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Experifaith: At the Heart of Every Religion; An Experiential Approach to Individual Spirituality and Improved Interfaith Relations
After a lifetime of exploring firsthand spiritual practices, author Gudjon Bergmann decided to try a different approach in his quest to understand religion and spirituality. He entered All Faiths Seminary to become an interfaith minister. There, after months of study, reflection, and contemplation, an interfaith framework unveiled itself to him—a model that placed experience at the heart of every religion and solved a persistent East-West conundrum in the process.
Once completed, Bergmann began showing the model to people of different faiths and persuasions. From the outset, it appeared to help everyone understand his or her personal faith at a deeper level, no matter the cultural or religious background—even agnostics and atheists found it helpful. In addition, the model’s experiential approach opened a new pathway for interfaith communications. Instead of talking about stories and cultures, which are different from one religion to another, people from different faiths were given a tool to talk about something that they have in common—their experiences.
What the Experifaith model effectively did was to unveil an invisible string that ties the pearl necklace of human spirituality together. The surface structures—i.e. our stories, philosophies, dogmas and orthodoxies—are not the same. What unifies us, however, is our inbuilt ability to invoke a variety of spiritual experiences.
The resulting book—which bears the same name as the model—is clearly written, short, sprinkled with interfaith wisdom, and achieves the most difficult of feats, which is to simplify without diluting. It is for everyone who is interested in faith-based experiences, the exploration of individual spirituality, and is looking for a new approach to interfaith communications.
Once completed, Bergmann began showing the model to people of different faiths and persuasions. From the outset, it appeared to help everyone understand his or her personal faith at a deeper level, no matter the cultural or religious background—even agnostics and atheists found it helpful. In addition, the model’s experiential approach opened a new pathway for interfaith communications. Instead of talking about stories and cultures, which are different from one religion to another, people from different faiths were given a tool to talk about something that they have in common—their experiences.
What the Experifaith model effectively did was to unveil an invisible string that ties the pearl necklace of human spirituality together. The surface structures—i.e. our stories, philosophies, dogmas and orthodoxies—are not the same. What unifies us, however, is our inbuilt ability to invoke a variety of spiritual experiences.
The resulting book—which bears the same name as the model—is clearly written, short, sprinkled with interfaith wisdom, and achieves the most difficult of feats, which is to simplify without diluting. It is for everyone who is interested in faith-based experiences, the exploration of individual spirituality, and is looking for a new approach to interfaith communications.
70 pages, Paperback
Published June 17, 2018
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Gudjon Bergmann
32 books35 followersGudjon Bergmann blends his background in spirituality, religion, and human psychology with 20 years of experience as a workshop facilitator, mindfulness teacher, and professional speaker. He has published two novels and several nonfiction books on self-development, yoga, meditation, stress management, interfaith, and more. Born in 1972 in Iceland, Bergmann moved to the USA in 2010 and became a U.S. citizen in 2013.
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