With

Robert Sardello, Ph.D. and Cheryl Sanders-Sardello, Ph.D.

Since the Sophia Conference last August, the world’s financial system has gone into crisis. We are facing not merely a recession but the failure of an economic model rooted in fear and self-interest and lacking a soul connection to the larger world. However, the financial crisis also indicates an intensification of the presence of Sophia, bringing simultaneously a catharsis and an initiation of new capacities of consciousness, including openness to that which is coming toward us from the future and an awakening of heart consciousness.

For those who have not worked with the School of Spiritual Psychology, this soul retreat will provide an opportunity to enter into the work and community of Spiritual Psychology. For those already familiar with the School, this will introduce an important part of the work. For those who attended the Sophia conference, this soul retreat is an opportunity to continue work we began there together and to meet other individuals who are also part of this community of discourse and transformation.

This soul retreat will focus on how we may be present to a new money consciousness. We will:

• Enter into the original, prototypal Feminine experience of money as medium rather than as commodity.

• Work with images of the Great Mother, Isis, Sophia, and in particular the Black Madonna, as enduring, hidden, repressed presences of the soul of money.

• Develop inner contemplative practices so that we stay out of the archetypes of consensus money and stay within the work of money as a soul-connecting medium.

• Distinguish between the individual and the collective aspects of money in order to enter into the spirituality of money while being aware of the way money has become disconnected from its spiritual source.

• Find our way into the mystery of money and out of our greed and fear of scarcity.

• Re-visit the spiritual intentions of the Templars concerning money: to see how their work with it is now working within the world.

• Explore the possibility of developing a spiritual complement to currency that is for our own time.

Location

The retreat will be held at the very beautiful Marsh House Retreat Center on Whidbey Island, which can be reached by ferry from Seattle, Washington.

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