Public Lectures and Events   ~  Winter, 2011-2012                                                        Home

Public Lecture Series ~ Sunday Afternoons  4:00–5:30 pm   
Suggested Donation:   $5.00–$10.00       (special events vary)

All events are held in the lending library, at:

717 Broadway East, Seattle, WA 98102 (206) 323-4281

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    * * *   Unless otherwise noted, all events are on Sunday afternoons  4:00–5:30 pm   * * *


Our non-profit library is largely funded by donations. If you would like to support us in keeping our library active, please consider sending a donation to the Library Manager Fund.  For a limited time, all donations we receive will be matched by a member donor. We appreciate your support.

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Second Saturday Meditations with  Andrew Barker
9:30-10:30am ~  $2 suggested donation each session
1/14/2012, 2/11/2012, 3/10/2012

“We know the outer world of sensations and actions, but of our inner world of thoughts and feelings we know very little. The primary purpose of meditation is to become conscious of, and familiar with, our inner life. The ultimate purpose is to reach the source of life and consciousness.” - Nisargadatta Maharaj

Please join us for a series of brief explorations in meditation on silence and sound. A comfortable and supportive environment will be provided for all levels of experience. Andrew Barker led the popular Sunday morning meditations for many years. He is a long-time student of Theosophy and has been actively involved in various Buddhist and Hindu traditions.



Fourth Saturday Meditations with Nancy Lehwalder
10:30-11:30am ~ $2 suggested donation
1/28/2012, 2/25/2012, 3/24/2012

The Seattle Lodge Room and Library is a very special place. Nancy invites everyone, regardless of their experience level, to join her and start the day in meditation there. Nancy Lehwalder is a life-long Theosophist and the Seattle Lodge Librarian.



Sunday, January 15, 2012 4-5:30pm
Public Lecture: $5 - $10 Requested Donation
Kali & Mary: The Dual Nature of the Mother Archetype
Kyle Lee Williams

There are at least two aspects to every archetype and the Great Mother is no different. She is hellish and angelic, war-like and sublime. Going both east and west this lecture will compare the character of the Hindu goddess, Kali, and the Christian figure of Mary, the mother of Jesus, side by side. We will look closely at what Jung found so significant about images of the sacred feminine. Exploration of these two figures can help us gain insight into our relationship with the personal mother in our psychology, as well as insight into our relationship with the archetypal Feminine, the Great Mother.

Kyle Lee Williams, MA, LMHCA, is a Jungian therapist in private practice. She teaches comparative religion and psychology at Antioch University and works with individuals interested in discovering the wisdom of the psyche first hand as it manifests in their own lives.



Sunday, January 22, 2012 4-5:30pm
Public Lecture: $5 - $10 Requested Donation
My Two Near-Death Experiences
Doris Bean

Doris, who’s a warm and engaging person in her late 60’s, was once a confirmed agnostic. In 1999 she arrived at a Seattle hospital with a non-functioning immune system. Alone in her room, and literally feeling herself dying, Doris uncharacteristically yelled “Help!!” with all of her being. In her openness to the Greater, Doris entered her first NDE. Ten years later Doris again left her body during an angiogram when her coronary artery separated. In the Cath lab room she now saw spiritual beings from floor to ceiling assisting the lead cardiologist. Join us to hear more, including how these NDEs affected how Doris lives her life today.



Sunday, January 29, 2012 4-5:30pm
Public Lecture: $5 - $10 Requested Donation
I'm Dead, Now What? Am I Me? Will I be Judged? Then What?
Susan Brown

Susan will share some Theosophical ideas about these timeless questions. She has been a member of the Theosophical Society since 1948.



Saturday, February 4, 2012 10am-4pm
Workshop: $55 - $75 Requested Donation
Introduction to Therapeutic Touch
Sandy Revesz and Jane Corman

Therapeutic Touch (TT) is a method of healing using the hands and working with the human energy field. It is taught in nursing schools around the country. This workshop will explain the concept and present beginning techniques that participants can use with family and friends.

Registration is required for this workshop: call the Quest Bookshop, 206-323-4281 or email to: quest@seattle-ts.org to register. You will need to provide your name and either a phone number or email address. There will be a lunch break and there are many eateries within a block or two of our building, or you may bring a vegetarian brown bag lunch. Coffee and tea will be provided.

Both Sandy and Jane are Registered Nurses and university-level educators. Both have practiced and taught Therapeutic Touch for many years.



