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Soul, the Natural World and What is

A webcast teaching by Richard Rohr, OFM

Richard’s recent contact with the teaching of Bill Plotkin in the mountains of Colorado has re-convinced him of his own Franciscan and creation based spirituality. Could it be true that the deepest patterns of truth “… are there for the mind to see in the things that God has made”? (Romans 1:20). The Cosmic Christ and creation itself are giving us very similar messages, if only we can be taught how to see!

In this teaching Richard puts that wilderness experience in the context of Scripture, teachings by Thomas Aquinas, and the insights of St. Francis of Assisi.

Richard shows the crucial importance for each person to encounter their deepest self, their soul: that which was there before anything else and is one’s “blueprint in God, what you were born for.” You don’t have to figure it out to do it right, you just have to wake up each day and listen.

Our primary task is to encounter our soul, awaken it, and trust it. Before a soul encounter, our ego is an agent for itself; after a soul encounter, the ego is a servant of the soul.” Daily contact with nature is the best way to re-connect with soul.

This program has two parts: a 50 minute teaching, and 30 minutes of engaging questions from the audience with Fr. Richard’s responses, including a brief description of Bill Plotkin’s “soulcentric” 8-stage wheel of soul discovery. This webcast will encourage you to see the importance of recovering your deep, soul-connection with created nature, to which we all radically belong.

Length: Approximately 80 minutes