We wish you a beautiful "back-to-school" season. Perhaps it means sending your kids off to a new grade. Or maybe you want to explore a fresh approach to your inner work or initiate a new group. And, then for some, back-to-school means exploring
new writings.
In this issue of the enews we announce opportunities that span all of these, including
Living with Heart, a chapter from Joe Naft's
Inner Frontier-Cultivating a Spiritual Presence. For the first time, our newsletter also includes writing from Roberta Chromey, via an excerpt from
Not Your Ordinary Life. We are also pleased to feature a review of Pierce Butler's latest publication,
A Child of the Sun.
Thanks to these authors and everyone, near and far, for participating and contributing.
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"A Weekend of Bread"
with Professor Bread, Gary Gomer
Come for one session or for all
The joy of breadmaking
Help inaugurate our first sessions as an educational campus, open to the public
Sept 17-18 at Camp Caravan
Registrar@campcaravan.org
978 -249- 3505 (and leave a message)
 Dr. Gary Gomer, aka Professor Bread, originator of the breadmaking-in-the-schools program teaches a multitude of students and their parents in New York City. These sessions focus on the joy of breadmaking and how simple it is to make it at home.
Open to the local community, come and work side-by-side with Royalston residents. No previous bread or Work experience is required.
Led by Gary Gomer, Saturday morning we'll learn how to create a superb sourdough rye bread that we'll enjoy with soup for a magnificent vegetarian lunch.
That afternoon, join Village School parents for a child-focused session making raisin whole wheat, followed by foccacia in the late afternoon.
We invite you and your family and friends to help make our public sessions a success. Please spread the word.
Celebrate this milestone with a private session on Sunday. Start with a morning exercise that we'll lead, or come afterwards for our bagel bake-off and brunch with your Camp Caravan friends. We'll enjoy fresh local farm eggs, homegrown vegetables and cream cheese, New York City lox, and, of course, our bagels, right from the oven.
Please RSVP, as we want to have the right amount of everything to share with you. Donations accepted.
Sept 17
9:00-1:15
Learn artisan preparation for sourdough rye bread that we'll serve for lunch. Gary also introduces focaccia prep and the creation of a bagel sponge. Session includes vegetarian lunch. $20pp.
2:00-4:00 - Hands-on breadmaking with cranberry or raisin bread for children of all ages and their parents. Culminates with eating fresh bread with homemade butter. $5 pp or $15 per family. All welcome.
4:15-6:00 - Foccacia prep and next steps for bagels. Learn to make a quick mouth-watering foccacia with handcrafted toppings. We'll savor our breads with light late-summer beverages afterwards. $10pp
Sept 18
7:30-Morning exercise (optional)
8:30-11:00 -We'll finish and bake our bagels and share a beautiful brunch together. By donation.
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 "In his latest novel, A Child of the Sun, Pierce Butler paints for us a picture of the inner and outer life of the writer Katherine Mansfield in her last days at Chateau Prieure. He deftly weaves together the characters' well-known historical accounts of their time there - some bent slightly to need and purpose - with his own keen understanding and experience of the Work.
Together they provide a seamless account that is at once a captivating story, a loving portrait of a fellow writer, and a vivid and sincere depiction of inner work and personal transformation.
I recommend this book and am myself looking forward to re-reading it once again. "
--Tim White, Camp Caravan group member
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In last week's Saturday meeting, we agreed that
 reading the Bhagavad Gita (BG) allowed us to see many ideas that fully resonate with our Work experience and inspire new understanding.
It's not to late to join us for the final meeting. We will discuss the BG's last three chapters. We will also discuss our next undertaking for the book club. Whether it be portions of Mr. B's correspondence courses, or a look at "Making a New World", we invite your participation, either in person, or remotely.
The final BG book club meeting takes place
Tuesday, September 13 at 7:30 p.m. at the home of Steve F. To participate via Skype or for directions, please
contact Steve in advance.
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An excerpt from
Not your ordinary life
by Roberta Chromey
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Roberta Chromey
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Mrs. Popoff, who had studied with P.D. Ouspensky, was a teacher in the Work. She prepared many of her younger students to go to Sherborne, J. G. Bennett's Fourth Way School in England. To that end, in the summers of 1971 and '72, she held seminars at the Pinnacle, her house on Long Island, New York. Here is one of my recollections from that time.
The mid-day meals reminded me of stories about Hemingway as they were long, interactive affairs that went on for hours. But instead of discussing literature, we would share how we'd fared with a given task, or continue a discussion of a Work idea. Read more....
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Late summer/early fall
schedule
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We meet weekly, starting
at 7:30 a.m.
Saturdays at Camp Caravan
Sat, Sept 10,17, 24, Oct 1, 8
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New group
forming in Amherst Massachusetts on
Monday evenings
Explore!
Contact us
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UPCOMING EVENTS
Sept 10 Sat meet
Sept 12 Amherst meet
Sept 13-Book club meet at Steve's 7:30 pm
Sept 17- Bread events
Sept 18- Private bread session with brunch
Sept 24 Sat meet
Oct 1 Sat meet
View Village School events
here.
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Sensation - What is it?
Led by Lance Dom
Guided meditations, practical work, Movements, inner sharing.
As part of the weekend, we will continue work on the grounds near the memorial for Pierre and Vivien Elliot.
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YOGA, the SCIENCE OF INNER TRANSFORMATION
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Friday, Oct 28, 2016
7:00 p.m.
R.W. Black Recreation & Senior Center
48 Lebanon Street, Hanover, NH
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Living with Heart
By Joe Naft
Just as there is a range of value of our thoughts, from passing, automatic ones, to our deepest, intentional contemplation to unexpected creative vision, there is also a range of value in our emotions.
Our emotions define what matters to us. Some indicate long-term, recurring themes showing what is truly important to us. Others are fleeting, indicative only of a passing concern or interest.
Inner work on emotions has two levels. One is dealing with all that can go wrong with our emotions. The other concerns refining our emotions as a path into the Sacred.
We all know various ways our emotions can cause us problems. One such class is where a particular emotional state overwhelms us, especially in a protracted or recurring manner.
For example, a legitimate concern can become an ongoing anxiety that colors our whole psyche. Or a passing unhappiness or ennui becomes a persistent depression. Or a minor insult elicits a festering anger or a debilitating self-doubt. And so on.
Looking at such problematic
emotions from the perspective of our spiritual path, we see that they can drain the inner energy we need to practice presence
and that they can subvert our intention to engage with the methods of the path. But those methods themselves can be our salvation.
Big-mind meditation helps us learn to accept all that arises in us, without feeding the problematic emotions. The same is true for the practice of contact with body sensation
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Camp Caravan is located in central rural Massachusetts, about an hour from Amherst, MA and 1.5 hours from Boston.
Come to 255 South Royalston Rd., Royalston MA 01368
Park on the premises
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