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Saturday, December 19, 2015

Let's support Thomas Moore's soul work in 2016

FACEBOOK
Public Page: https://www.facebook.com/Thomas-Moore-147758214563"
Personal Page: https://www.facebook.com/thomas.moore.948011
A Religion of One's Own: https://www.facebook.com/moorereligionofonesown

TWITTER
ThomasMooreSoul

EVENT
Friday 22 January - Sunday 24 January
Soul Power: Finding Strength, Originality, and Inner Guidance
Kripalu Center
Stockbridge, Massachusetts

BOOK
Tuesday 26 January
Care of the Soul: A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life
Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition

BOOK
Tuesday 16 February
Soul Mates: Honoring the Mysteries of Love and Relationship
Anniversary Edition

AUDIO CD PROGRAM
Tuesday 1 March
A Personal Spirituality: 
Finding Your Own Way to a Meaningful Life
Sounds True 6 CD Set

EVENT
Thursday 21 April - Sunday 24 April
Animus Mundi: The Spirituality of the World
Psychotherapy as Religious Ritual
Climates of Change and the Therapy of Ideas
Pacifica Graduate Institute
Santa Barbara, California

BOOK
Wednesday 27 April
The Book of Matthew: A New Translation with Commentary
First Edition
Skylight Paths Publishing

EVENT
Sunday 10 July - Friday 15 July
A Religion of One's Own
Omega Institute
Rhinebeck, New York

Wednesday, December 16, 2015

Hear Animus Mundi: The Spirituality of the World

Pacifica Graduate Institute posts details for its Climates of Change and the Therapy of Ideas conference, 21-24 April 2016 at its Ladera Lane Campus in Santa Barbara.

According to the conference description:
As an interconnected and vital community, we come together to engage new ideas that 'see through' existing paradigms. We will gather to listen, to learn, and to work together to spark innovative action. In this calling, we are deeply inspired by James Hillman, the founder of Archetypal Psychology, toward creating a future that undertakes a critical 're-visioning' and 're-imagining' of our world. He urged us to create a therapy of ideas, to bring in new ideas so that we can see the same old patterns differently.'  This landmark conference brings together leading archetypal psychologists, scholars, cultural critics, and artists to turn our ‘therapeutic' attention toward re-imagining the economies and ecologies that will shape our world and future generations." 
Thomas Moore, one of the presenters, will speak about:
Animus Mundi: 
The Spirituality of the World 

"As the culture quickly becomes more secularized, the state of religion and spirituality is in crisis. Suddenly we have to re-imagine what religion is all about or give up on it. We are moving toward a more soulless world because the soul thrives on the holy — a recognition of a non-human dimension in all we do. Today many people prefer to speak of spirituality rather than religion. Understandably, they want a more personal and more sophisticated way of being spiritual. Many may seek this through their psychotherapy. We are moving toward a new definition of religion and new ways of finding sacred forms, rituals, teachings and methods. One important development is including concerns of the soul as well as the spirit. Soul and spirit are increasingly the focus in many psychotherapies. We can find models for re-visioning religion in C.G. Jung, D.H. Lawrence, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Emily Dickinson, Anne Sexton, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau.

Thomas Moore, Ph.D., received his degree in religion from Syracuse University. Before that he was a monk for thirteen years. He is the author of Care of the Soul and nineteen other books, with four new publications coming out in 2016. He has been a psychotherapist for forty years and lectures widely on depth psychology, religion/spirituality and the arts. He was a close friend of James Hillman for 38 years. He is also a musician, translator and writer of fiction. For more information, visit careofthesoul.net."

Thomas Moore also offers this  pre-conference workshop:
Thursday 21 April 2016
9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Fee: $75

Psychotherapy as Religious Ritual
"Jung’s Red Book is a model for doing psychotherapy, both with oneself and with others. The key is a connection and dialogue with transcendent figures, such as Jung’s Philemon. Hillman insisted that we not treat imaginal figures as symbols standing for concepts but rather as having their own independent imaginal reality. He says, “Psychology as religion implies imagining all psychological events as effects of Gods in the soul and all activities do with soul, such as therapy, to be operations of ritual in relation to these Gods.” This workshop explores how to make therapy less conceptual and more a direct relationship with figures of the past, dream events, and current mythologies and dramas of the psyche. It assumes “religion” to mean maintaining a potent relationship with the imaginal realm and finding portals to the mysterious others that play a formative role in the psyche."

Continuing Education Credits are available for Moore's presentation.

