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Writing as spiritual practice? Approach that blank page with beginners mind. November 21 practicum: https://ift.tt/3pec95c
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Writing as a Spiritual Gateway
“Learn how to meditate on paper,” wrote Trappist monk, mystic and social activist Thomas Merton. “Drawing and writing are forms of meditation.” Poet, Buddhist and writing teacher Diana Goetsch, who’ll facilitate the Sacred Inclusion Network’s November 17 Online Community Exploration, thinks about writing in much the same way as Merton. “In my writing, and also in my teaching, I see no essential difference between the spiritual and the artistic path. For one thing, both are lifelong practices in letting go of ego (if only temporarily),” she said.
A renowned poet and fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts, Goetsch believes that anyone who wants to can use writing as part of their spiritual practice. For years, she’s taught writers of all levels, and is is famous in writing circles for the Free Writing Intensives she’s taught across the United States since 2007. These intensives, and her new Actually Writing weekly series, target a fundamental skill that nearly every writer relies on, yet is seldom taught — how to fill a blank page. "To compose on the page, we must engage particular muscles, and we must do so in an ego-free zone that gives us the permission to suck, which is also the permission to be brilliant,“ she said.Join us for this session, which will include writing and lively discussion.
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Wednesday, October 28, 2020
Tuesday, October 27, 2020
The Mystic, the Psychic, the Paranormal
Jeffry J. Kripal is a bit of an iconoclast when it comes to the study of religion.
He’s more interested in anomalist phenomena – the mystic, the psychic, the paranormal – than he is in things like religious history or the philosophy of religion.
A professor and Associate Dean of Humanities at Rice University, Kripal began his publishing career in controversy. Some Hindu scholars took exception to his 1995 book, Kali’s Child: in which he characterized Hindu saint Ramakrishna’s mystical experiences as homoerotic.
The response to the book wasn’t all negative. Michael Murphy, the cofounder of now iconic Esalen Institute, loved it. Thus began an immersion into the intellectual epicenter of that Big Sur epicenter of the human potential movement, and Kripal’s 2007 book, Esalen: America’s Religion of No Religion.
As Kripal relates in this podcast, his Esalen exploration marked the beginning of the second phase of his work, which he describes on his website as a “history and analysis of the relationship of mind and matter, particularly as this relationship is made manifest in ‘paranormal’ events and experiences, such as mystical experiences, parapsychological phenomena, near-death experiences, abduction events, ufological encounters, and psychedelic states.”
Kripal’s quest is to expand scholarly inquiry into the study of phenomena that can’t be easily explained within the constraints of the scientific method.
“What’s happened in our public culture is we have conflated science and materialism, which is just an interpretation of the science. It’s a good interpretation, but it’s an incomplete interpretation. And it rigorously blocks out all of this stuff I want to talk about, because this is the stuff that drives religion,” he says.
Links:
- Kripal’s personal site
- His Rice University site
- His Amazon page
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- Sacred Inclusion Network's Facebook Group
- Sacred Inclusion Network's YouTube Channel
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Sunday, October 25, 2020
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Monday, October 19, 2020
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Monday, September 28, 2020
Adventures in Meditation
Like a lot of people of my generation, my first exposure to meditation was through Zen. Following the instructions of the teacher, I sat on a cushion with my spine straight and a downward focus. I following the rhythm of my breathing and returned to the breath whenever thoughts intruded. Practicing Zen proved OK for awhile, but after awhile I began to crave something more. It didn’t take me long to learn that there were as many forms of meditation or spiritual exercise as there were physical exercises. One example involves the manner and direction of breathing. Focusing downward towards the solar plexus, results in grounding or a focus on the practical. Focusing on the heart stimulates compassion. Focusing upward tends to open up intuition. Adding other elements, such as visualization, mantra and breathing in a circular fashion – all of these produce different results. This Wednesday, September 30th, we’ll learn and practice two distinctly different forms of meditation: tonglen, which helps the practitioner awaken compassion; and a form of Tantric meditation, which encourages the practitioner to experience the sacredness of all of life. We’ll also learn the Ignatian practice of the Examin, that invites us to find the movement of the Spirit in all the people and events of our day. The Spiritual Practice Exploration will be held at 7-10 pm ET on Wednesday September 30th (check your time zone here). To register or learn more about the facilitators, visit the event page.
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Saturday, September 26, 2020
Friday, September 25, 2020
Into the Mystic
Author Paul Corson had two out-of-body experiences that have shaped his view of the world.
Now 86, he’s now on a mission to share what he’s leaned.
