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Welcome to the home of spiritual seekers in the Pacific Northwest!

"There are many paths up the mountain, but when we reach the summit
we all enjoy the same moonlight."    ~ Buddhist saying

On the SpiritPathNow Calendar pages you will find the next step on your spiritual path... 

  • Are you moving towards Yoga? 
  • Perhaps Meditation? 
  • Reiki?
  • Are you drawn to a silent retreat? 
  • Or do you wish to study from a Tai Chi and Qigong Master?
  • Do you have an inquiring mind that wants to delve into metaphysical and esoteric teachings?

SpiritPathNow has gathered the info on events that will move you forward on your spiritual trek all in one place so your choices become easy and intuitive.  Go to the full SPN Calendar website NOW! 

What event is calling to you?

  ~  Tai Chi  ~  Ayur Yoga   ~   Vedanta  ~  Soul Collage  ~  Taize  ~  Reiki   ~  Inquiry Into the Self Satsang   ~  Interfaith Prayer  ~  Open Heart Workshops  ~  Native Hawaiian Island Arts  ~  Body-Based Meditation  ~  Labyrinth Walks  ~  Qigong  ~  Compassionate Communication  ~  Nia  ~  Vinyasa Flow  ~  Kundalini Yoga  ~  Yoga of Sound  ~  Tools for Successful Living  ~  Metaphysics  ~  Sacred Sciences  ~  Contemplative Retreats  ~  Spiritual Concerts  ~  Kirtan  ~  Healing with Spiritual Light  ~  Drum and Journey Circles  ~  Hakomi  ~  Reiki Tummo Healing  ~  Soul of the Heart Sacred Circles  ~  Fire Ceremonies  ~  Zen Meditation  ~  Astrology  ~  Enneagram Workshops  ~  Channeling  ~  Heart of Now gatherings  ~  Merkaba  ~  Hearth of the Dancing Drum  ~  Shamanic Healing Circles  ~  DreamWalks for Spiritual Warriors  ~  HU Sings  ~  Plant Spirit Medicine  ~  Buddhist Retreats  ~ 

We have searched out hundreds of events from across Oregon and Washington and included full descriptions and contact info for you.  Open yourself up to the myriad of possibilities and explore!

See for yourself...
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Customize your subscription to include just the geographic areas you are interested in.  SPN Newsletter updates are always free and include info on two week's worth of events so you can plan ahead instead of on Thursday reading about a workshop that's happening on Saturday and is already full or you've already got plans.

Are we missing some events that are happening in your area?  Let us know about them, and LET THE ORGANIZERS KNOW ABOUT US!  You are our partners in growing this spiritually progressive community!

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Events can be submitted online and will be posted on the SpiritPathNow Calendar pages within 24-48 hours so you don't have to worry about long-lead times to get the word out.  And don't worry about your event budget.  Basic listings are always FREE!  

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10/10/2012

Frequently Asked Questions About The New Spirit-Path-Now Calendar....

:: Frequently Asked Questions ::   


If you are more of a visual learner, click here
for a step-by-step guide complete with example screenshots.

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I tried to update my subscription and it says my email address is invalid, even though you've been sending me your calendar and emails since the beginning! what do you suggest I do?

The NEW CALENDAR will require a NEW SUBSCRIPTION for you to continue getting the weekly updates!"

This is a whole NEW subscription system.  It is totally separate from the older www.SpiritPathNow.com/Eugene website.  Whole new website, whole new subscription system.

I'm copying and pasting the updates into the old system while people are switching over but the best thing is to get your new subscription going and, once you have responded to the email verification and are getting the new weekly updates, THEN you can unsubscribe from the original one.

 

How do I submit an event?

Click on the 'Submit' link in the menu bar, or on the first 'Submit Free Event Listing' big orange button at the top or bottom of the event browse listings. Provide your event contact info, event details, description, date(s), time, and select event categories to help folks find it when they search, put in the location and click 'Submit Event'

How can I change information about our event ? 

Unfortunately, events can't be edited or revised once they are submitted.   Submit a new event with the updated information. 

