This Multi Faith and Spirituality Conference is expected to have participation from Her Holiness Sai Maa Lakshmi Devi, Sister Maureen Goodman, Dr Arzina Lalani, Maliqa Helen Evans, Sheelah Treflé Hidden, Miranda, Fionntulach, Chloe Goodchild, Dr MaryCatherine Burgess, Ravinder Kaur Nijjar, Samani Prasanna Pragyaji and Samani Sambodh Pragyaji, Rabbi Nancy Morris, Ajahn Candasiri, among others.
Conference Venue: St George’s West Church, 58 Shandwick Place, Edinburgh.
Conference Times: Thursday 24 and Friday 25 May 2007, 9.30am-5.30pm.
Cost: £20/£15 (Concessions) per day, £40/£30 (Concessions) for two days.
Conference Booking Form:
See the Downloads section of this website.
The purpose of this conference is to:
1. learn about and explore the roots, contemporary expressions, challenges, opportunities, and issues of Spirituality and the Sacredness of the Divine Feminine; and
2. provide a forum for networking among those who are interested in issues of Spirituality and the Sacredness of the Divine Feminine; and
3. facilitate open and mutually respectful enquiry and communication among scholars, spiritual practitioners, and the wider public regarding the nature of Spirituality and the Sacredness of the Divine Feminine in relationship to spirituality in its diversity.
Conference Organisation:
Organised by, and under the auspices of, the Edinburgh International Centre for World Spiritualities, EICWS.
There will be a Public Multi Faith and Spiritual Forum Event: Spirituality and the Sacredness of the Divine Feminine on Thursday 24 May 2007, 7.30pm onwards, and a Chanting Concert with Chloë Goodchild on the evening of Friday 25 May 2007, 7.30pm onwards.
Thursday, May 24, 2007, 7.30pm onwards.
Event: Public Multi Faith and Spiritual Forum:
Spirituality and the Sacredness of the Divine Feminine.
Chair: Dr MaryCatherine Burgess.
Speakers: Her Holiness Sai Maa Lakshmi Devi, Sister Maureen Goodman, Dr Arzina Lalani, Sheelah Treflé Hidden, Miranda, Samani Prasanna Pragyaji and Samani Sambodh Pragyaji and Ajahn Candasiri.
Venue: St George’s West Church, 58 Shandwick Place, Edinburgh.
Cost: £5, on the door on the night.
Friday, May 25, 2007, 7.30pm onwards.
Event: Celebrating the Feminine with Chloë Goodchild:
An Evening of Shared Sacred Sound Voice, Love Song and Poetry, Celebrating the Divine Feminine in Music and Movement with Chloë Goodchild.
Chloë studied music and education at Cambridge and Norwich universities (1971 – 76). She has travelled worldwide, exploring a wide perspective on voice and sound, in search of “an embodied compassionate singing.”
Deafness in childhood catalysed Chloë's fascination with inner sound and the singing voice as the most intimate vehicle for spirit, unhindered by the limitations of social conditioning.
Chloë founded The Naked Voice after a transformative experience in Northern India. Her autobiography, ‘The Naked Voice – Journey to the Spirit of Sound,’ temporarily out of print, tells her story.
The remarkable range and depth of Chloë's singing is powerfully demonstrated in her albums Devi, Sura, Sound Awareness, Inside You and her latest CDs, Fierce Wisdom and Singing Field.
She has recorded and performed with Coleman Barks, poet-translator of The Essential Rumi; Angelo Badalamenti, “Hollywood's hottest film composer”; Byzantine composer John Tavener; Eve Ensler of The Vagina Monologues; film director Jane Campion (The Piano, Holy Smoke); Discovery Channel; the BBC and with leading jazz and pop musicians.
Chloë is presently working on a second book, ‘Sound Intelligence’, to be published in 2006. Her forthcoming CD, including tracks co-produced with film composer, Craig Pruess (Bend it Like Beckham) will be available later this year.
For information on Chloë’s albums:
http://www.thenakedvoice.com/store/music.html
Venue: Sanctuary, St George’s West Church, 58 Shandwick Place, Edinburgh.
Cost: £10/£8 (Concessions), on the door, on the night.
This conference has been organised to coincide with the visit to Scotland by Her Holiness Sai Maa Lakshmi Devi, who will lead a Day Intensive and Associated Evening Public Event: Alchemy and Spirit: Revealing the Passionate Soul, on Saturday 26 May 2007, 11am-3pm and 6pm-9pm. See:
http://www.humanityinunity.org/HIU/Home/index.cfm
Day Intensive Venue: Quaker Meeting House, 7 Victoria Terrace, Edinburgh.
Day Intensive Organisation:
Organised by, and under the auspices of, the Edinbrugh International Centre for World Spiritualities, EICWS.
Saturday 26 May 2007
11 a.m. - 3:00p.m. Alchemy and Spirit: Revealing the Passionate Soul.
Day Intensive with Her Holiness Sai Maa Lakshmi Devi
Her Holiness Sai Maa Lakshmi Devi is a Master of the radical transformation of consciousness. Sai Maa embodies Light, Love and playfulness. You are warmly invited to experience Sai Maa’s alive, dynamic teaching, to meditate and chant with Her, and to step into the fullness and Light of your own Mastery. Sai Maa’s work respects and honours all traditions and religions, and She has the extraordinary capacity to communicate profound wisdom in a simple, personable, and down-to-earth manner. As a Master of enlightenment, and a practical mystic, Sai Maa is an alchemist of life, spirit and humanity. Sai Maa’s teaching style can be unconventional, refreshingly direct, intimate, candid and powerful. Sai Maa instructs that we are all to be Masters, and that through awareness and choice we can all move into Self-Mastery. See:
http://www.humanityinunity.org/HIU/Home/index.cfm
6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. Alchemy and Spirit: Revealing the Passionate Soul.
Public Programme with Her Holiness Sai Maa Lakshmi Devi
Day Intensive and Public Evening Programme, 11am-3pm and 6pm-9pm:
Total Cost: £50/£30 (Concessions)
Public Evening Programme Only, 6pm-9pm:
Total Cost: £10/£7 (Concessions)
Day Intensive Booking Form:
See the Downloads section of this website.
For Further Information:
Contact: Neill Walker,
contact@eicws.org, 0131 331 4469.
