“Jiyū Shūkyō—a Free-Religious, Integral Spirituality from within the Unitarian Tradition” by Andrew James Brown

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Citation

Brown, Andrew James. “Jiyū Shūkyō—a Free-Religious, Integral Spirituality from within the Unitarian Tradition.” Caute, 26 July 2025, https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2025/07/jiyu-shukyoa-free-religious-integral.html.

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Per Andrew James Brown, what three things motivate people to become free-religionists?
1.
2. Attention and shared activity.
3. Religious and spiritual freedom.
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Being in community with other free-religionists.

Per Andrew James Brown, what three things motivate people to become free-religionists?

  1. Being in community with other free-religionists.
  3. Religious and spiritual freedom.
    ?
    Attention and shared activity.

Per Andrew James Brown, what three things motivate people to become free-religionists?

  1. Being in community with other free-religionists.
  2. Attention and shared activity.

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Religious and spiritual freedom.

Per Andrew James Brown, what three things motivate people to become free-religionists?
?

  1. Being in community with other free-religionists.
  2. Attention and shared activity.
  3. Religious and spiritual freedom.

Per Andrew James Brown, what is his most important initial role to seekers as a free-religious minister? :: Help them find an exemplar.

Andrew James Brown's seven reasons why jiyū shūkyō is an integral spirituality:

  1. Addresses the full spectrum of human development.
  2. Affirms multiple lines of development.
  3. Recognizes multiple states and stages of consciousness.
  4. Takes seriously Ken Wilbur's four quadrants.
  5. Takes seriously interreligious and post-religious openness.
  6. Sees spirituality as evolving.
  7. Takes seriously "shadow work."

Ken Wilber's four quadrants:
1.
2. exterior-individual
3. interior-collective
4. exterior-collective
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interior-individual

Ken Wilber's four quadrants:

  1. interior-individual
  3. interior-collective
  4. exterior-collective
    ?
    exterior-individual

Ken Wilber's four quadrants:

  1. interior-individual
  2. exterior-individual
  4. exterior-collective
    ?
    interior-collective

Ken Wilber's four quadrants:

  1. interior-individual
  2. exterior-individual
  3. interior-collective

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exterior-collective

Ken Wilber's four quadrants:
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  1. interior-individual
  2. exterior-individual
  3. interior-collective
  4. exterior-collective

Per Andrew James Brown, since jiyū shūkyō takes seriously interreligious and post-religious openness, it helps avoid two things:

  1. reductionism (dismissing all religion simply as illusion)
  2. absolutism (only one tradition is true)