upaya zen center

Lindisfarne Fellows Benefit Evening saturday, august 2, 2008

schedule of events i 6:30pm – 7:30pm Begins with buffet, gourmet, vegetarian dinner at 6:30pm (Riverhouse) i 7:30pm – 9:00pm Followed by an evening of dialogue and immersion into the dynamic ideas and creativity of the Fellows. Featuring readings from American poets: Jane Hirschfield Wendell Berry

Following will be an open dialogue as the fellows discuss their work and what’s going on.

$500.00 donation to Prajna Mountain Buddhist Order RSVP by Monday, July 28, 2008 – attendance is strictly limited to the first 20 signups. Please e-mail [email protected] or call 985-8518 X12 to confirm your spot at this phenomenal gathering.

biographies ralph abraham, a mathematician, jane hirshfield, is an award james parks morton, founder is Director of the Visual Mathematics Insti- winning American poet whose work has and president of The Interfaith Center of tute, Santa Cruz, California and has been been published in The New Yorker, Atlantic New York (1997), was for 25 years Dean involved in the research frontier and the de- Monthly, The Nation, the Los Angeles Times, of the Episcopal Cathedral of St. John velopment of dynamical systems theory. He and multiple volumes of The Best American the Divine. has been a consultant on chaos theory and Poetry and Pushcart Prize anthologies. its applications in numerous fields, such as dulce murphy, Director, Esalen medical physiology, ecology, mathematical Institute-Russian Exchange Program, San vivienne hull, is a writer, speaker, economics, and psychotherapy. Francisco, Calif. and teacher of Celtic culture and spiritual- david abram, is an American cultur- ity, and is Co-founder, Whidbey Institute, david orr, is a Professor of Environ- al ecologist, philosopher, and performance Whidbey Island, Washington mental Studies and is best known for his artist, best known for his work bridging the pioneering work on environmental literacy philosophical tradition of phenomenology stuart kauffman, is an American in higher education and his recent work in with environmental and ecological issues. theoretical biologist and complex systems ecological design. He is the founder and creative director of researcher concerned with the origin of life the Alliance for Wild Ethics (AWE). on Earth. He argues that the complexity dorion sagan, is an American of biological systems and organisms might science writer. He has written and co-au- lois cammack bateson, is a result as much from self-organization and thored many books on evolution, most re- Psychotherapist and as wife of the late Gregory far-from-equilibrium dynamics as from cently Into the Cool, co-authored with Eric Bateson, has been working to preserve her hus- Darwinian natural selection, and proposed D.Schneider, on the subject of non-equilib- band’s intellectual legacy for future generations. the first models of Boolean networks. He is rium thermodynamics. the Director of the Center for Biocomplex- mary catherine bateson, is ity and Informatics, University of Calgary, david spangler, is an American a cultural anthropologist, professor, fellow Alberta, Canada. spiritual philosopher and self-described of the International Leadership Forum and “practical mystic” who was instrumental in president of the Institute for Intercultural tim kennedy, is a molecular biolo- helping establish Findhorn in northern Scot- Studies in New York. gist and professor of neuroscience whose land and is considered one of the founding studies are aimed at identifying a molecular figures of the modern New Age movement. wendell berry, is an American mechanism that regulates the reorganization man of letters, academic, cultural and eco- of synaptic networks in the adult brain. rebecca todd, is a Dancer, Cho- nomic critic, poet and farmer. He is a pro- reographer and Cognitive Scientist at the lific author of novels, short stories, poems, amory lovins is Chairman and Chief University of Toronto. and essays. Scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute, a MacArthur Fellowship recipient (1993), and evan thompson, is an author and david finkelstein, is a physicist, author and co-author of many books on re- Professor of Philosophy at University of To- whose work concentrates on the relation be- newable energy and energy efficiency. ronto and an active contributor and faculty tween logic and physics, and quantum ana- member of the Mind and Life Institute. logues of classical mathematical structures. julie mankiewicz, is a Biologist and Director of Research and Education at the Gaia william irwin thompson, joan halifax, Roshi, is an anthro- Institute, Paul Mankiewicz, is a Biologist, and is known primarily as a social philosopher pologist, social activist, author and Abbot of Executive Director of the Gaia Institute. and cultural critic, but has recently been Upaya Zen Center. She is recognized as a writing mostly poetry. He is the Founder of pioneer in the area of Compassionate Care lynn margulis, is a Professor of Bi- the Lindisfarne Fellowship. of the Dying. ology, and a proponent and co-developer of the modern Gaia hypothesis. arthur zajonc is a Professor of cornelia hesse-honegger, Physics whose research has included studies is a scientific illustrator and science artist robert mcdermott, is a Profes- in parity violation in atoms, the experimen- from Zurich, Switzerland whose work is an sor of Philosophy and Religion at the Cali- tal foundations of quantum physics, and the interface between art and science; it plays wit- fornia Institute of Integral Studies. relationship between sciences, the humani- ness to a beautiful but endangered nature. ties and meditation. saul mendlovitz, is Dag Ham- marskjöld Professor of Peace and World Or- der Studies Emeritus and Codirector, Glob- al Legal Studies. He is founding member of Global Action to Prevent War.

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