Forum pour une Terre en Crise 6: Semer les graines d’une écologie contemplative
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Events Calendar
November 2024
Teenage Mystics: Educating Our Saviours To Be
Children and young people often have moral clarity, creativity, courage and energy. Older people like us easily become hidebound by habits and beliefs that make necessary adaptations to our lives look quite impossible: a condition of paralysis from which we need the young to rescue us – before the end of days swallows us up. ...
The Marriage of Wisdom and Prophesy
Each tradition has its unique blend between the prophetic and the wisdom. ...
Etty Hillesum
The Dutch Jew, Etty (Edith) Hillesum (1914-1942), is an unlikely mystic. After a rather aimless youth, the pressure of the Nazi persecution of the Jews in Holland during 1940-42 moved Etty to a life of love and service for all humans, both the persecuted and even the persecutors. Her realization of the universal love of God, as reflected in her Diaries, is a remarkable witness to new forms of mysticism in the modern world. ...
December 2024
The Mystical Language of Music: Dylan, Son or Daughter of the Sea
In this talk we will visit the role of music in key periods in social history, and illuminate how often arts, music, poetry, pottery, painting and sculpture rise to the challenge of healing the incoherence of society. ...
Ethical Wisdom and Intelligence
ln this round table dialogue, Satish Kumar, for 43 years editor-in-Chief of Resurgence Magazine, along with Dr Tess Lawrie, Director of the Evidence-based Medicine Consultancy, and Inge Relph, Executive Director and co – Founder of Global Choices, will explore Ethical Intelligence and the practical implications of a new integrated intelligence. ...
John Main
The Irish-English lawyer and later monk, John Main (1926-82), developed a style of contemplative prayer that owed much to both Buddhist practices and the meditative traditions of Christianity (e.g., John Cassian, Meister Eckhart, the Cloud of Unknowing). Main wrote little during his lifetime, but his teaching on prayer and the mystical life have been enshrined in numerous posthumous works and recordings. ...
Christmas Eve Vigil
Christmas is a time of gift-giving. A gift is not just a cheap novelty, but something that brings newness, renewing our relationships and changing our way of being. Join us as we await the gift of Jesus’ birth and reflect on the mysteries of the Incarnation. ...
Christmas Day Contemplative Eucharist
Christmas is a time of gift-giving. A gift is not just a cheap novelty, but something that brings newness, renewing our relationships and changing our way of being. Join us as we await the gift of Jesus’ birth and reflect on the mysteries of the Incarnation. ...
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