Emergence Education Presents
Visions of a New World
4 Mystics of the 19 & 20 Centuries
4-part eLearning Course
~ with Amy Edelstein & Chris Parish ~
Do you remember one book that set you on your spiritual quest?
Was there a mystic who ignited your passion for a truth beyond reach that still felt closer-than-close?
Did you ever come across a new way of thinking that transported you into a different world of possibility?
The spiritual freedom realized by individuals from different cultures gives rise to alternate ways to create a better future. Their profound care and unique expressions fuels our own passion to transform ourselves and the culture we share. In this series, you will meet 4 mystics, each with an inspired heart and far-reaching vision.
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What you’ll get
➤ 4 entertaining, educational & inspirational email lessons.
➤ Curated quotes that showcase the unique beauty of each mystic.
➤ Personal accounts from Amy & Chris about how each visionary opened up their own spiritual hearts.
➤ A memorable biographical picture of the mystic and the times they lived in.
Allow yourself to
➤ Discover unexpected facts about some of today’s great masters.
➤ Experience how varied and uplifting different portals to awakened insight can be.
➤ Believe anew in the possibility of a spiritual view that fertilizes the soul and the mind.
Take each one with you
➤ Savor each installment on your lunchbreak. Your co-workers will wonder what mini-vacation you just went on.
➤ Start your meditation with a reading and experience new depth and openness.
➤ Share these in your book study group, with your partner, friend, child and delight in the conversation you will have.
Engaging with Spiritual Books for Depth & Transformation
We can discover a way to contemplate the work of great mystics that will enrich our spiritual practice.
In this series, you’ll meet new philosophers and visionaries, re-acquaint yourself with ones you’ve long loved, and discover something new each time.
The 4 Featured Mystics
You Will Learn About
Abraham Joshua Heschel
We can discover a way to contemplate the work of great mystics that will enrich our spiritual practice.
In this series, you’ll meet new philosophers and visionaries, re-acquaint yourself with ones you’ve long loved, and discover something new each time.
You Will Learn About
20th Century rabbinic scholar, mystic, & civil rights activist
“Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.”
Teilhard de Chardin
Jesuit priest, world class paleontologist, founding thinker of evolutionary spiritual view.
“Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.”
Vimala Thakar
20th Century Indian social activist and independent spiritual teacher.
“There is much unexplored potential in each human being. We are not just flesh and bone or an amalgamation of conditionings. If this were so, our future on this planet would not be very bright. But there is infinitely more to life, and each passionate being who dares to explore beyond the fragmentary and superficial into the mystery of totality helps all humanity perceive what it is to be fully human. Revolution, total revolution, implies experimenting with the impossible. And when an individual takes a step in the direction of the new, the impossible, the whole human race travels through that individual.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
19th Century Transcendentalist philosopher.
“What we commonly call man, the eating, drinking, planting, counting man, does not, as we know him, represent himself, but misrepresents himself. Him we do not respect, but the soul, whose organ he is, would he let it appear through his action, would make our knees bend.”
Immerse Yourself in the Joy of Spiritual Reflection
About Amy Edelstein & Chris Parish
Amy Edelstein, cofounder of Emergence Education, is a gifted educator, writer, and spiritual mentor committed to individual transformation and the evolution of our shared cultural values. She is a clinical pastoral chaplain, the first Evolutionary Spirituality interfaith minister ordained by the Council of Interfaith Churches, and holds the OUnI Wisdom Keeper chair in Evolutionary Spirituality. Amy has a background in Judaic philosophy, and also studied with a number of preeminent Vedantic and Buddhist teachers in Asia in the early 1980s, before meeting Andrew Cohen in 1986 and beginning her practice of evolutionary spirituality. She is the author of the Love, Marriage & Evolution and is working on a second book about evolutionary spirituality, including a new liturgy that responds to the needs and life transitions from a contemporary, evolutionary spiritual perspective.
Chris Parish is a leading voice in the emerging field of evolutionary spirituality and is a popular speaker, workshop facilitator and cultural commentator, teaching in various countries. Having begun his path as a meditator in India in the 1970s, Chris has spent over forty years immersing himself in the practice of individual and collective spiritual transformation and philosophical inquiry. Twenty years ago, he cofounded and directed the educational charity EnlightenNext UK in London. His background was originally in ecology and nature, a subject still close to his heart. Chris teaches nonduality and meditation as well as evolutionary emergence. He is currently writing a book about evolving British culture entitled The Creative Thread.