Subject: New Year, new programs at Center for Creative Inquiry! 🤩

CCI News, January 2022

What's New

"Reflections of the Moon" collection has been published

For our first call for submissions to New Perspectives on Creative Inquiry, we asked our contributors to consider a passage adapted from Love of Knowledge, a book in the Time, Space, Knowledge series written by Tarthang Tulku. The passage brings our attention to sensory experience and the way we interpret and label that experience. Ignacio Ercole, Cathleen Evangelista, Michael Gray, and Birgit Viedenz contributed to the collection.

View the Collection

Submit to the "Reality Painting" collection

If reality was like a painting, would you try to enter the imaginary space of the painting, or would you pull aside the canvas to catch the painter in the act of creation?

The deadline to submit is February 28, 2022.

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Upcoming Programs in 2022

CCI is excited to share that it is increasing its program offerings for 2022! We are scheduling online drop-in classes, weekly classes, TSK and FPM retreats, and online seminars. For details, please read on; more programs will also be announced in upcoming newsletters!

Inter-Resting

FREE Contemplative Drop-In led by Adrian Roman
Weekly on Thursdays, 9 AM PST/12 PM EDT
Starts February 3, 2022

Our time will be in dialogue and experiential exercises that encourage reflection on the way we operate in our environment. We will normally have a brief welcome, a led exercise, and dialogue among the participants. Any experience is welcome.

The Self in Question

Online seminar with Jack Petranker
March 18 - 20, 2022 [NEW DATES]

Perhaps the immobility of the things that surround us
is forced upon them by our conviction that they
are themselves, and not anything else,
and by the immobility of our conceptions of them.

Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way

Our world is shaped by space, time, and knowledge. Events happen in time, the reality we know appears in space, and our ability to experience is shaped by the kinds of knowledge available to us.

Usually, we think of space, time, and knowledge as factors we cannot change—larger and more powerful than we are. But when we look with care and appreciation, we realize that space, time, and knowledge are fluid and alive. The only reason they seem so limiting is that we see them through the eyes of the self—the actor we put at the center of what we do and what we encounter, the unquestionable owner of experience.

In this program, we will call the self into question. Following a path of inquiry laid down in Rinpoche’s Love of Knowledge, we will look at the stories we use to make sense of experience, the positions we adopt that close down alternatives, and the limits we impose when we claim that knowledge is what the self knows.

Full Presence Mindfulness Annual Retreat

5-day Retreat with Ignacio Ercole and Morgan Wells
September 20 - 25, 2022

FPM is designed to open every dimension of our experience —sensations, emotions, thoughts, and how we connect with others. Its vision is to offer a new way to see the world and our place in it. It draws on the teachings of Tibetan lama Tarthang Tulku as presented in the Time, Space, Knowledge Vision.

We start with breathing and sensory exercises for grounding, then go on to look at how we shape our world through the stories we tell and live. As we learn to recognize the patterns that hold us back, we find new resources for acting on our highest values and promoting real and lasting change.

The Center for Creative Inquiry (CCI) explores alternate forms of knowledge and inquiry and their potential to bring about fundamental change at the individual, cultural, and social level.

CCI headquarters is located at the Mangalam Center in downtown Berkeley, California, USA.