White Robed Monks of St. Benedict

Poster

P. Time and the Good: A Phenomenological Account of Ethical Time in Plato, Gregory Conrow
This paper explores an alternative, phenomenological conception of time that is founded on a Levinasian reading of the Platonic Good that exceeds being. In contrast to what I call "metaphysics of the clock", that is, time as an objective measurement or structure that is independent of consciousness, I explore Levinas' phenomenological account of time in terms of ethical meaning that is situated in the ideals of Socratic dialogue. Like infinity, the Good both exceeds the ego's totalizing, conceptual assimilation and founds its primordial ethical obligation to the Other. As something primordial, this ethical ground is not derivative of an abstraction, but constitutive of our historical and futural possibility of being-in-the-world. This ethical relation to the other as time transcends the solipsistic and totalizing designs of the ego through the Socratic ideal of ignorance and benevolence. It is a Socratic dialogue that founds both an epistemic humility and openness towards shared discovery, revelation and pedagogy. This relation constitutes "lived-time": an ethical time that ruptures, even as it founds, the certainties of our shared dialogue.

P. Three Pillars of Advaita: Ramana Maharshi, Nisargadatta Maharaj, and Atmananda, Essential Teachings, Distinctions, and Considerations of Time, Richard Gobeille
Ramana Maharshi, Nisargadarta Maharaj, and Atmananda; three pure expressions of formless Being. Imbibe rheir powerful teachings. Explote their respective nuances and distinctive approaches to uncovering and realizing Trurh. Correlate with scientific models and developing paradigms. Share in dialogue to further out understanding and realization of the Self.

P. Time as Dimension, Suzy Adra
Because of my deep intetest in the concept of time, I was inspired by Lisson six in the book Seven Life Lessons of Chaos by Briggs and Peat, to look further into the concept of time. Time has always been a puzzle to humanity. Despite recent research in quantum physics; there remain many questions about time that are left unanswered.

P. The Life Force: An Electrical Engineer's Perspective, Lcturen Palmateer
The engineering of the life force that runs rhrough our planet and bodies was practiced by the ancients, pioneered in science by the French, and more recently is being brought ro light by Dr. Ibrahim Karim. The concepts and technical work of shaped caused waves, or physical radiesthesia was engineered extensively in France in the mid 1900's. The French coined the term tadiesthesia and it is described as an ability to detect "radiation" within the human body, using the body as an internal highly sensitive receiver. At that time, the powerful inventions harnessing the electro-mechanical world burst forth and ovetshadowed these sciences of subtle energies. The vibrational or physical radiesthesia, which is applied to the engineering of subtle energies, holds keys to harmonizing and balancing electromagneric waves, both man made and natural. The electromagnetic spectrum and interaction with the vibrational spectrum was not fully brought forth by the French and is now being raught more extensively and with gteater insights for our generation. Developed over three decades of intensive research by Dr. Ibrahim Karim of Cairo, .a pioneer today, he has discovered keys to the design principles of quality, as he often says 'the Center is a Transcendental Gateway beyond Space and Time.' These concepts and design methods have wide applications in circuir electronics and many other applications to harmonize the pulsating energies of our wireless world. As time ptogresses the sciences of the ancients teach us new ways to engineer our electrified world for the benefit of our life forces and for harmonizing our planet. A review of the state of the ait in this science will be presented.

P. What if We're Him?, Gene Pascucci
There's somerhing going on here! The transformation of spitituality. Myth; Man and God are separate. Realiry: Man and God are one and the same. A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous, then dismissed as trivial, until finally it becomes what everyone knows. We are approaching an apex in consciousness. This submission is a life's work, mission and passion over a 50 year timeline of awakening and self discovery to who we are.
The awakening occurs in a moment- and when it does- one's sense of God becomes the sense of one's own conscious presence.

