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EUROTAS NEWSLETTER No. 61

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9 November 2010

 

 

Board of Administrators: President Ingo Jahrsetz, Bernadette Blin-Lery, Lydmila Scortescu, Pier Luigi Lattuada, Gennady Brevde, Magda  Solé, Jure Biechonski, Dietrich Franke, Ingrida Indane, Steven Schmitz

Newsletter Editor: John Drew, Newsletter Executive: Erich Meier


Summary of Contents

  1. A note from our President. EUROTAS 12th Conference in Switzerland
    Professor Ingo Jahrsetz gives his impressions of this delightful meeting on the shores of Lake Thun and introduces the enlarged Board of EUROTAS and their responsibilities for the next stages of development
  2. Fausto Sergei Sommer and his team write about the 12th EUROTAS conference at GWATT, Switzerland
    Fausto Sergei Sommer who with his devoted team were responsible for the excellent conference at Gwatt, Switzerland, relates some of the high points and issues of the meeting
  3. News from Lithuania
    The newborn European project in Lithuania
  4. The EUROTAS website and newsletter
    We need your help and input as both are being updated
  5. News from Croatia – Dan Sercar
    Dan sends his regards and hopes to communicate more via the internet
  6. News from David Lorimer
    David has a new interesting initiative in London and Scotland
  7. News from the Transpersonal Centre, Rock Bank
    Hazel continues transpersonal training and courses in the UK
  8. Contemplative Fire
    Philip and his team continue with their special Christian work which understands the transpersonal approach of EUROTAS completly
  9. News from Germany – the Spiritual Emergence Network
    Peter Loomans continues the SEN work in Germany with the support of a former President of EUROTAS
  10. The Asia Consciousness Society
    A very interesting Asian approach to EUROTAS work
  11. News from GRETT
    Bernadette Blin and her team invite you to the GRETT conference in France next year
  12. News from Findhorn
    If you do not know about Findhorn, visit their website
  13. Himalayas – journey of a lifetime
    This could really change your life!
  14. News from the Estonian Transpersonal Association
    Jure Biechonski the new Board member for Education introduces the work of his association and himself
  15. Launch of the Integral Transpersonal Journal (ITJ)
    An ambitious and wide ranging Journal launched from Italy after the EUROTAS Milan Conference
  16. The Moldavian Transpersonal Association
    Ludmilla tells of transpersonal developments in Moldova
  17. The Scientific and Medical Network launch the New Renaissance
    The SCM launches it programme and a significant new book. How can EUROTAS work with the SCM?
  18. Last Words
    Emerson and Teilhard de Chardin were transpersonal before others invented the word!

    There are many rich initiatives in this Newsletter – please let us know if you have similar conferences and we can include them if appropriate from wherever!

1. A note from our President:
EUROTAS 12th Conference in Gwatt, Switzerland – “Knowledge, pleasure, belief.”

Dear friends,

The Conference took place on the magical Lake of Thun in the Bernese Alps. We had a dreamtime there with late summer weather. It was a good place to meet, to exchange our ideas and to follow the energy that is changing the EUROTAS network.

Fausto and his team ensured an excellently organized meeting – sincere thanks to them and to their many helpers without whom the whole event would not have been possible.

The conference title had been chosen and worked out by our Swiss friends – “Knowledge, pleasure and belief “ -  as the key-energies enfolding the “transpersonal” through theoretical considerations,  exercises, and as a communications challenge between all participants.

When we asked the question what is the transpersonal about, the response came through the historical unfolding of transpersonal psychology. Its beginnings with the recognition of unique experiences show the infinite extent of the human soul and the richness and creativity of consciousness which is not only related to the human brain but to the nature of our universe. After rediscovering the old spiritual wisdom and integrating modern Western art, science, psychology and psychotherapy, we focus today on ”spirituality in engaged communication”, ”spirituality in every day life” and ”spirituality emerging through ourselves into the evolution of consciousness and into concrete action if that is what is required”.

I think we can see how EUROTAS is changing from a network of a transpersonal family to a professional organization and if envisioned further, to an organization that contributes both internationally and socially. It represents spiritual values and transpersonal methods that could be a valuable contribution to the future of our planet world.

An expression of this new development has been the engaged discussion within the Delegates Meeting which underlines the growing professional activities within EUROTAS:

  • the application process of EUROTAS to become a member of  the EAP
    (European Association of Psychotherapy)
  • the EUROTAS working group of ECCA (European Committee of Certification and Accreditation).
  • the new first and now published edition of the online “Journal of Transpersonal Research” (Roman Gonzalvo.)
  • The cooperation between EUROTAS and the newly  re-founded International Transpersonal Association

The Delegates’ meeting elected an enlarged Board. There are now 9 Board Members who will each have a specific focus:

We are very grateful that John Drew will continue his wonderful work and edit the newsletter

There was an intense discussion about how to improve communication between EUROTAS members and how to present it in public efficiently both at its conferences and in between.

