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DEEPER ORDERS OF REALITY
Creating Our Future
By
Betty J. Kovács, Ph.D.
A NEW CONSCIOUSNESS IS EMERGING
ON OUR PLANET
The CURRENT PLANETARY CRISIS is forcing the human species to choose between extinction and transformation. The tension of these opposing possibilities is placing us on the razor's edge of choice. On the one side, we are awakening to the vastness of who we are and the profound sacredness of our place in the universe. On the other side, our fear and lack of consciousness are pulling us into rigid, exclusive and violent solutions. Yet Deeper Orders of Reality are Emerging Out of This Crisis.
Each seminar will explore how these DEEPER ORDERS are working with the individual to shift our perspective and shape our future. |
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I. THE POWER OF ONE
The Power of One lies in discovering our particular uniqueness —our key to deeper orders of reality.
In spite of the fact that Western culture has differentiated the individual from the group and developed the principles of equality, justice and freedom, the individual is still trapped in old mythologies that limit our ability to live life fully. These mythologies are explored along with the conscious and unconscious techniques that have been employed to ensure their perpetuation. Also explored are the empowering new mythologies that are emerging out of unique individual experience and various fields of inquiry, including science. (3.50 Hours)
DVD or CD $25.00 per set
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II. DREAMS, VISIONS AND THE HUMAN MIND
Our health and well-being require that we value our dreams, our life stories, our visions, and our feelings as much as we value our ability to think about ideas.
The language of picture, symbol, and metaphor is our first language, the "native" language of the human species. Not only does this language reflect our relationship to the outer world, but it also reflects our unique relationship to deeper orders of reality: it is the living fiber that connects us to multidimensional worlds. It is the language of the sensuous world, the body, instinct, feeling, memory, dream and vision. And it is the language of myth — the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves and our place in the universe. Dreams, visions and myths shift our perspective, provide new modes of resolving problems, and trigger neurological mechanisms in the brain that open us to the most profound and expansive potentials of the human mind. (3.50 Hours) DVD or CD $25.00 per set
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III. WHY DEATH WON'T GO AWAY
Sooner or later we all must face what we fear most: the death of someone we love.
Our attitude toward death is our cultural inheritance from a world that has closed itself off from other dimensions of reality. When someone we love dies, we are devastated because we experience absence from the material world as a total loss. Yet, a new consciousness is emerging: to be initiated into Life one must be initiated into the Mystery of Death. Just as birth is the manifestation of life in this dimension, death is the dynamic process of birth into another dimension. (3.50 Hours) DVD or CD $25.00 per set
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IV. THE SHAMANIC ROOTS OF WESTERN CULTURE
When a culture reaches the limits of its stability and life itself is threatened, there is a crucial window of opportunity for that society to re-member the roots of its cultural development.
Traditionally, the shaman's role was to be in tune with the creative principles of the universe. We return to this early period of our development not to recapture it as a way of life for us today but, rather, to ignite these principles within ourselves. The shamans stayed in tune with these principles through the dreaming, symbolic, visionary mind that is sensitive to multidimensional worlds and nonphysical realities. It is these principles with which we need to realign ourselves so that we can create a sustainable world. (3.50 Hours) DVD or CD $25.00 per set
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V. THE DREAM THAT WOULDN'T DIE
We need a world-view which shows how our deepest aspirations are related to the essential structure of the universe.—Dr. Haridas Chaudhuri.
What is this dream in Western culture that has refused to die? It is the multifaceted reflection of our deepest longing to be consciously related to the essential structure of the universe—the Source of all Being. It is the ancient dream of the shaman, the Mystery traditions, the teachings of Jesus, the High Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Rosicrucian Enlightenment, and German and English High Romanticism. In each of these creative periods the dream emerged but was never allowed to develop. Today we are experiencing a pervasive reemergence of this ancient dream. (3.50 Hours) DVD or CD $25.00 per set
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