Programs

  • – Donations are welcome

Date & Time Details: Saturday February 15, 2024 | 10 – 11:30am Pacific Standard Time

Contact: Janice Ariza
spiritualityctr@gmail.com
360 438-2595

Hybrid: Cinema Divina – Reality with a capital “R”

With M Freeman

February 15, 2025

Cinema Divina – Reality with a capital “R”

Lately, when it comes to the news it’s not that I look away, I don’t. But I do soften my gaze and try to notice my inner stance. What’s happening in my heart? How is Love moving in my life? Every day I find myself reflecting on a line I love by Evelyn Underhill, “Mysticism is union with Reality.” Without calling it out or footnoting, she writes it that way, Reality, with a capital “R”. She leaves its meaning up to us.

I invite you to join me in reflecting on Reality with a capital “R” through a contemplative screening of the Cinema Divina piece, Notes to Self (and for whomever this may concern) On Slowing Down. Throughout the screening process, I will guide participants into silences, reflective writing, and opportunity to share in the spirit of the deep wisdom connecting us all.

Reality with a capital “R is a free event, offered in-person and online, hosted by the Priory Spirituality Center, operated by the Benedictine Sisters at St. Placid Priory in Lacey Washington. Donations are welcomed.

– by M Freeman, marilynfreeman.com

All are welcome, longtime contemplatives as well as beginners.

Facilitator

M Freeman
Media artist, writer, spiritual director, and independent scholar, M Freeman works at the intersections of reckoning and resiliency, queerness and film, and contemplative, creative and social art practices. They are author of The Illuminated Space: A Personal Theory and Contemplative Practice of Media Art (The 3rd Thing, 2020) and creator of Cinema Divina—short films for contemplative practice. Their text and media arts essays have been published in or at The Fourth Genre, Ninth Letter, TriQuarterly, Blackbird, Rolling Stone and Abbey of the Arts. Their films are screened on PBS and in galleries, spirituality centers and festivals worldwide.  marilynfreeman.com.    
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