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Join Science and Nonduality Conference (SAND) for a 5-day immersive experience where leading scientists, philosophers and spiritual teachers gather to explore a new understanding of who we really are, both as individuals and as a society. Join us for 2 days of pre-conference workshops followed by a 3-day conference filled with talks, panels, meditation, performances, music and dance.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
It is the source of all true art and science.
~ Albert Einstein

For most of human history we’ve been trying to comprehend who we are through the lens of spiritual traditions. Then the Age of Enlightenment ushered in science, giving us a powerful new way to look at ourselves. New disciplines such as cognitive neuroscience, evolutionary psychology, quantum physics and genetics are delivering fascinating findings, redefining our view of reality and human nature. At the same time there is a new conversation emerging in spirituality. We are challenging the traditional view of spirituality as esoteric, transcendent and removed from daily life.

This year at SAND we will be bringing together some of the brightest minds in science along with spiritual teachers from various traditions, to expand and deepen our understanding and experience of what it means to be human. Through these two lenses – of science and spirituality – we will be asking:

• What does it means to be fully human and fully alive?
• What can evolutionary biology, neuroscience, and psychology tell us about human behavior?
• What are emotions, and how does trauma lodge in our bodies?
• How does language shape the way we think and perceive reality?
• What can we learn from the new science of psychedelics?
• How are mathematics, physics and cosmology redefining reality?

Understanding our humanity, the very essence of who we are and how we live our lives, is one of the deepest mysteries and biggest challenges. As we move into this exploration, what emerges is a completely new relationship to our spiritual life and to our idea of what an integrated human being might look like. Embracing our humanness means including our limitations and shortcomings as well as our unlimited potential, our suffering as well as our wholeness. When our heart opens to all of it, the truth of who we are begins to shine. The spiritual search is over. There is no refuge but this moment. We become lovers of what is.

Join us for five days contemplating and celebrating our humanity!

Registration will open in mid January, and the abstract system on February 15th.

The Slow Living Summit: Future of Food Entrepreneurship Summit 2018 focuses on growing conscious food and agriculture businesses, giving current and aspiring entrepreneurs the tools, resources, and mentorship needed to evolve businesses, create positive change in your community, and revolutionize the future of food.

This event is now full. If you wish to be on the wait-list, write to Marie Goodwin, marie@sacred-economics.com.

 

 

The world is in a time of transition in its stories, in the deep mythology that runs our civilization, and many of us personally are in such a transition as well. Often, it is a crisis that initiates this transition, a breakdown in a core part of life: work, health, or relationship. For some, the breakdown happens in every area simultaneously: an initiation into a new phase of life.

In this transition, the old story of who we are, what is normal, what is possible, what is real, and how to live life falls apart, as we prepare to step into a new story of greater wholeness, love, freedom, and connection.

Before that happens though, most of us must pass through a special phase: “the space between stories.” The old answers no longer work, and the new answers haven’t emerged yet. Who am I? Why am I here? How do I navigate life? The ground has shifted beneath us.

This is a sacred time, though our culture gives it little breathing space as it seeks to corral us back into the old story. Sometimes, it is an abyss, dark, lonely, and seemingly endless. Other times we find a ground beyond story, a security entirely independent of predictability or control, and we are filled with light and serenity. We may experience amazing synchronicities that defy what we were told about how reality works. Sometimes we may cling to the sinking fragments of our old story, trying in our panic to climb back onto it; sometimes we have an experience that foretells a new story, a promise of the life that awaits. All of this and more is quite normal, in the space between stories.

In The Space Between Stories we will take a step back from our routines and social environment, and enter a liminal space. We will remove ourselves from the cultural and personal narratives that so powerfully constrain our choices and shape what is real, normal, practical, and possible. The empty space that results is the clearing in which a new story can crystallize.

In order to create a container of safety and trust, participation on this 5-­day retreat is limited to 30 people. The retreat takes place from November 4th – November 9th, 2018

The cost of the retreat is self-­determined. You will pay for room and board at the gorgeous Esalen center, famous for its natural hot springs overlooking the ocean, and a $100 deposit to hold your place. At the conclusion of the event, you will choose the tuition that feels right to you — that feels clear, fair, and reflective of the value received, considering, of course, your own financial means.

