Wholeness in Three Panels

Wholeness in Three Panels:
Particles that dance; stories that fire; language that inspires
Earthlinks event Wholeness in Three Panels: Process and Pilgrimage latest: Click here for photos, presentations and articles.

Guest speakers include:
David Peat, Pari Center of New Learning, holistic physicist and author;
Leroy Little Bear, Blackfoot Confederacy, educator and academic;
Basil Hiley, Birkbeck College, physicist, coauthor with David Bohm;
Nicholas Ostler, Foundation of Endagered Languages, scholar and author;
Chris Clarke, Science and Spirit, mathematician;
Philip Franses, Schumacher College, lecturer;
Henri Bortoft, philosopher and author of The Wholeness of Nature;
Emilios Bouratinos, philosopher of science and author;
(Alice Oswald, poet; /Peter Oswald, playwright

Location:
The Window, Islington, London, www.thewindow.org

Date:
23rd November 2009; 9.30 for 10.00 a.m.- 5.00pm;

Price for audience:
£45 + £10 for lunch (early bird before October 23rd); thereafter £55 + £10.00 for lunch

The day would consist of three panels of three speakers. On each panel each speaker would give a quite objective statement of his own work in a short 10 minute introduction and then a discussion amongst the panelists ( with questions from the audience) would seek to arrive together at a deeper whole intuition about the subject. After the three panels a round up would similarly draw lessons from the day.

The respective panels are on the themes of science; experience; wholeness and their relation to language.

The event is organised by Earthlinks with the collaboration of Pari Center of New Learning in the series Process and Pilgrimage supported by Schumacher College, Resurgence, Scientific and Medical Network, EnlightenNext and others

Pilgrimage source to sea

Exciting pilgrimage event 7th-12th July from the source of the Dart to the open sea, discoursing with Satish Kumar, Stephan Harding, Alice Oswald, Peter Oswald, Philip Franses (provisional list) . Click here for details

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Process and Pilgrimage 31st May London

A distinguished range of speakers Satish Kumar Chris Clarke Basil Hiley Brian Goodwin Francoise Wemelsfelder Philip Franses debate the essence of life as movement. Click here for more details.

Process and Pilgrimage latest: Click here for photos, presentations and articles.

Mythic tales of hawthorn

A Steiner School classroom is turned into a magical ancient cave

A Steiner School classroom is turned into a magical ancient cave

An enchanting thirty minute story tells how Joseph of Arimethea came to place his staff in the ground that rooted into the holy thorn whose essence we have just tasted

As the hawthorn has in the workshops turned into a character we know, so we hear of mythic tales of people turning into trees

Ancient tales illuminate the night

Winter workshop hawthorn

 

A freezing cold winter day sees huddled participants out planting hawthorn trees in the grounds of the Steiner School

Minni surveys the result – a chinese hawthorn in place

A row of native hawthorn

Back in the warm listening group

Reviewing the Goethean process: reading out the consensus of descriptions of the hawthorn

Introducing the essence of the holy thorn collected from a special tree at Avalon

The essence brought images of light, heart-expansion, restfulness agreeing with descriptions from earlier workshops and its known healing properties

Rational-Intuitive Knowing

Starting from the question What is the Hawthorn, the first workshop had ended with the question Who is the Hawthorn? Through the rational approach of drawing the hawthorn in detail, we had arrived at a consensus of qualities – nobles, graceful, dainty – about the character of the tree.

 

Our first exercise is one from Margaret Colquhoun’s book New Eyes for Plants, where we follow the transformation in leaf forms through the life cycle of a plant.

Jon Rae fills us in on the progress of life on earth with an overview of 3.5 billion years told through the story of one element with the message Love Carbon!.

We then focus in on the specific example – the hawthorn tree

Its inner quality greets, surprises, enchants, explores, encourages us…

Hawthorn chutney recipe

 Pick 2 lbs ( 900gms) ( 8 cups) of haw berries,

snip them from their stalks…

 

 

 

wash them and put them in a large saucepan with 1 pint ( 1/2 litres) of cider vinegar and 1 teaspoon of salt.Bring to the boil and simmer for one hour.

Take a good sieve, and rub the boiled haws and vinegar through it into another saucepan

To this pulpy mixture add 3/4 lb ( 350 gms) (11/2 cups) brown sugar (A good alternative is APPLE JUICE CONCENTRATE ) and the following ground spices: 1 teaspoon ginger and 1 of nutmeg, 1/4 spoon each of all spice and cloves, and plenty of fresh black pepper. ( an optional additive is 1/4 lb ( 115 gms) ( 1 cup) of dried fruit)

Bring this to the boil, stirring all the time, and then heat slowly until the mixture thickens. Pour into jars and seal.

Delicious!

Workshop 1 What is the hawthorn?

Entering the hawthorn workshop at the Steiner School

Introduction: the Goethean way of seeing

First encounter with the hawthorn

Exact sensorial perception - how growth happens

Getting to know the hawthorn

Whole perception of hawthorn

Arriving at consensus - noble, graceful, feminine

 

 

Hawthorn? Workshop!

What is the Hawthorn?Click here to see further

In science, story, drawing, healing, planting… click here to read further

Saturday 4th October Steiner School, Dartington

Workshop 1: Goethean science and drawing 10 am-1 pm

Workshop 2: Picking berries, making chutney 2 pm-5 pm

Saturday 11th October Steiner School Dartington

Workshop 3: Intuitive knowing + love carbon 10 am – 1pm

Contact Minni Jain minni@earthlinksall.com

Cost: £5 each or £12 for three or £22 for six

Walk Dartmoor

Walk to Dartmoor
12th 13th 14th June

‘You see things [walking] in a way that is completely different from any other. ‘ Robert Pirsig Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance’.

‘We’re in such a hurry most of the time we never get much chance to talk. The result is a kind of endless day-to-day shallowness, a monotony that leaves a person wondering years later where all the time went and sorry that it’s all gone’

I would like, instead, to be concerned with the question “What is best?,” a question which cuts deeply rather than broadly, a question whose answers tend to move the silt downstream. There are eras of human history in which the channels of thought have been too deeply cut and no change was possible, and nothing new ever happened, and “best” was a matter of dogma, but that is not the situation now.

What I mean (and everybody else means) by the word ‘quality’ cannot be broken down into subjects and predicates. This is not because Quality is so mysterious but because Quality is so simple, immediate and direct.

Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best 20-20 hindsight. It’s good for seeing where you’ve been. It’s good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can’t tell you where you ought to go.

Quality is the continuing stimulus which our environment puts upon us to create the world in which we live. All of it. Every last bit of it.

My personal feeling is that this is how any further improvement of the world will be done: by individuals making Quality decisions and that’s all

For information contact minnidart@googlemail.com