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We waarderen je feedback. There is more, however to this story, and oftentimes the unconscious pushes us into terra incognito And this journey, the journey of the Self is nothing, if not Archetypal and transpersonal. Drawing from the great world Traditions, not Christianity alone , Mr. Rohr effectively poses many prescient questions and even offers answers to boot. May 13, Kate rated it really liked it Shelves: It has been a long time since I wrote in the margins of a book, or even underlined anything. I found myself pulling out a pen to highlight much of what Father Rohr had to say.
I give away almost every book I read. But this one is a keeper. Rohr writes about the two halves of life, focusing on the second half--the half more neglected by society, but the wisdom of which is desperately needed. He explains what should, but often doesn't happen in that first half of life; the consequences of our perm It has been a long time since I wrote in the margins of a book, or even underlined anything.
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He explains what should, but often doesn't happen in that first half of life; the consequences of our permanent cultural adolescence, and how we might grow beyond that adolescence into full, free, grace-filled selves. If that sounds distinctively Christian, it is. Father Rohr is very comfortable in interfaith circles, but he has a decidedly Franciscan vein in his approach to spirituality. Hebrew and Christian scriptures pop up regularly in his prose, but in fresh, deep ways. His scholarship is also very deep, quoting everyone from Church Founders to Paul Ricouer.
He is challenging, but in a deeply personal, friendly way. This deceptively short, little book took a long time to digest, because it is densely packed with thought-provoking spiritual gems like this one, a quote from Ken Keyes: The book is not just some quick feel-good devotional read. It's a real thought-provoker--something you can spend hours reflecting on, as I did.
Father Rohr points out, again and again, that there is a path here, through the later years of life, as age and the slings and arrows of existence take their toll, if we pay attention long enough to find the path. It can lead us home, and it can lead us into generativity and contributions to the greater good of society. I really, really liked it.
- When You Breathe (Aquarelle).
- Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life;
- Slocum Giant 2005: Slocum and the Larcenous Lady.
- The Fictioneer (1).
Why four stars and not five? For someone who is basking in the uncertainties and quirks of human experience, there are some things he's a little too sure of himself about. He seems to think that people who turn out best have so-called "conservative" upbringings. Now, the conservative reader of this review may be either pumping their head up in down in fierce agreement, and the more liberal reader may be squinting in doubt right now.
Being more progressive myself, I question this statement. From what follows in the book, I think he means to say, people who turn out best have consistent structure in their early lives. A family with liberal values can have just as consistent a structure as a family with conservative values. Conservative is a loaded word in this day and age, and its meaning is not at all clear anymore. He is also carried away with the "truth" of the enneagram--a system of categorizing the human personality that he has studied deeply and on which he is, by all accounts, an expert.
I have no bone to pick with the usefulness of the enneagram. However, people deeply connected to theories often confuse the map of their theory for the far more nuanced and complex territory of reality. Father Rohr errs into this territory with his comments on the enneagram, useful map though it might be. In addition, and this is my biggest bone to pick with him, he steeps the book in masculine hero tales, and then says, basically, "Ladies, you can go find your equivalent lady hero tale.
Women's spiritual development may look very different than men's spiritual development, as many authors have pointed out. Father Rohr could have given that more than a passing sentence and done a little more to address more than half his audience, whom, I assume, are female. Finally, he identifies Victor Turner as a leader of the male spirituality movement.
Victor Turner was not that. Victor Turner was an anthropologist--an expert in ritual process whose work was frequently appropriated by the male spirituality movement, mostly by the Joseph Campbell, mythopoetic crowd. I have nothing against that crowd crediting Victor Turner with some of their basic tenets, but he wasn't some big Male Spirituality Guru. Not a big deal. I just want Rohr to get it right. But don't think that, because of these points, I didn't get a lot out of "Falling Upward".
If you are interested in the spiritual journey from a nuanced, Christian perspective, Falling Upward" is definitely worth a read. Feb 21, MGMaudlin rated it really liked it. I love Richard Rohr and feel he is one of the wisest and spiritually alive people I know.
But I don't think he is a very good writer. He is abstract, goes off on tangents, and often requires multiple readings to connect his ideas and grasp his point. He even sounds a little smug at times in his wisdom. Still, if I was as wise, I am sure I would be much worse. There is a lot to take in and digest here about what is needed for the second stage of life and Richard is a wonderful guide.
Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life by Richard Rohr
It is worth I love Richard Rohr and feel he is one of the wisest and spiritually alive people I know. It is worth struggling through the book. Oct 16, Paul rated it liked it Shelves: Being well into my second half of life and having read several other books on human development and spirituality, I was interested in reading this one also because some good friends recommended it. The book is well worth reading and thinking about. Rohr has many good things to say. But I found it less helpful to me than other books like it. 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 Being well into my second half of life and having read several other books on human development and spirituality, I was interested in reading this one also because some good friends recommended it.
