Category:Spirituality: Difference between revisions

See the Introduction to the P2P Foundation Wiki Material about Spirituality

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]

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.

Useful learning resources

Introductory

• Collective Spiritual Leadership, from the writing of Charles Eisenstein

• John Heron on the concept and history of relational spirituality

Deeper Study

• The Next Buddha Will Be A Collective: spiritual expression in the peer to peer era
• Relational Spirituality and other Heresies in New Age Transpersonalism

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.