Does the Creation Spirituality Tradition have techniques for inducing altered states of consciousness?
Many testify that The Cosmic Mass is a consciousness altering experience. During training sessions in Creation Spirituality, each day has a segment devoted to art-as-meditation. Several of the sessions offer activities that induce altered states of consciousness like drumming, shamanic journeying and Qigong. As noted above many techniques that are taught in Art as Meditation arose from indigenous cultures and the world’s mystical religious traditions. Ø Does the Creation Spirituality Tradition have practices or disciplines for daily attunement? The Creation Spirituality Tradition introduces students to a multitude of practices for daily attunement. In the pedagogy (teaching/learning approach) used in Creation Spirituality, each day has a segment devoted to body prayer. This is a form of daily attunement that involves body, mind, spirit and community. The Creation Spirituality Tradition also shares forms of attunement seen in other traditions, like meditation, and uses the process group
