Fujiko Signs, CSB gives a lovely 10 minute talk at Center Camp during the 2013 Burning Man festival.
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Fujiko Signs, CSB gives a lovely 10 minute talk at Center Camp during the 2013 Burning Man festival.
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Beautiful time-lapse video from 2012 Burning Man (using tilt-shift lenses) gives a lovely perspective on this vibrant city.
Timelapse-icus Maximus 2012 “A Burning Man for Ants” Tilt-Shift Time-lapse by James Cole, Byron Mason & Jason Phipps
2012
WHAT? A CS Lecture at BURNING MAN? Ridiculous. What crazies are organizing this absurd idea? Yes, BMan is a superlative, fascinating, creative Art Festival. For 4 years I’ve attended to support our son’s large theme camp, flying in his banquet food and décor. I’ve experienced some outstanding healings there, but as a devoted, active lifelong CS, I’d never condone a CS Lecture or even brief stage presentation at BMan.
WHY? True, the basic philosophy requires brotherly kindness, strict conservation, self-reliant living, banning profiteering, respecting multi-culturalism, intellectual talks, focus on dancing and symbolism of destruction of the past year’s negative events to be free for fresh, positive experience.
However, the emphasis on total freedom of lifestyle, usage of alcohol and drug abuse, and immodesty by a significant number in a city of 60,000:- it all seemed to me licentious, inappropriate, and offensive for offering pure CS.
But then, WHY NOT Go For It? Was I being impressed with evil? I knew Mrs. Eddy wrote “Why should we stand aghast at nothingness?” (S&H563:5)
WHEN? As I learned of the extremely loving, well-organized, and spiritual purpose of the lecture organizing team, the motives began to shine as so pure, so filled with spiritual light and Christly compassion to “give a cup of cold water” in the hot desert of humanity escaping from unresolved problems, I began to reach out for how I could help, though not attending.
MBE does counsel us “Never breathe an immoral atmosphere unless in an attempt to purify it” (S&H 452:14-15).What about praying (Hymn 144) “In atmosphere of Love Divine, we live and move and breathe”? What right did I have to take offense? Again, our Leader advises in “Taking Offense” (MiscWr 223-224) that we CAN go forth into the wide world of diverse cultures, opinions, ceaseless interactions with dynamic spiritual patience, magnanimity, genial temper, and charity broad enough to cover the whole world’s evil (my paraphrasing).
WHOSE RESPONSIBILITY IS THIS, ANYWAY? Are there CS radicals or CS conservatives? MBE answers (“We soil our garments with conservatism, and afterwards we must wash them clean.” MWritg 452:20) We never need be timid, since everyone loves joyful surprises you find in practicing CS…Hymn 191 addresses this situation:
“My God, my Father, make me strong when tasks of life seem hard and long… Things deemed impossible I dare ~ Thine is the call, and Thine the care”
RESULT? Had a totally different perspective, so I found a way to support all CS activity with enthusiastic prayer-watching over the lecture & other times. As we know, the fruitage was excellent with healing and great joy!
2013
Deepest gratitude for excellent team-planning, organization, choice of lecturer, — specially the shared inspiration before — a superb unfoldment of relevant, fresh, humorous ideas.
~from Tiare (BMan name)
(Tahitian Gardenia)
I was first introduced to Darren Wilson on the way to Burning Man. Nate and I were staying at my friend Jackie’s totally huge, but empty, house outside of Palo Alto with his wife and mom who only speaks Chinese.
Giant rooms with wood floors – totally empty. I remember these details because it’s on these floors that I watched the trailer for Darren’s third movie, “Father of Lights.” It changed my life.
“People are traveling around the world healing people the way Jesus did? And someone is filming it?”
I know why God showed me it then. My experience at Burning Man would be pretty similar to the content in Darren’s films.
So, as we gear up for Round 2, I brought the most recent installment in the Christian healing trilogy, Holy Ghost, to the attention of the Burning Man group.
We know that by supporting this project, we’re supporting our own. I encourage you, dear reader, to support both. This is what Christianity is all about!
Excellent write-up in the Sentinel with an interview of Julian, Tom, Michael and Susana.
The annual Burning Man festival in northern Nevada attracts all kinds of people: artists, musicians, atheists, and the religious, Wall Street executives and the self-employed. What unites the community is a commitment to free-spirited “radical self-expression,” which manifests itself in fantastic costumes and creative vehicles resembling parade floats. During the week, the gathering becomes the fourth-largest city in the state as tens of thousands of people and structures appear in the desert, vanishing a week later as attendees leave no trace they were ever there.
Although the structures vanish, attendees say their experiences at the festival stick with them. And for some, this year’s Burning Man experience included a new element: Christian Science lectures, delivered in venues devoted to spiritual healing.
Christian Science lecturer Tom McElroy traveled to the festival with three other Christian Scientists—Michael Morgan, Nate Frederick, and Julian Schwartz. Tom delivered two lectures titled “The real you—no limitations,” in both indoor and open-air venues (for more on this, see “Seekers unite at a ‘Burning Man’ festival,” Christian Science Sentinel, November 5, 2012). You can also watch a video of one of the lectures atchristianscience.com/lectures/the-real-you. The idea for holding the lecture event came from Susanna Kerber, a Christian Scientist who’d attended Burning Man for years, and was supported prayerfully and financially by Christian Science churches and church members in California, Oregon, and elsewhere.
Read the entire article: http://sentinel.christianscience.com/shared/view/2q63wukhx60?s=e
Check it out!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVU3_tFVI0I&rel=0
Watch this Christian Science lecture “The real you – no limitations” with Tom McElroy. This lecture was filmed at the Burning Man Festival in the Black Rock Desert, Nevada on August 29, 2012.
More about Tom – http://members.christianscience.com/lectures/speakers/mcelroy/
Welcome to our new site documenting our Christian Science themed camp for Burning Man.
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