WEEK OF OCTOBER 21, 2024

A RETURN TO PEACE AND BALANCE WITH TOM SEARCY

On Tuesday, October 29th from 5;30 to 6:30

 While it will be helpful to you and the entire community to attend as many meditation sessions as possible, please know you are welcome to attend any or all of the sessions as your schedule allows.

Throughout 2024 stress, anxiety and a feeling of being overwhelmed has been increasing.among a broad spectrum of the populace Almost no one has been able to avoid it. If even a few of us maintain our internal peace, kindness and balance, we can exert a profound positive impact on our community.

The program will have three parts. 

1. Singing of the tones created over two decades ago and sung worldwide. These tones are helpful in creating greater conscious awareness for those toning and the community at large. (20 minutes)
2. A letting go/gratitude exercise popularized by Dr.Joe Dispenza that has proven beneficial to physical, emotional and spiritual well-being.(15 minutes)
3. A silent meditation bringing our attention to our heart, creating peace and balance within and allowing for a sharing of well-being among those in our group and our community. (15

DAY OF THE DEAD WITH JACQUEE DICKEY

On Monday, October 28th at from 7 to 8:30 pm

“In the time of their visitation, they will shine forth,

and they will run like sparks through the stubble…” Wisdom3:7

As we approach All Hallow’s Eve, many believe the veil between the worlds thins and

we connect more easily to those who have gone before us into the next realm. Combining the spiritual traditions of the Anishinaabe Gebuyquay (Ghost Supper), Mexican El Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) and the Christian Allhallowtide, we will create a sacred space to honor those we have lost.

We will be building an ofrenda (altar), use Native American drumming and singing and gather in community ritual to share the faces and memories of our loved ones. You are encouraged to draw a picture, bring a quote or funny story, build a diorama or frame a picture and bring it to put on the altar. Whatever you create can have images and symbols of things the person loved or things that remind you of them.

In the tradition of the Ghost Supper please bring a dish of fruit, nuts, breads, or vegies. We will share these together and leave some for the ancestors and the creatures that live on the land. Love Offering for Sacred Waters $uggested. Weather permitting, we will be outdoors, dress appropriately.

SACRED WATERS KIRTAN

Thursday, November 7th from 7 - 8:30 pm

What Is "Kirtan"?

Chanting is found in many of the world's religious traditions: the Gregorian mode of Catholics, the Zikr of Islamic mystics, the Judaic chant of the Qur'an, the Mahayana sutras of Buddhist monks, the Bhajans of India, and in the rituals of indigenous traditions of African, Hawaiian, Aboriginal, and Native American shamans. But chanting was usually reserved for the realm of monastics, cantors, priests, monks,sannyasins or shamans. Often the vocal or melodic structure of chants took years of study, training, and apprenticeship for chant leaders. From the ancient Byzantine octoechos modal structure to the overtone throat singing of Tibetan Buddhists, these devotional rituals were not accessible to the masses of religious followers. But what is unique about kirtanin the history of chant is that what began as an Indian non-violent social reform movement brought about devotional singing in a simplified version across caste lines to everyone. We see a Christian counterpart in the Taize movement in Europe which flowered in the 1940's.