Use the 'Message to Administration' field and tell us to "DELETE THE OLD EVENT."  Include the original event DATE, TITLE and DESCRIPTION so that we can find the the old event and delete it.

Include "Corrected Event Info" or "New Date" in your new event title.

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How do I cancel an event listing?

Send an email to calendar(at)spiritpathnow.com with the event DATE, TIME, TITLE, and PRESENTER so that we can find the correct event to delete. 

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How long does it take to get posted on the calendar?

You can usually expect to see your event listing in 24-48 hours after submitting it.

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Why do you need my name and email address?

To send you a confirmation email that we received your event and to follow-up if we had any questions about your listing.  When you submit an event we do not add your name or email address to any mailing list.
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What should I include in the title field?
YOUR TITLE MAY BE UP TO 150 CHARACTERS ~ FEEL FREE TO USE IT ALL!  (But please don't 'SHOUT'!  All-cap text will be edited to upper and lower case before publishing.) 
Include the presenter's name after the title.  Include a 'tag line' or subtitle if you have one.  It's also good to include brief info like "6-wk class" or "Free Intro" or "video/discussion" right in the title line.
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How should I format my description?

The first few lines of your 'Description' will be shown as a snippet under your title in our event browse pages.  Use your first paragraph to give readers a teaser about your event to pique their interest beyond just the title.  You can include the logistic details below that.
It looks best if your first paragraph is 'left justified' and if you don't skip any lines.  That way the 'snippet' under your title in the event browse listings doesn't have any 'blank' spaces in it.
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Can I just paste in the info from my other publicity?
Yes.  You can even paste in text formatted in Word and, by clicking on the icon with the "W" it should hold its formatting.
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Can I include an image in my listing?
Yes, but images will only be posted once you upgrade to a Featured Event at the end of the Submit Event process.  No images will be posted with our basic free event listing.
Include an image with your description.  You can upgrade to a Featured Event in the next step after submitting your event.  We will keep your image file information, but not publish it, until we receive confirmation of the upgrade to a Featured Event.     (Click here to read more about the Featured Event options.)
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How do I add an image?
You can add any image that is already on the internet into your description.  We don't have dedicated server space for folks to upload image files directly to our website.
Click on the 'Tree' icon in the description edit bar.  Enter the image URL in the 'Insert/Edit Image' pop-up window.   (Click here for a step-by-step guide' on adding images.)
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How do I show a sliding scale on the cost?
There is a separate 'Cost' field where you can enter anything, text or numbers, so you can specify your cost options there.  However, it is not a 'required' field.  You can leave it blank if you have that info already in your description.
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Do I have to enter every date for an ongoing group?
No.  There are a wide number of options for recurring events including multiple days, weekly options, specific weeks of the month, etc...  
IMPORTANT:  Set the 'End Date' for your ongoing events for when you know there is a break from the usual meeting days (i.e. holiday). Then submit a new recurring event for when meetings resume.  
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Can I submit events that are outside of Eugene?

YES, we now can cover events throughout the Pacific Northwest.  Choose the 'Area' categories closest to where your event will be taking place.  Additionally select the *ALL* categories to be sure your events are seen by the optimum number of people.

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How can my students find my class listings?

"Search SPN by Keywords"  Readers can type in the specific type of class they are looking for, or search for an individual teacher.  The results are fast and helpful.

Additionally, subscribers to our weekly updates for events happening in the next two weeks can now tailor their subscriptions to specific areas or types of events.

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What if I don't know the location yet?

Type in "TBA" in the 'NAME' field of the location section.

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Why can't I leave the Location field blank?

You can type anything into the Location 'Name' field but it cannot be left blank.

  •     Private Home ~ Call for directions.
  •     Directions given upon registration.
  •     See description for location.
  •     Happening Rain or Shine!
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Why doesn't our location show up in the location 'Name Search'?

Administrators have to add locations to the name search function.  We will be expanding to this as we go. 

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How do you know which events I want upgraded to a Featured Event?

Use the 'Message for Administrator' field to let us know.  At the very bottom right before you click 'Submit Event' you can check the 'Include Message' box and then type your message....

