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“Illuminated Heart” Workshop December 27-30
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ebbie Jackson will offer a four- day workshop, “Awakening the Illuminated Heart,” designed to help participants break down their internal emotional barriers and learn to love themselves and others in order to live a more lov- ing, conscious life. The workshop will be held December 27-30 at Still Point retreat center in Ten Mile, Tennessee, about 45 minutes west of Knoxville on Watts Bar Lake.
Jackson spent a year studying with the workshop’s
developer, Drunvalo Melchiezedek, and is a certified teacher of this work. “Drunvalo calls the school associated with this work ‘the School of Remembering,’” she says. “Throughout the four days, participants will begin to remember that this information has been a part of them for a very long time. It will feel in a way like going home, and they will begin to re- ally understand the teachings of Jesus, Rumi and others who exclaim the power of the journey of the heart.” The workshop costs $430, which includes a $100 nonre- fundable deposit (applicable toward another workshop in case of cancellation). Registration at
Drunvalo.net costs $14.95 and allows access to videos and writings to prepare for the work- shop, as well as new information posted after the workshop. Participants don’t have to stay at the retreat center to attend the workshop, although it is encouraged. “The retreat center has budget accommodations and communal meals if you are interested,” Jackson says. “This work is very intimate, and shar- ing space helps facilitate the power of the intimacy.”
For more information contact Mebbie Jackson at 865-679- 9642 or
mebane8@mac.com. See ad, page 2.
Unity of Knoxville “Rekindles” Advent Spirit
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nyone who has ever wondered what Ad-
vent is all about will have the chance to find out at Unity of Knoxville, which will observe the Advent season with special ser- vices on the four Sundays leading up to Christmas. “When I was a kid,
we had one of those countdown calendars with Christmas scenes behind the windows. All Advent meant to me was Santa is coming,” says Judi Talley, Unity of Knoxville prayer chaplain. Through Unity, [Advent] has become a calming tra- dition of meditation and introspection for me in the middle of the holiday crush.” Unity Worldwide Ministries practices an Advent tradi- tion centered on rekindling each person’s spiritual center. “The theme for 2013, ‘The Glow of Christmas,’ focuses on the lights, both outside and in, that come at this time of year,” Talley says. Each of the four weeks leading up to Christmas will be devoted to one step of the process: building faith, instilling peace, expressing love and finding joy. “In the end, it’s all about finding our gratitude for life,” she says. “When we live from gratitude, we see the miracles—large and small—all around us. It reminds me that I can find that center in the midst of seeming chaos. That is what Advent is for me now.”
Advent services will be held at 11 a.m. on December 1, 8, 15 and 22 at Unity at The Avenue, 141 N. Martinwood Rd., Knoxville. Immediately after the December 1 service there will be a CommUnity potluck fellowship luncheon. See ad, page 9.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few
drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
~Mahatma Gandhi 12 Knoxville
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