The International Jin-Gang-Dhyana Association Net

Today from Cape Town, South Africa -

Monday, December 6, 1999

Presenters for the Day and their Programmes:

Maneh Hammad Al-Johani

Islam and World Peace

Barbara Altemus

The Gift of Pain: Transforming Hurt Into Healing

Christine Amory, Vedhyas Vedhyas Suteja

Aumist Meditation

Christine Amory, Vedhyas Wedana, Vedhyas Dhimat, Vedhyas Nerada, Vedhyas Mardava, Vedhyas Vishti

The Life and Work of His Holiness the Lord Hamsah Manarah, Founder of the Aumist Religion.

Karel Thomas August

The Islands of Hope Programme

Peter G. Azrak

Psychotherapy And Prayer: A Path Toward Spiritual Unity

Irvinderpal Singh Babra

Journalism and Interreligious Dialogue

Barbara Baker , Charlene Smith

Now Let's All Work To End Family Violence

Deborah Testa Bennett

Dance for Peace

Hum D. Bui, MD

A Solution for Humanity

Alison Elizabeth Cameron

Freedom From Limitations: Living with Spirit

Arlene Cameron

Spiritual Belief Systems and their Impact on the Environment

Paul Chaffee

Enhancing Trust and Vitality within and among Faith Communities

Phillip Christiansen

Becoming Your True Self: Spiritual Growth from a Bahá'í Perspective

Stephanie Clarke

Compassionate Communication: How To Enjoy Painful Messages

Nancy Coker

Reconciliation and Spiritual Renaissance

Judith M. Costello

Parenting and Spirituality

Annelie De Wet

Patriarchal Religions and Goddess Cultures: Time for a Truth Commission

Mary Krane Derr

The Raveling Back Into the Text of Her Genesis: Poetry About A Woman's Way Home to the Divine Feminine

Palanisamy I. Devan

Hindu Women Today

Abdoulaye Dieye

La Decouverte de Soi: Discovery of the Self

Margaret Donaldson

Celtic Spirituality and its Relevance to Africa

Christopher Erasmus

Introduction to Temple Beatiful

S Eshraghi

Prevention of Teenage Substance Abuse: Role of Parents from the Scientific and Bahá'í Perspective

Marty Fleetwood, Mike Maeder, Sister Margaret , Richard Johnson, Viv ian Frelix-Hart, Patricia Guthrie, Syreeta Shepherd, Gail Priestley, Beverly Liberman, Alexis Gonzales

Spiritual Values Infusing Human Service Delivery

Matthew Foster, Robert Reber

Promoting Dialogue and Education in a Grassroots Inter-religious Organization: The Long Island Multi-Faith Forum

Bina Frank

Spirituality and Service in the 21st Century – A Model for Caring

Mervyn Frost

Global Civil Society: A Framework for a Dialogue of Religions

Mahavir Raj Gelra

Relevance of Scientific Thought in Jainism

Michal Golan

Synthesizing Being and Doing- The Wholly Matrimony

John Govender

Theosophical Reflections on the Making of a Mahatma

William Bernard Gravely

Religious Traditions and Spiritualities Facing Racism and the Legacies of Racism: An Invitation to Conversation

Ethne Bertram Gray

Art and Dreamwork as Spiritual Practice

Suzanne Greenwald, Miriam Sharon

Education: Entrust the Future Forward

Nigel Hamilton

The Message in Our Time: Global Spirituality

Bob Hanson, Richard Schwartz

Syracuse USA: An Interrreligious City

Jay Heale

IBBY Builds Bridges Through Children’s Books

Anne Hope, Samkele Marrengane, Nabs Wessels

Women of Faith Working Towards Transformation in the New Millennium

ISIBANE Youth Choir

Music from Isibane

The JAINS

The Jains: Traditional Jain Raas

Heber C. Jentzsch

What is Scientology?

