Ritual Cycle 4

Screen Shot 2017-10-04 at 3.11.35 PMScreen Shot 2017-10-04 at 3.13.26 PMScreen Shot 2017-10-04 at 3.09.56 PMScreen Shot 2017-10-04 at 3.08.33 PMScreen Shot 2017-10-04 at 1.04.58 PMScreen Shot 2017-10-04 at 3.10.02 PMScreen Shot 2017-10-04 at 3.15.33 PMScreen Shot 2017-10-04 at 3.14.58 PMScreen Shot 2017-10-03 at 11.54.32 PMScreen Shot 2017-10-03 at 11.53.08 PMScreen Shot 2017-10-03 at 11.50.55 PMScreen Shot 2017-10-03 at 11.42.57 PMScreen Shot 2017-10-03 at 11.52.06 PMScreen Shot 2017-10-03 at 11.25.59 PMScreen Shot 2017-10-03 at 11.00.44 PMScreen Shot 2017-10-03 at 1.32.42 AMScreen Shot 2017-10-03 at 11.18.05 PMScreen Shot 2017-10-03 at 11.21.10 PMScreen Shot 2017-10-04 at 3.11.35 PMScreen Shot 2017-10-04 at 3.13.26 PMScreen Shot 2017-10-04 at 3.09.56 PMScreen Shot 2017-10-04 at 3.08.33 PMScreen Shot 2017-10-04 at 1.04.58 PMScreen Shot 2017-10-04 at 3.10.02 PMScreen Shot 2017-10-04 at 3.15.33 PMScreen Shot 2017-10-04 at 3.14.58 PMScreen Shot 2017-10-03 at 11.54.32 PMScreen Shot 2017-10-03 at 11.53.08 PMScreen Shot 2017-10-03 at 11.50.55 PMScreen Shot 2017-10-03 at 11.42.57 PMScreen Shot 2017-10-03 at 11.52.06 PMScreen Shot 2017-10-03 at 11.25.59 PMScreen Shot 2017-10-03 at 11.00.44 PMScreen Shot 2017-10-03 at 1.32.42 AMScreen Shot 2017-10-03 at 11.18.05 PMScreen Shot 2017-10-03 at 11.21.10 PM

Ritual Cycle 4
Bearing Witness to Healing the Heart of Humanity

Free Workshop

Bearing Witness to Healing the Heart of Humanity

Sunday, June 24

Time:

1:00 pm UTC (Universal Time Code) See World Time Buddy for the correct time in your location.

Topic:

In this workshop, Elizabeth Debold and Thomas Steininger are delighted to be joined by peace and spiritual activists from the Philippine organizations BINHI and GINHAWA: Angelo Herrera, Aninay Herrera, Leah Torentino,and Mini Gavino. Together, they will help guide us into a deeper exploration of bearing witness to healing the heart of humanity.

Before the workshop, feel free to watch and engage with the meditation and ritual presentations below. Consider what the Ritual Holders are asking us to witness and to give our hearts to. We will view selected parts of the rituals in the workshop as the foundation for our exploration.

Schedule:

1:00 pm UTC Introduction & Group Meditation led by Leah Torentino and Mini Gavino

1:20 pm UTC Video of Ritual, introduced by Aninay Herrera and Angelo Herrera

1:45 UTC Exploration & Collective Dialogue

2:30 pm UTC Continued Dialogue and/or Small Breakout Groups

VIDEO FROM WORKSHOP WITH BINHI & GINHAWA

Ritual Recordings

Meditation:

Pir Zia Inayat-Khan, spiritual leader of the The Inayati Order, an interfaith mystical fellowship, leads us in an interfaith service, drawing on world scriptures and infused with meditative prayer for the realization of humanity’s sacred oneness.

Opening Ritual:

We start with a beautiful interlude: "Ave Maria" sung by the Bavarian vocalists, the Animato Ensemble. Next, from Japan, Noriko Nagahori from goes to the Hiroshima Memorial where speaks with different survivors and then interviews Shigeaki Mori, who was 8 when the bomb was dropped and was met by President Obama. Mori speaks of the constant fear that plagues the life of a survivor. This is followed by a short interview with Noriko about her passion for creating this film.

Closing Ritual:

Long weighed down by the lingering effects of colonialization (poverty, inequality, injustice, violence and destruction to nature and human lives), the Philippines is suffering even more because of disasters caused by climate change and because of the deep divisions created by their heated national elections last year, which continue till now. This small country in the Pacific Ocean is like a mirror of the Heart of the World right now – vulnerable to so many internal and external challenges yet throbbing with deep human connections and compassion for the whole world. Aninay (Angge) Herrera and her son, Angelo Herrera, peace facilitators from BINHI (Filipino for “Seeds”), and artist-teacher-healers from GINHAWA (Filipino for “Breath”), a well-being NGO, lead a healing ceremony where they invite Witness Bearers from all over the world to open a heart space where we all share our pains and our strengths for the healing of humanity.

Cycle 4 Ritual Holders:

Image

Pir Zia Inayat-Khan

Spiritual Leader, The Inayati Order

Image

Nagahori Noriko

Peace Activist; Soka Gakkai International

Image

GINHAWA

Leah R. Tolentino, Minifred P. Gavino and Yeyette San Luis

Image

BINHI

Peace & Community Activists, Angelo and Aninay Herrera

This work is made possible only through love and generosity. If you can, please donate so that it can continue. Thank you very much!

Donate Here

Your donation will go to emerge bewusstseinskultur e.V., which is the parent organization of OWiD and OWBW, and a charitable educational association in Germany.

  • Introduction
    Welcome & Opening Ritual
  • Ritual Cycle 1
    Bearing Witness to Our Mother, Earth
  • Ritual Cycle 2
    Bearing Witness to Our Relatedness and Capacity for Transformation
  • Ritual Cycle 3
    Bearing Witness to the Inequalities of Wealth and Power to bring forth a New Type of Sacred Activism.
  • Communal Ritual
    Bearing Witness to Bearing Witness
  • Ritual Cycle 4
    Bearing Witness to Healing the Heart of Humanity
  • Ritual Cycle 5
    Bearing Witness to Healing the Wounds of History
  • Ritual Cycle 6
    Bearing Witness to De-Colonizing Consciousness
  • Ritual Cycle 7
    Bearing Witness to the Poetics of the Innate Unity of Being
  • Ending Ritual
    Closing Ceremony

homeaboutdonate

Website design and art by: James Redenbaugh

Share this Project