Spiritual Retreats

A personal retreat is a specific set of time where an individual retreats from their routine life and activities and dedicates efforts around restoring the mind, body and spirit to balance, well-being and a state of homeostasis, thus rejuvenating the soul.

Personal retreats are a fundamental way to relieve the mind, body and spirit from the constant stresses and pressures experienced daily and foster renewal.

A personal retreat can be for a short duration, such as an afternoon or day, or for longer periods of time, such as two weeks to several months.

"Discernimiento de espíritus", like many other books that comment on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola, describes what is known as the discernment of spirits. However, it is dedicated to explaining, illustrating and, above all, applying the discernment of spirits in the daily and common spiritual experience of people. The author emphasizes that today there are many personal and social factors that, by impeding the cultivation of inner and outer silence, increase the difficulty of entering into one's own consciousness and, therefore, contribute to a profound resistance of people in today's world to live inwardly, that is, to the encounter with themselves. Since this is not an easy task, this book is addressed to those who have the courage - the virtue that perhaps the author repeats most often throughout the book - to be spiritually aware of their lives.



"Discernimiento de espíritus", como muchos otros libros que comentan los Ejercicios Espirituales de san Ignacio de Loyola, describe lo que se conoce como el discernimiento de espíritus. Sin embargo, se dedica a explicar, ilustrar y, sobre todo, aplicar el discernimiento de espíritus en la experiencia espiritual cotidiana y común de las personas. El autor recalca que en la actualidad existen muchos factores personales y sociales que, impidiendo el cultivo del silencio interior y exterior, aumentan la dificultad de adentrarse en la propia conciencia y, por ende, contribuyen a una profunda resistencia de las personas del mundo de hoy a vivir hacia adentro, es decir, hacia el encuentro consigo mismos. Dado que esta no es una tarea fácil, este libro está dirigido a quienes tengan la valentía –la virtud que quizá más repite el autor a lo largo de todo el libro– de ser espiritualmente conscientes de su vida.

Documento preparado para la Secuencia Didáctica de la Clase de Biblia de la Estrategia de Intervención Pedagógica Remota (IPR). La IPR ha sido la estrategia preparada por el Sistema Educativo Adventista de la Unión Mexicana del Norte para atender a los estudiantes durante la pandemia por SAR-COV-2.

FRANCO SÁNCHEZ, Francisco. “Rábitas y Al-Monastir(es) en el norte y levante de la península de Al-Andalus”. In: Francisco Franco Sánchez, (ed.), Míkel de Epalza (dir.). La rábita en el islam. estudios interdisciplinares. Sant Carles de la Ràpita: Ajuntament de Sant Carles de la Ràpita / Universitat d'Alacant, 2004. ISBN 84-609-3080-7, pp. 95-109 |
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Speech - as a fundamental aspect of a human condition - is the main tool that rhythm social relations (Breton & Le Breton; 2009). It’s also the main channel with which ethnographers collect theirs data. But what is happening beyond the horizon of speech, when words disappear (or are forbidden) and only silence remain?
Drawing on the case of Europeans travelling to northern India to participate in ten days silent Buddhist retreats, this paper examine the ways in which people spatialize and temporalize this silent experience in its sensorial, affective, embodied, cognitive and social dimension. Through a phenomenological approach, I will try to show that in the special settings of these retreat Centers – silence is not considered as a mere synonym of absence but as a multiplication of other forms of presences, as an agent of sens-making and a way of perceiving, constructing and negotiating one’s inner and outer inter-subjectivities lifeworld. In addition, the proposed paper will also explore methodological and epistemological concerns on the different way to conduct an ethnography of silence.