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Cosmic Spirituality
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"The Universe is a communion of subjects, not a collection of objects." Thomas Berry
Former Institute for Spiritual Leadership graduate and staff member, Ann Schreckenberger, recently gave her Cosmic Spirituality lecture to the participants in Personal Transformation for Mission. The students gazed upon the powerful Hubble images of the cosmos and listened in awe to the unfolding of the universe story...their hearts and minds energized.
Thomas Berry (1915 - 2009), was a follower of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and author of Dream of the Earth, The Universe Story, The Great Work and Evening Thoughts. He spent years celebrating the sacredness of the universe and raising awareness of the need for humans to relate and connect to earth. The following piece is taken from one of Berry's essays that ends with his hope for the future.
If the dynamics of the universe from the beginning shaped the course of the heavens, lighted the sun and formed the Earth, if this same dynamism brought forth the continents and seas and atmosphere, if it awakened life in the primordial cell and then brought into being the unnumbered variety of living beings, and finally brought us into being and guided us safely through the turbulent centuries, there is reason to believe that this same guiding process is precisely what has awakened in us our present understanding of ourselves and our relation to this stupendous process. Sensitized to such guidance from the very structure and functioning of the universe, we can have confidence in the future that awaits the human venture.
The Institute for Spiritual Leadership reflects with awe and wonder upon the universe and the spiritual connection and communion between all subjects.
Former Institute for Spiritual Leadership graduate and staff member, Ann Schreckenberger, recently gave her Cosmic Spirituality lecture to the participants in Personal Transformation for Mission. The students gazed upon the powerful Hubble images of the cosmos and listened in awe to the unfolding of the universe story...their hearts and minds energized.
Thomas Berry (1915 - 2009), was a follower of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and author of Dream of the Earth, The Universe Story, The Great Work and Evening Thoughts. He spent years celebrating the sacredness of the universe and raising awareness of the need for humans to relate and connect to earth. The following piece is taken from one of Berry's essays that ends with his hope for the future.
If the dynamics of the universe from the beginning shaped the course of the heavens, lighted the sun and formed the Earth, if this same dynamism brought forth the continents and seas and atmosphere, if it awakened life in the primordial cell and then brought into being the unnumbered variety of living beings, and finally brought us into being and guided us safely through the turbulent centuries, there is reason to believe that this same guiding process is precisely what has awakened in us our present understanding of ourselves and our relation to this stupendous process. Sensitized to such guidance from the very structure and functioning of the universe, we can have confidence in the future that awaits the human venture.
The Institute for Spiritual Leadership reflects with awe and wonder upon the universe and the spiritual connection and communion between all subjects.
February 15, 2010: Active Imagination
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