An Invitation to Love:
The Contemplative Life in a Busy World Class Notes
- Welcome. Opening Prayer and Meditation
- Review Agreements
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Read book, do homework, and spend time in quiet
- Confidentiality
- No Cross Talk
- Silence after last meditation
- Help clean up room: Return metal chairs to parish hall.
- Those who want to meet to answer
questions may after room is cleaned.
- If there are questions that are
too long, I will answer them by email.
- Nov. 1: read pages 50-76 and review Appendixes I and
II
- Ask how coffee cup meditation is
going. Reading assignments? Personal questions?
- Tier One vs. Tier Two
thinking. See chart. See diagram.
- As we develop through the layers
of consciousness, we go from being “fused’ with our environment (e.g.
parent/nature) to belonging to “the group” to becoming independent
thinkers. As we get rid of our false self,
the levels increase until we move into tier II thinking where we once again
fuse with the interconnectedness of life. See handout on Graves Developmental
Levels.
- Ego, egoic: Begin with the development of the human
race. (see pg.
142)
Reptilian, Typhonic, mythic, mental egoic,
intuitive, unitive, unity.
- Talk about the formation of the
id, ego, superego.
- Defense mechanisms.
- Solution: Dismantling of the false self. Review material. Share about blanket.
- Cover questions for
- Introduce centering prayer