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Just when the planet seems to teeter in the balance of healthy ecosystems and the extinction of life, including potentially the human race, a curious and even synchronistic set of images is appearing, suggesting that in the dire time, we may be motivated, by the sheer threat to survival, to originate solutions. The mandate for an evolutionary and quantum leap has arrived. Trusting then the innately brilliant creativity of the universe, the cosmos, and nature, solutions and evolution seem inevitable. In response to this we are collaborating in the creation of an artistic and ecological event intended to help generate this energy of luminous prayer in community. Calling upon the power of the circle we create a theater in the round. With the alchemical collage of layered film images projected on a nine foot hoop screen turning in the center of the room, multiple banners of paintings on veiled fabric, poems and narrative readings, sound images, toning, meditation, and yoga practices, we enter the realm of possibility. Stirring the sleeping parts of ourselves into another octave of awareness, we call for quantum consciousness. With every fiber of being, we long for awakening. This event invites all who are gathered to move, breath, listen, and sound. Perhaps with this prayer for the sake of all beings everywhere, we invoke a numinous quantum community.
Cameron Davis is a painter with the Department of Art and Environmental Program at the University of Vermont where she teaches Painting and Issues of Ecological Perception. Davis co–created the event For Love of Earth, A Celebration of the Earth Charter and the community based art project The Temenos Books, Images for Global Healing, Peace and Gratitude, which continues to travel the world in the sculptural vessel, The Ark of Hope. www.uvm.edu/~cdavis Gillian Kapteyn Comstock is a holistic psychotherapist and yoga teacher. She is certified in Kripalu Yoga, Jivamukti Yoga, and Interdisciplinary Yoga. Co-director of Earth Island Expeditions, Gillian has led wilderness retreats, quests, and trainings in nature sanctuaries around the world. For many years she has been a member of the Assisi Conferences and Seminars community, which engages in a highly dynamic interdisciplinary investigation of Jungian psychology, creative process, mythology, and the new sciences. Mother of three grown sons, she lives now on a Maine island and returns to a lifelong love of poem making. Ogion Fulford is a filmmaker, carpenter and creator of innovative projects. He attended the Academy of Art College in San Francisco, California, where he majored in film and video. He is media director and co-founder of Lookfar Connections, a transdisciplinary group aiming to bring knowledge, skills and abilities to further sustainable living practices internationally. He is an outdoor educator at the Farm and Wilderness camps, currently living in a solar powered yurt on a mountainside in Vermont. www.lookfar.org Joan White-Hansen is an art teacher, dancer, and singer. Creating spaces for ritual and creative collaborations, Joan has held events, which combine the harmonies of song and voice along with feeding the complimentary pulse of movement and rhythm. She has participated in several choirs and singing circles, in the U.S. and abroad in Brazil and the Findhorn Foundation in Scotland. She is currently living at Ten Stones Community in Charlotte, Vermont, where she organizes artistic events, as well as raising her two young sons. Jenny Morton is a graduate of the
University of Vermont’s Environmental Program. For the past
several years she has traveled, studied and taken photographs throughout
India, Tibet and Nepal. She has been involved with numerous projects
including slideshow performance introductions to the Earth Charter,
an international document outlining fundamental principles for building
a just, sustainable and peaceful global society. Quantum Community The Crop Circle Conference,
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The Veil Paintings are part of a larger series called Limina:
Painted Prayers for Threshold Times by Cameron Davis. GAYATRI MANTRA PEACE PRAYER MANDALA SECRET ONE DA PACEM DOMINE Acknowledgements We offer grateful acknowledgement to all those who contributed visual images to the film: Jenny Morton, Francine Blake, Lisa Shaw, Diane Gayer, and John Todd, and those who contributed the sound track images: Christina Tourin, The Burlington Taiko Drummers, and the Dalai Lama. We extend our thanks to Nancy Colson for her design and construction of the Hoop/Screen. Thanks also to event videographer/photographer Ben Bach. Appreciation goes to Nancy Cater, Editor of Spring Journal, for her steady guidance, encouragement, and enthusiasm. Special thanks are given to Michael Conforti for his supporting mentorship. We are grateful to the Assisi Foundation and Diane Antczak, Foundation Director, for the endorsement of our project and willingness to provide a nonprofit funding organization for future donations to cover the expenses of this project. We wish to especially acknowledge the warm-hearted sponsorship of the conference organizers and Co-directors Cameron and Glenn Broughton of Sacred Britain. Appreciative thanks also to Goddard College for hosting this event. Thanks to the volunteers who have helped with many aspects of this event. Cameron Davis, Gillian Kapteyn Comstock, and Ogion Fulford |
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strong and deep impulse for community has perhaps always been intrinsic
to the human experience. Yet something is arising in these times
that certainly has ancient roots, but is alive with the nuances
of evolution. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin gave us an exquisite image
of this quality of emergent community in suggesting that each human
is like a brain cell, and the conglomeration of all of us as human
brain cells, makes a new brain, which he called, “noosphere”.
He imagined this as a sheath around the planet, as an atmosphere
of consciousness. In this we are presented with an image of hope
for the human species inhabiting the surface of the planet as an
interconnected whole. We may move now beyond the idea of hierarchies
and egos to a new paradigm of wholeness found through community,
interconnectivity, and an engagement of the communal heart.
For
years we have been engaged in passionate, dynamic conversations
about nature, art, science, and spirit. The intensity of the
synergy generated in these dyadic exchanges was the precursor
for what we are now exploring as quantum community. The sense
of creative energy, as in any inspiring conversation, began
to build a resonance…a field of possibility for consciousness
to fertilize and grow. This field of consciousness suggested
a dissolution of separate selves, of egos, of me, my, and
mine, and from this energized field, a palpable perception
of vital vibration became apparent. This quality of emanation
suggested a living presence in the Now, that embodied spiritual
traditions have called “immanence”. The conversations
became and are becoming ever more like a prayer.