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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 next meeting planned, preparing a date for a session with Elias Capriles at the beginning of December
TOPIC OF THE SPECIAL MEETING WITH ELÍAS CAPRILES
Beyond Being, Beyond Mind, Beyond History
Next two weeks there is no regular meeting, but at the beginning of December there should finally be the special Q&A session with Elías remotely connected. Read whatever Capriles' text you want and mark down any notes and questions you want to know answer from Elías or you want to discuss with him. Some random relevant topics:
- The decadent phase of modernism and postmodernism
- The origin of genuine spiritual traditions on Mount Kailash
- The root of current socio-ecological-spiritual crisis and the phase of kaliyuga we are living in; the Greek kairos
- The view of vajrayana buddhism and atiyana dzogchen compared to those of Western philosophy and psychology
- Imperative of receiving the initiation/transmission/empowerment and the connected world of the information age 2012 anno
- How should the meta-transpersonal psychology movement and epistemology look like?
- etc.
== 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. (Audio+video recording available (in Czech)!)
- 6th meeting (Wednesday 14.11.2012 20.00-21.30). Topic: Transpersonal psychology of Stanislav Grof.
- Special: Session with Elias Capriles, date to be announced. Q&A on any topic Elías will be able and willing to speak and/or respond
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):
