Six Week On-line Course: Discovering Unity
Tuesday, 12th May, 2020
19:30
Tuesday, 16th June, 2020
00:00
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Discovering Unity
An opportunity for knowing ourselves during the time of ‘lockdown’.
People have often commented that the effect of the coronavirus outbreak has been to show us our humanity. Apart from the hardship, fear and suffering it is causing (or because of these), there have been countless ‘outbreaks’ of human qualities of kindness, helpfulness, compassion and service. The fact that many of us have been forced out of our habitual lives by the lockdown has served to focus us on these things.
So this seems an auspicious time for us to perhaps examine our humanity a little more intimately and deeply – and more broadly.
We would like to invite you to join a six-week online course in this very matter:
What is it to be human? And, inseparable from this, what is real? What is the reality of our being?
Not that there is an official answer to these: it is our life’s work, each of us, to know these things for ourselves. The course is titled ‘Discovering Unity’ because it begins with the premise that reality is a unity – a single consciousness, a unified perspective – that both illuminates and is ourselves and the world.
Normally offered face to face as a residential course, we have adapted the course to a series of online modules using the Zoom video-conferencing platform.
One 2-hour session (with a short half-time break) will be held each week, to include study of wisdom texts, conversation and supporting practices including Qigong and mindfulness. These sessions are supplemented by personal study and practices.
Places are limited to ten people, so please don’t delay if you are interested in joining the course.
Details
- One weekly session: Starts Tuesday 12 May and ends Tuesday 16th June. Provisionally the time is set for sessions to start at 19.30 BST, but this can be changed to accommodate students from different time zones.
- Free of Charge: There is no fee for the course but donations to the Chisholme Institute are welcomed.
If this course is fully subscribed there will be other opportunities. Please register your interest.
Facilitators: Robin Thomson and Marijke Kretzers
For further information or to register, contact Robin via duonlinecourse@gmail.com or on +44(0)7875 704422.
About the courses at Chisholme
All courses at Chisholme, however much their formats differ, begin with the principle of the absolute unity of existence, in view of which unity all life, in whatever sphere, is interconnected and interdependent.
If this is so, then who and what am I? Is it possible for me to come to know my reality and place within the one absolute existence? And what is the way forward, to know myself within the context of unity? That such knowledge is possible, and that there is indeed a way towards it is the reason for all courses that Chisholme offers.
There are different lengths of courses at Chisholme. From a weekend to six months, the course comprises a beginning, a middle and an end and has a continuity of participants throughout. Each participant begins at the same starting point as every other, and all complete the course together. To begin at the beginning, it is important that each participant, whatever their prior learning and experience, enters upon the course with ‘beginner’s mind’, as far as possible putting aside all previous understandings, with a freshness of intent and enquiry.
This kind of knowledge cannot be taught as such, and for this reason Chisholme has no teachers. Rather, this knowledge is within each of us already and reveals itself as and when we are ready, when the time is right. Chisholme’s courses aim to provide the best circumstances for each participant to approach this transformational moment, whether during the course or in the future.
Each person’s journey to self-knowledge will be different.
Please email secretary@chisholme.org
to register your interest.
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