Interspirituality - The Future
- Rick Bonetti
- 6 days ago
- 1 min read
The term "interspirituality" was coined in 1999 by Brother Wayne Teasdale in his book, The Mystic Heart: Discovering a Universal Spirituality in the World's Religions. In 2002, a charity organization known as The Interspiritual Dialogue was founded with Br. Teasdale, and it became the parent of the Light on Light Press.
In 2012, Namaste Publishing released Dr. Kurt Johnson and David Robert Orr's book The Coming Inter-spiritual Age. Amazon says: "This book addresses Brother Wayne Teasdale’s vision of "The Interspiritual Age,” a vision that parallels the equally well-known and publicized visions of the world’s developmental and evolutionary consciousness movements (known therein as coming "Integral Age” or "Age of Evolutionary Consciousness”) and the international humanist movement (known therein as the emerging Iinternational Ethical Manifold”). As such, The Coming Interspiritual Age is the first synthesis of interfaith and interspirituality with the popular writings of integral leaders Ken Wilber and Don Beck."
The Interspiritual Network began at the Dawn of Interspirituality Conference in 2013, with its website going online in 2000.
In 2025, Light on Light Press published a historic two-volume set (available in paperback and on Kindle). "Volume 1-The Heritage offered a historical tapestry of the emerging interspiritual experience (1999–2015). Volume 2—The Future traces its evolution from 2015 to the present, spotlighting the next wave of voices, visions, and initiatives of this global phenomenon. The contributions reflect a world in urgent transformation—socially, ecologically, politically, and spiritually—and affirm Interspirituality as a dynamic, adaptive response to our global challenges."
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