Religion and spirituality are today at odds, and in many ways religion has lost contact with its basespirituality. As we try to reconcile the objective world out there with our own subjective experience of it, the split between what religion says and what our spirituality reveals can become even more acute. Yet because our very humanity is itself spiritual, we can make humanity great again through a renewed spirituality. In Awakening: Renewing the Spiritual Dimension of Humanity, author Danny Kinane explores this apparent rift between spirituality and religion and instead posits that there is a transformative and important alignment between our human experience of the world and our own sense of spiritualityand that advancements in modern science, especially in quantum physics, can tell us something about this spirituality. With both personal accounts of his own journey as well as discussions of Eastern and Western philosophy and spirituality, Kinane invites fellow seekers to discover with both faith and logic how they can awaken and reclaim their spirituality. A secular faith that incorporates rationality, science, community, philosophy, and spirituality can free us from the confines of our egos and offer us true meaning. We need only realign our humanity with our spirituality, finding in the subjective world a world of faith, love, compassion, forgiveness, peace, and unlimited energy.
Author Danny Kinane tells us: Spirituality is not a theory of the mind but an experience of the heart. The way of spirituality is through the gut of experience, a conversation with life provoked by life itself. Our spiritual journey is a gradual emerging of this conversation, a deepening awareness of the mystery of life. We search for the existence of a God, a puerile search according to the attitude of many. Yet every question about God is a question about ourselves, a search for our own identity. Who am I? What am I? It seems as we look at the span of history these have become perennial questions and, despite our preoccupation these days with the truth of the scientific and all its technological implications, are destined to remain so. Author Danny Kinane tells us: Spirituality is not a theory of the mind but an experience of the heart. The way of spirituality is through the gut of experience, a conversation with life provoked by life itself.
Maybe in our modern mania for success and possessions lies the hidden unacceptable truth of our rejection of this life-principle? Many fear that life is ultimately cold and pointless, but different people may discover comfort and purpose in different places. In a world full of people seeking the meaning of existence, this novel explores the relationship between guide and guided, between the material and the spiritual, between man and literature.
In our time the Age of Consciousness is emerging; and with it a new and deeper sense of how the human and divine meets and interacts in our history. The royal road to this meeting-point is the mystic way: deep meditation to the centre where Spirit and the human-spirit interact in the evolution of Spirit. Here we can learn how the mystic ‘I’ can become the mystic ‘we’; how this ‘we’ can build a spiritual community that can change the face of the earth. Can we move now across the threshold of this dream and claim our destiny in history?!
The Sacred Quest recalls our gaze to where it should have been, focused on our own inner spiritual journey. Through personal story, poetry, philosophy, theology, intermingled with the wisdom of both West and East, the author gently guides the reader with an invitation into the deeper layers of consciousness -- which also becomes a celebration of life. This is a very readable, personal account of the 'big life questions' that confronts us all. Danny Kinane came to Australia from Ireland in 1973 as a High School teacher. He was ordained a priest in 1979 and, after seventeen years in parish ministry in North Queensland, retired to explore a more contemplative lifestyle in the southern Queensland bush. He holds a degree in Literature and Philosophy from the National University of Ireland.
Religion and spirituality are today at odds, and in many ways religion has lost contact with its basespirituality. As we try to reconcile the objective world out there with our own subjective experience of it, the split between what religion says and what our spirituality reveals can become even more acute. Yet because our very humanity is itself spiritual, we can make humanity great again through a renewed spirituality. In Awakening: Renewing the Spiritual Dimension of Humanity, author Danny Kinane explores this apparent rift between spirituality and religion and instead posits that there is a transformative and important alignment between our human experience of the world and our own sense of spiritualityand that advancements in modern science, especially in quantum physics, can tell us something about this spirituality. With both personal accounts of his own journey as well as discussions of Eastern and Western philosophy and spirituality, Kinane invites fellow seekers to discover with both faith and logic how they can awaken and reclaim their spirituality. A secular faith that incorporates rationality, science, community, philosophy, and spirituality can free us from the confines of our egos and offer us true meaning. We need only realign our humanity with our spirituality, finding in the subjective world a world of faith, love, compassion, forgiveness, peace, and unlimited energy.
Author Danny Kinane tells us: Spirituality is not a theory of the mind but an experience of the heart. The way of spirituality is through the gut of experience, a conversation with life provoked by life itself. Our spiritual journey is a gradual emerging of this conversation, a deepening awareness of the mystery of life. We search for the existence of a God, a puerile search according to the attitude of many. Yet every question about God is a question about ourselves, a search for our own identity. Who am I? What am I? It seems as we look at the span of history these have become perennial questions and, despite our preoccupation these days with the truth of the scientific and all its technological implications, are destined to remain so. Author Danny Kinane tells us: Spirituality is not a theory of the mind but an experience of the heart. The way of spirituality is through the gut of experience, a conversation with life provoked by life itself.
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