Conference Schedule
Thursday, April 21     5:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Friday, April 22          9:00 am - 9:00 pm
Saturday, April 23      9:00 am - 9:00 pm
Sunday, April 24        9:00 am - 1:00 pm

Conference Fee
General Admission $525
Special Admission (Full-Time Students, Pacifica Alumni, and Seniors) $475
Active Pacifica Students $450

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14 Dec 2015 "Share ideas with each other for the anima mundi"

Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Order translation of Matthew with commentary

The long awaited translation of the Gospels with commentary by Thomas Moore, available next year, may be ordered now through Amazon.com. Published by Skylight Paths, the first edition of the Book of Matthew is scheduled for 27 April 2016.

The description includes:
"The Gospels have been used to justify self-focused, self-absorbed and self-referential attitudes, and are often read as moralistic codes that do little more than produce guilt and fear in those who use them as compilations of behavior. Yet break free from the rigidity of many translations and you find testament to a new way of living focused on friendship, emotional intimacy and respect of all beings. In his fresh and life-giving translation of the Gospels, beginning with the Book of Matthew, bestselling author and spiritual innovator Thomas Moore strips the Gospels of their theological agendas and reclaims them as a fundamentally new way of imagining human life... Rich in both soul and spirit, this extraordinary translation and commentary is for people of all spiritual and philosophical backgrounds who want to nourish their spiritual lives with expansive inspiration rather than narrow and negative religious interpretations."
Gospel: The Book of Matthew
A New Translation with Commentary
by Thomas Moore (Translator)
Format: Hardcover
Print Length: 144 pages
Publisher: Skylight Paths
Release: April 27, 2016
Price: $19.99 US
ISBN-10: 1594736200
ISBN-13: 978-1594736209

"The way I read the Gospels, they are not about founding a religion but about raising humanity one giant step in its evolution."
Thomas Moore, 15 December 2015

Monday, December 14, 2015

Share ideas with each other for the anima mundi

Today Pacifica Graduate Institute emails the schedule for its 2016 Public Programs that includes its featured conference Climates of Change and the Therapy of Ideas, April 21-24, 2016.
"My goal is to create a therapy of ideas, to try to bring in new ideas so that we can see the same old problems differently.” — James Hillman 
According to the email:
 "We will gather to listen, to learn, and to work together to spark innovative action. In this calling, we are deeply inspired by James Hillman, the founder of Archetypal Psychology, toward creating a future that undertakes a critical 're-visioning' and 're-imagining' of our world."

"This landmark conference brings together leading archetypal psychologists, scholars, cultural critics, and artists to turn our ‘therapeutic' attention toward re-imagining the economies and ecologies that will shape our world and future generations. This special commemorative gathering marks the 40th anniversary year of Pacifica Graduate Institute and our community's service to the anima mundi."

Presenters include:
Stephen Aizenstat
Patricia Berry
Mermer Blakeslee
Margot McLean
Michael Meade
David Miller
Thomas Moore
Susan Rowland
Dennis Patrick Slattery
Richard Tarnas

Visit Pacifica Graduate Institute for conference details.

Sunday, December 13, 2015

Visit Moore's FB page for A Religion of One's Own

Thomas Moore hosts a separate Facebook page, A Religion of One's Own to explore themes in his latest book with the same title. Please like his page, share it with friends, and respond to his posts as they support your religious practices.

The page helps with "How to style your spiritual life to express your own nature — your vision, values and background either within a tradition or on your own."

Tuesday, December 08, 2015

Let us all help to create such a place as this now

Thomas Moore writes about a kingdom in his column for Spirituality & Health magazine's November - December 2015 issue under the headline "The Path to Utopia". He includes:
". . . Jesus makes it clear that his kingdom is not our usual world at all.

In particular, he says that in his kingdom you are not interested in personal wealth, you don’t judge and condemn yourself or others, and you live by the principle of agape — a mixture of love and respect — where the people we consider outcast will be incast, and vice versa. In this kingdom, those who feel they have a right to belong can’t get in. You should go out of your way to show compassion to people who are not in your circle — your nationality, your political persuasion, or your religion. If you’re searching for something to do with your life, be a healer of some sort.

It should be clear that the Jesus kingdom has little in common with the ways of the world as we know it. I like to borrow a term from my namesake Thomas More of England — utopia. It means either no place or a good place — or both. Jesus seems to be recommending a world that is nowhere, certainly in comparison to the tough world we usually live in, and one that is a good place. He wants to show us how to get to this not-yet-existing place and leave behind a world that works by harsh economics and moralistic judgments, where neighbors are everywhere in conflict." 
Read Moore's column and comment at the end: How do we create the kingdom in this place?