{"id":802,"date":"2012-12-25T15:01:58","date_gmt":"2012-12-25T23:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=802"},"modified":"2012-12-25T15:01:58","modified_gmt":"2012-12-25T23:01:58","slug":"interspirituality-the-next-step","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=802","title":{"rendered":"Interspirituality: The Next Step"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve just been reading a book, The coming interspiritual age<\/a>, by Kurt Johnson & David Robert Ord (Vancouver: Namaste, 2012\u2014just published!) It explains at length\u2014delightfully!\u2014just why now\u2019s the time! I do sense a shift from spirituality based on content to spirituality based on process\u2014but more about that anon. The books was a Christmas present from my daughter who knew I liked such things. It is a fine text in many respects.<\/p>\n

However, I\u2019ve realized that in the last decade I\u2019ve matured to an interesting point where I am caught up with articulating the \u201chow\u201d for what you describe as a goal. Mythically, I suspect I\u2019m not going to sense God\u2019s presence; rather, I work in the office, or on the factory floor. I don\u2019t even desire mystical union. For me, knowing that I\u2019m helping in the process is reward enough.
The tools I\u2019ve been given sprout from several sources—Moreno\u2019s psychodrama being a major one; a little Jung, Whitehead, Adler, Kabbalah, etc. But basically, here is the plan: <\/p>\n

Humans have come through a phase of word-mastery, and over-valuation of words and numbers (\u201clogo-centricity\u201d). General shifts tend to over-do it. Anyway, there is yet another mode of co-creativity that includes words but also adds action (simulations, role playing, role training) and psychology (increasing the level of discourse by people daring to empathize with others, play the \u201cdouble\u201d or voice-over role, and allow themselves to be corrected. This is a more subtle and complex form of improv and empathy-reaching psychotherapy—but the kick is that the one who doubles is morally obligated to try to be open to corrections given by the one who is doubled. This builds in a self-correcting cybernetic system. Instead of helpers presuming they know better, they are bound to be sensitive to working with what the helped require, and they take it over again until the helpee says, \u201cYes, that\u2019s how I feel.\u201d This is a corrective to \u201cinterpretation,\u201d which was vulnerable to getting clients to assent to the power gradient. <\/p>\n

The involvement of enactment tends to make all this more vivid. Showing us rather than talking about it generates an immediacy and authenticity that is a little empowering of spontaneity. What I\u2019m getting at is the re-formulation and propagation of a technology for collaborative creativity. Sorry if it isn\u2019t clear: Your feedback may help me to explain it more clearly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve just been reading a book, The coming interspiritual age, by Kurt Johnson & David Robert Ord (Vancouver: Namaste, 2012\u2014just published!) It explains at length\u2014delightfully!\u2014just why now\u2019s the time! I do sense a shift from spirituality based on content to spirituality based on process\u2014but more about that anon. The books was a Christmas present from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,13,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-spirituality-and-philosophy","category-wisdom-ing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":803,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions\/803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}