His book The World Religions has for many years been the most widely used textbook for courses in comparative religion and has sold over two million copies. In leading this year's John Main Seminar, Dr Smith shared his latest thinking on the spiritual consciousness of our time. His insight into the long dark tunnel into which the human spirit has been driven through legalism and scientism offers a hopeful and challenging perspective at the threshold of a new millennium. Once again, the Seminar retreat was led by Fr Laurence Freeman before the Seminar, August 9-11 at Picture Rocks Retreat Centre, a beautiful place of prayer and solitude in the Sonoran Desert high in the foothills of the Tucson Mountains and adjacent to the Saquaro National Park. Accommodation for the retreat was limited to 70 people.
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The retreat before the Seminar led Laurence Freeman OSB, Director of The World Community for Christian Meditation was a silent retreat with a daily rhythm set by periods of meditation, yoga and liturgy. Everywhere people are trying to open their eyes, yearning for the expansion of consciousness that is the vision of God within and beyond each one of us. Also Visit other Seminar Web Pages. St. Patrick's College, Dublin, August 1997. Book and Audiotapes available from Medio Media .