"UPGRADE THIS EVENT TO "FEATURED EVENT."
I HAVE A 5-PACK, or I'M A SPONSOR."

Let us know you are a Sponsor or have purchased the 5-pack Upgrade (which gives you 5 event upgrades for the price of 4). 

We'll keep track of the rest and let you know before your benefit expires.

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09/22/2012

Countdown to Launch

It's almost here.....
The SpiritPathNow events calendar website
will unveil the 'new look' in a few days.

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08/17/2012

New look coming soon for the SpiritPathNow calendar!

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CHANGE IS IN THE AIR AT SPIRITPATHNOW! 
We've been working all summer on giving SpiritPathNow calendar a fresh look and some powerful updates and the changes are just around the corner!

 :: Search for events by keyword!
:: Mobile friendly options!
:: More graphics and artwork!
:: Streamlined user-friendly layout! 
:: Submit new events quickly and easily!

:: Subcriptions still FREE!     :: Event listings still FREE!


Watch as we roll out the new changes over the next month.
Your feedback is always appreciated!

www.SpiritPathNow.com/Eugene
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05/27/2012

Change is the only thing that is constant...

Here's a sneak peek at our upcoming new calendar look!

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We are in the middle of totally redoing the structure of the SpiritPathNow website and calendar so that by the end of summer we will cover events throughout the Pacific Northwest and yet still enable our subscribers to focus on the areas closest to them!

Some of the benefits you can look forward to are:

  • You can enter your own event info ANYTIME!
  • NO MORE LONG LEAD TIMES for me to add your info!
  • Viewers can SEARCH for your events!
  • Even BETTER SEO so your events get higher Google rankings!
  • Recurring events can be easily be scheduled ALL AT ONCE!
  • Powerful new SHARING TOOLS!
  • PREMIUM PLACEMENT for your 'Featured' events on every page!
  • Optional upgrade to include GRAPHICS & IMAGES for your event posting!
  • More options to PROMOTE YOUR BUSINESS!

But best of all....

  • Basic listings will still always be FREE!
  • Subscriptions will still always be FREE!

This new facelift for SpiritPathNow will enable presenters to submit their own events any time they wish with just a very short delay before the event is posted on the calendar.  For readers that means more events, quicker notice, and the chance to find just the right class or workshop even at the last minute!

Additionally, the new calendar format will allow readers to search the calendar for exactly the types of events they are looking for.  For presenters this means that people most interested in you or in your topic will be able to find YOUR events much more easily!

And, as a nod to the many requests from businesses, we will be able to accommodate display ads to promote businesses, book launches, coaching services, health and wellness practitioners.  Affordable, targeted advertising connecting your services and products directly to a spiritually progressive readership! 

Most exciting for the SpiritPathNow Blog readers is that we will be inviting key teachers and presenters to share blog entries focusing on their specific areas of expertise.  Readers can hear more about EFT Tapping, about Reiki, about specific Yoga schools, about metaphysics, about meditation....

Was there are class listed in the SPN Calendar that caught your eye but that you wished you knew more about to see if it was really right for you?  Now you'll get the opportunity to take a peek into the minds of the presenters for a closer look.

Watch here for more announcements as the launch date gets closer!  The possibilities are endless!

Thank you for your support of SpiritPathNow!

Lisa Kaye, publisher

 

 

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11/23/2011

Looking for Events?

If you are looking for the online calendar listings of www.SpiritPathNow.com/Eugene, you are just a click away!

We serve the greater Eugene area with free event listings for spiritually progressive events to help you find the next step of your spiritual journey.

Click Here to see the next two week's worth of events.

Or, SUBSCRIBE and get our weekly newsletter update right in your Inbox!  (Remember to click on the link in the verification email to activate your subscription!)

