To mark this year’s UN World Interfaith Harmony Week, February 2020, the Evera Foundation Inc. invites all concerned with the great issues of our time to participate in a workshop:

Reclaiming the Golden Rule for Public Life

unmasking blockages – uncovering openings

at

Evera, Centre for Renewal

Beatties Road (off Forest Street)

Trentham 

Sunday 9^th of February

12 noon -5 pm

The program includes a meditative walk in parkland, bordering on the Wombat Forest, along sites or stations dedicated to the main world-views, religious and philosophical…

-          A multicultural lunch (bring something to share, drinks provided)

-          An intercultural/multi-faith conversation on the theme, with special emphasis on our understanding of the transcendent elements in the Golden Rule: positive, the love of God or the Greater Good - and negative, confrontation of systemic power or evil that ‘drowns’ the Golden Rule out of public life.

-           Different religions and philosophies have different ways of understanding and dealing with evil, which in the current critical world situation may need to be activated and updated when confronted with worldwide systems that make every human being complicit  in ‘treating other people in ways you don’t want to be treated yourself’. What you pay for milk in the supermarket is – outside your control - underpaying  the dairy farmer who provides it…Etc. etc.

Henk Bak

Evera Foundation Inc. secretary and convener of its intercultural meditative walk project.      

 

For information and bookings: Henk Bak [email protected]. 54241702  

Contribution toward cost: $35.- , concession available.

Booking is helpful for preparing the venue and for notification of changes. 

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Henk Bak Hist.Drs. Nijmegen nl

After retiring as senior lecturer, Monash University, in 1996, and after teaching since 1959 at high schools, teacher training in the Netherlands, and since 1978 CAE and UNI in Melbourne, I continued in Trentham a ‘Religious Conversations’ project that I had convened at the Caulfield Campus (1994-6). I was born in in the Netherlands 1931 and studied philosophy, theology, and history at the Catholic University  now Radboud University, Nijmegen, where in 1964 I formulated the theme of an interdisciplinary/international conference as ‘Ecumene of Cultures’. Emphasis on diverse spiritual and cultural contexts of history in general and of craft, design and art in particular has informed my studies and teaching over more than 50 years. The meditative walk project from 2007 onwards has focused on the Golden Rule and on how different cultures and religions/philosophies have expressed this rule in their own way, revealing a variety of practical applications and so on.