Peter Berry will play Irish harp music and improvisation to accompany guided meditations to connect us with spiritual allies inherent in the natural world with whom we can work to bring empowering, co-creative balance into our lives and the Life of the World in these challenging times of upheaval.
Seen any big changes in the world lately? What is the optimum mode of human presence on the planet that we can envision to replace the outmoded one as it falls away? Guided by cosmologist Thomas Berry's statement "The Universe is a communion of subjects, not a collection of objects", we'll work with diverse sources of inspiration and guidance from contemporary and traditional folkloric sources. The session will have an experiential focus, and we will explore consciousness connections together through storytelling with harp music, and meditation. We’ll attune to primal spiritual consciousness inherent in the natural world in shared responsibility and collaboration, using effective techniques that anyone can use to deepen their personal attunement to Divinity within the Natural World. There will be significant content in the afternoon workshop focused on the Sidhe, including the opportunity to connect and commune with them through guided meditation with harp improvisation.
The intuition of the world as alive and vibrant and mysterious is something woven into the imaginative life of every child. Yet is easily lost and once lost can only be reacquired through a renewal of the imagination and spirit ... It is so easy to fall back into habit of inattention and torpor, to lose one's hold on the fragile thread of awareness that allows the world to be taken in and experienced as sacred."
–Douglas Christie, The Blue Sapphire of the Mind
To Register: Music & Meditation with Peter Berry $12.00
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