P. Anomalous Experience in the Performing Arts, Lynne Roff
Individuals working in the performing arts experience anomalous phenomena during artmaking. Experiences that include altered states of consciousness, psychic phenomena, and examples of extreme somatic capacity have been observed and described in qualitative interviews. Conditions of individual and group flow involving time dilation are often related. Individuals involved in the performing arts may possess a higher rhan average affinity for anomalous experience.
Optimum conditions for the occurrence of individual and group phenomena are rigorous training over time, ongoing education and practice, and the presence of personal risk. Commonalities exist in these processes with other activities such as extreme sports, yoga, and mysticism. Anomalous experiences in the performing arts are emergent phenomena that may or may not aid the artist in the successful outcome of a project. There are strong correlations between petforming arts education practices and the development of individual and group capacity for anomalous experience. Rehearsal activities provide induction pathways fot performers. Performance protocols further induce performers in the presence of personal risk. Performing arts domains facilitate creative and interactive social activities that ttace practices and effecrs to ancient shamanic ways. Performance protocols also create optimum induction conditions for audience members to experience altered states of consciousness. These potentials may be carefully and creatively Grafted to foster conditions conducive to personal growth and transformation in performers and audience members alike.

P. Non-Dual Realization and Death: The Mystery of Three, Mark Scorelle
I am interested in coveting Death and Nondual Realization. One of the common questions to satsang teachers is what happens when you die. Do you merge into the all? What about reincarnation? Does an enlightened being reincarnate? The standard answer is 'you weren't born, you don't die.'
I think this is an incomplete answer. If the Non-dual realization is the fulfillment of natures' evolution, why should it be the end of the individual as a portal of the Divine appreciating itself? Another topic I would like to present is the parallel between the enlightenment 'process' and the post-incarnation process. The model I will use includes some aspects of the Tibetan Book of the Dead but also a 3-part post incarnation scenario presented in The Wisdom of the Overself by Paul Brunton. In the chapter on death, we have the first part paralleling what has been discover through research into Near Death experiences, next is a dream-like state and the final a deep sleep state. I will use personal experiences to exemplify what is being presented.

P. Everything as Elegant and Beautiful as Creation Itself, Donna Trousdale
Einstein's dteam was to reveal to himself and to the world a Theory of Everything that was as elegant and beautiful as Creation itself. Little did he know he had written it, but its true meaning was buried under many layers of scientific concept!
What is Energy? Or Mass? What is Light and why is it traveling so fast? What exactly IS Speed anyway, and why does it have such an unusual relationship to Time? And why do we need to 'Square' all of it? What is the meaning of all these concepts, and why do they fit together in the way that they do? And where does Geo-metry (earth-measurement) fit into this picture? In fact, where does any form of measurement fit in? And is it possible that our current system of measurement is hindering our ability to reveal the true nature of reality? In this paper, I will address a measurement problem that I believe exists well beyond the problem generally defined by quantum physicists as the 'collapse of the wave function'. The deeper root of the problem is that Science only acknowledges one side of the coin as being a relevant. However, in addition to our shared physical reality there is also sole or soul reality, an intetnal Universe of Consciousness Awareness. Borh dimensions are experienced simultaneously, and defining the physics of one side of the coin without acknowledging the irreducible link to the other side, is like trying to understand a fish by ignoring it's existence in water.
Overall, I will delineate a new approach and understanding of measurement which acknowledges Consciousness as fundamental and allows for the defining of both Universal and Relative relationships.

