As we experience the Universe, our hearts and
minds become infused with its powers.
JAMES CONLON, Ph.D.
Facilitator for Spirituality and the New Earth Story
Jim Conlon's book asks today's spiritual pilgrims to include in their search for the inner-peace a vision of humankind's unique place in the universe. This prophetic challenge calls for new ways of understanding the interrelationships that keep our planet viable.
Writes Conlon, "As new millennium people, we are being called to live in unprecedented ways. We are called to invent for ourselves and for those who will follow us the cultural implications of a new and living cosmology. Some of these implications will demand enormous change in our views of behavior and professions."
Yet, in the face of immanent environmental disaster and the growing threat of terrorism, THE SACRED IMPULSE, and the movement it describes and helps foster, offers new reason for optimism. For example, Conlon comprehends the positive impact of the new communication technologies on our culture. He writes, "The vision being evoked and fostered in our time will be animated by increased levels of communication. The evolving relationships embodying this web of compassion and tapestry of life will be marked by touchstone categories of reciprocity, information, support and common action."
Conlon presents life as a three-dimensional journey: personal, communal and cosmic/universal. He develops the notion that our Spirituality must be grounded in our origins, both local and global, and that any damage we do to the earth damages not only ourselves, our community and our spirituality, but also those of future generations.
James A. Conlon, is chairperson and director of the Sophia Center, a graduate studies program at Holy Names College in Oakland, CA. He is the author of several books including Geo-Justice and Ponderings from the Precipice.
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