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When Richard Rohr gets it right he certainly shines. In this 2015
essay entitled The Perennial Tradition he give his definition for the
Perennial Wisdom that we have been studying since the 1980’s. He
mentions some of our favorite authors, particularly the often
overlooked Huston Smith whose insights into perennialism and his
critique of modernism are some of the best in print.
Richard Rohr
writes...
“The things I
teach come from a combination of inner and outer authority, drawn
from personal experience and a long lineage of the “perennial
tradition” as Aldous Huxley, Huston Smith, Ken Wilber, and many
others have called it. I don’t believe God expects us to start from
zero and reinvent the wheel of faith in our one small lifetime.
Thankfully, we can each participate in the “communion of saints,”
and draw upon the force field of the Holy Spirit. The Great
Tradition, the perennial philosophy, has developed through the ages,
and is an inherited gift.”
“The Perennial
Tradition points to recurring themes and truths within all of the
world’s religions. At their most mature level, religions cultivate
in their followers a deeper union with God, with each other, and with
reality—or what is. The work of religion is to re-ligio—re-ligament
or reunite what our egos and survival instincts have put asunder,
namely a fundamental wholeness at the heart of everything. My calling
(and the CAC’s work in the last twenty-nine years) has been to
retrieve and reteach the wisdom that has been lost, ignored, or
misunderstood within the Judeo Christian Tradition. Any truth that
keeps recurring and gathers humanity’s positive energy is called
wisdom and most assuredly has to be from the One Holy Spirit.”*
Of course this
squares very nicely with what we have written in Perennis as well as
what others have taught for years.
Many of you have
been enjoying Perennis blog for years since the print version cease
to exist. After over a decade we continue to post on this blog as
time permits. I still go to work everyday as an artist squeaking out
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