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Where can you go to read Earth?

 at  La Vista Ecological Learning Center’s

Earth Literacy Program

“Exploring the Sacred Universe”

Come, explore Creation’s integrity

in a setting that invites you to broaden your vision!

August 3 - 10, 2010

Join us atop the Scenic Bluffs

overlooking the mile-wide

Mississippi River

in Godfrey, Illinois

(near St. Louis, Missouri)

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:

contemplate

the wonder, awe, and newness of the Universe Story

be immersed

in direct experience of the natural world

develop

practical skills for a more ecologically conscious life

critically examine

the perceptions that currently fashion our cultural world view

re-connect

with our Creator through Creation as we deepen our recognition of the inherent spiritual dimension of the Universe

participate

in guided activities and instruction

to Request an Application

Phone: 618-466-5004

E-mail:  info@lavistaelc.org

Letter:  La Vista Ecological Learning Ctr - 4300 Levis Lane - Godfrey, IL  62035

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.

Below are some comments from past participants that offer testimony to its significance for their lives and for our Earth.

“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.”