The Spiritual Paths Foundation
Vision & Mission

Spiritual Paths Institute faculty, Rev. Cynthia Bourgeault, Rabbi Rami Shapiro, Swami Atmarupananda, Shaikha Camille Helminski, Shaikh Kabir Helminski and Dr. Ed Bastian with Father Thomas Keating

Mission
Our mission is to nurture interspiritual wisdom and inspire lives of meaning, connection, and service.

Vision
We envision a world where the wisdom of many spiritual paths awakens our common humanity and inspires compassionate service.

Purpose
The Purpose of the Spiritual Paths Institute is to provide holistic, contemplative, and educational  courses and resources to support people in their spiritual or existential exploration.

Values
The Spiritual Paths Institute shares these values as central to our work: 

  1. Freedom – We support freedom to create personal paths of spiritual meaning and purpose.
  1. Spiritual Styles – We help people cultivate their spiritual styles to develop their personal paths.
  1. Diverse Sources – We honor genuine sources and traditions as a foundation for personal spiritual development.
  1. Community – We provide a diverse, supportive, and open-minded community to help people create their  personal paths.
  1. Service – We share a universal process to help people form personal paths while serving others

Programs
We offer retreats, workshops, books and online courses­ on InterSpiritual Meditation, the InterSpiritual Mandala Process and InterSpiritual Facilitation and Mentoring.  We help people to harness and harmonize their archetypal spiritual learning styles, to find answers to their deepest questions, and to create a personal spiritual path and contemplative practice by drawing on authentic resources from within the world’s great spiritual and secular traditions.

Our unique process for learning and practice helps people to find their life meaning and purpose, to discover the essence of their being, to connect with universal truths and to fulfill their highest life potential. Our goal is to help people of all ages and backgrounds to create a personal spiritual path, a contemplative practice and compassionate wisdom for serving themselves, their communities, the Earth and all living beings.

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