Posts tagged with ‘environment’

  • Moving Pictures
    11 min

    FernGully

    The jungle in film

    The jungle in film

    These days, when everything breaks down and comes together, spiritual explorers find themselves in a vast, tangled forest. Myths and metaphors, practices and words of wisdom, criss-crossing paths multiply in all directions. In many ways, this eclectic and fragmentary zone itself defines our moment of religious experience. Perhaps the question is less which path you find yourself on--what religious philosophy or spiritual technology you're remaking yourself with--but on how you move through the space itself. How do you engage its...
  • Religions and Spirits
    18 min

    Snakes & Ladders

    The spiritual tension between immanence and transcendence

    The spiritual tension between immanence and transcendence

    These days, when everything breaks down and comes together, spiritual explorers find themselves in a vast, tangled forest. Myths and metaphors, practices and words of wisdom, criss-crossing paths multiply in all directions. In many ways, this eclectic and fragmentary zone itself defines our moment of religious experience. Perhaps the question is less which path you find yourself on--what religious philosophy or spiritual technology you're remaking yourself with--but on how you move through the space itself. How do you engage its...