Events
What Is God? A Lecture & Workshop with Jacob Needleman
Mar 13 2010 1:00PM - 8:00PM
EVENT DETAILS
Saturday, March 13
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
CIIS Main Building
$135 (Includes Friday Evening Lecture)
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
"To think about God is to the human soul what breathing is to the human body." In this lecture and workshop we deal with the conflicts in our relationships to time, money, love, technology, and the quest for spiritual guidance.
We focus mainly on two themes: the recovery of conscience in our relationships, and the need to cut through the present confusion about the meaning of God.
This lecture and workshop will offer the demanding and joyous personal work of listening and thinking together, beyond our limits, about the questions that define us as human beings, questions that the mind alone can neither answer nor refrain from asking in front of the serious realities of our life. We will explore the possibility of opening ourselves to a deeper state of consciousness. The lecture and workshop will demonstrate how moments of deep shock, wonder, grief, and joy are really messages from our true self that our culture does not know how to interpret. Finally we will touch on a new practice of listening as an act of love that we can all practice. Both the lecture and the workshop will include discussion of the teachings of G.I.Gurdjieff.
ABOUT THE PRESENTER
Jacob Needleman, PhD, is the acclaimed author of The American Soul and Money and the Meaning of Life. He is a professor of philosophy at San Francisco State University and a former director of the Center for the Study of New Religions at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. His most recent book is What is God?
