Fierce Light Workshop,

June 3rd,

7 -10 pm 

Eric Cardinal Hall, Gibsons BC

930 Chamberlin Road (In Shirley Macy Park) 

This fierce workshop with artist, media activist, and filmmaker VelcrowRipper explores the power that is released when spirituality iscombined with action, tapping into what Gandhi called "Soul Force",what Ripper calls, "Fierce Light." It is the power of the spiritualwarrior - heart centered and fierce with a committment to authenticity.

Featuring dynamic "engaged spirituality" practices and meditations, visualizations and excercises, the workshop will offer key tools to unleashing your own "Fierce Light" and learning to take action from aspiritual perspective. Integrating the head and the heart, "doing" and "being," learning to be of service to yourself, and the world around you,while avoiding overwhelm or burn out.  Developing an expansive persspective - moving from the ego centric, to the world centric.  

Suggested pre-requisite: Viewing of Velcrow Ripper's feature documentary FIERCE LIGHT: When Spirit Meets Action.

Now showing in Toronto and Vancouver.

(Please check local listings for screening times)

e-mail: transparentfilm@warpmail.net

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MORE ON THE WORKSHOP

One of the ideas of the workshop is to take the transformative energy that many experience after viewing Fierce Light, and integrate it into our lives. To offer some tools to help us uncover our own fierce light, anddiscover how to put our spirit into action, to be of true service, bothto our higher Selves, and to the planet.

Ken Wilber,the integral philsopher, explains that these kind of peak experiencesare "states", and if properly integrated into our being, can turn into"stages" - we can move another step forward in our journey of evolving consciousness.

So what is the stage that Fierce Light points towards? One of the central points of the film, exploredon multiple levels, is the idea of "inter-being", of "Ubuntu", of agapeLove. As consciousness evolves, on both the individual and thecollective level, we move from the ego centric view - "me", to theethnocentric view - "us", to the world centric view -" all of us." Itis an expansion of the heart, from the small contracted self to thelarge, spaciousness of inter-connectedness, of living in community. Healso describes this as similar to moving from Body (me), Mind (us) andSpirit (all of us).

However,this understanding of unity does not require a reliquinishing of our personality - infact, as I say in Fierce Light, unity is actually strengthened bydiversity. By stepping deeper into our authentic being, by become whowe truly are, in all our uniqueness, we are more able to contribute tothe whole.