When
Pathway 4: January 31, 2015, 9:30-4:00
Pathway 5: February 28, 2015, 9:30-4:00
Pathway 6: March 21, 2015, 9:30-4:00
Pathway 7: April 11, 2015, 9:30-4:00P
Retreats are limited to 25 participants. Bring a bag lunch..
Contact
Hope Horton
Timberlake Earth Sanctuary
1501 Rock Creek Dairy Road
Whitsett, NC 27377
The Evolutionary Pathways Series
Transitioning into Transformation
with Carolyn Toben
Pathway 4: Intuition: Wisdom of the Heart
Saturday, January 31, 2015, 9:30-4:00
“We have more profound dimensions than we realize. We have the capacity to awaken to the inner life of things.” Thomas Berry
In this pathway, Thomas guides us more deeply into the inner terrain: “There is another way of knowing that is connected to the heart of the universe. It is a numinous awareness, an intuitive consciousness that resides beneath the rational faculties and is actually the approach to transformation. We are beginning to see with new eyes through a new, yet very ancient intuitive awareness that has been lost and is now being recovered.”
For this retreat we will focus on recovering our personal knowledge of the intuitive way of knowing that has been buried under the past four centuries of knowing that has been directed primarily toward analysis and use. We will seek awareness of the Spirit within guiding our lives, and practice awakening to the inner life of outer things through meditations, solo time, artistic experiences and journaling.
Saturday, February 28, 2015, 9:30-4:00
“We are here to remedy time.” Thomas Berry
The evolutionary process calls upon us to understand a new a relationship to time that allows us to see ourselves as integral with the evolving universe, always in a state of becoming. This retreat offers ways of breaking out of our linear time fixations with perspectives that bring us back into relationship with our deeper soul identities. Drawing on the insights of Thomas Berry, along with other philosophers, poets, and diverse cultural traditions as well as the wisdom of the earth, we will move into the spacious silence of soul time to recover our balance and the sacred gifts of time in the immediacy of the present moment.
Presentations and reflections and practices along with meditative time in the natural world will guide our experiences in soul time.
Pathway 6: Love, Presence and Identity
Saturday, March 21, 2015, 9:30-4:00
In this statement, Thomas guides us to the heart of spiritual wisdom by bringing the inner life together with the outer world, giving us a way forward through a new set of eyes that reconciles all opposites. Love including, yet beyond, personal attraction, becomes the unifying energy that links all persons and things. “The sense of the sacred is at the heart of it all,” he said, and he led us to see it through the beauty, wonder, and intimacy of the natural world where we discover a new spiritually sensitive presence to all living forms – and a unity with them. We also discover that through Love, we have a new identity with the earth, the cosmos and the evolutionary process of life itself. “We are evolving now from a personal identity to a sense of identity with an emergent universe,” Thomas said.
In this retreat we will explore further enlarged meanings of love through meditative earth walks, solos experiences and journalling to reflect on and integrate new understanding.
Pathway 7: Transitioning into Our Sacred Stories
Saturday, April 11, 2015, 9:30-4:00
“So what you are, the world is: and without your transformation there can be no transformation of the world.” Krishnamurti
As our journeys continue into this last retreat of the series, we will consider each of the evolutionary pathways as they help transition us into the transformations needed to support the new heart/mind necessary at this time for both our personal and planetary healing:
In 2000, she founded the Center for Education, Imagination, and the Natural World at Timberlake Earth Sanctuary, a work inspired by cultural historian Thomas Berry which offers children and teachers a new understanding of the human-earth relationship in experiencing the living world around them. In the last ten years of his life, Thomas and Carolyn spent many hours in deep discussion regarding his foundational evolutionary thinking, and in 2012, Carolyn published the fruits of these encounters in Recovering a Sense of the Sacred: Conversations with Thomas Berry In 2014, Carolyn received the Sacred Universe Award from The Well, a Spiritual Retreat Center in LaGrange, Ilinois.
For more information, contact Hope Horton at hopematrix@fastmail.com