Please consider joining us if you…

(1) Are navigating the space between stories right now.
(2) Recognize you are still in an old story that is no longer able to hold you, and you perceive that it is coming to an end.
(3) Are recently emerged into a new story but still uncertain there, and the space between stories is still fresh in your mind.
(4) You feel an unreasonable Yes toward this retreat!

 

 

THIS EVENT IS FULL — please contact Marie Goodwin if you wish to be on the wait-list.  Her email is:  marie@sacred-economics.com

 

 

The world is in a time of transition in its stories, in the deep mythology that runs our civilization, and many of us personally are in such a transition as well. Often, it is a crisis that initiates this transition, a breakdown in a core part of life: work, health, or relationship. For some, the breakdown happens in every area simultaneously: an initiation into a new phase of life.

In this transition, the old story of who we are, what is normal, what is possible, what is real, and how to live life falls apart, as we prepare to step into a new story of greater wholeness, love, freedom, and connection.

Before that happens though, most of us must pass through a special phase: “the space between stories.” The old answers no longer work, and the new answers haven’t emerged yet. Who am I? Why am I here? How do I navigate life? The ground has shifted beneath us.

This is a sacred time, though our culture gives it little breathing space as it seeks to corral us back into the old story. Sometimes, it is an abyss, dark, lonely, and seemingly endless. Other times we find a ground beyond story, a security entirely independent of predictability or control, and we are filled with light and serenity. We may experience amazing synchronicities that defy what we were told about how reality works. Sometimes we may cling to the sinking fragments of our old story, trying in our panic to climb back onto it; sometimes we have an experience that foretells a new story, a promise of the life that awaits. All of this and more is quite normal, in the space between stories.

In The Space Between Stories we will take a step back from our routines and social environment, and enter a liminal space. We will remove ourselves from the cultural and personal narratives that so powerfully constrain our choices and shape what is real, normal, practical, and possible. The empty space that results is the clearing in which a new story can crystalize.

In order to create a container of safety and trust, participation on this 5-­day retreat is limited to 30 people. The retreat takes place from March 4th- March 9th, 2018

The cost of the retreat is self-­determined. You will pay for room and board at the gorgeous Esalen center, famous for its natural hot springs overlooking the ocean, and a $100 deposit to hold your place. At the conclusion of the event, you will choose the tuition that feels right to you — that feels clear, fair, and reflective of the value received, considering of course your own financial means.

Please consider joining us if you…

(1) Are navigating the space between stories right now.
(2) Recognize you are still in an old story that is no longer able to hold you, and you perceive that it is coming to an end.
(3) Are recently emerged into a new story but still uncertain there, and the space between stories is still fresh in your mind.
(4) You feel an unreasonable Yes toward this retreat!

 

Normal is falling apart. The environment, food system, energy, health care, money, politics, education… none of our systems are working very well any more. But endings are often also beginnings. What are these crises transitioning us into? What might the new normal look like?

 

In this program, Charles Eisenstein describes the deep, invisible stories that underlie the crisis of our time, and the new stories upon which we are already beginning to build a different kind of civilization. A new (and ancient) consciousness is emerging, but our institutions — money, medicine, government, and more — are still grounded in the old. This program will illuminate how we can participate in a revolution in human beingness, that includes a different relationship to Earth, a different experience of self, and a different conception of life purpose that what is normal today.

 

Sponsored by: Columbia Resilience, Sustainable Midlands; School of the Earth, Ocean, and Environment; Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Office of the Dean, and the Arnold School of Public Health’s Center for Research in Nutrition and Health Disparities.

 

Reconnecting to our local future

The Economics of Happiness Conference will explore and explain how we humans can shift direction – environmentally, economically, and spiritually – from a globalized system of exploitation, inequality, and environmental degradation toward local cultures and economies that support renewal, resilience, and human and planetary well-being. The Conference, while identifying the systemic root causes of our interconnected crises, will focus primarily on identifying key strategic shifts and cultivating collaboration toward economic localization.

The Conference will include lectures and panel discussions as well as music, art, and ceremony. Conference attendees – expected to number as many as 450, including activists, educators, students, public policy makers, entrepreneurs, and business leaders – can expect ample opportunity for interaction with one another and with faculty during the three-day program. By the end of the Conference, program sponsors expect to witness increasing collaboration in the Northern New Mexico community toward the development of compelling and constructive support for grassroots localization strategies through hands-on action and policy initiatives.