Conspire conference 20135/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Evil becomes apparent when exposed to the Truth. We cannot directly fight or separate ourselves from evil or untruth. ![]() No one needs to be punished, scapegoated, or excluded. By reason of the Incarnation, there is no truthful distinction between sacred and profane. For those who see deeply there is only One Reality.God is not someone to be afraid of but is the Ground of Being and on our side. If God is Trinity and Jesus is the face of God, then it is a benevolent universe.Scripture as validated by experience, and experience as validated by Tradition, are good scales for one’s spiritual worldview.The Seven Themes are, I hope, an honest statement about the underlying foundations of what I teach. So what these Seven Themes led to were seven highly participatory conferences that we called CONSPIRE, because conspirare (Latin: con, with + spirare, to breathe) means “to breathe together.” How can we breathe together a kind of wisdom, a kind of what we hope is goodness for the world? We attend services but note the word “attend.” “Attending” is not really participating with our active, embodied selves. And I really think Christianity in general has been weak on practice. It became the beginnings of what we now call the Living School, where we’re not trying to teach just theory, but practice. She read them, and she looked at me and said, “We have the curriculum for a school.” We now call them “Seven Themes of an Alternative Orthodoxy.” During the final CONSPIRE conference in 2021, Father Richard shared how these Seven Themes came to be:Ī previous director at our Center asked me, “Richard, you talk about so many things, but what are your underlying major themes that keep recurring in different forms?”Īs I remember, I took at least two or three months to try to say, “Okay, that’s foundational, that’s foundational, and so forth.” And I brought them to her. About ten years ago, Father Richard summarized his wide variety of teachings into seven central themes. ![]()
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