Secrets of the Heart: The Alchemy and Science of Divine Love

An 8-week online course with William Keepin, based on his book Belonging to God: Spirituality, Science, & a Universal Path of Divine Love

This course introduces the interspiritual path of Divine Love — including practice and study of this path’s mystical and scientific underpinnings.  The foundations of this path are hidden secrets in the heart, which become available to sincere seekers committed to the inner disciplines of spiritual practice, devotion, service, and the wisdom of the heart. The first half of the course articulates this path as revealed in sacred texts and mystics from three of the world’s major religions – Hinduism, Islam, and Christianity, with reference to mystical traditions of Buddhism, Judaism, Alchemy, Hermeticism, and other ancient traditions.  The second half of the course explores a wide range of scientific phenomena that reflect and illuminate the patterns of Divine Love. Heart-based meditation practices and spiritual inquiry and dialogue practices are integral to the course.

Schedule:

• Week One: The Path of Divine Love — Answering the Call
• Week Two: The Yoga of Divine Love in the Bhagavad Gita and Hindu Mysticism
• Week Three: The Compassion and Majesty of Islam in the Qur’an and Sufi Mysticism
• Week Four: Divine Love and the Divine Feminine East and West
• Week Five: The Inner Net of the Heart — Science and Spirituality
• Week Six: The Infinity of Divinity — The Fractal Structure of Consciousness and Logos
• Week Seven: Science and Mysticism
• Week Eight: Deepening into Divine Presence

In this program participants will:

• Gain familiarity with spiritual texts from several traditions
• Learn about mystical lineages within these traditions
• Explore the interspiritual intersections between these traditions
• Hear about new scientific research from several fields
• Study the relationship between science and spirituality
• Receive introduction to several heart-centered spiritual practices
• Create a community with which to share ideas and experiences
• Receive spiritual guidance from instructor and peers

Whatever name we give to this process… whether it takes place in a Christian or Muslim or Hindu or as a spiritual
but not religious practitioner, the process is basically the same. The soul is transformed into the Divine, by the Divine, through participation in the Divine. We cannot understand the process; we cannot master it; we cannot force it; we cannot co-opt it any way for our own purposes. We can only give ourselves to it, if we choose, and consent unconditionally to this process on its terms. And if we do this—or rather, allow it—the living truth of love empties
us of ourselves and fills us with Divine Love.

~ William Keepin, Belonging to God