Parliament of Worlds Religion 2004 Barcelona

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

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Program Descriptions Thursday, July 8, 2004
MORNING OBSERVANCES 8:00 AM 9:00 AM
our personal needs and hopes for the day and the wisdom to continue on our path.
Doug George-Kanentiio, Akwesasne Mohawk, is nationally recognized as a primary source of information about Iroquoian politics and culture. He is a founding and current member of the Native American Journalists Association, and has received awards for his journalistic writings.
Taoist Celebration
Xiu Lian Tian Cheng Yang
Room 121, Spanish/Chinese
Morning Observances, Religious or Spiritual Observance
Performance of a Taoist celebration with the usual ritual (altar, etc.).
Master of international prestige and the first one who came to Europe to spread Taoism. He has published many books on this tradition.
Self-Inquiry Meditation Swami Gajanand
Room 122, English
Morning Observances, Religious or Spiritual Observance
"Yoga in Daily Life" offers numerous methods to attain physical and mental well-being. An important tool in self-investigation and self-knowledge is the technique of "Self-Inquiry Meditation." In this meditation practice we come into contact with our subconscious, the source of our desires, complexes, behavioral patterns and prejudices. We become acquainted with our own nature, and then beyond self-acceptance to SelfRealization. This technique enables us to overcome negative qualities and habits and helps us to better manage life's problems.
In 1987, Swami Gajanand found his spiritual master in His Holiness Mahamandaleshwar Swami Maheshwarananda and became a qualified Yoga teacher and the leader of the Yoga in Daily Life Centre in Homburg. He now resides in India continuing his spiritual development and teaching yoga and meditation in various ashrams and institutions.
Prayer of Contemplation
Rafael Garzón Arévalo
Room 123, Spanish/English Morning Observances, Religious or Spiritual Observance
Spiritual practice presenting contemplative prayer as a simple form of prayer with deepening and transforming effects. Jesus and Saint John of the Cross are two models of this prayer. Rafael Garzón Arévalo and his wife Amalia Garcia Sanz are
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teachers. They are leading prayer workshops in Córdoba. They have been very engaged in the pastoral of parishes in this city for many years. Nowadays they are leaders of TOV (Workshops of Prayer and Life).
The Wisdom of Listening to the Earth: Waiting Worship in the Manner of Friends
Dr. Robert McGahey
Room 124, English/Spanish
Morning Observances, Religious or Spiritual Observance
A Quaker worship service providing a ritual space to pray for the earth's healing. We will read aloud Joanna Macy's poem The Bestiary as a way of reflecting on the state of the Ark, then enter into waiting worship in the manner of Friends, deepening our experience. The observance will end with the Elm Dance, a simple circle dance in which we will enact a forest of prayers for the healing of the earth.
Robert McGahey holds an interdisciplinary Ph.D. from Emory University's Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts. He served on the executive committee of the Friends Conference on Religion and Psychology and taught Humanities at Moorhead State University. Dr. McGahey now teaches Ecopsychology and Spiritual Development and writes on ecology and spirituality.
The Love Communion Archbishop F.E. Eckard
Room 125, English/Spanish
Morning Observances, Religious or Spiritual Observance
Observance that reproduces an ancient Essenian ceremony. In this ritual, the participants want to represent the human brotherhood towards the same Father.
Archbishop F.E. Eckard Strohm is a bishop of the Essenian Christian Church, which was founded in Germany in 1971 and which is described as an ecumenical church.
Meditation for Peace
Gyetrul Jigme Rimpoche
H.H. Ven. Samdech Maha Ghosananda
130, English/Spanish
Morning Observances, Religious or Spiritual Observance
Buddhist meditation helping to calm the mind and to build the peace.
Young master who belongs to the hereditary lineage Ripa, whose head is his father, Vidyadhara Terton Namka Drimed. He lives in Orissa (India) where he is the director of a monastery of 5.000 exiled Tibetans.
The Ven. Maha Ghosananda is the Supreme Patriarch of Buddhism in Cambodia. Ven. Ghosananda is a world-renowned peace