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The European Transpersonal Association Newsletter
Number 4 Dear EUROTAS Council Members and friends of EUROTAS 1.
Founding Assembly of the Creative Initiative and EUROTAS Council
Meeting Hungary 4-8 Aug 1999. Hungarian Transpersonal Association EUROTAS Meeting Secretariat Please arrive in Budapest before 1500 if you can, in time for the evening of Wednesday 4 August and leave any time on Sunday 8 August. We will have a good representation of Council Members and friends from across Europe. You can stay over at the hotel or in Budapest which is a very lovely city. Further details are in Kate’s letter. The Creative Initiative team is currently finalising the Programme to ensure that there is space in it for everyone. Please let me know if there is an issue, workshop or meditation you would like to share with others. We will try to accommodate everyone. The maximum would be 20-30 minutes in small groups or plenary depending on time and numbers. Kate Bartha asks could you please be prepared to sing, recite, or play something from your own country or culture, as we will have an evening entertainment. We will also discuss the soul of Europe which means also talking about the soul of our own countries. If you have any further last minute participants to join us from your country, please e-mail or fax me. (profdrew@eurotas.org or + 44 181 455 4516 fax) We will have a creative and enjoyable time at Dobogoke Village which is on a beautiful bend of the Danube with forests and cool walks. The cost will be $190 or just over that in Euros for four days including hotel, all meals and the Conference. Limited funds are available to contribute up to 50% of cost.
Beatrix Pfleiderer from Hawaii will be visiting us in the beginning of June. …We are very busy here since our western friends started coming here like a birds in the spring time .We just had wonderful workshop with Pia Keiding on Dream Mandala and with her partner Casper Coene on Ethics in psychology. Now Nico Vissel is coming from Holland with a holotropic breathing workshop. It takes plenty of time to organise, make publicity and so on. I also had several public lectures on "Emerging Paradigm -the Renaissance of Natural Culture". In addition, we opened a Transpersonal Living Room to discuss different social issues. We are planning to call the Council of Elders to heal and nourish the spiritual core of our culture- the old roots are nourishing new branches." During the time I visited Warsaw, I gave a workshop on the spiritual aspects of management in the next millennium which taught me a lot about the different attitudes to the inner self in the cultures and experiences in European countries. Jacek was in his usual thoughtful and friendly self. Tanna has a project for a Polish School of Transpersonal Psychology Training, which I hope she will share with us in Budapest.
Subject: Year 2000 - Forgiveness and Reconciliation. Civic Movement Dear sir (or madam), We are a non-profit cultural association of a humanist, philanthropic and universalistic nature, which is sustained by the voluntary work of its members. All of us feel to some extent an inner desire for a world-wide self renewal that will permit us to see the future in a truly new way, one in which respect for Nature, co-operation between peoples, acceptance and sharing of cultural diversity, the overcoming of the imbalances which affect mankind. This new insight, however, will only come about if the desire for a better world should sprout from the innermost roots of all of us and blossom forth from each of us every day of our lives. Consequently, it is urgent that we conciliate with ourselves, with our fellow man, with the world, with Life - as though the entire universe depended on every single one of our gestures. The year 2000 is upon us. This fact carries with it a singular and heavily symbolic burden of change, which affects everybody, and it would be a shame to limit it to merely transitory euphoria. This letter is a final appeal for a different way of living during this change: a contribution toward giving a relevant impulse to the acquisition of a solid and universalistic awareness through the unity of Mankind around a proposal in which it can be constructively involved. This proposal would be translated into global action, on a planetary scale, centred in the idea of forgiveness and reconciliation which would free us from the rancour of the past and allow the seeds of a future of peace and joy to germinate. Truly, there can be no peace as long as there is no forgiveness in the heart, in all hearts! Accordingly, during the last 3 days of December 1999, all who feel touched by this idea will symbolically lay down, in a place specifically prepared for this purpose, in any village, town or city of the Planet (in a public square, for example), a flower, an olive branch, a sheaf of rosemary, of lavender, or even a small plant, in an appropriate holder. The place should present a minimum standard of dignity and beauty which, implicitly, this action requires. These flowers, branches and plants would, then, be collected on January 1, the World Day of Peace and cast into the nearest rivers or directly into the sea - the medium of unity among all the peoples. As a final gesture, we also suggest (or as an alternative) that a few moments before midnight on December 31 (one minute or a few seconds) be held in silence and, if possible, in a group. We refer to that silence which touches the deepest part of our being, bringing forth genuine joy and the true proposition of inner change and constructive co-operation. The contribution we ask of you can be made through a public endorsement or an article in the press, an interview in one of the media, conversation with other persons, public figures or colleagues of institutions to which you have ties, or any other initiative which will permit the universal diffusion of the idea. After all, it is little to ask for helping to improve the Earth! Thank you very much. José Ferreira and Anacleto For contacts: Centro
Lusitano de Unificação Cultural Tv. NOTE: This letter is also being sent to all the media, artists, scientists, writers, politicians, dignitaries of various religions, public figures and to the national culture in general: universities, associations, federations, and the widest variety of institutions throughout the world.
Please let me have news of yourself or your Association for the next newsletter. Can you also think about writing a paragraph of not more than 100 words about what you do and how you can be contacted and bring it with you to Hungary or send it to me so that we can establish a directory of contacts as well as a mailing list. Please let me have suggestions for the Newsletter and how we can improve it.
As Ever, Love John Footnote From Portugal: "To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, that is genius. Speak your latent conviction and it shall be the universal sense." Ralph Waldo Emerson, in his essay on Self-Reliance
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