Aldea Spiritual Community

Aldea Spiritual Community
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Aldea is an inclusive spiritual community - holding love as our highest value - located in Tucson, Arizona.

  1. 2D AGO

    Movies That Make Us | Jake Haber

    What happens when a community reflects on the movies that changed their lives?   In this special gathering at Aldea, members of our community shared the films that shaped them. Stories that helped them process grief, discover hope, feel seen, and understand the human experience     In this message, we explore how cinema becomes spiritual—not necessarily because a film is labeled “spiritual,” but because of the meaning we discover in it. Whether through themes of redemption, friendship, identity, courage, or hope against impossible odds, these stories remind us of something deeply human: the power of storytelling to shape our lives.   Quotes:   “Movies are empathy machines…the great movies expand our hearts.” — Roger Ebert   “Film is a window into the soul of humanity.” — Werner Herzog   Films Mentioned:   Casablanca Stand by Me The Shawshank Redemption Soul Lady in the Water Mindwalk Dead Man Walking Gran Torino Schindler’s List Life Is Beautiful The Nightmare Before Christmas Harry Potter The Rocky Horror Picture Show Rent Charly Forrest Gump Whale Rider The Matrix The Last Unicorn Hamnet Concert for George The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner The Way The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

    33 min

  2. MAR 9

    The Good, The True, and The Beautiful (Part 3): The Beautiful | Jake Haber

    In the finale of our series The Good, the True, and the Beautiful, we turn our attention to the final transcendental: Beauty.   Over the past few weeks, we’ve explored how goodness, truth, and beauty have long been understood as three ways reality reveals itself. If goodness points to how we live and truth points to what is real, beauty points to something deeper still — that which makes life worth living.   Beauty has a way of bypassing the intellect. A sunset, a piece of music, a shared meal, a child’s laughter — moments that stop us in our tracks and remind us that life is more than survival. In a world where our minds filter out almost everything we experience, learning to notice beauty may be one of the most spiritual practices available to us.   Even in difficult times, beauty remains a quiet form of resistance — and a reminder of what life is ultimately about.   Quotes:   “Beauty is truth, truth beauty — that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.” — John Keats   “Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.” — Victor Hugo   “To see a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wild flower…” — William Blake   “We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.” — Anaïs Nin   “The essence of the universe is its aim toward the production of beauty.” — Alfred North Whitehead   “The world will be saved by beauty.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky   “The true, the good, and the beautiful are not separate domains; they are the radiant expressions of a single underlying reality.” — Ken Wilber   “Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.” — Mary Oliver

    32 min

  3. MAR 2

    The Good, The True, and The Beautiful (Part 2): The True | Jake Haber

    In Part 2 of The Good, The True, and The Beautiful, we step into the most challenging and transformative dimension of this series: Truth. In a world that's been called "post-truth", and certainly has it's fair share of chaos, we explore what it means to actually discern truth for ourselves — not just inherit it — and how discomfort, questioning, and even uncertainty can become sacred guides.   Truth isn’t always neat, literal, or easy to stomach. Sometimes it arrives as an uncovering, an expansion, or a disruption — inviting us to align our inner world with our outer lives. When we have the courage to trust experience, embrace paradox, and live authentically, goodness begins to flow and the most beautiful version of our lives emerges.   Quotes:   Niels Bohr “The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.”   Flannery O’Connor “The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”   David Bohm “Truth is what stands the test of experience.”   Bronnie Ware (The Top Five Regrets of the Dying) “I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.”

    33 min

  4. FEB 22

    The Good, The True, and The Beautiful (Part 1): The Good | Jake Haber

    For thousands of years, philosophers and mystics have described reality through three transcendentals: the Good, the True, and the Beautiful. What if these are not abstract ideals, but living movements unfolding through evolution itself?   Through the frame of "evolutionary spirituality", we ask the question: could goodness, truth, and beauty be the spiritual trajectory of the universe?   For the first part of our new series, we reflect on "The Good", and how goodness is the invitation toward deeper compassion & love, showing up in a myriad of ways. May we celebrate the movement towards goodness however and whenever it shows up.   Quotes:  “The Good is the cause of all that is right and beautiful… and the source of truth and reason.” — Plato “Everyone who has felt the power of truth, the kindness of goodness, or the loveliness of beauty has had an experience of spirit.” — Steve McIntosh “The Good is that which increases depth and span—greater interior awareness joined with greater compassion.” — Ken Wilber “The good is not a fixed standard but a movement toward greater truth, light, and harmony.” — Sri Aurobindo “Love is the most universal, the most tremendous and the most mysterious of the cosmic forces.” — Teilhard de Chardin Luke 6:27–34: 27 “But to you who are listening I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, 28 bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you. 29 If someone slaps you on one cheek, turn to them the other also. If someone takes your coat, do not withhold your shirt from them. 30 Give to everyone who asks you, and if anyone takes what belongs to you, do not demand it back. 31 Do to others as you would have them do to you. 32 If you do good to those who are good to you, what credit is that to you?

