Dr. Robert Frager busy with movies, books, presentations and concerts.
New Film
Dr. Frager has a role in a new film: Living Luminaries: The Serious Business of Happiness. It is a docu-drama in which a young man consults a variety of teachers in his search for happiness. The premiere was just held in LA in March.
New Book
He also edited a brand new book, just out. It is
Sharing Sacred
Stories: Current Approaches to Spiritual irection
and Guidance. By
Crossroad Publishing, 2007.
Chapters by ITP faculty and grads are:
- 1. Reflections on the Spiritual Path - HUSTON SMITH, ITP Honorary Doctorate
- 2. Dreams and Spiritual Guidance - JEREMY TAYLOR, ITP adjunct
- 3. Spiritual Intimacy - ZALMAN SCHACHTER-SHALOMI, former ITP teacher
- 4. Spiritual Guidance in the Sufi Tradition - ROBERT FRAGER
- 5. Four Principles in Spiritual Guidance - PAUL ROY
- 7. Spiritual Guidance and Story - SEAN O'LAOIRE, ITP grad
- 8. Spiritual Direction and Mystical Experience - ROBERT H. HOPCKE, ITP adjunct
- 9. Breakthroughs in Spiritual Guidance - JAMES NEAFSEY
- 11. Spiritual Guidance at the End of Life - JÜRGEN SCHWING
- 12. A New Approach to Grief Work - ARTHUR HASTINGS
- 15. The Process of Group Spiritual Guidance - GENIE PALMER
Presentations and talks
Doctor Frager is giving a presentation at the annual Spiritual Director's International conference this weekend, in Vancouver, British Columbia on Sufi approaches to spiritual direction. In addition, he will be giving a presentation at an international conference on Rumi, held in Istanbul and Konya, Turkey May 8-12. It is titled Jelaladdin Rumi: Spiritual Guide for the 21 Century.
Later he will be back at Stanford for an invited talk on
Muhammad for the
Milad an-Nabi, a celebration of the life of the
Prophet, on April 21.
Concert
Finally, Dr. Frager organized and led a concert of Sufi music and discussion of Sufism at Stanford, sponsored by the Stanford Muslim Students Associaiton on March 16.
