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Sep 28 – Sep 30 2018 Omega Institute Rhinebeck, NY What’s Next? Reviewing & Revisioning Your Life With Sam Keen and Patricia De...
more infoSam Keen, Patricia De Jong & Michael Murphy at Esalen–Not to be Missed!
This is a rare opportunity and we hope you will join us! https://www.esalen.org/person/sam-keen WORKSHOP DETAILS The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see. — Winston Churchill Every decade brings new challenges, goals, pleasures, and horizons. Surprisingly, the essence of what we may become, the voice of our future, is already resonating in us. We invite you to explore some novel ways to think about your possible futures, and listen for the echo of promises and potentials still unfulfilled. • Where are you in your journey? • Who goes with you? • What have you accomplished? • What’s old, stale, worn-out, or boring? • What hasn’t happened yet? •...
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This newly published CD Set opens a door to your Quest, your Sacred Journey, which begins the moment you entertain the great question: Where am I going? What is my life about? What do I value? What gives me a sense of purpose? What is sacred, meaningful, of ultimate concern to me? What are my deepest longings? Where am I now on my life journey? Who gave me the map I have followed thus far? Who defined success and happiness for me? Have I forgotten the adventure I once planned, the dreams that guided me? When I get bogged down, nearsighted, lost in the details of making a living, how do I find my way...
more infoBuild Your Ship of Death: For the Longest Journey Over Endless Seas
I’d like to start off with a reading: “Now it is autumn, and the falling fruit and the long journey toward oblivion. The apples falling like great drops of dew to bruise themselves and exit from themselves. And it is time to go. To bid farewell to one’s own self and find an exit from the fallen self. Have you built your ship of death? Oh, have you? Oh, build your ship of death for you will need it. We are dying! We are dying! So, all we can do is now to be willing to die and to build the ship of death to carry the soul on the longest journey. ...
more infoSacred and Profane Power
For an analysis of the relationship of sacred to profane power see the full article. Here is a...
more infoWhose Carbon Debt?
The world over there is justifiable outrage about the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. We demonize BP for careless and greedy practices that make a mockery of their claim to be leaders in developing sources of clean energy. But we are unwilling to shoulder our individual responsibility for demanding cheap oil or to take any meaningful steps toward conservation. We demand the right to consume at any cost to the environment. We hate the pushers but love the drug. With a modicum of discipline we could take individual ownership of our escalating carbon debt and eliminate most or all of the need for deep horizon oil. The plan. Require every automobile and...
more infoAbsence of G-D, Q&A
In The Absence of God: Dwelling in the Presence of the Sacred Sam Keen. Q and A. Q. You strike out with a two edged sword against both neo-atheists such as Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens, all of whose books have been on the NY Times best seller list in the past months, and the defenders of religious orthodoxy. Why? A. To begin with they are both dogmatic. “True Believers” threaten us with damnation if we don’t believe in their particular brand of “revealed Truth.” The neo-Atheists insist that all forms of monotheism, even the most liberal and progressive, are murderous, intolerant and irrational and they argue that we should all become...
more infoThe Evolution of the D/evil
The Devil’s Notebook. I have been thinking recently about the evolution of evil. How innocently it begins, how invisibly it grows. The D/evil is in the details His first trick is to encourage a sense of entitlement. I deserve it. It is my just due. Add to this a touch of envy. Memetic desire. I want it (and deserve it) because you have it. Why should Bill Gates have so much and I so little.? When my (impossible) expectations are not fulfilled I become resentful, my sympathy turns into antipathy. Resentment morphs into paranoia. I imagine that the other –my neighbor, my mate– is hostile to me, withholding, a cheating, not giving me my...
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