Tag: Spirituality

Xavier Le Pichon’s primary work has been in the area of Plate Tectonics. A French scientist, he is very well known in geological circles for his comprehensive mode of plate tectonics. He’s won numerous awards for his scientific research. And he lives in an intentional community that cares for the mentally ill because of his faith. In an interview recently he talks about the experience of his deep spirituality combined with his sense of scientific insight into the big questions of the Universe.

Do you need to leave home to experience the holy? The Washington Post’s “On Faith” column takes on the question of leaving home and going on pilgrimage to experience the holy. How does your spiritual tradition take on the practice of pilgrimage, of spiritual journey?

If you care to look for them, you’ll find correlations between positive brain activity and spiritual exercise.

Two large, destructive waves are building or crashing around us, perhaps inside us as well. The names of the waves are well known: the worldwide economic crisis and environmental collapse. Both waves are likely to continue to influence human history and psychology for the foreseeable future. Both waves could seem to wash away hope, as though despair were actually bedrock.

Where can we go to find God in the silence in a connected world?

A prayer life is for everyone. Prayers can fit any schedule, any routine. Prayers can be said in private or in community, alone or with family and friends. It doesn’t matter where you are — on the subway, in a taxi, at home, at work, bike riding, walking the dog, in an office. Or in prison

Can a culture that encourages scattershot and rapid-fire thinking embrace the paradox of slow prayer?