HeyJaredFifth Kind of Monk
St. Benedict wrote his 6th century Rule of Life for one of the four kinds of monks he named in that short Rule. After 1500 years, it's time to explore the life of a Fifth Kind of Monk.
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I’ve been “seeing through a glass, darkly,” as St. Paul writes, spiritually and evolutionarily nearsighted. When a word or insight sharpens my vision for a brief moment, I am as awestruck as my childhood self putting on glasses for the first time and realizing that the world—and the blackboard—aren’t meant meant to be blurry.Jesuit paleontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin described humanity as “evolution becoming conscious of itself.” True, the universe began to see itself more clearly in us. B
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I believe ideas emerge in us through the Universal Consciousness, the Mind of God, the Ground of Being, or however one describes the life force that brought us here and into which we shall return.The idea of the Fifth Kind of Monk emerged thus, fed by my perpetual wrestling with the basic questions of the meaning of this life, how to live it faithfully, and our ultimate end. While there are no definitive answers, a few thousand years of accumulated wisdom traditions, including that of the sixth-
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