Helena Noetics Group

Helena Noetics Group -  Wanted to let people know about a couple of events in the next few days.

Jesus in India - Wednesday night at 6:30 pm a bookgroup from St. Paul's will be showing this video. Its a documentary investigating manuscripts and oral traditions from India and Tibet about Jesus' presence in those countries during the missing years. It will be shown either in the Fireside Room where our noetics group meets, or the Fellowship Hall downstairs from the Sanctuary. (St. Paul's offers a Wednesday night dinner from 5:30 - 6:00 pm for a donation of 4$-5$ in the Fellowship Hall which is open to anyone. Might want to call the office 442-5643 so they have an idea of how many are coming, but there is usually enough food for drop-ins.)

Wade Davis - Sarah Hannah sent out this notice about Wade Davis. Max and I coincidentally listened to to a lecture of his from off the internet on our trip out to the coast last weekend. This man is a tremendous spokesman for the value of cultural diversity, and helps us get a better understanding of differences in world views, and our own ethnocentricity. I can't believe he's speaking here. Yay, Lewis & Clark Library!

Book Group next Monday night. See bottom of page for more info.

New…

·         Wade Davis, Anthropologist & Ethnobotanist, Harvard“Real-Life Indiana Jones”

·         Author of The Serpent and the Rainbow

·         Next Thursday, April 22, Carroll College Cube, Lower Commons, 7 pm

·         Brought to you by the Lewis & Clark Library

·         Free and open to the public

 ·         SLH ♫…I’m currently reading the Serpent and the Rainbow. An anthropologist and ethnobotonist, Wade Davis traveled extensively through the Amazon and Andes and lived with various tribes before accepting an assignment that took him to Haiti to investigate two documented cases of zombis – people who are declared legally dead, then buried only to reappear again. He is am intelligent, masterful writer providing a compelling history of the slave trade out of Africa and how it came to shape The Republic of Haiti. In seeking to create a connection between himself and a Haitian who holds the key to his “dig” into the reason for the Vodoun culture, Davis shares something of his Canadian landscape…

“I spoke of mountainous valleys near my home in northern Canada, valleys larger than all of Haiti and totally uninhabited. I described moving through lands where space yielded in every direction to the infinite. I spoke of tundra vegetation at one’s feet, a cornucopia of color and sound, of whistles and birdcalls, of rust and ginger splashed onto a canvas that stretched to the horizon – and there, forests of mountains wrapped in icefields, seething masses of rock and ice in an ocean of clouds. I explained that between these two extremes, the minute flora and the gargantuan mountains, there was a complete dearth of man-sized objects. I tried to make Marcel envision a land where men were insignificant. It was perhaps the most difficult thing for him to understand. Then I spoke of temperatures, of lakes solid with ice, of damp clothing left out overnight and cracking the next morning like a stick. I described hunting animals, moose and caribou, speaking of the number of pounds of meat that each yielded. I spoke of wolves and bears, myths and legends passed on to me by the old hunting guides. Then I told him of the vision quest.”

It is the sharing of his vision quest that places Davis on equal footing with the man who is both bokor and malevolent sorcerer, houngan, benevolent priest and healer.

Davis has lectured at more than 70 universities. He is currently at the National Geographic as Explorer-in-Residence. I hope you’ll join me.

Monday, April 26th, 7 - 8:30 pm Noetic Book Group.  St. Paul's Fireside Room.  Contact Bev Magley for more information. (443-7877). The group decided to read the most recent issue of the magazine, "EnlightenNext" Magazine, because it focuses on consciousness studies from a number of different perspectives. The title of this issue is: "Quantum Dreams & Other Strange Things . . Have scientists finally solved the mystery of consciousness?"  We think it's available at the Real Food Store and maybe Hastings.