His use of scare quotes is unbelievable and belittles majority understanding whenever he gets a chance.

Interestingly, an object in free fall doesn't necessarily need to be falling (that is, moving downwards). Read on to learn the free fall definition and discover the most daring examples, including the highest free fall in history (spoiler alert: it broke the sound barrier)! This book focuses on the meaning of ones naked existence (without titles, riches, possessions); the role of evil, the difference between suffering and enduring. I would agree with the formative nature of failure, transgression, and suffering that comes to the foot of the cross and finds grace. Rohr’s new book is an excellent reminder as he urges his readers to enjoy the new spaciousness of life in the second half.

First for the insights I most appreciated, which I think come out of long pastoral work with people seeking to grow in their faith throughout life. I remember my mother, ordinarily a upbeat person, during her late 80's saying, "getting old is hell. This is where the identity that we set up in the first mountain becomes insufficient to sustain us through some kind of trial. They are in awe before the abyss of it all, in wonder at eternity and depth, and a Love, which is incomprehensible to the mind. Both Apple and Google state that they ensure that only users who have actually downloaded the app can submit a review.

And one question: some post-Jungian psychoanalytic theorists have suggested that, contra Jung, a dramatic crisis may not be the necessary precondition of the kind of growth Jung describes. The index of words, some explained and others neglected, is missing Taoism, but the idea of falling upward into the second life is prominent in Chinese Taoist art. And, yes, it explains how we know there are two halves to life –and how to transition from the first to the second, you must “fall upward.

This message of falling down and in fact moving up is the most counterintuitive message in most of the world religions, including and most especially Christianity. If you knew there was a further journey, wouldn't you choose to do the 'first half' quite differently? If change and growth are not programmed into your spirituality, if there are not serious warnings about the blinding nature of fear and fanaticism, your religion will always end up worshiping the status quo and protecting your present ego position and personal advantage as if it were God. One of the best-kept secrets, and yet one hidden in plain sight, is that the way up is the way down. This spiritual journey brings freedom and a centeredness to our lives, but demands our continued personal growth.

Until we learn to love others as ourselves, it’s difficult to blame broken people who desperately try to affirm themselves when no one else will.It is helping me make sense out of the course my life has taken, and shed light into where my life is headed. He puts all of “Christian Europe” at fault for entering into WWI + WWII, and implies that they shouldn’t have tolerated those wars (leaving the option of tolerating Hitler and Stalin’s destruction of millions of people). He explains what should, but often doesn't happen in that first half of life; the consequences of our permanent cultural adolescence, and how we might grow beyond that adolescence into full, free, grace-filled selves. There are numerous other texts, both sacred and secular, written in a similar vein, by people who’d either undergone the transition from life’s first half to its second, or were in the process of going through it. The result is the gravitational acceleration of the planet, which is also its free-fall acceleration.