I just had this float across my Facebook from the wonderful people at Spirituality and Practice. They are partnering with the Threshold Society and The Mevlevi order of Sufis, to present a 7-week online course studying the transformative poetry of Rumi and led by Sufi elders.
It is always a good day when I can walk into a bookstore, walk out with a mitt-ful of books, not have paid a cent, AND not have committed a crime.
Today was definitely one of those days. After missing the 9 p.m. closing time on Saturday - I swear it used to be open until 10 p.m. on weekends! - I dropped in today and picked up four new books.
In Tomorrow's God
It got me thinking about the difference between 'hearing' something and 'receiving' it. And whether either of those words has much, if anything, to do with 'listening'. So I thought I'd do a little research. Here's what I found.
Chapter's Four to Eight of Tomorrow's God
For me, going to Chapter's (or any other great book store - if only there were one in Newmarket) is a religious experience. I open the heavy wooden doors and enter the cavernous space - full of questions and searching, searching for the answers. Walking up to the shiny white computers, I nervously type in the keywords - author, title, topic - hoping against hope that they will actually have what I am looking for. Not this one, not that one. On and on it goes.
Heavily influenced by the GPC Economic Summit I was at this weekend, my new additions are mostly climate change, environment and politics themed.
And I have two more books to add to my reading list - but these two are novels.
Seriously. I'm not sure how much me-joy they could have packed into one trailer.
The description from amazon:
Science and spirituality collide when biologist Rupert Sheldrake and postmodern theologian Matthew Fox, explore the practical aspects of mysticism and the attainment of higher levels of consciousness...