Fr. Richard Rohr - The "Second Half of Life" 

Richard Rohr is such a blessing! 🙏🏾

Just discovered this brilliant, inspired man. I searched for reviews and came across "wouldn't you know it" a review by someone who believes he is a heretic. For me I feel Rohr is one of the biggest gifts to those who truly want to understand more about people, God and life in general. I will continue my metaphysical education with him along with my other metaphysical studies. In all my almost 60 years of study, I find him to be one of the wisest, honest and perceptive educators I've ever run across. I am inspired and excited.

Father Richard is guiding me back to Christ

Such a thoughtful person. He's gifted me with so much!

Fr. Rohr is an enlightened human being and we are blessed to receive his faith and wisdom.

This dude is a legend to this Generation Xer, a child of the 80s! I might be a 51 year old, but he’s important to finding real Truth or about “Deconstructing” Christian faith.

More peaceful and more loving. Thank you for sharing your insights. With you humanity is finding maturity.

Amazing man. A modern mystic. We need more like him.

05:40 Learn the rules well, so you can break them properly. - Dalai Lama 06:10 Knowledge vs Wisdom 07:00 Wisdom leads us to compassion & understanding 08:15 The ten commandments vs. beatitudes 10:10 Modernism & Postmodernism 12:20 Critical Consciousness 13:40 Deconstruction & when ego reigns 14:10 Three Boxes Illustration 17:03 Conservatives (Box 1): Order at all cost 17:31 Progressives (Box 2): Perpetual cynicism 18:14 Reorder (Box 3): Combine boxes 1&2 18:30 Second half: Radical traditionalism 21:45 Franciscan teaching & church history 24:24 Spiral dynamics (Integral theory) 25:10 Second half: less violent, nondual, more inclusive 27:05 Hagel: Thesis-Antithesis-Synthesis 28:00 Bourgeault: Third Force Thinking 29:35 Gurdjieff: Holy Affirming, Holy Denying, Holy Reconciling 30:50 Faith: Knowing balanced by unknowing 32:15 Gurdjieff: Holy Reconciling 33:50 Nondual consciousness & living with contradictions 36:55 Merton: When In the Soul of the Serene Disciple 44:08 Q&A Starts 44:35 What is your definition of reality? 46:33 How to talk with those who disagree with you? 49:50 How to understand/deal with suffering in the world? 51:00 Do you see a growth of consciousness speeding up? 57:00 How to improve intergenerational community? 59:10 Dualistic Clarity & Nondual Understanding 1:02:28 Dealing with grief & moving to solitude 1:04:05 Usage of enneagram in spiritual growth 1:06:45 How catholicism led Rohr into an awakening

He is my favorite mentor. I have the habit of looking up every reference he makes in his beautiful speech. ❤

Absolutely love everything this beautiful soul is teaching and showing to us all. Feel totally blessed to be apart of his path and my own 🙏❤️

Richard is gifted indeed; and more importantly he shares his gifts! thank you, sir!

Richard Rohr is a saviour of souls. Holiness embodied. Thanks be to God.

Thank you!

I’m an Episcopalian but I think pope Francis and the current Dalai Lama are awesome.

One of the best conferences well explained very profound as a catholic I wish found this early in my life but is never to late

I love Fr Rohr and his teaching. Listen to something of his almost daily.

One of the best talks by Fr. Richard, and I’ve seen quite a few. He’s amazing

this is a really interesting presentation. the discussion of the holy denial makes a lot of sense, especially when compared to the world we live in right now, it feels that there is so much hope with solutions to climate change, finally accepting our problem with racism and being united about the folly of riches. At the same time we are dealing with a darkness that is clearly opposed to that light. My mom Nancy Lampert, 1957 to 2014 would have loved this, she was a phd in Art Education and her research was in critical thinking, being able to accept problems that don't have solutions or don't have easy solutions and her motto was: "kindness in the classroom"!

Fr. Rohr has been a great help in my faith and life.

Thank you for moving me from my "starter kit" to full "knowing" in my second half of life.

Thank you🙏🏼

One of the best talks I’ve heard. I’ve been despairing about our fate for a lifetime it seems, but this gives me hope that we may yet awaken (me included) and save ourselves and this planet.

