Spirituality in the Age of Materialism
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"If humanity is to survive the dark night of civilization we are now experiencing, it will require us to move beyond the second-hand gods of religion to a first-hand mystic encounter with Godhead, the Aliveness in which all reality lives, and moves and has its being. Ron Frost’s The Mystic Core is yet another step in that direction. Read this book as a challenge to living your life in the presence of the One with whom there is no other."
-Rabbi Rami Shapiro Author of Perennial Wisdom for the Spiritually Independent
"Through an accessible and delightful dialogue of science and mysticism, geologist Ron Frost awakens us to natural wonder that counteracts the deadening effects of materialism. Drawing widely from many contemplative traditions, he shares his own authentic journey of deep spiritual transformation and inspires us to join him. Fascinating, informative, and engaging, this book is a wonderful introduction to interspiritual dialogue."
-Acharya Judith Simmer-Brown, Naropa University, author of Dakini’s Warm Breath: The Feminine Principle in Tibetan Buddhism (Shambhala 2001)
"As Director of Transformational Programs at a retreat site, I look for resources that help to nurture deep connection to the earth, community, and that which we might call the Spirit. This book did just that for a group of seekers and contemplatives who took a week away from the busy world to tend to the stillness within. Through the words and stories lovingly put to paper by Ron Frost, this contemplative camp journeyed together into the mystic."
-Rev. Logan Bennett
Director of Transformational Programs, La Foret Conference and Retreat Center
Ron Frost as a Monk
Ron Frost is a professor emeritus at the University of Wyoming. For more that forty years he has studied rocks in the mountains of Wyoming and locations elsewhere throughout the world, ranging from Australia to Greenland, trying to decipher the history those rocks record. For nearly his whole career, he has also practiced Tibetan Buddhism. For most of that time he wrestled with the problem of how to reconcile the material world of science with the spiritual world that permeates the world about us. Scientists think that the physical world is as solid as rocks, but mystics consider it as maya, an illusion. To understand why mystics consider the world an illusion, Ron participated in the Three-Year Retreat in Tibetan Buddhism. During the retreat years, 2012 - 2013, 2014 - 2015, and 2016 – 2017, he took temporary ordination as a monk at Gampo Abbey in Nova Scotia and spent up to 11 hours a day in prayer and meditation. Since coming out of retreat Ron has been active in the Wyoming Interfaith Network, where he is now on the Board of Directors.
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