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SUMMARY:Western Enlightenment: The Path of Kabbalah
DESCRIPTION:Western Enlightenment: The Path of Kabbalah\n						Five Weeks | Online Course\n						May 7 – June 4\, 2023 \nWhat is it you are seeking? Make deeper contact with wider dimensions of wisdom. With spirit rooted in the earth and form opened to the heavens\, the path of Kabbalah gives us a worthy bridge between form\, formless and ultimately wonder. \nThis online course is also the pre-requisite for the Movement of the Mandala retreat in 2024. \n						OverviewRegistration\n					\n				\n					\n					\n					\n					\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				What is the Kabbalah?\n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				This course for you if: \n\nYou’d like to study a framework for spiritual understanding with a wisdom teacher in the Namgyal lineage.\nYou’d like to make contact with deeper wisdom and discover what is truly important.\nYou’d like to leverage new tools for compassionate manifestation in the world.\nYou’d like to explore the kabbalah as a framework for deeper realisation of the dialogue between form\, subtle energy and the void.\nYou want to understand the building blocks of the consciousness and your part in it.\n\n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Discover how the Kabbalah and tarot are designed to cultivate dormant aspects in ourselves so we may reach our highest potential. This course builds on the Tree of Life and is a pre-requisite for the Movement of the Mandala interactive tarot retreat in 2024. \nWe’re all familiar with Eastern spiritual traditions\, but did you know the West also has a legitimate path for spiritual awakening? This path provided the philosophical and mystical underpinnings upon which the Judeo Christian religions formed. You could say it is the inner\, spiritual partner to the outer ‘religious’ face that we see in Western culture today. \nKabbalah also guides one through the terrain of the psychological and emotional transformations that are possible in the psyche. The Kabbalah is like an early map of western psychology from which science and philosophy developed. Additionally\, as with Satori\, Nirvana and sunyata in Eastern traditions\, the Kabbalah points us to the realisation of ‘God’\, described as the limitless\, infinite Ain Soph Aur. \nWhat about the Tarot? \nThe Kabbalah is the framework upon which the Tarot\, particularly the profound symbology of the major arcana\, sits.  This course will teach aspects of the tarot and will also describe the Tree of Life as a chakra system. \n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				The Movement of the Mandala Retreat\nThe Movement of the Mandala retreat is scheduled for August 3-19\, 2024\, has limited enrolment and requires this Kabbalah course as a pre-requisite. \nQapel’s first retreat with his Teacher Namgyal Rinpoche was on the ‘Movement of the Mandala’\, an embodied initiation into the Tarot’s archetypes. Together with Catherine Sensei\, he would like to pass on an in-depth transmission of the Western spiritual teachings. \n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Course Schedule\nMay 7th  – June 4th\, 2023\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				All Kabbalah Teachings will be on Sundays\nWith a new format*: Morning (9:30am Class) Mountain Time\n\nSunday May 7th – 9:30-11am\nSunday May 14th – 9:30-11am\nSunday May 21st – 9:30-11am\nSunday May 28th – 9:30-11am\n\nThe formal and participatory teachings for this course will occur on four Sundays. There will be a live group class in the morning (9:30-11am MT). We encourage you to connect with sangha outside of class times to discuss and deepen your learning of the material. \nFlash Retreat Weekend: June 3-4th\nTo deepen and integrate your experience\, the final weekend during the course will also be a Flash Retreat (June 3rd – 4th). This can be done at home\, or together with us at Clear Sky Meditation Centre\, in Eastern British Columbia. We highly recommend clearing your schedule over the weekend to focus on the retreat. Formal group sessions will also be held at these times: \n\nFlash Retreat morning group workshop time:   9:30-10:30am\nFlash Retreat afternoon group workshop time: 2:30-3:30pm\n\n\n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Meet the Teachers\n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n					Catherine Pawasarat\n					\n					\n					\n				\n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n					Qapel [Doug Duncan]\n					\n					\n					\n				\n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				apel  and Catherine Pawasarat are Dharma and meditation teachers who founded Clear Sky Meditation Centre\, BC\, Canada. \nAchariya Qapel received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 1978\, and is a lineage holder in that teaching. Known for his direct\, humourous and compassionate engagement with students\, Doug embraces various traditions\, contemporary psychology\, and science\, to mentor all beings to a more awakened state. \nCatherine Pawasarat has trained daily with Acariya Quapel since 1998 in an intensive spiritual apprenticeship that is rare in the modern West. She received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 2003. In addition to Buddhist philosophy and its applications to daily life\, Catherine also draws on generative living and the arts. With Qapel she is co-founder of Clear Sky Retreat Center in the BC Rockies. \n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Course Details\nTime and Location\nEach of the four weekly classes in this online course will be video streamed live at 9:30-11am MST. The recording will be available for one week after each class. We encourage you to connect with sangha outside of class times to discuss and deepen your learning of the material.  \nThe course culminates with a Flash Retreat on June 3-4th\, 2023\, with formal workshop times held at 9:30-10:30am and 2:30-3:30pm Mountain Time on Saturday and Sunday. \nWhat Does the Course Cost?\nThis course is offered based on the unique combination of 1) dāna  and 2) a $80-120 USD administrative fee. Register four + weeks prior: $80 | Register two to four weeks prior: $100 | Register less than two weeks prior: $120. \nClick on the tabs below to learn more: \n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n					About DānaAbout the Online Admin Fee\n				\n				\n					\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				You may have come across this elsewhere in the form of “pay from the heart.” Dāna is a Sanskrit term meaning “generosity.” With dāna\, we give as a mutual exchange of generosity. It’s our joy to offer this course\, and we trust you’ll match our time\, energy\, and passion by giving an amount of money that feels good and healthy to both you and us. \nThe dharma has been built on generosity. No one is excluded for lack of funds. However\, it is also extremely beneficial to give as much as you are able. \nTypically people give in a range of $120-$500 USD for a course. \nAs we’re committed to ensuring everyone has access to the Dharma\, please feel comfortable to give less if you are not financially secure. Another form of giving dāna is to offer service\, and if you are interested in providing support in a non-financial way\, we invite you to contact us. \nIf you are financially secure\, we invite you to generate merit by providing more financial support to the Triple Gem. Contributions like these make the difference in supporting our teachers\, teachings\, and center. \nWe're delighted to share that we created a short online course so that you can learn more about the practice of dāna here. \n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				In a traditional model of in-person teachings\, a retreat center or urban meditation center invites teachers to visit. In these cases the centers have infrastructure and organization costs to cover\, which might be covered by an admin fee. For the teaching itself\, dāna to the teachers is offered in a bowl. This honors both the sustainability of the teachers\, and of the supporting center. \nWe’ve tried to recreate this approach online. The teachers’ time and the teaching themselves are offered on the basis of dāna\, separate to the admin fee. With our dāna offering we are making a direct gift of generosity to the teachers to support their teachings and livelihood. \nThe admin fee* goes to support the infrastructure and organization necessary to support them to teach. As anyone with an online business will know\, the costs of setting up good infrastructure to support effective teaching and connection online can be surprising. \nOur admin fee changes based on the date of registration. \nRegister four + weeks prior: $80 Register two to four weeks prior: $100Register less than two weeks prior: $120 \n*We also do not wish to exclude anyone from the Teachings\, so if you are not currently in a financial position to afford the admin fee\, please contact the course Registrar via registrar@planetdharma.com so we can support you to attend. \n--- \nBelow are a few of the work and benefits that your admin fee payment is supporting: \n\nHigh speed internet (to allow interviews and classes on-line)\nOnline class systems (Zoom)\nRegistration / admin systems (Eventbrite\, Basecamp)\nCommunication systems to keep everyone informed\, share connection details\, teachings and other resources (Mailchimp)\nOnline storage (for example\, Dropbox\, to allow us to let students watch recordings\, and to store and share selected teachings in other forms such as podcasts and video later\, and Amazon cloud)\nQuality sound\, video and editing equipment (both for live teachings and to provide good enough quality for later sharing as podcasts and video). We are regularly updating our equipment to improve your user experience.\nOnline calendar booking system to allow students to book interviews\nWebsite hosting and maintenance for sharing upcoming courses\, teachings\, blogs and other resources.\n\nWe welcome any questions. May all our efforts be sustainable\, abundant and for the benefit of all beings! \n  \n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				Register Now\n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n					Retreating in person with Qapel and Sensei is like coming home. It’s like visiting the authentic High Priestess\, Magician and Fool all rolled into two. Well its like visiting the whole major Arcana archetypes all rolled into two people. They are loving\, generous\, knowledgeable\, wise and compassionate. \nMaureen SmithTherapistThe Western Mysteries & Tarot with Doug and Catherine Sensei has been highly transformative and relevant to my personal and universal experience of being human. I am still discovering new and varied ways of showing up in my life; how to leverage talents\, strengthen weak links and lighten up! \nMichelle HeinzPeople Weaver at Retreat GuruThis kind of Dharma is much needed\, practical and insightful. It is something we need in our modern society where everyone is trying to get ahead of others. Learning with Qapel and Sensei helps me see clearly\, lead genuinely and be more willing to step into the unknown\, to serve others and to learn. \nBat FungSoftware Engineer. 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