Hospitality As Kosmopolitan

9:00 AM. I picked this workshop to start with because the Christian Contemplative path has always profoundly spoke with me. There was a time where I kept The Cloud of Unknowing in my winter jacket pocket, riding the NYC subways. It was my deep companion for a while. And as Sister Jean and Dr. Neville Kelly tells us at the beginning of this event, the Benedictine order in particular has been very present in the integral world. They tell us why.

First, Roots and Ladders. Roots, Dr. Kelly tells us, are our origins. The deep contemplative practice. Our lineage and “nit and grit” sustained practices and traditions of the Christian Tradition (or any tradition). Ladders are the future, the emergence of the Christian tradition in the context of the 21st century. A play of time: past and future. Looking back to look forward, to look back…