Falling Upward: A Spirituality For The Two Halves Of Life

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BB: Yeah. Tell me what this means because I think it’s going to make me crazy. “All mature spirituality in one sense or another is about letting go and unlearning.” That is the primary concern of this point. We all suffer some kind of ordeal, something dies in us, only to be reborn in the second task or second mountain. Foreword" in Meal Stories: The Gospel of Our Lives by Kathleen Casey (Thomas More Association, 2000) ISBN 978-0-88347-495-2 Adam's Return: The Five Promises of Male Initiation (Crossroad Publishing Co, U.S., 2004) ISBN 978-0-8245-2280-3

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RR: And you know, much of my middle years was men’s work. If you think that’s true for women, it’s very true for men. We have a much more defended ego, a much more self-sufficient, well, I don’t have to tell women that, but we got a huge problem with the male in our culture. Look at the Senate and the House. I mean, my God.

So naturally, when Dad appeared one snowy evening soon after to give my wife and me the sad news of her passing, Deep Peace was all I felt. At last!

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We’ve already talked about Joseph Campbell in his book, The Hero with a Thousand Faces. In Richard Rohr draws on Campbell heavily in his book. Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer (Crossroad Publishing Co, U.S.; 2nd Revised edition, 2003) ISBN 978-0-8245-1995-7 RR: I was inspired the summer I wrote that book, I guess. Because it’s so well received in jails and prisons, really.Fr. Richard Rohr is a globally recognized ecumenical teacher bearing witness to the universal awakening within Christian mysticism and the Perennial Tradition. He is a Franciscan priest of the New Mexico Province and founder of the Center for Action and Contemplation (CAC) in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Fr. Richard's teaching is grounded in the Franciscan alternative orthodoxy—practices of contemplation and expressing itself in radical compassion, particularly for the socially marginalized. RR: Isn’t it? For us ones especially. We like to have a grievance, because if we can have a grievance, it puts us on a higher pedestal. That person didn’t do their job. BB: Before we get started, let me tell you a little bit about Father Richard. He is a Franciscan friar and teacher, an internationally recognized author and spiritual leader. He teaches primarily on incarnational mysticism, non-dual consciousness, and contemplation, with a particular emphasis on how these affect the social justice issues of our time. He is the author of, I don’t know, 60 books and he has been a huge influence on my life. I wanted to connect with him about his writings and ask him about a number of my favorite quotes and so in this episode we focus on his writing in… Ah! This book is so dang good, Breathing Under Water: Spirituality and the Twelve Steps. BB: That’s strong. That’s a serious word that you’re using there. Undeserved. Like, just mercy, grace?