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SUMMARY:Engaged Nonduality: Love in Action ~ Rev. Deborah Lee\, Cynthia Moe-Lobeda\, Ph.D.\, and Lisa Ferguson Ph.D.
DESCRIPTION:As of SUNDAY early morning March 9th\, clocks in the USA are turned forward 1 hour – “Spring Ahead”.\nDaylight Savings Time begins. The time shown for this event is Pacific Daylight Time. \nEngaged Nonduality: Love in Action\nwith With Rev. Deborah Lee\, Cynthia Moe-Lobeda\, Ph.D.\, and Lisa Ferguson Ph.D. \nRecording will be emailed to participants within a week.\nYou’re welcome to join even if you can’t attend the live session. \nIn this action-oriented session of the Engaged Nonduality Series\, Lisa will be joined by two speakers who have extensive experience bringing love into action. While the community of nondual contemplatives is informal and emphasizes direct knowing\, we can learn a lot from other spiritual communities that have deeply engaged with action and ethics. Rev. Deborah Lee leads the Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity\, whose core value is the sacredness of each person and a commitment to stand in solidarity with those who are not treated as sacred. Dr. Moe-Lobeda carries deep wisdom of understanding and communicating structural sources of harm and leverage points for collective love in action. She compassionately encourages us to wake up to new ways of seeing\, and new possibilities of being. We will weave the wisdom of these courageous speakers with the wisdom of the nondual understanding and explore how love is moving us into action. \nThis session will include meditation\, talks\, inspiring stories\, experiential exercises\, and time for participant Q&A. \nThe Engaged Nonduality series\nThis Engaged Nonduality series\, hosted by Lisa Ferguson\, explores how nondual wisdom may respond to our world in crisis. We live in a time of multiple intersecting crises that threaten the wellbeing of all life\, including climate breakdown\, unaligned tech and AI\, injustice\, war and authoritarianism. The recognition of nonduality has much to offer in these times\, including a deep knowing of our wholeness and shared Being\, as well as opening to the wellspring of our wise and creative response. This series invites guest presenters to explore how nondual teaching may respond to planetary crises through talks\, practices and group participation. \nRev. Deborah Lee is the Executive Director of the Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity\, which envisions a world without harm\, advocating for a world where every person is considered sacred across bars and borders. With over 30 years dedicated to the intersection of faith and social justice\, Rev. Deborah Lee brings expertise in various realms\, including popular education\, community organizing\, and advocacy. Her commitment is evident in her multifaceted engagement with issues such as race\, gender\, economic justice\, anti-militarism\, LGBTQ inclusion\, and immigrant rights and abolition.\nUnder Rev. Lee’s leadership\, IM4HI’s accomplishments range from closing detention centers and preventing deportations to responding to the needs of arriving immigrant youth and families. They’ve also established Sanctuary congregations and initiated efforts to divest from prisons and other carceral systems of harm\, investing instead in thriving and healthy communities. \nCynthia Moe-Lobeda (she/her)\, is Founding Director of the Center for Climate Justice and Faith\, and is a co-founder of Seattle University’s Center for Environmental Justice and Sustainability. She is a Professor of Theological and Social Ethics\, who has lectured or consulted around the world on ethics\, agency and hope\, climate justice as related to race and class\, economic globalization\, faith-based resistance to systemic injustice\, and eco-feminism. She is author or co-author of six volumes and over 50 articles and chapters. Her Resisting Structural Evil: Love as Ecological-Economic Vocation won a Nautilus Book Award. Her most recent book\, Building a Moral Economy: Pathways for People of Courage\, is an invitation to courageous creativity\, and to explore economic life as spiritual practice. \nLisa Ferguson\, Ph.D.is the founder of Climate Compassion\, and has focused on supporting planetary wellbeing as a healing arts practitioner\, climate justice activist\, organizer and contemplative. She offers psychospiritual support to activists through one-one sessions and small groups\, weaving together a focus on awakening\, healing and wise action. \nSuggested Donation: $15 to $40\n(any amount acceptable\, no one turned away for lack of funds)\nPlease register early if you can.\nREGISTER \nTo check your local time\, use a tool such as: Time Zone Converter
URL:https://opencirclecenter.org/event/engaged-nonduality-mar-9-2025/
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