Booklet
"Orange pressure cooker"
Developmental perspective
Need to introduce developmental perspective and multiple intelligences, at least
Spirituality as the fourth of the Big 3
Ultimate concern as a line of development
Fowler?
Evangelicals are insistently anti-developmental
First century absolutism
Conformist social forms; a kind of medievalism
Bibliolatry
Main topic
My story
Tillich opening the door
Ken Wilber
Event and HB
Eternal return, and blue stability
Catholicism (see Catholicism/My story with Catholicism)
Peeling away the veil of interpretation
As getting back to orange
Bill endorsed
NMB
The orangeness of "the reasons behind the rules"
Orange elements in my personality hugely drawn to orange spirituality but hugely threatened by it
Resistance
Maintenance
What only religion can do
Authorize the early stages of development
Science can't because it is always state-of-the-art
Evangelicals
The Evangelical Glass Ceiling
My resentment
"extra-biblical"
I need to get to a place where I don't get angry every time I think about that phrase. But maybe that rage can be constructive.
People will fucking drop out and go orange hardcore
Catholicism
Development of doctrine
As an orange principle
As granting Catholicism license to grow
Rootedness and potentiality
Vatican II had an orange center of gravity
My story with Catholicism
Tree planted by the water
What college aged kids need spiritually
Community
Reconciliation with the world
Realizing that the church is a part of the world, accepting that, and doing something with it
Some sort of mythology
That they can comfortably call mythology
Direction, vocation, guidance
Values
An ultimate concern
Rootedness
Integration
Transcendence
Ken Wilber says rave culture is healthier than state-denying amber religion
Someone to believe in them
Someone to encourage them to follow the truth wherever it leads them
Someone to authorize their thirst for answers
What Ken Wilber misses about religion
What Tillich and KW have in common
Ultimate concern
Post-formal/reason in ecstasy
God/Spirit as nondual Ground
Both inclined to rethink major things over the course of their careers
Tillich insisted on the uniqueness of the Christ event but those who knew him saw him heading toward something like Green before he died...Eliade said he was on the verge of a totally new way of thinking
Wilber has been through all sorts of phases; most recent is post-metaphysical phase
Both had many dialogue partners, both spanned many disciplines
Eranos
I-I
Both saw science as necessary and fully compatible, when healthy, with a healthy spirituality
Both knew and respected Rollo May, and he saw them both as "passionate"
Both examined the premodern from an expansive and compassionate viewpoint
Both saw myth and history as distinct ways of knowing
Both very popular, both very controversial
Both profoundly moved by eastern spirituality
Both interested in art and culture
Both had high estimations of "eros"
Both gave me ideas i strove in vain to forget
Gender ideas
Affirm sexuality
Married
Lost important women in their lives in formative periods (Tillich's mom and Wilber's wife)
Charismatic
Comprehensive, if in different ways
Affinities with Teilhard
Transcend subject/object dualism
What differentiates Tillich from KW
"On the Boundary" versus "No Boundary"
Late Orange versus ultraviolet
Christian versus Tibetan Buddhist
Mysticism is fundamentally flawed vs. mysticism an essential part of spirituality
Myths are inexhaustible vs. myths are necessary for early development and detrimental or at least expendable later on
Static system with internal dynamism vs. wide-angle lens on evolving Kosmos
Religious socialist vs. mostly quiet on politics
Late modern vs. post-postmodern
Academic preacher vs. non-academic recluse
Union-Harvard-Chicago versus I-I
To do's
Read up on emergent movement
Check out BioLogos
Get that book from Troy and read it