Guild for Sacred Studies

With the death of our 'Sunday School God' and the manipulation of religious history for political ends, where do we turn? Where do we go to find spiritual solace in a topsy-turvy world? How can we unleash our own creativity, be guided by curiosity, become more fully ourselves, play a more significant part in the healing of the world?

Guild work centers on traditional and non-traditional texts, but without a theological bias. In a typical seminar, for instance, leaders pose questions with the understanding that all points of view are a vital part of the work. We encourage answers from people of differing backgrounds and ideas as we explore the richness of soul life. We also work in non-verbal ways: art, music, movement, and engagement with the natural world.

We come to the work with hearts struggling to hold both the beauty and movement of eros all around us and wounded by the meaninglessness and fear churning in a tempestuous world. We do not try to redeem traditions which have died, but to discover what is most alive, in ourselves and in the world.

THE WAY OF IMAGINATION

Finding Wisdom for One's Journey

It takes but a glance to recognize our world needs fresh wisdom for its survival. All around us we hear calls for more creative ways to live together and honor the planet. Concerned persons are seeking fresh perspectives and partners, not only to protect our planet, but to insure its -- and each person's -- flourishing. Where can one join with companions seeking wisdom ways?

The Guild for Sacred Studies

invites you to join us

in our creative inquiry

into the visionary imagination

of Jesus of Nazareth,

which works divinely

in our search for the ways of wisdom.

Once persons have seen beyond the overlay of moralisms, legalisms, and years of tradition that have defined Jesus for us, they find a creative and original soul profoundly attuned to the ways of imagination. Every teaching becomes a doorway into unlimited possibilities of living together in new and desirable ways. Jesus becomes recognized more as a Life-Artist than a Savior. His way is open to anyone seeking an imaginative spirituality, unique to oneself, that enables each of us to journey as wise, imaginative, and life-giving co-creators. The way of Jesus seeks an awakened and realized imagination.

"The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?" Emerson, Nature