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The insights of best-selling author and spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle have been transformative for a growing number of people around the world. His best known books are The Power of NOW: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment, and A New Earth: Awakening to your Life’s Purpose. You are invited to join the MeetUp Group and meet with new friends for a Tolle DVD presentation, discussion, refreshments and meditation.

Light refreshments are available. We have changed the format slightly. We will begin by listening to a recorded lecture for 15 or 20 minutes. This is followed by two rounds of dialogue in a "talking circle" format. The first time around the circle participants are encouraged to give their own reflections without addressing one another's comments. In the second round, participants may engage what another participant has said or expand on what they said earlier. This will be followed by free discussion for as long as time permits. Following a brief break, we reconvene in a nearby room sitting in a circle and share a silent meditation for 20 to 30 minutes. Participants then take their leave in silence. Tolle recommends an entirely silent meeting. The compromise we have reached is to observe silence following the break. Participants who want to socialize are invited to do so at a nearby Tim Horton's following the Meetup.

Sign up online only, times at www.etolle.meetup.com. Meeting 7 – 8:30pm starting January 4th, meets two Mondays each month.

Guided by: Tim Nethercott, University of Calgary Chaplain. Drew Strickland, Knox United Church

Image courtesy "~C4Chaos" with a CC license.

"The universe is a communion of subjects, not a collection of objects." -Thomas Berry

There is an emerging conjunction of scientists, activists and faith groups on issues concerning the Earth Community. The idea of an Earth Community, looking at the entire planet as an integral, living and evolving system, is gaining acceptance throughout the realms of religion, education/science and even politics and economics. The late author Thomas Berry, cultural historian, eco-theologian and self-proclaimed "geologian", has argued that this new awareness "changes everything". From human-centred cultures an Earth-centred global culture is being born. We live in the midst of this awakening to a new way of being in the Universe - it's an exciting time! Knox Centre's winter program includes a three-part multi-session series titled "the Forum on Ecological Spirituality and Evolutionary Cosmology.