Thank you and blessings for your efforts

Let the older generations take up mentoring the young and then get them in the church. Don’t just sit waiting on the young to come to us.

Thank you Father Rohr

Thank you, Fr. Richard. 💙

Holy smokes, fellas! That sure was swell!

I spoke to a brother priest who met Fr who said " he really believes everything he says" in astonishment.

When the false self dies that which remains finds a life that does not often mirror the world…so once again the truth statement ‘ to be in the world but not of the world “

Thanks for sharing

Thank you

I don't know how many time I laughed the journey is scary you never know if you're growing or backsliding to use an old fashioned word but you start to feel better

Your the best Richard

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REALIZE THE KRISHNA CONSCIOUSNESS WITHIN

Thanks 😊

I'm waiting for the third half.

Richard observed that he never saw a certain statesman laugh. When I attended a Billy Graham crusade across the river from Portland Oregon in the early/mid 1990s, I was near the stage and watched with camera in hand to capture a smile. In an event lasting two hours or so, I never saw a smile or heard a laugh from the Reverend Billy Graham. While I accept the value of seriously surrendering to Jesus, I also want to smile and laugh with Him. Thank you, Richard, for your sense of humor and recognition of delight in life.

Truth is so utterly simple ....who is to get it? When you start from the complicated idea I am real🕉☯️❤️🙏🏼

I am a fan of people like Father Rohr know man can't comprehend how a BUILDING has a way to understand the TRUTH that is not different than another BUILDING can only understand the TRUTH in TRUTH of their TRUTH to understand, but has no ability to know the truth of any individual that is something possible only for the choice to be seen choosing to know the TRUTH of you that only the one who is the Builder of us all and the TRUTH in TRUTH can get you to know, Jesus noticed that TRUTH by living in TRUTH of LOVE and valued us all seek to live in the same way that is LOVE that Jesus knew and gave us all a way to know the Father of us all and the TRUTH of LOVE.

This is beautiful, and thank you for sharing your wisdom and grace. However. The second person to ask a question. You were incredibly impatient with him. I felt impatient with him too. But sir, you are above dismissing people out of hand. You have such insight into what makes people tick and what it might help them to hear (I've seen some of your enneagram work). Surely you owed him at least your insight on why he bothered you and how he could grow as a person if he recognized these things. (Yes, I'm a 1 also, sue me.)

The modern Mad Hatter.

Some people, especially those with various levels of autism, are sensitive to sounds and kiddies shouting is very painful.

Put on your listening ears at 23:xx.

I love Richard and his messages but he’s mentioned his disdain for Trump almost every time I’ve listened to him. He even closed such a beautiful message with it here lol

these were wonderful times, weren't they Daddy?

This man almost makes me want to become a catholic..lol

Anyone know whether that is Monsignor Robert Ritchie from St. Pat's Cathedral in NYC at 50:26 asking a question? Sounds just like the Monsignor.

Most people do not deal with all of this. So don't we need the concept of reincarnation as all beings sooner or later have to learn this? I know people 80 years old that not even touched this topic of inner soul groth/enlightment. So is this only optional? And at the end of life we get to heaven anyway? Would be kind of strange, if school is only a joke and everybody gets the exam in the end anyway... so I think reincarnation should be christian truth again, too?

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He came to redeem the law . 1-4 of the ten commandments are the positive law , 5-10 are the negative law do nots , proscriptions against trespass ; trespass on property and person. The 8 beatitudes are reinforcements of 1-4 . Love ❤ God ,self, and neighbor. As I see it Jesus redemption of the Law through the Beatitudes was the change of emphasis ( THOUGH MITZVAHS GOOD DEEDS WERE ALWAYS PART OF THE LAW at least tribally in Judaism ) . This to me is part of the " ALIGNMENT PROBLEM " . UNLESS WE ALIGN WITH the laws redemption we are out of order. Now if we take the love 🔺️ triangle God at the apex, and self and others at the base vertices there's alignment . But if it's your triangle and God's triangle but not the others triangle because they've let THEIR triangleS APEX BE THEIR EGO. YOU WILL FACE OBSTACLES. GOING THROUGH THE STAGES OF LIFE YOU WILL RARELY FIND ALL PERSONS GOD CENTERED WHOSE TRIANGLES APEX IS GOD CENTERED. WHEN YOU DO YOU' LL FIND THAT RARE UNITIVE HARMONIOUS MOMENT. NONDUALISM IS BETTER IN THE UNITIVE WAY. NOT IN THE HEGELIAN MARXIST CONFLICTIVE WAY. Holy denial Batman there is a God. Holy uncertainty batman I can't define God's whole Self. But we can love the whole when all those thesis hypothesis synthesis fail.

