Sunday Afternoon Public Programs
February 19, 3:00 pm • Presented by Robert Caldwell, M.Sc.
Megaliths, or Great Stones, represent the remaining links to prehistoric civilizations. Great Stone Age structures are found world wide, and, while many have been destroyed, there remain thousands of astounding prehistoric structures at which to marvel and contemplate. Continue reading
Sunday Afternoon Public Programs
February 12, 3:00 pm • Presented by Christine Maitland, Ph.D.
How can death be practiced? No one has returned from the experience to guide us, although there are people who report near death experiences. What is death? Is there anything that survives it? These questions have intrigued thinkers of all times. There are many ideas and beliefs about the afterlife, i.e., eternal life in heaven/hell, reincarnation, nothing at the end of physical life. Continue reading
Sunday Afternoon Public Programs
February 5, 3:00 pm • Group Study
Fundamentals of Theosophy: The concept of Dharma can be defined as duty, sometimes law, sometimes morality, and sometimes righteousness. As Annie Besant says in her book on the subject, “Morality is an individual thing and varies with the dharma of the individual.… Hence, what is right for one is wrong for another. There is nothing absolute in a conditioned universe.” And, as Krishna said in the Bhagavad Gita, “Better is one’s own Dharma, though destitute of merit, than the well executed Dharma of another…” Continue reading
The Public Programs schedule for the second half of the 2016–2017 season has been posted. It lists the programs from February 5 through April 30.
Sunday Afternoon Public Programs
January 22, 3:00 pm • Presented by Steve Herrington
Join us for an introduction to the highly accessible healing art of Reflexology — through which deep healing can be indirectly triggered in specific areas throughout one’s body by massage of specific areas of the feet and other ‘end-points’ of the body, such as the hands and ears. Continue reading
POSTPONED to Feb. 12 due to weather.
Sunday Afternoon Public Programs
January 15, 3:00 pm • Presented by Christine Maitland, Ph.D.
How can death be practiced? No one has returned from the experience to guide us, although there are people who report near death experiences. What is death? Is there anything that survives it? These questions have intrigued thinkers of all times. There are many ideas and beliefs about the afterlife, i.e., eternal life in heaven/hell, reincarnation, nothing at the end of physical life. Continue reading
CANCELED due to winter storm warnings.
Sunday Afternoon Public Programs
January 8, 3:00 PM • Group Study
Fundamentals of Theosophy: Theosophy tells us that reincarnation is the means for the evolution of consciousness, with the ultimate flowering of each individual into a perfected being who graduates from the school of human life. Why don’t we remember our past lives? How do our past lives affect us today? Our group discussion will cover these and other questions.
Sunday Afternoon Public Programs
December 4, 3:00 pm • Group Study
Fundamentals of Theosophy: A study of karma would suggest that nothing happens by chance. Join us for a group discussion of how Theosophy explains karma as the impersonal law of cause and effect in our individual lives as well as at such broader levels as family karma and national karma.
Sunday Afternoon Public Programs
November 20, 3:00 pm • Presented by
Zoé Austin
Giselle, the exemplary ballet of the European Romantic era, portrays the richly evolving relationship between a young peasant woman’s spirit and a royal count whose heedless deception precipitated her death. Continue reading
Sunday Afternoon Public Programs
November 13, 3:00 pm • Presented by Judith Sugg, Ph.D.
Almost all of us struggle with letting go of negatives in our life, whether they show up as resentment, disappointment, anger, sadness, or fear. As seekers, many of us feel bad or guilty when our thoughts are less than kind, and behaviors are less than our ideal. The Yoga Sutras teaches about personal mind-traps, the noise in our head, but it also talks about the human condition Continue reading