Spirituality Today and the Dramatic Backdrop of the Rising Generation

Questions of Courage

In this episode two powerful gestures are explored in their connection to spiritual development. The first gesture is present in the urgency and pressure that we feel in connection to everything having to do with our shared lives on the earth; the ecological crisis, economic and social challenges and climate change. The other gesture moves in the opposite direction, into expansion, dispersal and a certain kind of liberation; the digital revolution and physically induced expansion of consciousness. The rising generation finds itself placed into this dramatic moment and the question that it poses: How can one develop spiritually in a way that does not weaken one’s connection to collective life and the earth, and can such a path reveal spiritual life in the greater world?

Sherry Turkle. Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

Michael Pollan. How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence

Ernest Cline. Ready Player One; Random House Publishing Group, 2011.

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