His principal vehicle is his new book, Regaining Paradise: Forming a New Worldview, Knowing God and Journeying into Eternity, "a guided journey into self-knowledge, identity, empowerment, and sublime understanding that will open the mind’s eye.“
But this podcast isn’t really a review of the book
Instead it’s a conversation with two individuals who share a mystical way of being in the world.
The two discuss the nature of miracles, the relationship between spiritual substance and the material world, and Corson’s born-again experience.
"The human experience… is a flat out veritable, literal miracle. , Once you realize that you’re a miracle, that you’re never going to die, it’s kind of changes things. You’re not running to buy that new car because you have all this time in the world. You know that you’re going to be living in eternity,” Corson said.
Based in Memphis, Tennessee, Corson is a former pharmacist who established a protocol for the treatment of HIV/AIDs. He received the 2000 Philadelphia Hero Award for his contributions in support of AIDs survivors.
Links:
- Paul’s website
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Wednesday, September 23, 2020
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"Differently Abled" - The Sara Minkara Story
Don’t think of Sara Minkara as a disabled person. Think of her as “differently-abled.”
Social activist, speaker, and a winner of multiple awards, the founder of the advocacy organization Empowerment for Integration (ETI) has never let used her absence of vision of an excuse or crutch. The slew of honors she’s achieved are evidence of her accomplishments. Her awards and fellowships include the Clinton Global Initiative Outstanding Commitment Award, Forbes “30 Under 30” and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology IDEAS Global Challenge Award.
When Sara lost her sight at age seven, her mother had two options. “She has one option of wallowing in our misery and really feeling bad for herself and her kids…But she took the other path and the path of,believing in God’s will and saying there is a purpose behind this. "She said ‘I’m not going to listen to the outside world of what the world thinks about disability… I’m going to just focus on home and make sure our kids go to school and live a very much – I’m not gonna say 'normal life’ – but a full life, an integrated life and mainstream life.”
As she relates in this podcast, Minkara never set out to become a full-time advocate. “I was a math and econ major. I’m an introvert. So I had a plan of doing a PhD.” But as a sophomore at Wesleyan College, she applied for a grant from the Clinton Foundation to run an inclusive summer camp in Tripoli, Lebanon, the home of her parents. “It turned out to be impactful not only for the kids, not only for the parents in the community, but for myself, she said.
In this podcast, Minkara describes the set of circumstances that caused her to found ETI, , how people stigmatize blind people, and how anyone can be an advocate for disabled people.
Links:
- Empowerment through Integration
- ETI’s Ambassadors of Inclusion program
- Sara Minkara’s site
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Wednesday, August 12, 2020
"Touching the Jaguar"
Author, activist and renegade economist John Perkins traces his journey from Peace Corps volunteer to co-founding the Pachamama Alliance, a non-profit devoted to establishing a world future generations will want to inherit.
Best known for his best-selling book, Confessions of an Economic Hitman, Perkins describes how his life was irrevocably changed when a Shuar shaman in the Amazon jungle healed his life-threatening fever. “He healed me by helping me change my perception…and he demanded as payment for having healed me that I become his apprentice.”
Having graduated from business school before joining the Peace Corps, Perkins didn’t see a future in becoming a shaman. So instead, he became an economist and, eventually, chief economist of a major consulting company.
His job was to “identify countries that had resources our corporations coveted… and then convince that country that it should accept huge loans from the World Bank or other organizations” to pay for costly infrastructure projects.
It took him awhile, but eventually it dawned on him that the game was rigged.
The result of the countries taking out loans was not “increasing the prosperity of the people…(but) increasing the prosperity of the rich families in the country, as well as our corporations. But in fact, the people were suffering because money was diverted from health education and other social services to pay the interest on the loans.”
In this podcast, Perkins describes the common denominator of what he learned from his first shaman teacher and his work as an economist: that perceptions shape reality. Where once a shaman helped shift his view of the conditions he found threatening as a young Peace Corps volunteer, he later was also able to use data to persuade heads of countries to borrow large sums of money to pay for infrastructure projects.
The shaman he worked with taught him about the process he calls “touching the Jaguar,” the key to shifting perceptions and the title of his new book.
“‘Touching the Jaguar’ means that we identify the things that are holding us back: our barriers, our fears…When we touch that Jaguar, we receive energy from the Jaguar or wisdom or creativity that allows us to change our perception. And when we change our perception, we then can take new actions that change reality.”
That desire to positively shift perceptions is part of the origin story of the Pachamama Alliance, which Perkins, Bill and Lynn Twist founded in 1995.
The three and a team of others had traveled to the rain forest at the invitation of the Achuar, an indigenous Amazonian community.
