North Woods writer Sigurd F. Olson wrote: “The conservation of waters, forests, soils, and wildlife are all involved with the conservation of the human spirit.” In this retreat, we’ll study the ways in which Christian mystics have always used landscape and seascape images to describe the Divine Source, the human soul, and the spiritual practices they’ve developed. Meister Eckhart, Thomas Merton, Hildegard of Bingen and Madame Jean Guyon are prime examples. We will do several of these practices, allowing plenty of time for personal reflection in between sessions. We’ll also talk about a third way of knowing – the poetiphatic – that completes the other two classical ways: the kataphatic (with image) and apophatic (without image). In the poetical way, we use images from nature that then explode themselves into a sense of mystery, awe, and wonder. In this workshop, you’ll learn to appreciate your home landscape in a new way.
Suggested offering: $375 (includes meals and overnight accommodations)
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Organizer of Echoes in the Desert, Embrace in the Forest: Nature and Contemplative Spiritual Practice – Stephen Hatch
Stephen K. Hatch, M.A., is a contemplative thinker, photographer, writer, speaker and spiritual director. He has practiced a contemplative life for 45 years, combining family time with meditation, silence, solitary time spent hiking and camping in the wilds, and teaching. Stephen taught Christian Mysticism for eleven years in the Religious Studies Department at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. He lives in Taos, New Mexico. He is the author of “The Contemplative John Muir,” “Rocks and Waters are Words of God,” “Wilderness Mysticism: A Contemplative Christian Tradition,” and “Expanse of God, Caress of Sophia.” He also has a podcast entitled “Nature as Beloved, Nature as Self.” He considers himself interspiritual, with roots in the Christian Contemplative tradition.
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