EPPH - Every Painter Paints Himself

How Inner Christianity has changed in 40 years…

Carl McColman whose blog I have recommended before has just posted a video of a very interesting discussion about the development and growing popularity in recent years of Inner Christianity or what they call in the video "Contemplative Christianity". It's well worth watching for anyone interested in the Inner Tradition within today's Christian communities. 

Link to the video

In essence, they remind us that for most of the twentieth century science and particularly the behavioral sciences - psychology and psychiatry - were king and people in my parent's generation had absolute faith that everything could and would be explained materially by the scientists. After the two most horrible wars in history, people started to think differently, searching for the meaning behind things that science had no way of answering. Of course, as regular users know, the new interest in spirituality rather than in the dogma of the established religions was not new but a return to the way of a tradition that has existed for thousands of years, each period and culture coloring it in its own way.