“THE SPIRITUALITY OF AGE”
BY ROBERT L WEBER & CAROL ORSBORN, PhDs

“Robert L. Weber, Assistant Professor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School, and Carol Orsborn, founder and editor of the website Fierce With Age. The Digest of Boomer Wisdom, Inspiration, and Spirituality, believe that aging can be a meaningful and rich path to mature spirituality. The two authors come from Catholic Jesuit and Jewish backgrounds respectively but have written this cogent and illuminating paperback for a new generation of seekers, or those whom we call spiritually independent individuals.”

They have devised 25 questions, designed to help people deal with the thorny aspects of growing older such as loss, meaning, and mortality. Sharing their stories and those of others, Weber and Orsborn emphasize both the shadow, and the light sides of this journey in chapters on spiritual maturity, spiritual awakening, freedom, and becoming more fully ourselves. The value of aging to society, and a probe on the adventure of midlife to afterlife. We were quite impressed with the book's foundation of 25 questions, the Twelve Exercises for Seekers and the extensive list of resources for Recommended Reading.” This book review of “Spirituality of Age,” is by Spirituality and Practice, here:

https://www.spiritualityandpractice.com/book-reviews/view/28049/the-spirituality-of-age

https://www.spiritualityandpractice.com/book-reviews/excerpts/view/28013.

“SPIRITUALITY OF AGE” - QUESTION EXERCISE #8-AP:P:199

“Snapshot of Your Life: (Part 1-2). Take some time to go through scrapbooks of photos of yourself at earlier stages of your life, perhaps one for each decade. Let yourself be drawn to half a dozen or more that really speak to you: evoking feelings in you of what it was like to be at that age, circumstance, and stage in your life. Now ask yourself, as pictured in each photo, the following questions: What were you alive to? What were you asleep to? What more was there yet to be awakened to that you were unaware of at the time?

MORE RESOURCE INFORMATION

A short YouTube interview with Carol and Robert discussing this book is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JrGHHYBm28&t=10s.
By engaging deeply with both the shadow and light sides of aging, our spirits not only learn to cope–but also to soar. https://carolorsborn.com/2019/05/27/want-more/.

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