The big task of an attractive internet image was discussed. Practical input of members is very welcome.

A center of communication is the EUROTAS office (Mo-Thur 9.30-12.30h. The Office Manager is Katrin Nowack; Mo 10-12 Ingo B. Jahrsetz). Emails and phone calls are welcome +49-761-475846.

With best wishes and hoping to hear from you

Ingo

 

2. Fausto Sergei Sommer and his team talk about the 12th EUROTAS conference at GWATT

We were very pleased to hold the 2010 EUROTAS conference here in Switzerland. The weather gods were kind with us so that the surrounding landscape could present itself from the most glamorous side. Therefore the participants felt at ease and the seeds of our work fell on fertile ground. All the members of the organizing team had the feeling that their work was appreciated a lot and that made everybody feel extremely good. So, the team had a great time in spite of the amount of work at hand on such an occasion.
We had the feeling, that the chosen topic for the conference, was very appropriate and that the participants understood the importance and implications for the Transpersonal as such and for particular issues within. The Conference was able to inform the latter of the importance and necessity of a new and up-dated view of what and how the theory and practice of the Transpersonal needs to focus on in future. It is not a matter of changing a title or a name. It is rather a matter of having a vision of how the existing can be integrated into a world that is drastically changing and re-shaping itself. The Transpersonal needs to be part of this transition and not in one field but rather in all areas.
Unfortunately for us here in Switzerland, although we very much hoped for this, not many new faces appeared at the Conference. We were hoping for a coming together of many different schools and groups. This has not happened. Furthermore many representatives from EUROTAS Eastern countries were not present at the Conference. We therefore did not feel supported from part of the EUROTAS community. The small amount of participants was also cause for the financial deficit we have.

However, the Conference was a success. We had many good presentations and all of them of a very high standard. We had many deep discussions during and around the presentations and many a good talk between old and new friends. New perspectives were brought into our consciousness and the belief that the Transpersonal has something important to offer in this world could be reinforced.
We received many a good feed back from participants. However, we would also welcome more feed back now that more time has relapsed. So we invite all participants to contact us and feed us with whatever has moved, pushed and pulled you before, during and after the event.
Thank you all for having been here with us. Thank you all for participating in lively and reflective discussions that further the understanding and the vision of what the Transpersonal is or could be.
Light, love and peace
Fausto Sergej

 

3. News from Lithuania - The newborn European project in Lithuania

The mission of the Conference is to present, both experientially and didactically, breakthrough discoveries Dear friends

In February 2010 the European Transpersonal Centre (ETC) will start activities in Lithuania. The program of the Centre includes seminars of two days or more, sessions, workshops, and long-term courses about the chief masters in transpersonal psychology, psychotherapy and corresponding fields from all over the world.

The events organized by ETC aim to produce profound experiences, deliver fruitful knowledge and skills; assist the processes of evolutional transformation and development and personal growth of their participants.

ETC is not a “firework”, but a “fireplace”. It will nurture continuous activities in a warm atmosphere. Participants in events receive knowledge and practical experience. ETC will cross the divide between English and Russian speaking Europeans and the working languages of the Centre will be both English and Russian

ETC also gives opportunity and space for social meetings, looking for and finding professional fellowship and personal friendship. One of the goals of ETC is to set and improve information exchange between transpersonal oriented persons and communities.

The fundamental principles of our programs are:

  • Versatility. Our workshops are intended for psychologists/psychotherapists as well as people of all professions striving for personal development and creative advancement.
  • Diversity of methods and techniques for managing the patient/client or oneself.
  • High level instruction. Workshops will be conducted by leading specialists renowned in Europe and worldwide, authors of original concepts, and founders of scientific and practical schools.

ETC is an autonomous foundation of the “Whole World” Transpersonal 
Association. Activities of the Center are realized and coordinated by the Lithuanian
Branch of the “Whole World” – “Visas Pasaulis”.

The President of the Center is Gennady Brevde, PhD, certified transpersonal psychotherapist. Our Center is launching and developing in close friendly cooperation with the EUROTAS community, national transpersonal associations and their leaders.

The process of establishing and developing of our center will contribute to revival of Lithuanian Transpersonal Association and starting of its activities.

We are interested in and cordially welcome fruitful interaction and collaboration with humanistic and transpersonal oriented people from all European countries, from all professional and non-professional communities and associations.

Feel free to contact us! Our web-address is www.transpersonalcenter.eu

 

4. The EUROTAS Website and Newsletter

Dear John, Ingo Jahrsetz wrote recently:

“On Saturday we had a Skype board-meeting; I also talked with Katrin and Erich about the website. We talked about the process and the difficulty of creating a more interactive website which can be not only attractive for EUROTAS “insiders” but also for other transpersonal interested people. I think that this step is very important to keep EUROTAS lively. On the old website we could observe only very little “traffic”.

