HR!Day570 - Day 5: The Spiritual Purpose of Age: Shifting from Role to Soul
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This Week: reimagining the nobility of the Elder archetype
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As we learn the inner work of age, we discover psychological and spiritual practices that address the timeless question: Who am I?
We deepen our self-knowledge and reimagine age for ourselves, eventually shifting from denial to awareness, from self-rejection to self-acceptance, from obligation to flow, from holding on to letting go. Even from role to soul.
This is the deeper dimension of age, the universal inner journey of human development or expanding awareness, which includes the unfolding of our authenticity and authority, and even the unfolding of spiritual awakening or advanced stages of consciousness, which are described in every religious and spiritual tradition as the purpose of late life.
This expansion of awareness in this stage of life is not about what we do or don’t do: more work and more volunteering or less work and less volunteering. Rather, it’s about how we do it: the internal state of mind that arises as we shift our identity from what we do to who we are—from role to soul. And, for some, this deepening identification with our spiritual nature can expand to non-dual awareness, the direct experience of the interconnectedness of all living things. This spiritual purpose of age will be addressed by spiritual Elders from diverse traditions.
Moderator:
- Dr. Connie Zweig, author of The Inner Work of Age, extends her work on the Shadow into midlife and beyond. Connie Zweig, Ph.D., is a retired therapist and coauthor of Meeting the Shadow and Romancing the Shadow and author of Meeting the Shadow of Spirituality and a novel, A Moth to the Flame: The Life of Sufi Poet Rumi. Her new bestselling book, The Inner Work of Age: Shifting from Role to Soul, extends her work on the Shadow into midlife and beyond and explores aging as a spiritual practice. It won the 2022 Gold Nautilus award, the 2021 American Book Fest Award, and the 2021 Best Indie Book Award for best inspirational non-fiction. Connie has been doing contemplative practices for more than 50 years. She is a wife, stepmother, and grandmother. After all these roles, she’s practicing the shift from role to soul.
Presenters:
- Joan Halifax: Zen Buddhism Roshi Joan Halifax, Ph.D. is a Buddhist teacher, founder of Upaya Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico, a social activist, author of The Human Encounter with Death (with Stanislav Grof); The Fruitful Darkness, A Journey Through Buddhist Practice; Simplicity in the Complex: A Buddhist Life in America; Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Wisdom in the Presence of Death; Standing at the Edge: Finding Freedom Where Fear and Courage Meet. She is a pioneer in end-of-life care. In the early 70s, she worked with psychiatrist Stanislav Grof with dying cancer patients and has continued to work with dying people and their families, and to teach health care professionals and family caregivers the psycho-social, ethical, and spiritual aspects of care of the dying. She is Director of the Project on Being with Dying and Founder of the Upaya Prison Project that develops programs on meditation for prisoners. She is also founder of the Nomads Clinic in Nepal.
- Robert Thurman: Tibetan Buddhism Robert A.F. Thurman is Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies in the Department of Religion at Columbia University, President of Tibet House U.S., a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation and promotion of Tibetan civilization, and President of the American Institute of Buddhist Studies, a non-profit affiliated with Columbia. He was the first Westerner ordained as a monk by the Dalai Lama. Thurman is author of many books, including The Central Philosophy of Tibet; Circling the Sacred Mountain; Essential Tibetan Buddhism;The Tibetan Book of the Dead; Wisdom and Compassion; Worlds of Transformation; Inner Revolution; Infinite Life; the Jewel Tree of Tibet; Why the Dalai Lama Matters; and, with Sharon Salzberg, Love Your Enemies.
- Pat Enkyo O’Hara: Zen Buddhism Roshi Pat Enkyo O’Hara, PhD, is Abbot of The Village Zendo in downtown Manhattan. A Soto Zen priest and contemporary American Zen Teacher, she integrates traditional meditation and koan practice with social engagement and peacemaking. A founding teacher of the Zen Peacemaker Order, she taught for many years at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, centering on social issues and new media. Roshi’s writing appears in contemporary Buddhist journals, as well as her books, Most Intimate, A Zen Approach to Life’s Challenges and A Little Bit of Zen.
- Dale Borglum: Vedanta Dale Borglum founded and directed the Hanuman Foundation Dying Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the first residential facility in the United States to support conscious dying. Working with Ram Dass and Stephen Levine, Dale helped found the conscious dying movement in the West. He has been the Executive Director of the Living/Dying Project in Santa Fe and since 1986 in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is co-author with Ram Dass, Daniel Goleman and Dwarka Bonner of Journey of Awakening: A Meditator’s Guidebook and has taught meditation since 1974. Dale lectures and gives workshops on the topics of meditation, healing, spiritual support for those with life-threatening illness, and caregiving as spiritual practice.
- Robert Jonas: Mystical Christianity Robert Jonas, a mystical Christian teacher, is director of The Empty Bell, a contemplative sanctuary in Northampton, Ma., that is a resource for contemplative Christians and for Buddhist-Christian dialogue. Trained as a psychotherapist, Dr. Jonas is now a retreat leader, author, video artist, musician, and environmental steward. A Christian in the Carmelite tradition, he also received spiritual formation with Buddhist teachers. He is author of The Essential Henri Nouwen and a new book, My Dear Far-Nearness: The Holy Trinity as Spiritual Practice. He is a student of Japanese bamboo flute (shakuhachi) and has played at three Buddhist-Christian retreats with the Dalai Lama.
- Rabbi Mel Gottlieb: Contemplative Judaism Rabbi Mel Gottlieb, Ph.D., served as President of the Academy of Jewish Religion, California, until September, 2022. He previously served as Dean of the Rabbinical and Chaplaincy Schools and Interim Dean of the Rabbinical School. He co-founded AJRCA’s groundbreaking initiative in interreligious studies with Claremont School of Theology and the Islamic Center of Southern California. He also serves as Senior Fellow on the Academic Leadership Team at Claremont Lincoln University and is a member of the Board of Directors. Rabbi Gottlieb was ordained at Yeshiva University, holds a doctorate in Mythology/Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute, taught at Columbia, Yeshiva University, and the University of Southern California. He is former Director of Hillel at MIT and Princeton and was Rabbi at Kehillat Ma’ariv in Santa Monica, Ca., and Westwood Village Synagogue, Ca.
Recommended reading:
The Inner Work of Age by Connie Zweig
Walking Each Other Home by Ram Dass and Mirabai Bush
Compassion in Action by Ram Dass and Mirabai Bush
A Little Bit of Zen by Roshi Pat O’Hara
Being with Dying by Roshi Joan Halifax
Standing at the Edge by Roshi Joan Halifax
The Fruitful Darkness by Roshi Joan Halifax
Wisdom is Bliss by Robert Thurman
Essential Tibetan Buddhism by Robert Thurman
The Jewel Tree of Tibet by Robert Thurman
Infinite Life by Robert Thurman
My Dear Far-Nearness by Robert Jonas
Co-convener:
- Jim Garrison, President, Ubiquity University
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