As we look at Wisdom University, we can see a culmination of New Age spirituality and ancient philosophies being brought together into a unique forum to train other students in the process of transforming something common into something special, or what is known as "alchemy." This is clearly revealed as you enter the world of the New Chartes School, a new course described as "A Seven Stage Initiatory Journey into the Mysteries of the Seven Liberal Arts of Antiquity as Gateways of Transformation."
"New Chartres School is designed as an initiation into the wellspring of wisdom developed by the wise ones of civilizations long past..."
"[O]ffering an intitiatory exploration of the Seven Liberal Arts of Grammatica, Dialectica, Rhetorica, Musica, Arithmetica, Geometrica and Astronomica, as refracted through the portals of alchemy, astrology and sacred art. Each intensive will also include an immersion into one of the world's wisdom traditions."
According to the New Chartres School description of the Seven Intensives, the world's wisdom traditions are comprised of seven different mystical traditions, each a gateway to further enlightenment finally birthing the "Divine Human":
"Sufism, Kabbalah, Medieval Christian mysticism (Contemplative Spirituality), Hindu mysticism, Shammanic mysticism, Tibetan Buddhist mysticism, and Integral mysticism or a "coming together of all of the world's wisdom traditions, the whole of which is far greater than the sum of the parts."
In the Seventh Intensive, we see the realized goal of the fusion of spirituality and social action - "Sacred Activism: The Birthing of a New World."
"In the final Intensive, we bring to an integrated conclusion the demands for deeper spiritual commitment and the imperative for more effective social action. In a time such as ours, spirituality without activism is arid intellectualism. Activism without spirituality has effect but little depth. What is needed is a radical fusion of the two, in which we experience both a deepening of our mystical self through an immersion into sacred practices as well as a strong commitment to social activism, leading to an integration of the two that enriches our interior journey. Integrated as a single movement of soul and service, sacred activism can transform lives and change the world."
Jim Garrison, the Chairman and President of both Wisdom University and the
State of the World Forum, has used his influence, both spiritual and
political, to bring about global transformation. He is one of the key
players in bridging the New Spirituality with the political powers of the
world through the efforts of "Sacred Activism".
Garrison is considered to be one of the world's leading Christian
theologians as well as one of the world's key political change agents. In
his role as a New Age activist, he is bringing the New Spirituality to the
forefront as a viable means for shaping and changing the world through
globalization strategies.
Here are some quotes from a press release from
Paraview Press (November
2000), announcing a release of Garrison's book, Civilization and the
Transformation of Power:
"At the turn of the millennium the world
is burning.” With these words begins the visionary new book by Jim Garrison,
president of the State of the World Forum, a non-profit institution dedicated to
discerning and implementing those principles, values, and actions necessary
to guide humanity toward a more sustainable global civilization.
"Transformation is occurring in every sector, at every scale, in every
dimension,” continues Garrison. “Nothing we have inherited from the past is
able to withstand the accelerated pace of change; everything from the future
remains a perpetual possibility. Society has become completely malleable to
the power of science and technology; our mind, continually susceptible to
novelty; our relationships, opened to new configurations and meanings…It is
almost unbelievable that 90 percent of everything that has been discovered
or invented in the entire history of civilization has been invented or
discovered in the past seventy-five years...Yet all these achievements have
not made us more ethically balanced or more wise."
”At the same time, notes Garrison, “a
global consciousness, spawned by
economic globalization and mass communication, is for the first time uniting
all of humanity into a single unit, bringing the six thousand discrete
cultures and societies now existing around the world into sustained
interaction. Human civilization is being reborn on a global scale.”
This is the long awaited "birthing" of a vision of the "new Jesus" that had
been cast in the late 1800's by the early Theosophists; from Helena
Blavatsky to Alice Bailey to Robert Muller and now to Jim Garrison through
his position with Wisdom University and the State of the World Forum.
An article was posted today at Kjos Ministries written by Carl Teichrib,
The
Globalization Strategy: America and Europe in the Crucible. In it Jim
Garrison is quoted showing his further role in perpetrating the New Age
transformation through globalization strategies.
The leaders of this world are quickly embracing his ideas and philosophies
for change. With continuing crises about us any discernment concerning
spiritual Truth has been lost. The churches and denominations will
inevitably see this as an important opportunity to join in this move for
transformation, to bring some kind of peace upon the earth.
The Truth:
"Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division." (Luke 12:51)
"For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation." (1 Th 5:3-8)
"Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not. For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. Behold, I have told you before. Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not." (Matthew 24:24-26)
© 2006 by Discernment Group
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