September 2005 Event
Spiritual Autobiography: Living the Story
with Philip Damon
Spiritual Autobiography: Living the Story
with Philip Damon
When: Thursday, September 8, 2005
Where: WECU Educational Building
Time: 7-9:30. Doors open at 6:45
Where: WECU Educational Building
Time: 7-9:30. Doors open at 6:45
Join us to hear Philip Damon talk about his Living the Story Workshop. “Living the Story can be thought of as a philosophical method, combining the core ideas of all sacred traditions with the classical principles of literary narrative. Together, the approach toward narrative journal writing we practice in the workshop (LSW) plus a universal, 'perennial-wisdom' view of the purpose of individual life, constitute a new kind of autobiographical mindfulness. The growth-purpose behind our story’s events is thus the inescapable path of inner transformation, a path we share with the most secular of literary heroes and the most profane of flesh and blood personalities.”
Philip Damon spent 34 years on the English faculty of the University of Hawaii, where he taught creative writing workshops and courses in spirituality, such as Mysticism in Literature, Man and God, and The Heroic Venture. He is an ordained minister, a “certified channel,” and has followed numerous mystic, holistic and artistic paths. His column, “Dancing on the Brink,” appears monthly in Organic Press, and his biannual seven-week workshop, Living the Story, begins its fall season on October 8 (cost $100) at Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship. For further information he can be reached at 738-9337.
