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Preliminary program:
GURDJIEFF TEACHING A two day seminar with
Rådhusgaten 4, Oslo
Saturday September 24th 2011 8:30-9:00 Arrival and registration 9:00 Meditation 9:45-11:00 Is Work on Ourselves Necessary? Does the quality of life on our planet depend on our inner work? Can I be more sensitive toward the energy within me that seeks to evolve?
11:00-11:30 Coffee break 11:30-12-45 Moving from Reaction to Response Reaction at any level is a consequence of the working of laws of the corresponding world. Response is possible only when I can be free of some of those laws, and therefore inhabit a higher world, at least temporarily.
12-45-14:30 Lunch preparation, exchange over lunch. 14:30-15:30 Film excerpts
15:30-15:45 Short break 15:45-17:00 Combining Sensitivity and Strength in our Daily Life It is difficult but important to be a monk and a warrior at the same time. Only a monk knows when to lay down the arms and to pray, and when to pick up the arms and fight for the essential.
Sunday September 25th 8:30-9:00 Arrivals 9:00 Meditation with Music by Norman Higgins 9:45-11:00 The Right Place for Money, Power and Knowledge The sacred wish for Being when not attended to quite lawfully leads to greed. 11:00-11:30 Coffee break 11:30-12:45 Sacred Action: Life of Service and Sacrifice Only those activities which are initiated by a deep wish for service to the highest can be sacred. Development of conscience naturally leads to a sense of responsibility and of service. Real conscience is intimately connected with the knowledge of my place in the cosmos.
12:45-14:30 Lunch preparation, exchange over lunch.
14:30-15:30 Some preliminary exercises for Body in Movement With Priscilla Murray; Norman Higgins on the Piano
15:30-15:45 Short break 15:45-16:45 Concluding Session and Exchange
16:45-17:00 Music by Norman Higgins
This is the fifth seminar by the Gurdjieff Society in Norway exploring the Great Traditions and the Gurdjieff work with Professor Ravi Ravindra.
Seminar fee: kr 1600,- (students 900,-) incl. meals To reserve a place at the seminar, please pay a deposit of kr 800,- (students 450,-) to account number 0539.52.56663
Ravi Ravindra was born in India and partly educated there. He has a B.Sc. and a Master of Technology degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, a Master of Science and a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Toronto, and a Master of Arts in Philosophy from Dalhousie University. He held post-doctoral fellowships in Physics (University of Toronto), History and Philosophy of Science (Princeton University) and Religion (Columbia University). He was a Member of the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton in 1977 in the School of Natural Sciences, and a Fellow of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study at Shimla in 1978 and 1998. He was the Founding Director of the Threshold Award for Integrative Knowledge, and chair of its international and interdisciplinary selection committees in 1979 and 1980. He was appointed to the nine-member international Board of Judges for the prestigious Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion for 1999-2001. Ravindra is a frequent and popular guest lecturer to university and general audiences in many countries. He was the pilot Professor of Science and Spirituality in 1989 at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, and again in 1991. Under the aegis of the International Theosophical Society in Adyar, Chennai (India), in their School of the Wisdom, Ravindra has taught courses on ‘Essential Unity of Great Religions?’, ‘A Science of Inner Transformation’, ‘Daily Life as Spiritual Practice’ , ‘Introduction to the Bhagavad Gita’, and ‘Levels of Attention in the Yoga Sutras’. Recipient of many fellowships, awards, visiting professorships and research grants, Ravindra is the author of more than a hundred papers in Physics, Philosophy and Religion, and of the following books: - Theory of Seismic Head Waves; - Whispers from the Other Shore: Spiritual Search East and West; - The Yoga of the Christ (republished as Christ the Yogi; and a revised edition as Gospel of John in the Light of Indian Mysticism); - Science and Spirit - Krishnamurti: Two Birds on One Tree; - Yoga and the Teaching of Krishna ; - Heart Without Measure: Gurdjieff Work with Madame de Salzmann ; - Science and the Sacred; - Centered Self Without Being Self-Centered: Remembering Krishnamurti; - Spiritual Roots of Yoga: Royal Path to Freedom. - The Wisdom of Patñjali’s Yoga Sutras: A New Translation and Guide At present Ravi Ravindra is Professor Emeritus at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada, from where he retired as Professor and Chair of Comparative Religion, Professor of International Development Studies and Adjunct Professor of Physics. He has also held a chair as professor of Philosophy. Ravindra is the Series Editor of an eight volume series dealing with The Inner Journey in the major spiritual traditions of the world, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam Native American and Gurdjieff.