“They came to me and asked me, 'will you help us touch the Jaguar? Help us reach out and join forces with the people we most fear – you and your people. Help us create a partnership and alliance with the people we most fear so that we can help you change your dream, and we can all work together to change the this terribly destructive dream of the modern world that’s creating a death economy.”
In this podcast, Perkins explains what he means by “the death economy.” He also gives a simple five-part series of questions that anyone can ask themselves to help them more easily get in touch with and actualize their purpose.
Perkins’ latest book is Touching the Jaguar: Transforming Fear Into Action To Change Your Life And The World.
Links:
- John Perkin’s site
- Pachamama Alliance
- Pachamama Alliance Global Commons (open community site)
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- Sacred Inclusion Network's YouTube Channel
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Friday, June 19, 2020
On Mask-Wearing and Masculinity
In thinking about Wendy William’s Saturday session on Embracing the Divine Masculine, I’ve been reflecting on its opposite: toxic masculinity. How, I’m curious to know, does toxic masculinity manifest during this pandemic moment?
Some men, opines Jessica Valenti in a recent piece in Medium, equate mask-wearing as somehow appearing weak, i.e. not masculine. It’s interesting that three of the worst-hit countries in this pandemic are also afflicted with heads of state preoccupied with meeting the terms of machismo—Bolsanaro, Putin, and Trump, all of whom disdain the wearing of masks. “Appearing to play it safe contradicts a core principle of masculinity: show no weakness,” said Peter Glick, in a recent article in the Guardian. Glick is a scientist who has co-authored research on how so-called “masculinity contest culture” poisons work environments. Bolsanaro, Putin, and Trump are leaders who have built brands as strongmen offering maverick solutions, and want to be seen as recovery presidents sweeping the illness aside, even if the virus has other ideas. So what is the Divine Masculine? Here’s a description of this quality by Isabela, the proprietor of the Sacred Light Alchemy. “This is the energy that unites the world in love, peace, and personal authority, allowing all beings and all things to have a seat at the round table of oneness. It is the man that gives his coat for a person in need, it is the care of a woman for a relative or a neighbor." On the other hand, toxic masculinity, Williams says below, is rooted in fear, which in term results in controlling behavior.We’ll explore the nature of what she calls Divine Masculinity and Divine Femininity in some detail during Saturday’s 11am ET online community exploration, the details of which are here.
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Friday, June 12, 2020
Embracing the Divine Masculine
As someone who’s been involved in what-Wikipedia-calls the mythopoetic men’s movement for a number of years, I’ll admit I was initially taken aback to hear a woman talk about many of the same themes I’ve repeatedly heard “woke” men talk about .
But I quickly realized that Wendy C. Williams, the guest host of the upcoming Embracing the Divine Masculine upcoming event, approaches male issues from a different perspective than I’d heard before. The online community exploration will be held on June 20th at 11 am ET.
In a video podcast interview I recorded with her recently, she expanded on her view that men are as much victims of toxic masculinity as women.
“As a society, we’ve put men in a box that says in order to be masculine, you have about four acceptable emotional states,” she said.“It is highly acceptable for you to be angry. It is acceptable for you to be neutral and not positive. It is acceptable for you to be happy for short periods of time and for really good reasons. And it’s acceptable for you to be sad for very short periods of time, and only for very good reasons. "Other than that, you’re not allowed to express yourself and if you do, you are then called derogatory terms related to the feminine by both men and women.”
She also believes that both men and women have a role in helping each other evolve towards embodying mature and divine aspects of masculinity and femininity. The
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Tuesday, June 09, 2020
Digital Disruptor: The Internet's Impact on Religion and Spirituality
Digital culture is transforming religious practice in multiple ways, says Texas A&M Professor of Communication Heidi A. Campbell.
“Scholars of religion are finding that people practice ‘lived religion.’ They may say, 'I’m Jewish’ or 'I’m Christian,” but they draw on multiple sources to define what they mean. Religion is more personalized in a digital age,“ Campbell says.
How people define religious authority is also changing. Although pastors, imams and rabbis hold authority in their traditions because of of their theological knowledge, a new type of "algorithmic authority” has emerged, Campbell says.
“Involvement online builds this kind of authority… It’s the number of 'likes’ you have on your posts, it’s the number of followers you have or how many people link to your content. All of this gives a sense of authority and validity…that’s gained not from religious knowledge, but technological fluency,” she says.
The internet, Campbell says, “allows people to create their own tribe."
Although people may have roots in a traditional congregation, they can explore their particular interests in an online global community. "There can find online global connections that kind of feed their souls, whereas they couldn’t do this before” in pre-internet days.
