[Konsole-devel] Experience Festival Madras India February 9-15

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Global smorgasbord of ancient 
wisdom now offered in South India

At the 'Experience Festival' in the 'Golden City' outside Madras/Chennai in South India, February 9-15, 2003, the participants will have a unique introduction to ancient wisdom from around the globe. The intent of the festival is based on the belief that humanity in ancient times were more able to live in profound happiness, heal illnesses, develop extrasensory perception and even reach spiritual enlightenment. The Experience Festival will feature workshops within various themes of knowledge such as Ayurveda, Kabbalah, Vaastu, astrology, the Mayan calendar, Vedic Art, mysticism, enlightenment, and much more. There will also be all sorts of playful activities such as music, singing, dancing and creation of collective art. 

The Experience Festival will take place in a beautiful and serene surrounding, at the outskirts of a jungle and national park. 
During the festival, participants can choose from as many as twenty activities during one single day. There will be workshops dealing with enlightenment, pitfalls for the seeker, etc. Mysticism and how to develop mystical abilities is another subject that is likely to attract great interest. There will also be workshops about parenting and women's movement from a spiritual perspective and a range of other topics. All topics will be lead by a person coming close from the source of knowledge.
Immediately after the Experience Festival, February 17-25, the World University will start its first program of courses. The World University is an initiative of the Golden Age Foundation who is also co-creating the Experience Festival together with the founders out of Sweden. The first courses in the World University will take place during the nine days immediately after the Experience Festival, February 17-25, and in the same location. 

For more information - please see http://www.experiencefestival.com or send an email to info at experiencefestival.com.


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PRESS RELEASE FOR FREE AND IMMEDIATE PUBLICATION

Global smorgasbord of ancient 
wisdom now offered in South India

by Curt Jonsson

At the 'Experience Festival' in the 'Golden City' outside Madras/Chennai in South India, February 9-15, 2003, the participants will have a unique introduction to ancient wisdom from around the globe. The intent of the festival is based on the belief that humanity in ancient times were more able to live in profound happiness, heal illnesses, develop extrasensory perception and even reach spiritual enlightenment. The Experience Festival will feature workshops within various themes of knowledge such as mysticism, Ayurveda, Kabbalah, Vaastu, astrology, the Mayan calendar, Vedic Art, Yellow Bamboo, enlightenment, and much more. There will also be all sorts of playful activities such as music, singing, dancing and creation of collective art. Immediately after the Experience Festival, February 17-25, the World University will start its first program of courses. The World University is an initiative of the Golden Age Foundation who is also co-creating the Experience Festival together with the founders out of Sweden. 

In truth, the long-lost knowledge was never completely lost. There have always been 'isles', mostly in secluded places, where the old wisdom was preserved. Some cultures in particular stand out as guardians of these precious areas of knowledge. Egypt, the Maya people, the Native Americans, and of course India. But indigenous minority groups in all countries have held pieces of the puzzle. 
So, if the wisdom was so valuable, how could it ever be lost? And why was it at all possible to preserve it? Finally, why is it surfacing again at this time? 

Intuition no longer worked
The old disciplines of knowledge differ in one important aspect from modern science. For several hundred years or more, scientists have been very careful to separate between the inner feelings and thoughts of the mind on one side and the pure intellectual knowledge on the other. That was because they discovered that feelings and thoughts were mostly distorting - rather than enhancing - the perception of reality.
In short, the problem was that the intuitive or spiritual side of man no longer worked as it should. The solution might have been to restore this capacity. Instead the modern principle of separation and 'objectivity' was chosen. It's believed that the  reason why we can access the ancient wisdom once again is that we now have means to re-establish the spiritual contact that was lost.

A space of freedom
The Experience Festival is planned to be a recurrent event. It takes place in a beautiful and serene surrounding, at the outskirts of a jungle and national park. There, crystal-clear healing water is flowing in the creek and down the waterfalls. Sages and saints have come to this place for ages in order to meditate in the energy-filled atmosphere.
The Experience Festival provide a space of freedom and acceptance where many spiritual practices and traditions will be presented side by side. The teachers at the Festival brings the wisdom from the ancient cultures offering the opportunity for self-inquiry and new insights. 

Mysticism, Women's Lib and Living on Light
During the festival, participants can choose from as many as twenty activities during one single day. There will be workshops dealing with enlightenment and pitfalls for the seeker. Mysticism and how to develop mystical abilitites is another subject that is likely to attract great interest. Some of the workshops are lead by enlightened monks from the Golden Age Foundation. Other areas are Srishti, the science of parenting and Women's Movement in a spiritual context. 

Teachers are coming from all parts of the world to share their knowledge. 
Among the teachers are Acharya Sri Ananda Giri, Acharya Sri Samadarshini, Sri Naveen and Sri Sujayji from The Golden Age Foundation. Participants will also meet Adam-el David about The Kabbalah, Carl-Johan Calleman about The Mayan Calendar, Danny Becher about sound for healing, Paul Terrell about Yellow Bamboo balinesian mysticism, Curt Jonsson about living on light, Ragu Ananthanarayanan about Yoga, Birger Broberg about Vedic Art, Sashikala Ananth about Vaastu, Uma Mohan about womens movement, Leela Ganapathy about spiritual dance and many more


The first courses in the World University will take place during nine days immediately after the Experience Festival, February 17-25, and in the same location, in order to make it conveniant for Festival-participants to stay longer. 

The purpose of the Festival
The Experience Festival is founded by a group of people in Sweden who come together in a shared purpose of contributing to a happier world. 
The team behind the Experience Festival collaborates with the Golden Age Foundation and together they form a partnership that offer ground for an event of this magnitude to be successfully implemented.  

More information
For more information - please see http://www.experiencefestival.com or e-mail to info at experiencefestival.com. 

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