[Oe List ...] Intro/ need for New Course for Progressive Christians

Sat Oct 15 09:24:55 EDT 2011

That would be great - let me know what day.  I love your Bob Hanson quotes.

On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 7:26 AM, Bob Hanson <koshin at centurytel.net> wrote:
> Hi Marge
> Have a complete set of church tactics from Local Church thing, do you want
> them. I am thinking of coming to Chicago in the next week or so for a day,
> could drop them off...all 36! Hope all is well with you and yours!
>
> peace, ko shin, Bob Hanson
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> Added June 3, 2010: FACT: More peace activists were killed on 31-May-2010,
> than Israelis have been killed, by Gaza rockets, in 10 years  Tweeter on
> this day
>
> seeker of truth by e. e. cummings
> seeker of truth  follow no path
> all paths lead where truth is here
> "If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of
> the oppressor."
> ~ Desmund Tutu.
> Without compassion, what hope?    Q: Is there any cause for optimism?  A:
> Well, personally, yeah. Everybody's got a life to lead and they've got a
> bodhisattva tendency, everybody wants to do good, so I just think on a
> personal level, yeah. On a larger scale, there doesn't seem to be any hope
> unless compassion becomes a more widespread important teaching on how to
> live. Compassion to self and others.–Allen Ginsberg, from "Spontaneous
> Intelligence: An Interview with Allen Ginsberg," Tricycle, Fall 1995
> There are those who do not realize
> that one day we all must die.
> But those who do realize this
> settle their quarrels.
>
> Dhammapada 1.6
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: oe-bounces at wedgeblade.net [mailto:oe-bounces at wedgeblade.net] On Behalf
> Of Marge Philbrook
> Sent: Friday, October 14, 2011 2:16 PM
> To: Order Ecumenical Community
> Cc: jimbce at gmail.com; brlm at verizon.net; Don Cramer
> Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Intro/ need for New Course for Progressive
> Christians
>
> I'm completely occupied with trying to the make the OE/EI/ICA "entire"
> archives available for the world to be able to find.  We are
> organizing files, processing them for long time archival preservation
> and scanning them for distribution to whoever wants them. Our files
> are 1954-present.  So far, we have been able to find almost everything
> any one asks for in hard copy documents, pictures, slides, posters,
> recordings, cassettes, etc. etc.  We have quite a bit of Christian
> Faith and LIfe material also.  I was never in the CFL. My husband now
> deceased was a campus pastor. sent students to CF&L, had studied with
> Joe Mathews in seminary and we were will the Institutes beginning in
> '65.  So, I'm so glad to hear that the material sent to Wesley is
> being worked with. I'm also glad to know people are still remembering
> the LCX. Bud, for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, I suggest you search on
> line for EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) and learn to tap away your
> problems.  Marge Philbrook, msphilbrook at gmail.com.  My grandson, Leroy
> Philbrook and his two greats live in Nelson in England. I don't come
> there often. Grace and Peace, Marge
>
> On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Michael May <michael at storywarrior.net>
> wrote:
>> Bud,
>>
>> Thank you for the inquiry on the OEListserv.
>>
>> I am responding regarding a direction some of the Ecumenical Institute
>> alumni are taking.  RS-1 was the critical depth "awakenment tool" of the
>> Ecumenical Institute in the 1960's and 1970's.  Many of us were nurtured
>> and journeyed within this context.
>>
>> In the 1970's the Institute shifted focus toward a more dominant social
>> orientation and the ICA (Institute of Cultural Affairs) became the banner
>> under which we primarily worked.  This social development orientation and
>> focus has continued to be primary for many who still carry on with the
>> good work of the institute.  However, there have been fewer continuations
>> and expansions upon the initial depth-awakenment tools the Institute
>> created in the form of curriculum like RS-1, the Odyssey, the
>> comprehensive curriculum of the Academy, the New Religious Mode, etc.  Two
>> notable exceptions include the work of Gene and Joyce Marshall and the
>> Realistic Living Institute (www.realisticliving.org) and John and Lynda
>> Cock and  the Profound Journey Dialogue
>> (http://johnpcock.homestead.com/Profound-Journey-Dialog--PJD-.html.  Both
>> of these programs have done some excellent pioneering work and you may
>> wish to check them out for your purposes.
>>
>> I wish to also bring your attention to the work some of us are doing in
>> extending the legacy of RS-1 with the curriculum of Interior Mythos
>> Journeys. Our effort is to package the same universal and unchanging
>> message of Truth in a global, 21st Century, contemporary, quantum
>> scientific package.   I will not attempt to expand upon this effort here
>> but will simply invite you to visit www.storywarrior.net click on
>> "Introduction" and watch the short opening video.  This will orient you to
>> the site and you should be able to navigate from there.  If you are
>> so-motivated, please register.  You may also appreciate some of the
>> exchanges taking place on the Discussion Forum (including "the New
>> Religious Mode" and "Why a New Myth?" and "Contemporary Mythic Language").
>>
>> I will also include you on future notifications regarding developments
>> with the material of Interior Mythos Journeys.
>>
>> I hope this is helpful.  Please feel free to communicate regarding other
>> questions.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Michael
>>
>> Michael D. May
>> Interior Mythos Journeys
>> Nurturing the Infinite Addiction
>> www.storywarrior.net
>> 210 East Gilbert Drive
>> Bloomington, IN 47408
>> (812)606-7152  cell
>> michael at storywarrior.net
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 10/14/11 2:53 AM, "Bud Tillinghast" <rev.bud at mac.com> wrote:
>>
>>>I've just joined the list, so let me introduce myself. I'm Bud
>>>Tillinghast. I first met Ecumenical Institute in its absence. That is, I
>>>showed up in Austin TX in April of 1961 to discover that most of the
>>>Faith and Life Community weren't there. They had gone to Chicago.
>>>
>>>After the initial course in Sacramento CA I was among a group from
>>>California that attended Summer '66. In 1969 I helped do the groundwork
>>>for the first RS I in Britain, held in Rochdale, Lancashire. In the early
>>>'70s I was back in California and, pastor of Laurel United Methodist
>>>Church, Oakland. We were part of the East Bay Galaxy of the Local Church
>>>Experiment.
>>>
>>>I dipped into the OE archives and ran across George Holcombe's report of
>>>the death of Carlos Zervagon. I remember Carlos. During the MLK march in
>>>Summer '66 he carried our three year old daughter on his shoulders. She
>>>remember it to this day. A caring man was Carlos.
>>>
>>>I'm joining the list missionally. I'm interested in helping to create a
>>>course for progressive Christians that is transformative. In the U S and
>>>England and beyond conservatives have such a course or courses: Cursillo
>>>and Alpha. I've been spending half the year in the U S and half in
>>>England. I'm near Oxford where I've been in relation to two settings
>>>where they are using the Living the Questions videos. It's good material,
>>>but very much of a head trip. And they don't know how to run a
>>>conversation!
>>>
>>>Over the years I have not discovered anything with the transformative
>>>power of R S I. I see it as the keystone of such a course for which I see
>>>the need. I'm not sure where R S I has gone since my involvement in the
>>>'70s. I've a link to give more historical setting and rationale if you
>>>are interested:
>>>http://need-for-progressive-christian-course.wikispaces.com/
>>>
>>>I would be interested in you comments and input.
>>>
>>>Bud Tillinghast
>>>"I am a stranger here, within a foreign land..."
>>>
>>>In England now
>>>In Pittsburgh PA in two weeks.
>>>In California in December
>>>
>>>Skype: budtill
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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