Comments from Members of MOWR
January 10th, 2010“I feel that I have found a sanctuary of sorts with the Mystical Order of the White Rose community. While it honors and shares wisdom teachings from many religious and spiritual traditions, it’s perfectly okay that I don’t have one particular religious or spiritual box that I fit neatly into. It’s rare and refreshing to connect with a spiritual community that doesn’t want or expect me to adopt a certain spiritual identity or way of thinking and doing things. The focus is more on universals–like prayer, meditation, mindfulness, kindness, inner peace and service–rather than particulars. Those are left to the individual.” - Cliff Biel
“A cyber-monastery is a weird concept in a way, but it’s cool too. And I like the White Rose symbol. It gets past the whole God, Goddess, Jesus, Buddha thing. You could be a total agnostic or a Jedi Knight and yet still be a true monk and spiritual warrior in the Mystical Order of the White Rose.”
D.W.S.
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I know of no other site other than The Mystical Order of The White Rose that is so rich in materials for those interested in Interfaith Mysticism and Prayer. Cynthia Kiteley Lee has dedicated her Ministry
to Cyber Monasticism for those of us who spend so much of our working lives on computers yet find ourselves called to a life dedicated to exploring life as Mystics In The World.
What is my favorite aspect of The Mystical Order of The White Rose? I would have to say Cynthia’s monthly Newsletter is an amazing resource for meditation, contemplation and prayerful reading. The newsletter expands the website with current informative and the latest videos, visual arts, poetry as well as articles by professionals, both past and present, in the fields of religion, science and anything else Cynthia’s wonderful ability to collage interactive, intertextual materials finds appropriate.
The Mystical Order of The White Rose has created an on-line community: what Cynthia calls a Cyber-Monastery, we are called to pray for eachother and ourselves through a vast array of mediums that are both traditional and 21c. in origin. I was delighted to find information and ways to approach my journey from The Abrahamic Traditions to Paganism. Yet Cynthia always finds a way to bring everything back to what is most central: that The Mystical Traditions embrace and augment each other no matter what the exoteric institutions they stem from.
This month’s Newsletter features The Kabbalah, for example, as well as the extensive archive of Newsletters that explore other aspects of Mysticism. I will be immersed in THE MYSTICAL ORDER OF THE WHITE ROSE this and every month… I am so grateful to have found a ‘home’ within the virtual petals of The Mystical White Rose.
All Blessings,
Cynthia Tedesco
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