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Sandra S. Alzona
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Date Posted: 02:45:35 04/07/05 Thu
Hello Everybody!
Been a long time!
Would like to invite this community to join the Humanity's Team Worldwide, a civil rights movement for the soul, for a New Spirituality, founded by Neale Donald Walsch! There are groups in each country, including Humanity's Team Philippines.
For an introduction to the Humanity’s Team Worldwide, please visit:
http://www.humanitysteam.com/leadership.html
You may find your country at this site:
http://www.humanitysteam.com/leadership.html
Feel free to join the Philippine Team by simply joining our yahoogroup:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/htphils
Or email:
Country Coordinator
Mr. Art Subijano at alsinsure@yahoo.com
Deputy Country Coordinator
Sandra S. Alzona at sandra_alzona_HT@hotmail.com
WHAT’S NEW WITH HUMANITY’S TEAM WORLDWIDE?
http://www.humanitysteam.org/gathering
"Seeds of Transformation: Toward a Spiritual Renaissance in a Time of Fundamental Change"
Neale Donald Walsch, Bruce Chilton, Huston Smith, Andrew Harvey, John Naisbitt, Alex Grey and some 20 other distinguished and celebrated thinkers from the worlds of religion, spirituality, science, art and music at a groundbreaking international conference at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, June 3 to 5, 2005.
"Seeds of Transformation: Toward a Spiritual Renaissance in a Time of Fundamental Change" will explore the ramifications of an emerging trend leading to widespread shift in some of people's most sacred beliefs about God, life and humanity. The conference will also serve as the site of the 2005 Worldwide Gathering of Humanity's Team, a non-profit, pluralistic movement.
Featured presenters include:
· Leaders across faiths, including Muslim, Christian and Jewish faiths, as well as Eastern, indigenous and other spiritual and wisdom traditions
· Professors in theoretical physics, psychology and religious studies
· Noted authors and filmmakers
· Emmy and Grammy Award-winning musical artists
· Humanity's Team's own Neale Donald Walsch
SPEAKERS
http://www.humanitysteam.org/gathering/speakers.html
"Seeds of Transformation: Toward a Spiritual Renaissance in a Time of Fundamental Change" brings together some two dozen speakers, including world renowned authors, theologians, scientists, trend watchers, and spiritual leaders of Eastern, Western and indigenous faiths to examine people's most sacred beliefs about God, life and humanity, and explore how and why some of those beliefs are currently shifting in important ways.
In addition to workshops and lectures, the event will feature special screenings of award-winning films depicting the changing religious and spiritual climate, uplifting performances by Emmy and Grammy Award-winning musicians, a live production of a critically acclaimed religious drama, inspiring sculptures and paintings of scriptural figures and spiritual expression, and an outdoor ecumenical service officiated by clergy from a range of faith traditions.
The following confirmed speakers will be presenting at this event:
1. Feisal Abdul Rauf, chief executive of the American Sufi Muslim Association and author of What's Right With Islam, who will participate in a panel discussion about the commonalities and differences among Judaism, Christianity and Islam
2. Lawrence Carter, dean of the Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel at Morehouse College, who will speak about the need for a "new spirituality"
3. Bruce Chilton, professor of religion at Bard and author of Rabbi Jesus: An Intimate Biography and Rabbi Paul: An Intellectual Biography, who will also participate in the panel discussion and give a talk about momentous changes in religious and spiritual history
4. William Commanda, traditional Algonquin Elder from the Kitigan Zibi Reserve in Maniwaki, Quebec, who will speak about the spirituality of native people
5. Phil Cousineau, writer, scholar, and documentary filmmaker, who will speak with Elder Commanda about the delicate balance of aboriginal spirituality, culture and life, and introduce an award-winning documentary on the subject, A Seat at the Table; Cousineau will separately explore the sudden rise in spiritual pilgrimages around the world
6. Armando Favazza, professor of psychiatry at the University of Missouri-Columbia Medical School and author of PsychoBible: Behavior, Religion and the Holy Book, who will examine the impact of the Bible on human behavior today and throughout history
7. Robert Forman, director of the Forge Institute and author of Grassroots Spirituality, who will analyze the phenomenon of grassroots spirituality and why it is emerging as a potent influence on society
8. Andrew Frankel, storyteller, who will share multicultural stories from many of the world's sacred traditions
9. Alex Grey, visionary artist, who will give an illustrated talk about art as an expression of spirit, consciousness, love and transformation
10. Andrew Harvey, poet, writer, religious scholar and teacher, who will speak about "mystical activism"
11. Kala Iyengar, coordinator of the Peace Village Learning and Retreat Center, who will facilitate an experience of the power of spiritual peace through inner silence and whose members will present a puppet show about the fable The Little Soul and the Sun
12. Stephen Larsen, biographer of Joseph Campbell and author of The Mything Side of the Mind, whose talk will distinguish between "discerning spiritual authority" and "hearing voices" and explore the growth of fundamentalist thinking in different faiths
13. Jane Marie Law, regional secretary of the American Academy of Religion and professor of world religions at Cornell University, who will speak about religion as a vital source for artistic achievements, for fostering social harmony and for fomenting world conflicts
14. John Naisbitt, trends researcher and author of the forthcoming A World Between Eras, who will speak about an emerging global spiritual revival
15. Carol Ochs, director of graduate studies at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion and author of Reaching Godward: Landmarks on the Spiritual Way, who will participate in the panel discussion about the commonalities and differences among Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and speak about how belief shapes our consciousness
16. Jana Riess, religion book editor of Publishers Weekly and author of What Would Buffy Do? The Vampire Slayer as Spiritual Guide, who will speak about the changing portrayal of faith and spirituality on television
17. Huston Smith, visiting professor of religious studies at the University of California, Berkeley
18. John Shelby Spong, retired Episcopal Bishop of Newark, New Jersey
19. Betsy Stang, interfaith minister and co-founder of the United Religions Initiative, who will coordinate and participate in an outdoor ecumenical religious service officiated by clergy from a range of faith traditions
20. Neale Donald Walsch, founder of Humanity's Team and author of What God Wants and the Conversations With God series of books
21. Arthur Zajonc, professor of physics at Amherst College and author of Catching the Light: The Entwined History of Light and Mind, who will speak about the growing convergence of science and spirituality
Commitments from other speakers are pending. Speakers and topics are subject to change.
The conference will also be the site of a special meeting of the Spiritual Caucus at the United Nations, which will discuss the U.N.'s evolving spiritual role over the next 20 years.
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