https://www.becomingme.com/deeper-thinks daily 0.75 2022-12-01 https://www.becomingme.com/deeper-thinks/names-for-the-nameless monthly 0.5 2020-07-27 https://www.becomingme.com/deeper-thinks/the-cosmic-play monthly 0.5 2020-07-27 https://www.becomingme.com/deeper-thinks/timeless-wisdom monthly 0.5 2020-07-31 https://www.becomingme.com/song daily 0.75 2020-06-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e92f4507248252d9bdac3d1/1588390849870-IRLLDAIJWXPFLAX949TL/stefana.jpg The Song - The story of the song Rev. Linda A. Morrow spencer chose the book Becoming Me as the focus for a "family day" at her church, unity of Santa Barbara. she asked singer/songwriter Stefana Dadas, a member of unity, to create a song especially for this day. Stefana worked with unity's youth group to devise Becoming Me, which they performed together for the congregation in August 2004. While the song's lyrics are different from the book, both share the themes of love, creation, oneness, greatness and becoming ourselves. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e92f4507248252d9bdac3d1/1588391452550-N3NW26RI8H1KNV8E32K0/stefana2.jpg The Song Children of Unity Santa Barbara performing "Becoming Me" at the cd launch with Stefana. Photos: Jim Steinfeldt https://www.becomingme.com/contact daily 0.75 2024-06-19 https://www.becomingme.com/events daily 0.75 2023-07-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e92f4507248252d9bdac3d1/1588911376993-WL0RYHXNGFI3TEEXGMMJ/15.jpg Events - The Play of Spirit Lecture Duration 1 hour Ideal for conferences, interfaith gatherings, festivals, training for caregivers, teachers, clergy, therapists. Explore the timeless wisdom of different spiritual traditions, plus the modern insights of transpersonal psychology. This lecture covers the entire journey of cosmic creation, from spirit to matter and back again, using Chris Gilvan-Cartwright's breathtaking paintings as a backdrop for contemplation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e92f4507248252d9bdac3d1/1590468656418-77PHC9XYPXKX87JGXQ8U/painting-sq-02.jpg Events - In the Beginning Was the Hum Experiential Keynote (group toning, slides, music) Duration 20 minutes Ideal for when your conference needs a big-hearted uplift for mind, body, and soul. Physicists and mystics agree: the universe is humming. In this presentation, Marty leads your group in the vibrational chanting that gave birth to his mystical creation story, Becoming Me, and we perform the story together, giving you a tune-up for body and soul. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e92f4507248252d9bdac3d1/9d3d03c4-6dbf-4434-822f-0fd0ead9a0ab/Chris+Cartwright+0002+-+tall2.jpg Events - The Interfaith Mystic Seminar/Workshop (lecture, discussion, meditation, exercises) Duration 3 hours - 2 days Ideal for conference breakouts (or as a stand-alone workshop). Suits caregivers, teachers, clergy, therapists. What do all religions have in common? How do find real common ground with people of different traditions? What do our own experiences teach us about the underlying mystical order of the universe. And what are we really here for? This seminar uses the story of Becoming Me as a means to develop profound, personal interfaith understanding. Marty draws on ideas, stories, and poetry from different faiths to illuminate the deeper meaning of each short phrase in Becoming Me, while one of Chris Gilvan-Cartwright's images is projected as a focus for contemplation. Participants are invited to share their own experiences, stories, and poems, and their understanding of their own tradition. This is an expereince of what Marty calls “philsophy from the heart” — we are exploring profound ideas but in a way that is deeply connected to personal experience and deep listening. Moving through the story in this collaborative way, we develop a personal understanding of the common themes of different faiths. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e92f4507248252d9bdac3d1/1588913298461-8NFIESCSLL0P6OMZJK6E/06.jpg Events - The Cosmic Playpen™ Workshop/Retreat Duration 1 - 5 days Offered as a stand-alone retreat This is an experiential 'plunge' into the process of cosmic play. Through chanting, breathwork, bodywork, theatre games, laughter yoga, philosophy, and clowning we explore how all of creation is the play of consciousness. This powerful retreat helps you appreciate directly how all aspects of life--joy and sadness, success and failure, spiritual heights and personal depths--are all part of this play, and find the freedom that comes from letting go. https://www.becomingme.com/about daily 0.75 2022-12-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e92f4507248252d9bdac3d1/1597492566998-9G08P84I0C49LSRZQH92/Martin+Boroson+Headshot+-+hi+res+square.jpg About - About the Author Author Martin Boroson has been working for many years to develop a modern, multicultural understanding of spirituality that unites head and heart, theory and practice. Born in New York, Martin Boroson studied Western philosophy at Yale, followed by private study of Eastern philosophy and the work of C.G. Jung. He earned an MBA from the Yale School of Management, and trained in transpersonal psychology with Dr. Stanislav Grof. He is a leadership coach, a faculty member of Mobius Executive Leadership, and founder of the One-Moment Company. He was recently ordained as a Zen priest in the Hollow Bones Rinzai Zen order. He is the creator of One-Moment Meditation and the author of One-Moment Meditation: Stillness for People on the Go. martinboroson.com onemomentcompany.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e92f4507248252d9bdac3d1/1597493227126-4FWFJV6UPWTQ3MK7GN5G/chris-gc-image.jpg About - About the Painter Chris Gilvan-Cartwright is a graduate from Central Saint Martins (BaHons first class), Academy Fine Art Cracow Poland ( Painting under Prof. Nowosielski) and Turps Art School. He won the Royal Overseas league Travel scholarship where he painted in India and Nepal. On his return he was commissioned to design the BBC Proms logos for two seasons. In 2019 he was artist in residence at Glyndebourne Opera House and was selected for Bloomberg New Contemporaries. He has exhibited widely and performed as The Baron Gilvan at the Towner Museum of Contemporary Art and Hastings Contemporary. Visit his website Insta: thebarongilvan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e92f4507248252d9bdac3d1/6c85135f-7259-4552-935f-5116c22a95df/3D+Book+Cover+2.png About https://www.becomingme.com/home daily 1.0 2024-06-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e92f4507248252d9bdac3d1/2f7dbda9-a8f3-46a4-b780-fbf893f0706e/book-cover-stack.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e92f4507248252d9bdac3d1/1602634651557-TBQE8KBARJO4TLEP24U0/22-yellow-man-tall.png Home - I have performed Becoming Me (with music)) at interfaith, environmental, and healthcare conferences, and teach seminars on its deeper philosophy. It has been the subject of religioius sermons and Sunday School classes, and it has been given as gifts for weddings and confirmations, to console people grieving, and best of all, to welcome babies into the world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e92f4507248252d9bdac3d1/8da7e5e7-ba0d-4037-92d6-85dd1f6ff030/Chris+Cartwright+0002.jpg Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e92f4507248252d9bdac3d1/1602634604425-NMMFDEF9N8BSX1H0FWVI/21_yellow_baby.png Home - I brushed this idea aside, assuming it was too complex for children, too childlike for adults, too spiritual for atheists, and too unconventional for religious. Then one day, years later, I could no longer resist it. I listened again, teased out the rest of the story and, within one week of finishing it, had found a publisher and was introduced to Christopher Gilvan-Cartwright, a marvelous painter who had been working on similar themes. Becoming Me was born. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e92f4507248252d9bdac3d1/1596607300204-8TRBZ4UCTG7D3SRFJNZL/home-02.png Home - And then, this little phrase appeared in my mind: Once upon a time, I was. And with that came a radical idea: to express the mystical view of creation—the cosmic play—in the form of a children’s book. Becoming Me was conceived. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e92f4507248252d9bdac3d1/1596607635780-OGI7W0LUTRM3VTNHCQNX/home-04.png Home - The response to Becoming Me took me by surprise. It has been endorsed by scientists, psychologists, and leaders of many faiths. It has been featured by the secular Philosophy for Children program and taught on the official Religious Education curriculum in UK schools. Rather than seeming odd, it seems familiar. It is loved by children and adults. And people from vastly different traditions say it reminds them of what they know, deep down, to be true. