Interfaith as Spiritual Federalism gateways and teachers to feeling at one with the great wisdom traditions – an interfaith inter-spiritual & Perennial Philosophy ‘course on a page’!
I came a long time ago to the understanding that there are many paths but one summit. I wanted a deeper sense of connection with other wisdom traditions. I wanted to feel the kind of nourishment that believers in those wisdom traditions feel. I wanted a gateway and a teacher that would give the connection I desired.
One key idea to come out of this is Spiritual Federalism – is the next goal for interfaith work? It’s an alternative to conversion mania. The world may have ended by the time the Christians have converted the Jews or Muslims the Christians or the Baha’is everyone else. Indeed conversion mania may bring the world to its end! Spiritual Federalism is simply the idea that if you are comfortable in your current wisdom tradition so be it. But if you have a universal heart and wish to reach out to find the oneness behind the various traditions you are like an American citizen – you belong to your State, Texas for example, but you are also, via federalism, an American.
These are the Paths, the Teachers, the Teachings and a video introduction for what I have to date;
Interspirituality, Perennial Wisdom, Universalism and Integral Studies – great teachers who show the oneness beyond the diversity (some of these teachers apply to more than one category!)
THE PATH – Inter-religious/mystic
THE TEACHER – Bro Wayne Teasdale
THE TEACHING – Book
VIDEO Intros. – VIDEO
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THE PATH – Perennial Wisdom
THE TEACHER – Eckhart Tolle
THE TEACHING – Books
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THE PATH – Universalism
THE TEACHER – Karen Armstrong
THE TEACHING – Books
VIDEO Intros. – VIDEO
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THE PATH – Integral Studies
THE TEACHER – Ken Wilber
THE TEACHING – Books
VIDEO Intros. – VIDEO
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8 Major wisdom traditions
1 THE PATH – Sufism
THE TEACHER – Shaikh Kabir Helminski
THE TEACHING – Books
VIDEO Intros. – VIDEO
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2 THE PATH – Baha’i Faith
THE TEACHER – Abdu’l-Baha
THE TEACHING – Books
VIDEO Intros. – VIDEO
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3 THE PATH – Christianity
THE TEACHER – Brother David Stendahl-Rast
THE TEACHING – Books
VIDEO Intros. – VIDEO
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4 THE PATH – Buddhism
THE TEACHER – Thich Nhat Hanh
THE TEACHING – Books
VIDEO Intros. – VIDEO
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5 THE PATH – Hinduism
THE TEACHER – Eknath Easwaran
THE TEACHING – Books
VIDEO Intros. – VIDEO
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6 THE PATH – Judaism
THE TEACHER – Abraham Joshua Heschel
THE TEACHING – Books
VIDEO Intros. – VIDEO
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7 THE PATH – Quaker Universalism
THE TEACHER – QUG
THE TEACHING – US articles
VIDEO Intros. – VIDEO
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8 THE PATH – Taoism
THE TEACHER – Deng Ming-Dao
THE TEACHING – Books
VIDEO Intros. – VIDEO
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Two more important figures
THE PATH – ’Science+ mysticism’
THE TEACHER – Albert Einstein
THE TEACHING – Books
VIDEO Intros. – VIDEO
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THE PATH – Holistic Education
THE TEACHER – Prof John P ‘Jack’ Miller
THE TEACHING – Books
VIDEO Intros. – VIDEO
CONCLUSION: Through these teachers I am an inter-faith-ist, an inter-spiritual-ist, a Universalist, an intermystical-ist, a student of perennial wisdom, a Traditionalist i.e. someone committed to the mystical core of all true wisdom traditions.
I therefore am at least a Muslim, a Baha’i, a Christian, a Buddhist, a Hindu, a Jew and a Taoist – light is light in whatever in shines – providing men, and its usually men, have not obscured the light with a black shade of their own making!
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