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Webinar: Beyond Being, Beyond Mind, Beyond History 2012

== WHAT'S UP? == Czech version - česky

Presentations and discussions on the relevant philosophical-spiritual-historical topics that are present in the work of the same title written by Elías Capriles, a professor of history and philosophy, and a long term student of various vajrayana buddhist and atiyana-dzogchen masters, including Dudjom Rinpoche, Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, Thinle Norbu Rinpoche, Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche etc., spending over 6 years in a personal retreat in the Himalaya mountains, doing there atiyana upadesha practice based on receiving pith instructions from the masters. Elías should connect to a Q&A session in November!

DATE OF NEXT MEETING

No meeting on Tuesday 23th, but I will give a speech on Thursday October 25th at the "Between Worlds" convention at 13.00. If the internet connection will be OK there it will be streamed online. Then next week there is a proposal to change the day & time to Monday or Wednesday at 20h.

  1. face2face in Brno, Czech Republic (probably in the tearoom of Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University)
TOPIC OF THE EXTRA SPEECH (Thursday 25th October 13:00 CEST):

2012 and the reductio ad absurdum of Kaliyuga?

No specific text to study for it is aimed at non-prepared audience of 15-40 people. VERY probably it will be held in Czech language!

Before the final decades of the twentieth century, no grand systems showing the myth of “progress” to be unjustified were produced, probably because only in the present nightfall of the aeon, when events of the long day in question have drawn to a close, has Athena’s owl seen all that it needed to see for understanding the day’s evolution—and only at this point is it no longer dazzled by the daylight. This not being dazzled stands for the “systemic wisdom” of those who have repeatedly gone beyond delusion and Seen into the true condition of reality, from which the owl can now draw in order to produce clear and precise metanarratives interpreting human spiritual and social evolution and history as a gradual development of the basic human delusion called avidya or marigpa to a threshold lying at the very end of the Era of Darkness or Iron Age, at which this delusion completes its reductio ad absurdum and can disconnect itself, restoring communion—which in its turn would restore plenitude, equality, harmony, ecological balance and fulfillment. In fact, only systemic wisdom, resulting from the repeated manifestation of the state of Truth as defined in this book—i.e., as lack of the avidya or marigpa involving the fragmentary perception and understanding of reality produced by the combination of the hermetic focus of awareness with the confusion of map and territory—can respond to the deadly disease affecting our species and the whole of the ecosphere by producing wholesome myths of the kind Sorel called authentic, expressed in systemic metanarratives that drive human beings to take the courses of action the present situation of our species and planet demand, and that acknowledge their mythic character, challenging us to cease confusing them with the territory they represent. In fact, it is insofar as such systemic metanarratives are intended to lead beyond clinging to systems, myths and metanarratives (whether global or local, systemic or fragmentary, beneficial or detrimental) that, giving a stricter sense to a term coined by Georges Sorel, I call them anti-systems. (E.Capriles, Beyond Being, p.18)

== HOW TO JOIN? == First test your computer settings and at the right time connect on Anymeeting.com. A microphone is obligatory, a webcam optional. If having questions/problems write me:

CONTACT: martin.malec@email.cz, tel. +420 737740166, skype: noname.tm, GTalk: brozkeff@gmail.com

WHY AM I DOING THIS?

Because I am excited about Capriles' work, and being myself a practitioner of Dzogchen teachings transmitted by Chögyal Namkhai Norbu rinpoche I like very much the attempt to use this standpoint for looking at Western philosophy, ideology and more or less hidden metanarrations that drive our society at this time. I belive it could be useful for others too.

Facebook event

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Pages dedicated to the (past) meetings with chosen topics, quotations, recordings etc.

AnyMeeting webinar platform information

The webinar remote connection will be realized using the AnyMeeting webconference platform: http://www.anymeeting.com/brozkeff1

You need to have the Java plugin correctly working and a microphone. It is recommended to have a webcam available, too.

In case some people will face difficulties with connecting via AnyMeeting there are some alternative platforms available, like Google Talk or Skype. The problem generally is with the maximum amount of people that could attend the video/audioconference at the same time. If you know some other platform (optimally a free one) that you can recommend, you can recommend it to be used, I am open to anything that will work good enough to fill the requirements of this course, that is at least a reliable audio connection of all the members connected, and optimally also the video connection, ability to show other documents (slides, videos, texts) and send text messages to all or individual members connected. Best is to be a free plaform or you can donate some commercial solution :)

Elías Capriles (on the left) and Chögyal Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche (17th October 2012):

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