There is a high agreement on quality standards and on correct English. There also had been the proposal of a multi-language website which, honestly speaking, I don’t like very much. This in my view would require multi-language coordination.
I think the Board, Erich, and Katrin, myself – everybody is engaged and does his or her best. Of course this is a time of transition and transformation. My view is to encourage more people to bring in their ideas and forms of the transpersonal. This might be very imperfect but finally may lead to a systemic view about how the transpersonal is understood. In EUROTAS there are many different levels and understandings and this probably reflects the world-wide understanding of the transpersonal. I think everybody sees a part of the whole elephant. We can aim for and contribute to a distant land where a more complete understanding of the spiritual may appear.

Please ask readers of the Newsletter to help by sending us material, ideas and comments.

With love
Ingo


EUROTAS delegates are in agreement that:

We are trying to "fresh up" and change the EUROTAS website a little bit (http://www.eurotas.org/) in order to make it more attractive - and more interactive.

Our idea is to create a website that invites people to participate, to discuss, to present their association etc.

Therefore we need your participation!!!

Please send us material: that could be a little presentations of your work, your association.

Or poems, photos, interesting links or videos. Or a joke?! It don’t have to be all the time the great academic abstract :-)

We want invite people to discuss and share on the website - so if you have topics you want to ask others their opinion about and share something, please send it to me and I’ll put it on the website.

Looking forward to hear from you,
With warm greetings from Freiburg,
Katrin

EUROTAS Office
Dr. Ingo B. Jahrsetz/ Katrin Nowack
Heimbachweg 1A
D - 79299 Wittnau GERMANY
Tel.: +49-(0)761-475846
Fax. +49-(0)761-474646
www.eurotas.org


5. News from Croatia – Dan Sercar

Dear EUROTAS friends,

I wish you all a great and successful time at the EUROTAS meeting in Switzerland

Challenging times make that I can not join you all personally, but I believe that we are connected transpersonally!

With the idea of low cost communications, I am looking forward to our making more use of the internet.

To see what we are doing in Croatia, look at our 4 internet portals which are below – you can read them in different languages!

Yours transpersonally


Dan Šercar
dan.sercar@gmail.com, dan@sercar.org
www.angels-city.com, www.hta.hr, www.stih.in
www.taroth.org
tel +385 1 376 0012,
mob +385 98 47 99 27, 91 376 3760
Buconjićeva 4, ZAGREB, HR-10 0000

 

6. News from David Lorimer

Practical Wisdom
Connecting with your Deeper Purpose,
Applying the Philosophy of Success

Seminars with David Lorimer

Autumn 2010 - Spring 2011

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives – William James
Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t, either way you’re right – Henry Ford

You become what you think about most of the time – Brian Tracy

www.practicalwisdom.org.uk

Dear Reader,

Welcome to my leaflet giving details of my new seminar programme which I have been developing over the last year. The seminars are designed to enable you to take a deeper and broader view of your life and its trajectory, especially if you find yourself at a turning point. I would like to invite you personally to attend one or more events in the company of like-minded people. The seminars are based on work that has proven successful in changing people’s thinking and lives for the better. You will have opportunities to follow up the work in order to help embed these insights in your everyday life.

I look forward to the possibility of meeting and working with you.

Best wishes
David Lorimer

PS Even if you can’t attend, you can always sign up to my mailing list on the website. 

Why Practical Wisdom?

Practical Wisdom focuses on helping you apply the fundamental principles of success to your life based on understanding key elements of perennial wisdom. My approach is based on many years of research and reflection about the nature of mind and consciousness and its relation to life.

Science shows that we live in an interconnected universe. Telepathy and other forms of extra-sensory perception point to a shared underlying Unity and Oneness of Mind. Practical Wisdom goes further by asserting that we live in an interactive web of consciousness, questioning the sharp distinction between ‘inner’ and ‘outer’.

Have you noticed meaningful coincidences and recurring patterns in your life? Practical Wisdom regards them as an indication of how what we call ‘inner’ - our beliefs and attitudes – is mirrored in our ‘outer’ circumstances. Thoughts are causes, conditions are effects. To paraphrase the Hermetic axiom: as within, so without. This means that by transforming our attitudes we can transform our lives.

Practical Wisdom explores these principles and insights, explaining how they affect your understanding of life and how best to live it.

