Category:Spirituality
Can we imagine an open inquiry into spiritual issues, where the experience of every peer is honoured ? That is the promise of 'peer to peer spirituality' and which creates a commons of knowledge and experience.
For more, see: Introduction to the P2P Foundation Wiki Material about Spirituality
Topical Quotes
“Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.”
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man (quoted e.g. in [1])
"Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; Therefore we must be saved by hope.
Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; Therefore we must be saved by faith.
Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; Therefore we must be saved by love."
- Reinhold Niebuhr [2]
William Irwin Thompson: Transitions are Catastrophes
"The transition from one World to another is a catastrophe, in the sense of the catastrophe theory of René Thom. Indeed, a catastrophe is the making conscious of an Unconscious Polity; it is the feeling in Being of a domain that is unknown to thinking. Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe. When rational knowing and political governance no longer serve to feel the actual life of a World, then consciousness becomes embodied in experience outside the world-picture but still within the invisible meta-domain. The conscious process is reflected in the imagination; the unconscious process is expressed as karma, the generation of actions divorced from thinking and alienated from feeling. Catastrophes are discontinuous transitions in Culture- Nature through which knowing has an opening to Being. This moment of passing-together through a catastrophe, this occasion of com-passionate participation, presents an opportunity for a shift from karmic activity to Enlightenment. Thus the transition from one World-Structure to another is characterized by catastrophes in which the Unconscious Polities become visible. At such times there can be a rapid flip-over or reversal in which the unthinkable becomes possible.
No governing elite will allow us to think this transition from one World-Structure to another, but imagination and compassion will allow us to feel what we cannot understand. As "Nature" comes to its end in our scientific culture, the relationship between conscious and unconscious will change and the awareness of immanent mind in bacteria and of autopoesis in devices of Artificial Intelligence will give us a new appreciation of the animism of ancient world-picture. The "Man" of the historical set of Culture-Nature will come to his end in a new irrational world of angels and devils, elementals and cyborgs. In this science fiction landscape, this invisible meta-domain in which we already live, the end of Nature as unconscious karma makes of Enlightenment and Compassion a new political possibility."
(https://web.archive.org/web/20050907215906/http://www.context.org/ICLIB/IC14/Thompson.htm)
- More quotes here
Topical P2P Writers
Key Concepts of This Category
Participatory Spirituality means both that spirituality is being thought of not simply in terms of objective reality, but also subjective and inter-subjective; and that it is not mediated through a hierarchy. It has three basic principles:
- Equipotentiality: everyone can potentially be an equal player in spiritual matters;
- Equiplurality: different spiritual approaches can be equally holistic and liberating;
- Equiprimacy: no human spiritual attribute is superior or morally more evolved than any other.
The idea of Collective Presencing, while not being explicitly spiritual, is about what happens when people come together related through the 'heart' or the 'source' of being. The peer-to-peer practice of being together in a circle (both in dialogue and in silence) enables people to relate more readily at a spiritual level. People are able to get beyond the individual, purely self-interested rational 'mind', or ego, and turn their attention to 'higher' things. These spiritually related ideas, from outside spiritual traditions, institutions or established thinking, are also to be found in Theory U from Otto Scharmer.
Concepts such as the Quaker ones of 'inner light' and "answering that of God in every one" are also very much in tune with a P2P approach to spirituality.
Useful learning resources
Introductory
- P2P Interpretation of Soul as Intersubjective Reality and Spirit as Interobjective Reality by Joe Corbett, 2014
- Collective Spiritual Leadership, from the writing of Charles Eisenstein, 2011
Deeper Study
- The Next Buddha Will Be A Collective: spiritual expression in the peer to peer era, by Michel Bauwens, 2007
- Relational Spirituality and other Heresies in New Age Transpersonalism by Gregg Lahood, 2010
- Introduction to the P2P Foundation Wiki Material about Spirituality compiled by Michel Bauwens
- Recommended book: Revisioning Transpersonal Theory. A participatory vision of human spirituality. By Jorge Ferrer.
