Taizé pronounced (teh-ZAY) is used to describe both an ecumenical community in France and its style of sung prayer and chants. Amidst the multicultural assemblies of global pilgrims at the Community of Taizé in France, a new kind of music developed to fit these global gatherings: brief sung texts, often in Latin, set to simpleContinue reading “Taizé Chant”
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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
“Love is the most universal, the most tremendous and the most mystical of cosmic forces. Love is the primal and universal psychic energy. Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.” The Spirit of the Earth, 1931, VI, 32, 33, 34 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, S.J. was aContinue reading “Pierre Teilhard de Chardin”
Śrī Aurobindo Ghose
“The spiritual life (adhyatma-jivana), the religious life (dharma-jivana) and the ordinary human life of which morality is a part are three quite different things and one must know which one desires and not confuse the three together. “The ordinary life is that of the average human consciousness separated from its own true self and fromContinue reading “Śrī Aurobindo Ghose”
Mutual Accountability Group
Our setting: We meet monthly in a mutual accountability group. We are on Zoom across four time zones. We’ve been meeting for about a decade now, including at a common geographical space when circumstances allow. Nancy: … What do you need? Viv: I just need to feel fulfilled. How that happens can change from dayContinue reading “Mutual Accountability Group”
Zooming Way In and Out
A mystical experience during day 7 of the 10 day Vipassana meditation sit offered by volunteers in the Goenka tradition, shared by Viv Hawkins. We had been silently attending to the sensations of our body for hour upon hour every day, noticing them and observing how they changed, refraining from eye contact and speaking, exceptContinue reading “Zooming Way In and Out”
A Momentous Shy Leap
An experience of moving between two understandings of sacred text and their keys to unlock the mystical, shared by Viv Hawkins. The reason I’ve written nothing yet for Mystical Friend is I’m mid-air above and between two cliffs that hold meaning for me about mysticism. On the one side, the one which once spoke instructionallyContinue reading “A Momentous Shy Leap”
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