into the creative emergence of each moment. Drawing upon practices from the wisdom traditions, join Leslie in a contemplative dialogue and deep experience of entering the fi eld that deepens our relationship with mystery. Be present to the emergence of new ways of being not yet imagined, and which cannot be accessed by conceptual thought. Participate in practice that engages your wholeness and attunes us to what is present now.
Perfect Timing: T e Role of the Personal Unconscious in the Unfolding of Human Evolution, Leanne Whitney 11:20am–11:40am
LARKSPUR ROOM
Everything in nature instinctually unfolds just as it should. Given that we are of nature, why should our human evolution be any diff erent? Just as a bud opens its petals with precision towards the source of the sun so too the fl owering of human consciousness is as precise. Our ego, the seat of our personal conscious- ness, is the psychic center that allows us to diff erentiate, discern and know. Without an ego that functions we are left with severe disturbances, such as schizophrenia, and an inability to coherently perceive. It is true, as many spiritual traditions teach, that the ego gives rise to the conception of a separate self. However when its lens of perception is cleared, and the distortion that leads to this limited identifi cation is corrected, the ego is also able to refl ect supreme consciousness back to itself and declare I AM THAT. Far from being an arbitrary aberration of creation for us to annihilate, the ego is a mediator, a refl ecting perceiver that plays an important role in the evolution of human consciousness. All our tensions and confl icts, the unconscious aspects of ourselves scratching at the threshold of our ego, clamoring to be perceived and understood, are the impulse to consciousness. T e act of transmuting what is unconscious to ourselves, that which we don't know, into that which we know, is the act of becoming conscious. Our animal ancestors do not have the capacity for refl exive consciousness or the repression of instinct. You could say we are where we are today in human civilization largely because of the repression of instinct. But is it possible that our instinctual nature and the ego always had a goal? In this talk we will take a look at the teleological function of repression and the ego's ability to diff erentiate, discern and know: the perfectly timed awakening of Supreme Conscious- ness and the Ultimate Reality.
Saying “Not Yet” To God: Dream States and the Illusory Nature of Form and Time, Tom Crockett, Author, Teacher 11:45am–12:05pm
LARKSPUR ROOM T e meta-game of spirituality is the awakening game. From anonymous tribal shamans to the founders
of the great religious traditions, the theme of awakening from the dream is a consistent one. It makes sense then that by exploring our own dream states from a “waking” perspective, we might better understand the truth of awakened consciousness. T ere are three aspects of dreaming that we all experience regularly and that are analogous to the great nondual teachings. T e fi rst of these is the unifi ed origin of phenomenon, How is it that a fully convincing reality emerges from the consciousness of a single dreamer? T e second aspect is the malleability of form. How is it that, perceptually, one place or person or thing can so easily become some other place, person or thing and why does it not interrupt the experience of dreaming? T e third aspect is the illusory nature of time. How is it that seconds in dreamtime can feel like hours, days or longer? From within our night dreams there is a voice asking us if we want to wake up to the truth. As long as we say no, not yet, seconds become hours or days and the dream seems to be drawn out and exist in time. While living the waking dream of dualistic reality there is this voice constantly asking us if we want to wake up to the embrace of pure consciousness or God. As attractive as that proposition is, we most often say “No, not yet,” and it is this answer that creates the illusion of time in our lives. T e common shared phenomenon of dreams, can provide elegant and experiential pointing out instructions to the true nature of reality.
Healing Without Time and Process, Marceil Delacy, Christian Science Board of Lectureship 12:10pm–12:30pm
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God is another name for Now‚ the One eternal, timeless, beingness of All that is. T e human mind cannot comprehend a spiritual universe free of time and space. So it deconstructs this elegant Whole into parts. T e Now becomes divided into years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes, seconds. T e seamless substance of Spirit is rejected for the illusory stuff called matter and broken down into elements, atoms,
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