Greater Community Spirituality

Greater Community Spirituality
Author: Marshall Vian Summers
Publisher: New Knowledge Library
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2013-09-28
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1884238327

In the Greater Community of Worlds the idea of God is presented differently than it is in this world. In the Greater Community, the idea of God must be translatable from one society to another where the customs and the rituals, the ideas and the areas of specific application will be unique to each world’s spiritual awareness and devotional practices. All that can be translated is the pure experience of Knowledge—the experience of Universal Mind, profound awareness and total relationship. This is the experience which will be presented in this book—an experience of translatable spirituality that is shared between intelligent life everywhere. Its application is universal. Its experience is universal. Its communication is universal. The direction that it establishes for sentient beings everywhere is universal. Greater Community Spirituality encompasses a larger panorama of life and includes all that has been created here and beyond, in all dimensions, in all frameworks. So complete is it that you cannot fathom its Mystery, exhaust its Wisdom or penetrate its Knowledge. But you can be the recipient of these things, and you can translate them into your own experience and apply them here at great benefit to yourself and to others. The world is now emerging into a Greater Community of Worlds. Therefore, it is necessary for Greater Community Spirituality to be presented here to enable humanity to prepare mentally, emotionally and spiritually for the great change that is coming and the great opportunities that this change represents. To learn about the Greater Community, you must learn of its reality. This, then, is a blessing: that you may receive a Greater reality, a Greater religion and a Greater God.

The Greater Community

The Greater Community
Author: Marshall Vian Summers
Publisher: Society for the New Message
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2017-08-21
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1942293410

Life in the Universe

Life in the Universe
Author: Marshall Vian Summers
Publisher: New Knowledge Library
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2013-09-25
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1884238408

The Reality and Spirituality of Life in the Universe Life in the Universe is part of a vast education and preparation for humanity called the "New Message." Over 9000 pages in length, the New Message is a Divine answer to the panoply of global problems facing humanity: destruction of our natural environment, depletion of Earth's energy and life-sustaining resources, escalating religious and political conflict and intervention by certain races in our region of space. This book, Life in the Universe, details the interactions of civilizations in our region of space, the challenge of facing a non-human universe and the spiritual dimensions of all intelligent life that has evolved since the beginning of time.

Subversive Spirituality

Subversive Spirituality
Author: Eugene H. Peterson
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 274
Release: 1997-06-27
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0802842976

In Subversive Spirituality Peterson has gathered together a host of writings penned over the past twenty-five years that reflect on the overlooked facets of the spiritual life. Comprising occasional pieces, short biblical studies, poetry, pastoral readings, and interviews, this work captures the epiphanies of life with the pleasing pastoral style and inspiring depth of insight for which Peterson is well known. Peterson describes his book this way: "This gathering of articles and essays, poems and conversations, is a kind of kitchen midden of my noticings of the obvious in the course of living out the Christian life in the vocational context of pastor, writer, and professor. The randomness and repetitions and false starts are rough edges that I am leaving as is in the interests of honesty. Spirituality is not, by and large, smooth. I do hope, however, that these pieces will be found to be freshly phrased".

Preparing for the Greater Community

Preparing for the Greater Community
Author: Marshall Vian Summers
Publisher: Society for the New Message
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2020-06-30
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1942293569

Contact has begun, yet it is not Contact of a beneficial form for humanity. We are facing an alien Intervention into human affairs and this represents a threat to our freedom and survival as a race. And yet it also represents a great opportunity. Our isolation in the universe is now over, and humanity's emergence into the Greater Community has begun. This is perhaps the greatest event in human history and it is happening right now, in our time. Yet we are unaware and unprepared. In addition, Contact is occurring at a time when we are racing towards a dangerous and uncertain future in our world. Humanity is outstripping the Earth of its life-giving resources at an alarming rate, changing the climate of the world and destroying the natural environment as never before. At the same time, political, social and religious conflict and division are escalating, fracturing the human family when instead we must be working to find a real and functioning unity to ensure our collective survival. We are divided, and this makes us vulnerable to outside influence and intervention from the universe around us.

Dispirited

Dispirited
Author: David Webster
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
Total Pages: 99
Release: 2012-06-29
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1780994893

Dave Webster’s book is a counter-blast against the culturally accepted norm that spirituality is a vital and important factor in human life. Rejecting the idea of human wellbeing as predicated on the spiritual, the book seeks to identify the toxic impact of spiritual discourses on our lives. Spirituality makes us confused, apolitical and miserable - whether that spirituality is from conventional religious roots, from a new-age buffet of beliefs, or from some re-imagined ancient system of belief. Looking beyond this dismissal, the book looks towards atheistic existentialism, Theravada Buddhism and political engagement as a means to imagine what a post-spiritual world view could look like. ,

Spiritual Formation as if the Church Mattered

Spiritual Formation as if the Church Mattered
Author: James C. Wilhoit
Publisher: Baker Academic
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2022-03-29
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1493435167

Most books on spiritual formation focus on the individual. But spiritual formation is at the heart of the church's whole purpose for existence. It must be a central task for the church to carry out Christ's mission in the world. This book offers an introduction to spiritual formation set squarely in the local church. The first edition has been well received and widely used as a textbook. The second edition has been updated throughout, incorporates findings from positive psychology, and reflects an Augustinian formation perspective. Foreword by Dallas Willard.

Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume II

Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume II
Author: Marshall Vian Summers
Publisher: New Knowledge Library
Total Pages: 497
Release: 2013-09-28
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1884238653

In this second volume of Wisdom from the Greater Community, you will take another great step towards learning what Knowledge and Wisdom mean in the larger arena of life that is called the Greater Community. This will bring you to a new beginning and a new threshold, a beginning and a threshold that were never available before to humanity. Humanity is now at the threshold of the Greater Community, of which it has always been a part. Now humanity has an opportunity to learn its true heritage, the nature of its evolution and its greater challenge and promise of life within a larger arena that contains intelligent life in uncountable forms and expressions. You are here at this new beginning. This is no accident. You were sent here for this purpose. This is the meaning of your being here. The world’s emergence into the Greater Community is the context within which you can fully experience and learn to express the nature of your greater purpose and your greater identity. Humanity is emerging into the Greater Community. Greater Community forces are in the world today. This is the reality in which you now live, and for this you will need a greater Knowledge and a greater Wisdom. You already possess this Knowledge within you, for the Creator has endowed you with the Knowing Mind, which you will need to experience and to call upon increasingly as the revelation of your real purpose and the meaning of your existence here unfold step by step. In this second volume of Wisdom from the Greater Community, we introduce to you new thresholds of learning, new arenas of application and a greater opportunity to experience the reality of Knowledge and the importance of its expression and contribution in the world. Here you will have the opportunity to begin to learn about the Greater Community, about the mental environment, about the meaning of discernment and discretion, and the great application of The Greater Community Way of Knowledge as it pertains to every aspect of your life as you know it today and as you will need to know it in the future. We bring this great Teaching to you from the Creator, for this Teaching represents a new testament of the Creator’s presence and will within the world and a new expression of your Divinity and your intrinsic association and relationship with life around you. We bring with us a promise, a confirmation and a great challenge. The promise is that your purpose and your calling in the world may become fully realized within the context of the world’s emergence into the Greater Community. Here you will finally come to understand why you have a unique nature and a unique design. This will enable you to discover who your Designer is. The confirmation is that you will come to realize what you know and what you have always known, and this will restore to you your self-respect, your ability to love and the greater strength that has been given to you. And, yet, we bring you a challenge as well, a challenge to learn what Knowledge and Wisdom mean within the Greater Community and why they are necessary both to heal the great problems that humanity faces within the world and to face the greater challenge of encountering intelligent life from the Greater Community. Come with us, then. Come to receive and come to give. Come to learn and come with the willingness to experience and to explore with an open mind. The Greater Community Way of Knowledge is not here to fulfill the past or even to explain the past. It is here to bring you into the present and to prepare you for the future. This is why you have come into the world, and this will give meaning and direction to all that you have done thus far. The Greater Community Way of Knowledge will give you a new foundation to fully realize why you are here and who sent you.

Urban Spirituality

Urban Spirituality
Author: Karina Kreminski
Publisher:
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2018-05-03
Genre: Cities and towns
ISBN: 9780998917726

Do we have a positive theology of the city so that an urban spirituality can emerge from this place? We have for too long focused on quick fixes, pop up churches, and strategic solutions which have left us malnourished and emaciated, yet bloated from our over-consumption of these unsatisfying approaches. Spiritual formation is something that we need to pay closer attention to today. How do we live this kind of holy life in the city?

The New World

The New World
Author: Marshall Vian Summers
Publisher: Society for the New Message
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2019-07-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 194229347X

The New World reveals a warning of the great change coming to our world and a prophetic vision of a future world for which we must prepare. The New World is a warning from God about humanity’s rapid depletion and degradation of the Earth, its climate and its environment, and the urgent action we must take, individually and collectively, to both restore our planet and prepare for a new world condition in the future. This book reveals the grave plight of humanity and the deeper causes of a global tragedy of conflict, poverty and oppression now spreading worldwide. With this, it presents God’s Plan for the world and what can save humanity as it faces its greatest trials in the future. The New World is the prophetic prelude to The Great Waves of Change, which presents in greater detail the challenges we will face individually and the pathway of inner and outer preparation available now through the New Message to each person. Each chapter of The New World is a revelation given from the Source, compiled into this text by the Messenger, Marshall Vian Summers. Several chapters of The New World were received in locations of growing conflict and instability, including in Beirut, Aleppo and Tehran. The New World is the seventh book of Volume 1 of The New Message from God.