Who is Dr. Taylor Marshall and Arch Bishop Vigano, who is speaking out against Pope Francis and now joining allegiances with Donald Trump?

56:53 paintball for Jesus

We need the date of this lecture, please!

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Husband died and she is not home with loved ones??? Stranged...

Where is father Richard ?

return to fasting

Did she say “ sitting at his feet” really? No thanks....I sit at no ones feet

I don’t understand how a person can consider themselves evolved beyond dualistic consciousness when so often referring to someone with a different perspective as “they” and “other” . There is no “other”. Just people with different perspectives, motives, wounds and experiences. The opposing forces exist within each of us. We keep forming teams and if you don’t see the truth the same as I do then you are on the wrong team. I don’t see where this man is as evolved beyond that as he would like to think. Shouldn’t we be evolving beyond religious and political affiliation?

If we take life to be a learn process, kind of spirit evolution, we have to deal with one fact: Not everyone is doing the work in this life. Is this showwork only optional? So we have the situation that a lot of humans/souls reach the end of their life without finding enlightment, without evolving, so to say without finishing the teaching material here on earth. The only way I see to solve this problem ist to accept reincarnation. So souls who's evolution did not finish can continue on, until they learned, what is neaded. In other religions we have this concept and I think even the old greeks beleived in it and maybe parts of early christianity. Would be a big deal if we miss this truth. But what is the alternative? If someone is born in kongo, is raised by soldiers and gets a child soldier and gets shot in the head age 12 was there any fair chance? Would hell be justified? Wouldn't be god to be blamed? He would be the car ingeneer and crashtest taker at once. There was no fair chance for free will to evolve in this case. Reincarnation would solve all of this... second, third, fourth chance, until the soul learns the lessons needed. This way we could put everything into a bigger context. Like meating people again and again over many lives and working out our conflicts and problems until the unfished ends disappear.

I thank Fr Rohr for alerting me to New Age deceit masquerading as modern Catholicism. His nonsense was so similar to Teilhart De Chardin it woke me up to this new attack on authentic Catholicism.

The title “Second Half of Life” is misleading and disappointing as only a brief statement at around 23 minute mark and a poem at the end of the talk mentions anything about second half of life. Rest of it may is circumstantial and at times tangential as in many of his talks yet still interesting, thought provoking, and humorous. Clearly a very liberal mind who likes to poke fun at those who aren’t and therefore still engages in dualistic thinking when convenient while advocating for non-dualism. I do appreciate the self-disclosure of Vatican investigation of “possible” heresy espoused by Richard Rohr who at the same time warns that he knows how to break the rules by knowing the rules well. Makes me wonder if he just knew how to give the “right” answer to the Vatican and gave them what he knew they wanted to hear to get their stamp of approval. An example of operating within the false self system in order to live out his true self authentic to himself. Wheat and weed shall grow together.

Eh, my dear Richard. The president knows how to laugh. It's just that he's performing the ministry of the Trickster towards your end of the political spectrum, he is a clown for them with the eyes to see and - I'm telling you - he's extremely funny. With us he is the most jolly man on the planet. I would advise you to take off your ideological glasses and try som other pairs more often, if you can manage to see the Glory of Trump you would be amazed I think. Not that there's anything wrong with your glasses per se, I'm learning to see the world with them more and more but I would never like to get stuck with them. Then the dualistic walls start to come closer. Much love.