Seminars and dates

Consciousness, Synchronicity and the Law of Attraction

Gibliston Mill, Fife, Saturday 23rd October 2010, Saturday 26th March 2011 and Heythrop College, London, Saturday 4th December 2010, Saturday 7th May 2011

What the mind can conceive, and bring itself to believe, the mind can achieve - Napoleon Hill

Telepathy and other forms of ESP suggest that the modern scientific understanding of consciousness – based on the assumption that the brain produces consciousness - is radically incomplete. Beginning with a survey of the New Thought movement going back as far as Ralph Waldo Emerson and William James, we will explore how our minds are both interconnected and interactive and the way in which we are all in fact embedded in and can act on the Universal Mind or Cosmic Consciousness. You will learn:

  • the relationship between your conscious mind, your subconscious and the Universal Mind
  • The significance of experiences of Cosmic Consciousness
  • How we act on the Universal Mind by directing emotionally charged creative thought and maintaining an optimistic attitude
  • The meaning and significance of synchronicity and the mechanics of the law of attraction
  • Keys to transforming your habitual neural pathways and the role of affirmations
  • The power of goals, definite purpose, faith and belief
  • How to modify your self-image and self-concept, enhancing your self-belief and capacity for success

For further information please go to www.practicalwisdom.org.uk

 

7. News from the Transpersonal Centre, Rock Bank

TRANSPERSONAL CENTRE, ROCK BANK

Here is the new Rock Bank programme, for information. It is sent in the hope that there may be something that someone you know will want to come to.

With best wishes,

Hazel.

TRANSPERSONAL CENTRE, ROCK BANK
WORKSHOPS AT ROCK BANK, 50 STATION ROAD, CROPSTON
LEICESTERSHIRE

PROGRAMME 2010 - 2011

WEEKENDS:

INTRODUCTORY WORKSHOPS in TRANSPERSONAL PSYCHOLOGY

WORKSHOP I – APPROACHING THE SELF

  • October 1 – 3, 2010
  • February 5 – 7, 2011 (repeated)
  • October 7 – 9, 2011

WORKSHOP II – THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE WITHIN US

  • March 25 – 27, 2011

WORKSHOP III – CYCLES AND STAGES

  • May 20 – 22, 2011

FURTHER WORKSHOP – ‘INITIATION’ (originally Transpersonal Workshop IV)

  • November 5 – 7, 2010
    This is a further Transpersonal weekend mainly intended for those who have already completed at least Workshop I in the introductory series.

TIMES of all weekends, Friday evening to Sunday lunchtime:

  • Friday 6. 00 for 6. 30 pm. to 10. 00
  • Saturday 9. 30 for 10. 00 am. to 6. 00
  • Sunday 9. 30 for 10. 00 am. to 2. 00

COSTS: £ 110 per weekend. Reduced-fee places – please enquire.

SINGLE DAYS:

‘Symptom As Symbol’ – Saturday February 5th 2011
Monica Anthony is a transpersonal psychotherapist, craniosacral therapist, healer and astrologer.

‘Claiming Your Authority' – Saturday May 14th 2011
Dr. Karen John is a trainer, consultant and psychotherapist/ counsellor. She leads workshops that involve taking and sharing authority – in family change and changing families, in leadership and leading teams, in group work, facilitation and supervision.

Emma Ramsden, ‘Passages' – postponed until a Saturday in May 2012
Emma Ramsden is currently completing her doctoral thesis in drama therapy. She does clinical work in the high secure forensic psychiatric field.

All these single day workshops are open and everyone is welcome to apply.

TIMES: Single days start at 9.30 for 10.00 and end at around 5.30
COSTS: £ 75 per single day. Reduced-fee places – please enquire.

A TWO-YEAR COURSE: ‘A TRANSPERSONAL DIMENSION’
Rock Bank offers a further two-year course in therapy and counselling. It follows the three introductory workshops, and focuses on the perspectives, theory and techniques of Transpersonal psychology. It is intended not only for those in the ‘helping professions’, but for anyone else involved in being with people as they solve their difficulties and grow towards maturity and wholeness. A large part of its value lies in the experience of doing it. If you are interested, please let me know at once.

Hazel Marshall, founder and director of the Transpersonal Centre at Rock Bank, leads most of the weekends, assisted from time to time by other transpersonal therapists. She trained with Barbara Somers and Ian Gordon-Brown in London, and has recently edited a fourth book of their work in the series, ‘The Wisdom of the Transpersonal’:

Hazel Marshall, Rock Bank, 50 Station Road, Cropston, 
Leicestershire, LE7 7HD. Tel. 0116 236 4256,
email hazel@rockbank.co.uk, website www.rockbank.co.uk.

 

8. Contemplative Fire

Contemplative Fire weekend workshop retreat in Sheffield: 4-6 Feb 2011

Retreat workshop 4-6 February 2011:

Please note this Contemplative Fire weekend workshop retreat with the highly influential and thought provoking Margaret Silf.  It will take place at Whirlow Grange Spirituality Centre in Sheffield on 4-6 February 2011.   There are limited places.  If you cannot be there yourself and happen to know someone in the East Midlands or South Yorks area who might be interested, please forward this to them.

Contemplative Fire launch day in Sheffield:

For your prayers, this Saturday (30 Oct) sees the launch of Contemplative Fire in ‘the north’ near to Sheffield with vision sharing, community building and a Pilgrimage to Now/where.  We expect around 40 people to attend.

