Month

Date

Subject, Brief Description and Speaker

February

Friday 8^th

Across the Universe: What exactly is all this?
Reviews Swedenborg's cosmology and other sources to show that the vastness of space is a theatre of the great action of divine creation in which everything demonstrates and manifests the meaning and purpose of life plus our own individual part in it.
Julian Duckworth is the Minister of the New Church in Roseville and also a member of the Swedenborg Association of Australia Committee.

April

Friday 11^th

Kwan Yin - Bodhisattva of Compassion ('Goddess of Mercy") Examines the importance of Kwan Yin in the spiritual lives of millions of people and how we might incorporate this figure into our own spiritual practice.
Walter Mason is Secretary of the Swedenborg Association of Australia. He has a Buddhist background and travelled extensively visiting Buddhist communities.

June

Friday 13^th

Energetics of Healing. Presents various aspects of the dynamic processes and interactions between the various levels of our complex being that are involved in healing.
Martine Negro has been a Senior lecturer in the Shiatsu and Energetic Healing faculties at Nature Care College since 1984. She holds a number of qualifications in other alternative treatments and has been in practice for 25 years.

August

Friday 1^st

Navigating Our Spiritual Development: Swedenborg's Writings as Compass & Map. Explores Swedenborg's concrete description of the process of awakening from death in terms of the fluidity of our own experience of awakening to spiritual life while in the world.
David Millar is the Minister of Swedenborg Church in Adelaide and Director of Spiritual Training, Australian New Church College.

October

Friday 17^th

The Chemistry of Love & Wisdom. Takes a look at our world in which we find much evidence of order and cooperation. Does what we discover "out there" reflect spiritual patterns?
Joe Vandermeer is President of the Swedenborg Association of Australia. He constantly and keenly searches for new areas in which to apply spiritual ideas.