Thinking about the flow of a day of spiritual work and instruction. Instruction – experience – engagement – embodying Instruction: a lesson, reading, or sermon. (Medicine wheel language) Black to white, autumn to winter. Chaos. Experience: process, guided meditation. White to yellow, winter to spring. Light. Engaging oneself: group work, council, circle. Yellow to red, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘spiritual retreat’
A four part harmony
Posted in Flashes, Workshops, plans, themes, tagged council, medicine wheel, process, retreat, sermon, spiritual growth, spiritual retreat on July 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The silence must be heard
Posted in Spiritual Reality Center, tagged silence, spiritual retreat on June 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Philadelphia. There is a lot of noise outside. Tools, lawnmowers, cars, plane, sirens. Lots of constant background noise. I have had to get used to that, coming from Europe. Not that it’s quiet in Europe. In the Spiritual Reality Center all maintenance work will be done without power tools. The silence must be heard. For [...]
Jade Tower
Posted in Spiritual Reality Center, tagged Dar Williams, Roger Dean, spiritual retreat on April 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“I saw the fields beyond the fields.” (Dar Williams – The End of the Summer) Something is changing, has changed. The sweet and bitter truth of life. “The same things look different, when you move to another place” (Dar Williams). I am right now in “a relaxed state of expectation and trust” (Abraham). I stand [...]
Practicing the presence of God
Posted in Spiritual Reality Center, tagged attraction, God, presence, spiritual retreat on August 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“The key is in practicing the presence of God.” (Susan L. Howard) What a phrase! That would be an exhilarating theme for a retreat. Focusing first on “the spiritual presence we want to be.” Do we need to ask, now, how to do this? No, not really. Looks different for each person anyway. One of [...]
Vision questing coming up
Posted in Spiritual Reality Center, tagged Anasazi, mystery, spiritual growth, spiritual retreat, The Sacred on August 24, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I have signed up for 12-day Mid Winter Fast vision quest in February 2011. Organized by the School of Lost Borders. Takes place in Death Valley, California. Gives whole new meaning to “the old man must die.” Why a vision quest? One answer, because this may be my last chance at doing one, at least [...]
The Rainmaker Story
Posted in Spiritual Reality Center, tagged attraction, spiritual retreat, tao, Truth on August 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
If my sources are right the following story appears in one of Carl Jung’s books. It is amazing and simple. There is a lesson in it that we already know, and a lesson that we just cannot yet grasp. There was a great drought; for months there had not been a drop of rain and [...]
Falling down from perception
Posted in Spiritual Reality Center, tagged Laurel, Lord, spiritual growth, spiritual retreat, The Secret on August 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Once upon a time the human race “talked to the Lord and to angels” (AC 125). At a spiritual retreat camp, like Laurel, something of this celestial state of affairs is re-instated. Very subtly, but very real. It is said that people once “received perception from the Lord continually” (AC 125). There is an openness [...]
Process and inner change
Posted in Spiritual Reality Center, tagged attraction, spiritual growth, spiritual retreat, The Secret on June 29, 2010 | 2 Comments »
“Outer reforms are useless if the inner state is not changed.” (Neville – Awakened Imagination) A personal fitness trainer works hard to introduce new outer forms. Jogging, push-ups, etc. And they work as long as they are being enacted. But as long as the inner state of the person is not at the same time [...]
Perception
Posted in Flashes, tagged God, presence, spiritual retreat on May 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Lifting of my spirit, opening of my heart, here I stand, I am not hiding. God is in this place. My mind a still lake. .
Filling out the vision (part two)
Posted in Spiritual Reality Center, tagged spiritual retreat, The Secret on January 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Continuation of vision sheet #1. Atmosphere: every part of the Spiritual Reality Center is maintained at an atmospheric level. This is not talking about cleanliness and tidiness. There is a sense of containment, inside the buildings as well as outside. The silence is thick in the air. People using the place are aware and sensitive [...]
Retreats and Seminars
Posted in Spiritual Reality Center, tagged spiritual retreat on December 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Events at the Spiritual Retreat Center. SWET 1: Spiritual Warfare Effectiveness Training – initiation SWET 2: Spiritual Warfare Effectiveness Training – awareness SWET 3: Spiritual Warfare Effectiveness Training – vision quest SWET 4, 5, 6, 7: to be developed SWET for Women: initiation SWET for New Church ministers: initiation Stillness Seminar: groups and talks along [...]
Filling out the vision (part one)
Posted in Spiritual Reality Center, tagged attraction, spiritual retreat on December 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This page will be a list of ideas, plans and envisioned details for the project called the Spiritual Reality Center. The list is not ordered. These notes are bricks in the vision process. This project is currently on the path of manifestation. The time line is not a concern, since it is in the hands [...]
Mission statement
Posted in Spiritual Reality Center, tagged Mission statement, spiritual retreat on December 23, 2009 | 2 Comments »
A Men’s group Mission Statement process yielded for me: My mission is to create a world in which people are in touch with their spiritual reality, tangibly, every day. (Stephen Muires) Shadow mission: I carry negativity around with me. This blocks any spiritual presence being real. Mission restatement, also valid: My mission is to create [...]
Vision
Posted in Spiritual Reality Center, tagged spiritual retreat on November 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I have a vision of creating a spiritual retreat. It would be located somewhere in the world where silence can still be heard. Where a flute would echo. The retreat center would comprise land, buildings, maybe a lake or river, maybe a mountain. It would have specially designed rooms for different kinds of work or [...]
