Probing CLouds…Dasein and alienation III
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John Heron, with Jorge Ferrer, the pioneer of the participatory spirituality
movement, offers us a succinct presentation of his concept of dipolar and
relational spirituality in terms of a broad map of participatory
spirituality. It is an extract from his keynote talk at an international
conference on “Living Spirit - New Dimensions in Work and Learning ” at the
University of Surrey, UK, in 2002
“Spiritual development fully considered is, in my view, the same thing as
participatory action inquiry into the immanent depths, the transcendent
heights and the situational immediacy of the human condition. And in this
total arena, pre-eminently, the ultimate authority is within. Benjamin
Whichcote (1609-1683), the Cambridge Platonist, got it precisely right when
he said, “If you have a revelation from God, I must have a revelation from
God too before I can believe you”. Once the impeccable spiritual logic of
that statement is grasped, then it is clear that the external authority of a
teacher, a text, or a tradition rests on a prior internal authority,
projected outward. And once such projection is fully withdrawn, then we may
have peer dialogue with teacher, tradition and text - as co-inquirers - but
we never surrender to them. Final spiritual authority rests in that
extraordinary interaction between inner divinity and personal autonomy. And
this in wise dialogue with our peers, so that we can refine both our
critical subjectivity and critical intersubjectivity (Heron, 1998).
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