By Joe Perez High in the heavens above, the Sun’s sweet sextile with Neptune suggests a universe hospitable to fantasy and the belief that anything is possible. It’s time to inaugurate a new crazy idea: a nightly column on Spirit’s Next Move which follows the hooting of the owls, listening for wisdom, however disjointed and scattered [...]
Today the new Spirit’s Next Move blog, still in a “beta testing” mode, moves closer to its official launch. It’s my first group blog in many years, and one that I have a great deal of enthusiasm about. Not only because it suits the next step in my development, but because I think it’s what [...]
On the If Darwin Prayed blog, Bruce Sanguin asks himself good, tough questions about belief in the resurrection of Jesus Christ. He says: Recently, I heard biologist, Elisabet Sahtouris, offer a great analogy that helps me to interpret the Easter story. Noting that physicists talk about sound vibrations at various frequencies as constitutive of the universe, [...]
Dear Reader, I’m excited to announce that I am joining the Center for World Spirituality team in the role of Director of Communications and Scholar-in-Residence. Furthermore, once our work is underway I expect to take on the responsibility of Editor-in-Chief for a new blog devoted to World Spirituality based on Integral principles. With these developments [...]
Joe Perez’s Soulfully Gay, p. 200: Sunday, July 4 I just finished reading Boomeritis. I couldn’t help but strongly identify with the protagonist, or at least a somewhat less brilliant and witty version thereof. The opening chapters of Boomeritis are virtually identical to those of A Theory of Everything, though from there the books diverge. [...]
Cross-posted from my Facebook Page. Andrew Sullivan today passes along a link to a study on the QWERTY Effect with a false, inane comment. Here’s my reply to him: These authors of the QWERTY Effect have identified a valid phenomenon, but they are utterly clueless as to the explanation (as I wrote the other day [...]
This is the second post in a series on Awake, Alive & Aware featuring short dialogues with some of the leaders of the World Spirituality movement. Today there is a transcript of a telephone call with Marc Gafni, Director of the Center for World Spirituality. Continued from Part 1: “Marc Gafni and Joe Perez in [...]
In “Out and Ordained,” Brett Webb-Mitchell tells of his journey as a gay Presbyterian pastor and offers his prayers for the Church. In 2011, the Presbyterian Church formally allowed openly gay and lesbian ministers. Now, there are new challenges ahead: Webb-Mitchell writes: In order to become more inclusive, there are many “next steps” to be [...]
“Young people often spend a quarter century primarily as critics of a life they know very little about: as consumers they feel powerful and secure, but production frightens and confuses them,” says Walter Russell Mead, editor of The American Interest magazine, is an insightful social commentator who isn’t afraid to make broad assessments of culture and [...]
Last fall, the eruption of the Occupy Wall Street movement in protests in major cities across the U.S. and elsewhere focused attention on income inequality. At the time, I expressed my support for the cause, when it is viewed not as a power play between haves and have-nots, but as a movement of integration towards [...]
Joe Perez is the author of books including Soulfully Gay, one of the first memoirs in the tradition of World Spirituality based on Integral principles. He is Director of Communications, Scholar-in-Residence, and Executive Editor of Spirit's Next Move at the Center for World Spirituality. He is also a blogger and Facebook Page curator exploring and advocating emerging ways of being an awakened human being by consciously evolving a better world and brighter future for all sentient beings. Earlier … [more...]