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The Untapped Potential of the Body: The Expansive Power of Our Latent Abilities
Your body can heal, perform and perceive in ways considered unimaginable only 40 years ago. The traditional five senses are just the beginning of over a dozen modes of perception. Diseases are now known to “rewrite” themselves constantly depending on treatment, nutrition, attitude, and many other factors. The brain can recover from injury, and sometimes reverse degeneration. We’ll explore the reports from brain research as well as the extraordinary experiences of athletes, performers, spiritual practitioners, and ordinary people that reveal the “metanormal” capacities of body, mind and spirit—and practice techniques that help you tap into your latent abilities for your own well-being and service to others in the world. Our companion book will be Michael Murphy’s The Future of the Body: Explorations into the Further Evolution of Human Nature.
Robert Corin Morris, Alison Mazie
5 Wednesdays, 9:30-11:30 a.m.
Mar. 3, 10, 17, 24, 31
$75 ($65 Members) $20 drop-in
Summit Center
Embodying God’s Realm: Learning and Doing Hospitality
What does it mean to be an “outsider”? In our multicultural, multifaith world, what can we learn from the Hebrew Bible and Christian New Testament about welcoming the stranger--and recognizing how we are all strangers ourselves? We will engage with relevant texts, current events, and each other, looking with new eyes at stories like Sodom and Gomorrah and Jesus’ boundary-crossings and table fellowship. We will consider hospitality in text and world as what author Henry Knight calls “an enacted parable of the intention of creation punctuating ordinary life . . . the rule and realm of God unfolding in our midst.” Class meetings and optional midweek e-mail reflections will invite us to recognize and call attention to the hospitality we encounter in our lives, bearing witness, as Knight says to how “the breaches in creation are repaired when hospitality is practiced and strangers are welcomed, the excluded are included, the wounded are healed.” Co-sponsored by Christ Church, Short Hills.
Lisa Green and Barbara Snyder
6 Fridays, 9:30-11:30 a.m.
March 5, 12, 19, 26; April 9, 16
Christ Church in Short Hills
$80($70 Members) $20 drop-in
Dances of Universal Peace
Harmony & Healing in Movement
The Dances of Universal Peace are a powerful, joyous form of interfaith group meditation and prayer. Using sacred phrases and chants, simple music and movements inspired from many spiritual traditions, the dances promote what deeply unites us—one Source, one Essence. Participation, not presentation, is the focus. No musical or dance experience of any kind is required and everyone is welcome to join in.
André Bernard
Fridays, March 5, April 9, May 7
7:30-9 p. m.
$10 per evening
Summit Center
Renewing Faith A Lenten Quiet Day of Formation and Reflection in the Christian Tradition
Is the Christian season of Lent just a time for sacrifice and denial, one we need to “make it through” and then move on to “more uplifting” times? The time-honored spiritual practices of Lent are powerful ways to renew and deepen faith for the entire year and not just for a season. Don’t let Lent pass you by with the many gifts that this season of formation has to offer. At this quiet day attendees will learn about and experience four Lenten spiritual practices that can transform faith from a static noun to a dynamic verb where faith is constantly renewed through God’s grace and our intentions.
The Rev. Jane Tomaine
Mar. 6, 9 a.m. – 1:15 p.m., light lunch
$45 ($40 Members)
Summit Center
The Future Beckons: Interweave’s 30th Annual Meeting
Come for a warm and friendly evening and participate in creating Interweave’s future! In addition to great home-cooked food and good conversation, you’ll hear reports about what we’ve found in two years of “soundings” with Interweave members and participants, and the visioning of our future taking place with the Staff and Board of Directors. Director Robert Corin Morris will fill you in on some exciting developments in interfaith relations, and President Sarah Rosen will tell of the celebrations planned as we observe our 30th Anniversary this year.
Saturday, March 6,
6 p.m. Appetizers and Libations
7 p.m. Dinner
8 p.m. Annual Meeting
$25 per person for dinner.
Inside ‘Brick City’ An Evening with the Filmmaker
Meet one of the creators of Brick City, the acclaimed insiders’ view of Newark. Marc Levin and his colleague captured the daily drama of a community striving to become a better, safer, stronger place to live. Newark’s citizens and Mayor work to raise the city out of violence, poverty and corruption. Key figures from developers to gang members and youth mentors - intertwine in a portrait of a city at a critical moment in history. We’ll view one episode, discuss Marc Levin’s experiences, and hear updates about Newark’s progress.
Filmmaker Marc Levin,
with Director Robert Corin Morris and Imam W. Deen Shareef
Tuesday, March 9, 7:30-9:15 p.m, $10 Summit Center Register for this class Instructors Directions
A Spirited War
Generals & Ghosts of the Revolution
Join historian Donald Peck and renowned psychic intuitive Jane Doherty as they unpack fascinating dimensions of New Jersey’s rich Revolutionary War history. New Jersey was “revolution central” for most of the War and is rich in colonial history—and ghosts! Many decisive and historic battle sites still exist, and Don and Jane will lead us on a tour, interpreting facts from their individual points of view, and providing a fresh analysis of events and the personalities involved in them.
Donald Peck and Jane Doherty
Sunday, March 14, 3:30-5:30 p.m.
$20, Summit Center
Register for this class Instructors Directions
The Blueprint of Dreams Dream Work for Mapping the Mystery
Learn to engage your dreams as a resource and guide. By asking intentional questions prior to sleep it is possible to engage the process of dreamtime and bridge the gap between sleep and wakefulness. We will learn techniques for accessing a dream’s “energetic blueprint” to find answers to daytime dilemmas. Topics will include lucid dreaming, dream interpretation, and brain wave states that distinguish states of consciousness including wakefulness, meditation, prayer, and various stages of sleep.
Alison Mazie
Thursday, March 25,7:30-9:30 p.m.
$25 ($20 Members)
Summit Center
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