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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, 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.

Key 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 [1]

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:

Equipotentiality: everyone can potentially be an equal player in spiritual matters;
Equiplurality: different spiritual approaches can be equally holistic and liberating;
Equiprimacy: no human spiritual attribute is superior or morally more evolved than any other.

The idea of Collective Presencing, while not being explicitly spiritual,

Useful learning resources

Introductory

P2P Interpretation of Soul as Intersubjective Reality and Spirit as Interobjective Reality by Joe Corbett
Collective Spiritual Leadership, from the writing of Charles Eisenstein

John Heron on the concept and history of relational spirituality (John Heron, 2006)

Deeper Study

The Next Buddha Will Be A Collective: spiritual expression in the peer to peer era, by Michel Bauwens
Relational Spirituality and other Heresies in New Age Transpersonalism by Gregg Lahood
Introduction to the P2P Foundation Wiki Material about Spirituality compiled by Michel Bauwens

Related Categories

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
Much religion is rooted in tradition, so Category: Neotraditional overlaps with traditional approaches to spirituality.

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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,
-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, but contemporary spirituality is often looked for and found outside any establishment.
+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,
-In this category, we are dealing with spirituality from a peer-to-peer perspective, so we leave aside hierarchical institutions and values and narratives imposed from the top down.
+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.
 ==Key Quotes==
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 #[[Equiplurality]]: different spiritual approaches can be equally holistic and liberating;
 #[[Equiprimacy]]: no human spiritual attribute is superior or morally more evolved than any other.
+The idea of [[Collective Presencing]], while not being explicitly spiritual,
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 * [[Collective Spiritual Leadership]], from the writing of [[Charles Eisenstein]]
-* [https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/john-heron-on-the-concept-and-history-of-relational-spirituality/2006/01/31 John Heron on the concept and history of relational spirituality] ([[John Heron]])
+* [https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/john-heron-on-the-concept-and-history-of-relational-spirituality/2006/01/31 John Heron on the concept and history of relational spirituality] ([[John Heron]], 2006)
 ===Deeper Study===