Mount Sequoyah 1999 Singles Training
Event October 8-10, 1999 Handouts
Bio furnished on flyer for ‘training event’:
Our keynote speaker will be Robert Keck, an author and lecturer living
on a Colorado mountaintop. Dr. Keck has been a United Methodist Minister, served on the
faculty of The Ohio State University Medical School, was one of the first and foremost
corporate wellness consultants in North America, and was president of Boulder Graduate
School. His own "miraculous healing" is the subject of a book and a film. Dr.
Keck’s presentations at the retreat will be based on his widely recognized book, Sacred
Eyes. He is best known for developing what became known as Deep Value Research: that
the dramatic changes in health care are simply a microcosm of a much larger transformation
of the human spirit and soul. He believes it is possible for each of us to go further
beyond the restraints of science and religion that we could ever imagine, and to live a
"new kind of existence" marked by God with exciting wholeness and spiritual
maturity of mind, body, and spirit.
Handouts provided for event:
Mount Sequoyah
1999 Singles Training Event
October 8-10, 1999
Material that was in
Dr. L. Robert Keck’s presentation
Friday Evening:
Jesuit priest & paleontologist Teihard de Chardin:
"Nothing here below is profane for those who know how to see. On the contrary,
everything is sacred."
"Hope for the Flowers" by Trina Paulis:
"How does one become a butterfly?" She asked pensively.
"You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a
caterpillar."
You mean to die? Asked Yellow.
"Yes and no," he answered. "What looks like you will die but what’s
really you will still live. Life is changed, not taken away. Isn’t that different
from those who die without ever becoming butterflies?"
Edna St. Vincent Millay:
"Upon this gifted age, in its dark hour,
Rains from the sky a meteoric shower
Of facts… They lie unquestioned, uncombined.
Wisdom enough to leach us of our ill
Is daily spun, but there exists no loom
To weave it into fabric."
Introducing a New Science of Soul – Deep-value Research:
Enlarges the historical and cultural context
Introduces an evolutionary paradigm into the realm of the sacred.
Has discovered periodic transformations of Soul.
Uses a maturational metaphor.
Definition of terms used throughout these presentations:
"Soul" and "souls"
"Soul" refers to the deepest part of the collective human psyche wherein
Divine meaning and purpose for the species are embedded. Our personal "souls"
refer to our depths wherein our own versions of Divine meaning and purpose are embedded.
Handouts provided for event:
Keck handouts – Page 2
"Deep-values" = The DNA of Soul
"Deep-values" are the most causal influences that shape and determine
mainstream human cultures. If genetic DNA determines what we look like, the Soul’s
DNA determines what we value, what we think, and how we act.
"Spirituality"
"Spirituality" is our individual awareness of a deep Divine meaning and
purpose in life, and our response to those depths. A person’s spirituality may be
totally unique and private, or it may be shared with others – inside or outside
traditional religious institutions.
"Religions"
"Religions" are the institutional ways in which groups of people manifest,
facilitate, and celebrate their sense of the spiritual – creating and maintaining
meaningful community, as well as honoring, conserving, and preserving their particular
history, traditions, rituals, and symbols.
An "Archaeological Dig" to discover the DNA of Soul
That which are amenable to empirical research:
Our daily lives, which are influenced by…
The cultures in which we live, which are influenced by…
Humanity’s Deep-values
That which are faithful assumptions:
Our individual soul’s purpose, which operates within the context of…
A species-wide Soul’s purpose, which is determined by…
The Creative Source of all Life.
Synopsis of Epoch 1
35,000 years ago to 10,000 years ago
Humanity’s childhood Soul
Evolutionary purpose = physical maturation
An epoch-specific deep-value system
Synopsis of Epoch II
10,000 years ago until the present
Humanity’s adolescent soul
Evolutionary purpose = ego and mental maturation
An epoch-specific deep-value system
Synopsis of Epoch III
The future
Humanity’s adult Soul
Evolutionary purpose = spiritual maturation
An epoch specific deep-value system
Handouts provided for event:
Keck handouts – Page 3
Saturday morning
Epoch I Deep-values (35,000 years ago to 10,000 years ago)
A unity with nature, which included a profound respect for the powers of the animal
world.
