Doing It Another Way: The Basic Text

FOR INDIVIDUALS AND SMALL GROUPS

 

The chapters of Doing It Another Way are arranged for individual or group use in a sequence to lead us in deepening levels of understanding, contemplation, and silence.

Yet each section within a chapter is a doorway, an appropriate entrance. So for the orderly we have the sequence. For the chaotic we offer the play of entering each chapter as intuition leads.

The reflective and active exercises within each chapter appeal to the senses, the faculties of reason, intuition, and wonder. We fully expect that certain elements will appeal to one person and other elements to another. Each chapter uses a multi-faith approach and contains

Poem
Story
Narrative
Coming into Silence
Sound
Reflections/Contemplations
Story Activities
Blessing

Each link below is a PDF chapter from Doing It Another Way: the Basic Text of the 4th order.

Introduction

I.  Our History : A Fierce Embrace

II. Mission Introduction

IV. Clare of Assisi

V.  The One with No Name

VI. Integrated Spiritual Community

VII. Three Foundational Interfaith Practices

IX. The Condition of Being

X. Companions on the Way

XI. Willing Transformation

XIII. Humility

XIV. States of Being

XV. Companions in Action and Non Action

XVI. Clowns, Troubadours, Madmen, Fools and Wandering Mystics

XVII. The Web of Being

IXX. The Journey