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$ Falling Upward: Life as a Spiritual Journey (Center for Action and Contemplation)
October 16 All day
Registration
August 28, 2024 – October 8, 2024
Start Date
October 16, 2024
Length
15 Weeks
A 15-week online course on the heroic journey of descent, transformation, and self-discovery that leads us from the first half of life into the second half of life. Students will learn psychological, mythological, and spiritual truths to prepare for the second half of life to naturally unfold.
Falling Upward: Life as a Spiritual Journey invites you to embark upon a heroic journey into a broader and deeper world, where the soul finds its fullness, is finally connected to the whole, and lives inside the Big Picture. It is also about falling — and the necessity of falling.
It was Carl Jung who first popularized the phrase “the two halves of life.” Our task in the first half of life is what we think of as our primary task: making money, getting an education, raising children, and paying the mortgage. Eventually we discover, often through failure or significant loss, that our real purpose and identity are at a much deeper level than the positive image we present to the world.
The second half of life is about discovering the task within the task, a journey of descent that involves challenges, failures, loss of control, and necessary suffering. Yet what looks like falling can largely be experienced as falling upward and onward, into a broader and deeper world, where the soul finds its fullness, is finally connected to the whole, and lives inside the Big Picture.
This course explores the themes of Richard Rohr’s book “Falling Upward” through the psychological and mythological lens of the Hero’s Journey. Richard steps into his own story and role models what it’s like to move beyond the first half of life container, sharing insights into the limiting beliefs and worldviews that keep many stuck in a first half of life orientation. Students will gain insight into limiting beliefs, lost mythologies, and psychological and spiritual truths to prepare for the second half of life to naturally unfold.
$249 – $497
