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"The cure for the credit crunch
and the nature crunch is
to put ecology before economy . . .
and we need a third E: ethics.
Our 'oikos', our planet home,
has to be built on the firm foundation
of ethical and spiritual values."
Satish Kumar, Wrekin Forum advisor
(Resurgence, January 2009)
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Forthcoming Events |
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Wrekin Forum
10 January
Regional Round Table
Llewelyn Hall, Penllergaer, Swansea
18 January
Regional Round Table
4 Arcot Street, Penarth, Cardiff
14 February
Southern Region Networking Meeting
Inner Connections through Sound
Sound bath and meditation with Himalayan bowls St Michaels, The Sanctuary, Ewell
24-26 April 2009
Wrekin Forum Retreat
Douai Abbey, Berkshire
Annual Round Table (RT9)
Hawkwood College, Stroud
Wrekin Forum Associates
Subtle Energy Healing (Esoteric Healing)
Introductory talk (free of charge) prior to new
2-year part-time accredited training course
(one weekend per month) starting in February
Dinah Lawson and Maddy Harland
The Hayloft Centre for Healing and Meditation
Emsworth, Hampshire
13 January
Day Workshop
The SunDial House Group
Sedlescombe, East Sussex
1 February
Fundamentals of Sound Treatment
A four-part course in sound therapy using
tuning forks. Held on first Sunday of each
month except August.
Afternoon, Vince Dowse Centre Of New Directions, Brighton
5 February
Beyond the Prophets:
The Intelligent Universe -
Spirit, Soul, and the Material World
Evening talk, Vince Dowse
Centre Of New Directions, Brighton
18 February
Sound and Colour into Communities
Evening talk, Peter Goldman
Centre Of New Directions, Tunbridge Wells
22 February
Fundamentals of Interdimensional
Living and Working
Ongoing course, last Sunday of each month
except August, providing support for spiritual
development and the opening of the intuition.
Afternoon, Vince Dowse
Centre Of New Directions, Brighton
26 February - 1 March
Voices of the Ancestors: Healing your Family Tree
& the Wounds of the World Soul
Roger Woolger at
28 February
Spiritual Psycho-Therapy Update
Day workshop, Peter Goldman and
Dr Helene Harris
Centre Of New Directions, Tunbridge Wells
5 March
Beyond the Prophets: Creation - I, Me, and the Consciousness Divided
Evening talk, Vince Dowse
Centre of New Directions, Brighton
9-12 March and 4 November
Facilitating Spiritual Friendship
Joycelin Dawes and Andy Stoller
Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre, Birmingham
0121 472 5171 or
14 March
The Mystical Marriage of the Soul:
Unveiling the Feminine Face of God
Day Seminar with Roger Woolger
Maria Assumpta Centre, London
www.rogerwoolger.com
14 March
Colour for All Seasons:
Spring - Light into Being
Day workshop, Pamela Blake-Wilson
Centre Of New Directions, Tunbridge Wells
20-22 March
Journey into the Fire
Weekend workshop
The Friars, Aylesford, Kent
The Wrekin Forum is open to the exploration of spirituality and welcomes a diversity of views;
the views of individual presenters are not necessarily those of the Wrekin Trust.
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Total Life Exploration
Serge Beddington Behrens is currently offering
a 'Total Life Exploration' service, geared to helping people deal with the radical changes many of us
are being asked to make in our lives.
This includes learning to let go more of our past
and align ourselves more powerfully with where
the new spirit of transformation is wanting to take us.
For further information, and to receive
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Not the Astrology Column
For a different perspective, why not take a look at Associate Anne Whitaker's website
From the Twelfth House
"designed to inform, support, entertain and inspire"
www.anne-whitaker.com
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Courtyard Lodge, Mellow Farm, Hawcross Lane
Redmarley d'Abitot, Gloucestershire, GL19 3JQ
01452 840033
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Dear Friends
As a new year opens for each of us, on a personal level we may be reflecting upon our intentions, making resolutions, and going forward into new beginnings. Huge changes are happening around us, and news of world events bring a constant reminder of the great cyclic unfolding which is taking place in space and time.
We are also reminded that "underneath the patterns of instability in the world, a profound spirit of love and good will is at work", and that we are engaged in "a different level of collective working than has been seen before".
Your New Year Newsletter brings you news and views from Forum associates and other friends on the path. Each individual, each divine spark, brings its own light to the work in hand. As we journey together, we share and contribute towards a collective field of consciousness and good will, and support the development of spiritual awareness in the wider group.
