Swanwick Star Issue No.15 (2022)

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Workshop Glimpses

 

 

Ravi* introduced his subject by bringing our attention

to the mystery of our existence in this vast

universe. Who or what are we? We must look

within to find our connection with the “divine” reality.

The urge may arise in us to seek for something beyond the body

and the thinking mind and, at the same time, we need to appreciate

the body and mind as sensitive instruments of inquiry. Krishnamurti

recommended that we keep asking questions; more from the heart than from the mind.

*Ravi Ravindra

 

 

Cynthia* opened the session by connecting the universal issues of fear and loneliness with the current

world situation, including the Covid pandemic,the war in Ukraine, and climate change. Covid, for

example, with its isolating effect, is forcing us to look at ourselves in a way that is unusually

demanding, and war asks us to look into the sources of division and violence.

 *Cynthia Overweg

 

 

 Jackie* began by noting

that there were three people present who were new to dialogue, which

led her to ask the question, “What is dialogue?”

We are not here to just to talk about what we are thinking about,

but more to observe the psychological

and energetic movements as they arise in us.

*Jackie McInley