Ananda Seva October Newsletter 2022

Moving Together

Adam Guzman-Poole

"Let Us Move Together" Update

Acharya Gayatrii, who successfully developed and organized this program during the pandemic, is handing the baton to Acharya Chandranatha. Keep an eye out for info coming soon about upcoming programs. If you'd like to share something, contact Acharya Chandranatha.

After taking a break for the summer, Let Us Move Together offered a dynamic program on October 1st with Adam Guzman-Poole as the main presenter. It was a positive uplifting experience for all who attended!

Adam is a spiritual counselor, a solution-focused coach, and a prayer warrior that combines ancient wisdom from Native American spirituality, Eastern Vedantic traditions, and modern science and psychology, to catalyze inner transformation. He specializes in helping individuals tune into Divine guidance, tap into their soul's purpose, while providing practical processes and procedures in high performance to help individuals turn their dreams into manifested reality.

Check out Adam's website to find out what else he has to offer.

Save the Date!

The next Let Us Move Together program will be November 5th!

Ac. Krsna will present a program on the Role of Extraterrestrials in the Evolution of Humanity's Spiritual Development.

(more info coming soon!)

 What's new?

Acharya Giriisha is offering a new weekly meditation on Saturday mornings!

Ohio Group Meditation

This event is free and open to everyone. The program includes singing uplifting devotional songs, silent meditation, a discourse, and group discussion.

Join our Spiritual Community!

Visit our new Website!

Transformation Education

FALL SEMESTER COURSES

Our fall semester courses are live for registration! Learn more about our course offerings and register now with sliding-scale payment options.

FALL 2022 Classes

PROUT’s Theory of History 

Instructor: Ravi Logan

Course details: 2-part course

Class description: PROUT offers a new theory of history, one that provides empowering insights for those who want to understand historical dynamics so they can revitalize the progressive movement of society. In this time of planetary transformation, the insights provided by PROUT’s theory of history are particularly valuable. In this short survey course, we will cover the topics of collective psychology, the systaltic movement of societies, the rotation of social classes in position of social dominance, the concept of progress, and the methodology for bringing evolutionary and revolutionary change. We will also look at the six factors that are essential to sustaining civilizations. Supplemental readings will be provided for those who wish additional learning resources.

Beyond Identity Politics: 

Universal Social Equality as a Basis for Freedom and Liberation 

Instructor: Jason Schreiner

Course details:  2-part course; open to all

Description:: Our contemporary world is riven with social antagonisms and political vitriol that many blame on “identity politics,” a term that gets tossed around often but without clear understanding of what it means or entails. So, what is “identity politics,” and why is it so charged? Where did it come from, how did it develop, and what are its implications?  Are there are other forms of political engagement and social movement more suitable to the challenges we currently face? In this two-part course we’ll explore these questions and examine the possibility that identity politics does more to reinforce the status quo than to challenge it. As an alternative, we’ll consider how neohumanism engages issues of identity and advances universal social equality as the basis of human freedom and liberation. 

FALL 2022 Learning Communities

In addition to our courses, we'll also be offering two learning communities. A learning community is a regular gathering of people who share a common interest and want to deepen their knowledge on that topic together. Rather than a teacher, a facilitator will guide these sessions so that the learning process can be collaborative. Each learning community will meet for 4 to 6 weeks weeks.

Integrity and High Ideals in Modern Life

5 weeks in Oct.

Facilitator: Alberta Pedroja

Description: Unwavering commitment to a set of ideals is a desperate need for our time, and people who demonstrate integrity and high ideals are essential. This 5-week course will use an interactive approach to learning in order to deepen understanding of and commitment to cardinal values that can form the basis of the leadership we need for a sustainable future and a life full of purpose and joy. Attendees can expect to express their highest and best in their daily lives and become of beacon of hope and inspiration to others.

Goals: Participants will 1) deepen their connection to yama/niyama, 2) demonstrate the relevance of yama/niyama in modern life, 3) utilize a method for discovering, expressing and sharing personal experiences, and 4) build community based on shared moral principles.

Ayurveda and Yogic Life

4 weeks in Nov.

Facilitator: Kaverii Blocklinger

Description: facilitated group learning community

Interested in learning about Ayurveda and how to incorporate it into a yogic lifestyle? Join our learning community! Topics may include: elements in nature, bringing balance and greater health, how the seasons, cycle of the day and phases of life help us understand how to care for ourselves, the five flavors and how to incorporate these into our meals. Together we will create a community that will support us moving towards the healthiest version of ourselves.

NEW ON TEACHABLE:

Teachable gives participants the option to take on-demand courses at their own pace. We now have 14 classes up on the platform covering a variety of topics.

System For a New Era

This class will present the system that P. R. Sarkar articulated for realizing a new era of humanity. Sarkar called this system the “panacea” to solve the problems of human existence, and he designated this new era as the “rule of rationality.” To understand what Sarkar means and envisions, we’ll examine how the five major components he introduced for manifesting this new era – PROUT, neohumanism, aesthetic science, microvita science, and intuitional science – interrelate and interact together as a single, integrated system. We’ll explore how this system is designed according to a set of guiding operative principles that maximize balanced development of physical, mental, and spiritual potentialities and advance humanity towards spiritual and social fulfilment.

Humanity at a Crossroads:

Preparing for the Fall of Capitalism

More and more people are questioning how long capitalism can maintain, given its overuse of earth’s resources, its extreme concentration of wealth among a few, its inability to adequately respond to climate change, its dominating impact on government, and the fragility of its globalization of the economy. How and when will capitalism end? What will be the social dynamics that its fall will put in play? How best to prepare for the social turmoil that will arise? What is a viable social vision to replace capitalism and how can this be put into practice? This class will offer the best thinking from the PROUT Institute on these questions and will provide opportunity for discussion by participants.

COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT:

Art City:

Creating Quantum Change Through Art

Art City is producing its annual event BEAM this month, an annual pop-up event that transforms the Downtown Park Blocks in Eugene, Oregon as a showcase of diverse works of art that incorporate light. And the EugArt-404 collective of artists works with their neighborhood associations creating placemaking change through art.

A musical blast from the past:

Click image below to enjoy the last kiirtan at Dharmalaya in February 2020 before the pandemic .