Contemplative Revolution
108 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsA weekly WCCM audio podcast: Talks, Interviews and dialogues from the World Community for Christian Meditation - www.wccm.org
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Laurence Freeman — Milestone Series, Childhood
July 05, 2019 09:00 - 1 hour - 62.8 MBThis is the first talk in the Milestones series. In this episode Fr Laurence Freeman speaks about the spiritual and psychological aspects of our life journey and how the practice of meditation leads to the recovery of the essential childlike state. John Main saw meditation as the recovery of our innocence. We recover the essential qualities we had as children, our innocence, through our mature relationship to our Source, our ontological parenthood in God as the ultimate ground of our being...
Sarah Bachelard — Faith as The Ground of Action
June 28, 2019 09:00 - 41 minutes - 38.1 MBThis is the second talk Sarah Bachelard gave on the Silent Retreat at the University of Waikato in 2017. She expands on the relationship between contemplative practice and active life: how contemplation changes the agent and shifts his/her vision to see the nature of reality, and the context in which he/she is acting. Experiencing God is not about having a particular experience, it is about having the ground or the context for all our experiences. God is that in which everything else is co...
Charles Taylor — New Ways of Wisdom
June 21, 2019 09:00 - 51 minutes - 47.3 MBThis Talk on New Ways of Wisdom was part of the John Main Seminar 2018: A Contemplative Response to the Crisis of Change 20-23 Sep, Bruges, Belgium. Charles Taylor is a Canadian philosopher known for his examination of the modern self. Taylor’s first major work, Hegel (1975), was a large study of the 19th-century German philosopher that emphasized the ways in which Hegel’s philosophy continues to be relevant to contemporary political and social theory. In 1989 Taylor published Sources of ...
Jean Vanier — Where the Light Comes In (II)
June 14, 2019 09:00 - 56 minutes - 51.6 MBThis is the second talk Jean Vanier gave at the John Main Seminar in Trosly, France in 2016. Jean Vanier spoke about the discovery of the light through the cracks in our world, the fear of the different and the human transformation experienced through the proximity with the weak. Why do we fear those different? Through the mission of L’Arche Jean Vanier explains how people grow and discover the beauty of their being. This is done by not changing people but revealing to them, by presence, th...
David Tacey — Spirituality and Religion in a Secular Age
June 07, 2019 09:00 - 1 hour - 55.8 MBThis Talk was part of a John Main Seminar in Hamilton, New Zeland. David Tacey is Emeritus Professor of Humanities at La Trobe University, Melbourne, and Research Professor at the Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture, Canberra. He is an interdisciplinary scholar and public intellectual who has written extensively on spirituality, religion, youth experience and mental health. He is the author of fourteen books, including The Spirituality Revolution.
Barry White — A contemplative practice to transform healthcare
May 31, 2019 09:00 - 1 hour - 70.3 MBThis Talk was part of the John Main Seminar 2018: A Contemplative Response to the Crisis of Change 20-23 Sep, Bruges, Belgium. The concept of Contemplative Medicine which places meditation at the centre of its insights is being developed by Dr Barry White, a consultant haematologist at St James’s Hospital, Dublin and member of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland. SLIDE PRESENTATION - Download here: adobe.ly/2OlCJKc Music Credits: Aourourou by Blue Dot Sessions
Laurence Freeman — Contemplative Revolution
May 16, 2019 07:00 - 48 minutes - 44.2 MBThis talk was held at Saint James Episcopal Church, in Lancaster, PA, USA. In 2018 Laurence Freeman is a Benedictine monk of the Congregation of Monte Oliveto and Director of The World Community for Christian Meditation. He has conducted dialogues and peace initiatives such as the historic Way of Peace with the Dalai Lama and is active in inter-religious dialogue with other faiths as well as in encouraging the teaching of Christian meditation to children and students and in the re-appropri...
Jean Vanier — Where the Light Comes In (I)
May 09, 2019 07:00 - 1 hour - 66.7 MBJean Vanier explained how people grow and discover the beauty of their being. The biggest revolution a human being can experience is imititating God by remaining silent and listening, by being present. Jean Vanier was a philosopher, writer, religious and moral leader and the founder of two major international community-based organizations, L’Arche and Faith and Light, that exist for people with intellectual disabilities. https://jean-vanier.org/en/meet-jean/introduction Music Credits: Aou...