A major contributor to the study of digital religion, Campbell is the author of Networked Theology: Negotiating Faith in Digital Culture. She is the Founding Director of the Network for New Media, Religion and Digital Culture Studies. She is currently studying the phenomena of internet memes and how these memes shape religions perceptions.
Links:
- Campbell’s Wikipedia page
- The Internet challenges and empowers religious institutions (article)
- Network for New Media, Religion and Digital Culture Studies
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Friday, May 29, 2020
Galvanizing Change in this Pandemic Moment
Most of us progressive-minded folks are members of multiple communities, be they religious, spiritual, environmental or political. What unites us are our values, the foremost of which is an innate sense of our sacred interdependence, or reverence for both the entirety of the interconnected web and all of its connected parts.
In this excerpt from the Sacred Inclusion Network’s monthly Online Community Exploration, Angelo John Lewis and David Wetton explore the possibility of harnessing our individual, and group energies for the full expression of the higher values that unite us, a project that assumes greater urgency in moments of crisis, such as this pandemic moment. They also explore how to inspire and galvanize a deeper sense of these higher values in both ourselves and our multiple communities. And how attuning to these higher values activates the power of the Network of Light.
David Wetton helps Conscious Leaders grow themselves and develop Purpose-Led High Performing Leadership Teams through 1:1 Coaching & Tailored Leadership Programmes. He runs a Leadership Legacy Programme™ to help senior executives and their leadership teams define and deliver their legacy to the world. He’s an ordained UK interfaith minister and spiritual counselor; which means that he’s committed to holding a safe, heartfelt compassionate space for all those he coaches.
Angelo John Lewis is the Director of the Sacred Inclusion Network and the originator of Sacred Conversations and the Dialogue Circle Method. He is also the author of Notes for a New Age, and a coach and consultant who has designed, developed and conducted group problem solving, team and community building interventions for clients that include AT&T, Verizon, ACNielsen, and a branch of the U.S. Department of Commerce.
Links:
- About David Wetton
- Richard D. Barlett’s Microsolidarity Proposal
- World Summit Movement
- Sacred Inclusion Network
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Saturday, May 16, 2020
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Monday, May 11, 2020
Let’s Activate the Network of Light (Corrected Date!)
Many of us who identify with progressive values belong to multiple networks, be they fraternal, environmental, political or spiritual.
But sometimes, the people and organizations within these networks work at cross-purposes. Turf issues, differences in philosophy, the sense that one group’s cause is more important than others can be sources of conflict.
It’s only during rare times when opportunities arise that challenge us to focus more on what unites us and less on what sets us apart.It could be that this pandemic moment presents that opportunity. It gives us the option to unite around universal values and galvanize our energies for the higher good.
The Sacred Inclusion Network invites you Saturday to explore how to seize this opportunity. We’ll explore how to inspire and galvanize a deeper sense of these higher values in both ourselves and our multiple communities.
About the Facilitators:
David Wetton helps Conscious Leaders grow themselves and develop Purpose-Led High Performing Leadership Teams through 1:1 Coaching & Tailored Leadership Programmes. He runs a Leadership Legacy Programme™ to help senior executives and their leadership teams define and deliver their legacy to the world. . He’s an ordained UK interfaith minister and spiritual counsellor; which means that he’s committed to holding a safe, heartfelt compassionate space for all those he coaches.
Angelo John Lewis is the Director of the Sacred Inclusion Network whose experience include a season in a Japanese dojo as a student of the healing arts, and mentorship with a Chinese Tantric Buddhist Master. Angelo is also the originator of Sacred Conversations and the Dialogue Circle Method. He is the author of Notes for a New Age, and a coach and consultant who has designed, developed and conducted group problem solving, team and community building interventions for clients that include AT&T, Verizon, ACNielsen, and a branch of the U.S. Department of Commerce.
Logistics and How to Participate:
When: Saturday, May 16 at 11 am (check your time zone here)Preregister (preferred!) : For priority access, send us an email with “Register” on the subject line to info@divspirit.com OR
Show up “at the door” and join us online: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/293138919Meeting ID: 293 138 919 (Important: Zoom may require you to use meeting ID this because of recent security concerns)
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How to Solve World Problems By Working Together (Corrected Date!)
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Let’s Activate the Network of Light
Many of us who identify with progressive values belong to multiple networks, be they fraternal, environmental, political or spiritual. But sometimes, the people and organizations within these networks work at cross-purposes. Turf issues, differences in philosophy, the sense that one group’s cause is more important than others can be sources of conflict. It’s only during rare times when opportunities arise that challenge us to focus more on what unites us and less on what sets us apart. It could be that this pandemic moment presents that opportunity. It gives us the option to unite around universal values and galvanize our energies for the higher good. The Sacred Inclusion Network invites you Saturday to explore how to seize this opportunity. We’ll explore how to inspire and galvanize a deeper sense of these higher values in both ourselves and our multiple communities.
