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Responding to Cruelty, Bullying and Chaos
On March 17, 2025 Aspen Initiative (Wisdon From the Top of the World) offered a free webinar with some of the foremost non-dual...
Rick Bonetti
4 days ago2 min read
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Harnessing the Energies of Love
Ilia Delio, in her February 2025 talk "Old God, New God, Part 2" , responded to a question by Susan Izard , retired spiritual director...
Rick Bonetti
5 days ago1 min read
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April 2025 Eco-Spiritual Calendar
Here's a list of some upcoming online and Rogue Valley in-person, eco-spiritual activities that may be of interest to you. Check back, as...
Rick Bonetti
Mar 256 min read
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InterSpiritual Unity Consciousness
Father Thomas Keating Father Thomas Keating (1923-2018) had a prophetic vision of Oneness as both an inner state of consciousness and an...
Rick Bonetti
Feb 274 min read
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The Source of Hope
For nearly half of U.S. voters, the new year 2025 does not easily bring hope. The values expressed by the new administration about social...
Rick Bonetti
Jan 123 min read
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Integral Worldview
Charles Taylor argued in his seminal work, Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity (1989) that our contemporary...
Rick Bonetti
Dec 5, 20244 min read
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Beauty, Truth & Goodness
In his 2007 book Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution: How the Integral Worldview Is Transforming Politics, Culture and...
Rick Bonetti
Dec 5, 20242 min read
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Church of the Planet and a Theology of Evolution
In her 2020 book Re-Enchanting the Earth: Why AI Needs Religion, Ilia Delio says: "The shift from the individual to the posthuman in the...
Rick Bonetti
Jul 19, 20242 min read
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A Quaker New Story
Learn a New Story that is grounded in the sciences, animated by the humanities, and imbued with wisdom from Indigenous traditions and world
Rick Bonetti
Apr 18, 20242 min read
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The Matter With Things
The Center for Process Studies (CPS )identifies itself as offering "a relational worldview for the common good. with a mission to foster...
Rick Bonetti
Apr 17, 20242 min read
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Creating Cosmogenesis Through Art
April 11, 2023, at 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. PDT on Zoom. - Join eco-spiritual artist/educator/filmmaker Imogene Drummond as she explores the...
Rick Bonetti
Apr 6, 20241 min read
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Hope on the Edge, Beyond Boundaries
May 18, 19, 25. and 26, 2024 - The Guild for Spiritual Guidance, and the Human Energy Project are co-sponsoring a webinar series with Dr....
Rick Bonetti
Feb 21, 20242 min read
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Consciousness Is Everywhere
This past fall, 2023 I took an OLLI course called Unraveling the Mysteries of Consciousness. John Kalb, the instructor defined...
Rick Bonetti
Jan 17, 20244 min read
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An Unfinished God for a Techno-Driven World
This past weekend I was a theology nerd with over 100 people watching online as Ilia Delio, John D. Caputo, Diarmuid O’Murchu, Catherine...
Rick Bonetti
Dec 5, 20234 min read
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Science & Religion
Original art by Rick Bonetti from a photo of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. In Andrew M. Davis and Phiip Clayton's 2018 book how I found GOD...
Rick Bonetti
Oct 25, 20233 min read
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Religion Outside The Box
John Dorhauer's 2015 book Beyond Resistance: The Institutional Church Meets the Postmodern World was a call to the institutional church...
Rick Bonetti
Sep 16, 20233 min read
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Evolution of Science & Religion
I recently watched the 1997 movie Contact, which I thoroughly enjoyed for the third time. The movie has a subplot about an evolving...
Rick Bonetti
Aug 26, 20233 min read
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ProSocial Spirituality
Kate Sheehan Roach, Director of ProSocial Spirituality sees "the reunification of science and spirituality as one of the hallmarks of...
Rick Bonetti
Aug 23, 20231 min read
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A Mystical Planetary Awakening
Matthew Fox publishes a free Daily Meditation (via email subscription) as part of the Creation Spirituality movement. "What does it take...
