Buddhist Catholic Contemplative Evangelical General Christian Hindu Jewish Latter-day Saint Muslim New Visions Progressive Christian

Beliefs

Topics

Columnists

Resource Library

Research Tools

Video

Podcasts

Thought Readers

Faith In Media Tracker

Newsletters

Ad-Free & Subscriber Log-In Subscription Support

Follow Patheos

Christ Path Seminar

Home
New Visions

Mysticism

Select a Category Andrew Harvey Christ Path program Community Creation Spirituality Deep Ecumenism Gail Ransom Gospel of Thomas Historical Jesus Matthew Fox Mysticism Occupy Generation Occupy Spirituality Phila Hoopes Sacred Activism Uncategorized Via Creativa Via Negativa Via Positiva Via Transformativa

Select a Month September 2013 August 2013 July 2013 June 2013

September 2013

September 16, 2013

Occupy Spirituality: Creating Communities in the Service of Life

And so we reach the last of our excerpts from Occupy Spirituality exploring the ways...

September 13, 2013

Occupy Spirituality: Redefining Leadership as Dynamic, Democratic and Authentic

As we’ve interviewed the young people of the Occupy generation, we’ve witnessed them giving birth...

September 11, 2013

Spirituality: Where Seriousness and Playfulness Meet

We’ve looked at passion, practice, prophecy and purpose – all elements of the spirituality that...

September 06, 2013

Spirituality Combined with A Call to Action

For many fundamentalists, religious practice revolves around one inward-looking question: Am I saved? As the...

September 04, 2013

Occupy Spirituality: A Dance between Body, Mind and Soul

If the spirituality of the Occupy Generation as an ongoing dialogue between experience and concept...

September 02, 2013

Faith in the Occupy Generation: Balancing Concept and Experience

We started this series of posts by looking at the first of seven themes that...

August 2013

August 30, 2013

Bypassing Institution for Essence: Young People Seek a More Authentic Spirituality

What is the spirituality of the younger generation? Are they falling away from God as...

August 28, 2013

Do You Dare to Stand Near to Jesus – Near to the Fire?

We are continuing our exploration of the Gospel of Thomas with logion 82, where Jesus...

August 21, 2013

Unveiling Jesus’ Reality: Not the Usual Transcendental Twaddle

Now we will turn to logion 77: “I am the light which is above them...

August 19, 2013

Why Being a Good Girl or Boy Will Not Get You Up There to Heaven

So we are continuing our journey of radical transformation through the logions of the Gospel...

August 14, 2013

Are You Prepared for the Shattering Risk of Finding the Divine – in Yourself?

Over the next seven posts, I will introduce selected logions from the Gospel of Thomas,...

August 12, 2013

The Gospel of Thomas – A Road Map to Transfiguration

I am not writing to you today as someone who wants to present a scholarly...

August 05, 2013

What Are the False Gods of Our World?

Jesus talks a lot about false gods. He’s talking about idolatry all the time, and...

August 01, 2013

A Radical Vision for a New Generation

"'In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people....

July 2013

July 31, 2013

Don’t Spend Years Studying Jesus – Put His Teaching into Action!

So in what way was Jesus a prophet? There are so many ways…but let’s look...

July 17, 2013

My Personal Encounter with the Christ

So we’ve looked at some personal experiences of walking the Christ Path…but what might it...

July 15, 2013

Walking the Christ Path Through Life and Death Experiences

I’ve shared two stories with you on the experience of walking the Christ Path. The...

July 12, 2013

Healing Hands and Mended Ankles – Walking with the Beloved

In my last post, I said very grand things about the transformative power of an...

July 10, 2013

A Divine Companion on the Lonely Journey of Evolution

Before anything, more than anything, with absolute urgency and sincerity, I want to write in...

July 08, 2013

Walking the Christ Path in Transformation: Fierce Compassion

So we’ve looked at the four paths of Creation Spirituality – the awe-inspiring, wonderful cosmic...

June 2013

June 24, 2013

“Serve the Cosmic Christ”
Whether You Are Hindu, Buddhist, Jewish, Muslim, Atheist….

In my last post I offered the three things that - whether you are a...

June 21, 2013

Teachings of the Cosmic Christ from Fr. Bede Griffiths

My search for the meaning of life had led me through the world’s great religions,...

June 19, 2013

My Own Journey to the Cosmic Christ

How did I come to experience the Cosmic Christ? Appropriately enough, my path led through...

June 17, 2013

Meeting the Cosmic Christ as an Ally in Our Evolutionary Transformation

We are now in a second axial age. We are in the middle of the...

June 14, 2013

To be a Christian is to be a Mystic

In my last post, I wrote of the passing of imperial Christianity, and the archetype...

June 12, 2013

From Christianity to Christ Path and the Help of Mysticism

The Christ Path Seminars begin with a searching question: The world as we knew it...

June 10, 2013

The Two Goals of a Healthy Community:
Becoming Mystics, Becoming Prophets

As we open our conversation here on Patheos, I want to talk concretely about those...