Warmly

Philip

Contemplative Fire - 0114 262 0655
www.contemplativefire.org
Registered Charity No 1106392

The Burning Bush project team (led by Tessa, together with Jill and Philip) is pleased to present the latest Burning Bush newsletter for Contemplative Fire. There is also news of Contemplative Fire's presence at the Greenbelt festival.

This issue of Burning Bush focuses on our Rhythm of Life, with contributions from across the community. Many thanks to all those who submitted articles - it's has been wonderful to hear how as a dispersed community we are 'living the Rhythm'!  Inevitably, there hasn’t been space to print all contributions.

Printed copies of Burning Bush 9 will be available at Greenbelt and at the Community weekend in September.  We shall also then give some out to Gathering and small group leaders.  If you are unable to be present at any of these events and would welcome hard copy or copies, do get in touch with Jill and she will post them out to you.

Please do be encouraged to forward this email newsletter to anyone, anywhere, who you think might be interested.  This is how seeds get sown and our shared ministry develops.

Hope you enjoy the read!

Tessa, Jill and Philip

Contemplative Fire - 0114 262 0655
www.contemplativefire.org
Registered Charity No 1106392

 

9. News from Germany – the Spiritual Emergence Network

Interested people are invited to join the annual meeting of the German Spiritual Emergence Network (SEN).

The program is promising:

In the morning Wilfried Belschner and Peter Schulthess will discuss critical questions from “insiders and outsiders” perspective about transpersonal psychotherapy from a mainly theoretical point of view.

In the afternoon the exchange of more practical experience is on the program, and afterwards the yearly assembly of the members take place.

Address: Kolping Hotel International Am Römerturm, St. Apern-Str. 32, 50667 Köln, Germany, Tel: 0049 – 221 – 20930. www.kolping-international.com.

Please contact Jo Schnorrenberg, Lindenstr. 17, 50674 Köln, Germany, Tel: 0049 – 221 – 47675027,
Email: jo.Schnorrenberg@t-online.de.

 

10. The Asia Consciousness Society

Hello, and thank you for your interest in alerting your members to the Asia Consciousness Society. Below is the paragraph for your newsletter.

With best regards -- Anne

The Asia Consciousness Society [ACS] was formed in 2010 to further the study of consciousness throughout the Asia-Pacific region in an integrative manner: multidisciplinary, cross-cultural, and inclusive of both theoretical perspective and practical application. The aim of the society is to be a pivotal focus of consciousness study and application throughout the Asia-Pacific region, bringing together scholars and scientists in order to contribute to the body of knowledge in this burgeoning field. The society takes an interdisciplinary approach for the richest possible collaborative model, to include perspectives of neuroscience, philosophy, cognitive science, medicine, social sciences, arts and humanities, physical sciences, and spiritual disciplines. NOTE: Membership dues for ACS are waived for 2010; as of 2011, ASSC members enjoy a discounted membership rate in ACS. For more information: http://acsociety.org

 

11. News from GRETT

Bonjour à toutes et à tous,

Toute l'équipe du GRETT vous souhaite un très bel été.

Nous préparons activement notre chain FORUM de 2011.

les 25, 26 et 27 mars à Dourdan (banlieue sud de Paris)

Le thème?

Rituels et Transformations

Vous êtes tous conviés à pouvoir proposer une conférence et/ou un atelier en lien avec ce thème.

Un comité scientifique étudiera votre proposition.

Vous pouvez prendre connaissance du document APPEL A CONTRIBUTION,

qui vous en donnera tous les détails, en suivant ce lien

Merci beaucoup de communiquer alors avec l'adresse mail : grettforum2011@sfr.fr

En vous remerciant de votre attention.

A bientôt de vous lire, de vous contrer.

Très cordialement pour l'équipe du GRETT,

Christiane Beaugé

 

12. News from Findhorn

Findhorn College - offering news on integrative education for mind, heart, spirit and body.


Summer is getting off to a slow start here at Findhorn (temperature-wise!), but life in all its amazing diversity is still bursting forth. Humans play energetic volleyball games on the village green and bird song rings out around the Park. I enjoy eating my lunch by the Universal Hall while a pair of great tits fly back and forth over my head feeding their young. I am happy to have such close daily contact to so many plants, trees, birds, animals... and also remember that wherever I am, in city or town, if I maintain full presence and awareness I can see signs of life everywhere.

