2017 Retreat, Lecture 7: The Rosary as a Fractal of Cosmic Evolution

Retreat at The Bishop's Ranch, Healdsburg, CA
“Render unto Caesar…” - Spirituality, Politics
and the Ascension of Humanity
Sunday, March 26 – Wednesday, March 29, 2017

Retreat Introduction
There has never been a significant evolutionary shift that has not been precipitated by a major crisis. This is true in geological history e.g., the huge 1.5 billion-years-long crisis that single-celled protozoa – the first lifeforms on our planet – created, when they began extracting hydrogen from water, thus releasing oxygen, which was a deadly poison to them! Or the excess of calcium the planet was excreting which threatened to overpower it, until it found creative ways to solve the problem e.g., make coral reefs of it, build exoskeletons for shell fish, make endoskeletons for the vertebrates.
It’s true in interpersonal relationships; and – as I’m sure you can verify from personal experience – it’s true in your own life journey. Crisis properly navigated is the key to psycho-spiritual growth.
And today – as has happened many times in human history – the world political, economic and military situation presents us with issues of mammoth proportions. Hence, it bears within itself evolutionary possibilities of even greater proportions.
This retreat, and these seven lectures, is an attempt to understand the root causes of this crisis, its invitations and its hidden blessings. It looks fearlessly at the real data, not the fake news, propaganda or fear-mongering, and goes on to identify the mindset, soul-set and practices needed to turn our times towards Christ Consciousness on a planetary level.

Lecture Seven
The Rosary as a Fractal of Cosmic Evolution

(A) The Childhood of Incarnation – Joyful Mysteries
(B) The Adulthood of Incarnation – Sorrowful Mysteries
(C) After Incarnation – Glorious Mysteries

About Fr. Seán ÓLaoire, PhD
Fr. Seán ÓLaoire, PhD was ordained a Catholic Priest in 1972 and is Spiritual Director of Companions on the Journey, a community which seeks to recognize the God / divinity within each and all of us. Through homilies and lectures, Fr.Seán inspires and empowers us to develop our own personal cosmology where each individual’s spirituality is seen as derived from his / her experiences of God, immanent and transcendent, and illuminated by the teachings of Christ and the wisdom of other spiritual traditions. People of all faiths are welcome to liturgical services: Friday and Saturday, 7:30 AM, St. Mark’s Chapel, 600 Colorado Avenue, Palo Alto CA 94306; and Sunday, 9:30 AM, Seventh Day Adventist Church, 786 Channing Avenue, Palo Alto CA 94301. To contact Fr. Seán directly, please visit http://www.SpiritsInSpacesuits.com/co...