Dr. Bryan D. Ouellette announces his plans to establish an inter-spirituality center. http://www.patreon.com/mindbrainbody
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About the Most Reverend Ouellette
- Bishop Bryan D. Ouellette, Ph.D., SOSM
- Atlanta, Georgia, United States
- +Bryan D. Ouellette, Ph.D., SOSM is a semi-retired bi-ritual autocephalous eastern Orthodox/western Catholic bishop and exorcist for the Order of St. Michael the Archangel also currently offering private instruction in Gedo Zen, meditation, mysticism, prayer, and Christian esotericism. Through his commitment to the clerical life, Bishop Ouellette has brought the theological diversity of the early Church to our contemporary world. Formulating a specific praxis, he has established programs for his monks, clergy, and students that offer a direct and tangible relationship with God, one that is based primarily on experience rather than on a faith in what is often left to unjustified speculation. Bishop Ouellette is a modern, revolutionary Catholic bishop with an unyielding respect for ancient tradition; yet, he advocates strongly for the evolution of the Church and for that of spirituality itself. He presently holds the Office of Patriarch for the esoteric religious organizations: the Holy Nicholean Catholic and the Holy Imperial Russian Orthodox Churches. These Churches function internally, behind the Christian cloister, hidden far away within the heart of contemplative monasticism.
The Holy Nicholean Catholic Church
We are an autocephalous Patriarchate operating under the pastoral apostolic care of Sovereign Patriarch Nicholas III. Our tradition exists to heal the wounds of division so prevalent today within the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church. Our special charism is to inspire a revival of ecumenism that respects all individual traditions of the Body of Christ, the Church.
Holy Imperial Russian Orthodox Church
The Holy Imperial Russian Orthodox Church is an autocephalous reestablishment of the true Imperial Church of Rusland that existed before the fall of the Russian Tsars in 1917. Based on more than 1,000 years of tradition, our church wishes to reawaken the image of Russian Christianity founded upon the inspirations of Tsar Peter the Great, whose current heir, Mikhail Ivan Freyovich Yngling-Romanov {Tsar Peter Alexander Mikhailovich Romanov}, is the first to appoint a Patriarch to the Imperial Church since the 18th Century.
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6 comments:
I just can't get behind this sort of me-generation commitment-optional spirituality ... whether it is called New Age, or something yet more postmodernized. I will not donate to this, and I do not hope it succeeds. A Christianity without excessive dogmatism is something I can get behind, but this kind of amorphous fusionism, I can't.
I care whether someone is an atheist: it means they have a profoundly mistaken worldview and have rejected God. That isn't exactly insignificant to having a spiritual life! No, I refuse to buy into this fashionable "don't care" trope, which is again modernist and not Christian.
Worldly, self-centered people are naturally already very far from having even a very indirect experience of God, so promising a direct one by visiting a center is old and bad wine in new wineskins. Mysticism is not a hobby or a casual plaything.
And the language of "discarding faith" is disgusting from a man of the cloth. You probably deny His miracles, don't you?
Even though I'M not orthodox myself, I think it's complete baloney to declare that "our theology is orthodox" when your real priorities and preoccupations are syncretist and as much attuned and devoted to Zen as to the Cross, because theological orthodoxy precludes that possibility completely. Orthodoxy means "correct belief", and defined quite precisely; you can't be truly orthodox and also the guy who wishes to have his conceptual peg fit into the most holes for the sake of "evolution."
Anonymous A. said...
"I just can't get behind this sort of me-generation commitment-optional spirituality ... whether it is called New Age, or something yet more postmodernized. "
You don't have a very clear understanding of who we are if you see us as practicing a "me-generation commitment-optional spirituality." Perhaps instead of judging us you could have spent some time getting to know us.
Anonymous A. said...
"Worldly, self-centered people are naturally already very far from having even a very indirect experience of God, so promising a direct one by visiting a center is old and bad wine in new wineskins. Mysticism is not a hobby or a casual plaything."
Under what authority do you make this assessment? Your own? I know my methodology works. I've seen it work. It doesn't need your permission in order for it to work. I hope you realize this.
Anonymous A. said...
"And the language of "discarding faith" is disgusting from a man of the cloth. You probably deny His miracles, don't you?"
What's your definition of faith? I am quite certain it differs from the one from antiquity that we adhere to. As for denying His miracles, if you were actually involved in our community, you would already know that isn't true.
Anonymous A. said...
"Even though I'M not orthodox myself, I think it's complete baloney to declare that "our theology is orthodox" when your real priorities and preoccupations are syncretist and as much attuned and devoted to Zen as to the Cross, because theological orthodoxy precludes that possibility completely. Orthodoxy means "correct belief", and defined quite precisely; you can't be truly orthodox and also the guy who wishes to have his conceptual peg fit into the most holes for the sake of "evolution."
You can't if you are a slave to your beliefs. You can if you understand Direct Experience.
If you are not even a conventional Orthodox Christian, why do you bother to assault our tradition at all? I take most anonymous comments with a grain of salt, but yours have been particularly insulting considering that you come out of nowhere with nothing but judgement attached to your shallow opinions.
Here is something to consider: before you declare someone your enemy, and wish their hard work to failure, it's best to get to know them first to make sure you haven't let your own ignorance get the best of you, which in this case, it clearly has.
Bishop +Bryan D. Ouellette
Everyone expresses their faith and beliefs differently. What works for one person, may not work for another. This center, in my humble opinion, is a good idea.
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