Upcoming Events
SPECIAL EVENT
Thursday, May 12 at 7 p.m.
Thursday, May 19 at 7 p.m.
Wednesday, May 25 at 7 p.m.
Thursday, May 26 at 7 p.m.
Thursday, May 5 at 7 p.m.
"Yogas of Dream & Sleep"
Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
(Snow Lion Publications)
Centuries ago, Tibetan yogis developed spiritual practices that use dream and sleep as a spiritual path. Dream is a meeting place—life meets death, the past and the future blend, practitioners can meet dakinis, teachers and guardians, and the personal meets the impersonal. The practice of dream yoga is not done only during the night. In it’s complete form it is a practice that spans every moment—waking and sleeping. Foundational practices, done during the day, change the practitioner's relationship to all experience, developing strong presence and the awareness of the dream-like nature of life. Ultimately, the dream practice gives way to the inseparable unity of emptiness and luminosity that is the base of the mind and of all that exists.
Saturday, May 7 at 7 p.m.
“I Need Your Love: Is That True?”
Byron Katie
(Crown Publishing)
The Work of Byron Katie is a deeply transformative process of inquiry that is helping people around the world approach their problems from a perspective of clarity and inner peace.
As a species, we human beings tend to put our happiness on hold until something changes. We'll be happy, we think, when we get what we believe we want or need: more money, a healthier body, a more attractive or understanding partner, a loving mother, children who behave. Many of us spend our lives trying desperately to get the world and the people in it to satisfy our desires. No wonder we don't feel any lasting sense of peace; mentally we're continually engaged in war with reality. In 1986, Byron Katie experienced the profound realization that without any story about how life is supposed to be, we are left with peace far beyond what we hoped to find through wish fulfillment. On the other side of our myths about reality is reality itself, indescribably joyful-and unknowable as long as we keep trying to change it. Only when we give up "what should be" can we experience the perfection of "what is." Byron Katie is also author of “Loving What Is.”
Tickets: $12, or buy the book and receive TWO FREE TICKETS.
Location: First Congregational Church, 900 High St., Santa Cruz
"High Holy Adventure"
R. Alan Fuller
(AuthorHouse)
Through disciplined pursuit and fortuitous encounter, R. Alan Fuller was privileged to work closely with extraordinary shamans and medical mediums of our times. Fuller’s authentic account of his final initiation by a renowned Peruvian shaman, suspected by scholars to have been Castaneda’s secretive informant, takes the reader from high weirdness in the Nazca desert to an uncanny finale at seventeen thousand feet in the Andes mountains. A sacred promise made to the shaman later collides with raw, on the flesh consequences that deliver the author into the presence of miracles, receiving hands on instruction from a four hundred year old saint via the full trance medium “John of God” of Brazil.
"The Healing Power of Hado"
Toyoko Matsuzaki
(Beyond Words Publishing)
According to ancient Chinese medicine and philosophy, everything releases energy, or chi. In the Japanese spiritual community, hado is a similar life-force energy that encompasses healing properties and transformative powers. Literally translated, it means wave motion or vibration. Once we become aware of it in our everyday lives, hado can spark great changes in our physical space and emotional well-being. In The Healing Power of Hado, Toyoko Matsuzaki shares stories of her experiences as a hado master, demystifies hado energy, and explains how we can access this unique source of power. Those who practice hado at the master level can heal physical ailments of their own and others, discover their latent clairvoyant abilities, and even receive messages from departed loved ones.
FRIDAY, MAY 20: Hado Consultations
"The Quantum Doctor"
Amit Goswami, Ph.D.
-- Featured in the film "What the Bleep Do We Know?!"
(Hampton Roads)
The Quantum Doctor boldly reinterprets the leading methods of alternative medicine—homeopathy, Chinese medicine and acupuncture, and Ayurveda—and of conventional medicine from the viewpoint of quantum physics. Amit Goswami shows that these seemingly different models can be integrated into a new multi-tiered system based on the new "science within consciousness." At the heart of all illness and healing is consciousness, Goswami says. And "The Quantum Doctor" gives physicians, practitioners and patients a whole new way of applying medicine, with a greater likelihood of healing. Goswami calls it integral medicine, and it's based on an integration of the underlying metaphysics of all medicine models. "This is a very new approach. This can be the legitimate basis for a paradigm shift in medicine."
"Waking Up to What You Do"
Diane Eshin Rizzetto
(Shambhala Publications)
The practice of the Zen precepts can transform our relationship to the world by leading us to a keen awareness of the motivations behind every aspect of our behavior, allowing us to act from the kindness and insight that is our true nature. The precepts are usually thought of as Buddhist moral guidelines-which they indeed are-but they are also far more than that, as Diane Rizzetto shows. They are a form of Buddhist practice that does not necessarily involve meditation. Anyone can do this practice, and it is rich enough to be worked with for a lifetime. The precepts are ultimately a practice about choice, about responsibility and being awake to the motivation and consequences of our actions.