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Summer Studies
at Wisdom’s Goldenrod
September 3 – 6, 2010
Unfolding the Divine Outflow:
Exploring the Intellectual-Principle
The focus of this workshop is Anthony Damiani’s
discussion of Intellectual-Principle in his book
Astronoesis. We’ll begin with meditation on Friday
evening, Sept. 3, and end with lunch on Monday, Sept. 6.
You are welcome to come to any or all of this event.
There is no set fee, but donations are always welcome to
help maintain the center and cover the costs of the
workshop, including simple meals. For more information,
directions, or to let us know you’re planning to come,
please contact Martha or Sam Cohen 607-527-7342 or Helen
Perl at
perl5@verizon.net.
Daily schedule: 8:00 am meditation in the library, 8:45
breakfast, 9:30 – 12:30 morning session, 1:00 lunch,
5:00 meditation, 6:00 light supper, 7:30 – 10:00 evening
session.
Fri pm: What is the Intellectual-Principle?
We will begin the workshop with an exploration of the
definitions and questions about the
Intellectual-Principle we have brought with us – and
then turn to the text. Anthony begins by saying, “Out
of the ocean of infinite possibilities present in the
ineffable undifferenced intelligence of the One, there
pours forth a radiant display of glorious revelations –
the Divine Mind and its Ideas.”
Sat am: The Dialectic of Intellectual-Principle:
In the realm of the Intellectual-Principle, the
language is one of paradox and unresolved mystery. Here
Plotinus and Anthony talk of One-Many,
unity-multiplicity, Being-Knowing, substance-activity,
and interpenetrating yet distinct categories of Being.
We’ll explore these unities/dualities and the section of
the Intellectual-Principle chapter titled The Genera of
Being: Dialectic of Intellectual-Principle (pages
110-112 in Astronoesis). We’re invited to go beyond our
everyday vision and the logic of the sensible cosmos.
Sat pm: Plotinus On the Heavenly System (II.1)
The basic point is that the stars we see are DIRECTLY
in the Intellectual-Principle, not mere symbols thereof
-- hence the metaphysical chart/astrology is/can be a
direct contemplation of the same.
Sun am: Unfolding of the Intellectual-Principle through
Number
Why is this the first section following the
introduction in our text? Because Number is foundational
to the self-constitution of Being, Intellect, and
Intelligibles. Number pre-relationally ‘connects’ the
content of Intellectual-Principle with its transcendent
and unific Source, The One. Key ideas are ‘unfolding’
and the preposition ‘through.’ Apprehension of the
unifying presence and substantial function of Number is
the indispensable essential prerequisite to
understanding the symbolism of both the 2nd Quadrant and
the entire Metaphysical Chart; the veritable basis of
distinction; why infinity must be bound. It is here
where we may penetrate the meaning of Indefinite versus
Definite Dyad.
Sun pm: Each Idea Is a Unique Form of the Whole
Intellectual-Principle
“It is this Idea of Man . . . a special version of
the Intellectual-Principle imprinted upon or within the
unit soul that determines that soul as human. This is
the higher knower within us that stretches all the way
“down” to include the sensible man. We have here the
fundamental conception – Mentalism -- that the Mind of
God or the Intellectual-Principle is present within the
macrocosmic soul, the whole of the intelligible world is
within the soul.” We will explore the ways in which what
Plotinus says about the self-knowing of the
Intellectual-Principle illuminates and deepens the
meaning of mentalism and what we understand by self and
world.
Mon am: Ideas and the System of Nature;
Intellectual-Principle as Revealed to the Sages
Plotinus speaks of “Reason emanating from
Intellectual-Principle,” and of “The gift of reason-form
flowing from it.” Anthony speaks of our universe as an
“Image of the intelligible, an image which has taken
form in time. . .” He goes on to say, “Although,
filtered and altered through our own cognitive
apparatus. . .our experience is of the ideas, or the
emanation of the ideas.” We will ponder the great
mystery of how our life here partakes, even now, of the
divine mystery and the divine ideas. By reading
carefully these two revelatory sections of the chapter,
and by exploring Anthony’s vision of every universe and
every living being in every universe, originating in
these divine ideas, we will explore our wondrous
relationship to Divinity and how as Anthony says, “We
are becoming the universe,” leading us to the glorious
revelation of Divinity that comes to the Sage.
Come for all or part of this workshop. Donations will be
appreciated to help maintain The Center and cover costs,
including simple meals throughout the sessions. For more
information, or to let us know you’re planning to come,
please contact Sam or Martha Cohen 607-527-7342 or Helen
at perl5@verizon.net
Embodied Dreamwork with
Robert Bosnak
Workshop at Wisdom’s
Goldenrod
September 10, 11 and 12
 
“Bosnak..(has)
developed a practice of working with dream images that
bears a remarkable resemblance to the techniques of
Iamblichean theurgy…(…)
The
arts of theurgy and dreamwork both allow the soul to
receive the god, to contain the ‘concentrated emotional
substance’ through a ritual in which the god reveals
itself……”
Prof. Gregory Shaw in an article “Containing Ecstasy:
the Strategies of Iamblichean Theurgy”
Bosnak, a Dutch Jungian analyst living in Santa
Barbara, California and Sydney, Australia offers
workshops on 6 continents and in cyberspace, using his
remarkable method of “Embodied Dreamwork” to re-enter
dreams, deepen our experience of the images, and
integrate them into a body-based composite. He is
currently working to create the Santa Barbara Healing
Sanctuary, a residential facility that will combine
state of the art healing practices with conventional
medicine in the treatment of serious illness. It is
scheduled to open in February 2011.
The schedule for the
workshop is:
Friday
7:30p.m.—9:30 p.m.
Saturday
9:30a.m.—9:30 p.m.
Sunday 9:30
a.m.—5:00 p.m.
Sunday evening:
Public talk at Wisdom’s Goldenrod at 7:30 p.m.
Vegetarian/vegan
meals are included.
Total cost: $375.00
For more information,
please contact: Harriet Eisman
hcl26@logical.net or 607-582-6204
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