Introduction:  Conversations with Dr. Bob Schmitt

Introduction: Conversations with Dr. Bob Schmitt

Evolution, Spirituality/Religion, Transformation (Personal and Social)
Introduction: Conversations with Bob Schmitt We live in challenging times full of changes. My goal in these blogs is to share ideas that impact how we live our lives and stimulate a discussion with you. My thoughts come from years of study, teaching, and ministry. I feel like I have lived two life-times – first as a Jesuit priest and now as a married man. I have a Ph.D. in Religious Studies/Spirituality (Fordham University) and Master’s Degrees in Counseling, Philosophy and Sacred Theology. My goal has been to integrate spirituality and psychology as a scholar-practitioner. I am now on the faculty at Saybrook University in the psychology department, focused on spirituality, consciousness and integrative health studies. Before coming to Saybrook I was on the core faculty at the Institute of…
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21st Century Spirituality

21st Century Spirituality

Spirituality/Religion
A key ingredient in one’s spirituality is the description of how the world came to be and why it exists – its physical cosmology.  In the Judaeo-Christian tradition there is  the supposition that nature reveals something of who or what the Divine or Ultimate Reality is.  Nature in the words of St. Augustine reveals the footprints of God.  Likewise any spirituality or religion have their image of the spiritual world including the relationship between matter and spirit.  We will call this one’s spiritual cosmology. I submit that a radically new physical cosmology is emerging that is based on the theory of evolution and quantum physics.  If we look at any traditional religion or spirituality through the lens of this cosmology, we will see a need for a radical revision of…
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