TOWARD A GLOBAL SPIRITUALITY
by Dr. Patricia Mische Founder, with Gerald Mische, of Global Education Associates
"Authentic spirituality is awakening awareness and conscious attunement to the sacred source of life. At the deepest part of every and all being is the sacred. Spirituality is the process of ordering our life in intimate communion with this sacred center and source. Spirituality is not static. It is not a finished state we ever finally achieve and then hold onto. It is a process. It is a sacred journey.
"...In a certain sense we each make this journey alone. No one else can make it for us. But in another sense we make this journey together, in communion with others. The whole planet with all its life forms and billions of people -- indeed the whole cosmos -- is on a collective journey. This is true in a physical sense as we hurtle through space. This is also true in a spiritual sense. There is a sacred source at our collective center from which all our separate journeys originate and in which we all find life and direction.
"There is a flow between this collective Earth journey and our personal journeys. They cannot be separated....
"True spirituality -- the authentic religious journey -- can never be an escape from life's problems. God, the sacred center at the source of all authentic spiritual journeys, must be met in the midst of life, not in escape from life. Today we live in a global age -- an age of planetary exploration and communications and new global interdependencies. Our spiritual journey -- our search for life in God -- must be worked out now in a global context, in the midst of global crises and global community. Our spirituality must be a global spirituality."
-- from "Toward a Global Spirituality," an essay published by Global Education Associates
