USING VISUAL IMAGES TO BETTER LIVE IN THE STREAM OF DIVINE PROVIDENCE
The focus of the workshop event will be to show how this might be done. How to really come spiritually alive experiencing ordinary situations from a perspective outside of time, place and self. For we tend to be caught up in how life appears – our own individual interpretations, our own reconstructed memories, our own misconceptions. We follow what self-intelligence sees as the appearance rather than trusting in the reality.
Participants will be focusing on the mental images one tends to use and how helpful or unhelpful they might be. For the images we have in our head have power to affect our feelings. Do they facilitate or represent blocks to spiritual states?
We can also better learn how to use images to keep in tune with the presence of the divine source. Like Swedenborg’s interpretation of the river of the water of life.
This weekend is open to everyone, whether or not you are associated with the New Church. It is suited to those interested in how to get in touch with the uplifting source of delight and satisfaction, peace and creativity that can inspire and illuminate our lives. Come along and join us and share anything you have learned from your own experiences, no matter what level of knowledge you may have of the Bible or of Swedenborg’s writings.
Leaders: Stephen and Carole Russell-Lacy
Host: David Gaffney Programme Director
Stephen Russell-Lacy is a psychologist who has worked for many years as a psychotherapist for the National Health Service. He is also an experienced worship leader; recognised by the New Church. With both of these hats on, he is interested in applying his experience and in-depth knowledge of Swedenborg to resolve issues that most of us face in our daily lives.
Carole Russell-Lacy trained as a sculptor following her visual arts education and has run a business selling her figurative fountain designs all over the UK and abroad. She is interested in sharing her appreciation of universal spiritual principles.
