February 07, 2012: Vocalist, Bisan Toron, in her very unique style, brings us into the experience of our own voice. From Seven Pillars’ Vanishing Art: An Intimate…
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February 07, 2012: Robert Kelly and Charlotte Mandell, distinguished guests participating in Seven Pillars’ Vanishing Art event, offer two readings. Robert reads from his own work on Vanishing…
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February 07, 2012: Yuval Ron, the very accomplished musician, composer and producer, leads us through a series of exercises on the affects of sound. From Seven Pillars’…
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February 07, 2012: Please enjoy this free gift, a special performance featuring Yuval Ron, Bisan Toron and Nur Habib Tiven from the opening night of Vanishing Art: An…
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February 06, 2012: Please enjoy this free audio! Christopher Bamford orients us to the theme “vanishing art” during the opening evening of our event, Vanishing Art: An Intimate…
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December 01, 2011: Seven Pillars offers you this free gift from our Vanishing Art Festival held last August. As the wind and rains of Hurricane Irene were upon…
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Dr. Gary Null is the host of the nation’s longest running public radio program on nutrition and natural health, founder of the Progressive Radio Network,…
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Jennifer Alia Wittman, Seven Pillars’ Director, has a background in public service and volunteerism, founding, directing, and supporting governmental, nonprofit and small business entities. Jennifer…
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Max Strom is a teacher, speaker, and author known for inspiring and impacting the lives of his students and has become one of the most…
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David Spangler is an internationally known spiritual teacher and writer, and was instrumental in helping establish the Findhorn Foundation community in northern Scotland in the…
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Sohrob Nabatian studied pastoral counseling and psychology at Harvard Divinity School, and had the privilege of working as a hospital chaplain in Berkeley, California, where…
7 February
2012
Do we live actually in a dualistic world, a world of matter and spirit, mind and body? To treat matter as separate already makes it so. Matter, as we know it, is the matter of materialism (egotism, dualism). Yet it really didn’t come into being until Descartes divided the world into res cogitans and res extensa, thinking things—minds—thought of as spiritual, and extended things—bodies—thought of as mechanical. read more »
6 February
2012
Seven Pillars' Vanishing Art Festival last August experienced some unexpected weather issues, particularly with Hurricane Irene. Consequently, we never developed an envisioned (non) manifesto on art and wisdom. We have our chance now, through Floetry. We invite you to create a poetic (non) manifesto with us. read more »
5 February
2012
Each day during Seven Pillars’ Vanishing Art event in late August 2011 a “poetic action” was planned related to one of the elements, Earth, Water, Fire and Air. Nature, in the form of Hurricane Irene, as well as other unforeseen factors, intervened, leaving the poetic action for Water undone. read more »
All along the primary question we’ve been asked is “What are the seven pillars?” During the spring of 2010, with this question vivid in our consciousness, the seven pillars revealed themselves in a dream and a new vision for Seven Pillars was born. read more »
11 October
2011
The practice of presence is no easy task and, spiritually, it is perhaps the most elusive of all practices. Imagine for a moment being fully present to yourself and to your situation. That is, imagine being fully aware of all that passes through and within you and also simultaneously aware of all that impacts you from the surrounding environment—people, places, atmosphere, sensory sensations, integrated with inner thoughts, feelings, memories, and bodily reactions. read more »
10 October
2011
What ignorance are we addressing here? I am considering ignorance here from the point of view of a westerner. We live in the global village, we share the same roof, we are interdependent and co-responsible for care of the Earth. And yet, we still think of ourselves, and our religion, as separate, distinct, and unique. read more »
9 October
2011
When I first met my teacher, Irina Tweedie, I sat in her small room, looked into her blue eyes and I knew that she knew. From that moment, without knowing why, more than anything, I wanted what she had. Much later I understood this as the knowledge that can only come from direct inner experience, which for the Sufi is imaged as Khidr. Khidr is the most important Sufi figure, the archetype of direct revelation. read more »
19 July
2011
Smell is the oldest, most magical sense. In 'In Search of Past Time,' Proust tells how, returning home for a visit one cold winter’s day, his mother offered him a cup of lime blossom tea with some plump little cakes, called “madeleines,” molded in the fluted valve of a scallop shell. At first, he declined, but then, for no particular reason, he accepted. As the lime-tea-soaked crumbs touched his palate, a strange emotion overcame him. The world stopped, and an exquisite, transcendent pleasure, like the effect of love, filling him with joy, suffused his senses. read more »
14 June
2011
Sunlight and Shadows Above Deilingen, Germany
In deep meditation I come to a wall. I know this wall. I have seen it many times before in meditation and waking visions. It is a high brick wall. I know what is on the other side of the wall: a world of light. But there is no way through; there is no doorway, no ladder, no break in the wall. When I come to the wall I walk along it, and then I have to turn away, back to the narrow streets of this world. read more »
Marketplace in Dehli, 2006
My Conscientious Self: Seek not profit by putting someone in straits. My Conscientious Self: Harm no one for your own benefit. Though we live in a world that habitually conflates them, money and happiness are two different things. Money is an object—a useful object often, but still only an object. Happiness is a state of being. read more »
14 June
2011
Henri Rousseau
When I was living in Toronto in the late sixties and early seventies, I had the good fortune to go to the University of Toronto’s Coach House where Marshall McLuhan performed for one evening a week. I say “performed” because McLuhan was a brilliant aphorist and artistic master of what he called “probes”—a kind of blast-off into outer space that most academics could not manage, and one that gave us a new look back at life on Earth. read more »
7 April
2011
Middle Way Buddhism describes a dynamic synergy between its primary pillars of thought: emptiness and compassion. When we understand and experience our deepest, fundamental nature as empty and as interdependent intersections in this vast web of the universe, a natural tendency for compassionate action arises. read more »
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