Art and the Sacred - Letter from Darol

8 years, 2 months ago by hps in Special Category B

Hare Krsna,
Thank you, SIr.  If we can help or be helped in any way by your work then please let us know.  We will send general updates without a doubt. In January we will be in India for a program on the Bhagavata Purana with Ravi Gupta and scholars from all over the world that we are organizing at the University of Madras.

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On Sat, 8/27/16, Darrol Bryant <[email protected]> wrote:

 Subject: RE: HpSwami, Hello.
 
 Hi
 
 Thanks for the update...  I think often of our
 meeting in Peru...  Since returning I have been busy with
 the editing of a volume on Practices of Compassion: An
 Interfaith Exploration...  It grows out of a Conference
 initiated by the Ven Doboom Tulku that I organized in
 Hyderabad in January 2016...  And I have also completed my
 Out of Galilee: the History of Christian Thought as a Great
 Conversation.... 
 We have had a hot July and
 August, but I have just returned from a week in Northern
 Ontario communing with the water, woods, rocks, and loons
 ....  It was wonderful...  Away from phones and internet
 and just being present to this glorious creation...
 
 All the best,
 
 Darrol
 
 
 
 
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 From: HpS
 Sent: Friday, August 26, 2016 8:03 PM
 To: Beverely Zabriesky; Darrol Bryant; Radhika
 Ramana Dasa Ravi Gupta; Nitaigaurasundara das
 Subject: HpSwami, Hello.
 
 Jaya Sri Krsna!
 
 Esteemed Scholars, Friends et al,
 We are first concerned that you are all well
 and in the best of spirits. We have not heard from Jungian
 Psychology in New York or Inter-faith Dialog out of Canada
 since we parted in Peru!  We wrote to Beverely and called
 once but have not heard. Any problems?
 
 We have continued with our little efforts to
 illuminate the world while also being seduced to some degree
 by the forces of darkness in the form of too much nighttime
 orange juice and ice-cream.
 
 Ramon continues with great enthusiasm in these
 educational lines we saw blossoming in Peru. With the new
 President and his newly appointed Minister of Culture, Ramon
 may continue as Director of the National Museum for another
 five years, but in any case he has already been directly
 invited by the new President to be his Director of the
 Bi-centennial events for the anniversary of Peru's
 liberation from Colonial, political, domination. Of course,
 the question of liberation from intellectual and cultural
 domination immediately  arises and to this extent he is
 very, very open to literary or other contributions from
 Indian or other perspectives that address this issue in very
 practical ways.
 
 "Solaris" magazine is going out in
 Spanish and we are already expanding our dialog with
 Trans-personal Psychologists. We are quite advanced toward
 publishing the English edition. Our current strategy is to
 work toward a world-wide symposium in 2018 on "Art and
 the Sacred", and during 2017, smaller, effective
 dialogs with professionals in the area of "Psychology
 and the Sacred". "Solaris" would be the
 backbone of developing all this. Very personally we are
 starting to work very seriously on a book on
 "Sankhya", which is the whole cosmology of the
 Vedic wealth. We are enjoying the help of Alejandro, Miguel
 Polo  and Professor Ravi Gupta. We hope to do something
 very useful.
 
 Our heath is
 pretty good for 68-years old. Our office/Ashram was invaded
 by sometimes mean spiders while we were gone, but we seem to
 be winning that war. Our religious institution, ISKCON, is
 growing. For example, receiving a robust personal letter of
 congratulations from the new Prime Minister of England, and
 of course, along with that facing new, very serious
 challenges that are complete different from the ones that it
 originally faced as a young evangelical movement (God's
 Marines).
 
 What is your
 news?    We are based in Nashville until January 1st, then
 go for some Symposia and other work in India until third
 week of February. This October-November, we will be in a
 little tour of Chicago, Richmond, Raleigh and D.C. Any work
 we can do for you?  We would certainly like your help in
 this "Solaris" and other work!
 
 Sincerely,
 Hanmatpresaka
 Swami
 Prof. H. H. Robinson
 NIOS