    35 min

  5. FEB 16

    Walking Each Other Home (Part 6): The Pathless Path | Jake Haber

    In the finale of our Walking Each Other Home series, we arrive at The Pathless Path—a reflection on the paradox at the heart of spirituality. What if the journey we’ve been striving so hard to navigate ultimately dissolves beneath our feet? What if the path we thought we had to figure out, earn, perfect, or secure was never something to complete, but something to release? In this message, we explore spiritual reversals found in Christianity, Taoism, and mystical traditions—the idea that losing can be finding, letting go can be gaining, and that what we are searching for may already be present.   Drawing from Jung’s insight into the two halves of life and the wisdom of modern mystics, we consider what it means to move from achievement to arrival, from striving to trust, from becoming somebody to simply being. The Pathless Path invites us to see our winding roads, detours, deconstructions, and doubts not as mistakes, but as uniquely ours. In the end, perhaps the real secret is not mastering the journey but relaxing into it and realizing we’ve been home all along.   Quotes: “You are searching for what you already have… When you give up all searching, you find it.” — Nisargadatta Maharaj  “Truth is a pathless land.” — J. Krishnamurti  “Enlightenment is the end of the search.” — Adyashanti  “This is the real secret of life—to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.” — Alan Watts

    32 min

  6. FEB 9

    Walking Each Other Home (Part 5): The Sprint & The Marathon | Jake Haber

    We’re often taught that life is a sprint: move fast, win big, get somewhere as quickly as possible. But what if that mindset is quietly exhausting us, distorting our sense of meaning, and even shaping the way we approach spirituality itself? In this installment of our Walking Each Other Home series, we explore the difference between sprinting through life and learning to inhabit it as a marathon: one that is messy, painful, beautiful, and profoundly communal.   Drawing on wisdom from endurance running, philosophy, and spiritual traditions, this talk invites us to loosen our grip on urgency, achievement, and escape. Whether you’re feeling stuck, burned out, discouraged, or increasingly aware of the finitude of life, this message offers permission to slow down, stay in the race, and rediscover meaning right here, in the living of it.   Quotes:   It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end — Ursula K. Le Guin The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves — Alan Watts I realized I could run for days if I stopped worrying about how far I had to go — Dean Karnazes Do not disturb yourself by imagining your whole life at once — Marcus Aurelius It is because of death that life is so full of meaning — Thich Nhat Hanh Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come — Rabindranath Tagore

    32 min

  7. FEB 2

    Walking Each Other Home (Part 4): The Way Of Presence | Roger Pierce & Jake Haber

    What does it really mean to walk with someone through life’s hardest moments?   In this conversation, Jake sits down with Roger, a member of the Aldea community whose life’s work has centered on presence in moments most of us instinctively try to fix, explain, or escape. Drawing from decades of experience as a naval officer, military chaplain, and hospice chaplain, Roger reflects on what it looks like to accompany people through grief, trauma, uncertainty, and death—not with easy answers, but with steady presence.   Rather than offering spiritual formulas or tidy conclusions, Roger invites us into a deeper understanding of companionship—one rooted in listening, humility, and belonging. Whether you’re caring for someone else, facing your own threshold moments, or simply wondering how to be more present in a fragmented world, this conversation offers a quiet, grounded wisdom for the walk.   Quotes:   “When we dare to stay with someone in their pain, without trying to take it away, we discover that love is stronger than suffering.”— Henri J.M. Nouwen   “To accompany someone in their dying is not to remove their fear, but to refuse abandonment.” — Christina Puchalski

    35 min

  8. JAN 27

    Walking Each Other Home (Part 3): Further Together | Jake Haber

    This week in our Walking Each Other Home series, we turn our attention from the journey itself to the people we walk it with. While it’s deeply human to want others to fix our problems or walk the road for us, real transformation happens when we learn how to walk alongside one another instead.   Quotes:     Martin Luther King Jr. “All mankind is tied together; all life is interrelated, and we are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of identity. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. For some strange reason I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. And you can never be what I ought to be until I am what I ought to be - this is the interrelated structure of reality.” Albert Camus “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead. Walk beside me… just be my friend.”  Paulo Freire “No one liberates anyone else, and no one liberates themselves alone. People liberate themselves in communion.”  Albert Schweitzer “The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.”  Thich Nhat Hanh “Understanding someone else is not a matter of seeing them clearly, but of recognizing that they, like you, are a mystery.”  Bruce Tuckman “Storming is inevitable when people care enough to be honest.”  Parker J. Palmer “An authentic community is one in which we are free to bring the whole of who we are—and know that it will be received.”

    35 min
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Aldea is an inclusive spiritual community - holding love as our highest value - located in Tucson, Arizona.

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    Aldea Spiritual Community
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2026
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