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. He also makes some broad generalizations about how "most people" for most of our history, and many for most all of their lives, never mature into truly "second half of life" people. This may be true, but it seems a bit overdone to me; as if to invite his readers to consider themselves, along with the author, to be more enlightened than most for seeing themselves in the book or for, at least, being inclined to read it.
This sort of thing nearly spoiled the book for me. I'm a little skeptical of approaches to spirituality that seem to overemphasize finding God within oneself. There's some truth to it, I think. We are made in God's Image and can grow to be more Christlike though the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. Greater self understanding is essential to understanding our relationship to God.
But it can also lead to self-justification, even at the expense of others in the relative judgements we then make about them. We can end up trusting too much in our own inclinations as a basis for our understanding of God. Rohr illustrates many of his points with scripture references often taken out of context. He seems to use the Bible to illustrate his own point of view in many places, rather than as the inspiration for it.
Examples of this have been pointed out by other reviewers of the book, leading some of the book's advocates to comment that such a concern for biblical accuracy is the mark of a "first half" person. For such a strong advocate of non-dualistic, "both-and" thinking, Fr. Rohr sure relies heavily on what seems to me to be more dualistic, "either-or" distinctions between "first half" and "second half" people with their respective concerns for their "container" vs. Then there are statements like this: It's just that simple? As I've said, there are many wise and insightful words in this book, but I think it should be read with some detachment and discernment.
I have a hard time accepting that everything Fr. Rohr describes as a second half quality of life, which resonates with my experience or outlook on life, is a mark of spiritual maturity. I think spiritual maturity can take different forms in different people depending on their personality and the situations with which life confronts them.
Rohr's description may be one of them but I wonder if it may be just as much a product of cultural influence as he says the first half of life is.
The "container" and its "contents" may not be so easy to distinguish at any stage of life, if such a distinction even makes sense. I think I can live without it. Sep 11, Craig Bergland rated it it was amazing Shelves: Easily the most important book I have read for understanding my own spiritual journey since Thomas Merton's "Seven Storey Mountain.
Rohr's descriptions of the two halves of life explain precisely why the Church lacks mentors - so many Church leaders across traditions over the last one hundred years never transitioned from the first half of life to the second, never moved from being completely fixated on building something to a more mature spirituality that would have allow Easily the most important book I have read for understanding my own spiritual journey since Thomas Merton's "Seven Storey Mountain. Rohr's descriptions of the two halves of life explain precisely why the Church lacks mentors - so many Church leaders across traditions over the last one hundred years never transitioned from the first half of life to the second, never moved from being completely fixated on building something to a more mature spirituality that would have allowed them to become mentors, allowed them to train and educate those who would succeed them.
This choice left them advanced in years trying to do a young person's job and wondering why they lacked the energy and the insight to do that job. The tragedy is that they missed the opportunity to become the elders both the Church and the world so desperately need. It does not matter if you are in the first half of life or the second, this book will speak to you and help you understand why you are where you are at this precise moment in your journey.
Especially if you are, or hope to be, involved in any kind of leadership you need to read this book! Aug 19, Kevin rated it it was amazing. After reading Father Richard's e-mail meditations for several years, this is the first book of his I've read. This is an amazing book. It is both challenging and encouraging at the same time!
It gives a glimpse into where we have been, and who we are to become as we move into the second half of our lives. It is helping me make sense out of the course my life has taken, and shed light into where my life is headed. It is encouraging to see that changes in life that seem crazy from the first half p After reading Father Richard's e-mail meditations for several years, this is the first book of his I've read.
It is encouraging to see that changes in life that seem crazy from the first half point of view make so much sense moving into second half living. I am looking forward to re-reading this book with a group of close friends, sharing reflections on how each of our lives have moved as is described so well in this book. I heartily recommend this book to aspiring and newbie second halfers myself included! A must read and re-read.
Mar 19, Brenda Mengeling rated it it was amazing Shelves: I am 48, and for the past few years, I have wondered where the Church I grew up loving had gone. After reading this thought provoking book by Fr. Rohr, I realized that loud-mouthed members of the Church just haven't been growing up as I have been, sometimes because they can't and not because they won't.
It reminded me that the nuns in middle school had warned me that I and my "discerning heart" would face great difficulties as I grew older, but that I was to persevere and stay true to my gift. F I am 48, and for the past few years, I have wondered where the Church I grew up loving had gone. Rohr's book helped me remember and understand better what they meant, which was very mysterious and rather frightening at the time.
