With this final module, our 18-mos. journey is complete! As spiritual guides, we are ever attuned to the highest and most precious purpose of our calling: sacred listening through presence. In the words of Rachel Naomi Remen, MD, “Listening creates a holy silence. When you listen generously to people, they can hear truth in themselves, often for the first time. And in the silence of listening, you can know yourself in everyone. Eventually, you may be able to hear, in everyone and beyond everyone, the unseen singing softly to itself and to you.” In this module, we will do a final exploration and synthesis of sacred listening in these three areas: listening within yourself, listening with and for others, listening to the heart of the world. The proposed RQs and the RE will help you put your experience of listening as a spiritual guide into form which can then be incorporated into your final project. Download Module 30 here. ![]()
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Rachel Naomi Remen, MD
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Jeffrey Phillips
11/30/2018 06:54:56 pm
RQ (Nepo).
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Jeffrey Phillips
11/30/2018 07:32:13 pm
RQ (Millis).
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Jeffrey Phillips
12/1/2018 08:21:11 am
RQ (Millis article).
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Jeffrey Phillips
12/2/2018 03:34:07 pm
RQ (Ostaseski). Frank Ostaseski's "three center check-in" is as helpful as it is simple: head, heart, and body. Its simplicity explains its value. However, I am wondering about the differences between then, and the relationship and integration of head, heart, and body in the listening process, which Ostaseski fails to present. He mentions "wisdom, clarity, and discernment" as products of listening with the head. But it seems to me that these important aspects of spiritual guidance are as much a fruit of the heart as they are of the head - a combination of the two. Still, head and heart are distinct, and it does take both to really "hear" one's self, the other person, and God.
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Jan
12/3/2018 07:57:43 am
Jeffrey, I have so appreciated your reflections here. It is obvious that you have been giving a lot of thought to your listening practice of this year. I'd like to post this here, as an addendum to what you have said and to encourage us to be aware of the nuances of listening.
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barbara
12/3/2018 01:36:44 pm
thank you. thank you
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Jeffrey Phillips
12/3/2018 09:05:40 pm
RQ (Global Spirit).
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Jeffrey Phillips
12/3/2018 09:27:58 pm
RQ (Global Spirit)
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Jeffrey Phillips
12/3/2018 09:37:49 pm
RQ (Global Spirit)
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Jeffrey Phillips
12/7/2018 11:03:50 am
RQ (Pure Presence, lesson 14)
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Jeffrey Phillips
12/9/2018 04:18:34 pm
I reviewed the fifteen sessions I've had with SD, a pastoral colleague, from the perspective of my listening.
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Jan
12/9/2018 06:00:20 pm
Jeffrey, again, I am appreciating all that I am reading here. I applaud your transparency and your willingness to go deep, looking back at the conversations had and the ways in which you have grown. My sense is that you have grown more than you are willing to give voice to. You may be struggling with some of the same issues but you have new awareness of so many more things that enable you to be present just as you are with others. And that can be enough...
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Barbara Buckley
12/20/2018 04:23:00 pm
Jeffrey
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Jan
12/21/2018 07:44:37 am
Barbara, I concur! I am not sure if Jeffrey is reading our responses, but, like you, I too have been moved by his faithfulness in writing and sharing. It is has been very stimulating and has allowed us to go deeper in our studies and reflection. Thank YOU for also sharing now and then and bearing witness to this process.
Jeffrey Phillips
12/9/2018 05:28:17 pm
RQ (Archetypes)
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Jeffrey Phillips
12/9/2018 05:44:30 pm
RQ (Archetypes).
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