Notice the term "The Perennial Tradition" in the introduction he's given and in the caption below the video above. The Perennial Tradition is incompatible with Christianity because it teaches that all religions share and derive from the same truth. Iow, Jesus is not needed as a Savior, there is no sin, all men are in God or Christ already, and man has God in himself. This is what Rohr teaches. He also agrees with spiral dynamics, which comes from his friend Ken Wilber, a Perennial-Buddhist (not even identifying as a Christian).

Has so much good and transcendent things to say and then gets political as if one side is morally superior to the other what a waste

Does anyone else think Fr Richard's phrasing and intonation is scarily similar to Donald Trump😳 Did Fr Richard sound like this before 2016?? Is this a Jungian thing??😳

Disappointed I thought that was a bit of a long winded ramble

Just stay in Gods Holy words the Holy Bible. We have to seek Jesus. Deny ourselves pick up our cross daily. Dont trust these false religion's. Its a personal relationship with Jesus. There is only one mediator between us and the Father. Domt pray to Mary dont pray to saints. Dont confess to a man your sins for forgivness. Turn and repent and he is faithful because he loves you. But humble your hearts and stay in his word. Heaven and earth will pass away but his words wont. The Bible is complete we cant add or take away to it.

What a bunch of drivel. I’m a 70 yo evolving(interpret that as you may, LOL) Catholic with 21 years of Catholic institutional education. I love how in the end the Rev. chastises the sycophantic audience to speedup their questions, who in reality mimic his style, how disingenuous. Philosophers love to use multiple words with multiple syllables, putting labels on everything, it’s their way of ordering things. Much of it is arbitrary and unnecessary because some other philosopher has his own label for nearly the exact same thing. Debating order vs disorder and then reorder can ultimately be part of the debate of what is lawful and unlawful. Rev’s claim that Jesus was one of the great law breakers doesn’t explain the why. Apparently it irritates him that the 10 Commandments are too ubiquitous to suit his tastes, I don’t think Jesus was intending to replace the 10 with the 8 Beatitudes; mostly, as just one example Jesus was rallying against those in power who controlled the temple, profiteering from sales on “sacrificial lambs” or for whatever creature one’s budget could afford, Cadillac or Chevy, gentry or peasant. The Rev. seems to blame ordered societies for creating the broth that lead to 2 great World Wars and the Holocaust , and later led to catastrophes in Viet Nam and the Middle East. It’s much more complicated than that. While alluding to Trump being a significant root of current problems, as he does frequently, he forgets it was progressives like Woody Wilson who refused to see Ho Chi Minh at Versailles, FDR who appeased Stalin, Saul Alinsky’s cohorting with clergy like Fr. Jack Egan , Bishop Bernard Sheil that bequeathed people like the eventual Cardinal Bernadin leading to the laxity of “order” in the Catholic Church, possibly placing the Church on the abyss of whether it will survive or not. Using terms like Modernism and Post Modernism, Critical Consciousness, meta-narratives, Duality and Spiral Dynamics are just that, spiral dynamics --- double talk, a lot like Biden’s comment “we choose truth over facts" but in this so called duality, facts are the truth. Progressives if they aren’t talking in circles they’re talking out of both sides of the mouth, as the occasion warrants. Progressives might claim overthrowing the monarch is good and it can be, but they only replace it with a monolith that has multiple heads, embedding itself deeper than it’s predecessor, that will eventually and abusively control the majority, that is where we are headed when progressive-ism becomes socialism. Bless you Father.

Cant agree with a single word that he says.

"Alternative Orthodoxy" is an oxymoron.

This twisted reprobate has perverted the simple teachings of the Gospel to misinform those thirsting for spirituality. We shall pray that he repents of his wickedness!

mysticism has nothing whatsoever to do with Christianity for a start.......

Nobody can be called Father except our God, YHWY, in heaven. Ecumenical movement is straying away from the truth that Jesus Christ is only way to the Father. No one can save us except our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. No matter how much this author is prominent or insightful , if he speaks 0.00001 % of lie, then it’s not truth.

Why do you need to grab the water bottle with both hands to drink? Looks like preschool habit. Ha ha ha.

Wow, this is complete heresy. Rohr is out to lunch, he preaches a false Jesus and a false God, one that contradicts scripture.

Folks please read what the Bible says and be discerning; Rohr is a false teacher in no uncertain terms. He is not a Christian.

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