Connecting with Nature
It is increasingly being validated, that the quality of the connection we experience to nature is key to living in healthy relationship with our world and each other. In Crossing Thresholds: Transition Mentoring with Nature-based Tools, Holger Heiten will train participants in using a variety of eco-psychology and nature-based methods for supporting young people and adults through transitions in their lives. Holger’s December course was highly inspirational and I strongly recommend you take a look

Bioneers at at Findhorn the Conference! Regular updates at www.findhorn.org/bioneers

Economic crisis
With the economic crisis very much in the forefront of the news these days, and the realisation the current economic system is not a future-capable way to frame our relationship with our planet, we are offering a course about how to design more resilient community money systems. In On the Money, experienced and knowledgeable teachers John Rogers and Jonathan Dawson will help participants to discover the wealth that lies at the heart of our communities and learn how to mobilise that wealth for the benefit of all. See video clip about the course here

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Upcoming courses
BIONEERS - the conference!
Healing Through Art
Applied Systems Thinking - Community Resilience
MSc Sustainable Community Design

Wishing you a creative and sunny summer.

Alice and the Findhorn College team

 

13. Himalayas – journey of a lifetime

Himalayas

5 Element Intensive

13th - 25th October 2011

Gaby Hock & Camilla Gliemann

In collaboration with The Akupunktur Akademiet Copenhagen

A once in a lifetime educational and inspirational journey that combines a course in the Chinese Five Elements with a personal transformational experience, based in a famous Himalayan hill station ashram and Ayurvedic clinic. The venue enjoys panoramic views of some of the highest mountains in the world. Under the direction of a dedicated team of experts you can recharge your physical, cultural and spiritual batteries (taxdeductible and CPD accredited). The seminar will end with the fire element, followed by a pilgrimage deep into the Himalayan jungle to an ancient Shiva temple site renowned for its profound stillness.

  • 5 Element programme: earth, metal, water, wood and fire; focusing on the emotional andspiritual aspects of Chinese Medicine: the seven emotions, the five shen, the heart-mind connection and the mystery of shen ming (radiance of the spirit).
  • Daily yoga & pranayama in support of each element
  • Daily Ayurvedic full body massages (or other massages)
  • 2 Day Sacred Pilgrimage to 10th cent. site with 125 Shiva temples. Time to relax & enjoy the peace, walk in magical forest plus evening celebration with local musicians & camp fire.

Course Leader: Gaby Hock (UK)

Acupuncturist, Psychotherapist, lecturer with 27 years of experience in teaching Taoist & Five Element seminars for the purpose of professional & personal development.
Experienced India lover and adventurer. Supported by: Camilla Gliemann (Denmark) Acupuncturist, Yoga Teacher, Lecturer and Administrator of Akupunktur Akademiet Copenhagen. Dr. Vijay Sheel (India)
Ayurvedic & medical doctor, Director of Auyrvedic Clinic & Charitable Research Hospital.

Cost: Early bird £975 if booked with a £125 non-refundable deposit before 31st October 2010. Thereafter the cost will go up to £1100. The balance is payable by 30th April 2011. Cancellations after 1st May 2011: no refund unless we can find a replacement. Should this cause you any concerns, please get travel insurance.

Included is the full 5 element programme plus 10 days accommodation, full board Ayurvedic/vegetarian cuisine, plus 2 nights hotel & breakfast in Delhi, all transport within India. Excluded is flight to Delhi. Firstcome first-served basis, max. 12 people. Book early to avoid disappointment.

For application & further details:

gaby@oxford-transpersonal.co.uk Tel: 0044-1865-247-851

 

14. News from the Estonian Transpersonal Association

We have at the moment in our Transpersonal institute over 200 students, and this in a country of 1.2 million!

Each month we are planning seminars and workshops with leading experts from around the world. We had already had excellent presentations from John Rowan, UK, Ingrida Idane, Latvia and Vitor Rodrigues from Portugal and we are certainly looking for more exciting presenters to enrich our students.

I have travelled through a few transpersonal association doing seminars and so far was in Latvia, Italy, Romania, Moldova and in Hungary.

Our aim is to start networking between our different transpersonal trainings and set up a student and teachers exchange programme.

We believe that by openness and cooperation we will enrich ourselves and strengthen our transpersonal movement.

As a Board Member of EUROTAS and responsible for Education, if you have any transpersonal training programmes in your country please inform us, if you need help in setting up a formal transpersonal training in our country just ask!

As Ingo said we are now moving from a network of friends to a professional body.

A personal request, as we need your full support and participation in EUROTAS, please please make an effort and attend the next Conference in Bulgaria next year. It is  now more important then ever to cooperate and create a strong movement.

I strongly believe that it is our transpersonal duty towards humanity with love

Jure Biechonski, Estonia

 

15. Launch of the Integral Transpersonal Journal (ITJ)

The aim of the Integral Transpersonal Journal (ITJ)

The transpersonal vision is broad, deep, integral and integrating. In many ways the movement that since the 1960s has gradually established itself around this vision, thereby claiming possession of the new emerging paradigm, is revolutionary. While it is firmly rooted in science, it does not forget the wealth of knowledge borne out of the greatest spiritual traditions. Indeed, it seizes upon the most thought-provoking queries and earliest insights to have accompanied mankind throughout its evolutionary path and rises to the challenge of responding to large-scale, all-encompassing questions of meaning; all the while, it traces the outlines of a science of consciousness and ultimately succeeds in conceiving a coherent and spiritualized existence.

