Thought leaders whose pioneering work informs the Quaker Pathways Forward- Rekindling the Fire of Fox Community-of-Practice.

1. Quaker Pathways Forward
21st Century Activism - Living Into Quaker Mysticism
George Fox Rufus Jones

2. Quaker Pathways Forward – Rekindling the Fire of Fox
Informed by Thought Leaders:
 Gregory Bateson
 Aaron Beck
 Ludwig Bertalanffy
 Fritjof Capra
 Albert Ellis
 George Fox
 Eduardo Hector Fradkin
 Systems thinking extended to social
and behavioral sciences.
 Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.
 Systems thinking informed by open,
living systems - biology.
 Systems thinking informed by
quantum physics.
 Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy
 Simultaneous manifestation of the
conventional and unified fields.
 Condensed matter and digital physics
using quantum field approaches.

3. Quaker Pathways Forward – Rekindling the Fire of Fox
Informed by Thought Leaders:
Siddhartha Gautama
 Charles Johnson
 Rufus Jones
 Carl Gustav Jung
 George Lakoff
 Ervin Laszlow
 Joanna Macy
 Simultaneous manifestation of the
conventional and unified fields.
 Mindfulness and Beloved Community
 Universal accessibility of the
undifferentiated field.
 Personal and collective unconscious,
archetypal material, synchronicity.
 Cognitive linguistics.
 Integral and akashic fields.
 Mutual Causality in Buddhism
and General Systems Theory.

4. Quaker Pathways Forward
21st Century Activism - Becoming Love and Compassion
Jesus of Nazareth Siddhartha Gautama

5. Quaker Pathways Forward – Rekindling the Fire of Fox
Informed by Thought Leaders:
 John Kabat-Zin
 Donatella Meadows
 Jesus of Nazareth
 Max Planck
 Alfred North Whitehead
 Mindfulness Based Stress
Reduction.
 General systems theory.
 Simultaneous manifestation of the
conventional and unified fields.
 Quantum physics.
 Process philosophy, metaphysics.

6. Quaker Pathways Forward
21st Century Activism - Becoming Love and Compassion
Carl Gustav Jung Fritjof Capra

7. Quaker Pathways Forward – Rekindling the Fire of Fox
Quaker and Resonant Resources, Training & Curricula
Pendle Hill Pamphlets:
• Mary Post Abbott, Quaker Views on Mysticism, (Wallingford, PA: Pendle Hill Pamphlet
#375, 2013),
• Kenneth E. Boulding, The Evolutionary Potential of Quakerism(Wallingford, PA: Pendle
Hill Pamphlet #166, 1964),
• Mary Conrow Coelho, Recovering Sacred Presence in a Disenchanted
World,(Wallingford, PA: Pendle Hill Pamphlet #433, 2015),
• Thomas Gates, Reclaiming the Transcendent: God in Process(Wallingford, PA: Pendle
Hill Pamphlet #422, 2013),
• Daniel A. Seeger, Silence: Our Eye on Eternity, (Wallingford, PA: Pendle Hill Pamphlet
#318, 1994),
• Frances Taber, Finding the Taproot of Simplicity: A Movement Between Inner
Knowledge and Outer Action, (Wallingford, PA: Pendle Hill Pamphlet #400, 1987)

8. Quaker Pathways Forward – Rekindling the Fire of Fox
Quaker and Resonant Resources, Training, and Curricula
• Rex Ambler, Experiment With Light, a Spiritual Movement in British Quakerism:
• Experiment With Light Resources,
• Experiment With Light Meditations,
• Lewis Benson, The Future of the Quaker Vision, Seek Find Share: Study Volume Number Two for the Fourth
World Conference of Friends, 1967. Greensboro, NC, U.S.A.: Guilford College, 1967.
• Brent Bill, A Modest Proposal for The Revitalization of the Quaker Message,
• Friends General Conference: Spiritual Deepening Program,
• Brian Drayton and Bill Taber- A Language for the Inner Landscape: Spiritual Wisdom From the Quaker
Movement,
• Kenneth Gergen: The Taos Institute, 63 Maple Hill Drive, Chagrin Falls, Ohio 44022.
• Rufus Jones, The Testimony of the Soul. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1936,
• Rufus Jones, An Interpretation of Quakerism, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Pamphlet,
• Thomas Kelly, A Testimony of Devotion, FGC Quaker Books, originally published, Harper: New York
19410, Harper One, 1992.

9. Quaker Pathways Forward
21st Century Activism - Becoming Love and Compassion
Joanna Macy Charles Johnson

10. Quaker Pathways Forward – Rekindling the Fire of Fox
Papers, Publications and Resonant Educational Institutes
• Marcelle Martin, Our Life is Love: The Quaker Spiritual Journey, Inner Light Books, 2016,
• Study Guide
• Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation, originally published, 1949, New Directions
Publishing, 2007,
• Thomas Merton, Contemplative Prayer, 1969, Crown Publishing Group, 2009,
• Parker Palmer: Center for Courage and Spiritual Renewal:
• A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life,
• Become a Courage & Renewal facilitator,
• Richard Rohr: Center for Acton and Contemplation, 1823 5 Points Rd SW, Albuquerque, NM
87105
• Richard Rohr, The Naked Now: Learning to See as Mystics See, New York, The Crossroads
Publishing Company, 2013,
• Otto Scharmer: The Presencing Institute, 1770 Massachusetts Ave. #221 Cambridge, MA 02140
• School of the Spirit: A Contemplative Retreat in the Manner of Friends.

11. Quaker Pathways Forward- Rekindling the Fire of Fox
21st Century Activism - Living Into Esoteric Quakerism