Understanding the US Supreme Court I: What the new Conservative super majority means to American justice

Today we will look at the US Supreme Court and how the new conservative super majority is shaping the legal landscape:

Understanding the US Supreme Court I: What the new Conservative super majority means to American justice

The current US Supreme Court is the most radically conservative in US history. Its recent decision to eliminate a woman’s Constitutional right over her own body is only one a many examples of unprecedented court decisions that run contrary to both public opinion and accepted ethical norms. To understand this more deeply, we will dialogue with Daniel Sheehan, a Harvard College, Harvard Law School and Harvard Divinity School–trained Constitutional Litigation and Appellate Attorney. For close to five decades, Dan’s work as an Federal Civil Rights Attorney, Author, Public Speaker and College and Law School Educator has helped expose the structural sources of injustice in our country and around the world. He has protected the fundamental and inalienable rights of our world’s citizens and has elucidated a compelling and inspiring vision for the future direction of our human family. Dan’s dedication to this vision and his work have placed him at the center of many of the most important legal cases and social movements of our generation. Cases in which he has been involved include the Pentagon Papers, Watergate, Iran Contra, Wounded Knee, Karen Silkwood, Three Mile Island. 

Co-convener:

• Jim Garrison, President, Ubiquity University

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Understanding the US Supreme Court II:  How the Court’s ruling last week will impact the integrity of Native American Reservations

Today we will look at the US Supreme Court and its ruling last week that States can enter Native American reservations with impunity, an unprecedented ruling similar to the Court’s overruling of Roe v Wade.

Last week, the US Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that States have the right to go into Native American reservations with impunity and force them to conform to state laws, including taking Native American children for adoption. To understand this more deeply, we will dialogue with Daniel Sheehan, a Harvard College, Harvard Law School and Harvard Divinity School–trained Constitutional Litigation and Appellate Attorney. For close to five decades, Dan’s work as an Federal Civil Rights Attorney, Author, Public Speaker and College and Law School Educator has helped expose the structural sources of injustice in our country and around the world. He has protected the fundamental and inalienable rights of our world’s citizens and has elucidated a compelling and inspiring vision for the future direction of our human family. Dan’s dedication to this vision and his work have placed him at the center of many of the most important legal cases and social movements of our generation. Cases in which he has been involved include the Pentagon Papers, Watergate, Iran Contra, Wounded Knee, Karen Silkwood, Three Mile Island. 

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Understanding the Soul of Russia: A Dialogue with Gary Lachman

Today we dialogue with Gary Lachman on his understanding of the mystical soul of Russia.

Gary Lachman is the author of twenty-one books on topics ranging from the evolution of consciousness to literary suicides, popular culture and the history of the occult. He has written a rock and roll memoir of the 1970s, biographies of Aleister Crowley, Rudolf Steiner, C. G. Jung, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Emanuel Swedenborg, P. D. Ouspensky, and Colin Wilson, histories of Hermeticism and the Western Inner Tradition, studies in existentialism and the philosophy of consciousness, and about the influence of esotericism on politics and society. He writes for several journals in the UK, US, and Europe, including Fortean Times, Quest, Strange Attractor, Fenris Wolf, and his work has appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, Times Educational Supplement, Guardian, Independent on Sunday, Sunday Times, Mojo, Gnosis and other publications. He lectures regularly in the UK, US, and Europe, and his work has been translated into a dozen languages. He has appeared in several film and television documentaries and on BBC Radio 3 and 4 and is on the adjunct faculty in Transformative Studies at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Before becoming a full-time writer Lachman studied philosophy, managed a new age bookshop, taught English Literature, and was a Science Writer for UCLA. He was a founding member of the pop group Blondie and in 2006 was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Lachman was born in New Jersey, but since 1996 has lived in London, UK.

Co-convener:

• Jim Garrison, President, Ubiquity University

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How Intuition can assist Large Scale Energetic Work

Hans Andeweg describes the why and how of developing your intuition for large scale energetic work, including sharing some tips and practices for you to use at home. In dialogue with Peter Merry.

In this Humanity Rising session, Peter Merry will discuss with Hans Andeweg the large-scale energetic work called ECOintention.

Over the last 25 years Center for ECOintention has carried out thousands of projects in nature and organizations to improve vitality and manifestation. Hundreds of ECOintention Practitioners learned to do this healing work. Building on an earlier HR session, Hans will talk in particular about the personal inner work needed to be an effective energetic practitioner.

This year he launched a program called Develop your Intuition that gives people the inner training and specific practices needed to be able to work in these dimensions. They will also be running another English language version of the popular ECOintention online Intensive 'Learn to work with Life Energy'.

Both of these are available to Ubiquity students for credit and contribute to the ECOintention Master of Science.

• Hans Andeweg MSc. is co-founder of Center for ECOintention and the author of, "In Resonance with Nature" and "The Universe Loves a Happy Ending," which provide a solid theoretical foundation for large scale energetics and whole system change.
  
  Center for ECOintention operates internationally and has been the center of expertise for energy management for more than 25 years. It delivers a ECOintention Practitioner vocational training and balances appr. 100 projects with ECOintention per year. as well as awarding an MSc in ECOintention together with Ubiquity University.

Co-convener:

• Peter Merry, Chief Innovation Office, Ubiquity University
• Jim Garrison, President, Ubiquity University

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Without faith no one prospers, and certainly not society: A Perspective from a Freemason

A Freemason perspective on Faith and Society

In Europe, and to a lesser extent in the United States, there is a high degree of secularization.  More and more people are leaving the church. For many people, this has meant the loss of trust in life. Whether consciously or not, they feel vulnerable and unsafe.  They can cover up these feelings by over-consumption and entertainment, or they seek refuge in fake theories, fundamentalism or demagogues who offer false security. This is a major cause of Code Red for our democracy and climate. The traditional religions have no solution for this. However, from the viewpoint of Freemasonry, I would like to sketch a new perspective.

Freemasons start from a high principle, which they call ‘The Great Architect of the Universe'. From outside Freemasonry, this principle is equated with 'god', but that is too shortsighted. Freemasons are free in how they wish to interpret this principle. In this sense, Freemasonry differs from traditional religions: there is no doctrine or theologically founded dogma. In this contribution, I will give a personal elaboration of how this principle can be worked out, and how it could be accepted by both believers and those who are not Freemasons or followers of any of the known religions. This could lead to a new and fresh faith, through which we feel empowered and we can stand in the world with resilience and creativity.

Presenter

• Erik van Praag is a Dutch Freemason and holds a master's degree in psychology and planned change from the University of Amsterdam. He is also trained as a psychotherapist, and is an accredited facilitator for Essential Peacemaking/Women and Men and the Transformation Game (Findhorn). He has worked as a psychotherapist, business consultant and personal coach with a special focus on the climate problem and spirituality. He has organized several international conferences about spiritual leadership and worked outside the Netherlands in the United States, Russia, Czech Republic, Scotland, Germany, Switzerland and Palestine. He has written some fourteen books of which the following have been translated into English: Room for Happiness (2001), Spiritual Leadership (2004) and Earth Fever (2009). 

Recommended reading

Caroline Myss, Intimate Conversations with the Divine, 2021

Greg Braden, Human by Design (2017/2021)

The Urantia Book (1955)

For an orientation in freemasonry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freemasonry

Co-convener:

• Jim Garrison, President, Ubiquity University

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