I would recommend this to any spiritual seeker, but especially to Catholics, who have despaired over the apparent rise of rigid fundamentalism. Jun 04, Cindy Rollins rated it really liked it Shelves: This book was incredibly helpful as I come face to face with some of the mistakes of the passions of the first half of my life. It brought me much comfort. After chapter 7 it was much more wishy-washy theologically than I am comfortable with.
But that aside, I found the book encouraging. Mar 11, Robert D. Cornwall rated it it was amazing Shelves: I found this book by Richard Rohr to be stimulating intellectually and spiritually. It pushes us to move beyond the boxes we create in the first half of life -- necessary boxes -- to living our faith in the world outside the boxes. It is a call to those of spiritual maturity to be mentors and guides to those who are newer to the journey.
Rohr is a Franciscan with Emergent tendencies! Sep 02, Kevin Orth rated it it was amazing. Insightful, inclusive, gentle, thorough. I am thoroughly impressed by this author and looking forward to reading more of his work! Aug 20, David A. I have never not been preoccupied by aging and death.
My friends have observed that about me and exploit it for comedic effect; my younger friends like to tell me what grade they or their parents were in when I passed through some key rite of passage; my older friends like to remind me that I haven't been a kid for a long time and that there is a fiber-rich diet in my future. They laugh when they see me stress out over such comments, but I'll get the last laugh, I think: The passage of time is certainly fascinating to me, but it's made more profound and troubling by its association with questions of vocation. I found such a simple vision in Richard Rohr's Falling Upward.
I saw Rohr speak on this topic at the inaugural Wild Goose Festival and was immediately won over to his take on it. The basic premise is this: Our first half is preoccupied with externals--status, yes, but also personal rules and priorities, a vision for how life should be.
In the second half we turn our eyes from such externals and start to note both what they've done and failed to do for us, what they've allowed us to do in life and what our preoccupation with them has cost us and those we love. The first half is the search for identity; the second half is the search for serenity. That is probably oversimplifying things, but Rohr's premise is alarmingly simple. There are two distinct calls placed on us in life; the first is provisional, preparing us for the second.
The transition from one call to the next is often precipitated by crisis, but more generally by a sense that the first call is completed, or incomplete: The notion of "falling" enters in at this transitional moment. We experience the death of a loved one, or the collapse of a profession that we had come to define ourselves by, or the end of a relationship that we thought was forever.
Or we start to notice that the things we have invested so heavily in for so long are simply not returning their investment; they don't prop us up so much as trap us inside themselves. We feel ourselves in free fall, all the while hearing a whisper to some higher aspiration. We are being beckoned beyond ourselves; we are, it turns out, falling up. This transition calls for wisdom and humility and resolve.
The ego is that part of you that loves the status quo, even when it is not working. It attaches to past and present, and fears the future. People who reject the second call don't become the elders that ground a culture and give it a future; they just become old--wrinkly, crotchety, useless. They have neglected or even rejected the search for their true self, the self beyond the reputation that they've often carefully cultivated.
They never ceased being the persona they created to occupy the space they found themselves in, and so never die to themselves only to be resurrected into what their community needs, their God demands and they themselves have always wanted to be. The world needs us to, because in order to run well it can't itself be bothered by these deeper truths. We need ourselves to, because we will search in vain for the ultimate meaning of our lives without the perspective of the second call. The people we love need us to, because the grace God invests in us is dispensed best and perhaps only out of this second half of life.
The truest elders among us, like Desmond Tutu or the Dalai Lama, are sometimes the most childlike. The book wasn't perfect. For as much as Rohr avers that not everyone achieves their second calling in fact most don't , it often comes across as an inevitability, which will reinforce in some old but not elder readers their automatic moral and spiritual superiority over people who are younger than they are. The old, crotchety people I know don't need any such reinforcement, and so I'd be reluctant to put this book in front of them. Rohr also implies that Christian doctrine is the enemy of the second call, that the codes of conduct and the attitude of exclusivity that attends to most organized religion not just his own religion, although he minces no words about the state of contemporary Christianity is helpful for the immature but to the person on the second journey seems silly.
He may well be right, but his argument feels a little thin and self-serving , and will be a bridge too far for many readers. And those folks should read it more than once. So, probably, should those who read it without ears to hear; the second or third time might be the charm. Jan 24, Bob rated it liked it Shelves: Richard Rohr focuses on what he sees are the key developmental tasks for each "half" of life, using the image of the container for the first half, and contents for the second.
This is not a book I can wholeheartedly recommend. While I found a number of useful insights, I thought the "spirituality" on which Rohr grounded these more reflective of a "blend" of Eastern and Western spirituality rather than the Catholic Christianity with which Father Rohr is most closely identi Summary: While I found a number of useful insights, I thought the "spirituality" on which Rohr grounded these more reflective of a "blend" of Eastern and Western spirituality rather than the Catholic Christianity with which Father Rohr is most closely identified.
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