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Your mind body and spirit connection will be transformed with The Mystics Summit - February 1-5, 2021. Uncover the ecstatic wisdom of the mystics to reclaim your own connection to the sacred.
I love enhancing my mind body and spirit connection with these online summits. These free events are provided by the Shift Network, and I am very happy to partner with them for the benefit of our Psychic Junkie Circle.
Shift have a mission to create a sustainable, peaceful, healthy and prosperous world, knowing we are all one sacred family, united in our divinity, while celebrating our diversity. Their intention is to share with you the very best in personal and societal transformation, so that together, step by step, we’re shifting the way we do things on this planet and creating a beautiful world that works for all.
What does it mean to be a mystic in our time?
In this modern era brimming with technology, complexity, and noise, have we lost our mind body and spirit connection to mystery and mysticism?
With the chaos of our contemporary world, can we still access poetic states of bliss and the experience of the sublime?
After a year that’s left many feeling bereft, exhausted, and depleted, there’s a strong desire to reconnect with perennial wisdom and replenish the capacity for universal and timeless ecstatic union with the sacred.
Mystics across time have written some of the world’s greatest poetry and scripture during episodes of war, plague, and social upheaval… and they call to us now to reclaim our soul’s longing and commune with the sacred heart of existence - even in the midst of turmoil.
As we enter a new year and a new era, it’s a perfect time to listen and receive inspiration from the “holy troublemakers” across history - who were both ordinary, flawed people and great mystics - revelling in the sublime while delivering provocative messages of truth and awakening.
I’m thrilled to announce a unique convergence of seasoned scholars, sacred rebels, and mystical seekers, who will support you in restoring your sense of meaning and remembrance of what’s true and lasting… and help you reconnect to love as the harbor amidst life’s crashing storms.
The Mystics Summit will guide you into the ecstatic wisdom of celebrated figures like Hildegard of Bingen, the Black Madonna, Teilhard de Chardin, Rabia of Basra, Bede Griffiths, Sri Aurobindo - as well as contemporaries like Thomas Merton, Ram Dass, Sri Ma Viddhe, Friar Greg Boyle, Dorothy Day, George Sand, and others.
This timely event features more than more than 40 scholars, teachers, contemporary mystics - including Krishna Das, Mirabai Starr, Matthew Fox, Rabbi Rami Shapiro, Imam Jamal Rahman, Alexander John Shaia, Andrew Harvey, China Galland, and many others - as they lead you through the lives and times of ancient mystics, their “ordinary heroism,” and lessons of mind body and spirit connection you can apply in these tumultuous times.
Throughout this landmark summit, you’ll receive not only gems of wisdom from the ancient mystics, but also poetry, music, and practices that can put you in touch with the unmistakable passion… born of a direct revelation of “the Beloved.”
During this seminal 5-day event, you’ll discover:
You’ll come away knowing that mysticism isn’t reserved just for those on the pedestals of religious history. It’s everyone’s birthright!
In fact, you may discover that the great mystics of the past weren’t unapproachable “saints,” but, instead, very human, flawed, who wrestled with the same challenges many of us are having right now.
You’ll learn about their transcendent experiences and embodied insights. As the Dalai Lama has said: “The purpose of life isn’t to transcend the body but to embody the transcendent.”
Carrying this harvest of inspiration into the future can help you re-enter the social, cultural, or political sphere with a greater mind body and spirit connection to the sacred… bringing passionate devotion into your acts of service to your community and the world.
Here’s some of what the brilliant speakers will be sharing with you…
You’ll be in good hands with summit host Mirabai Starr, an award-winning author of creative nonfiction and contemporary translations of sacred literature. Mirabai’s newest book, Wild Mercy: Living the Fierce and Tender Wisdom of the Women Mystics, was named one of the “Best Books of 2019” by Spirituality & Practice.
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