Interesting discussion...I disagree... at my PDC there was a wonderful sense of community, and there was no mention (by the instructors) of any specific spiritual directive.
Truly, community will move ahead or fall apart on lines of culture...
Yes, having courses that are free of it will offer something to everybody.
But, they will not create community.
Wouldn't it be a part of a course to have people introduce themselves, where they're coming from, why they're in the course, etc.?
On another note, there is a whole body of course work about building community with awareness of other dimensions of life beyond the overt focus of our modern global culture.Absolutely, and I think this speaks to an underlying issue of trust. Part of the reason we are where we are in the modern age is because we don't trust nature to provide for us. Regardless what the ideal of science is (to find truth), the *application* of science has been mostly to solve problems - problems that we see as having been caused by the vagaries of nature. Disease, climate, natural disasters, accidents - all of these are things that science has helped to mitigate and keep at bay. And we can't ignore that, but on the other hand... we've also sort of forgotten that while nature can be cruel when something in her systems breaks down or isn't favoring us at the moment - when natural systems are working as they should, they work wonderfully well - better than anything man could devise! And the interesting thing is that you don't have to have any particular spiritual bent to recognize this. You may believe we are the handiwork of the divine, and/or the product of billions of years of evolution... either way, it should be obvious that nature works pretty well all things considered. :)
In particular, I took a course with Carol Heywood Bebrauskas, a NW pacific 'seer', who had been to Findhorn and wanted to share with us the exercises for building community that she had learned there.
Interestingly, if you really look into 'presence', you'll find that it takes some work to bring people into presence. People have analyzed where people really are half the time, and mostly it's not here and now.
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