The Presence of Forgiveness

Thu, Jan 26 2012 5:30 PM to Sun, Jan 29 2012 3:00 PM

Location: Los Angeles, CA
Category: - Eastern Region, Consciousness Studies, Psychology-Psychosophy

A Winter Soul Retreat presented by The School of Spiritual Psychology

January 26-29, 2012

This soul retreat will be held at the magnificent Mary and Joseph Retreat Center overlooking Los Angeles, California

This soul retreat develops practical understanding and methods of forgiveness – of ourselves, of others, and as the most powerful of world-forces. We enter into an entirely new and creative way of working with Forgiveness. Forgiving, we discover, is a particular region of the soul, a Presence – an interior landscape, and the Presence of healing Presences. The inner contemplative work is to be able to locate this region. As long as we attempt forgiveness from the place of usual consciousness, we are locked into subtle modes of power through separating ourselves from the soul being of those we wish to forgive.

We look at why forgiveness is of importance to you and as perhaps the deepest mystery of the soul. It is most certainly the only way to move out of the patterns of repetitious harmfulness we live both individually and the harmfulness that the world is now caught within.

We describe the spiritual background of forgiveness in some as yet untold aspects of the myth of Parzival, a story for our times; and in the life story of Caspar Hauser, an initiate of extraordinary capacities of forgiveness, indeed as the initiate of a new form of forgiveness in the world.

We listen with and to our soul and try to feel how we may be caught in the illusory benefits, often unconscious and very powerful, that often prevent attempts to forgive. We then examine the ill effects of living with resentment on our emotional, physical and spiritual life. We look at what harming others and being harmed by others does to the soul.

The central nature of forgiveness as requiring the development of new soul capacities is imagined, and ways to identify and develop this mode of imagination through contemplative practices form the practical aspects of this retreat.

We are able to track our coming into connection with the region of Forgiveness in this Soul Retreat through contemplative practices in conjunction with working together each day on the making of the "Mask of Forgiveness." Each of us will make a mask – an expressive form of our face, and each day contemplatively add elements of the embodying of Forgiveness.

Soul Retreat Facilitators

Robert Sardello, Ph.D. is co-founder and co-director of The School of Spiritual Psychology, which began in 1992. He has written Facing the World with Soul, Love and the Soul, Love and the World, Freeing the Soul from Fear, The Power of Soul: Living the Twelve Virtues, Silence, Steps on the Stone Path: Working with Crystals and Minerals as Spiritual Practice, and Acts of the Heart. His main emphasis has been to develop theoretical and practical approaches to perceiving and being in right relation with the Soul of the World, showing that humans are pulled from the time stream from the future rather than pushed from the past, and developing the interior presence of heart with Earth, others, and the world

Cheryl Sanders-Sardello, Ph.D., is co?founder and co?director of The School of Spiritual Psychology, in Benson, NC. Prior to the founding of The School in 1992, she worked as a teacher of mentally handicapped children, and as an addictions counselor. She is currently writing a book on the healing of the twelve senses in the young and the development of the spiritual senses as we age, with an additional focus on the spiritual psychology of what it means to be in connection with the "so called dead". She creates healing mandalas in the context of the classes within The School, and is involved in the teaching of all classes in Spiritual Psychology.

Renee Coleman, Ph.D., earned her Mythological Studies doctorate (with an emphasis on Depth Psychology) at Pacifica Graduate Institute in 2002. As a certified DreamTender, she helps dreamers navigate through the many twists and turns of the dreamtime using a holistic, embodied approach. She has been doing mask work for the past 18 years. She lives and works in Santa Clarita, CA. along with her husband, four children, their dog, two chickens, and a very noisy parrot.

Registration

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Instructions to note:

The Soul Retreat begins Thursday, January 26, 2012, with dinner at 5:30 p.m. Please arrive by 4:00 if possible, to have time to gather yourself in silence for the retreat.

If you are not staying at the Center, there is a $200 commuter fee, which includes meals at the center, plus tuition.

Soul Retreat ends Sunday, January 29, at 3:00 p.m.

Daily Schedule – from breakfast, 8:30 a.m. to after dinner, 8:30 p.m., with mid-day break

FEES

Check one:

ROOM AND BOARD: $395 per person, double room____________

$495 single room (limited – let us know as soon as possible if you want this option) ________________________

Commuter Fee: $200_____________________

Plus:

Retreat Fee: $400

Deadline for Final Registrations: January 20, 2012

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