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The ''spirit'' is often contrasted with the ''mind'' and the ''body'', so here we are dealing with questions that go beyond mere survival and sanity,
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.
and include the meanings and purposes of life, human values and perhaps religion.
Religious movements, organisations and traditions differ greatly in the extent of how they fit in with the Commons and Peer-to-Peer philosophy and practice,
and even within established spiritual traditions there are often leads and pointers towards a peer-to-peer approach.
However, contemporary spirituality is often looked for and found outside organisational structures.  


==Topical Quote==
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.”'''  
'''“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 [https://cac.org/pierre-teilhard-de-chardin-part-ii-evolving-consciousness-2015-08-12/])
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man (quoted e.g. in [https://cac.org/pierre-teilhard-de-chardin-part-ii-evolving-consciousness-2015-08-12/])
"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 [http://www.doyletics.com/arj/howtheir.shtml]
===The Real Monastery===
'The monasteries of this century are not in Montenegro or on-chain.
They are in Suzhou’s control rooms, in Hefei’s industrial parks,
in the green bureaucracy of Anji,
in Singapore’s rooms of chilled air and civil-service calm.
Here, monks in high-vis jackets tend the sacred circuit.
They speak the liturgy of maintenance:
load, flow, throughput, redundancy.
They will never trend on X.
But they will keep the planet habitable long after the last conference selfie fades.
<Salvation is infrastructural. The only immortality left to us is continuity.""
-  Chor Pharn [https://thecuttingfloor.substack.com/p/popups-and-pipes-how-the-network]
===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 [[Introduction to the P2P Foundation Wiki Material about Spirituality#Long Citations|here]]'''


==Topical P2P Writers==
==Topical P2P Writers==
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==Key Concepts of This Category==
==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.
[[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:
It has three basic principles:
#[[Equipotentiality]]: everyone can potentially be an equal player in spiritual matters;
#[[Equipotentiality]]: everyone can potentially be an equal player in spiritual matters;
#[[Equiplurality]]: different spiritual approaches can be equally holistic and liberating;
#[[Equiplurality]]: different spiritual approaches can be equally holistic and liberating;
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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 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.
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.
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]].
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.
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==
==Useful learning resources==


===Introductory===
===Introductory===
* [[P2P Interpretation of Soul as Intersubjective Reality and Spirit as Interobjective Reality]] by Joe Corbett, 2014
* [[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
* [[Collective Spiritual Leadership]], from the writing of [[Charles Eisenstein]], 2011
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===Deeper Study===
===Deeper Study===
* The [[Next Buddha Will Be A Collective]]: spiritual expression in the peer to peer era, by [[Michel Bauwens]], 2007
* 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
* [[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]]
* [[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==
==Related Categories==
* Our [[:Category: Relational]] is broader, dealing with all peer-to-peer relations, not just on a spiritual plane.
* 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]]
* Our [[:Category: Participation]] is related through [[Participatory Spirituality]]
* Much religion is rooted in tradition, so [[:Category: Neotraditional]] overlaps with traditional approaches to spirituality.
* Much religion is rooted in tradition, so [[:Category: Neotraditional]] overlaps with traditional approaches to spirituality.

Latest revision as of 10:39, 13 October 2025

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]


The Real Monastery

'The monasteries of this century are not in Montenegro or on-chain.

They are in Suzhou’s control rooms, in Hefei’s industrial parks,

in the green bureaucracy of Anji,

in Singapore’s rooms of chilled air and civil-service calm.

Here, monks in high-vis jackets tend the sacred circuit.

They speak the liturgy of maintenance:

load, flow, throughput, redundancy.

They will never trend on X.

But they will keep the planet habitable long after the last conference selfie fades. 

<Salvation is infrastructural. The only immortality left to us is continuity.""

- Chor Pharn [3]


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)


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:

  1. Equipotentiality: everyone can potentially be an equal player in spiritual matters;
  2. Equiplurality: different spiritual approaches can be equally holistic and liberating;
  3. 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

Deeper Study

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