[Oe List ...] Recent items: Jaime's/Herman's/Sandra's memorial book

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Tue Apr 19 12:51:49 CDT 2011


 
Your piece is precious, Jaime. Thank you from my heart.
 
Thanks to those instrumental in getting Sandra's transitional readings  
compiled and available in book form. It is a valuable resource that many  
hospice programs would probably love to have. I treasure it.
 
Thanks for renewing your call, Herman. Are you planning to compile the  
responses, or should we try to save them in our own files? 
 
My book, Illness as Initiation: An Unlikely Heroine's  Journey might be 
included in such a compilation. Chapter 5  gives Order background specifically. 
_http://booklocker.com/books/5100.html_ 
(http://booklocker.com/books/5100.html)   is the link where you can read the intro and first 2 chapters. It's 
available as  an e-book from the publisher, kindle or apple.
 
I so agree with All the Earth Belongs to All, not  just people.
 
I'd love to read some stories expanding on Jaime's narrative of the  HDTP, 
with descriptions and dialogue, sights, sounds, smells, textures. Not just  
that event, but many people's experiences.
 
In a message dated 4/17/2011 9:10:58 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
hfgreene at mindspring.com writes:

Very beautiful Jaime.  I have “survivor’s guilt” of leaving the Order 
before these great excursions  into human development projects. Where I was I don
’t think I could have  handled it. 
Still I can identify  as one who went forth and formed one new religious 
house and  maintained-recreated others. In that role I identify with what you  
wrote. 
Our spirituality must  be passed on, and yet of course it is in some way, 
and yet. I think this is  the reason Jack keeps calling us back to be the 
Order Ecumenical. It’s a  calling I can’t leave aside. Not being able to leave 
it aside I am fearful  because we have grown in many ways and wouldn’t be 
able to fallback into past  orthodoxies and our own fundamentalisms. Surely 
one thing we would change is  “All the Earth belongs to All,”  simply all 
Earth’s beings. 
Many of us are in the  sunset of life, yes in that glow that lights the 
sky, a golden age. The call  rings forth “Those who die on the march, will 
renew their strength.” Then  there are those who were young in those days and 
are in the middle of their  lives. We must see that this is carried forward. 
Not to diminish the  ICA archive project, or the ICA, but rather to get  to 
the deep mystery at the heart of both. It is the Order Ecumenical, it is  
the spirit deeps that must go on. 
Not to leave this completely hanging, I thus  renew a call I made a year 
ago for people to write on those things that made  us what we are and do so 
with the experience, knowledge and wisdom that has  come to us over the years, 
not simply by way of repeating what we said then .  . . things like 
contextual ethics, secondary integrity, the Iron Man (and  Woman), the missional 
life, the missional family,  intentional-comprehennsive-futuric and archaic, 
knowing-doing-being, living  out of two suitcases and so many other  things. 
What is like for you  when you first encountered these things, what 
happened to you, how you have  integrated into your life in dispersion, strengths, 
weaknesses, dangers, how  it can guide present and future generations. 
John Cock has a good  list in one of his books, I’ll copy it and send it 
out. We could add to it. It  might be good to have a meditation book, where an 
individual would take a  single one of these topics and write 3-5 pages and 
then put this together in a  meditation book. One topic, of course, would 
be “the Order Ecumenical.”   
I just had a thought,  why not call the book, The Order  Ecumenical, and at 
least in part acknowledge that we who continue  to live out of this and 
those would choose to are the Order  Ecumenical. 
Herman


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