InnerFrontier.org
Title
Inner Frontier: Exploring Practical Spirituality
Description
Inner Frontier is dedicated to exploring practical methods for opening the human heart-mind to the spiritual depths. Inner Frontier represents, in part, a new synthesis and distillation of the practices of the major spiritual traditions.
The son of Holocaust survivors, Joseph Naft was born in a Displaced Persons' camp in northern Italy in the aftermath of World War II. Recovering from wartime devastation, the family soon immigrated to the United States. That legacy of unspeakable evil engendered Naft’s abiding interest in how the seemingly intractable problem of human violence can be resolved.
While childhood experiences of the spiritual depths set the stage for Naft’s lifelong pursuit of the sacred, he first learned formal meditation practice in 1970. In 1974-75, he studied Buddhist, Sufi and Christian practices during a year in residence at J. G. Bennett's school of spirituality in England. Subsequently, he pursued a range of spiritual practices in Turkey under the guidance of Sufis from the Mevlevi, Helveti, Rifa’i, and Naqshbandi orders. He has also undergone extensive training in Buddhist meditation. Finally, his Jewish roots remain close to his heart, including the traditional form of Jewish worship as well as Kabbalistic meditation methods.