Rick Bonetti
Aug 20, 20231 min read
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Creating Ecozoic Practices
Deeptime Network will be offering a 4-week Zoom course on Creating Ecozoic Practices, on Tuesdays, April 4 - May 2, 2023, from 4-6 p.m....
Rick Bonetti
Mar 7, 20231 min read
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Eco-Spiritual Leaders
The BTS Center is offering an eight-week online course EcoSpiritual Leaders: Encounters with Wholeness on Thursdays, 10:00 - 11:30 p.m....
Rick Bonetti
Mar 6, 20231 min read
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Where Does Sustainability Meet Spirituality?
"The Earth is being devastated before our own eyes, primarily due to the unsustainable economic, ecological, societal, geopolitical,...
Rick Bonetti
Jan 6, 20231 min read
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An Open-Source Revolution
Brian D McLaren's 2021 book Faith After Doubt sets a framework for understanding faith development in four stages: Simplicity,...
Rick Bonetti
Nov 26, 20222 min read
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Today is the Birthday of the World
Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year begins Sunday, September 25, 2022 at sundown, marking the start of 10 days of reflection and prayer,...
Rick Bonetti
Sep 25, 20222 min read
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The Big History of Consciousness
From Imogene Drummond via Facebook: The International-Big History-Association is hosting a free zoom webinar on Saturday, July 16, 2022...
Rick Bonetti
Jul 15, 20221 min read
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Imagining a New Future Together
Join Joanna Macy, author of Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We're in Without Going Crazy (to be released June 12, 2022) and Jonathan...
Rick Bonetti
May 4, 20222 min read
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Emergent Spirituality
In this YouTube video on emergent spirituality, stand-up philosopher and prolific author Tim Freke presents a new worldview in which God...
Rick Bonetti
May 2, 20221 min read
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A Love Song to the World
I enjoy Matthew Fox's Daily Meditations delivered to my email inbox. I am grateful for the Via Positiva as a counterbalance to the Via...
Rick Bonetti
Apr 29, 20221 min read
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Post Christendom Spirituality
Where are all the young people looking for a spiritual home in a post-evangelical Christian world? They probably aren’t interested in...
Rick Bonetti
Apr 29, 20222 min read
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Eco-Spirituality and Cosmic Connection Seen Through the Eyes of an Artist
On Thursday, April 28, 2022 International artist, and filmmaker Imogene Drummond shared how her growing awareness of our integral...
Rick Bonetti
Apr 27, 20221 min read
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Sacred Season for Climate Justice
Greenfaith identifies the period between March 17 and May 6, 2022 as a Sacred Season for Climate Justice. It is a season when several...
Rick Bonetti
Mar 18, 20221 min read
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Naw-Ruz
Ashland Bahai Community Life warmly invites the public from all faith communities to celebrate the Bahá’í Naw-Ruz /New Year on March 20,...
Rick Bonetti
Mar 17, 20222 min read
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The Dream of the Cosmos
In her 2020 book The Dream of the Cosmos, author Anne Baring "synthesizes the work of Teilhard de Chardin, Margarita Gimbutas, and Carl...
Rick Bonetti
Dec 1, 20211 min read
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The Interconnectedness of All Things
In some circles, science and mysticism are merging. In the 2004 movie What the Bleep Do We Know? fourteen scientists and mystics share...
Rick Bonetti
Jul 7, 20181 min read
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Sacred Activism Conversation
The California Institute of Integral Studies will be hosting a Sacred Activism Conversation between Andrew Harvey and Sean Kelly on...
Rick Bonetti
Jun 9, 20182 min read
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Goodness & Oneness
“Using our shared humanity to bridge divides.” Harmony Interfaith Initiative is “an educational community organization affiliated with...
Rick Bonetti
May 5, 20182 min read
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Happy Easter
From Methodist minister David Felten in Fountain Hills, AZ (where I worked for 16 years and lived in nearby Scottsdale): “For those who,...
Rick Bonetti
Mar 31, 20181 min read
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A Paschal Mystery Story for the Third Millennium
March 20th is the first day of Spring (the Spring Solstice and Equinox) – the start of a new season in the annual cycle of blossoming and...
Rick Bonetti
Mar 19, 20184 min read
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