P. The Two Dimensions of Time, Paul Hague
The two dimensions of time are an instance of the Principle of Unity, the fundamental design principle of the Universe: Wholeness is the union of all opposites. This both-and universal truth shows that all manifestations in Consciousness happen in the Eternal Now, in the vertical dimension of time, which alone is Reality. The cyclic horizontal dimension, in which we live our daily lives, is a secondary phenomenon, the illusionary play of the Divine.
Guided by the Logos—the immanent organizing principle of the Cosmos emerging from our Immortal Ground of Being—evolution is an accumulative process of divergence and convergence, proceeding in an accelerating, exponential fashion by synergistically creating wholes that are greater than the sum of the preceding wholes through the new relationships that are formed, apparently out of nothing. Using a diminishing exponential series, we can apply systems theory to map how the periods between major evolutionary turning points over the past fourteen billion years are rapidly getting shorter and shorter.
Such an understanding is especially important at this critical time in human history, for evolution is currently passing through the most momentous turning point in its history. So to look at time in terms of our own lifespans drastically limits our vision. Indeed, the Principle of Unity shows that all structures are born to die, a disturbing prospect that can only be intelligently assuaged in the Egoless Now.
Scientifically, mathematicians and programmers treat time like any other variable in their functions. Also Eternity—as infinite time—is impossible to define, for the infinite cardinals are infinite in number. By thus treating time in exactly the same way as all other concepts, we can return Home to the bliss of Wholeness, our True Nature, from which we have never actually left, living peacefully at the end of time.

P. Science and Spirituality: A Relational Model for Exploring the Nature of Time, Julia Bystrova, M.A.
This presentation offers that the most basic operative at work in the world is the dynamic of relating, or "relationality". This claim offers it as more foundational than any single scientific or spiritual view on the cosmos and life. I first offer a basic model for understanding this concept and then explore some significant ways we see it at work in science, philosophy and religion. Building on this commonality to both science and spirituality, I explore a philosophical language and understanding that promotes a rneta-view on the nature of reality. This meta-view recognizes an ultimate nondual principle at work in all of consciousness and life, yet recognizes the need to accommodate some dualistk ideas for functional reasons. Relational concepts assist in integrating the splits in our thinking between the scientific approach and more spiritual sensibilities. Relational thinking can also promote dialogue between diverse perspectives and gives us a language that assists in bridging the divisive splits in our thinking between what we intuitively know about phenomena and what we can actually measure and study. One excellent example of this mediation principle is in the nature of time and space—these concepts show how the pure experience of now is then 'divided' into what becomes the illusion of linearity. Using an understanding of relationality., we are brought back to a fundamental movement between time and timelessness.

P. Integral Love and the Way to the One Heart
All books on parenting say essentially the same thing. There are countless texts on instruction, as well as endless seminars, workshops, and lectures. And this poster session is no different. Children weren't invented in our lifetimes. They've been around for a long time. A lot of wisdom about childrearing has accumulated over the years, all of which repeated here. Why leave out wisdom that has accumulated over the ages?
However, this poster session also offers something unique, what no other course on parenting or childrearing does: integral love. Love exists in three interrelated dimensions, all of which essential to the happiness of any human being, emerging in a developmental sequence that could be called the Continuum of Love:
1. Autistic Love: directed toward self and all about me—being loved.
2. Empatlietic Love: directed toward others and all about you—being loving.
3. Integral Love: directed toward both and all about us—simply being love.
A pattern can be seen operating here, involving ever greater inclusion of who really matters—first self, then others, then us—the latter combining the prior two into an integrated whole. It is precisely this outcome that is the objective of nondual parenting.
The core tenet of nondualism stands out as an impossible confrontation with Western sensibility: the absolute absence of any separation between self and other. However, nondualism does not necessarily imply a remote or abstract state of ultimate reality. In a very real sense, all intimate relationships could be understood as an instance of not-two, where me and you are transcended in a larger relationship involving Oneness—all about us, or integral love. It is for this reason that one experiences love in intimate relationships, as the self/other duality is overcome—which is precisely the point of nondual parenting.","D. B. Sleeth has worked in the field of psychology since 1987, trained in treatment approaches from cognitive-behavioral to meditation and mindfulness. D. B. Sleeth has also worked in numerous clinical settings, including residential care and community mental health, the latter of which where he is now practicing as a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist working primarily with children and families. He also lives in the spiritual community known as Adidam, where he has been a spiritual practitioner since 1983, following the teachings of Adi Da Samraj.