Study and Practice to:

  • Search for meaning and purpose in everyday life
  • Emphasize authority of the individual over tradition
  • Continue to evolve ideas and images of God
  • Live with doubts and questions
  • Disavow authoritative religious tradition
  • Therapeutically approach spiritual practices
  • Work for both personal and planetary transformation
  • Reject exclusivism and the traditional ideas of heaven and hell
  • Be receptive to interfaith dialogue and interspiritual explorations
  • Perceive nature as a spiritual path and sign of the Divine
  • Live out the dynamics of contemplation and sacred activism
  • Shuck the doctrine of sin and being "born bad"