Steps on the Stone Path: Introducing Spiritual Practices with Crystals and Minerals
Fri, Mar 09 2012 to Sun, Mar 11 2012
Location: Breckenridge-Albany, TXCategory: - Central Region, Consciousness Studies, Psychology-Psychosophy
With Robert Sardello and Cheryl Sanders-Sardello
The School of Spiritual Psychology Presents
Steps on the Stone Path: Introducing Spiritual Practices with Crystals and Minerals
With Robert Sardello, PH.D., and Cheryl Sanders-Sardello, PH.D.
March 9-11, 2012
LOCATION: between Breckenridge & Albany, Texas (near Dallas-Ft. Worth)
Enter an astounding way of working with crystals and minerals to develop spiritual capacities. Based on Celtic and Earth-oriented spiritual understanding of crystals, gems, and minerals as more than tools of personal evolution but rather as the visible bodies of spiritual, angelic beings, you will learn to be in relation with these beings.
By coming into inner relation with the spiritual beings of the stone world, our perspective is forever shifted. We begin to inwardly realize how narrow our normal range of experience is and how we live in a world of anti-silence that keeps us in inner ignorance. The Stone Path opens the infinite world of Silence, develops the capacity of being able to be with and care for others through the loving mediation of crystal beings, orients us to a radiant light of serving, helps us into devotional honoring of the fecund darkness from which all emerges, and shows us the incredible holiness of the human body in its intimacy with the earth-body.
Workshop includes:
Hands-on contemplative work with stones such as quartz crystal, garnet, rose quartz, rosophia, jasper and others
Stilling the mind to find the way through the narrowness of mental organization and opening to depth of body awareness.
Learning to develop bodily capability of sensing inner dimensions of crystals and minerals
Developing capacities of perceiving in reverence – giving spiritual attention to the physical mineral world
No prior knowledge or working with crystals is needed
Developing the capacity of feeling-knowing of a stone as it resonates within the individual soul; the particular soul resonances of different minerals and crystals and what they reveal.
Program Facilitators
Robert Sardello, Ph.D. -
is co-founder of The School of Spiritual Psychology, which began in 1992. He is the author of Facing the World with Soul, Love and the Soul, Freeing the Soul from Fear, The Power of Soul:Living the Twelve Virtues, Silence, Steps on the Stone Path, and Acts of the Heart.He served as Chairman of the Department of Psychology at the University of Dallas, head of the Institute of Philosophic studies there, and graduate dean.He is also co-founder and faculty member of The Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture.Having developed spiritual psychology based from over 35 years of research in this discipline, as well as holding positions in two universities, he is now an independent teacher and scholar teaching all over the U.S., Canada, and the U.K.
Cheryl L. Sanders-Sardello, Ph.D. -
is co-founder of The School of Spiritual Psychology and specializes in the spiritual psychology of the senses, and is currently completing a book in this area with an emphasis in healing of the senses.Her work ranges from the necessity for keeping the senses healthy in children to the development of the spiritual senses in maturity.She teaches with The School all over the U.S., Canada and the U.K.Her current research and teaching focuses on spiritual practices of keeping in connection with those who have died and the implication of those practices for the health of the social world.
LOCATION INFORMATION, COSTS, REGISTRATION
There are exceedingly low rates for this workshop due to the generosity of Jean Tucker and her family who are helping with the board and room arrangements.
Accommodations
There are 3 homes with 5 bedrooms, each with a private bath, which are all double rooms. There is also a smaller home that sleeps 6.
There is a large space for meeting with a dining room on one end.
While there are no private rooms, if there is space we will attempt to arrange a private space on the property when possible, if necessary. If a private room is imperative for you, Breckenridge and Albany are within 10 or 12 miles and they have the standard hotels available. Due to the already extremely low cost of the retreat, the cost will not change if you choose to stay at a hotel.
Food
Each house will have a "hostess" person who will set out a continental breakfast for those in that house, from 8:00 to 8:45 Saturday and Sunday morning. (P.S. There can be NO oranges anywhere on the grounds due to severe allergy)
At noon on Saturday lunch will be catered sandwiches and salad from the Prairie Star in Albany.
Please let us know of any other allergies or food needs. We will try to meet your needs, but if you have especially extreme dietary needs, it is o.k. for you to bring your own foods, as long as they do not require extensive preparation.
Saturday dinner will be catered as well. Dinner break will be from 6:00 till 7:30. We will meet again Saturday night from 7:30 - 9:00.
Sunday morning will be the same schedule, with breakfast again 8:00 - 8:45, meeting at 9, a short mid-morning break, closing the retreat at 12:00 noon on Sunday.
Cost
The cost for the entire weekend is $240.00 per person, all inclusive. This includes board and room, tuition, and the stones used in the workshop.
Registration Information
l. A deposit of $100 is due with your registration, or the full amount can be paid in advance. When registration is received you will be send driving instructions to the retreat location. The retreat is located about two hours west of Dallas/Fort Worth, and the airport, after Breckenridge, before Albany. Directions to retreat location sent upon registration.
2. Balance is due by March 1.
3.This will be a small, intimate workshop, so register as soon as possible. Space is limited.Please come prepared to do some light walking around the retreat area as observations of the earth character of this place will be part of the workshop.
Schedule
Friday evening – we will gather from 7:30-9:30. Please have dinner before you arrive. There are restaurants in Breckenridge and Albany. Arrive in time to get organized in your room and be ready to gather by 7:30 p.m.
Saturday -9 am-noon; 2-5 p.m.; 7-9 p.m.
Sunday – 9 am – noon (no lunch)
Registration
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The School of Spiritual Psychology
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