Curriculum

Sample Curriculum

FRIDAY:  Care of the Soul and Spiritual Guidance
 
SATURDAY A.M.:  A THEOLOGY FOR THE 21ST CENTURY

• Evoking and exploring the mysteries
• A contemporary approach to ritual and story
• Restoring a mystic’s view of “God”

SATURDAY P.M. : THE SPIRITUAL “USE” OF DREAMS AND ART

• Making sense of dreams
• Archetypal images
• Spirituality and the arts

SATURDAY P.M. (2):  THE SPIRITUALITY OF SEX

• Sex as the archetype of vitality
• Eros = connection, pleasure, and movement in life
• Spiritual values in sex

SUNDAY A.M.: SPIRITUAL POETICS

• The parables of Jesus
• Sufi poets
• Spiritual lessons in secular literature
• The practice of spiritual reading
• Greek mythology as sacred poetry

Readings include a partial list of excerpts from:

• Zen Mind.....Shunryu Suzuki
• Letters and Papers..... D. Bonhoeffer
• Hippolytos....Euripides
• The Frogs ....Aristophanes
• A Blue Fire.....J. Hillman
• Essential Sufism......Fadiman and Frager
• Beyond Belief......E. Pagels
• Women in Praise of the Sacred.....ed Jane Hirshfield. 

     There is one book Tom and Wayne are expecting everyone to read.  "The Soul's Religion", by Thomas Moore and it will be sent to all registrants.