ReImagine2:Creation Spirituality in an Age of Apocalypse
Register now for ReImagine2:Creation Spirituality in an Age of Apocalypse a five-week live class with Theodore Richards, beginning Wednesday, May 13 at 7:00pm ET. Registration
This second course in the three-part ReImagine series is an inquiry into the great unraveling of late stage capitalism and the global polycrisis—and an exploration of the possibilities for reimagining our worldview, and the values and systems that arise out of it. We will explore the apocalyptic tradition as it relates to cosmology and to this moment of global polycrisis and internal transformation. It includes an art as meditation practice: Creating Mandalas—after each class the students create a community, cosmos, soul, family, realm, etc. Final sharing in the last session.
Session Topics:
1. The Apocalypse (Self)
2. Climate Crisis/The Inner Climate (Family)
3. New Stories/New Selves (Mystics/ Artists/Prophets) (Community)
4. New Systems (The Classroom) (Cosmos)
5. Reimagining Work (Students offer their ideas; share mandalas
Explore late-stage capitalism, global polycrisis, and the apocalyptic tradition as invitations to reimagine worldview, values, and systems, with mandala-making as a meditative practice for personal and communal transformation.
It’s the end of the world—if we understand that a “world” is something we put together through the stories and symbols of a culture. When a worldview or a cosmology unravels, when myths no longer give one a sense of place and meaning in the cosmos, we experience this as the end of the world—the apocalypse.
But apocalypse means “unveiling.” While it often leads to destruction and fear—the clinging to an imagined past of fascism—it can also be a collective re-birth, the emergence of a new story, new sets of symbols, that give one a sense of place in the cosmos, that give our world meaning.
This course seeks to first understand our world through the lens of cosmology; then looks at how our world is unraveling (the polycrisis); and, finally, works collaboratively to reimagine our work, and our world, by applying a new world-vision.
This is an invitation to explore our worldviews—the narratives and symbols that give us our sense of who we are and our place in the world. This course provides the foundational concepts from our spiritual, philosophical and scientific traditions by exploring the concept of cosmology/ecology.
