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Sanctuary News
Volume 16, Number 1 –
20th January, 2011
Dear Members,
e-Subscribers and other Kindred Spirits,
A belated Happy New Year to you all: and
may 2011 bring each and every one of you all you earnestly desire. One
school of philosophy says that ‘Desire’ is the prime sin of the Seven
Deadly Sins (last year I referred to the lesser ‘Slothfulness’), but
another spiritual philosophical view says that your innermost desires,
impulses and ideals are your true motivators, the essence of your being,
and that the power of your thoughts and convictions will bring your
life’s path to fruition: so go for it!
Circumstances in our physical world do not flawlessly coincide with and
facilitate our intended life path and its achievement. I recently read
an interesting piece of guidance:
“…the motivating forces of
the Universe are silent and those who move consciously with these forces
move according to motives. …Are you not aware that silent influences
working underneath the surface of your own being are those forces which
control your life more than the outwardly manifest things which you
express in words? … the very reason that you sometimes do not express
your opinions… You know as long as you are silent you have no opposition
but once you have spoken the whole thing is open to controversy. Then
again, you feel the right time comes to speak and it is all acceptable
and everyone cooperates. What moves the Universe also moves within man.
To know himself in some of these most simple things is his key to great
understanding and power [to achieve one’s your life path].” Vol.
4, Chapter 1 Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East, by
Baird T Spalding, 1948
It has been too long since our last Newsletter and a quick review of
2010 is in order. The major events for the year were Soirée and
Rendezvous Weeks plus the introduction of an Intensive Mediumship 4 days
in March. Attendances at Soirée and the Intensive were good but for the
second time in 2 years Rendezvous Week in late October drew only a
handful of starters. Nevertheless all 3 events were successful and
enjoyable, by all accounts. But the splitting of the week long events
into 4 days plus a 3 day ‘Add on’ proved meaningless as virtually all
attendees came for the full seven days. The split into 2 parts probably
only caused confusion!
One
interesting occurrence over the 2009 Rendezvous plus the 2010 Soirée and
Rendezvous Weeks has been the ‘behaviour’ of the clock/radio of the
intercom system on the wall in our kitchen/living area. Beginning
during the 2009 Rendezvous, it began making a ‘dit, ditta, dit dit’
sound on the 37 minute mark every hour, 24 hours a day even though the
radio was turned off, and at a louder volume than the radio when turned
on. This then ceased at the end of the Week! Never recurred since, and
hadn’t occurred before. Something different happened with it during
2010 Soirée (just doesn’t come to me at the moment) and then during the
2010 Rendezvous Week, it went completely on the blink! No lights, no
time, nothing; but when I got back from dropping the last registrant to
leave to the airport, it was back working normally again!!! A chance
coincidence? Or spirit friends making their presence felt? I leave it
to your opinion. Rendezvous Week 2010 also straddled Melbourne Cup Day:
a fun afternoon and both first and second places in the sweep were drawn
by Carol Tidd – by chance?
Other weekends, development classes,
Candle Lighting Christmas Circle, etc. went off at about our usual
levels: good friends gathered together with common interests and
understanding of the greater realities of spirit.
Membership at the end of the year stood
at 40, inclusive of 8 second family members. Financially, we made an
Operating Surplus of $719, out of which we have donated $500 to the
Victorian Flood Relief Fund; and this was matched with another $500
donation from the Spiritual Kinship Society Trust.
Turning now to the coming
year, please find the Calendar attached. It has taken longer than
expected to knock into shape because Audrey and I have been
crystallising our travel intentions. These are now all booked – and so
we’ve now been able to work around Audrey’s absences.
The only significant change in structure
is that Rendezvous 2011, given the poor attendances in the last 2 years,
has been reduced to a 4 day event. The main focus of each of the 3 major
events is as follows:
Mediumship Intensive, 4 days:
a boot camp for working with spirit guides and helpers and practicing
your mental and trance mediumship abilities;
Soirée Week:
understanding consciousness and developing your abilities to expand your
personal consciousness;
Rendezvous, 4 days:
trance mediumship in all its applications.
The Foundation’s Annual
General Meeting is scheduled for Tuesday 8th March, 2011
following the evening’s Development Class at 9:15pm – to ensure a quorum
– and Notice of Meeting will be attached hereto for all Foundation
Members along with a subscription renewal form [@ $20 p.a. for
individual and family membership at the same address]. Should any
e-Subscriber non members wish to join or re-join, there is a Joining fee
of $10; and this is good value for anyone contemplating attending any of
the main events (where a premium of $20 is payable by non members) or
wishing to participate in any of the Development Class activities and
accompanying occasional free evenings/afternoons for students and
healers.
I began this Newsletter a few
days ago – the wheels of progress move slowly here! – and it is now
Australia Day. So for those receiving this by email today, we hope you
are having a very happy holiday day and, despite the floods and other
catastrophes which beset us in this “sunblest land,” spare a moment or
more to give thanks for blessing that we are so fortunate to live in
this great country of liberty and opportunity.
Best wishes to you all,
Garth (and Audrey) Willey
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