About the Facilitators:
David Wetton helps Conscious Leaders grow themselves and develop Purpose-Led High Performing Leadership Teams through 1:1 Coaching & Tailored Leadership Programmes. He runs a Leadership Legacy Programme™ to help senior executives and their leadership teams define and deliver their legacy to the world. . He’s an ordained UK interfaith minister and spiritual counsellor; which means that he’s committed to holding a safe, heartfelt compassionate space for all those he coaches.
Angelo John Lewis is the Director of the Sacred Inclusion Network whose experience include a season in a Japanese dojo as a student of the healing arts, and mentorship with a Chinese Tantric Buddhist Master. Angelo is also the originator of Sacred Conversations and the Dialogue Circle Method. He is the author of Notes for a New Age, and a coach and consultant who has designed, developed and conducted group problem solving, team and community building interventions for clients that include AT&T, Verizon, ACNielsen, and a branch of the U.S. Department of Commerce.
Logistics and How to Participate:
When: Saturday, March at 11 am (check your time zone here)Preregister (preferred!) : For priority access, send us an email with “Register” on the subject line to info@divspirit.com OR
Show up “at the door” and join us online: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/293138919 Meeting ID: 293 138 919 (Important: Zoom may require you to use meeting ID this because of recent security concerns)
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Monday, May 04, 2020
Am I the Only One Who Thinks This Way?
I’ve expressed the thought previously that this pandemic moment presents a unique opportunity.In the midst of this shock that reverberates worldwide, I have the sense that nature is trying to tell us that the way we’ve been living is unsustainable. That we have to do better, both individually and collectively. I think the individual piece starts with coming into the awareness that we each of us has a unique role to play in shifting the paradigm. When enough of do this, we’ll form critical mass. My intent with these Sacred Conversations I’m facilitating this week is to help you claim that mantle of leadership. Each of these will involve no more than six of us and take place during one of four times. Collectively, I and my colleague Willem O'Reilly have been facilitating dialogues like these for more than 20 years. As I write, there are still a few slots available should you feel called to participate (check your time zone here). * Wednesday, May 6, 1 PM ET * Wednesday, May 6, 9 PM ET * Friday, May 8, 8:30 PM ET * Sunday, May 10, 11 AM ET If you’d like to be one of a group of six, register here and let me know which of these times work for you. Please choose at least two options, a preferred and a secondary one.Here’s to the hope that one way or other, you’re finding a way to make this pandemic moment work for you. Angelo Sacred Inclusion Network
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Thursday, April 30, 2020
Jello’s first made flourless banana bread. Shelter in place!
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Saturday, April 25, 2020
We’re all refugees. Let’s slowly and intentionally move towards a borderless world.
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Monday, April 20, 2020
Thursday, April 16, 2020
Quick Reminder: "Reframe Fear Exploration" Saturday: https://bit.ly/reframefear
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Friday, April 10, 2020
Next Saturday: Learn to Reframe Fear: bit.ly/reframefear
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Thursday, April 09, 2020
Interrupting Fear: Reframing Our Stories
Interrupting Fear: Reframing Our Stories
with Niambi Jaha-Echols:
April 18, 8 am PT/ 11 am ET/ 5 PM CET or check your timezone
Across the globe, we are experiencing a massive paradigm shift as Covic 19 moves through the planet like a hurricane – disrupting every sense of normalcy we know. Now more than ever we are in need of a new narrative to counterbalance our fears. How can we stay in a place of peace when the world as we know it is rapidly changing?
As a hurricane, we are taking shelter – waiting for the moment we can come out and access the damage. Meanwhile, as we find ourselves caught up in the chaos with fee and lings of fear, unrest and uncertainty, join us as we move ourselves and our attention to the eye of the storm. In the eye, it is calm because the surface winds that surface towards the center never reach it. In the eye, we have the opportunity to recalibrate, reset, and re-imagine a new normal as we wait.
Join us virtually as we Interrupt Fear and Reframe Our Stories. sharing 10 Steps You Can Take to move towards the eye of peace in this pandemic.
About the Facilitator:
Cultural Agility Strategist Niambi Jaha-Echols is the Principal and Lead Consultant for Cross-Cultural Agility, LLC where she trains, coaches and consults individuals and corporations on issues supporting cultural intelligence and new pathways to inclusion.
