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020			_a9781988648033 _q(softcover)
020			_a1988648033
035			_a(OCoLC)1080210239
092			_a204 _bB878
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aBrown, Jeff, _d1962- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aGrounded spirituality / _cJeff Brown.
263			_a201902
264		1	_aGuelph, Ontario : _bEnrealment Press, _c2019.
300			_a381 pages ; _c23 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_a"In this courageous, leading-edge book, author Jeff Brown takes us on the spiritual ride of a lifetime. In Part One, we join him on an engaging, often hilarious, and compelling personal journey...through decades of tasting from a banquet of spiritual approaches. Through his direct experience, fierce exploration, and scintillating discernment, Brown exposes the fragmented, ungrounded and dissociative notions of spirituality that have imprisoned our consciousness and obstructed our awakening since time immemorial. In his cuttingly straight style, he reveals that much of what we have been calling "spirituality" is actually a patriarchal, emotionally bereft construct that perpetuates our self-avoidance. He then proves to us--point by brilliant point--that true spirituality is a whole-being awakening, one that wonderfully embraces our entire human experience. In many spiritual practices, emotional healing processes (blockage clearing, issue resolution, the working through of the shadow) have been bypassed and trivialized, as though the 'real' spiritual realm exists independent of our feelings. Brown makes no distinction between these realms, revealing that emotional maturity and spiritual maturity are synonymous, and that any spirituality that desacralizes our selfhood is not enlightenment at all. It is a bypass of that which is fundamentally human: our feelings, our stories, our bodies, our relationships with each other and the earth that houses us. In his words, "Detachment is a tool- not a life. If you can't find your transformation in the village, you haven't found a thing." In Part Two of Grounded Spirituality, Brown engages in a riveting dialogue with an ungrounded seeker named "Michael." Their dialogues unfurl in warmth, humor, playfulness, personal story, threaded with challenging confrontation and cutting truth. Hands-on exercises are dispersed throughout--providing readers with a direct experience of a new, inclusive model. Here the author lays down the tracks for a more balanced, heartfelt and relational spirituality--one that leaves us "enrealed", integrated, and purposeful. Not awakened, but awakening. Not escaping our humanness, but finding our meaning and spirituality deep within it. Out of the ashes of old ways of being, a bright new paradigm comes into view. An inclusive, self-honoring, and healing spiritual perspective that will be a welcomed relief for any seeker."-- _cProvided by publisher.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
505	0		_aPart 1: The Journey -- Part 2. Here: 1. What is grounded spirituality? -- 2. The art of enrealment -- 3. Truth is the gateway to the moment -- 4. the non-duel duel -- 5. The body temple -- 6. The heart of the matter -- 7. Enrealed love relationship -- 8. The new cage movement -- Part 3: Why: 9. Sacred purpose -- 10. Callings and gifts -- 11. Cell your soul -- 12. Soulpods -- Exercises.
650		0	_aSpirituality.
650		0	_aSelf-actualization (Psychology)
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