Janet Rudolph: The Spiritual Life of an Ethical Humanist: I am Felix Adler’s Step-Child

“My ethical education inspired me to go on a world tour to quest for spiritual richness and explore the mysteries of life. Now I am returning to my childhood ‘home’ to discuss what that journey has taught me about how to live a life of spiritual fullness from a specifically Ethical Culture point of view. The focus of my work is ‘first knowledge’ or ancient teachings that not only have living application today but are echoed in the work of our present day ethical religious philosophies.”
Janet Rudolph, daughter of ECS member Betty Levin, grew up at our Essex Society. “I raised my own kids at the Long Island Society. I worked with Algernon Black when he was leader emeritus at the NY Society. I have spoken at all three societies (Essex, NY, and Long Island). I was a participant at the first lay leadership ‘camp’ in 1996. Since then my journey is probably best described by the bio from my book:
‘Janet Rudolph has traveled throughout the world to study, experience and learn first-hand how the mysteries of life are expressed, blessed, honored, and lived in differing lands and traditions. Along the way she has danced on sandy beaches, climbed pyramids, experienced initiations, been ordained as shaman, stepped in the processional pathways of the ancients, felt standing stones against her skin, walked spirals and labyrinths, and hugged the earth in its oneness and many sacred facets. She has experienced Israeli and Egyptian deserts, lush Incan and Mayan rain-forests, windswept southern French castles, rain drenched Orkney stone temples, wildly rushing Pacific Northwest mountain streams, and ancient Grecian oracular shrines.’”