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We are a center for experiential education, rooted in the Gospels, encouraging the transformation of human consciousness through contemplation, and equipping people to be instruments of peaceful change in the world.
October 31, 2011
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Emotional Sobriety
“Stinking thinking” is the universal addiction. All societies are addicted to themselves and create deep codependency. There are shared and agreed-upon addictions in every culture and every institution. These are often the hardest to heal—they do not look like addictions because we have all agreed to be compulsive about the same things and blind to the same problems. Some form of alternative consciousness is the only freedom from this self and from cultural lies.
If the universal addiction is to our own pattern of thinking, which is invariably dualistic, the primary spiritual path must be some form of contemplative practice (once just called “prayer”) to break down this unhelpful binary system of either-or thinking and superiority thinking. “Prayer” is changing your operating system!
From From Breathing under Water: Spirituality and the Twelve Steps,
pp. xxiii, xxiv
Starter Prayer:
Change my mind.
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