PROGRAM FRA SEMINARET I 2010:
WHO AM I? An Exploration of Gurdjieff's Inner Work Saturday September 25th 2010 8:30-9:00 Arrival and registration 9:00 Meditation 9:45-11:00 "What is man that thou art mindful of him?" Place of human beings in the ray of creation. Our oneness with all there is, but also our uniqueness, both as individuals as well as species 11:00-11:30 Coffee break 11:30-12-45 "Everything is in the body...Your body is not only yours" 12-45-14:30 Lunch preparation, exchange over lunch; dishes. 14:30-15:30 Film excerpts focusing on Movements. Norman Higgins on the piano 15:30-15:45 Short break 15:45-17:00 Awakening of the heart
and resulting sense of wonder and service. Sunday September 26th 8:30-9:00 Arrivals 9:00 Meditation 9:45-11:00 Awakening of the mind 11:00-11:30 Coffee break 11:30-12:45 Harmonization of the centres Active attention, a tool to inner freedom 12:45-14:30 Lunch preparation, exchange over lunch; dishes. 14:30-15:30 Film excerpts focusing on Gurdjieff as a teacher, and some of the teachers that followed him. Norman Higgins on the Piano 15:30-15:45 Short break 15:45-17:00 Need for inner transformation and its conditions Work in groups Need to be truly ourselves
Seminarprogram fra 2009:
SEMINARPROGRAM SEPTEMBER 2008:
GURDJIEFF WORK and SPIRITUAL SEARCH
Program for seminaret i 2008 LØRDAG 27. SEPTEMBER 8.30 - 17.00 WHY GURDJIEFF WORK NOW? The difficulty lies in being a monk and a soldier at the same time, in knowing how to lay down one's arms to pray and how to do battle only for what is essential. Only the monk can know when he must do battle. TRANSFORMATION IN THE EAST Based mostly on the Yogas in the Bhagavad-Gita. TRANSFORMATION IN THE WEST Based mostly on the ideas of discipleship and baptism in the Gospel of John (Johannes-evangeliet).
SØNDAG 28. SEPTEMBER 9.00 - 17.00 INTEGRATION OF EAST AND WEST IN THE GURDJIEFF WORK Further exploration in small groups Film: GURDJIEFF - Seekers of the Truth. Introduction by Ravi Ravindra. Exchange; Questions-answers.
There will be select music by Gurdjieff and DeHartman played by the composer and pianist Norman Higgins in connection with the talks and exchanges. Norman Higgins has given several concerts from the Gurdjieff repertoire, including at 'Den Gamle Logen' in Oslo
SEMINARPROGRAM SEPTEMBER 2007:
EXPLORING THE GURDJIEFF WORK
Program for seminaret i 2007: RAVI RAVINDRA
LØRDAG 15. SEPTEMBER Perspectoves from the Great Traditions of the East and the West. THE RELEVANCE OF GURDJIEFF'S TEACHING IN OUR TIMES Film: GURDJIEFF - Seekers of the Truth. Filmens Hus. Introduksjon ved Ravi Ravindra.
SØNDAG 16. SEPTEMBER THE AROUSING OF CONSCIENCE COSMIC ECOLOGY AND THE CURRENT ECOLOGICAL CRISIS.
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