Science and Spiritual Practices Seminar in Christ Church Cathedral; New capital funding scheme for voluntary youth organisations; Ireland to give €21 million to World Food Programme; New information booklet launched to help those bereaved through suicide
Science and Spiritual Practices Seminar in Christ Church Cathedral
Rupert Sheldrake, with the Dean of Christ Church Cathedral, present a seminar on Science and Spiritual Practices in the Chapter Room of Christ Church Cathedral on Saturday April 20 from 10.00 am to 4.00 pm.
In this workshop, Rupert Sheldrake, one of the world’s most innovative scientists, will show how the “scientific worldview” is moribund; the sciences are being constricted by assumptions that have hardened into dogmas. But science itself is now transcending the materialist philosophy, and pointing toward a new sense of a living world. The cosmos is no longer like a machine running down; it is more like a developing organism with an inherent memory, and so is our planet, Gaia.
The old idea of determinism has given way to indeterminism, chaos and complexity. The laws of nature may be more like habits. Minds may extend far beyond brains. Memories may not be stored as traces in our brains, and may not be wiped out at death. Mental causation may work from the future towards the past, while energetic causation works from the past towards the future. New experimental research points to the reality of our mental connections to the world around us.
These new paradigm shifts in the sciences shed a new light on spiritual practices like pilgrimage, ritual, prayer and the survival of bodily death. In this workshop we will explore some of these many implications.
Rupert will also speak about his own journey from scientific atheism, through Indian spirituality to a rediscovery of the Christian tradition.
Joining this discussion is the Very Reverend Dermot Dunne, Dean of Christ Church and the United Dioceses of Dublin and Glendalough.
The workshop costs €45 or €25 for students and OAPs. For further details see http://www.seminars.ie/inspirational-seminars/seminar_details.php?event_id=247
Date: 2013-04-20
Start: 10.00 am
Cost: €45 (students and OAPs €25)
Venue: The Chapter Room of Christ Church Cathedral
New capital funding scheme for voluntary youth organisations
NI Education Minister John O’Dowd has announced the opening of a new capital funding scheme for voluntary youth organisations.
A youth budget of £10million is available for capital funding projects across 2013/14 and 2014/15 to be divided between voluntary and controlled youth sectors. To be eligible to apply for funding an organisation must be:
• registered with the local education and library board; or receive funding from the Youth Council for Northern Ireland; and
• be able to demonstrate the operation of Youth Service Programmes for at least nine hours per week for a minimum of 30 weeks per annum. Grant aid can assist with the costs of refurbishing premises, improving facilities or access for people with disabilities, bringing the property up to current health, safety and fire authority standards, towards child protection measures or meeting needs of young people within Section 75 / those at greater risk of social exclusion / marginalisation.
Grant aid is available in two categories • Minor Works – Scheme costing up to a maximum of £150,000 incl VAT & fees. • Major Works – Scheme costing over £150,000 For more information and details of how to apply please visit : http://www.deni.gov.uk/index/support-and-development-2/youth-service/19_youth-youth_capital_funding_pg-2.htm
Completed applications must be returned to the Department, at the address below, no later than June 28 2013. If you require further information about the Scheme please contact: Estate Operations Team, Tel : 028 9127 9452 Email: mail@deni.gov.uk
Ireland to give €21 million to World Food Programme
The deal was signed during the opening day of a major international conference focussing on climate change, hunger and poor nutrition.
http://www.thejournal.ie/world-hunger-871111-Apr2013/
New information booklet launched to help those bereaved through suicide
The booklet, ‘Lighting the way’, contains a listing of national supports such as websites, helpline contact details along with other supports offered locally.
http://www.thejournal.ie/suicide-bereavement-booklet-870312-Apr2013/