
Falling Upward
A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
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Tom Parks
In the revised and updated edition of Falling Upward, Richard Rohr seeks to help listeners come to terms with the two halves of life. In this book, Rohr teaches us that we can't understand the meaning of "up" until we have fallen "down." More importantly, Rohr describes what "up" can look like in the second half of life.
Most of us tend to think of the second half of life in chronological terms, but this book proposes a different paradigm. Spiritual maturity is found "when we begin to pay attention and seek integrity" through a shift from our "outer task" to the "inner task." Falling Upward is an invitation to living the gospel and a call to ongoing transformation.
- Gain a spiritual perspective on the "the common sequencing, staging, and direction of life's arc" and learn how to bring forth your gifts in the second half of life
- Grapple with difficult feelings, fears, and emotions associated with "great love and great suffering"
- Learn how we "grow spiritually much more by doing it wrong than by doing it right"
- Understand why so many of us resist falling into the second half of life.
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A Catholic priest for over 50 years, Rohr carries spiritual authority, but he doesn’t wield it. He honors tradition without hiding behind it. As someone raised very Catholic, I recognize the weight of his role. But I admire even more the way he steps outside of it with reverence, not rebellion. He invites a deeper truth.
“It is precisely by falling off the bike many times that you eventually learn what the balance feels like… People who have never allowed themselves to fall are actually off balance.” That image of a wobble before finding equilibrium reminds us that we weren’t sure, once, but we learned. And we can still learn. Even now. Especially now.
This book stays beside you while your soul recalibrates. It affirms that the pull toward depth isn’t confusion, it’s clarity. That undoing isn’t collapse, it’s transformation.
If you’ve felt that pull - the one you can’t quite name but also can’t ignore - I hope you listen. I hope you trust yourself. Not because I’m saying to. But because part of you already is.
Trust Yourself
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A spiritual classic
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Part of what I found interesting is that about a third of the group was new to the book. But most of the group had read it two or three times previously. Almost everyone who found the book valuable had read it multiple times. I continue to think that Rohr is less clear than he should be. And I continue to think he is trying to read too large of an audience. I both found the book more helpful and more limited with this reading.
On the negative side, I think that his use of the archetype narrative (The Oddesy and other similar stories) has the problem of orienting the discussion of the second half of life in a male-oriented way. I know Rohr is a Catholic priest and a man, but over and over again, I found his illustrations and framing to be overly limited. One of the main themes of the book is how part of maturity is rejecting false dualism and embracing the Both/And. But then he would create evaluative dualism between the first and second half of life. I probably can’t be Rohr, but I would like to see someone else write about archetypal narrative in a similar way, but add in many more illustrations that are rooted in female archetypes.
On the positive side, I do think that reading this nearly 15 years after the first reading I have more life experience and maturity and I can see areas where I can make sense of his point in ways that I couldn’t before. But I also think that there are many areas where he will continue to be misunderstood either because he was not clear or because the audience that is reading isn’t who he was addressing. Over and over again, I ran into comments or advice or illustrations where it made sense, but there was a level of health that is assumed that may not be present. This is similar to my complaints about A Loving Life by Paul Miller. Miller calls on people to tolerate suffering and abuse to lead others toward repentance but does not spend nearly enough time talking about the reality of abuse and the harm that comes about because of abuse. There were many places where the advice or illustration works in one setting, but not in another. That discernment of how to apply wisdom like this requires a level of maturity that I am not sure applies to everyone reading the book.
I am glad I read it again, at least I was glad that I read it with the group. I do not think it is an essential book.
the process of change as we age and mature
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Refreshing
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Pointed to truth
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A wisdom classic
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Sacred Container
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I tried to return it back but with no luck
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Nonsensical
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