An emphasis upon the feminine, which included matricentric and matrilineal societies,
as well as worship of the Earth Goddess.
Non-violence.
Epoch II Deep-values (10,000 years ago up to the present)
Reductionism – reducing the human-nature whole into separate pieces, humanity and
the rest of nature.
Patriarchy and hierarchy.
Adolescent notions of power:
Projecting power externally.
Wielding power over others.
A need to control:
Insisting on conformity to rigid belief systems.
With violence.
Belief systems as to when God created the world:
Eastern Orthodox Christians = 5508 B.C.E.
Early Syrian Christians = 5490 B.C.E.
17th Century Bishop James Ussher = 4004 B.C.E.
The Hebrew calendar = 3760 B.C.E.
Modern science suggests that the universe was created about 15 billion years ago, the
earth about 4 ½ billion years ago.
The "Modern Age" (1350 to the present)
The completion and culmination of the Epoch II evolutionary purpose of ego and mental
maturation, and the Epoch II deep-values – launched by the 14th
century’s "Black Death" and brought into prominence by:
The Renaissance
The Reformation
The Scientific Revolution
The Enlightenment
The Industrial and Technological Revolutions
Handouts provided for event:
Keck handouts – Page 4
Saturday afternoon: metaphysics
Epoch III Deep-values (The emerging future)
Re-membering Human-nature
Discovering ubiquity of wholeness
The maturation of power
The spirituality of time
Re-membering Human-nature
Being saved from the "Original Sin" of Soul
Patriarchy is "history"
Growing up – from an ego-spirituality to an eco-spirituality.
Physicist David Bohm:
"The essential new quality implied by the quantum theory is… that a system
cannot be analyzed into parts. This leads to the radically new notion of unbroken
wholeness of the entire universe. You cannot take it apart. For if you do, what you end up
with is not contained within the original whole. It is created by the act of
analysis."
Theologian Paul Tillich:
"A fresh interpretation of love is needed that shows that love is basically not an
emotional but an ontological power, that it is the essence of life itself, namely, the
dynamic reunion of that which has been separated."
Towards a Holistic Theology:
Theism & Deism
Atheism
Pantheism
Panentheism – the idea that God is in everything, and everything is in God.
Psalm 139
Gospel of John 14:10
Ephesians 4:6
Handouts provided for event:
Keck handouts – Page 5
Sunday morning:
The maturation of power:
Democracies world-wide: (source: Freedom House, Washington, DC)
(A country is defined as a democracy when "there are reasonably free and fair
elections characterized by significant choices for voters in a context of free political
organization, reasonable access to the media, and secret ballot elections.")
1776 - 1
1790 - 3
1900 - 13
1919 - 25
1940 - 13
1960 - 36
1970 - 30
1990 - 61
Today - 117
Pro-Active Empowerment
Become a virgin – by way of an heroic journey
Go to hell – by way of an heroic journey
Explore your soul’s purpose – by way of an heroic journey
The Heroic Journey
Separation from the world
Encounter with power
A return to the world to live and teach the new wisdom & power
The Gospel of Thomas 43:29-33
The Gospel of John 14:12
Re-Active Empowerment:
Make a decision – victim or victor?
Use illness, or any crisis, as a teacher – by way of an heroic journey
Handouts provided for event:
Keck handouts – Page 6
The Spirituality of Time:
Chronos
Kairos
Eternity
Nobel laureate Ilya Prigogine:
"The idea of certainty is a denial of time and novelty. In accepting that the
future is not determined, we come to the end of certainty."
William Blake:
"To see a world in a grain of sand
And heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour."
The Gospel of Thomas 51:1-2
"A Sleep of Prisoners" by Christopher Fry
The human heart can go to the lengths of God.
Dark and cold we may be, but this
Is no winter now. The frozen misery
Of centuries breaks, cracks, begins to move;
The thunder is the thunder of the floes,
The thaw, the flood, the upstart Spring.
Thank God our time is now when wrong
Comes up to face us everywhere,
Never to leave us ‘til we take
The longest stride of soul men ever took.
Affairs are now soul size.
The enterprise is exploration into God.
Where are you making for? It takes
So many thousand years to wake,
But will you wake for pity’s sake.
Revelation 21: 1, 4&5 |
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