Related Categories
- Our Category: Relational is broader, dealing with all peer-to-peer relations, not just on a spiritual plane.
- Our Category: Participation is related through Participatory Spirituality
- Much religion is rooted in tradition, so Category: Neotraditional overlaps with traditional approaches to spirituality.
Pages in category "Spirituality"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 779 total.
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- Neo-Tribalism
- Neomaterialism
- Neotraditional Economics
- Network of Spiritual Progressives
- New Consciousness for a New World
- New Desires of Post-Capitalism
- New Monastic Individuals
- New Renaissance
- New Traditional Economy
- Next Buddha Will Be A Collective
- Nicolás Mendoza
- Nihilism
- Noosphere
- Notes on a Plural Future Spirituality with Plural Identities
- Notes on Spiritual Leadership and Relational Spirituality
- Notes on the Horizontality of Peer-to-Peer Relationships in the Context of the Verticality of a Hierarchy of Values
- Nothing Sacred
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- Occupy Consciousness
- Odyssey of a Soul from East to West
- Omega Point
- On Balancing Horizontal and Vertical Spiritual Development
- On Catholics and Software
- On Kings
- On the Differences between the Pre-Capitalist Commons and the Post-Capitalist Commons
- Oneness, Nihilism, and the Multitude
- Online Church
- Ontological Conflicts as the Deeper Source of Many Political Conflicts
- Ontological Dimension of Commoning
- Open Anabaptism
- Open Buddha
- Open Enlightenment
- Open rTMS Project
- Open Source Buddhism
- Open Source Haggadah
- Open Source Judaism
- Open Source Reiki
- Open Source Religion
- Open Source Theology
- Open Source Vedas
- Open Source Wicca
- Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
- Original Hierarchical Spiritual Structures of Indigenous Peoples
- Origins and History of Consciousness
- Orthopraxis
- Oswald Spengler on the Second Religiosity
- Otherways
- Owen Barfield
- Owen Barfield and the Evolution of Consciousness
- Owen Barfield on Participation
- Owen Barfield on the Enchanted Landscape of Ancient Consciousness
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- P2P and the Cosmobiological Tradition
- P2P Interpretation of Soul as Intersubjective Reality and Spirit as Interobjective Reality
- P2P Occultism
- P2P Temporality - John Holloway
- Pachamama
- Paganism
- Panikkar's Cosmotheandric Vision
- Panpsychism
- Par Cum Pari
- ParaiSurural/es
- Participation and Hybridity in Transpersonal Anthropology
- Participation and the Mystery
- Participative Epistemology
- Participative Perspective on Transformative Practice
- Participative Technology and the Ecclesial Revolution
- Participatory Mind
- Participatory Spirituality
- Participatory Spirituality - A Farewell to Authoritarian Religion
- Participatory Studies
- Participatory Turn
- Participatory Turn and Relational Spirituality
- Participatory Turn in Transpersonal Psychology
- Participatory Vision of the Future of Religion
- Passion of the Western Mind
- Patrick Ryan on the Neuromythology of the Dark Stoa
- Peer
- Peer Production in an Integral and Intersubjective Framework
- Peer to Peer Blessing Community
- Peer-to-Peer as Ethics, Intersubjectivity, Spirituality and Social Change Project
- Peer-to-Peer Network Approach to Psychological Work
- Perichoresis
- Personal Myth
- Personal Sovereignty
- Peter Critchley on the Problems with Horizontalization and Immanentization
- Phenomenon of Man
- Philosophy of Symbolic Forms
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
- Pleonexia
- Political Economy of Attention, Mindfulness and Consumerism
- Political Spiritual Matrix
- Politics of Mysticism
- Polycentric Leadership
- Possession, Power and the New Age
- Post-Materialism
- Post-Materialists
- Post-Media Subjectivation
- Post-Modernism Has Destroyed the Bridge to Rationality
- Practical Knowledge of the Soul
- Prashant Varma
- Primordial Debt Theory
