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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!
== TOPIC OF THE FIFTH MEETING (Wednesday 7th November 20:00 CET):
Benefits of psychedelic drugs consumption for the spiritual path
Excerpt:
“Stan Grof has worked mainly with abrupt ways to raise the energetic-volume- determining-the-scope-of-awareness, and especially with psychedelic substances of the kind I have christened chemical raisers of the energetic-volume-determining-the-scope-of- awareness that have an epochotropic, non-dissociative, non-hypnotic, potentially “psychotomimetic,” consciousness expanding effect (CREV), which in themselves and by themselves do not give rise to stable, clearly recognizable instances of nirvana, yet can easily induce instances of the neutral base-of-all immediately followed by samsaric experiences of the formless realms (which, however, does not mean that nirvana could not have occurred in some people under the effect of these substances who, probably as a result of previous practice, were ripe for it to occur, or who on the basis of teachings received and practice applied in “past lives” happened to apply traditional instructions). ”
== 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.
Pages dedicated to the (past) meetings with chosen topics, quotations, recordings etc.
- 1st meeting (Tuesday 2.10.2012 16.00-18.00) Topic: Degenerative view of history and the end of kaliyuga. (Notes available.)
- 2nd meeting (Tuesday 9.10.2012 16.00-17.30) Topic: Higher conditioned states. (Audio recording available!)
- 3rd meeting (Tuesday 16.10.2012 16.00-17.30) Topic: The Undoing of Delusion. (No recording.)
- extra session - public lecture (Tuesday 16.10.2012 16.00-17.30). Topic: The return of the Golden Age and contemporary socio-spiritual degeneration (Czech audio recording available!)
- 4rd meeting (Wednesday 31.10.2012 20.00-21.00). Topic: Abundance and lacking. (No recording.)
- 5th meeting (Wednesday 7.11.2012 20.00-21.30). Topic: Benefits of psychedelic drugs consumption for the spiritual path. (Recording expected.)
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):
