{"id":6303,"date":"2016-07-01T16:53:10","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T16:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/07\/01\/the-2016-summer-retreat-starts-today\/"},"modified":"2016-07-01T16:53:10","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T16:53:10","slug":"the-2016-summer-retreat-starts-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/07\/01\/the-2016-summer-retreat-starts-today\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2016 Summer Retreat Starts Today"},"content":{"rendered":"

When this crazy world is too much with us, we can and should retreat to the inner citadel.<\/span><\/p>\n

Starting now, I will unplug from this hyperkinetic modern world for a period of a month or longer.  How long remains to be seen.  I will devote myself to such spiritual exercises<\/a> as prayer, meditation<\/a>, spiritual reading, hard-core philosophy and theology pursued for truth as opposed to professional gain, and the exploration of nature.<\/span><\/p>\n

I will not be checking my e-mail except once a week.  The plan is for ordinary operations to resume sometime in August.<\/span><\/p>\n

I will avoid unnecessary conversations and their near occasion, socializing, newspapers, telephony, radio, television, blogging, facebooking, tweeting, and all non-essential Internet-related activities. In a word: all of the ephemera that most people now take to be the ne plus ultra<\/em> of reality and importance. (As for Twitter, I am and hope to remain a virgin: I have never had truck with this weapon of mass distraction<\/em>.)<\/span><\/p>\n

Why? Some reasons in Mass Media and Spiritual Deterioration<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

I ask my valued correspondents to refrain from sending me any links to events of the day or commentary thereon.  I am going on a 'news fast' which is even more salutary for the soul than a food fast is for the body.<\/span><\/p>\n

From time to time we should devote time to be still and listen beyond the human horizon.  Modern man, crazed little hustler and  self-absorbed chatterbox that he is, needs to enter his depths and listen<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

"Be still, and know that I am God."  (Psalm 46:10)<\/span><\/p>\n

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When this crazy world is too much with us, we can and should retreat to the inner citadel. Starting now, I will unplug from this hyperkinetic modern world for a period of a month or longer.  How long remains to be seen.  I will devote myself to such spiritual exercises as prayer, meditation, spiritual reading, … Continue reading “The 2016 Summer Retreat Starts Today”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}