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e92f4507248252d9bdac3d1/dea05e4b-6bb1-4969-b399-d6439a723318/3D+Book+Cover+2.png Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e92f4507248252d9bdac3d1/1596607809645-6A1RZRN91L7Z362X2QGE/home-06.png Home - I hope Becoming Me will remind you of some essential truths: that we are not separate, that we are held in love, and indeed, we are love. And that life—no matter how difficult it may seem—is always an opportunity for play, discovery, and wonder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e92f4507248252d9bdac3d1/1589485989091-E43EWSGBL7Z0E4STTND9/03-rock.png Home - One day, while meditating, I heard a faint, otherworldly sound, as if coming from deep within me. As I focused on this sound, it carried me far beyond myself until there was only awareness—awareness so vast that it embraced everything. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e92f4507248252d9bdac3d1/7aa0c400-db91-4e3a-8f08-30fe4c6f01d1/testimonial-01.jpg Home - The simplest and sweetest way to remind us that the divine is shining in us all the time and that "we" are ultimately, "me." Jack Kornfield Buddhist teacher Author of A Path with Heart https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e92f4507248252d9bdac3d1/d71ad01f-eabd-42b9-843d-9a238ce95c08/testimonial-03.jpg Home - Becoming Me undoubtedly captures the emerging spirit of the 21st century. Ervin Laszlo Science Advisor to the Director General of UNESCO https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e92f4507248252d9bdac3d1/7d71655f-3a90-4ebc-a976-b1734a781ec6/testimonial-02.jpg Home - The paintings are wonderful, the text so seminal. I can spend a lot of time with it. Dom Basil Pennington, OCSO Author of Centering Prayer and Finding Grace at the Center https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e92f4507248252d9bdac3d1/2c0c570e-14fa-4574-8c8f-7e4aca4e4678/testimonial-07.jpg Home - This compelling book bridges science and spirituality in ways that honor Einstein’s insight that there is really no separation between science and mysticism. Angeles Arrien, Anthropologist Author of The Fourfold Way https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e92f4507248252d9bdac3d1/ae1e363a-83c6-45db-ba92-979cde74138e/testimonial-06.jpg Home - Becoming Me goes a long way to breaking down the barriers of religious and cultural differences, allowing us to see that we are in fact "one." Baroness (Floella) Benjamin Writer, Producer, Actor, Politician https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e92f4507248252d9bdac3d1/60d59948-b417-46e8-b10a-d35bbfa2e0ca/testimonial-09.jpg Home - A simple, charming, and profound story of god's moving and changing presence in our world. A valuable steppingstone for intergenerational conversations about god and creation. Rev. Nancy E. Kannair St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, Belmont, MA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e92f4507248252d9bdac3d1/41f08861-03af-401b-8008-ed97d1c2c740/testimonial-05.jpg Home - We have as a resource for transforming consciousness the many profound ideas, so important, of transpersonal psychologists and other scholars. But with Becoming Me we find an essential ingredient to so much serious work-the light touch and magic of the childlike. Brian Swimme, Cosmologist Author of The Universe Story https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e92f4507248252d9bdac3d1/47ee19ce-e47c-40ac-8d3f-e029e7b622d7/testimonial-04.jpg Home - This is a wonderful book. Combining deep personal experience and creative imagination, Martin Boroson has succeeded in conveying in a simple and easily understandable form the wisdom of the perennial spiritual teachings concerning the creation of the world we live in and our own nature. Stanislav Grof, M.D. Author of The Cosmic Game https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e92f4507248252d9bdac3d1/600c10e0-44ed-4833-8f76-effb7bf6f23a/testimonial-08.jpg Home - A mystical midrash about the interconnectedness of all life, about the god in us and the us in god. 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