Lucifer
Magdalene (biblical figure)
Male initiation: childhood toys in; heroic journey and; “life is hard” message in; liminal space and; M.A.L.E. and, ; side-to-side movement and; wheel of development and
Mandela, Nelson
Mary (mother of Jesus)
Maslow, Abraham
Maturation: acceptance of reality and; both-and thinking and; boundaries and; charting movement and direction and; family and; grace and; growth in seeing and; liberation and; mirroring and; peacefulness and; religion and; resistance to change and; second simplicity and; steps and stages of; stretching and; structure and authority and; transcending and including and; transpartisanship versus bipartisanship and
McLaren, Brian
Meaning, happiness and
Mennonites, as true conservatives
Meritocracy
Merton, Thomas: on brightness; on cosmic dance; influence of; influences on, ; on ladder of success, xvii; on personal salvation projects; as Rohr's teacher; on self, ; “When in the Soul of the Serene Disciple” (Merton) and
Milan, Cesar
Mirroring: admiration and criticism and; divine; divine gaze and; I-Thou relationships and; maturation and; real self and; reflecting what we fight and; service and; spiritual gifts and
Mohammed
Montessori, Maria
Moore, Robert
Morality, superego and
Mormons
Moses
Mother Teresa
Muir, John
Mystery: Catholic Church and; conspiracy of God and; doubt and; engagement with; grace as; life as pause between; myth and; paschal; of self; stumbling and; transition between halves of life and; wisdom and
Mysticism: Catholic Church and; incarnational; reading in second half of life and; science and; spiritual journey and
Myths
Name of the Rose, The (Eco)
Narcissism: authority and; extended adolescence and; narcissistic fix and; in old age; politeness and
Native Americans, sweat lodge and
Nativity, birth of God in the soul and
Nature. See Science and nature
Nazis
Neighbors, fences and
Neurosis, as norm
Newton, Isaac
Nicholas of Cusa
Nuremburg trials
Obedience
Odysseus: heroic journeys and; home and; losses of; as loyal soldier; myth and; realm of death and; shadow side of; Teiresias's prophecy and; tragedy and
Odyssey, The (Homer). See Odysseus
Oliver, Mary
Orpheus
Orthodox Church
Palmer, Parker
Parenting
Particular, scandal of
Pastoral ministry
Paul (apostle): on angels of darkness; on being hidden in God; on Damascus Road; on discerning of spirits; holy foolishness and; on Jesus as teacher; journey of; on law; on least of these; spirituality of imperfection and; on wisdom
Peace, versus dualistic bickering
Peace Corps
Pearl of great price
Pearls before swine
Peck, Scott
Perfection and imperfection: contentment and; falling upward and; goodness and; imposition of order and; in natural world; spirituality of
Piaget, Jean
Plato: church practice and; on democracy; perfect forms and; tragic gaps and; world of ideas and
Plotkin, Bill: on patho-adolescence; process language and; on survival dance; vision quests and; wheel of development and
Poetry
Politics
Poor Clares
Postmodernism
Prayer: deep time and; divine gaze and; for humiliation; versus knee-jerk responses; life as
Preaching
Prisons and jails. See Jails and prisons
Process language
Prodigal son
Prophets
Providence
Quakers, as true conservatives
Rationality, religion and
Reality: eternal; mirroring and
Reformation
Religion: againstness and; Big Picture and; boundaries and; coherent universe and; criticism of; diversity and; early-stage; as evacuation plan; founding myths of; functions of, ; fundamentalism in; identity and; leaving family and; mature; means and goals and; myth and; neoconservatism in; new tribalism in; participation and; parts and the Whole and; rationality and; reality and; resistance to change and; science and; security and; True Self and; unified field and
Repentance
Ricoeur, Paul
Rilke, Rainer Maria
Ritual
Ritual Process, The (Turner)
Road Less Traveled, The (Peck)
Rohr, Richard, life journey of
Roosevelt, Eleanor
Roots of Christian Mysticism, The (Clement)
Rumi
Sacrifice
Sadness
Salvation: narcissistic fix and; order as; personal project of; sin and; thinking and; tragic sense of life and
Sarah (biblical figure)