If you have any contributions which you would like to make to News&Views, or any forthcoming events which you would like featured, do let me know and I will do my best to accommodate them. The closing date for the next issue is 1 March.
With love and blessings for the year ahead
Carol Duncan
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'Underneath the patterns of instability in the world, a profound spirit of love and good will is at work, using the instability and the individuals that emerge from it as a farmer uses a plow, to turn the soil, and prepare it for new seed and new harvest.'
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Since the early days of its formation, the Forum has tried to draw together the values that are being expressed by associates in different ways, and help create a field of unified conscious thinking that can radiate more brightly. To achieve sufficient potency in the face of the present global risks and opportunities, we need to work with 'one heart and one mind'.
To this end, those who have thus far taken on the role of Trustee or served on the Strategy and Development Group are meeting for a reflective day together at Douai Abbey on 29 January, to strengthen the foundation of what is to come in the year ahead.
Other 'co-creators' are meeting in small teams to prepare for some of the small steps: for regional groups, a retreat, trans-organisational inquiries, participative inquiries, and the annual Round Table (18-20 September). All contributions are needed. If everything we do, individually and in groups, is done with love - for the task, for each other, for the earth, for Life - then the foundation of ethical and spiritual values can grow from within.
Janice Dolley
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The Challenge of Change |
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As we move into 2009, while at one level there is a great deal of darkness and insecurity around, at another level we need to remember that this is so because there is also a huge amount of powerful spiritual light available at this time, and that one of its effects is to illumine for us what needs changing in the world - what stands in the way of our personal and planetary evolution. Our challenge, therefore, is to meet our future with a big heart trusting that, if a better world is to emerge, it is our responsibility to mid-wife it into being and that we will be best empowered to do so to the extent that we consciously choose to align ourselves with the new life wishing to be born and increasingly learn to surrender our identification with all those life patterns that no longer work. Serge Beddington Behrens, Wrekin Trustee For further guidance on this theme, see Serge's new essay 'The Challenge of Change' which can be found on his website www.sergebb.com |
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Holding Group |
"We are creating an 'ark of consciousness'. All are free to enter or choose not to enter. Entering requires surrender. This is a different level of collective working than has been seen before."
National Holding Group Meditation
December 2008
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Regional Groups |
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"Despite current ads and slogans, the world doesn't change one person at a time. It changes as networks of relationships form among people who discover they share a common cause and vision of what's possible.
This is good news for those of us intent on changing the world and creating a positive future. Rather than worry about critical mass, our work is to foster critical connections. We don't need to convince large numbers of people to change; instead, we need to connect with kindred spirits.
Through these relationships, we will develop the new knowledge, practices, courage and commitment that lead to broad-based change." Margaret Wheatley
For news of regular regional group meetings, please contact Regional Connectors:
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Spiritual UK |
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Associate Nigel Anthony is involved with a project which brings together Contemporary Spirituality, Traditional Religions and the wider civic society - in a spirit of community building and social cohesion. If you have passion for interfaith work, being a voice for contemporary spirituality or being an activist for spirituality/love/peace, then please have a look at the early stages of a movement of which we are all a part in some way.
Nigel's personal passions are the challenge of stepping up to be a clear voice for a holistic approach to spirituality - wherever religion is in society, we should be there also - and for creating a Spiritual Map of the UK which shows contemporary spirituality alongside religious and faith communities (check out Cardiff or Swansea on the website map to see the start of this project - all loving feedback welcomed!)
Spiritual UK is a project being enabled by the
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Book Review Corner |
METAPHYSICS AND THE COSMIC ORDER
Joseph Milne
Temenos Academy, 2008, 74 pp, £8.99, p/b
ISBN 978 0 9551934 9 9
"With a foreword by HRH the Prince of Wales and an introduction by the late John O'Donohue, these lectures given to the Temenos Academy form a seminal contribution to the philosophical debate of our times." ( read on . . .)
Have you recently read a book that you would like to share with others? Why not send in a review to News&Views?
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AWAKENING CONSCIOUSNESS:
Selected Lectures of
Sir George Trevelyan
Compiled by Keith Armstrong
Godstow Press, Oxford, 2008
Sir George Trevelyan, founder of the Wrekin Trust, dedicated his life to teaching in a spirit of enthusiasm and optimism for humanity. Of the hundreds of lectures he gave, 28 have been gathered for this collection, covering an inspiring variety of topics including birth, death, education, meditation and creativity.
Click here for full details of contents and order form.
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And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year:
"Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown!"
And he replied:
"Go out into the darkness and put your hand
into the Hand of God.
That shalt be to you better than light
and safer than a known way."
Marie Louise Haskins 1876-1957
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