SUPPORT OUR FALL FUNDRAISER
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This year, the Ananda Seva Team has created more content and reached more people than ever before! We've developed new platforms and expanded old ones to share our information and programming to a growing audience. We want to extend our reach to many more people and activate our community so that we can be a part of the movement toward critical social change.
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So far, we've raised $2,740.80 of our $8,000 goal. Thank you for your generous contributions! We're over a third of the way there.
These funds will help us hire a part-time social media manager, pay for advertisements, and support community members to continue direct outreach work. With your help, we'll be able to grow our community and our impact.
Help us reach our goal by making a tax-deductible donation today!
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SAVE THE DATE:
2022 SUMMER CONVERGENCE
MON, AUG 22nd - THURS, AUG 25th
We're excited to invite you to this event, which will be the first of its kind from our team. We are taking our summer retreat and flipping it on its head in hopes of answering the question: How can we unite with other organizations and individuals to create the social change the world needs so urgently? We'll be inviting speakers, educators, and activists to share their skills and knowledge in their respective fields.
This event will be held at Skycamp Retreat Center in the Willamette National Forest, a 45-minute drive from Eugene. Accommodations will be available the evening of Sunday, August 21st through the morning of Friday, August 26th, and programming will run all day from the 22nd to the 25th. We'll bring you more details soon, but for now, mark your calendars!
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If you're interested in this event, we'd like your feedback. Do you have an idea for an event name or a speaker we should invite? Would you like to volunteer your time to plan, host a program, set-up or clean up? Do you have a question about the program? Let us know with the google form linked below!
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All of November's programs take place via Zoom. Find more information about each of our programs and receive registration links using the events button below.
You can also download our google calendar to keep track of all of our events in one convenient place.
As always, we graciously accept tax-deductible donations to support our programming.
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Read about each course and find their corresponding links below.
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PROUT'S SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CONCEPTS
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DATE: Saturdays Nov 20th-Dec 4th
TIME: 10:00 am Pacific Time
LOCATION: Zoom
This 3-part course will introduce PROUT’s powerful social and cultural concepts — designed to foster social equality, cultural empowerment, the primacy of spiritual-humanistic values, and a collaborative unity amidst human diversity.
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SADVIPRAHOOD: BUILDING LEADERSHIP FOR PLANETARY CHANGE
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DATE: Saturday, December 11th
TIME: 10:00 – 11:30 am Pacific Time
LOCATION: Zoom
This class will elaborate on the core qualities of sadvipras, or agents of change. It will suggest pathways for individuals to cultivate these qualities, and inspire aspirations to grow into this noble role.
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INTRODUCTION TO ANANDA SUTRAM
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DATE: Saturday, December 18th
TIME: 10:00 am Pacific Time
LOCATION: Zoom
Ananda Sutram is the treatise on philosophy, given in classical aphorism format, by Shrii Shrii Anandamurti. In 86 profound aphorisms Ananda Sutram covers with remarkable depth and clarity the core concepts of cosmology, ontology, science of mind, intuitional science, and socioeconomic theory.
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Take courses anytime with Teachable.
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Our Teachable website now has 7 recorded courses. You can take these courses on your own schedule and rewatch the material over and over. This includes our latest course, which we're offering for free: The Method of Neohumanism.
Join Jason Schreiner for a special presentation on the neohumanistic concept of critical rationality and engaged devotion, at no cost and on your schedule.
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Art for Blessedness & Service
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Today we're sharing two poems. The first, Whereas by author Layli Long Soldier, repurposes congressional double speak in order to reveal the murderous hypocrisy lurking behind the official language of the state. Layli Long Soldier, a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation, offers us an important and poignant reminder of the ongoing state violence being committed against the indigenous peoples of the United States. November is Native American Heritage Month. It's a great time to honor, uplift, listen to, learn from, and stand in solidarity with the first peoples of this land.
The Second poem, My Gender is Compromise, was written by Joshua Jennifer Espinoza about the ways in which she feels misunderstood and unable to fully express herself as a trans woman. Today is the last day of Transgender Awareness Week. Learn more about Transgender Awareness Week and trans issues here.
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Whereas
Read the full poem or listen to Layli Long Soldier recite it in her own voice here. Below is an excerpt from the poem.
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"WHEREAS the word whereas means it being the case that, or considering that, or while on the contrary; is a qualifying or introductory statement, a conjunction, a connector. Whereas sets the table. The cloth. The saltshakers and plates. Whereas calls me to the table because Whereas precedes and invites. I have come now. I’m seated across from a Whereas smile. Under pressure of formalities, I fidget I shake my legs. I’m not one for these smiles, Whereas I have spent my life in unholding. What do you mean by unholding? Whereas asks and since Whereas rarely asks, I am moved to respond, Whereas, I have learned to exist and exist without your formality, saltshakers, plates, cloth. Without the slightest conjunctions to connect me. Without an exchange of questions, without the courtesy of answers. This has become mine, this unholding. Whereas, with or without the setup, I can see the dish being served. Whereas let us bow our heads in prayer now, just enough to eat;"
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when i am feeling extra brave
i get ready and leave the house
and go out into a public
that wasn’t meant for someone like me.
the idea that i could be a person
crowds around me as
people hop from one feeling
to the next.
i hold on. the fear of being seen
swarms through the pain
of loneliness.
cars pass. faces laugh in the hot sun.
i’m craving the love of smiling skin,
begging my enemy to kiss me.
i’ve remade myself
in the shape of a stop sign,
my red lips, my long dress, my willing teeth
all suggesting a sort of peace.
it’s a lie.
i’m only pretending to make
this much sense.
i’m bowing my head and
offering this to you
as long as it will keep me alive.
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