The Center for World Spirituality

[Balder]

A new "Integral" enterprise, The Center for World Spirituality, will be opening on March 5th of this year in San Francisco, CA.

 

Here's a copy of their mission statement:

 

Center for World Spirituality: Mission Statement

Evolving a World Spirituality is the urgent need and great adventure of our time.

The yearning to articulate a World Spirituality is rippling across the globe in the hearts and minds of tens of millions of people. For some people, the classical religions have lost their power. They seek a path of practice and commitment that transcends the traditions. For others, their intuitive desire is to transcend and include the traditions. They seek to live as dual citizens, rooted in their tradition, even as they locate themselves as citizens in the broader community of World Spirituality.

A World Spirituality based on the shared truths held to be self-evident by all  great systems of spirit and gnosis across historical time is urgently needed at this moment in history. Evolving an authentic life rooted in commitment and freedom articulated and lived in the principles and practices of World Spirituality is the next great step in spirit’s unfolding.

The Center for World Spirituality is writing a series of groundbreaking books and creating new templates for spiritual practice, education, and community. The templates are at once rooted in the past, present, and future. Welling up from an integration of the leading-edge emergent evolutionary insights taught by spirituality, psychology, and the sciences, World Spirituality paves the way for the next stage of evolution, seeding the ground of hope that is our collective memory of the future.

[Mary W.]

So, I wonder: Why "World Spirituality" and not "Integral Spirituality?"

Perhaps it just has a better ring to it?

[Balder]

Yes, good question.  I don't know!

 

[Douglas R Wallack]

Hi Guys,

Marc talked about this at ISE2. I think from what he said, he sees this as a much bigger trend than "Integral". He hinted at this being more of a global spiritual awakening independent of religious affiliation. In that sense, integral would be the more developed/integrated examples of this trend. Just my take...