Join St. Luke’s Parishioner and Interweave’s Speaker, Peter Savastano, for a class on December 6 from 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. in the Davis room to discuss Spirituality and Technology. The class is free to attend but a good will offering will be collected.
Technology has pervaded almost every aspect of our daily life. Studies have shown that along with negatively impacting our capacities to remain centered and calm, technology has also played a role in the restructuring of our brains, as well as our increasing inability to focus sustained attention. For those of us engaged in the spiritual and/or contemplative life, the challenge is, as mystic and master of the contemplative life Thomas Merton put it, to cultivate a “right relationship” with technology. We will explore the many different ways in which we can cultivate a “right relationship” with technology that does not compromise the spiritual and contemplative dimensions of what it means to be a fully realized human being in the technological age.
Peter Savastano, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Seton Hall University. He is a lifelong student of world traditions, his research ranges from Christian monasticism to altered states of consciousness and African ceremonies.
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