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Douglas Harding - funeral

A message to friends of Douglas Harding:  There will be a service at St. Martin's Church, Nacton, Ipswich,  Suffolk, at 10:00 AM on Friday January 26  to celebrate the life of
Douglas Harding, followed by light refreshments afterwards at  Levington village hall.

Richard Lang has said to please let him know if you intend to be there.

Following this there will be a gathering for Seeing friends at Shollond Hill.

(Please be independent in making your travel and evening
meal/accommodation arrangements.)

Best wishes,
–
Richard Lang (Co-ordinator)

The Shollond Trust
87B Cazenove Road
London N16 6BB
England

Hail to the SOULS of HUMANS manifested on earth - but now departed - RIP

Cogniscent that their SPIRIT - as part of the ever evolving WHOLE of great spirit - the collective unconscious AWAKENING to itself as collective conscious - remains WITHIN all 6.5 billion of us on Earth - as the driving force of the evolution of the …

KOSMOS  IT  SELF

Dear Friend,

A few announcements.
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Workshop in Portland, Oregon, on Saturday, February 10, with Richard
Lang. Contact ninabuckley@msn.com or register on our website -

http://www.headless.org/english-new/workshop-portland.htm

Workshop in Santa Barbara, California, February 13, Tuesday evening,
with Richard Lang. Contact t.conway1@cox.net
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All 3 DVDs of Douglas Harding are now available on our website.
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A short film on the world flowing through you -
http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=headexchange
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Lots of emails of tribute to Douglas Harding on the bulletin board.
After the funeral on Friday I'll put more up there:
http://www.headless.org/phpBB2
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A short interview with Judy Bruce on how she met Douglas Harding, on
our website, called First Seeing:
http://www.headless.org/english-new/videopage.htm
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Warm regards,
–
Richard Lang (Co-ordinator)
The Shollond Trust
87B Cazenove Road
London N16 6BB
England

Dear Friend,

I've been asked to let people know that Douglas Harding's wish was for no flowers at the funeral, but donations instead, for  'Ipswich Hospice at Home'  - who were of great help to Douglas and Catherine in the last few weeks of Douglas' life. Donations to support them,
payable to 'Ipswich Hospice at Home', can be sent to c/o Derek Smith, East of England Co-operative Funeral Service, 213 High St, Walton, Felixstowe IP11 9BQ, UK.

If anyone needs any more information about this, please don't hesitate to contact me.

Warm regards,
–
Richard Lang (Co-ordinator)
The Shollond Trust
87B Cazenove Road
London N16 6BB
England

Dear Friend,

A few announcements:

WORKSHOP

There will be a day workshop with Richard Lang in Little Rock, Arkansas, on Saturday May 26. For more information visit:

http://www.headless.org/english-new/workshops1.htm

BOOK

You may be interested to know that we have just re-published  Religions of the World  by Douglas Harding.  In this short book (first published in 1966) Douglas Harding guides us to the heart of the world's chief religions. The religions described are Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Zen, Judaism, Christianity and Islam. This journey, at the same time as being an adventure into other cultures and world-views, is also an opportunity to look within ourselves. In the final two chapters Harding discusses 'Religion and Science', and his own religious position.

You can order this book on our website, www.headless.org

OTHER WORKSHOPS

Richard Lang is also giving a workshop in:-  Iceland, July 28/29; workshops in Australia in August (details to be confirmed), and a workshop in Skyros, Greece, September 1-8.
 
The English Summer Gathering is July 19-22 in Salisbury.

Contact details for all the above on our website www.headless.org under 'workshops'.

QUOTATION

And finally, a quotation from Douglas Harding, from The Science of the First Person:

And surely it is only to be expected that, so long as I fabricate here this central obstruction, this nut of a head, this solid and opaque ball or blob, to serve as the nucleus of my universe,  then I am not only hard and hard-faced, but also dense and small-minded, 
my vision is blocked, my understanding blurred and darkened, my world-picture distorted.  With such a spanner thrown in my works,  it's a wonder they work at all.  And,  conversely,  when I dissolve this imaginary lump by seeing What's really here, then it is only to be expected that the universe ranged round this simple Clarity ( or better, within it ) should itself be illuminated and restored to its native order. To be wrongheaded ( and to be headed here is to be wrong ) about the central fact of my world is to be wrong about the rest.  Expecting otherwise ( as if one could be sane outside and mad inside ) is like expecting a watch to go without its mainspring,  a tree to flourish without its root,  a lamp to shine without wick or oil.  How odd that the one spot in the universe which I had systematically overlooked turns out to be the Spot that matters,  the more-than-holy Ground which is,  precisely,  the Solution of all problems and the Fountain-head of all creation!

                                                                                                                          Douglas Harding

Warm regards,

The Shollond Trust
87B Cazenove Road
London N16 6BB
England

Dear Friend,

I have been asked by Judy Bruce, the organizer of the Headless Way Summer
Gathering in England in July to pass on a message. If you are thinking about
attending this gathering, could you please let her know your intention asap.
(The venue have asked to know a general idea about numbers by May 8.) For more
information about the Gathering, including Judy's address, please go to the
workshop page on the website - www.headless.org

Since I'm contacting you, I'll take the opportunity to remind you that I'm
giving a headless workshop in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA towards the end of
May. Again, details are on the website. There are also other workshops coming
up in Iceland, Australia and Greece.

This newsletter is an occasional thing. If you would like a regular reminder of
Seeing Who You Really Are, then you could sign up for the Reflections Course on
Seeing. It's free, and goes out every 3 days. Just go to the website and click
on the Reflections button.

Headlessness - we are celebrating awareness of our common identity, the
boundless Single Eye that each of us is looking out of and living from. If you
have any reflections about this that you would like to share with others,
please let me have them. I may be able to include them in one of the
Reflections.

My own reflection just now - Who you really are is available, full strength,
whatever is happening. I am empty now for whatever is arising in this spacious
mystery.

And as I attend, two-ways, to the space and what fills it, I find that what
comes into the space is new. And I take the view that it is exactly what I need
because of where it comes from - from this amazing Source that is nearer to me
than myself.

Warm regards,
Richard Lang (Co-ordinator)
The Shollond Trust
87B Cazenove Road
London N16 6BB
England

… Douglas Harding's understanding of the 1st Person, Singular, Present Tense
was for me the confirmation of ALL that Ken Wilber had spoken about and written of the difference between translatative and transformative spirituality.

My own guiding component of that particular Wilber text says that:

Those who are allowed to see are simultaneously saddled with the obligation to communicate that vision in no uncertain terms. That is the bargain. You were allowed to see the truth under the agreement that you would communicate it to others (that is the ultimate meaning of the bodhisattva vow). And therefore, if you have seen, you simply must speak out. Speak out with compassion, or speak out with angry wisdom, or speak out with skillful means, but speak out YOU MUST.

… and that IS WHAT, I believe, Barack Obama IS ALL ABOUT.