Parliament of Worlds Religion 1999 Capetown SA

Author(s): Parliament of the World’s Religions
Publisher: USA Parliament of the Worlds Religions

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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7
3:00 PM–4:30 PM IN THEATER 5 Experiencing the Soul; From Belief to knowing Rev. Eliot Jay Rosen, LISW, ACSW A multimedia presentation featuring excerpts from the Mr. Rosen's private film interviews with the Dalai Lama, Sant Rajinder Singh, Sri Daya Mata as well as riveting testimony of scientific researchers, near-death experiencers, people in the process of dying, all having had profound spiritual experiences. Based on themes found in presenter's Los Angles Times bestselling book Experiencing the Soul-Before Birth During Life After Death, he will show the essential unity of the five major categories of soul experiences and the universality of the "human experience of the numinous" across religions and cultures. Experiential components of the presentation will include fascinating science experiments, humor, music, poetry, slides, interactive wisdom-sharing with participants. There will also be a demonstration of a universal form of meditation, which promotes inner and outer peace irrespective of one's belief and religious affiliation. Eliot Jay Rosen is the author of the Los Angeles Times best selling book, Experiencing the Soul and a licensed hospice social worker and filmmaker. He also founded the nonprofit charitable and educational organization For A World We Choose Foundation 1501C3). As an educator, he was on the teaching faculty of the Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Hospice, Grief Counseling, and Death Education Program at Northern New Mexico College. As a spiritual aspirant, in 1975 he was initiated by Sant Darshan Singh (1921-1989) and presently seeks spiritual guidance from the living spiritual teacher, Sant Rajinder Singh.
3:00 PM–3:45 PM IN SCIENCE 3.89 The Journey to Wholeness: Intergrating the Inner and Outer Worlds According to the Mahayana Buddhist Tradition Mr. A Mazel This lecture will focus on the training of the Bodhisattva, a spiritually compassionate being whose aspiration to enlightenment was based on the manifestation of lovingkindness to others. Underlying this path is the realisation of the unity of all life. According to the Mahayana tradition, living with love and compassion is as important in the individuals journey to enlightenment as meditation and the search for knowledge. This is the integration of the inner and outer worlds, a process of wholeness, founded on ethical principles and openheartedness. The lecture will include a short meditation session manifesting healing for self and others. Abraham Mazel is the founding teacher of the Insight Meditation Centre, in Cape Town. The IMC combines Buddhist principles and meditation techniques with psychological insights and holistic healing. The IMC follows a nonsectarian approach drawing on the Theravada, Zen and Tibetan Buddhist Traditions - adapting them to local culture, thereby meeting contemporary needs for emotional healing and spiritual development.
3:00 PM–3:45 PM IN SCIENCE 3.49 The Focolare Spirituality of Unity in Teaching World Religions Ms. Constance L. Benson The Focolare spirituality is an interpersonal praxis oriented towards making oneself one with the other. It provides a framework for understanding and valuing religious and other cultural differences. As such, this spirituairty gives rise to a distinctive hermeneutic of world religions that is both faithbased and genuinely pluralistic Constance L. Benson is a research associate at the City University of New York's Center on Violence and Human Survival, and author of God and Cacsar with a foreword by Cornell West. She holds an M.Div. from Harvard Divinity School and a M.Phil. from Columbia University and Union Seminary in New York.
3:00 PM–3:45 PM IN SCIENCE 3.45 Role of the Aged in the Preservation and Perpetuation of Religious and Cultural Values in Hindu Family Life Dr. Dorasamy Moodley in South Africa, the traditional Hindu family consists of the extended kinship system that often spreads across several generations. This presentation will illustrate how this system provides the social, economic, and religious structures for the needs of its members from the cradle to the grave. In this system, the elders had a particular social status as the creators and carriers of the family heritage and were therefore treated with great reverence by all the family members. This lecture will explore how, over the past few decades, the increasing westernization and nuclearization of the family has lead to poor treatment of elders. Dr. Moodley has been associated with the University of Durban - Westville in the Department of Geography for over 30 years. In 1998 he was awarded his doctorate on a thesis entitled A Religio-cultural perspective on some problems arising in Hindu families in Durban,
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3:00 PM–4:00 PM IN SCIENCE 2.45 Greater Things Than These Shall You Do... Christ The Clairvoyant, The Healer Vr. Rt. Rev. Dr. Susan Hull Bostwick This lecture and demonstration will offer a historical Christian perspective of clairvoyance and spiritual healing, as practiced by Jesus Christ and proclaimed by the apostle Paul. VRR Dr. Susan Hull Bostwick is CEO of the Church of Divine Man and its Seminary: The Berkeley Psychic Institute. President of Deja vu Publishing Co., Managing Editor of The Psychic Reader la newspapery: Founder of the Yin Yang School for Psychic Children.
3:00 PM–4:00 PM IN SCIENCE 3.80 The "Work of the Cell" and the World's "Heart Work" in Thomas Merton's Confessional Writing Mr. Jonathan Montaldo Thomas Merton's private journal writing (recently published in seven volumes) is a testament of "confession and witness to the Cistercian monk's practice of an "inner ecumenism" as he listened for and dialogued with the voices of the 'Strangers." the resident aliens at the center of his interior life. This interior ecumenical movement was Merton's "heart work." It produced his openness and compassion toward a world-wide communion of saints. Merton models for us in his autobiographical writing an inner work in solitude, which is foundational to companioned work with others for peace, justice, and a non-violent world community Jonathan Montaldo is Director of the Thomas Merton Center at Bellarmine College in Louisville, Kentucky, USA which archives the most important and extensive Collection of Merton's literary, artistic and spiritual legacy. Hc cditcd Volume 2 of Merton's Journals, Entering the Silence and co-edited a compendium volume of Merton's Journals with brother Patrick Hart of Gethsemani: The Intimate Thomas Merton: His Life from His Journals.
3:00 PM-4:00 PM IN SCIENCE 2.74 Humanistic Buddhist Nuns: An Introduction Ven. Dr. Yifa This lecture will introduce the Fo Guang Shan Humanistic Bikkhuni Order and its history, present state, and future. Ven. Yifa is a Fo Guang Shan Humanistic Buddhist Order, Bhikkhuni. Ven. Yifa received her Ph.D. from Yale University, USA
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