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Where can you go to learn to read Earth?
La Vista Ecological Learning Center’s Summer 2009 Earth Literacy Program
“Exploring the Sacred Universe”
Join us atop the Scenic Bluffs Overlooking the mile-wide Mississippi River in Godfrey, Illinois (near St. Louis, Missouri)
Mon. August 3 - Mon. August 10, 2009
Come, explore Creation’s integrity in a setting that invites you to broaden your vision! Earth Literacy at La Vista “Exploring the Sacred Universe,” our earth literacy program, is the highlight of the year for La Vista Ecological Learning Center, occurring each summer during the first full week of August. Seekers from many parts of the country gather here to immerse themselves in the Sacred Story of the Universe in order to discover how it can be a transforming context for their lives, as well as how it contributes to developing a mutually enhancing human-Earth relationship.
We receive guidance throughout the week from the land, the view, and the whole community of life in this bioregion, as well as from the keen insights and rich wisdom of Thomas Berry, Brian Swimme, and Miriam MacGillis, OP. Together with our own presenters, we facilitate participants’ deepening appreciation of the Integrity of Creation by striving to evoke a mutually enhancing human-Earth relationship. Together, we learn to read Earth! Throughout the week we will: |
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Request an Application Phone: 618-466-5004 E-mail: info@lavistaelc.org Letter: La Vista Ecological Learning Ctr - 4300 Levis Lane - Godfrey, IL 62035
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Because we consider the context presented to be so critically important for our time, and vast in its implications, the seminar requires of participants a single-mindedness of motivation, and presence that is aligned with this focus. Participants are expected to come ready and willing to be intellectually challenged and physically active. |
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“I am awed by the enormousness, the depth, the mystery of who I am and how I got to be who I am… The respect for the universe, our planet Earth and its creatures and for myself is amazing and I want this reverence to be fed and nurtured.” “I knew I was part of the universe and not superior or apart from it, but now I feel a deeper sense of my oneness with Earth and I experience a new groundedness.” “I came believing humans had really messed things up, and there was nothing we could do to stop our destructive patterns progressing. Now I leave believing and seeing that there’s a lot we can do and we can change some things for the betterment of all.” “I’ve become excited about the web of consciousness that is evolving, linking people all around the planet in a desire to reverence and cherish our home Earth and to bequeath it, whole and healthy, to all who follow us.” Join us and learn to read Earth!
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