Falling Upward: A Spirituality For The Two Halves Of Life

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The cross solved our problem by first revealing our real problem, our universal pattern of scapegoating and sacrificing others.

This free fall calculator is a tool for finding the velocity of a falling object along with the distance it travels.Sure enough, the old gentleman began to spend more time outside of the city in his birth village where he also owned all the land. Father Richard Rohr has strayed so far from orthodoxy that anything and everything–Buddhism, Islam, Zen Masters and some out-of-context teachings of Jesus–can lead us to the second half of life. I am encouraged that I will use my current and future "stumbling blocks"in ways that will bring me more peace. It means that with each second, the falling body travels a substantially larger distance than before. This pattern is obvious in all of nature, from the very change of the seasons and substances on this earth, to the six hundred million tons of hydrogen the sun burns every day to light and warm our earth, and even to the metabolic laws of dieting or fasting.

A fine sentiment, but ultimately an unsatisfying explanation of how that is to take place through rejecting any and all faiths in their orthodox forms and looking deep within to find our meaning. He mocks substitutionary atonement because he built a strawman argument which completely misses what it is.

Many of his most helpful and thoughtful sayings are mixed with what read like simplistic put-downs of people living according to what he describes as the "first half" of life.

If you’re expecting a book about how the gospel and following Jesus lead us to maturity and into the “second half of life”, this is not the book for you.unless people have done their inner work, at least some shadow work, and thereby entered into wisdom, or non-dualistic thinking". Part of the paradox of Rohr's second half may be that only in that half of the spiritual life does one have the wisdom to understand that however wonderful the nearness of the intimate stranger may be, however free and peaceful this new stage feels, we may not get to stay here either, any more than we got to stay in that ego-building stage that came before. With that removal of extra gravity pull, we commence our "fall" (relaxing of our cares and attachments), "upwards" - into the Grace which is specific to the Second Phase of Life. We are developing habits and letting ourselves be shaped by the norms and practices of our family and community.