ITJWe would like to quote E. Lazlo when he says that “the emerging vision of reality is more than a theory and does not involve scientists alone. It draws us closer than ever to lifting the veil of sensory perception and to understanding the true nature of the world. This is a welcome discovery for our own life and prosperity that validates something we have always suspected yet were unable to express in these modern times (even though we have never tried to do so, unless in the guise of poets or lovers). That something is a sense of belonging ... we are a coherent part of a coherent world.”

By reaching beyond the barriers of space, transcending linear time and bringing about an amazing expansion of consciousness, transpersonal experiences lead us into the presence of a Oneness; let us knowingly partake in the interconnection, integrality, and consistency of the Cosmos. Our encounter with the Holy can deeply change us, making us take on the responsibility of witnessing and spreading a culture that is entwined in spirituality, imbued with love, geared towards sharing.

From Einstein onwards it has been our belief that science is lame without religion, and religion is blind without science.

We believe in the possibility of tracing the outlines of a Science that does not claim to utter certainties without providing guarantee of validity; a Science that does not wither and die in the exercise of verifiable and repeatable experimental protocols without waiving its duty to question nature by means of reliable investigative procedures; a Science that is not reduced to what is measurable but is capable – as Maslow hopes – of broadening its jurisdiction and its methods, dares to venture boldly where angels fear to tread - as suggested by Bateson – yet, at the same time, knows when to stop humbly at the threshold of the mystery.

We believe it is useful and necessary to work for the rise of a knowledge that, while providing guarantee of validity, speaks wisely on the individual Self’s participatory journey into Psyche’s Kingdom, on the individual Soul’s journey into Anima Mundi, and on the individual’s journey into the Cosmos.

This editorial project starts with the intention of being an instrument for sharing and giving to all those involved in inner experience; a meeting point for those who draw knowledge and inspiration from the transpersonal dimension.

ITJ seeks to provide a space where to gather and discuss openly, where to focus the cultural production of all those who, as humbly yet as powerfully as they can, are capable of casting upon the world the unique look of awareness, while at the same time preparing themselves to process any number of tools and frameworks designed to highlight the guarantee of validity.

In this way we wish to help craft an epistemology that allows the transcendental inner experience and the phenomenal experience of the world of nature, culture and environment, consciousness and matter, to be all examined in a participatory light that is also dynamic and interconnected by means of that threefold gaze as suggested by St. Bonaventure and submitted again by Wilber: an eye of the flesh, an eye of the mind, and an eye of the spirit.

ITJ wants to brand itself as a place of teaching and learning, and where, upon listening, one transcends and encompasses, free from the known, and where one undertakes that journey towards Oneness we strive to partake in.

From  a   cultural  perspective,  this   is  a  journey  that, following  the  suggestion   of   Confucius, should be able to restore things to their proper name, and hand words such as Science, Psyche, Theory, Soul, Spirit, Sacred, Medicine, Void, Love (to name but a few) back to their true meanings.

Best wishes

The staff of ITJ

 

16. The Moldavian Transpersonal Associationews from the Estonian Transpersonal Association

Ludmila Scortesca writes:

The Moldovan Association was founded in 2003 in cooperation with the Romanian and the Russian Association.

Maybe it's no coincidence the participants to start our development.

We see it as a bridge between Western Europe and Eastern Europe.

Since 2004, regular training in Holotropic Breathwork and the study of dreams by the method of Jung-Seine. Рpermanently conduct trainings and seminars with teachers from other countries included in EUROTAS. Works in conjunction with the Moscow coaches training program on process-oriented therapy. Participation in the project study of the effect of sound vibrations to the change of consciousness. The studies were conducted in the General Military Hospital Affairs of Russia. As a result, it was proved that the sounds of certain frequencies affect the biochemistry of the blood and raise the level of antioxidant in human blood.

This year we are opening the Institute of Transpersonal training and developing project of social network to help promote transpersonal views and ideas via the Internet.

Our idea is to build an online community for the knowledge and skills that will expand the boundaries of audience and most of the educational process.

This project is called Daisy www.Daisynet.info and is based on webinars technology. Web conferencing is used to conduct live meetings, training, or presentations via the Internet. In a web conference, each participant sits at his or her own computer and is connected to other participants via the internet.

We start to create the international telecommunication platform for teachers and students and for all the people who are looking for self-development.

The idea behind this network is to provide access to one of the most valuable resource in human life, access to knowledge.

We are creating a fund that will support and develop the Daisy project.

We all have a natural desire for communication and development.

We hope that our project will make a contribution to the promotion of new knowledge for a better future.

We encourage all who are interested in our project for joint creation, the common good and unity.

