Center For Human Inquiry

South Pacific Centre for Human Inquiry

This site contains some very interesting articles and e-books by John Heron. I won't attempt to categorize Heron's spirituality teaching. Some Christians would dismiss his approach and writings offhand. But, if your looking for evocative reading on spirituality by someone with decades of research and experience, check it out.

In an article titled Spiritual inquiry as divine becoming, Heron writes the following.

A human person:

1. Is a distinct spiritual presence in, and nonseparable from, the given cosmos, participating through immediate present experience - the very process of being in a world - in the presence of the divine.

2. Is not to be reduced to, or confused with, an illusory, separate, contracted, and egoic self with which personhood can become temporarily identified.

3. Emerges from and is grounded in immanent spiritual life; and is informed and illuminated by a transcendent spiritual consciousness.

4. Has original revelation here and now, through opening to his or her intrinsic saturation with divinity. Such revelation is a human-divine communion, a co-creation of mediated-immediacy.

5. Has spiritual authority within which, when freed from the distortions of spiritual projection onto external sources, manifests as co-created inner light and inner life.

6. Has freedom to generate, with immanent spiritual life, an innovative spiritual path.

7. Manifests the creative process of divine becoming as an autonomous being, embedded in connectedness, and in co-operative, transformative relations with other persons similarly engaged.

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