We’re planning the next Logopraxis Institute online retreat for February 14-16th*, 2025.
There will be a total of 9 sessions offered over the 3 or 4 days depending on your time zone*.
| Session | Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
| 1 | Gray Glenn | David Millar | Kevin Stevens |
| 2 | David Moffat | Liz Coggins | Sarah Walker |
| 3 | David Millar | Sarah Walker | Sarah & David |
FRIDAY 14TH
Session 1: Putting God At The Centre of Practice; Every Circle Has Its Own Centre (Gray Glenn)
5.30am ACT Australia
7pm UK GMT (Thursday 13th)
2pm USA EST (Thursday 13th)
9pm South Africa (Thursday 13th)
8am New Zealand
Different cultures and eras have various religious rituals and practices offered as the means to ensure a connection between man and God, nature and Spirit. Traditionally the community participated in these rituals and practices as a whole: the sought connection was between the community and the Divine. But as modern human beings it is up to each of us to find our own way to have a conscious relationship to the Divine.
You are invited to spend some time between now and the first session of the retreat reflecting on your private ways of approaching the Lord; noting, too, what states motivate these efforts. (If prompts are helpful, there are some questions below.)
In this session we will share what is comfortable to share about what we discover. At the session, you can help make a point and have fuller engagement if you can have at hand (A) seven coins of the same unit, and (B) 2 or 3 cheap, flimsy paper plates smoothed out (or a couple of 6 inch – 9 inch paper circles you have cut out as accurately as you can).
Reflection questions:
- How have I approached God directly?
- What have I done to feel connected to God?
- What have I done to connect myself when the feeling of connection to God has been absent?
- Sometimes something that is entirely separate from one’s actions will suddenly bring the feeling of connection with God. In your experience, What one word best captures that feeling?
- Do I regard feelings as an accurate indicator of my connection with God?
- What do I use as a measure for how connected I am to God?
- Why do I measure this?
Session 2: Correspondence in the Life of Buddha (David Moffat)
10.30am ACT Australia
12 midnight UK GMT (Thursday 13th)
7pm USA EST (Thursday 13th)
2am South Africa
1pm New Zealand
The science of correspondences reveals interesting insights and guidance through the process of regeneration, offering a glimpse of the Lord’s provision for all people to find their way into heavenly life. Having recently read the life of Buddha, I wanted to share that experience of viewing other religious systems of thought through a correspondence lens.
Session 3: The Life Group as a Living Being in the Human Form (David Millar)
7.30pm ACT Australia
9am UK GMT
4am USA EST
11am South Africa
10pm New Zealand
How do we view our Life Group? Is it simply a collection of individuals sharing spiritual practices, or is there something more profound at play? The Heavenly Doctrine suggests that heaven itself functions as a vast “Grand Human,” with all inhabitants contributing to a single, Divine form. In this interactive session we explore how this principle can transform our understanding of our Life Groups, encouraging us to see them as vital expressions of a collective human being, each with a unique role to play in a greater spiritual organism.
Please read and reflect on the following short article in preparation for this session.
https://logopraxis-institute.online/the-life-group-as-a-living-being-in-the-human-form/
SATURDAY 15TH
Session 4: Falling In Love -The Origin And Nature Of Evil (David Millar)
5.30am ACT Australia
7pm UK GMT (Friday 14th)
2pm USA EST (Friday 14th)
9pm South Africa (Friday 14th)
8am New Zealand
In this presentation we’ll explore a startling perspective the Word brings on understanding the origin and nature of evil, revealing its unexpected connection to our sense of self (proprium), and how we can find freedom from its influence through the practice of the Word.
Session 5: Variations on a Life Group (Liz Coggins)
10.30am ACT Australia
12 midnight UK GMT (Friday 14th)
7pm USA EST (Friday 14th)
2am South Africa
1pm New Zealand
In looking back on the year’s work, what reading and task/principle has been significant in opening you to greater understanding and application…and why? Join us as we work within the Logopraxis framework to explore these as both demonstrating universal truths and also bringing clarity through personal use in life. We will be working in Three Rounds as we do in the Life Group although given that the group might be large in number, we may not have time for everyone to share what they have brought. Likewise, if practitioners prefer to pass on speaking and to focus solely on the work of conscious listening, that is a use that can be offered to the group as well.
Session 6: The Symptomatology Of Spiritual Awakenings, Part 1 (Sarah Walker)
7.30pm ACT Australia
9am UK GMT
4am USA EST
11am South Africa
10pm New Zealand
Entering into or rather ‘waking up’ into spiritual realities is challenging – there’s a reason we call it work. Whilst it opens up many delights and wonders of the nature of the Lord and the beautiful things of heaven, it also brings with it states of enlightenment about the nature of hell, the nature of self and of what the absence of goodness and truth looks like. Although our individual circumstances and life conditions are unique – the actual processes that we go through are the same, these experiences are universal. Understanding them doesn’t alter the fact that we still need to go through them… but it DOES offer us tools to meet them with. In this session we will look at the spiritual awakening experiences as a three stage process through the lens of Swedenborg’s own accounts as recorded in his Journal of Dreams.
This Part 1 session will specifically deal with the First Stage: The Shock of Duality, a state of externals
SUNDAY 16TH
Session 7: Expository Principles as Correspondential Facilitating Spiritual Structures – a primer for regenerative praxis (Kevin Stevens)
5.30am ACT Australia
7pm UK GMT (Saturday 15th)
2pm USA EST (Saturday 15th)
9pm South Africa (Saturday 15th)
8am New Zealand
Expository principles can be viewed as a specific class in the overall language of correspondence, which support the encoding and conveyance of the Lord’s heavenly affection and meaning into the natural language of the Word. This also connects into the idea of the structured Word being functionally psychoactive in our mind when we take it up into the understanding during our regeneration. Together, we will explore these concepts and look at examples of how this “psycho-activity” is present in the natural Word and in our own mental experiences.
Session 8: The Symptomatology Of Spiritual Awakenings, Part 2 (Sarah Walker)
10.30am ACT Australia
12 midnight UK GMT (Saturday 15th)
7pm USA EST (Saturday 15th)
2am South Africa
1pm New Zealand
Entering into or rather ‘waking up’ into spiritual realities is challenging – there’s a reason we call it work. Whilst it opens up many delights and wonders of the nature of the Lord and the beautiful things of heaven, it also brings with it states of enlightenment about the nature of hell, the nature of self and of what the absence of goodness and truth looks like. Although our individual circumstances and life conditions are unique – the actual processes that we go through are the same, these experiences are universal. Understanding them doesn’t alter the fact that we still need to go through them… but it DOES offer us tools to meet them with. In this session we will look at the spiritual awakening experiences as a three stage process through the lens of Swedenborg’s own accounts as recorded in his Journal of Dreams.
A continuation of Part 1 this session will look specifically at a brief review of Stage 1: The Shock of Duality and then Stage 2: A Need to Examine More Deeply, a state of internals followed by Stage 3: The Instruction in Finding a Way Forward, a state of instruction.
Session 9: Meditation And ‘Open Cafe’ (Sarah Walker and David Millar)
7.30pm ACT Australia
9am UK GMT
4am USA EST
11am South Africa
10pm New Zealand
Join with others in a guided meditation to close the retreat. There will be an opportunity after the meditation to get together to chat, debrief and celebrate the good things the Lord has done in our midst.
To register your interest in attending Contact Us.