Tuesday, April 25, 2006
PARTNERSHIP FOR SYNTHESIS DIALOGUES
The Fetzer Institute has partnered with The Association for Global New Thought.
Synthesis Dialogues II were held in Trent, Italy. The report to Fetzer on the Dialogues is titled "Grounded in Discipline, Open to Magic." The word "awakening"--the Gurdjieff variety?--is used in the report. If, in fact, this "awakening" is the Gurdjieff variety, it concerns contact with disembodied spirits.
Fetzer is closely associated with Anthoroposophy, an offshoot of Blavatsky's Theosophy. For example, the calendar for Anthroposophy in Australia listing presentations offers "Buddhism and Anthroposophy, presented by Prof. Arthur Zajonc, former program director of the Fetzer Institute and former General Secretary of the Anthroposophical Society in America. Zajonc is a member of Lindisfarne Fellows which also includes a number of other liberals.
The list of participants in Synthesis Dialogues III includes three people associated with Fetzer:
- Janis Claflin, President of Claflin Associates, a counseling and consulting firm in Austin, Texas
- James O'Dea, President, Institute for Noetic Sciences
- Dr. David Sluyter, Ed.D., Program Director, Fetzer Institute
Catholics associated with Dialogues III:
- Silvio Daneo, Co-Founder of Focolare Movement in USA, Vice President WCRP
- Cardinal Walter Kasper, President Pontifical Council for Promotion of Christian Unity
- Lisa Palmieri-Billig, Vatican Representative Anti-Defamation League
- Bro. David Steindl-Rast, OSB, Catholic monk and Lindisfarne Associate
- Bro. Wayne Teasdale, Co-director, Synthesis Dialogues, a Catholic monk with his finger in too many pies to list. He died recently.
New Agers associated with Dialogues III:
- Barbara Fields Bernstein - Executive Director, The Association for Global New Thought
- Dr. Hazel Henderson, globalist author, Lindisfarne Associate
- Dr. Elizabet Sahtouris, globalist
