Week 4B
THOMAS ATUM O‘KANE
The Care of the Heart
August 9th - August 14th 2010
In addition to the basic price please add
CHF 75, US$ 75, £45 or Euro 50 for this program
The state of our heart profoundly influences how we experience each moment of our life.
Mystical traditions honor the living presence of the divine within each human heart.
They also warn us how life’s demands can harden, close, numb, blind and injure our heart.
This program offers the opportunity to spend a week caring for and renewing your heart within the company of others sharing
the same practice.
The following will be experienced:
• Purifying the impressions that block and deaden the heart.
• Comforting, healing and resurrecting the wounded heart.
• Protecting the vulnerable and pure heart.
• Befriending and tending to the many layers of the heart.
• Honoring the sacred heart within us and seeking refuge in the depths of its divinity.
• Worshiping in the temple of the exhalted heart.
• Uncovering the radiance of the heart and its capacity to generate life and illuminate.
• Attuning to the hearts gifts of guidance, discernment and wisdom.
• Embracing the mystery of the heart as the meeting place of the opposites; sensitivity and power, spaciousness and intimacy,
pain and ecstasy, emptiness and overflowing, compassion and attachment, longing and mystical union, solitude and connection.
The above themes will be explored through spiritual practices and teachings from various traditions. Music, creative exercises,
movement, small group sharing and storytelling will be woven through the program.
Thomas Atum O’Kane
Thomas Atum O’Kane, PhD. has trained at the “Christian Guild for Spiritual Guidance” which concentrates on the Psychology of C.G. Jung, the vision of Teilhard de Chardin and the Practices of Christian mystics. He holds a doctorate in Transpersonal Psychology and a Masters degree in Psychological Counselling. Atum is the founder of a two-year training in Spiritual Guidance and leads seminars and trainings in Transpersonal Psychology in America, Western and Eastern Europe. He presents in his seminars a broad range of themes that integrate psychological and spiritual dimensions with the intention of making the deepest teachings accessible and relevant. Leading pilgrimages to sacred places such as Jerusalem and Assisi is a spiritual practice for him. His gift for the art of storytelling is woven through all his presentations. Atum has been a teacher in the Sufi Order International for many years and was its secretary general for twelve years. He also worked closely with Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan.