World Unity Week 2021
Lighthouse Leadership - Step Into Your Greatness
It's time! Time for what? Time to remember that you are a powerful creator and that there is a greatness inside of you ready to be rediscovered. It's time to release the limiting beliefs that are holding you back from living your most awakened and authentic life. Join us to take back your power and become a Lighthouse Leader!
Event Host: Kirk Mcdow
An Enactment of the Life of the Buddha
The presenter offers an enactment of the compassionate, contemplative and exploratory life of Gautama Buddha.
Spiritual Botany
This lecture will present an overview of the relationships among plants, spirituality, and human health.
Event Host: Dr. Praveen Saxena, Professor at the University of Guelph
Managing Stress
Will talk about stress and its impact on your physiology and psychology and give examples of how practicing deep breathing changes your reaction to events. Will show slides on how to do deep breathing and effects on your health. Will do a 20 minute deep breathing exercise with participants. Will also show participants the effect of deep breathing on your heart rate variability. Questions and answers.
Event Host: Shobhana Ranjit of Spiritual Heritage Education Network
Unexamined & Examined Life: Embracing the Inner Guru at the Bottom of The Abyss
In this personal story of transformation I share how, as a hard-working railroad executive struggling with alcoholism, failed marriages & internal pain, experienced a series of magical promptings, painful catalysts & wondrous synchronicities leading to a new life on a path of awakening facilitated by self-examination.
Event Host: John West of Spiritual Heritage Educaion Network
Modern Science and Spirituality: Mystery as Common Ground
The concepts of paradox and mystery lie at the heart of both modern scientific thought and contemplative spirituality. The deeper we dig into the physical universe, the more astonishing and incomprehensible it becomes, and the more we are confronted with mystery.
Education - From Information to Transformation
Let's be honest. Are we achieving what we set out to do through education? Is there a need to realign our intentions. Is there a technology that can convert this information boom in education into contemplative and transformative experiences? Let us explore ideas in our interaction and spend a few moments in guided meditation.
Event Host: Swami Anukoolananda of the Chinmaya University
Workshop in Stress Management
Light of Kabbalah: Wisdom and the Tree of Life from Genesis to the Zohar
This presentation will complement Shiv Talwar's presentation on the Tree of Life in the Zohar by tracing the evolution of the concepts of Wisdom, the Tree of Life and the sefirot in biblical and postbiblical literature.
This presentation will complement Shiv Talwar's presentation on the Tree of Life in the Zohar by tracing the evolution of the concepts of Wisdom, the Tree of Life and the sefirot in biblical and postbiblical literature.