The New Monasticism · an Interspiritual Manifesto for Contemplative Living by Bucko, Adam -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Page Contents Foreword Preface Introduction: Beginnings

Man, Woman, and Language Why “New Monastics?” New Monastics’ Relationship with Traditional Monasticism The Heart of New Monastic Life: Spiritual Praxis

Daily Practice Weekly, Monthly, and Yearly Practice Sacred Activism: The Spiritual Practice of Vocation Formal Study Shadow Work Spiritual Direction Spiritual Friendship and Community A Commitment of Vows

The Book and the Manifesto

Movement 1: The Manifesto

Prologue Prelude The Beginningless: The Archetype of the Monk New Monastics: Monks in the World Building Bridges: Contemplative Life in the Twenty-First Century An Interspiritual Path Epilogue: Touching the Horizon

Movement 2: Unpacking the Manifesto

Questions Kindled by the Manifesto: A Dialogue with Tradition A Global Mythos

In the Midst of Epochal Change Complexity, Consciousness, and Convergence an Evolutionary Story Unification A Second Axial Age Religious Traditions in a Second Axial Age A New Generation

Interspirituality

Origins The Present-Day Movement What we Mean by Interspirituality

An Interspiritual Path Dialogical Dialogue Dialogical Sophiology

Sophia Dialogical Sophiology Personalization The Archetype of the Theologian Return to Sophia

Meditations on Vocation

New Monastic Communities

Movement 3: A Dialogical Interlude

On the Snowmass Dialogues, Grace, and Incarnation On the Snowmass Dialogues as Methodology On Dialogical Intimacy in Spiritual Direction, Superpersonalization, and Enlightenment On Mentorship On a New Generation of Seekers

Movement 4: The Path

Orientation: The way of the New Monastic The Importance of Modern Psychology An Integral Framework: Lines, States, and Stages

“Stages” and the Pre/Trans Fallacy States of Consciousness Lines of Development The Shadow

The Psychological Model of Father Thomas Keating: The Divine Therapist

Stages of Consciousness and Evolutionary Development The Development of the False-Self System The Divine Therapy

The Dark Nights

The Dark Night of Sense Fruits of the Night of Sense The Dark Night of the Soul or Spirit

The Nine Elements of Spiritual Maturity

Element 1: Actual Moral Capacity Element 2: Solidarity with All Living Beings Element 3: Deep Nonviolence Element 4: Humility Element 5: Spiritual Practice Element 6: Mature Self-Knowledge Element 7: Simplicity of Life Element 8: Selfless Service and Compassionate Action Element 9: The Prophetic Voice

The Evolutionary Imperative

Afterword Bibliography Notes