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August 18, 2022
Finding Original Intent: A Key to Practicing Interspirituality
If you are interested in interspirituality, you have to ask one key question before you engage in any practice: ‘What was the original intent?’ To underline the importance of this question, I am going to share two stories. Both of them have been around for a while. Feel free to skip ahead to my conclusions […]
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August 15, 2022
Observation: Pluralists Appear to Have Tolerance for All Religious Traditions… Except Their Own
Why is that? I have an educated guess. First, some background. I consider myself a pluralist, which means, among other things, that I believe in religious coexistence. For that purpose, I attended an interfaith seminary several years ago and ran a small organization for a few years, whose primary aim was to heal divides. Noticing […]
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August 11, 2022
What a Japanese Buddhist Who Converted to Judaism Taught Me About Spirituality
When I am curious about something, I call people; strangers, who often end up becoming my friends. I find them through LinkedIn, organizations I am interested in, social media groups, and acquaintances. Sometimes a call last twenty minutes; other times, I’ll be on the phone for hours. When we’re done talking, I usually ask: “Is […]
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August 8, 2022
An Episcopalian Priest: Half My Congregation Practices Buddhist Meditation
About five years ago, I met an Episcopalian priest for coffee. I was a newly ordained Interfaith Minister back then, curious to learn more about the world’s religions. I couldn’t think of a better way than to meet people of all faiths in person, especially because lived religion tends to be different from what I’ve […]
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August 4, 2022
How To Practice Interspirituality
In a previous article, I defined ‘interspirituality’ as the “exploration of the immaterial or sentient parts of our being using methods and ideas that are shared by and/or exist between the world’s wisdom traditions.” Spirituality is a personal exploration. Interspirituality is a multi-perspective exploration. A Buffet of Likes and Dislikes Okay. Let me start gathering […]
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August 1, 2022
What is Interspirituality?
What is interspirituality? I’ve studied the pioneers in this field, including Brother Wayne Teasdale (a Catholic turned Swami), Aldous Huxley (author of The Perennial Philosophy), Huston Smith (religion scholar and author of The World’s Religions), and Ken Wilber (the philosopher who created the integral model) for years. While they provided tremendous insights, they failed to […]
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July 27, 2022
Why Do Some People View ‘Sacrifice’ as a Dirty Word?
One of my favorite definitions of ‘love’ comes from M. Scott Peck. He said that love is the willingness to give of your time, energy, and money to help another person grow. It has become my operating principle in life. Sometimes this definition of love requires sacrifice. What Kind of Sacrifice? Now, I am not […]
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July 25, 2022
Spiritually Interdependent
‘Spiritually independent.’ That’s what a man called himself in response to my article about dropping the ‘not religious’ label. My first reaction was to nod in agreement. Yeah, I thought, instead of being ‘spiritual but not religious,’ declaring spiritual independence makes sense. Standing outside of institutions, thinking for yourself, choosing passages to live by, rejecting […]
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July 21, 2022
Being ‘Not Religious’ Throws the Baby Out With the Bathwater
I was proudly ‘spiritual but not religious’ for twenty years. Here’s why I stopped calling myself that.
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July 19, 2022
Integral Changed Everything: How Studying Ken Wilber’s Integral Theory Changed My Life
A stretched mind will not return to its original form. I learned that the hard way when I dove headfirst into Integral Theory. In 2005, I bought an audio program called Kosmic Consciousness with Ken Wilber and Tami Simon. The program was in an interview format where Tami questioned Ken about his ideas and consisted […]
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