Science and nature: down-up pattern in; First Body of Christ and; groaning of creation and; mysticism and; religion and; tragic natural world and; unified field and; universality and; wonderful and terrible in
Second half of life: Beatitudes and; being and doing and; calling and; chronology and, xvi; commentary on the text and; contents of container and; discerning of spirits and; double belonging and; family and community of origin and; friendship in; general dance and; generativity in; generosity in; hereness and; as higher stage; inner freedom and; inner restlessness and; institutions in; lightness in; loyal soldier and; mirroring in; opinions and; paradox and; politics and; prayer and; religious substance and; as second childhood; second simplicity and; self-criticism and; service in; solitude in; tools for; voice of God in; withdrawal from evil things and. See also Life transition
Security
Self: false; hatred of; justification of; knowledge of; mirroring and; self-criticism and; self-image and; strong; Thomas Merton on, . See also Shadow work; True Self
Selfishness
Seminary education
Seton, Elizabeth
Seven Storey Mountain(Merton)
Shadow work: criticism and; depression and sadness and; holiness and sin and; humiliation and; persona and shadow self and; seeing the shadow and; self-image and
Shakers, as true conservatives
Siddhartha
Sign of Jonah (Merton)
Simplicity
Sin: down-up pattern and; gifts and, ; Jesus and; redemption and; salvation and; versus shadow; superficiality and; transformation and
Slavery
Soldier, loyal
Solitude
Soul: birth of God in; finding of; as God-given; home and; inner abiding and; as inner blueprint; soul centric worldview and; soul encounter and, ; stewardship of
Spiral Dynamics
Spiritual direction
Spiritual gifts
Spirituality: conspiracy of God and; as imitation of God; superficial expressions of; unlearning and
Steiner, Rudolf
Steppenwolf (Hesse)
Suffering, necessary: Catholic Church and; communion in; complexity and; false self and; family and; groaning of creation and; holy sadness and; lack of theology for; as legitimate; luck and; stumbling and; tragic sense of life and
Sullivan, Anne
Superego
Tea Party movement
Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre
Ten Commandments
Teresa of Avila
Testament (Francis of Assisi)
Thanatos
“That Nature Is a Heraclitean Fire” (Hopkins)
Theosis. See Divinization
Therese of Lixieux
Thisness
Thomas (apostle)
Tower of Babel
Tradition: in first half of life; healthy growth and; misuse of; new religi
ous tribalism and; presumption against
Tragic sense of life: in Bible; church practice and; down-up pattern and; meaning of tragedy and; natural world and; origin of phrase; salvation and; solitude and; transformation and; Western society and
True Self: authentic God experience and; capitalization ofinvitation n1; deep time and; discovery of; false self and; as God-given; heaven and; home and; versus imitation; offense and; search for; time and. See also Self
Trust, faith and
Truth: in Bible; Big Picture and; Enneagram and; freedom and; knowledge of; myths and; perception of; in praise and criticism
Tubman, Harriet
Turner, Victor
Tutu, Desmond
Unamuno, Miguel de
Unified field: Albert Einstein and; compassion and; first-stage survival and; Holy Spirit and; inclusion and; knowledge and; necessary suffering and; “up” and
United States, as paradox
Values, internalization of
War
Western society: amnesia of; dualism in; identity in; Jesus’ authority in; myths and; neuroses in; as ritually starved; tragic sense of life and
“When in the Soul of the Serene Disciple” (Merton)
Wholeness
Wilber, Ken: on calling beliefs into question; on classic spiritual journey; on functions of religion, ; Integral Theory and, ; process language and; on rationality
Wineskins, old and new
Winfrey, Oprah
Wisdom: in first half of life; versus knowledge; life transition and; mystery and; Odyssey, The (Homer) and
Wizard of Oz
Women religious
Wordsworth, William
Workplace
Woundedness: father wounds and; healing and growth and; imperfection and; resistance to change and; victimhood and
Yeats, William Butler
Zen