February 27-28, 2010

Saturday, 2/27, 9am-5pm

Sunday, 2/28, 2pm-5pm*

*InterSpiritual Zikr service follows

Located at:

First Unitarian Universalist Chapel

1187 Franklin Street (at Geary)

San Francisco, CA

 

Presented by:

First United Lutheran Church &

The Spiritual Paths Institute

Humanity stands at a crossroads between horror and hope. In choosing hope, we must seed a new consciousness, a radically fresh approach to life
drawing its inspiration from perennial spiritual and moral insights, intuition and experience. We call this new awareness InterSpiritual, implying not the homogenization of religion, but the recovering of the shared mystic heart beating in the center of the worldʼs deepest spiritual traditions.

Brother Wayne Teasdale,

“The Mystic Heart”

 

The religious landscape of the world is changing. No longer dominated by separate and securely entrenched religious institutions, Our spiritual lives are increasingly defined by a sense of individual freedom, universality and association with more than one religious or spiritual tradition.

 

InterSpirituality is not the blending of religions or the ending of religious diversity. On the contrary, it recognizes the increasing spiritual creativity emerging from meeting and dialogue among the world's major religious traditions. InterSpirituality acknowledges differences between religions and affirms the greater unity they all share. This unity provides the common ground from which religious diversity flowers. We are discovering that our respect for and love of the religion of our birth need not preclude a similar respect for the full range of human spiritual creativity.