The Path of Divine Love - An Interspiritual Exploration
(A unique opportunity to deepen your own innate spirituality
within the mystical heart of all faith traditions)
‘Dying to Love’
Course presented by
William Keepin and Cynthia Brix
November 19th and 20th 2011
Cape Town, South Africa
Die in this love!
Die to the din and the noise
of mundane concerns.
In the silence of love
you will find the spark of life.
Die! Die!
If you die to the temporal
you will become timeless.
Die in this love,
and your soul will be renewed.
-- Rumi
All mystical traditions speak of dying before we die as the key to eternal life. The Sufis say that those who die before they die do not die when they die. Jesus tells us that those who try to save their life will lose it, but those who lose their life for His sake shall save it. The Bhagavad Gita tells us that the body dies, but not the Dweller within the body.
How are we to understand and apply these mystical teachings in our own spiritual life? Our society often relates to death in a morbid or fearful manner, but there is a profound mystic secret of death that leads to a full and active life of Love. We will explore together this mystery of mystic death—drawing upon the teachings of the Gospels, the Bhagavad Gita, and Sufism.
We also continue to work with the practice of silent, heart-centered meditation and prayer. Special emphasis will be focused on cultivating the subtleties of awareness in silent contemplation that lead to direct experience of the divine Oneness underlying all phenomena; the One that dwells in the many.
This workshop is open to all—newcomers as well as those who attended the earlier series on the Path of Divine Love.
Please join us!
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The training is led by two internationally renowned teachers, well known in Cape Town
in the field of Gender Reconciliation.
Please register below as soon as possible because numbers for this course will be limited.
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Training Faculty
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William Keepin, PhD, environmental scientist, founder of Satyana Institute and its
Gender Reconciliation and Leading with Spirit training programs. Will has led intensive
retreats on the path of divine love for religious leaders in India, and for interspiritual audiencesin the United States. Will is author of Song of the Earth: the Emerging Synthesis of Spiritualand Scientific Worldviews (2011). |
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Cynthia Brix, M.Div., interfaith religious minister, former campus minister at the University ofColorado, founder of the Women’s Spiritual Mastery project. Will and Cynthia co-direct the Gender Reconciliation Initiative for healing gender-based violence in Africa, India, and Canada.
They are co-authors of Divine Duality (2007) and Women Healing Women (2009). |
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Dates and Times
Workshop will be given on
Saturday & Sunday, Nov 19 - 20.
Saturday 19th Arrival 9.00am,
Session runs from 9.30 to 5.00pm with a
break for tea, and please bring and share
lunch.
Sunday 20th from 2.00pm to 5.00pm
with a break for tea
(plus an optional session
outdoors from 10.00 am to 2 pm,
details forthcoming).
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Venue
The workshop will be held at the
Gatehouse, Hoenhort, Constantia. |
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Cost
The cost of the weekend will be R450 per person. |
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CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD REGISTRATION FORM
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