CapeConversation

This was a multi-sensory experience involving body, mind and spirit where we explored the subject of creation.

Andy facilitated this session. His Triptich – Via Creative + Via Negativa = Via Creativa – set the scene for the session focused on creation. True to form he admitted that he’d finished the painting about three times and was stifling the urge to change it again.

We started the session with readings and meditation. This involved us sitting in a circle and meditating on quotes about creation from a variety of sources. The quotes were read in pairs and we meditated on them in silence for a few minutes. The next set of readings and meditation block followed the dinging and the ringing of the prayer bowl.

Theresa followed this up with a movement session. Both movement pieces had us working primarily with our hands. The first set involved reaching, pulling and pushing. The second had us ‘flowing’, with the idea of holding invisible balls in our hands. It’s hard to explain and capture the experience (in part because I’m posting this much later than intended). This is the first time it really ‘clicked’ in me that movement is worship. In the past it’s been movement can be worship. It’s not just that this ‘worked for me’ in this context but that there’s scope for expansive creating incorporating body, mind and spirit.

    

Christina then spoke about “Why she can not ‘not believe’ in God”. She spoke personally while letting a PowerPoint presentation play in the background and then spoke us through the PowerPoint presentation itself. This presentation was both powerful and moving. It is always great to see someone speak with passion on a subject they love and are knowledgeable about. Nick and Anne closed the session with their rendition of Bruce Cockburn’s Lord of the Starfields. This song was incredibly moving in light of Christina’s talk. I’ve stitched the two clips together and thrown in an amateur effect or two for transitions:

[lord of the starfieds: movie will be inserted when you tube stop annoyingly breaking my video upload]