Blessings and Thanks,

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11/11/2011

Five Pathways to ‘Listening’

Below are some notes I took from a conversation with Rabbi Shefa Gold in preparation for my presentation "LISTEN! ...the path to Oneness" at the 11/13 Global Day of Jewish Learning at Temple Beth Israel in Eugene, Oregon...  Enjoy, Lisa Kaye

Five Pathways to ‘Listening’
a conversation with Rabbi Shefa Gold

  • The blessing that precedes the Sh'ma, the Ahava Rabbah, is chock-ful of delicious chants - each one of them a key to Listening and to the possibility of entering into the Oneness.
  • The important thing is to make the Sh'ma an Experience rather than a statement. 
  • Chanting is a way of preparing for that experience.      

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The first pathway…  Being receptive to love
 
Unending Love
אַהֲבָה רַבָּה אֲהַבְתָּנוּ
Ahava rabbah avtanu
With an unending love, you have loved us.

What are the prerequisites, the preparations, where do we want to STAND when we say the Shema?
 
If I do not feel, or cannot receive love, it’s very hard for me to listen because I am always trying to manipulate, trying to get that love that I need, focusing on that perceived lack. 
 
In a sense you are becoming ‘receptive’ when you say Ahava rabbah ahvtahnu… you are opening up to this great love that is flowing into the world.  According to this prayer, it is flowing into the world through Torah, through history, through nature, through different ways, but it’s ‘the Great Love’. 
 
This is a different kind of love than the love that ‘I’ love with.  It’s a pure flow of G-d energy that G-d is loving me with.  It takes lots of different forms; it comes in the form of my ‘life’.  That’s how G-d loves me - through this, and this, and this. 
 
I want to become receptive to that force.  This is the first step I need to do in order to come to a place of ‘listening’ when I’m in that relationship and I’m allowing that love to flow through me to you. 
 
But when I do that, I find my resistance.  If G-d doesn’t love me in the way I want to be loved then I just shut myself down and I don’t receive anything.  And then I can’t listen either.  There’s some kind of relationship between the feeling of accepting and feeling loved and the ability to ‘listen’.  What I notice is that when I can really receive that love then something in me relaxes and then the listening can happen.  When the ‘listening’ happens, then an experience of ‘Unity’ is possible.

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The second pathway…  Commitment at all levels

Manifesting Torah
לִלְמֹד וּלְלַמֵּד לִשְׁמֹר וְלַעֲשׂוֹת וּלְקַיֵּם
Lilmod u’l’lamayd lishmor v’la’asot u’l’kayaym
To learn and to teach, to uphold and to practice and to manifest

When I chant this it is energizing me towards not ‘settling’.  To learn, yes, but you can’tjust learn…. you have to teach.  And you can’t just teach, you also have to guard and uphold.  And not just that, but you also have to practice, to ‘do’ it.  And then finally that brings you to, l’kayaym, to manifest Torah. 
 
It’s almost like a ladder.  You are upping the stakes with each word.  It’s generating this kind of commitment.  I have to reach that place of really being motivated and committed to enter that place of the Sh’ma. 

There is this kind of paradox with the Sh’ma because part of it is accepting the yoke of the Kingdom of Heaven.  There’s a real surrender in it.  But in order to get to that place of surrender I have to rev up my level of commitment to ‘show up’ for it.

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The third pathway…  Taking off the veils; Torah is everywhere

Eyes, Hearts and Hands
וְהָאֵר עֵינֵינוּ בְּתּוֹרָתֶךָ וְדַבֵּק לִבֵּנוּ בְּמִצְוֹתֶיךָ
V’Ha’ayr aynaynu b’toratecha, v’dabayk libaynu b’mitzvotecha
Enlighten our eyes with Your Torah, and connect our hearts to Your Mitzvot.

This inspires us to take off those veils and to really see that the Torah is everywhere.  So as we chant this ‘V’Ha'ayer aynaynu’, we pause and see that “Oh, the veils are off and G-d’s Kingdom is everywhere.  Everywhere we can point to, ‘Your Torah’, ‘b’toratecha’.”  ‘V’dabayk libaynu b’mitzvotecha’ – we embody these words in all the actions of our hands in the world. 
 
This is how we come to the Sh’ma…  With our eyes completely open.  With our hearts and our hands connected.  It’s that sense that we’re not just doing things unconnected from our heart.  This is the ‘unity’ of ‘eyes, hearts and hands’. 
 
If we come to the Sh’ma from a place that is divided inside us then we won’t be able to be receptive.  We won’t be able to hear.  We won’t be able to experience Unity because we ourselves are divided. 
 
We are the microcosm of the universe and so some of the path of spiritual practice is about experiencing that Truth through the world of ‘me’.  The Sh’ma is a declaration of unity, but you have to start with yourself.  And just realizing how divided you can be, how you can compartmentalize your own life, where you can ‘know’ something and not live it, or you can ‘see’ something and not take it into your heart… all of those places of division in us need to be healed.  The healing of the world happens inside us.  It’s really true. 
 
I love looking at Torah and realizing that there is nothing in Torah that is not also in me.  That Torah is ‘sending’ me to look at those places inside me.

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The fourth pathway…  Balancing awe and love

Unifying the Heart
וְיַחֵד לְבָבֵנוּ לְאַהֲבָה וּלְיִרְאָה אֶת שְׁמֶךָ
V’yachayd l’vavaynu l’ahavah u’l’yirah et sh’mecha.(from the liturgy)
Unify our hearts to love and to be in awe of Your Name/Essence.

There is a psalm that says “V’yachayd l’vavaynu l’yira et sh’mecha.”  Which translates to ‘Unify our hearts to be in fear and awe of Your Name, of Your Essence.’  And the rabbis who wrote the liturgy looked at that psalm and said, ‘You know, I think we want to tweak this a little bit (and they added ‘l’ahavah’). 
 
Whenever you see something like that in the liturgy where they want to edit or amend something that’s given, then it’s important.  And what they are saying is that love is essential if we want to encounter G-d, which is what the Sh’ma is about.  The Sh’ma is about a Divine Encounter but we must balance the place of love with all of that awe.  You can’t come to the Sh’ma without that, without doing that work of unifying.
 
To come to the Sh’ma, we need ALL of ourselves.  We need to be fully present to be able to really listen and perceive.  The ‘listening’ is the listening of the heart so we have to do the healing of our own hearts.
 
When I think about what happens to my heart when I get hurt is that some place in it sort of goes numb.  I can’t even feel that space in my heart anymore.  I’m cut-off from the wholeness of my heart.  And I think the Sh’ma is really about ‘whole-heartedness’.

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The fifth pathway…  One-pointed focus

Gathering In
וַהֲבִיאֵֽנוּ לְשָׁלוֹם מֵאַרְבַּע כַּנְפוֹת הָאָֽרֶץ
V’Haviayni l’shalom mayarba kanfor ha’aretz
(Bring us in peace from the 4 corners of the Earth.)
Uriel! Mi’cha’el! Rafa’el! Gavri’el!

This is the ‘gathering in’ moment.  This is when we gather the four corners of the tallit that represent the four corners of the world. 
 
Part of the preparation for the Sh’ma is the ‘gathering in’, is becoming one-pointed.  It is the time in the liturgy that is considered the central time of focus.  It’s o.k. for your mind to wander any other time in the liturgy, but for the six words of the Sh’ma we have to find a way to focus our attention. 
 
So the ‘gathering up’ is also the gathering of our attention, gathering the parts of ourselves, of the world inside us, of all the energies that make up this universe in one place so that we can be in a state of focus.  You are gathering up your energy that is scattered.  It’s the same kind of microcosm, we have to gather ourselves together as a community also.  And in a sense, with traditional daavening communities everyone is doing things at their own pace, but then they come together for the Sh’ma.

 

שְׁמַע יִשְׂרָאֵל, יְיָ אֱלֹהֵינוּ, יְיָ אֶחָֽד

 

 

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11/07/2011

Celebrating Oneness

11:11:11 EUGENE...

