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 November  2001  Newsletter

Things you can do...

Educate Yourself

	The Coming of the Cosmic Christ by Matthew Fox		The Hero With a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
	Forgotten Truth by Huston Smith		Living Buddha, Living Christ by Thich Nhat Hanh
	Paths Are Many, Truth is One by S.G. McKeever		Dialogue With the Other by David Tracy
	Serene Compassion by John and Denise Carmody		Dimensions of the Sacred by Ninian Smart
	The Community of Religions by Wayne Teasdale		Sourcebook of the World's Religions by Joel D. Beversluis

Hidden
Wisdom

by RICHARD SMOLEY

An Interview by D. PATRICK MILLER

WHEN we think of the rise of “alternative spirituality” over the last few decades, what usually comes to mind is people turning away from organized Western religion and toward some form of Eastern mysticism. Yet behind the familiar institutions and rituals of Western religion lie a vast realm of esoteric cosmologies and mystic practices that offer just as much transformative insight and discipline as Zen or Tibetan Buddhism.

From Fearless Books http://www.fearlessbooks.com/FeatureLine1.html

Published by John Wiley & Sons Inc.

The world’s religions seem to be a morass of competing and all too often conflicting claims and creeds. Yet under the surface differences rests a common core of wisdom and practices. Essential Spirituality is the first book to discover these common practices and to make them widely available.

http://www.theforge.org/

Spiritual Wisdom
Spiritual wisdom is a way of being alive. It holds the world and other people within open-bellied, open hearted, non-judgmental awareness. It holds all that life offers – differences, joys and sorrows -- within the paradoxically welcoming context of the infinite spiritual vastness. This way of being alive answers to our own and society’s preoccupations with self, group and materialism. It is at the heart of most spiritual and religious traditions

Interfaith Dialogue

United Religions Initiative - http://www.united-religions.org
Belief Net - http://www.beliefnet.com
North American Interfaith Network - http://www.nain.org
Council for the Parliament of the World's Religions - http://www.cpwr.org
The Interfaith Alliance - http://www.tialliance.org
International Interfaith Centre - http://www.interfaith-center.org/oxford
Association of Interfaith Ministers - http://www.interfaithclergy.org
United Communities of Spirit - http://www.origin.org/ucs.cfm
World Congress of Faiths - http://www.interfaith-center.org/wcf
Yakrider - http://www.yakrider.com
The Taize Community - http://www.taize.fr
Spiritual Paths - http://www.spiritual-paths.com
Global Dialogue Institute - http://astro.temple.edu/~dialogue

MORE LINKS

www.arts.utah.org/visarts/religions.html

http://religionworld.org/

http://understandingislam.com

http://www.world-religions.org/

World Religions is an absorbing, educational piece of software that provides a fascinating introduction to understanding and appreciating different world faiths. It is a refreshing new approach that helps children to readily access information on a variety of religious subjects in an interesting, effortless and affective way. www.r-e-m.co.uk/features/product/relig/images/world1.jpg

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