Contents of Gnosis #25

	#25: Groups & Communities
	"Does the Church in our time foster the inner life? Rarely. Does the Church hold the keys to a new consciousness? Yes." - Theodore J. Nottingham, from The Church and the Inner Life


	Contents		Fall 1992
	2 News 4 Forum 8 Alternative Realities In Defense of Humans A column by Stephan A. Hoeller 10 Introduction: Getting Real About Getting Together by Jay Kinney The collective enterprise - you can't live with it and you can't live without it. 12 Symposium: The Spirituality of the Future Several spiritual teachers, writers, and thinkers give their views of where we're headed. 18 The Church and the Inner Life by Theodore J. Nottingham Can a living spirituality still be found in today's churches? 22 The Quiet Revolution by Robin Waterfield How the Brothers and Sisters of the Common Life helped revive medieval Christianity. 30 Is the Men's Movement a Religion? by Charles Upton What are the spiritual implications of Robert Bly's Iron John? 36 Divining the Beloved Community by D. Jean Collins On finding spiritual friendship in South Central Los Angeles. 42 The Diamond Approach: An Interview with A.H. Almaas by Richard Smoley The originator of a new synthesis of psychology and spirituality discusses authentic being, group work, and the search for God. 50 Grapes Ripen Smiling at One Another by Kabir Helminski Why the group process is necessary for individual growth in Sufism. 56 Black Gods of the Inner City by Prince-A-Cuba A brief history of the turbulent and multifarious Nation of Islam. 64 Book Reviews The Myth of the Goddess: Evolution of an Image by Anne Baring and Jules Cashford The Civilization of the Goddess: The World of Old Europe by Marija Gimbutas Boehme: An Intellectual Biography of the Seventeenth-Century Philosopher and Mystic by Andrew Weeks Science, Meaning, and Evolution: The Cosmology of Jacob Boehme by Basarab Nicolescu, translated by Rob Baker Magic: The Principles of Higher Knowledge by Karl von Eckartshausen, translated and edited by Gerhard Hanswille and Deborah Brunlishe Golgonooza, City of Imagination: Last Studies in William Blake by Kathleen Raine Absence from Felicity: The Story of Helen Schucman and Her Scribing of A Course in Miracles by Kenneth Wapnick Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles by Marianne Williamson On the Composition of Images, Signs, and Ideas by Giordano Bruno, translated by Charles Doria, edited and annotated by Dick Higgins Gnosis: Study and Commentaries on the Esoteric Tradition of Eastern Orthodoxy, Book 2 by Boris Mouravieff, translated by S.A. Wissa, Manek d'Oncieu, and Robin Amis The Changing Light at Sandover by James Merrill Principia Discordia, or, How I Found Goddess and What I Did to Her When I Found Her by Malaclypse the Younger, new edition with introduction by Kerry W. Thornley William Blake Tarot Triumphs created by Ed Buryn The Magical Mind by Imre Vallyon

#25: Groups & Communities

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