Learn from Moore's current online offerings

1. Video course
Register for this 3-part video series hosted by Contemplative Journal: The Contemplative Soul, starting 15 August 2016. Cost is $29.99. Get a 15% discount if you join by tomorrow. This course includes a downloadable workbook and email access to Thomas Moore for one week after launch.
Discount code: TMoore15

Soulful Contemplation: The Basics
It’s important to tap into the soul when practicing the contemplative life, and Moore will explore the basics of the soul in video one.

Practicing Dream & Art
A practice of dream work can help one reach the level of depth needed for a soul-oriented contemplative life. Closely related are the images of art. Moore will unpack these concepts in his second video.

A Contemplative Way of Life
Contemplative practices are one thing, but a seriously contemplative way of life is another. Moore breaks down tangible, everyday contemplative practices to deepen one’s soulful life.

2. Podcast interview
Scroll down KPFK Public Radio Online Archives for Layla Ashley's The Inspire Me Show to listen to her interview with Thomas Moore.
Part 1 July 21 47 minutes
Part 2 July 28 34 minutes (Moore mentions his new book, Aging with Soul (St. Martin's Press, 2017).

3. Video conversation
Watch Thomas Moore with Elizabeth Lesser talk about Meeting Fear with Love, from 13 July 2016 at Omega Institute. This recording will be available until 11 Oct. 2016. Free registration is an option. The session is approximately 1.5 hours and ends with an audience Q&A.

Explore online James Hillman's therapy of ideas

Thomas Moore participates in Pacifica Graduate Institute's online program, James Hillman and a Therapy of Ideas curated by Jennifer Selig. It is limited to 15 registrants.

“My goal is to create a therapy of ideas, to try to bring in new ideas, so that we can see the same old patterns differently.”  
— James Hillman  

The inaugural series includes:
1. Introduction: A Therapy of Ideas – Glen Slater, PhD
2. Psychotherapy – Joseph Coppin, PhD
3. War – Ipek S. Burnett, PhD
4. Psyche and Eros – Safron Rossi, PhD
5. Dreams – Stephen Aizenstat, PhD
6. Psychology and Religion – Thomas Moore, PhD

Twelve Week Program (Six Weeks Online)
August 29 – November 20, 2016

$475 General Admission
$425 Special Admission
(Full-time Students, Pacifica Alumni, Seniors)
$395 Active Pacifica Students

Moore encourages everyone to become bigger

During the panel discussion Meeting Fear with Love Wednesday night at Omega Institute, Thomas Moore and Elizabeth Lesser answer a question about humility and leadership. Moore's response addresses the need for everyone, not just leaders, to become bigger people. He encourages everyone to become bigger in vision, imagination and community participation. He suggests the only way to be humble is to be big. Anything else is going to be a defense against bigness. "If your humility is a defense, anxiety about being big is not real."

This echoes Moore's recent Patheos blog, "Circling" about Emerson's essay:

"Emerson sees the circling in life as an opportunity to bounce to another circle, transcending the self of the first circle. Not growth, but a leap to another sphere, a different circle, not going up a graded stairway to heaven but catapulting across to a new world. The difference is crucial. Here are his words [emphasis added]:  “The heart refuses to be imprisoned; in its first and narrowest pulses it already tends outward with a vast force and to immense and innumerable expansions.” 

Register now for Moore's 3-part video course

Contemplative Journal adds payment by credit card to its PayPal option for its 3-part video course through Ruzuku with Thomas Moore. This on-demand course, The Contemplative Soul: Developing a More Soulful Life using Contemplative Practices, is available Monday 15 August, 2016. The description includes two bonuses with the course:
— A downloadable workbook will accompany the video series.
— Thomas Moore will personally answer your questions via email for one week after the launch of the video series.

Watch yesterday's short video of Moore describing the course on Contemplative Journal's Facebook page.

Barque coverage 
5 July 2016 "Video series about contemplation starts August 15"

Moore high on list of spiritually influential leaders

Contemplative Journal reminds us that Thomas Moore is number 27 on Watkins’ Spiritual 100 List for 2016. Moore moves up the list one spot from number 28 in 2015. In 2014 he was number 85.

Three main criteria for inclusion are:
1) The person has to be alive as of January 1st, 2016;
2) The person has made a unique and spiritual contribution on a global scale;
3) The person is frequently searched and actively talked about on the Internet.

Moore offers a 3-part online video course with Contemplative Journal starting 15 August 2016: The Contemplative Soul: Developing a More Soulful Life Using Contemplative Practices. Register now.
Cost: $29.99 US
Bonuses:
— A downloadable workbook will accompany the video series.
— Thomas Moore will personally answer participants' questions via email for one week after the launch of the video series.

