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THE CAMALDOLESE BENEDICTINES AND NEW AGEAround the year 1000, St. Romuald founded the Order of the Camaldolese Monks. He founded the Hermitage in 1023-1024 with the consent of Teodaldo, the Bishop of Arezzo. [Refer pages 8, 21] On the Camaldoli website (www.camaldoli.it), the “Bede Griffiths Centres” are listed as follows: 1. Saccidananda Ashram, Shantivanam, Tannirpalli, 639 107, Kulittalai, Trichy Dist. Tamil Nadu / S. INDIA [Bro. John Martin Sahajananda] Tel: 04323-222260 Fax: 04323-222280 E-mail Shantivanam (brothermartin111@hotmail.com) (brothermartin111@rediffmail.com) 2. Osage Monastery, Pascaline Coff, OSB [see pages 21, 27, 28, 30, 41, 52, 57, 59] 18701 W. Monastery Road, Sand Springs, Oklahoma 74063 / U.S.A. Tel: 918.245.2734 Fax: 918.245.9360 3. New Camaldoli Hermitage Website: http://www.contemplation.com/ [Guestmaster] 62475 Coast HWY 1, Big Sur, California 93920 / U.S.A. Tel: 831.667.2456 Fax: 831.667.0209 The Golden String is the bulletin of the Bede Griffiths Trust. Bruno Barnhart, OSB Cam [see pages 21, 40, 52, 57, 63] edits the newsletter from here. It is published twice yearly, in Winter and Summer. 4. Monastero Di Camaldoli, Bernadino Cozzarini, OSB Cam 1- Arezzo / ITALY Fax: 0575-556143 (monastero@camaldoli.it) There is also the Holy Hermitage of Camaldoli in Arezzo (eremo@camaldoli.it), which Pope John Paul II visited on September 13, 1993, and the St. Gregorio al Celio Monastery in Rome (sangregorio@camaldoli.it) to which I had sent my pilot letter on this Ashram report several times [see page 8] and to which no response was received.
Tel: (510) 845-0601 Fax: (510) 548-6439. A coincidence? After Findhorn [see pages 34, 45] and Omega [see pages 12, 60], Big Sur, California is host to the largest New Age centre in the world outside of Europe. The community is named Esalen, founded 1962, and its activities are explained under ‘Key New Age places’ [with Findhorn and Omega] in the Vatican Document on the New Age, n 7.4, and in n 2.3.2. Could there be a link, or interaction, or even cooperation, between Esalen and the Camaldolis also at Big Sur? I wouldn’t be surprised if there were. Was the Hermitage founded after Esalen-1962? Could there be a sinister reason for the choice of Big Sur as the location of the Camaldoli Hermitage? On the Camaldoli website and its links: “Monastery and Convent accommodation all around Italy.” / “Help yourself and others be healthy in body, mind & spirit.” / “Free e-course explaining Buddhist ways and beliefs.” / “Four steps to meditation and The Three Deep Breath Method.” / “Online Meditation Classes Meditation, Yoga, Pranayama, Forum.” etc. Fr. Bill Whittier of the WCCM [see pages 13, 41, 60] writes, “Forty five years ago Bede Griffiths touched my life when I was a young seminarian at the St. Paul Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota. I read and reread his autobiography The Golden String. Little did I know or he know that my life journey would take me from his inspiration to being open to… Thich Nhat Hanh*, Teilhard de Chardin, John Main, Thomas Merton and many others of this caliber. His broadness of vision opened me to the essential core of all world religions and to see the unity at that core.” Against an advertisement for the book Bede Griffiths: Essential Writings (Modern Spiritual Masters Series) By Bede Griffiths, Thomas Matus, “INSIDE THIS BOOK: Fritjof Capra, de Chardin, Sr Aurobindo…” The ad. informs us that “Customers who bought Bede’s “The Golden String” also bought de Chardin’s books. Some of prolific writer John R. Mabry’s articles and essays include: A Comparison of Vaisnavism and Saivism / Considering the Gnostic Sacraments / God the Heretic / Hegel, Whitehead, and de Chardin: Trailblazers of a New Cosmology / Tantra and Gnosticism / Uncovering the Creation Spirituality Tradition: Chenu and Matthew Fox / Bede Griffiths: Holy Man for Our Time… etc. In the Ultimate Wayne Teasdale [see page 17, 59, 75, 76] Reference Guide by J. Whitford, Bede Griffiths: An Introduction to his Interspiritual Thought by Bede Griffiths (Foreword), “Wayne Teasdale explains the key terms that form the basis for Bede Griffiths essential theology.” Advertised: A Monk in the World: Cultivating a Spiritual Life by Ken Wilber (Foreword), Wayne Teasdale The Mystic Heart: Discovering a Universal Spirituality in the World's Religions by Wayne Teasdale, Beatrice Bruteau (Editor) [who wrote in Saccidanandaya Namah, see pages 18, 28, 75] Zazen: A Path from Judgement to Love, by William Skudlarek, OSB [“This paper was inspired by an observation that Thomas Merton made in his book Zen and the Birds of Appetite ”]; The Anthropological Spirit in the Writings of Dom Bede Griffiths by Cyprian Consiglio, OSB Cam Heart Yoga: A Comparison of Two Texts, Pratyabhijna-hridayam (Kashmir, eleventh century) and Kaivalya-darsanam (West Bengal, nineteenth century) by Thomas Matus, OSB Cam Some papers presented at International Symposium 2000: 1. Christian Self-Understanding in the Light of the East: New Birth and Unitive Consciousness by Bruno Barnhart, OSB Cam. An excerpt: “The Asian traditions today bring forward a further contribution: the mandala [see pages 28, 41, 48, 59] –a quasi-universal symbol of wholeness, of the unity of all reality. The 'mystery of the cross'– Trinity and creation become one– naturally expresses itself in a mandalic figure.” 2. Through Detachment to Vision: Chuang Tzu and Meister Eckhart by Joseph Wong, OSB Cam 3. Dialogue toward Purity of Heart by Mary Margaret Funk, OSB. The talk concerns Fr. Thomas Merton and a book, Merton and Sufism, The Untold Story just published in 1999. 4. Mystical Experience as Text: The Literary Expression of Transcending in the Cloud of Unknowing and the Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch by Nicholas Koss, OSB [The’ Platform Sutra’ is a fundamental text for Chan Buddhism]. At the May 21, 2000 commemoration of the seventh anniversary of Bede Griffiths' “mahasamadhi”, at the Osage Monastery of Sr. Pascaline Coff OSB in Sand Springs, Oklahoma, USA: Bede Griffiths and the Rebirth of Christian Wisdom by Bruno Barnhart, OSB Cam. This talk has already been quoted from [see page 52]. While giving it, he speaks of “the new paradigm science of a Fritjof Capra” and “the 'gaia hypothesis'.” *Vandana’s article on the Vietnamese Zen Buddhist Master’s visit to India got a full page in the NL, March 1-15, 1997. Directory: docs docs -> Application for acem docs -> Observational Assessment of Teaching Practices Teaching Assessment Initiative Proposal Submitted to The Teachers for a New Era project docs -> Traditional British values docs -> From Warfighters to Crimefighters: The Origins of Domestic Police Militarization docs -> Borzoi Club of America Register of Merit Program I. 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