the odyssey

Table of Contents

Profound Function

Rational Objective

Existential Aim

Three Day Format

Feast of Beginnings

Feast of Closing

Feast of Beginnings Chart

Basic Time Design

The College Format

The Readings

Journey to the East Chart

Journey to the East Day I

Journey to the East Day II

Journey to the East Day III

The Solitary Office

Procedures

Rubrics

Readings ­ Day I

Readings ­ Day II

Readings ­ Day III

The Charts and the Labs

Knowing Exposition Sentences

Knowing Lab

Meditation Exposition Sentences

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Meditation Lab

Poverty Lab

Being Exposition Sentences

Being Lab

Contemplation Exposition Sentences

Contemplation Lab

Chastity Lab

Doing Exposition Sentences

Doing Lab

Prayer Exposition Sentences

Prayer Lab

Obedience Lab

Practical Operating Images of the Odyssey

Use of Decor Chart

Participant's Manual

ODYSSEY PROFOUND FUNCTION

the odyssey

The profound function of the Basic Religious House Odyssey is to facil-itate a depth encounter with the self, the re-appropriation of the sacred to daily life. And the grounding of the sacred in human experience in order to intensify the human journey to new awareness and new responsibility for the globe. During the Odyssey the operations of consciousness are laid bare to examine the images and symbols out of which he lives, and to build new images and symbols which enable him to deal more effectively with impinging reality. As a participant today this journey he is re-acquainted with his own depth spirit experiences is enabled, through the use of the New Religious Mode Charts, to reappropriate those experiences as sanctified humanness (encounters with the Mystery. The Odyssey exposes man's eternal solitariness but allows that separation to be accepted and to release in him the ability to see each moment as possibility for covenanted relationship with self, Mystery and others. Through the Odyssey men are enabled to self-consciously appropriate the sanctity of every moment in their lives; they are freed to embody the Word.

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ODYSSEY­RATIONAL OBJECTIVE

The Master Rational Objective of the Basic Religious House Odyssey is to intensify conscious relatedness through the utilization o] the New Religious Mode Structures, specifically the New Religious Mode Charts, in order to explore and clarify the secular religious life style.

The First Sub­objective is to delineate symbol power in order to inform man and hold him accountable before his life­giving and sustaining force.

The second Sub­objective is to clarify all those resources which are available to the existential in man's struggle to give form to what is and place it before the Mystery in order to initiate the defining of an effective Meditative Council including both people and events of al1 traditions.

The third Sub­objective is to demonstrate the Spirit Journey through study, work5 and discussion in order to reveal that life requires a covenantal. relationship.

ODYSSEY­EXISTENTIAL AIM

The Master Existential Aim of the Basic Religious House Odyssey is to BE THE JOURNEY in order to occasion a new relationship to ones life experience, past, present, and future; to enable the discovery of being as possibility; and to facilitate transparency in life

The first Sub­aim is to allow the re­appropriation of the religious self in order to deepen humanness through exposing the way life is, revealing inaccurate or inadequate images, breaking open self­consciousness, creating a new symbol filter system, and objectifying a detached life style.

The second Sub­aim of the Basic Religious House

Odyssey is to reveal the spirit deeps in daily existence

!n order to objectify and re­appropriate those experiences.

The third Sub­aim is to occasion encounter with the Mystery in order to permit an ultimate relationship to that final reality of life which is both intentional and awe-filled.