Laurence Freeman – Unified Consciousness. Consciousness Perspectives Forum, 11th July 2022

  The present global crisis has produced a flood of commentaries both pessimistic and hopeful. Many ascribe our predicament to earlier worldviews which have failed…

There are some things we cannot get our heads around, like billions of light years or collapsing the walls of gravity. However we have the capacity to relate to mystery with other ways of knowing. With this we can explore the cosmos of wholeness and release the powers of healing. Our ship into this world is stillness and the pure silence of attention. Our challenge today is to recognise and integrate these different ways of knowing.

The Rule of St Benedict arguably had the greatest influence on western culture after the Bible. It still inspires the art of living for monks,…