Global Prayer Project
5 April 2008 - 1 ניסן 5768 by Huw
One of my favourite spiritual writers when I was living in NYC was James Redfield. You might know this name from his spiritual-adventure book The Celestine Prophecy. The concepts in the book - the “Celestine Insights” - are a sort of “deep” ecumenism in that I think they pretty much fit all traditions - at least the mystical aspects of them.
I am intrigued by Redfield’s Global Prayer Project, a gathering by telephone of people from all over the world.
Our twice-monthly gatherings have been making a powerful difference, both in people’s individual lives and the world at large. Many of you have written us saying that the energy generated from this network of spiritually-minded participants is “indescribable,” and we look forward to continuing this healing circle of focused prayer. Like all prayer experience devoted to helping others, many participants have felt the results in their own bodies and received guidance for their own lives.
Research tells us that the more people praying together, the more powerful the prayer and the greater the level of energy felt by the participants. We invite you to join the largest regular prayer network in the world. If you would like to take an active role in maintaining a circle of positive intention across the globe, while going deeper and heightening your own spirituality, join us on Tuesday, April 8.
What intrigues me most about this is the idea of gathering all these people by telephone. We have tried gathering folks by blog here, on Doxos and, although it went well the first couple of weeks, it didn’t hold. I firmly believe there is no substitution for the local gathering of the faithful. Television is Not Church. Neither is the Internet. But how do we use these wider audiences for purposes appropriate to the size?
There is a sample there of one of their teleconferences. What would that look/sound like in a Christian (or other) context?
