NRM Talks
Talks and Charts
In 1999 Jim Campbell delivered the nine talks of the New Religious Mode to the Council of the Congregations of the Ursulines of Jesus in Turin, Italy.
THE CORPORATES
Engaged life, external signs of an interior posture. Sociality through the practices of poverty, chastity and obedience.
Poverty
Detachment. No thing defines a human being
Chastity
To will one thing
Obedience
Engagement
THE JOURNEYS
You see all that there is to see and you dare to embody that –
the intensification of all a person knows, through the journey of transparent knowing doing and being. (Jim Campbell)
In 1972 Joseph Mathews gave a talk in Chicago on “The Knowing, Doing and Being of a Religious Order”.
- The Neglect of Being, George Walters (Lecture)
- Unknown (Being lecture)
- Living Beyond Borders – A Time of Being
Transparent Knowing
Ultimate lucidity
Transparent Doing
How it is I become my doing
- Fred Hess (Doing lecture)
- George West, Transparent Doing (Lecture)
- John Epps (Lecture)
- Joseph Slicker, Transparent Doing (Lecture)
Transparent Being
Sheer consciousness, raw creativity
- Mathews, Joseph, Transparent Being, July 30, 1971
THE SOLITARIES
The solitaries are related to the interior states of an individual.
Dialogues are created with one’s interior community through the solitary practices of meditation, contemplation and prayer.
In 1970 the entire IMAGE: Journal of the Ecumenical Institute (Number 09) was dedicated to the Solitaries of the NRM: The Solitary Life of the Secular Religious – New Religious Mode, focus on the Solitary Office, Meditation, Contemplation and Prayer.
Meditation
Cultivation of the interior life. Dialogue with interior messages
- Meditation chart
- Joseph Wesley Mathews (Lecture – “Meditation as taking care of yourself”)
- Joseph Wesley Mathews (Lecture – “Reflections on meditation”)
Contemplation
Encounter with all that is, the ultimate mystery of life
- George West (Contemplation lecture)
Prayer
Action before the action. Freedom. Deep resolve in creating something out of nothing
- Fred Buss (Prayer lecture)