- Property for People, Not for Profit
- Prospects for Religion
- Protect the Sacred
- Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
- Psychic Abundance
- Psychological Commons
- Psychological Commons, Peer to Peer Networks and Post-Professional Psychopractice
- PsyCommons
- PsyEnclosures
- Public Avowals and the Class Morality of the New Elect
- Public Finance based on Early Christian Teachings
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- R.H. Tawney and the Acquisitive Society
- Rabbi Lerner on Spiritual Activism
- Rachel Wagner on Digital Culture and Religion
- Radical Knowing
- Radical Relationality and Mutual Indwelling of Beings in the Cosmos
- Radically Catholic
- Radically Catholic In the Age of Francis
- Raimon Panikkar
- Raimon Panikkar on Religion
- Raimon Panikkar on the Inner Harmony That Should Exist Between Different Religions and Cultures
- Raimon Panikkar on the Relation between Mythos and Logos
- Raimon Panikkar on Why Relativity Is not the Same as Relativism
- Rational Altruism
- Rational Ritual
- Reading List on Mystical Currents within Anarchism
- Recovering Our Technological Unconscious
- Rectification of Names in Confucianism
- Red-Letter Christians
- Reflections on Information Technology and Contemplative Scholarship
- Reinventing the Sacred
- Relatedness and Circularity as the Key World-Ordering Processes of the Native American Worldview
- Relational Model Typology - Fiske
- Relational Ontology of Communion in the Orthodox Tradition
- Relational Power of the Logos in Neoplatonism
- Relational Reality
- Relational Spirituality
- Relational Spirituality and other Heresies in New Age Transpersonalism
- Religion
- Religion and Equality in Human Evolution
- Religion and Technology
- Religion and the Emergence of the Market Dominated Society
- Religion and the Rise of Capitalism
- Religion of No Religion
- Religion That’s Not a Religion
- Religious Ground Motives Behind Human Thought
- Religious Interdictions of Usury and Interest
- Religious Myth as a Form of Truth
- Religious Pluralism
- Religious Thought and Intellectual Property Law in the 21st Century
- Religious Traditions as Conveyor Belts of Transformation
- Religious, Economic and Political Fundamentalisms of the Age of Disruption
- Rerum Novarum
- Res Divini Juris Licence
- Resisting the Love of Power
- Rethinking the Future of World Religion
- Revisioning Transpersonal Theory
- Revival of Peering with Nature
- Reviving the Relational Ethics of Care of the Christian Desert Fathers
- Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages
- Rhythm of Being
- Rights and Equity in the Democratic Construction of Knowledge
- Rise of Christianity
- Rising Psychological Temperature of the Planet's Noopshere
- Ritual of Capitalization
- Rituals Are Temporal Structures That Stabilize Life
- Robert Searle
- Rogantide Procession
- Roland Benedikter on Postmodern Spirituality
- Role of Medieval Social Media in Spreading the Reformation
- Role of Religion in Postcapitalist Communities
- Role of Rituals in Establishing Community Without Communication
- Role of the Soul in Woke Ideology
- Rootedness
- Roots of the Focolare Movement's Economic Ethic
- Rose Sackey-Milligan on Integrating Spirituality and Social Activism
- Routledge Handbook of Economic Theology
- Rudolf Steiner on the Ahrimanic Deception
- Russian Cosmism
- Ruth Potts on the New Materialism
- Ryan Bolger and Eddie Gibbs on the Emerging Participatory Churches
- Ryan Haecker on Cybernetics and the Rediscovery of Spirit in Technology
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- Sabbath and the Common Good
- Sabbath as an Equality-Maintaining Institution in Ancient Israel
- Sabbath Economics and Community Investing
- Sabbath Economics Collaborative
- Sacred Commons
- Sacred Economics
- Sacred Economics with Charles Eisenstein
- Sacred Farming
- Sacred Science
- Sacred Secularity
- Science of Human Goodness
- Search for Ultimacy from Ancient Societies to Postmodernity