the odyssey ODYSSEY­RATIONAL OBJECTIVE

I The Master Rational Objective of the Basic Religious House Odyssey is to intensify conscious relatedness through the utilization of 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 all traditions.

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

the odyssey THE ODYSSEY TABLE OF CONTENTS

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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

the odyssey THE ODYSSEY TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page 30­32 33­34 35­36 37 38­39 40­41 42­44 45­46 47­48 49­50 51­52 53­54 55­58 59 1­53	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

the odyssey ODYSSEY: PROFOUND FUNCTION

The profound function of the Basic Religious House Odyssey its to facilitate a depth encounter with the self, the re­appropriation of the sacred in 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 an Odyssey the operations of the consciousness are laid bare so that man is enabled to see himself as both the programmed and programmer, 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 takes this journey he is re­acquainted with his depth spirit experiences and is enabled, through the use or 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 to Self, Mystery, and Other. Through the Odyssey men are enabled to self­consciously appropriate the sanctity of every moment in their lives they are freed to embody the Word.