Towards a World Spirituality built on Integral values
Writer focused on developing and advancing a World Spirituality built on Integral tenets. Joe Perez is the author of two books including Soulfully Gay, a spiritual autobiography. An Honors graduate of Harvard University, he has studied at Pacific Integral and The Divinity School at The University of Chicago. Arctophile. Wannabe cowboy. He also serves on the Board of the Center for World Spirituality.
Some time during the last eight years of the past Millennium and the first 12 years of our present century, the world quietly but inexorably changed. It was a sea change more radical than anything anyone has seen in about 50 years, since the end of the second world war. But it is a change [...]
Sri Aurobindo, with the shining light of a truly enlightened being, revolutionizing the Vedic tradition with evolutionary conciousness, writes of the further reaches of development which he calls Supermind (and Ken Wilber correlates to Clear Light): The Psychic transformation and the first stages of the spiritual transformation are well within our conception; their perfection would [...]
A fascinating analysis of data on American religiosity today shows the rise of a new ethos in the United States: a stunning 48 percent of Americans now describe themselves as BOTH spiritual AND religious, with another 30 percent preferring the “spiritual, BUT NOT religious” formula. Now here’s the stunner: only 13 years ago, a majority [...]
Not everyone’s path to God follows a straight line through the religious tradition in which they were raised. And if you were raised with a strong traditional faith in Allah or Jesus Christ or Yahweh or Jehovah … well, God blesses your path of integrating all that you know to be true and holy with [...]
At first, I saw no reason that I should link to this blog post by a pseudonymous blogger who calls himself Orac. He claims to be a surgeon/scientist, and I have little doubt that he is. He is skeptical about all complementary/alternative medicine, which he likens to The Secret and New Age woo-woo nonsense. At [...]
Joe Perez's Awake, Alive & Aware is committed to practicing and advocating integral ways of living as conscious beings in an evolving universe. Our vision is to be a source and reflection of God's Light and Love, exploring how to live life to the fullest with inquisitive minds and open hearts. We are grounded in World Spirituality built on Integral principles. I … [MORE...]
Sri Aurobindo, with the shining light of a truly enlightened being, revolutionizing the Vedic tradition with evolutionary conciousness, writes of the … [MORE...]
Kevin, a reader of Awake, Alive & Aware, writes: Spirituality? Questions? Who am I? Yes. Yes. And yes. I would add the search for meaning and a … [MORE...]
Spiritual power is not an oxymoron. Watkins Books, a British magazine publisher, has begun to rank spiritually influential people. In a new list for … [MORE...]
"Love is not a feeling. Love is an action, an activity ... Genuine love implies commitment and the exercise of wisdom .... love as the will to extend … [MORE...]
Today my home state of Washington becomes the seventh state in the USA to legalize same-sex marriage. I am grateful for the wisdom and discernment of … [MORE...]