Kundalini Splendor

Beloved Friends and Family,

I hope this finds you well and warm as the earth shifts seasons and our psyches follow as best they can.

What a strange time in the world, no?  Especially here in the U.S.  I feel my consciousness expanding and my heart breaking more radically open.  I have always felt (I suspect you have, too) that the line between social action and spiritual practice was illusory, but more than ever now I recognize my work around claiming the shadow of white privilege and the dismantling of structural racism as a holy, holy path.  It is changing me.

I would like to invite you to a couple of upcoming events designed to refill the cup of our sacred activist souls. At the end of this month, I will be a featured speaker at the legendary SAND (Science and Nonduality) Conference in San Jose, California.  As a pre-conference event, I am offering an intimate daylong retreat called “PRAYER OF QUIET: Teresa of Avila and the Restless Mind” on October 25.  You do not have to be registered for the conference to attend this workshop.  If the title rings your bell, you can sign up here.

Prayer of Quiet: Saint Teresa of Avila and Restless Mind
Thursday, October 25, 2018  |  2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Link

Online workshop descriptions:
https://www.scienceandnonduality.com/SAND18/US_Program.html


Registration link: (Click on the green "tickets" button and then scroll down to see the workshop tickets)
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sand-2018-the-mystery-of-being-human-tickets-41897756317

The True Meeting of Science and Spirituality
In early December, I will be at the Rowe Center in Massachusetts for a weekend retreat on navigating the path of grief and loss as a transformational journey.  We will be drawing on the wellspring of teachings and poetry from the mystics across the spiritual traditions, singing sacred chants, engaging in deep dialog and sitting together in contemplative silence.  If you have been carrying an experience that has transfigured the topography of your being and seek a safe space to be present with it, please join us at this beautiful center.

Loss and Longing: Grief as a Spiritual Path
December 7 @ 8:00 am - December 9 @ 5:00 pm
Link
With love,

Mirabai

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Mirabai Starr writes creative non-fiction and contemporary translations of sacred literature. She taught Philosophy and World Religions at the University of New Mexico-Taos for 20 years and now teaches and speaks internationally on contemplative practice and inter-spiritual dialog. A certified bereavement counselor, Mirabai helps mourners harness the transformational power of loss. She has received critical acclaim for her revolutionary new translations of the mystics, John of the Cross, Teresa of Avila and Julian of Norwich. She is the award-winning author of Mother of God Similar to Fire, a collaboration with iconographer, William Hart McNichols, GOD OF LOVE: A Guide to the Heart of Judaism, Christianity and Islam and CARAVAN OF NO DESPAIR: A Memoir of Loss and Transformation.  Her latest book, WILD MERCY: Living the Fierce & Tender Wisdom of the Women Mystics, is forthcoming Spring 2019. She lives with her extended family in the mountains of northern New Mexico.

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