Comments on: New book of the week: John Heron’s Farewell to Authoritarian Religion https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/new-book-of-the-week-john-herons-farewell-to-authoritarian-religion/2006/10/16 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Thu, 26 Oct 2006 07:02:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 By: jheron https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/new-book-of-the-week-john-herons-farewell-to-authoritarian-religion/2006/10/16/comment-page-1#comment-6585 Thu, 26 Oct 2006 07:02:03 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=525#comment-6585 John Heron
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I think it is valuable for us to have faith in the spiritual authority within, a faith which develops with regard to: (1) the accessibility to us of spiritual and subtle states no matter how apparently arcane; (2) our own know-how, our competence to open to such states; (3) our ability to make sense of our experiences according to our own lights; (4) our own implicit spiritual maps, and our ability to make such maps explicit; (5) our ability to heal from past spiritual oppression and wounding.

]]> By: Gregg Lahood https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/new-book-of-the-week-john-herons-farewell-to-authoritarian-religion/2006/10/16/comment-page-1#comment-6541 Thu, 26 Oct 2006 00:25:50 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=525#comment-6541 I recently offered a workshop in Byron Bay Australia introducing collaborative spiritual inquiry and the reclaiming of one’s own spiritual authority. The three day initiation was fruitfully influenced by the approach affirmed in the new book by my colleague John Heron. The following is a statement from Stephen Calder, a participant in that inquiry:

“This workshop is designed to put you in touch with your ‘healthy indigenous charismatic heart’ — the authentic divine centre of your being — as a way of re-establishing your birthright as the author of your own divine life and lights.

“The processes, which are all collaborative, allow participants an opportunity to reclaim their spiritual authority, which in the past may have been given away to gurus, spiritual leaders,
scriptures or ideologies, enabling them to speak with their own authority established through reconnection with the deity or divinity within.

“As a preliminary, participants explore ways in which they might be prevented from speaking from this charismatic heart — ways in which their own charisma or ‘mana’ might be inhibited — and are encouraged to attempt a communication or expression of their healthy heart, supported by the group.

“What follows is a series of experiments, designed in collaboration and carried out with the consent and willing participation of the group. Possible experiments are suggested by the facilitator, and any experiment may be redesigned on the spot or participants may opt out of any experiment if they wish.

“These experiments are designed to allow access to the transcendent divine (the divine beyond the personal and beyond space and time) on the one hand, and to the immanent or inherent divine (the divine expressed in the body, in nature and within space-time) on the other.”

For further reading see the paper by John Heron and Gregg Lahood, ‘Charismatic Inquiry In Concert: Action Research in the Realm of the Between’, to be published in the second edition of the Handbook of Action Research, eds. P. Reason & H. Bradbury, Sage, London, 2008.

To read a pre-publication version of this paper see http://www.human-inquiry.com/charisma.htm

For information about 3-5 day Transformative Collaborative Inquiry Workshops email me at [email protected]

]]> By: ~C4Chaos https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/new-book-of-the-week-john-herons-farewell-to-authoritarian-religion/2006/10/16/comment-page-1#comment-6198 Fri, 20 Oct 2006 08:03:14 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=525#comment-6198 interesting… even spirituality is beginning to sound Web 2.0-ish 🙂
reminds me of Rebecca Blood’s Age of Participatory Culture 😉
i’ll read up more on this… thanks!

~C (for Culture of participation)

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