Where Will You Be?  
A Day of FREE Community Events "CELEBRATING ONENESS"
all happening at various times in various places 11-11-11wherewillyoube
on Friday, November 11, 2011
Scroll down for the 11:11:11 details...
(At bottom see an additional Tues., 11-1 event,
"World-Wide Meditation for Oneness:
An Evolutionary Leap in Consciousness")

11:11:11 day of events visioned and promoted by
Star Gate Awareness Resources
      (541) 342-8348
      http://stargateeugene.com
      info(at)stargateeugene.com, and
www.SpiritPathNow.com/Eugene
      info(at)spiritpathnow.com
      ... your online calendar of progressive
      spiritual events in the Eugene area

If you can't attend one of the below events, we invite you to be a part of 11:11:11 and join with us energetically by creating a personal intention and action dedicated to honoring the shift in consciousness at this particular point in time.

Friday, November 11, 2011 Events...

"MOTHER EARTH ONENESS CEREMONY"
Opening Morning Ceremony for 11:11:11
Facilitators: Leia Hart and Alan Stein
10:30 am - 11:11 am - 11:30 am
meeting on top of Skinner's Butte
Honoring and Healing Ourselves and Our Planet
More info: stargate(at)stargateeugene.com
541-342-8348
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"CREATE ONE LOVE!"
The interconnection of Love, Oneness and the ART of Conscious Creation
with Richard Blackstone at Imagine Gallery
5:00 - 6:00 pm
Imagine Gallery, 35 E. 8th Street, Eugene
     Richard Blackstone's powerful presentation reveals how to easily manifest Abundance, Health & Harmony into your everyday life through "3 Simple, Time-Tested Principles". Yes, you can apply them immediately and begin to creat your life consciously the way you really, really, really want it to be.
Get a FREE Life-Transforming Gift just for attending.
www.ConsciousLifeStyleSecrets.com
www.RichardBlackstone.com
richard(at)richardblackstone.com
"Be the change you wish to see in the world" - Gandhi
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"GIFTS OF THE SPIRIT / GIFTS OF THE EARTH"
November 11, 2011 Interfaith Prayer Service
6:45 pm to 8 pm
Sponsored by the Interfaith Prayer Services International
Main Sanctuary, 1166 Oak Street, Eugene, Oregon
An evening of music, prayer, gratitude and celebration for everyone...
6:45 p.m. prelude
7:00  to 8:00 p.m. service
Followed by fellowship
Bring your family and friends!
FREE CHILDCARE is now available at all services!

 

Schedule details for Friday, NOVEMBER 11, 2011
“Giving Thanks: Gifts of the Spirit, Gifts of the Earth”

Prelude “Honor Her Name” Nasim Cosmos Worth
Opening Remarks “Prayer of Thanksgiving” Kathryn Anne & Kit Frisinger, First Christian Church
Temple Beth Israel “Earthsong: Without words or speech” Shevach Lambert
Wicca “The Fallow Time” Becca Perry, priestess
In Accord “We Are” & “Bonse Aba” Maureen Robertson, director
Padmacahaya “Open Heart Meditation” Lama Tsering
Unity of the Valley “Thankfulness” a member of the congregation
Eugene Sikh Dharma “Blessed, Blessed is Guru Ran Dass..." Gurumukh Khals
Interfaith Sangha “Gratitude for Gifts” Norma Burkett
Native Drumming “Songs of Gratitude” Jerry Hall and friends
Closing Remarks “Praise and Gratitude” Bahai/ letter from Bill Harris,
read by Gurumukh
Postlude: “Espiritu de Dios” In Accord Choir


