SURGING FORTH AT THE THRESHOLD:
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE FOUR FIELDS
What is a responsive contemplative life in these times?
5 Mondays from 7:00-9:00pm
October 21, 28 and November 4, 11, 18.
Price: $120 (no one will be turned away for lack of funds)
This Five-week course introduces a nimble approach to meditation and contemplative life, inseparable from a wild love of our damaged planet and our entangled socio-political impasses. What does it mean to cultivate a responsive spiritual life in these times, when our dominant stories are stale and our futures seem bleak? Let’s rediscover full-hearted, elemental, and playful forms of life beyond panic and bypassing, because the coming decades are going to be very interesting!
The Four Fields are:
- an ecological and embodied field
- a psychological and imaginal field
- a field of meditative awareness
- a field of being and emptiness
Learn more about the Four Fields here. The fields cohere together in a contemplative ecosystem. We will practice meditation, inquiry, and explore the teachings of the Four Fields developed by Adam. Hosted at the Center for PostNatural History, this course is part of an ongoing reconsideration of spiritual practice on our metamorphosing planet.
Presented by PostNatural Contemplation at the Center for PostNatural History
Adam Lobel, PhD, practices at the threshold of ecologies, Buddhist-inspired meditation and philosophy, and psycho-social political change. Adam has been a teacher of Buddhism for more than twenty years, is a scholar-practitioner of philosophy and religion, focusing on Dzogchen Tibetan Buddhism and contemporary ecological theory. Adam teaches Ecopsychology and a critical style of contemplative training that seeks to avoid enclosure in neoliberal mindfulness while disclosing effortless awareness. He is part of a network of people exploring what he calls Four Fields of contemplative practices. He lives in Pittsburgh, PA with his family where he protects lands from the petrochemical industry. For more on Adam’s practices: www.releasement.org
