{"id":63,"date":"2012-02-09T12:12:21","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T12:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/EverydaySpirituality\/?p=63"},"modified":"2012-02-09T14:56:29","modified_gmt":"2012-02-09T14:56:29","slug":"a-very-spirited-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/EverydaySpirituality\/?p=63","title":{"rendered":"A very spirited performance!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/EverydaySpirituality\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/video-still.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-70\" title=\"Introducing an everyday spirituality...\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/EverydaySpirituality\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/video-still-300x164.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/EverydaySpirituality\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/video-still-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/EverydaySpirituality\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/video-still.jpg 923w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In July 2011 I posted about my experiences with a media training day at The Open University. The day found me traipsing through a graveyard tossing Tarot cards over my shoulder and I have kept the results well hidden until now!<\/p>\n<p>But as my book is now out I thought it might be a good time to share the video from that training day with you, as it gives a flavour of some of the things I explore in the book. So here it is!: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/EverydaySpirituality\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Sara-trailer1.mp4\">Introducing an everyday spirituality&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As I say in the clip, through my research I found that people\u2019s experiences with spirit in the modern world can have a profoundly therapeutic impact in their lives. This is something the academic literature to date has tended to ignore. My intention with the book, therefore, is to develop a deeper understanding of spiritual evolution in modern Western societies by putting \u2018spirit\u2019 right back at the heart of spirituality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In July 2011 I posted about my experiences with a media training day at The Open University. The day found me traipsing through a graveyard tossing Tarot cards over my shoulder and I have kept the results well hidden until &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/EverydaySpirituality\/?p=63\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/EverydaySpirituality\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/EverydaySpirituality\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/EverydaySpirituality\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/EverydaySpirituality\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/EverydaySpirituality\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/EverydaySpirituality\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/EverydaySpirituality\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions\/76"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/EverydaySpirituality\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/EverydaySpirituality\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/EverydaySpirituality\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}