She is the Founder of The Butterfly Movement, where she utilizes the symbolism of the caterpillar/butterfly metamorphosis to foster emotional and spiritual transformation in women and girls, and the author of What Color is Your Soul and Project Butterfly, Inspiring The Souls of Our Girls, Her work has been featured in Essence and Ebony Magazines, MSN.com and Oprah’s Angel Network for her work with teen girls.
How to Participate:
Preregister: Send us a blank email for priority access OR
Show up “at the door”: It takes place on the Zoom platform. Follow the instructions below:
> Join us online: https://zoom.us/j/293138919 Or iPhone one-tap :US: +16699006833,,293138919# or +16465588656,,293138919# Or Telephone:Dial(for higher quality, dial a number based on your current location): US: +1 669 900 6833 or +1 646 558 8656 Meeting ID: 293 138 919International numbers available: https://zoom.us/u/apPbvogYK
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Interrupting Fear: Reframing Our Stories
Interrupting Fear: Reframing Our Stories
with Niambi Jaha-Echols:
April 21, 8 am PT/ 11 am ET/ 5 PM CET or check your timezone
Across the globe, we are experiencing a massive paradigm shift as Covic 19 moves through the planet like a hurricane – disrupting every sense of normalcy we know. Now more than ever we are in need of a new narrative to counterbalance our fears. How can we stay in a place of peace when the world as we know it is rapidly changing?
As a hurricane, we are taking shelter – waiting for the moment we can come out and access the damage. Meanwhile, as we find ourselves caught up in the chaos with fee and lings of fear, unrest and uncertainty, join us as we move ourselves and our attention to the eye of the storm. In the eye, it is calm because the surface winds that surface towards the center never reach it. In the eye, we have the opportunity to recalibrate, reset, and re-imagine a new normal as we wait.
Join us virtually as we Interrupt Fear and Reframe Our Stories. sharing 10 Steps You Can Take to move towards the eye of peace in this pandemic.
About the Facilitator:
Cultural Agility Strategist Niambi Jaha-Echols is the Principal and Lead Consultant for Cross-Cultural Agility, LLC where she trains, coaches and consults individuals and corporations on issues supporting cultural intelligence and new pathways to inclusion.
She is the Founder of The Butterfly Movement, where she utilizes the symbolism of the caterpillar/butterfly metamorphosis to foster emotional and spiritual transformation in women and girls, and the author of What Color is Your Soul and Project Butterfly, Inspiring The Souls of Our Girls, Her work has been featured in Essence and Ebony Magazines, MSN.com and Oprah’s Angel Network for her work with teen girls.
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Friday, March 27, 2020
Lucid Dreaming as a Pathway to the Divine
Ryan Hurd’s first experiences with lucid dreaming – the experience of being awake while dreaming – were the nightmares he experienced as a child. After watching the 1982 film Poltergeist, he’d have these repetitive dreams of tentacled monsters escaping from his television set and coming after him.
Eventually, he learned to confront these monsters and tell them they weren’t real, causing them to sink back into the television set and go away.
These early nightmares were a precursor to Hurd’s lifelong fascination with dreams. He’s since studied and written about the phenomena of nightmares, how to experience lucid dreams, and how dreams can be portals to the expansion of consciousness.
In this podcast, Hurd describes his early training as a field archaeologist and his ventures into dream archaeology; how he’s used dream incubation to gain insight into issues affecting his waking life, and his experience with dream mentors.
“Part of this (the study of dreams) is realizing that in waking life we’re not always as lucid as we think we are. It’s waking up to the dream of waking life as well, and just appreciating the ups and downs of consciousness throughout our day,” Hurd says.
In addition to describing his own experience, Hurd explains how anyone can begin the process of working with their dreams, his studies on the impact of galantamine paired with meditation and dream reliving on subsequent dreams, and how dreams can be portals for expanding consciousness.
Hurd is the editor of DreamStudies.org, and the author or co-author of several books on dreams. He’s an adjunct lecturer at John F. Kennedy University. is currently serving as Director of Spiritual Development at Unitarian Society of Germantown in Philadelphia, PA.
Links:
- Hurd’s Dream Studies Portal
- His book: Lucid Immersion Guidebook: A Holistic Blueprint For Lucid Dreaming
- The Committee of Sleep: Book that describes how artists, scientists and others use dreams for creative problem solving
- The Sacred Inclusion Network's site
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Friday, March 20, 2020
[Last Call] Rituals for Resilience Saturday: https://bit.ly/2xcQVhA
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Wednesday, March 18, 2020
Tuesday, March 17, 2020
Monday, March 16, 2020
Healing Toxic Masculinity
Men who exhibit toxic “Me Two” behavior are not just predators, but victims, says leadership coach and spiritual teacher Wendy C. Williams.
