Order of the sacred earth : an intergenerational vision of love and action /

Essays and calls-to-action to create a deeper sense of community whose mission is the preservation of the earth.

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Other Authors: Fox, Matthew, 1940- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Rhinebeck, New York : Monkfish Book Publishing Company, 2018
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION; PART I; THE ORDER OF THE SACRED EARTH; Why OSE?; About Vows; Who is Welcome in this Order?; Nourishing Mystic-Warriors; A Learning Community: Learning as a Spiritual Practice; OSE and the Movement from Failing Education to Learning; Lessons Positive and Negative from Past Religious Orders for a Spiritual Order to Heed; Elders and Young Together; Training; Why Join the OSE?; Practices Important to an OSE Community Commitment; What is Needed Today?; What is Creation Spirituality?
  • Lessons from Traditional Vows and Religious OrdersConclusion: Responses to the Idea of OSE; An Historical Reflection from Pere Chenu and a Contemporary Challenge from Naomi Klein; THE ORDER OF THE SACRED EARTH; What Dreams May Come; The Vision; Goals, Purpose, and Principles; Intergenerational Healing; Sharing Our Stories; Community and Eco-Justice; Embodying Wholeness Through Cosmology; Community Rituals; Emptying and Embracing Death; Reinventing Education; Rites of Passage; Uncovering the Sacred Wound; A Global Shift in Consciousness; Grounding Medicine Ceremonies.
  • Commitment, Participation, and FlexibilityCo-Creativity and Practicing the Healing Arts; Re-Wilding and Reconnecting with Ancestry; Indigenous and Mystical Perspective; Thoughts on Sexuality; Thoughts on Religion; Gathering the Tribes; THE ORDER OF THE SACRED EARTH; The Order of the Sacred Earth; PART II; IGNITING OUR CREATIVITY; THE LUMINOUS DARKNESS THAT CONNECTS US; A NEW ENLIGHTENMENT; TEMPLE OF THE HOLY EARTH; THE CASE FOR A NEW MYTHOLOGY; EARTHHEAVEN; A NEW STORY; EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP FOR THE 21ST CENTURY: THE MYSTIC WARRIOR; SHIFTING THE TIDE OF OUR FUTURE; A New Story.
  • The Order of the Sacred EarthEARTH CENTERING; FINDING THE CENTER OF HEAVEN AND EARTH; I HEAR THE EARTH BREATHING; TREE PLANTER; THE ITALIAN CHALLENGE: SOWING THE SEEDS OF OSE; ZEITGEIST NOW; POSTMODERN NEW MONASTIC FRIARS AND DEFENDERS OF THE SACRED; TO DEFEND MOTHER EARTH; CALLING US INTO COMMUNION; GOD IN DRAG: DOING ECO-JUSTICE FROM THE EARTH'S POINT OF VIEW; IMAGINING THE EARTH'S GUIDANCE FOR BUILDING A SACRED COMMUNITY; Shared Identity; Community; Personal Responsibility; Spiritual Practice; Inherent Holiness and Limitation; Diversity-in-Unity; Joint Activity; Authentic Encounter.
  • Effort and GraceExperiencing and Interpreting the Sacred; Re-envisioning Conflict; Cross-Fertilization; REBELLION, DIVINE GRACE AND ENDURING LOVE; MOVING FORWARD; CONTRIBUTOR BIOGRAPHIES
  • (In Order of Appearance).