Barque coverage
17 Apr 2015 "Moore's influence grows among spiritual leaders"
8 Oct 2014 "Moore is among most spiritually influential in 2014"

The soul "expands another orbit on the great deep"

Thomas Moore writes "Circling" for his Soul & Spirit blog at Patheos in which he talks about Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay Circles (1841).

Moore writes, "We live in circles, even if we prefer the illusion that we are a series of straight lines. Evolution, personal and social, is a stone falling into a still lake. Sometimes the circle feels as if we are chasing our tail, what the old magus called uroboros, the snake that eats its tail. It’s frustrating because, believers in straight lines, we think we’re getting nowhere. But read Emerson’s essay. Circling is the path to self-discovery."

Moore shares:

"I also remember my dear friend James Hillman who always recommended staying with or in the circumstances that are difficult, instead of trying to find a way out of them. He didn’t mean to surrender or succumb but to find a way through life’s challenge. Then you are not escaping or denying or avoiding.

Often, when I mention the beauty of circling, someone will say, “I’m all right with spirals.” Well, of course. Spirals get you somewhere. They are straight lines with circles around them. But they are not circles." 

Moore states, "The feeling of being stuck and going around in a circle may be maddening but it’s the perfect preparation for the kind of advancement that Emerson describes. All right, it’s not really advancement and yet it is a positive development." This positive development is transformation.

"The life of man is a self-evolving circle, which, from a ring imperceptibly small, rushes on all sides outwards to new and larger circles, and that without end. The extent to which this generation of circles, wheel without wheel, will go, depends on the force or truth of the individual soul. For it is the inert effort of each thought, having formed itself into a circular wave of circumstance, as for instance an empire, rules of an art, a local usage, a religious rite, to heap itself on that ridge and to solidify and hem in the life. But if the soul is quick and strong it bursts over that boundary on all sides and expands another orbit on the great deep, which also runs up into a high wave, with attempt again to stop and to bind. But the heart refuses to be imprisoned; in its first and narrowest pulses it already tends outward with a vast force and to immense and innumerable expansions." 
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Circles

Free registration for Moore's video event at Omega

During Thomas Moore's retreat week program at Omega Institute, he'll participate in a Livestream presentation, Meeting Fear with Love with Omega co-founder Elizbether Lesser on Wednesday 13 July, 2016. You may register for FREE access to this online video event and will receive notification and a reminder via email.

NOTE: This page states start time is 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time.
Course: WB16E
Teachers: Thomas Moore, Elizabeth Lesser

"Join best-selling author of Care of the Soul Thomas Moore and Omega co-founder Elizabeth Lesser for a discussion on how we each can harness the power of love to cut through the paralysis of fear — both personal fear and the collective fear that is so present in today's world."

Barque coverage
20 Apr 2016 "Register to watch Moore's panel at Omega Institute"

Listen to podcast of 4 July interview with Moore

Listen to the podcast of Layla Ashley interviewing Thomas Moore on 4 July 2016 for The Inspire Me Show. In this 57-minute audio recording Moore talks about imagination, mystery, the ordinarily sacred, technology, soul and his translation of GOSPEL The Book of Matthew. He also shares themes in his future book, Aging with Soul (St. Martin's Press) to be released next year.

This program is made available through KPFK Public Radio – Online Archives for a limited time.

Find a deep place within, calmer and full of vitality

Copper Beech Institute updates information about Thomas Moore's weekend retreat Tapping into the Soul’s Depths: Finding Personal Strength, Inner Guidance and Purpose Through Soulful Living from Friday 11 November to Sunday 13 November, 2016. Tuition is $250 US plus accommodations.

 The retreat description includes:
"We will explore three key benefits of a soulful life: inner guidance, confidence, and a soulful lifestyle. You will get a fresh, new, soul-centered angle on life as well as the tools to work out obstacles from the past like childhood conflicts, negative religious influences and feelings of personal inadequacy." 

IDEAL for all levels including beginners.

Copper Beech Institute
Phone: 860.760.9750 | Fax: 860.521.1929
Email: info@copperbeechinstitute.org
303 Tunxis Road, West Hartford, Connecticut 06107

Video series about contemplation starts August 15

Contemplative Journal hosts a 3-part video series about soul-centered contemplation with Thomas Moore starting Monday 15 August, 2016. The series is $29.95 on Ruzuku and must be paid through Paypal.

Part I Soulful Contemplation: The Basics – It’s important to tap into the soul when practicing the contemplative life, and Moore will explore the basics of the soul in video one.
Part II  Practicing Dream & Art – A practice of dream work can help one reach the level of depth needed for a soul-oriented contemplative life. Closely related are the images of art. Moore will unpack these concepts in his second video.
Part III A Contemplative Way of Life – Contemplative practices are one thing, but a seriously contemplative way of life is another. Moore breaks down tangible, everyday contemplative practices to deepen one’s soulful life.

Bonuses include:
*A downloadable workbook with the video series.
*Thomas Moore will personally answer participants' questions via email for one week after the launch of the series.