with Dennis Evenson,
Thursday, December 22, 7-9 pm.
In the commercialized clamor that fills what were once the silent and holy nights of Christmas, there is much that is at enmity with the warmth of heart that should characterize this festive period. Are there deeper understandings of the traditional legends and symbols of Christmas that might help us toward a genuine summons of spiritual light into the winter’s darkness?
During the Holy Nights, night itself receives baptism by the celestial powers over-lighting the Christmas Season. But if Christmas is allowed to be submerged in the hurry and exhaustion of modern life, if we lose the spirit of Christmas, then a fountain of divine strength in the soul of western culture will be dried up. How might we carry a sense of having encountered with particular earnestness a more profound spiritual purpose in this season—a seed to ripen through the New Year?
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Prof. Dennis Evenson was a Teaching Fellow at Oxford and Harvard where he did 7 years of post-graduate studies in Religion. He has taught the Western Esoteric Tradition for 40 years at Findhorn, the N. Y. Open Center, the Omega Institute and the N.Y. Theosophical Society. Dennis ran the Sacramento Attitudinal Healing Center, co-directed a Prison Rehabilitation program, and was Educational Director at the Long Island School of Music, Art & Science and the Long Island Conservatory. He was North American Organizer for the 40th Anniversary International Conference of the U.N., and served on the U.N.’s Central Communications Committee. Dennis has been a Sufi priest for 35 years, has taken six Tibetan Buddhist initiations and empowerments [two under the Dali Lama] and engaged in a 3 year sole meditative retreat on sacred Big Horn Mountain.
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