Inner Environmentality – The Heart of Environmental ConsciousnessPosted by admin on October 9th, 2009
Title: Inner Environmentality – The Heart of Environmental Consciousness
Location: Ryerson university, student centre, 55 Gould street
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Description: We have created a civilization based on limited resources that are quickly disappearing. It’s not a question of whether our resources will run out, rather the question is when will they run out. In response to this crisis we have entered into a new era of “green” businesses, “green” products, “green” economies and “green” energy. Environmental protection is now on the agenda at UN conferences and the G8 forum alike. Even Hollywood is showing signs of environmental consciousness: last year Wall-e hit the top of the box office, bringing its forward-looking narrative of ‘earth scare’ to billions of viewers worldwide.
Join us this November for an interactive workshop with Devamrita Swami. In this workshop, Devamrita Swami will explain how our lifestyle is a reflection of our consciousness—a materialistic frame of mind leads to an exploitative mentality, and thus a tendency to consume more than necessary, which ultimately leads an unsustainable lifestyle and a disturbed environment. Even if the whole world goes green, if we are unable to transform this consciousness of overconsumption, we will be faced with the same global crises again and again. We must alter this exploitative mentality.
About the speaker
Devamrita Swami is a monk, author and Yale graduate. He is the founder of Institute of Sustainability in New Zealand, and travels around the world raising environmental awareness through his workshops. He is eager to show us how to avert global environmental crises using spiritual techniques. He is an advisor on Spiritual Economics to the Russian chamber of commerce and the author of several books. This is his third annual tour of Toronto. In the past two years he has addressed over 1000 people on topics as diverse as yoga, vegetarianism, spiritual economics etc. Last year when visiting Toronto, he presented at York University, University of Toronto and several other yoga studios around downtown. Check out the past InSpirit events.
He was born 1950 in New York City. At the age of thirteen, he received a scholarship to prep school in the mountains of New Hampshire, where he studied until at seventeen, he received a scholarship to Yale University. In 1972, Devamrita Swami graduated from Yale University. At this time he came in contact with the ancient teachings of the east. He discovered that the knowledge presented in these books was the beginning of his real education. His attraction to this transcendental information was immediate and the effect profound. Ever since Devamrita Swami travels around the world constantly to fulfill invitations by prestigious universities and companies.
Currently based out of New Zealand, he is the author of several books like Searching for Vedic India, Perfect Escape, Beyond the barriers of limited science and Spiritual Greed. His strategic guidance has proved invaluable to students and professionals seeking to balance their spiritual and professional life. Main stops on his global circuit are Australia, New Zealand, the USA, South Africa, Russia, India, Argentina, Chile, the UK, Scandinavia, and Central Europe.
Start Time: 18:30
Date: 2009-11-12
End Time: 21:00