They are victims that unconsciously act out society’s unacknowledged expectations for their gender. Because of these unspoken norms, they subjugate both women and the female aspect of themselves. They simply haven’t learned to express emotions in appropriate ways, she says.
“As a society, we’ve put men in a box that says that in order to be masculine, you have four acceptable emotional states: angry, neutral, happy (for short periods of time and for good reasons), and sad (for short periods of time and for good reasons). Men are not allowed to otherwise express themselves, and if they do,” they’re vilified.
“The fact that woman are not safe in society is related to this topic. What I see happening in society is that there is an unspoken societal norm that says that certain bad behavior by men should not be talked about, acknowledged or punished. That’s why the Me Too movement is so radical and polarizing.”
In this podcast, Williams shares how taking an inventory of her own relationships with men broadened her understanding of the difference between what she calls Divine Masculinity and Toxic Masculinity.
She shares her belief that this is a “humanity problem,” and not just a male one.
“Work needs to be done by both men and women. Women need to be stronger and step out of the victim role.” They also “need to stop supporting ridiculous social norms for men that are both inappropriate and harmful.”
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Links:
- this interview on YouTube
- Wendy C. William’s site
- The Sacred Inclusion Network’s site
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Friday, February 14, 2020
Sound, Healing and Spirit
Musician Jonathan Adams eight years ago was suddenly stricken with a crippling form of depression and anxiety. It was then he discovered a new way of experiencing music and sound. Instead of using these tools to entertain others, he used them instead to calm himself down. Over time, he realized that music and sound could became a gateway of transformation and a means for expanding consciousness.
For the past several years, Adams has become less of a performer and more of teacher and sound therapist. His passion these days is helping others use sound and music for healing and spiritual upliftment.
In this podcast, Adams (aka, The Sonic Yogi) shares his origin story, the concept of brain wave entrainment, and how sound and music are used in religious and spiritual traditions. “Nearly every culture and many if not all of religious traditions use some sort of sound” as a way to transform consciousness,“ he says.
"The first form of brain wave entrainment was drumming. Indigenous cultures around the world have used drumming as a ceremonial act to get the brain to a different place.”
In addition to explaining how sound and music affect the brain, Adams here shares an original composition, improvises with drum and Tibetan bells, and explains how certain frequencies stimulate the focal points in the subtle body or chakras.
Adams started his career as a professional musician, recording albums for classical guitar with albums for Pamplin, Intersound Records and his own label.
As the Sonic Yogi, he’s put his focus into the exploration of the healing potential of music, and has given talks and workshops on sound therapy at Tedx, national spiritual living conferences and elsewhere. His vibrational sound therapy tracks can be streamed on Spotify, Pandora, SoundCloud, Youtube and the Insight Timer app.
Links:
- The Sonic Yogi website
- Adams on YouTube
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Sunday, February 09, 2020
Thursday, January 30, 2020
Indigenous Spirituality, New Age Spirituality
Is there anything in common between how indigenous people experience of esoteric, spiritual phenomena and the contemporary New Agers who presume to be their heirs?
If anyone is qualified to begin to answer this question it’s Michael F. Brown, a cultural anthropologist who’s done a deep dive into both of these worlds.
Back in the mid-1970s, Brown spent a year living with the Awajún also known as the Aguaruna),an indigenous people of the Peruvian jungle, whose ancestors had a reputation as fearsome headhunters and whose cosmology includes beliefs in shamanism and sorcery.
Peru’s Shining Path insurgency in the 1980s forced Brown to refocus his work elsewhere, to the study of the New Age phenomena of channeling, which was peaking around this time. Just as he immersed himself among the Awajún, Brown spent a season with the channels, their clients and audience. He documented what he discovered in his aptly titled book, The Channeling Zone: American Spirituality in an Anxious Age.
In this wide-ranging conversation, Brown discusses his fieldwork in both of these milieu; sorcery and shamanism among the Awajún, cultural appropriation; and the work of the School for Advanced Research (SAR). where he’s been president since 2014.
SAR advances creative thought and innovative work in the social sciences, humanities, and Native American arts.
