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Sunday Gathering (12/11)

December 11, 2022 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm

Join us Sunday!

Central Park Place (Mackinaw Ballroom, 421 Columbus Ave., GH)

9:00 a.m. Pre-Talk, In Person

10:00 a.m. Gathering, In Person + Livestream on Facebook (facebook.com/c3westmi)

10:00 a.m.: C3 Kids, In Person with Miss Mary

11:00 a.m.: Talk Back, In Person

 

Sunday, December 11, 2022

The Great Questions

What can the birth of Christ teach us in a post-religious world?

Gathering Host: David Dean

Music: Max Lockwood

Meditation: Wayne Johnson

 Moment of Silence

Music: Max Lockwood

Readings/Teaching: Kent Dobson

We all carry in our innermost selves a sacred core of potential wholeness or aliveness or creativity and that this radiant center wants to unfold and realize itself through the particularities of our unique individual lives…[this] is the first part of a two-stage drama…This unfolding tendency, conspiring toward the full realization of one’s personhood, is often represented as a child or sometimes as an animal or other living being.  Often this child has something sacred or divine about it…born “between the worlds”…Then there is a second ‘act’ to the play, namely the idea that trauma interrupts this unfolding of personality by foreclosing the transitional space through which the vital spark is actualized and that this interruption of human development can trigger a system in the psyche that attacks and tries to “kill” the emerging child…This effort to ‘kill’ the soul/child is not usually an effort to annihilate it altogether…but to eliminate consciousness of it, and actually, in the final analysis, save it! Instead of annihilation, we see in dreams that the child has gone into exile – we would say into the unconscious – where it lives in suspended animation until some future time when it can reemerge.      Donald Kalsched, Trauma and the Soul

Music: Max Lockwood

Gathering Host: David Dean

Music: Max Lockwood

 

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Details

Date:
December 11, 2022
Time:
9:00 am - 12:00 pm

Venue

Central Park Place, Mackinaw Ballroom
421 Columbus Ave
Grand Haven, MI 49417 United States
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Phone
(616) 842-1985
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