The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Tell Us Is Possible
A process of Separation thousands of years old is culminating in our time, generating a convergence of crises that will propel humanity into a new age. These crises, the birthpangs of Gaia, call us as a species and as individuals to a revolution in human beingness.
This seminar is about how to join that revolution in yourself, in your life, and in the world we share. More specifically, the seminar will...
Solidify in you an unshakable knowing that a world is possible far more beautiful than what we have created today. Because, surrounded by a sea of normal-seeming faces and routines, we start to think we must be crazy to believe that our civilization is deeply, fundamentally flawed, or that life is not meant to be this way. We dismiss our yearning for a more perfect world as idealism. We dismiss our yearning for a more beautiful and passionate life as impractical.
Illuminate the forces that conspire to keep us small. We will observe how they operate, and in so doing rob them of their power to enslave us. Because only a broken spirit will submit to the "normal" lives offered us and the world that contains those lives. This seminar outlines the process of spirit-breaking and, in so doing, illuminates a path toward the mending of the spirit.
Provide a compelling alternative to the despair so common among people who understand the true dimensions of the crises facing us. All of them—the environmental crisis, the energy crisis, the health crisis, the water crisis, the educational crisis, the political crisis—are quite real, and every bit as desperate as the worst doomsayers tell us. Truly it will take a miracle to save us. This seminar, therefore, is about the creation of miracles on the individual and collective level.
Tell the story of the "Age of Separation" that has created the world we know today. Knowing this story and seeing how it operates as ideology, deep links among many social phenomena will become clear—including links to our own lives, and the alienation, loneliness, apathy, and powerlessness we so commonly experience. We will see as well why so many efforts at change actually produce more of the same, revealing the necessity of an alternative to "trying harder".
Tell the story of a future "Age of Reunion" that will give coherence to our actions dedicated to birthing a more beautiful world. The technologies of reunion, spanning the healing arts, music, drama, and other artforms, green design, and many other technologies of relationship, matter and energy, are all part of a vast phase-transition that springs from the gathering transformation of the human sense of self. This seminar will lay out a broad context to embed and empower the work that calls you.
Offer a context for a new "story of self" that liberates our potential as divine creative beings. Many of the prescriptions for meeting the crises of our times are so patently futile that they actually contribute to the despair. You recycle your beer bottles, turn down your thermostat and switch to green brands, one consumer among billions, as the juggernaut of destruction rolls on. Your creative power is far greater than to be a better consumer! This seminar will inspire a way of life that gives a genuine ongoing experience-feeling of being an effective and powerful creator of a more beautiful world.
Is this a seminar on spirituality? If you consider the spiritual to be a separate realm from the material, then no. If you believe that every act, every word, and every situation we encounter is itself a spiritual event, then yes. This seminar is about the world we live in, and the world as it can be. It is about our fleshly, material lives, and it is about what our lives can be. Even if we use some of the technologies often considered spiritual, they are an expansion of, and not a diversion from, our material lives.