Best wishes and love

Lyudmila

lyuararasco@gmail.com

 

17. The Scientific and Medical Network launch the New Renaissance

The SCM have expressed an interest in being more closely associated with EUROTAS and more about that in a future Newsletter. Here is the information about the recent launch of “The New Renaissance.” Book and programme. It is well worth reading this outline below.

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A New Renaissance diagnoses an urgent need for change and renewal in a period of crisis for philosophy, science and society. The Florentine Renaissance, some six hundred years ago, took a huge leap forward into realism, rationality and self-awareness. It was born out of the waning authority of medieval institutions and beliefs. We stand now at a similar junction in history. It is apparent to many that reductionist science with its materialist values - the worldview that has driven modern culture for the last two centuries - is losing credibility. Its objectives of growth and acquisition, and its guiding principles asserting that there is no intrinsic meaning to life or purpose in the cosmos are now widely seen as creating an unsustainable world. 

The essays gathered in A New Renaissance are a cultural response to the failings of the materialist worldview. Contributions in the first part diagnose the sources of the crisis in the current worldview. The second section searches for a new understanding of consciousness and mind, based on findings in new non-materialist philosophy. The third section looks to a renewal of spirituality beyond religion, aiming to recapture the personal depth and connection to the cosmos that materialism denies or ignores. The fourth section examines possible reforms in politics, economics and education to help bring forth a society that can sustain the flourishing of human beings in the globally interconnected world of the twenty-first century.

Speakers

  • Prof. Ervin Laszlo is Founder and President of The Club of Budapest, President of the World Shift Network, Founder of the General Evolution Research Group, Co-Chair of the World Wisdom Council, and Editor of the international periodical World Futures: The Journal of General Evolution.
  • Dr. Iain McGilchrist, FRCPsych has been a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford on three occasions and is author of the acclaimed The Master and his Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World.
  • Dr. Elisabet Sahtouris is an evolutionary biologist and futurist who is author of EarthDance: Living Systems in Evolution and A Walk through Time: From Stardust to Us, and Biology Revisioned with Willis Harman.
  • Dr. Frank Parkinson has a special interest in the impact of evolutionary theory on traditional theology, especially the creation story now emerging from science. He is the author of Science and Religion at the Crossroads
  • Dr. Oliver Robinson is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Greenwich, and a manager of the Scientific and Medical Network.
  • Prof. Chris Clarke was Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Southampton. His books include Living in Connection, Ways of Knowing (edited) and Weaving the Cosmos.
  • Paul Devereux is a founding editor of the academic publication, Time & Mind, The Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture. He has written 26 books since 1979, including Re-Visioning the Earth, The Sacred Place, Spirit Roads and Sacred Geography.
  • Dr. David Peat is a physicist and author of many books, most recently Gentle Action and Pathways of Chance. He runs the Pari Center for New Learning in Italy.
  • Dr. David Luke is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Greenwich where he teaches an undergraduate course on the Psychology of Exceptional Human Experiences. He is currently President of the Parapsychological Association.
  • Anne Baring is a retired Jungian analyst, author and co-author of seven books including The Myth of the Goddess; Evolution of an Image, The Mystic Vision, the Divine Feminine and Soul Power: an Agenda for a Conscious Humanity.
  • Mick Collins is a lecturer in the Faculty of Health, University of East Anglia.
  • Dr. James Angelo is an educator, composer, pianist, writer, course leader and formerly lecturer/tutor in music at universities in New York and London. He is the author of Healing with the Voice and The Healing Power of the Human Voice.
  • Satish Kumar is editor of Resurgence and a Visiting Fellow of Schumacher College. 
    Max Payne is a former university lecturer in philosophy of science and religion and is a Vice-President of the Network.
  • Dr. Peter Bowman is science coordinator of the University Preparatory Certificate at the Language Centre of University College, London. He is a director of the Henry George Foundation of Great Britain and vice chairman of the Coalition for Economic Justice #
  • Prof. Ian Cunningham is Visiting Professor in Organizational Capability at Middlesex University; chair of Strategic Developments International Ltd and chair of the Centre for Self Managed Learning.
  • Dr. Jean Hardy has been a university teacher for most of her working life, in sociology, political philosophy and, later on, in transpersonal psychology. She is author of A Psychology with a Soul.
  • Tony Hodgson is a management consultant, systems theorist and inventor of The World Game. He is a Member of the International Futures Forum.
  • Chris Wright is author of Your Wake up Call, A Community Manifesto, and The Sufficient Community. He is a founder member of Action for Sustainable Living.
  • David Lorimer is an author and lecturer who is Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network. He is also a Member of the International Futures Forum.

 

18. Last Words

“The first thing I have to say respecting what are called new views is that they are now new, but the very oldest of thoughts cast into the mould of these new times. The light is always identical in its composition, but it falls on a great variety of objects, and by so falling is first revealed to us, not in its own form, for it is formless"

From “The Transcendentalist” a talk by R.W. Emerson in 184


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