We were gifted this album by Gandhian scholar Burnett Britton along with hundreds of other books about and by Mahatma Gandhi. Listen to this album by clicking the arrow below! [audio:http://archives.mettacenter.org/wp-content/audio/KWMR%20-%20Gandhi%20LP%20-%20128kbps.mp3] Or download for free here: Listen to Michael Nagler and Stephanie Van Hook from Metta comment on this Gandhi recording at this link.… read more
Posts by Stephanie Van Hook
The Power of Renewal: A Restorative Retreat for Everyone
NB: This retreat was originally for women, however we have decided to make the retreat gender non-specific. Let’s spend some meaningful time together in community exploring the inner healing it takes to transform the harm of all of the violence in our world and emerge with a strategy for long-term social healing. This weekend retreat… read more
Roadmap Course: February 23-March 9, 2013, call-in info
Dear Participants, We will be using the web-based platform WebX for second course with Michael Nagler. You will have the choice to join the course using your computer or your telephone. Please follow the instructions pasted below to join on Saturday. After a test-run with the online platform yesterday, we noted that it took us… read more
2-DAY KINGIAN NONVIOLENCE WORKSHOP IN SONOMA COUNTY
2-Day Introductory Core with the Positive Peace Warrior Network, and the Metta Center! LOCATION: SONOMA STATE UNIVERSITY (ROOM TO BE DETERMINED) DATE: FEBRUARY 23-24 TIME: SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, 10 AM- 6 PM COST: GIFT ECONOMY. NO ONE TURNED AWAY FOR LACK OF FUNDS. COME AND GET INSPIRED. This two-day, 16 hour training will provide participants… read more
Feminist Spiritual Politics: Getting Personal About Gun Control
The personal is the political, has always struck me as incomplete. It was Teilhard de Chardin who first said “we are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.” The ‘personal is the political’ assumes an incomplete worldview, a cosmology of separation where the individual is forced to turn… read more
Roadmap: 4 week introductory course with Michael Nagler
How many times have you heard someone say, where do we go from here? ROADMAP just might be an answer. Roadmap is a strategic plan drawing on Gandhian principles for long-term nonviolent transformation with the potential to unite all of our various projects and passions without sacrificing their individuality. The goal is to effect a transition from spontaneous… read more
Iyad Burnat: “We’ll do it next Friday”
By Josie Setzler (our wonderful volunteer blogger) “We’ll do it next Friday!” Iyad Burnat tells our audience the words that he uses with his fellow demonstrators. Every Friday since 2005 Iyad’s Popular Committee has led demonstrations to protest the wall built through the middle of their village Bil’in by Israel. After 7 long years, he… read more
From Misogyny to Murder: A Feminist Perspective on the Connecticut Shootings
By Stephanie Van Hook (syndicated through PeaceVoice) *** When reading about the murders in Newtown, Connecticut on Friday, one point in particular stood out to me as a woman: Adam Lanza killed his mother. This point reveals something essential about the nature of all violence and gives a clue as to why these horrific events take… read more
Competition is not violent, separation is.
Here’s what we mean: The practice of integrating nonviolence into the quotidien is centered in the vision of the unity of life. When we engage with the vision of a unity between ourselves and others we see our well-being in theirs and we see their well-being as we work for our own. This is what… read more
Meditation and the New Physics: A talk by Eknath Easwaran
In the following video meditation teacher Eknath Easwaran bridges the findings of the new physics with the experiences of the mystics. The insight he gives sheds light on some of the powerful ways that science and the wisdom tradition overlap, and he certainly inspires this blogroll on our website. For more information about meditation and… read more
