The Creative Process

Collegium Spiritus is a spiritual education center for learning to "live originally".

The Collegium Spiritus Center for Integral Education is an encouragement and resource network for people who are seeking to understand, and answer, the persistent feeling in their lives that "there is something I am to do -- a unique destiny -- I am to fulfill."

This feeling is no small thing. In cannot be dismissed as trivial. It is the spiritual dimension of personality, the Self, calling individuals to do the great work -- increasing consciousness for the benefit of all. This is an inward journey, essentially to risk ‘Knowing’ and ‘Being Known’ that requires heroic courage. It is a process of ‘withdrawal and return,’ a willingness to risk stepping out of the conventional safe world and make a deeper connection with others. While the inward path must be traveled Alone, it does not have to be a lonely journey.

Through many years of thought, study, and reflection, Fred Culver has developed Integral Education for Living Originally© -- an interdisciplinary understanding and synthesizing working style -- to sustain study, dialogue and exchange of experience among people in ‘working groups.’ Typically, they are limited to groups of five to ten colleagues to sustain intimacy.

The synergistic and collegial relationships that evolve from this learner centered process is the Collegium. As each person comes into their own ‘great work,’ a spiritual community is formed and the world is changed.

Our trust in that the inward journey is the vital link on the path of renewal, is encouraged by the intuitive knowing that a ‘mystical move within’ is a ‘powerful move without.’ Many of us know the lonely isolated move within. But the lonely, misunderstood genius should be a relic of the past. Help us change this pattern to create the global community of the future. Where the move within is supported and the consequences for the world without are life and ‘Self’ supporting.

Theologian Fred Culver founded The Collegium in the mid 1970s as the Community for Creative Studies. A former Presbyterian minister, he is a graduate of Princeton Theological Seminary and trained as a Gestalt therapist. He is a global activist and hopes that you will join him in creating a global community.

When “The Future Is Now” formed in 01986 to organize a Heartland response to the call for a worldwide, simultaneous peace meditation at 12 Noon GMT on December 31 of that year, the intention was for a one time event. However, our first speaker Dr. Robert Muller, so inspired us with his and Margaret Mead’s shared vision of the world celebrating as One for the first time in history at the turn of the millennium, we committed to the celebration through the year 02000.

While our primary focus began as the yearly event, the ultimate aim of The Future Is Now is encouraging a deepening awareness of human responsibility in the evolution of the Earth through the process of celebration, which means “to set in motion”. Through celebrating together we can overcome the “little peace” of fear and boundary with the greater peace of love and openness to others.

We self organized around ten areas of interest- art, community, communications, education, environment, health, justice, resources, science and spirituality- as a way to emphasize the interrelatedness of life. It is impossible to think about health without considering the environment, science, community or any of the other areas of concern. While the annual celebrations have fluctuated in size through the years The Future Is Now has been a seed bed for several projects- The Heart Forest and the The Center for Global Community.

We have taken inspiration from the futurist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and his quote “The future of the earth is in our hands.”, Dr. Mead’s words, “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, commited citizen’s can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” and Dr. Muller’s poem, “See the world with global eyes, Love the world with a global heart, Understand the world with a global mind, Merge with the world through a global spirit.”

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