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Here is our new committee, looking forward to what we can do over the next year. Steve Rabbette was not present when the photo was taken.

End of Year

As you will see from our programme, we finish for the year on December 16th with a pot-luck meal.  We will be starting speakers next year on Wednesday the 3rd of February. We have also talked about a picnic the weekend before. We will publish more details as the plans are worked out.

The photo to the right is of Denis Burrow giving his recent talk on "the Practical uses of Ectoplasm".

National Convention in Napier

The 2010 national convention will be held in Napier from January 8th to 14th. Three members from Dunedin will be travelling to attend. We will presenting our ideas for the 2011 convention, we will be hosting in Dunedin. We are proposing a theme of  "creating community" for the 2011 convention.

March weekend workshop/convention

We are planning a weekend workshop / convention for some time in March next year. The date has not been set. The probable theme will be looking at Integral Theosophy. This would explore some of the ideas of the integral movement, whose main proponent is Ken Wilber, and seeing how we might fit them within a frame work of theosophy. A major thrust would be looking at Ken Wilber and  the Integral Institute's Integral Life Practice. This gives a framework for living a full, intgerated lifestyle in the 21st century. What might that mean for theosophists and how might we use the integral life practice?

Thesophical Study Group

Our study group has started with an enthusiastic group. We have one more session this year, but next year we will be starting the group from the begining again, so more people can join in. We will let you know when it is starting up again.  We are using a correspondence course which was developed by Vic Hao Chin in the Phillipines. The group meets in our rooms at 6.00pm on Wednesdays for 50 minutes before the Wednesday talk. Contact Kerry on 4764557.

Rickshaw Run

Darryl Crofskey, who is the HPB lodge president in Auckland is going to India and Nepal soon to take part in a rickshaw race racing against 45 other teams. He and two others are raising funds for Maiti Nepal, which is trying to stop young girls being forced into prostitution. Last year they saved almost 1,800 girls being shipped away from home and into India. You can make a donation to help towards the target of £1,000.

Events Schedule

As well as our regular meditation, yoga, healing circle and Friday evening entertainment, we have the events below. All talks are in our new building at 7.00pm. Note that our study group starts at 6.00pm and runs for 50 minutes before the talk.

    DECEMBER

    December 9th      Four Fold Aspects to Reality - Victor MacGill

This talk looks at patterns of nature and mandalas, especially looking at the "adaptive cycle" of Buzz Holling and Lance Gunderson, which can be seen as a mandala in time. The adaptive cycle was first developed to understand time cycles in an ecosystem.

    December 16th    End of year celebration - this is a pot-luck meal with music

    December 17th    6.00pm - Committee meeting - members welcome

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