ARCHETYPAL DIMENSIONS of SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE

Atum O'Kane

(A new group will start in weekend 19-21 April 2013)

For people who followed previous advanced trainings, Atum O’Kane will present a new program. It will consist of 8 parts: 4 times a year during two years, usually weekends, but sometimes during weekdays. The fifth training will take 4 days, just at the Center. Since there is already overwhelming interest for this program (two alchemy-programs count more than 40 people!), you may register, but Atum will ultimately decide about the list of participants, so it can be an international and divers group.

Atum writes the following

An Advanced Training

This training will explore eight archetypes central to the great religions. They also form the archetypical foundation of the Spiritual Guidance Wisdom School. Their significance to individual spiritual development, relationships and the needs of the world will be addressed through meditation practices, creative exercises and teachings from various traditions, including Jungian Psychology. Participants will be asked to practice invoking and engaging each archetype in informal guidance sessions.

The Keeper of the Sacred Space How do we invoke, foster, sustain and protect the sacred space within one, with another, among a community and in the natural world. The passage in and out of sacred time, the symbolic shaping of the place and the deep structures of ritual will also be included.

The One who Hears the Cries Within the container of the sacred space there is the accomodation for inviting the deep cries, longing and dreams of the heart and soul. The gift is experiencing the longings being voiced, heard and honored.

The Advocate of the Soul Advocation for different dimensions of the soul is to affirm the divine inheritance in humanity and the divine immanence in the creation. In this way we respond to the spiritual illness of the loss of soul so pervasive in our time.

The Journier Human consciousness has the ability to journey into many worlds. These include the liminality of transition, the heavenly angelic states, the hell realms, the underworld , the dying process, incarnation, resurrection and mystical union. The Journier is able to be present with another as they pass through varied states of consciousness.

The Healer Human life holds the possibility healing the wounds gathered in the process of incarnation. The divine healing energy and presence may renew the body, clear the mind, resurrect the heart and rebirth the soul. Relationships, communities and the natural world are calling out for healing that leads to greater integration and wholeness.

The Liberator To be released from suffering through insight and illumination is the domain of the liberation. To find freedom from our diminishment in cravings, clingings, illusions and attachments opens us to living in equanimity in the present moment ,

The Beloved The path to the heart leads to the transformation of the lover into the longed for divine Beloved in the mystical kiss. Embodiment of the beloved, liberation through love and mystical death through absorbtion and union are defining elements of the world of the Beloved.

A Peer Group Guidance Model The training will also contain the teaching of a spiritual guidance model based upon the archetypes that may be used among small groups whose members support each other on their paths.

Dates in 2011 and 2012

18-20 March 2011
6-8 May
23-25 September
12-14 December 2011 (Mondaynight, Tuesday-Wednesday)
22-25 March 2012 (Thursdaynight, Friday-Sunday)
25-27 May
24-26 September (Mondaynight, Tuesday-Wednesday)
14-16 December

The group will count 22 people. Cora Slieker and Wilhelmine van Boxtel will be assistants. For additional information you can mail or call Cora (coraslieker@gmail.com, 0031(0)20-6762283.

The group will start at 19.00 in the evening of the first day, going till 21.00 2nd day from 10.00 till 17.30 with 2 hours break for lunch last day from 10.00 till 16.00 both days with a lunch break of 1 ˝ hour.

The costs will be 1600 euro. As always payment can be spread, in contact with Door, our secretary. She is present at the Center Monday-. Wednesday- and Friday morning from 9.00-14.00h. Tel. 020-6254084. You DO make a financial commitment for the whole program, even if you drop out. Non Dutch residents are requested to pay cash at the Center.

ING bank 44.93.444, ABN Amro bank 58.62.73.204 t.n.v. Centrum de Kleine Swaen, Amsterdam o.v.v.’Archetype’.