Rabbi Zalman Schachter: Spiritual Eldering (excerpt) -- A Thinking Allowed DVD w/ Jeffrey Mishlove

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NOTE: This is an excerpt from the two-part, 60-minute DVD.
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The model of the spiritual elder is an appropriate one for individuals experiencing an extended lifespan. This process can be facilitated through the application of transpersonal and humanistic processes. A major part of this work involves an examination of one's life and an understanding of how apparently negative events often lead to positive outcomes. Inner work is also essential to relieve oneself of the burden of resentment and anger that can accumulate over a lifetime.
Zalman Schachter, Ph.D., is emeritus professor of the psychology of religion and religious mysticism at Temple University. He is author of Spiritual Intimacy.

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What a treat: approaching the Holy with shared vision.

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My mother, with early Alzheimer' refers to my "Second Life". What she means of course is the time now that I am spending - mentoring, serving, feeding, nurturing, helping, donating, working in all ways that do not include 'earning a living'..and mom values what I do (which includes for her, also). She encourages me to 'harvest' my life, and I am so very much connected to it. At 66, I sense this more than ever before.

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Spiritual Eldering is a great concepts and well developed by Rabb Zalman. It is not a narrowing of life as we get older. Rather it is an opportunity to grow in other directions, and to use other areas of the brain, previously unaccessed by us, to continue to provide ourselves with positive activity. Tap this area of the brain that is ripening in older people.

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Now I understand what Hillul Hashem really means.

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Yes. Insulting another Jew.

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Indeed

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