Everything is Spiritual.
It's been quite the busy week and weekend, getting ready for the TEAM conference, hence the lateness of this post, but...
My buddy Adam Dudley and I went out to The Glass House in Pomona last Wednesday night for the Everything is Spiritual Tour, which was amazingly great. It was Rob, a 20+ foot white board, and a dry erase pen - that's all. An hour and 45 minutes later, the entire board was filled with words, numbers and figures. Rob started with exploring creation and the deeper meanings and nuances behind the poetry of Genesis 1. He then moved into the largeness and smallness of the universe [including a sweet discussion on quantum physics and string theory], a discussion on Edwin Abbott's Flatland and finished with a discussion on Sabbath and Exodus 24.12, where Moses is called up on Mt. Sinai to "come and be" on the mountain - to come up and live fully present, fully awake.
The entire teaching was saturated with this thought that God is all around us, as well as destroying the disctinction between the "spiritual" and "non-spiritual", reminding us that there is no word in Hebrew for "spiritual" because everything, every aspect of life was seen as spiritual. Humanity is the marriage between the creation [land] and the creator [breath of God]. To be human is to be spiritual.
It was a thought provoking night, leaving some people scratching their heads and others profoundly changed - seeing the world and faith differently - which is exactly what good teaching should do.
[For more, check out the The New York Times article on the tour. Good piece, but where's the love for Zach... what's up with that?!?]
I tried to get tickets for this here...but it was sold out by the time I heard it was coming
Posted by: Friar_Tuck | July 09, 2006 at 09:34 PM
Too bad you couldn't put my name in hypertext huh?
Posted by: Adam | July 10, 2006 at 09:59 AM
the sacramento show was great. there was about 15 of us that came up from the bay area. most have never seen him and loved it. glad to hear pomona was great too.
i'm assuming he made the comment about the cats?
Posted by: Jon | July 10, 2006 at 10:43 AM
Yeah, you know what I think already. The blog world needs a healthy dose of the Dudley. Don't make me have to call you out!
Posted by: Mike DeVries | July 10, 2006 at 03:45 PM
Jon - yes, in fact he did make the comment about the cats. He told us not to spread that too far as he will have people picketing the tour with "Rob hates cats" signs. Glad to hear that your experience in Sac-town was good. The night that we were in Pomona NOOMA was there filming the entire thing - so I think we might see something in DVD form in the near future.
Posted by: Mike DeVries | July 10, 2006 at 03:47 PM