{"id":1707,"date":"2014-12-04T16:18:59","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T21:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/?p=1707"},"modified":"2024-06-20T15:42:07","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T15:42:07","slug":"rosemary-hurwitz-on-the-awakened-world-conference-and-interfaith-dialogue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/?p=1707","title":{"rendered":"Rosemary Hurwitz on the Awakened World Conference and Interfaith Dialogue"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rosemary Hurwitz, 2004\u00a0IPS alumna, wrote about her experience<\/span>\u00a0at the Awakened World 2012 conference\u00a0in Italy. She discusses the interfaith dialogue that occurred between\u00a0lay and religious teachers and authors in many faith traditions.<\/p>\n

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The AWAKENED WORLD 2012 CONFERENCE<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0OCTOBER 13-22<\/p>\n

The convening organizations of this experience were:
\nThe Association for Global New Thought<\/strong>;
\nMichael Beckwith, Barbara Fields, CA
\nThe International Interreligious Peace Council;
\n<\/strong>Jim Kenney, Chicago, IL
\nThe Interreligious Engagement Project;<\/strong><\/p>\n

There were approximately 250 people (4 buses) from all around the world who attended this conference. Representatives, including educators, authors and people from several walks of life from South Africa, Africa, USA, India, China, Japan, and Europe, Israel, Italy spent five days together near Rome at Mondomigliore Spiritual Retreat Center in Rocca de Pappa, Italy.\u00a0 Three days were spent in the Florence, Italy area at the Hilton Florence Metropole Hotel.\u00a0 There were press conferences held in both the city halls of Rome and Florence.<\/p>\n

The structure of the conference was set up with large group Plenary in the morning, which identified our topics and mutual calls to action.\u00a0 We then broke into smaller groups with interfaith dialogue facilitated by core leaders and assistants.<\/p>\n

The most powerful part of the experience was simply sharing in a global commons of oneness with all of these people from different cultures and faiths; Buddhists, Muslims, Jews and Christians represented and in the large plenary and the small groups which reported back to the large group on our mission and calls to action on the following domains;<\/p>\n

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  1. Reconciling With the Other<\/li>\n
  2. Embracing the Earth<\/li>\n
  3. Transforming Society<\/li>\n
  4. Rediscovering the Sacred<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    It will not surprise you to hear many of us wanted the same things, peace, social justice and clean air.\u00a0 We enjoyed stimulating dialogue and learned more of the Global Commons.\u00a0 We had a camaraderie that was beyond anything I have ever experienced.<\/p>\n

    We have a follow up web page and many of us would like to continue to work with specific calls to action on the above domains listed.<\/p>\n

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    Connect with Rosemary at <\/em>rosepetalmusic@aol.com<\/em><\/a>\u00a0or at <\/em>www.spiritdrivenliving.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    Join the conversation by\u00a0following\u00a0@BrianSchmisek<\/a>\u00a0on Twitter and @LoyolaIPS on Instagram! Also, network with the\u00a0Loyola Chicago IPS<\/a>\u00a0community on LinkedIn.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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