Well said. This concept reminds me of The Benedict Option.. the coalition of Christians, artists, musicians and writers who survived the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia by banding together in small underground cells. Rod Dreyher wrote about that… apart from anything else… morale is important. Best wishes for your book.
Thank you for the well wishes. And that's a great call with the Benedict Option. In fact, in the final chapter of my book, I delve pretty deeply into the " monastic option" conceived and advocated by the intellectual historian Morris Berman in his 2000 book The Twilight of American Culture. He was talking about an approach to finding and living with meaning and purpose in a period of civilizational collapse. I take it in a new direction by connecting it to spiritual awakening and adopting the path of the creative muse in a world historical period of upheaval and breakdown. Berman and Dreher are aware of each other's viewpoints and models. I recall that Dreher mentioned it one time.
I wish I had a nice little monastic cell made of stone on an Irish hillside frequently… communicating with other like minds by Raven preferably but it’s 2025 and here we are … 😀
Well said. This concept reminds me of The Benedict Option.. the coalition of Christians, artists, musicians and writers who survived the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia by banding together in small underground cells. Rod Dreyher wrote about that… apart from anything else… morale is important. Best wishes for your book.
Thank you for the well wishes. And that's a great call with the Benedict Option. In fact, in the final chapter of my book, I delve pretty deeply into the " monastic option" conceived and advocated by the intellectual historian Morris Berman in his 2000 book The Twilight of American Culture. He was talking about an approach to finding and living with meaning and purpose in a period of civilizational collapse. I take it in a new direction by connecting it to spiritual awakening and adopting the path of the creative muse in a world historical period of upheaval and breakdown. Berman and Dreher are aware of each other's viewpoints and models. I recall that Dreher mentioned it one time.
I wish I had a nice little monastic cell made of stone on an Irish hillside frequently… communicating with other like minds by Raven preferably but it’s 2025 and here we are … 😀