Spiritual Radicals
(2.1 ceu)
This course introduces students to seven highly original thinkers--J. Krishnamurti, Aldous Huxley, Alan Watts, Thomas Merton, Ram Dass, Chogyam Trungpa, and Matthew Fox--whose lives and work brought about a renaissance in American spirituality. Authors, scholars, and religious figures, they each journeyed beyond accepted norms and reinvigorated religious practice through the retrieval of ancient wisdom. More important, their work moved the individual from the back of the church to center stage. Students in this course will explore a range of important modern issues: celebrity and spirituality, the mainstreaming of Eastern spirituality, and the birth and expansion of the New Age movement.
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Tues. June 10, Berkeley
JOHN TORTORICE, M.S., has studied comparative religion and spirituality for more than 30 years, with a special focus on Catholic, Taoist, and Tibetan spirituality. He has taught spirituality at UC Santa Cruz Extension and at San Francisco State Extension, and has been a guest lecturer on Allan Watts at the University of San Francisco and on East-West spirituality at Santa Clara University.
- 8 meetings
- June 10 to July 29: Tues., 6:30-9:30 pm
- Berkeley: Room 210, UC Berkeley Extension, 1995 University Ave.
- $345 (EDP 014357)
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