Robert L. Weber, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School and a former Jesuit. Recipient of the American Society on Aging's 2014 Religion, Spirituality, and Aging Award, he is an advisory board member for the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology's Center for Psychotherapy and Spirituality. He lives with his wife in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Carol Orsborn, Ph.D., is founder and editor-in-chief of Fierce with Age: The Digest of Boomer Wisdom, Inspiration, and Spirituality. The author of more than 20 books for and about the Boomer generation as well as popular blogs on Huffington Post, PBS's , and , she has served on the faculties of Georgetown University, Loyola Marymount University, and Pepperdine University. She lives with her husband in Madison, Tennessee.
Foreword Summons to a Leap of Faith Harry R. Moody, Ph.D. Acknowledgments PART I Calling for a New Vision of Spiritual Aging Chapter 1 Aging as the Path to Spiritual Maturity Chapter 2 Our Spiritual Biographies Contemplative Aging: Living Life to the Full Robert L. Weber, Ph.D. On Becoming Fierce with Age Carol Orsborn, Ph.D. Chapter 3 The Seeker’s Guide Navigating the Wild Space beyond Midlife Part II 25 Questions A Journey of Spiritual Inquiry Chapter 4 What Is Spiritual Maturity? 1 What is a psychologically and spiritually healthy vision of aging? 2 How has your spirituality changed and deepened over time? 3 How have your notions of the Divine matured since you were a child? 4 What is the relationship between spirituality and religion? 5 How can you assess your progress toward a more mature spirituality? Chapter 5 What Is Spiritual Awakening? 6 Why do we want to stay asleep? 7 What wakes you up? 8 Has there been a particular experience that has finally awakened you? 9 What do you think the Sacred wants to awaken you to? 10 Is there a constructive role for regret, shame, and guilt? Chapter 6 What Is Freedom? 11 What illusions does aging dispel? 12 Which illusions are the most difficult to let go? 13 Is there a positive purpose to keeping some of our illusions? 14 What does it mean to be free in light of the ebbing of physicality and social connection? 15 What still keeps you at the mercy of particular events, things, and people? Chapter 7 How Can We Become More Fully Ourselves? 16 What can you accept about yourself that you previously disowned? 17 What qualities did you neglect in the first half of your life that you are now free to develop? 18 What do you especially value about yourself? 19 Who has believed in you even when you did not? 20 Do you experience yourself as having intrinsic value in the grand scheme of the universe? Chapter 8 What Is the Value of Aging to Society? 21 Can withdrawal from the mainstream, by choice or circumstances, have value? 22 What is the dynamic tension between accepting marginalization and fighting against it? 23 Is there a spiritually/psychologically healthy response to those times when you feel disconnected from the Sacred? 24 What value, if any, do those who have suffered in their aging such things as cognitive impairment and physical pain hold for us? 25 How can spiritual maturity equip us to face our own unknowns? Conclusion From Midlife to Afterlife Bear Us Away The Last Question: What’s Next? Afterword Extraordinary Moments in Ordinary Time W. Andrew Achenbaum, Ph.D.
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