Links:
- Michael F. Brown’s blog and Upriver site
- School for Advanced Research
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Friday, January 17, 2020
Talking Across Differences (free Saturday online event): http://bit.ly/talkdiff
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Wednesday, January 15, 2020
Talking Across Difference
When I confessed to Jim Brown that I routinely block the loudest political voices from my Facebook stream, he told me that my approach was misguided and that I should engage them instead.Brown, who facilitates our Saturday Online Community Exploration, is one of a growing number of bridge-builders who thinks it’s high time, as the title of his book opines, to end our uncivil war. He’ll share how he came to this point of view, how he manages the minefield of social media, and strategies to bridge the them-versus-us divide.It’s an undisputed fact that there’s a higher degree of polarization than ever before. Differences in Ideology, race, and religion mean that many people live in “look-like-me” or “think-like me” silos: crossing divides only when forced to do so. This polarization exists not just in the United States but across the globe, from Jair Bolsonaro’s Brazil to Boris Johnson’s United Kingdom to Recept Tayyip Erdogan’s Turkey. Jim Brown and a growing numbers of individuals and organizations are working to reverse this trend. Groups like Better Angels bring people together across partisan divides, while AllSides seeks to cover news from all sides of the political spectrum.In our podcast interview, Brown talks about the four strategies he favors to bridge them-versus us divides: service commitment, spiritual renewal, scholastic independence and systematic government reform. This Saturday, we’ll focus on the first two strategies plus practice how to depolarize potentially polarized situations. I hope you’ll join us.You can learn more about Brown by going to his website.Here’s how to participate this Saturday.When: Saturday, January 18, 11 AM EST. Check your timezone here.Where: Online, see belowHow to Participate:
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Show up “at the door” by joining us online: https://zoom.us/j/293138919 at exploration time or Or iPhone one-tap :
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Friday, January 10, 2020
Wednesday, January 08, 2020
Improvisation and Spirituality: Beginnings
Back in 2013, Ted DesMaisons assembled a group of improvisors at a San Francisco Zen monastery to explore the many connections between spirituality and improvisation. Before long there was a worldwide group of people who were tracing the same pathways that DesMaisons and his colleagues explored during that Bay area event.Many were part of the improvisation community, and included people who saw improvisation as a practice that transcended its theatrical roots. And some were part of what Time magazine’s January 2014 cover story dubbed the “mindfulness revolution,” and were using mindfulness to help them rewire and channel their emotions.As this post points out, there are several points of intersection between mindfulness practice and improvisation: Perhaps the most obvious is their joint emphasis on being present, or in the moment. Another is the importance of embracing uncertainty and observing what’s present without trying to change it.Other points of intersection, which I think are more apparent in improvisation than in conventional solo mindfulness practice, are interdependence, and the spirit of Lila or divine play. In my podcast interview with DesMaisons last year, we explored the idea that improvisation was not merely a way to enhance meditation practice but a way of enhancing our ability to live life to the fullest. This spring, in scenic Sonoma County, we’ll give participants a number of ways to do just that, drawing from the traditions of contemplative practice and improvisational theater. If you register for our event before January 15th, you’ll receive a 15% discount by selecting Early Bird on checkout.We’ll also send you a signed copy of Ted’s new book, Playful Mindfulness. Plus, if you live in the Bay area, and recruit two or more workshop participants to do this with you, one of us one of us will come to your home or site to facilitate a post-conference integration event. The residential workshop will be held at Bishop’s Ranch, a lovely retreat and conference center nestled in a spot amidst the lush valleys, redwood forests, organic farms and world-class vineyards of Sonoma County, about 85 miles north of San Francisco.Workshop tuition includes lodging and meals, Some of the food served will be grown on the ranch property itself, and may include recipes featured in Bishop’s Ranch’s cookbook, The Abundant Table.You can find more information by going to our event site. Here’s hoping to see you in northern California in Spring.
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Sunday, January 05, 2020
A Transgender Journey
Growing up in a traditional southern church, Christina King quickly learned that she wasn’t accepted. That’s because her church saw her and people like her as anathema: living embodiments of sin. King at an early age knew that she was a transgender woman.
But to verbalize how she felt about herself wouldn’t have been received kindly by her conservative Lutheran Missouri Synod congregation. Their attitudes were informed by the so-called “clobber passages,” verses some use to justify the belief that any deviance from heterosexual norms is sinful.
King spent much of her youth estranged from the church. She came to a place, she said, “where she had to be herself or kill herself.” That separation was painful because even though she felt ostracized, a part of her missed the congregation’s sense of community.
Her estrangement ended because of the influence of a pastor at the First Lutheran Church of Galesburg, Illinois, the city she moved to after growing up in the south. This pastor accepted Christina for who she was, but also encouraged her to reach out to others who because of their LGBTQ+ orientation had felt victimized by the church.
King did so and shortly after the 2016 presidential election started a group called Safe Space. The group has been meeting regularly since then.
In this podcast, King shares her evolution as a transgender woman, common misconceptions people have about trans people, and how a life of prayer helps her stay upbeat in a challenging political climate.
King last year was named Miss Trans Illinois.
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