Sunday, February 5, 2012 4-5:30pm
Public Lecture: $5 - $10 Requested Donation
Neti Neti – Not This, Not That:  Talks on Enlightenment, pt. II
Andrew Barker

Approaching an understanding of what enlightenment is often better done by looking at what enlightenment is not. We will discuss common conceptions and misconceptions of enlightenment according to Nisargadatta Maharaj, Ramana Maharshi, Ramesh Balsekar, and others. We will also discuss how enlightenment is described, in terms like Moksha (“release”), Shunyata (“emptiness”), Nirvana (“blowing out”), Kaivalya (“solitariness”), and other names for enlightenment.

Andrew Barker is a long-time student of Theosophy, as well as being actively involved in a variety of Buddhist and Hindu traditions.



Sunday, February 12, 2012 4-5:30pm
Public Lecture: $5 - $10 Requested Donation
The Soul
Stanton Stevens

In even the best sources of esoteric information, the information about the Soul is hard to sort out, and is never definite, simple, or clear. Henry Laurency points this out and then gives the information that is needed to make sense out of all the rest. Most importantly, he answers the question "Why, if I am a divine, powerful, wise, immortal Soul, am I also a confused and relatively powerless human struggling to make sense of this world, making mistake after mistake?" The answer has an unexpected aspect to it, and may be hard to accept, but when one has realized that Love is behind all of the structure and plans, it becomes clear.

Stanton Stevens is a long time student of the esoteric teachings, and has spoken before on esoterics and Laurency particularly. He leads two Rainbow Bridge meditation groups, in Seattle and Port Townsend, and is a software engineer.



Sunday, February 19, 2012 4-5:30pm
Public Lecture: $5 - $10 Requested Donation
Journey to the VOICE OF THE SILENCE:  Meditation with Tibetan Singing Bowls
Danyo Syoum

Let the sound of the bowls lead you into the greater stillness within, where Compassion is the Law of Laws. Danyo is an architect, violin builder, and student of the bowls for 25 years.



Sunday, February 26, 2012 4-5:30pm
Public Lecture: $5 - $10 Requested Donation
We Are Living in Eternity!
Ed Alden

Eternity doesn't start at some future time. It is right here, right now. OUR place in the Eternal Scheme of Things is the subject of this talk.  Ed Alden is a long time Theosophist and a member of the Seattle Lodge.



Sunday, March 4, 2012 4-5:30pm
Public Lecture: $5 - $10 Requested Donation
Spiritual Gems in Islam
Jamal Rahman

We are happy to welcome back Brother Jamal for a talk on the mystical aspects of Islam.

Jamal is a minister at the Interfaith Community Church in Seattle and author of FRAGRANCE OF FAITH (2004) and the forthcoming book 33 SPIRITUAL GEMS IN ISLAM (early 2013). He has authored 2 books with Pastor Don Mackenzie and Rabbi Ted Falcon: GETTING TO THE HEART OF INTERFAITH (2009) and RELIGION GONE ASTRAY (2011) and one book with Kathleen Elias and Ann Redding, OUT OF DARKNESS INTO LIGHT (2009).



Sunday, March 18, 2012 4-5:30pm
Public Lecture: $5 - $10 Requested Donation
Madame Blavatsky - Her Life and Intentions
Gordon Strong

Throughout her life Madame Blavatsky ceaselessly communicated to all the fruits of her inner life. She was a pioneer of spiritual unity, proposing that all religions had at their essence a common purpose. She set about achieving this laudable aim largely through her insightful writings. A tireless and courageous traveller in Tibet, Siberia and India, this extraordinary figure constantly demonstrated the power of her own personal faith and beliefs. The founder, with Olcott, of the Theosophical Society, Madame Blavatsky must be assigned her true position as a cornerstone of metaphysics in the twentieth century and our own.

Gordon Strong lives in England and has published books on the Arthurian Tales, Sacred Sites, 'The Golden Dawn', and Madame Blavatsky. He combines his scholarship and intuitive gifts to produce an insightful perspective upon his researches. www.gordonstrong.co.uk



Sunday, March 25, 2012 4-5:30pm
Public Lecture: $5 - $10 Requested Donation
Down the Worm Hole, Towards the Light
Greg Wilson

In the past 20 years Greg has interviewed more than 500 near-death experiencers. Like many of us Greg discovered he had acquired several understandings of what life was about, that were oftentimes active in him and conflicting simultaneously. However, diving deeply into and embracing the world of the NDE as one piece of the answer to the Bigger questions, he found himself incrementally morphing into a new understanding of who he might be, as well as might be becoming, and where the world might be going. Join him as he shares the new tools in the toolbox he has found to be most transforming.

* * *   Unless otherwise noted, all events are on Sunday afternoons  4:00–5:30 pm   * * *

Our non-profit library is largely funded by donations. If you would like to support us in keeping our library active, please consider sending a donation to the Library Manager Fund.  For a limited time, all donations we receive will be matched by a member donor. We appreciate your support.

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