We meet on the 11th of every month!  Come join us!
www.InterfaithPrayer.org
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NEWEST LISTING!
"JOURNEY TO WHOLEHEARTEDNESS"
with David Spinney and Peggy Petersen
11:11:11 - FREE EVENING
11/12-11/13  Workshop
Weekend Experiential Workshop
Friday, Nov. 11: 7pm - 9:30pm...
the first evening, 11:11, is free.... Bring Your Friends!
Saturday, Nov. 12 -8:45am -7pm
Sunday, Nov. 13 - 8:45am - 5pm
     Session times:
     • Friday 7 pm - 9:30 pm
     • Saturday 9 am - 7 pm
     • Sunday 9 am - 5 pm
**We will have several short recesses and a 1 hour lunch recess each day.
     Presenting the seminal work of Dr. Brené Brown in Michigan, California, and the Pacific Northwest.
     What inspires you? Do you feel ready to shift old patterns into your conscious, creative life? What would your life be like, living fully alive? Join us in experiencing the tools we've found for making our own profound shifts.
     Recognize how shame feels when it arises and how shame can be keeping you separate from those you love. Learn how you can transform shame into connection by recognizing and shifting how you interact with shame and with others.
     Our experiential Journey to Wholeheartedness workshops will increase your shame resilience - your ability to recognize when shame is working and responding consciously, creating new, deeper connections with your world.
      • $150 for one or $275 ($25 savings!) when you register with a friend. Register in advance through PayPal on our website at: http://JourneyToWholeheartedness.com/, or pay at the workshop. We have a limited number of partial scholarships/work-exchanges available. Please inquire directly to David(at)JourneyToWholeheartedness.com
     • 466 West 17th Avenue, Eugene, OR  97401 (map: http://g.co/maps/qfvaz)
     • To learn more about us, Journey To Wholeheartedness and Inspired Alive!, please visit: http://JourneyToWholeheartedness.com/ and http://www.inspiredalive.com/.
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"AWAKENING OF ONE"
11:11:11 - Once in a lifetime / All One in Humanity
7:11 pm to 11:11 pm
Unitarian Universalist Church at 477 E. 40th and Donald
Free Community Event
(donations appreciated)
PLEASE JOIN US!
Bringing EveryONE Together
CEREMONY ~ SINGING ~ CHANTING ~ SUFI DANCING ~ & MORE
Featuring a TRANSFORMATIONAL HEALING CEREMONY with
Spiritual Elder and author, Nicki Scully...
"HEALING OURSELVES, OUR COMMUNITY, OUR PLANET"
Nicki Scully and her husband Mark Hallert, are authors of
Planetary Healing: Spirit Medicine for Global Transformation

New Schedule details...
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with Beth Miriam Rose

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8:10 pm Devotional Singing/Chanting
with Shanti Shivani and Friends

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*Healing Ourselves, Our Community, Our Planet*
with SPIRITUAL ELDER NICKI SCULLY

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with Alan Stein and Rabbi Hanan Sills

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06/07/2011

Is Chanting Jewish?

Some thoughts from Abraham Joshua Heschel...

 

"Words of prayer are repositories of the spirit. It is only after we kindle a light in the words that we are able to behold the riches they contain."
  
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"To be able to pray is to know how to stand still and dwell on a word.  This is how some worshippers of that past would act:  'They would repeat the same word many times, because they loved and cherished it so much that they could not part from it.' (R.Tzvi Elimelekh of Dynov)"
 
 
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04/03/2011

Affirm the presence, not the absence, of God

IStock_whitearmsoutJOY-XSmall (1) In preparation for the monthly chant group I lead on the second Saturdays I was reading what one of my favorite authors, Mindy Ribner wrote about the Hebrew month of Nissan and one of her statements struck me in a new way.  

"Affirm the presence, not the absence, of God." 

How much of my life am I unconsciously 'affirming the absence'? 

I'm aware of the time I am consciously 'affirming the presence'.  I spend defined chunks of time each day in deep connection with God.  It is a sweet devakut (cleaving or attachment to the Divine) that I can taste with all my senses.  My meditation time is like diving into a deep and refreshing sea after a long parched and dry journey.

I mark the transition time of my spiritual practice from profane to sacred in many ways; by lighting a candle, by wrapping myself in my tallis, by sitting on my meditation bench, by settling into my breath.  It is a conscious crossing over, a clear entering into the gateway of prayer.  I thought that was enough since my prayer life feels very rich and deep and real but the statement "Affirm the presence, not the absence, of God" got me thinking about the flip-side of my practice.

