality