Interspirituality & the Contemplative Path

A Year Long Exploration with Rabbi Chava

Is the speed of your life serving your spirit?

Is your heart longing to connect more deeply to your spiritual wisdom?

Is it time for you to realign with your heart values?

Are ready to open to a relationship with ultimate experience?

Are you ready to be inspired?

Do you feel you have lost the thread of your inspiration?

Do you want to help heal the world?

Do you seek a community of fellow spiritual learners?

Interspirituality
In The Mystic Heart: Discovering a Universal Spirituality in the World's Religions, Brother Wayne Teasdale wrote that interspirituality is the "sharing of ultimate experiences across traditions."

Interspirituality is the recognition and honoring of the shared spiritual heritage of humanity. While deeply committed to our own tradition and path, we are enhanced by learning about spiritual experience from perspective of other traditions. In this way, we seek not to merge or evangelize, but to share, weave and enhance a common vision of peace, kindness, love, harmony and planetary healing.

Core Components of the Interspiritual, Contemplative Path
Prayer
Work: Love Made Visible
Study
Community
Silence
Hospitality
Love

Through study, meditation, personal writing and shared exploration, participants in the Interspirituality and the Contemplative Path Program will explore and deepen their relationship to and understanding of these seven core components of the contemplative's path. Inspired by Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam and nature honoring traditions, participants will enter into deep discovery of self and ultimate experience.

Program Structure
It is a busy world. We have many competing activities and involvements. This ten month long study program is designed offer both respite and compassionate recognition of people's busyness. The program is build on two residential weekend retreats, autumn and spring, and at-home retreat study in between.

Participants will then learn monthly via live, interactive, internet-based classes, in pairs or small groups by phone and at an individual pace each week. They are asked to engage in regular spiritual practice at home as well. Near the end of the program, participants are asked to complete a contemplative writing or creative project, all of which will be collected and published in the Interspirituality and the Contemplative Path Annual.

Program Outcomes

A deeper personal contemplative practice

Broader understanding of world spiritual traditions

A greater sense of personal peace

Greater inspiration for worldly work

Enhanced prayer/meditation practice

A community of support for your practice

If you would like more information, program application and program schedule and costs, please click here to email Rabbi Chava.

Click below to check out our reading list on Amazon. We have made every effort to choose affordable, available books.
InterSpirituality & Contemplative Path Program Booklist

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