Maybe the important part is not how, or how often we ENTER into prayer but how we come OUT of it.  Do we step out of it like a finite thing that we can shed before we go into the world of our day?  Do we complete a targeted time, a set reading, a specific ritual so that we feel we are adequately inoculated before we step into the real world?  Do we treat our daily prayers and meditations as a sort of spiritual vitamin regimen to boost our spiritual immune system?

 "Affirm the presence, not the absence, of God." 

By the very way I approach entering my spiritual practice am I affirming the absence of God in the mundane daily goings on of work, traffic, to do lists...?

Of course that is not my intent, but subtly, if I feel I have to step 'into' prayer, doesn't that mean that at some point I have stepped 'out' of it?

So, for this month I'm going to pay attention to how I shift from the sacred time of prayer back into my everyday time instead of how I shift into my prayer time.  I'm going to stop short at the close of my meditations and prayers.  I am not going to shed the cloak of prayer but instead I'm going to blur the lines between ending prayer and I'm going to consciously invite that sacred space and time to come along with me into the rest of my day.  

I want my prayerfulness to leak into my everyday doings.  I want the membrane between sacred and profane time to be more and more permeable. 

I don't want to carve out more time to spend in prayer.  I want there to be more prayer and meditation in ALL of my time. 

Prayer is not a subset of my life actions.  My life actions are a subset of prayer.  My daily actions come out of it, they are not separate from it.

 "Affirm the presence, not the absence, of God." 

How might that look in your life this month?

 

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01/01/2011

The Energy of Inner Renewal


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Entering the Hebrew month of Shevat we enter a time of inner renewal.  The outward appearance is of dormancy and hibernation but the sap within us is still flowing, unseen, preparing for the new buds of spring still months away.  Within the dormancy is the seed of the coming growth. 

"There has to be an emptying
so inspiration can be received
and something new
can be brought into being." 
Melinda Ribner

Jewish kabbalistic meditation teaches that the very name for the Divine, YHVH (yud-hay-vav-hay), is a Divine map of the individuated cycle of cosmic energy, the same energy that breathes life into us every moment.  These Hebrew letters, yud-hay-vav-hay, are aspirate consonants which - since they are not paired with vowels - can only be 'pronounced' by breathing. 

Imagine... the very name of the Divine Being is the sound of our breathing!

YUD - Empty of breath. 
    The smallest Hebrew letter, curled up and small like us as we expend our breath. 
HAY - Inflow of breath. 
    The sound of inspiration and filling as the air rushes through our nostrils and into our lungs.
VAV - Full of breath.  
    At the point of fullness of breath our spine straightens and resembles the tall, straight letter VAV.
HAY - Out flow of breath.  
    The sound of exhaling and release as we relax our breath and let it flow out in a sigh.

In every breath we affirm the Name of God and the ultimate Cycle of Life: empty, inflow, full, outflow.  Nothing is ever statically dormant.  Nature may pause, but the sap of life, the breath of life is always waiting to flow back into that pause. 

Shevat is a time of hidden spiritual newness.  A time of private inward meditations and of letting go and releasing that which is not nurturing you, that which is tired and dried and brittle as old wood.  This is the outflow and emptiness of the cycle.  And as the Torah portions for this month from the Book of Exodus reflect, it's about leaving the Egypt, the "narrow places", of our lives empty-handed and stripped to the bare essentials. But open-handed, we walk into our lives ready to receive newness.

The winter forest looks empty of life compared to the bounty of spring but it is this emptying that creates the openness that allows us to be filled with fresh inspiration and miracles of transformation. 

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Come welcome the energy of your inner renewal with us at our next Shabbat Chant Circle, Saturday, January 8, 2011 from 10:30 to noon.  We meet at the Center for Spiritual Living, 390 Vernal Street, Eugene, Oregon. 
Everyone is welcome!

Lisa Kaye offers a metaphysically oriented, Jewish Renewal-style Shabbat meditation and chant circle once a month, usually on the second Saturday of the month.  The dates for the next three months in 2011 are:
January 8, 2011 
February 12, 2011
In March we will be meeting on the third Saturday, March 19, 2011

For more information visit:
WWW.SPIRITPATHNOW.COM/SHABBAT

 

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