Falling Upward: A Spirituality For The Two Halves Of Life

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Taylor, Leon (January 1978). "Rohr on the cutting edge of the church" . Retrieved February 2, 2015. Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer (Crossroad Publishing Co, U.S.; 2nd Revised edition, 2003) ISBN 978-0-8245-1995-7 BB: I don’t trust… I don’t know, I don’t trust a spirituality that doesn’t have dirt under its nails. Brown, Brene (April 20, 2022). "Father Richard Rohr on Spirituality, Certitude, and Infinite Love, Part 1 of 2". Brene Brown Podcast . Retrieved 17 August 2023. Naked, and You Clothed Me: Homilies and Reflections for Cycle A, Jim Knipper, ed. (Clear Faith Publishing, 2013)

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His book Immortal Diamond: The Search for Our True Self suggests Jesus's death and resurrection is an archetypal pattern for the movement from " false self" to " true self", from "who you think you are" to "who you are in God". [22] Rohr's 2014 book Eager to Love explores the key themes of Franciscan spirituality, which he sees as a "third way" between traditional orthodoxy and heresy, a way of focusing on the Gospel, justice, and compassion. [23] Role of scripture [ edit ]Radical Grace: Daily Meditations (edited by John Bookser Feister) (1993, reissued by St. Anthony Messenger Press, 1996) ISBN 978-0-86716-257-8 RR: That’s why, I know you’ve read Falling Upward, yeah. It’s the second half of life religion which is used almost entirely in Western cultures as a first half of life religion to create a container for me to live my life inside of and feel safe and superior. RR: Unlearning. Not learning, but unlearning. The patterns that come so naturally to the ego. Yeah. It’s not about learning, which is what we made it into.

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Christian crowd vows to 'reclaim Jesus' from polarized U.S." Crux. 2018-05-26 . Retrieved 2018-08-06.RR: It’s hide it, hide it, hide it. That’s what I mean. It’s a cult of innocence. Now, when you spend all your time fighting the shadow instead of the ego, you end up with people who can live in high levels of illusion. I mean, let’s use a dramatic symbol. A religion that can justify slavery is so far from anything Jesus talked about, but that a large percentage could buy it. “Yeah, this is what Jesus expected.” I was just reading this morning letters that freed slaves sent to their former masters and oh, they just make you weep. But they weren’t vengeful letters, they were just, “Why did you do this? Why did you treat my little daughter, my little boy, my husband this way?” And when you read it, you say, “It was once that real for people.” RR: I know. And you hear people, I won’t mention… A former president that we had here, whose whole talks are just grievances. A man who has had everything to his material success, and he lists his grievances and people applaud for it. Why Be Catholic?: Understanding Our Experience and Tradition (with Joseph Martos) (Saint Anthony Messenger Press, 1989) ISBN 978-0-86716-101-4 Rohr, Richard (1999). "Where the Gospel leads us". In Wink, Walter (ed.). Homosexuality and Christian faith: questions of conscience for the churches. Fortress Press. ISBN 9780800631864. Richard Rohr | Teachers | Spirituality & Practice". www.spiritualityandpractice.com . Retrieved 2018-08-06.

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The perennial philosophy [20] forms the basis of much of Rohr's teaching; his work's essential message focuses on the union of divine reality with all things and the human potential and longing for this union. Rohr and other 21st-century spiritual leaders explore the Perennial Tradition in the Center for Action and Contemplation's issue of the publication Oneing. [21] In a similar vein, he sometimes draws on spiral dynamics and Ken Wilber's integral theory. Psychological concepts from Carl Jung and the Enneagram of Personality are also recurring themes in his work. Greene, Dana (July 23, 2014). "Seize the Franciscan moment, Rohr advises". National Catholic Reporter. In Falling Upward, Richard Rohr seeks to help readers understand the tasks of the two halves of life and to show them that those who have gone ''down'' are the only ones who understand ''up.'' Those who have somehow fallen, and fallen well, are the only ones who can grow spiritually and not misuse ''up''. More than anything else, he describes what ''up'' (in the second half of life) will look like and could look like. Breathing Under Water: Spirituality and the Twelve Steps (Saint Anthony Messenger Press, 2011) ISBN 978-1-61636-157-0 BB: Let me ask you about this unlearning, because I’m unlearning right now. I’m unlearning about mercy and grace right now, because I kind of want a deposit withdraw system around grace. I would like grace to be a meritocracy.Jung believes we can do damage, therefore, by “petrifying” our spiritual experience when we try to name it, to express God as an abstract idea. Before you explain your encounter with the Divine as an idea or a name that then must be defended, proven, or believed, simply stay with the naked experience itself—the numinous, transcendent experience of allurement, longing, and intimacy within you. This is the inner God image breaking through! No idea of God is God of itself, but the experience of God’s action in you is what grounds you and breaks you wide open at the same time. Hear a few of our mystics in this regard: