Integral Taoism with Sally Adnams Jones

Sally Adnams Jones is a therapist, author and artist living in Canada. She grew up in Durban, South Africa. She has studied human transformation with several of the great Indian gurus who moved to America, where she did her post graduate work in transformative Yoga Education. Later in Canada she became the director of a residential, Yoga Education Centre, and a teacher of Transformative Art Education at University. She has written the book ‘Art-Making with Refugees and Survivors: Creative and Transformative Responses to Trauma after Natural Disasters, War and other Crisis.’ She is currently writing a new book called ‘Integral Taoism’ which was the subject of our conversation in this podcast episode. For more information on Sally’s work please visit: https://sallyadnamsjones.com/ Sally’s podcast is here: https://radicalemergence.org/ For more information about my work please visit www.bodyheartmindspirit.co.uk To hear more of my music please visit my soundcloud page https://soundcloud.com/ralphcree My YouTube channel is https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUfQp5jM16pPB7QX2zmMYbQ My Facebook page is https://www.facebook.com/bodyheartmindspirituk/ My Evolving Spiritual Practice Podcast can be found on all major podcast platforms P and C owned by Ralph Cree 2023

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Spiritual practice, like everything else in life, is evolving. What does this mean? By ‘Spiritual Practice’ I mean any activity that expands your sense of identity, for example meditation, contemplative philosophy, prayer, yoga, martial arts, psychedelics, transpersonal psychotherapy, fasting, visualisation, lucid dreaming, conscious parenting, forgiveness and much more. By ‘Evolving’ I mean that everything develops and adapts over time. Most of the spiritual traditions that have spawned these transformational practices emerged hundreds and often thousands of years ago in the pre-modern era. Modernity (rationality and science) and post-modernity (cultural diversity and the information age) are hugely influential historical periods that have happened since then, and I believe that contemporary spiritual practice needs to integrate the insights of these two worldviews as well as the premodern in order to keep being relevant and adaptive in a changing world.