Classes and Meditation

Book Club - Jesus

Classes: 4
Tuesday, February 7, 14, 21, 28
Time: 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Cost: $15 (building fee)
Prerequisite: No prerequisite
Facilitator: Nirmala Nancy Hanke
Registration: Nirmala at nirmala.hanke@gmail.com.
Please let Nirmala know by January 10 if you will be taking this class to see if the class can receive a discount through Crazy Wisdom bookstore.

Description: Join the Lighthouse Center Book Club where each month you will be able to read and discuss a different spiritual philosophy.

February book selection is:
Jesus: A Story of Enlightenment

There are no facts to tell us what happened to the young Jesus during his “lost years” between the Nativity story and the day he appears at the River Jordan, age thirty, to be baptized.  I was glad for this mystery, because it allowed me to describe an extraordinary youth who discovers, step by step, that he is the awaited Messiah.   This isn’t a fictional biography but a journey into the realm of miracles and, in the end, complete enlightenment.

It’s been a long time — perhaps as far back as Thomas Jefferson — that Americans seriously considered Jesus, not as the Son of God, but as an enlightened teacher. For me, that doesn’t rob him of his sacred stature. It puts sacredness in human terms.

I hope the reader comes away appreciating how enlightenment unfolds from promising beginnings, not full divinity.  In an age when Jesus threatens to become the exclusive property of fervent, literal-minded devotees, we have an urgent need to bring him back, not as the savior, but as a savior — one who won his own salvation before promising it to the world.

Love,
Deepak

 

Facilitator/Teacher:
Nirmala Nancy Hanke is a longtime meditator and teacher of meditation at the Lighthouse Center in Whitmore Lake. She is a psychiatrist who integrates meditation, Reiki healing, and other spiritual practices with psychotherapy.