Carol A. Johnson

Using Our Faith Traditions and Spiritual Tools in Faith and Community Health Initiatives

Vinod Kapashi

Shrimad Rajchandra and Philosophy of Soul

Harold Kasimow

Pope John Paul II on Buddhism, Islam, and Judaism

Zeenath Kausar, Fatima Omer Naseef

Gender Relations in Islam

Rosemary Kearney

Human Consciousness and World Religions

Joseph Kilikevice, O. P.

Sacred Roots: Rediscovering the Wisdom Tradition of the Aramaic Jesus

Debra R. Kolodny

Engaging From Oneness

Satish Komal

Decolonising the Mind – the Hindu Rennaisance

Judith Kotzé

Prostitution : An Outcry for Integrating Spirituality and Sexuality

James Kraft

Responding to Philosophical Criticisms of Universal Truth Claims in the Second and Third Parliaments of the World's Religions

Phillip Sobantu Kubukeli

Traditional Medicine and Traditional Healers

Shibendu Lahiri

Kriyayoga: The Sacred Practice for Evolving and Uniting Humanity

Jay Lakhani

Science & Spirituality

Kim Le

The Five-Step Journey to Inner Peace

Kay Lindahl

The Sacred Art of Listening

Roy Little Sun

Circle of Hearts

Satsang Devotional Singing

Taban Lo Liyong

Lessons from African Traditional Religions

Dada Madhusudan

Dance - the Cosmic Way

Min McLoughlin

I Know What I Think You Mean, You Know What You Think I Mean – But what Do We Mean and how do we know?

Bhupendra Kumar Modi

Dharma University of the Sublime Values of Human Life

Selamo Molisiwa

Zion Christian Church – Sacred Prophecy as Reality

Clint Mooney

Bearing Faithful Witness: Challenging Antisemitism Within the Christian Church

Mary Manin Morrissey, Howard E. Caesar, Michael Beckwith, Richard D. Rogers, Sharon Connors, Christian Sorensen, Carol Carnes, David J. Walker

Awakened Life--Awakened World

John Morton

A Call To Forgiveness

Harlan Mueller, R. Dean Peterson

Globalization, Religious Consciousness, and Civil Society

Sayyed Musawi

Common Enemies Facing Faith Communities

Musical Unit of the Sufi School of Master Cheikh Abdoulaye Dieye

Recitation of Kassidas

Lucy Norton, Elizabeth Kotzuba

Celebrating LIfe and Its Possibilities

Michael O’Brien

Modern Psychospirituality

Natalia Alexandrovna Pecherskaya, Alexei Chernaik

Nationalism and Religion

Melissa Ellen Penn

Discovering the Four Paths of Creation Spirituality

Thembile Pepeteka

Women's Crusade Against Rape

James W. Perkinson

The Gift/Curse of "Second Sight": Exploring "Blackness" As a Shamanic Category in the Myth of White Supremacy

Melinda Perrin

Sharing First People Wisdom (The Prairyerth Experience)

Mannie Perumal

Emergence of Saivism in South Africa

Poobhalan Pillay, Anil Briglall

Indian Classical Music by South African Artists

Anthony B. Pinn

Flesh: Thoughts on the Role of the Body in African American Religions

Sigrid Quednau

Eurythmy – the Art of Movement

Richard H. Roberts

The World as "One Place": Globalization, Global Ethics and the Negotiation of Religious Difference

Rebecca (Nomanadlozi) Rogerson

People of the Light: Breaking the Barriers of Cultural, Racial and Individual Separation

Kevin Roy

A Baptist vision for religious freedom

Bhagabat C. Sahu, M.D.

Lord Jagannath: an Epitome of Cultural Synthesis

Fred Scheaffer

A World without Hate: Proposals for the New Millennium

Diana Schumacher

The 10 Principles of Sustainability on Which All Faiths Can Unite

Leonora Sefoor

Culture and Diversity

Milton Shain

The Making of South African Jewry

Kevin Sharpe

DISCOVERY

Bharat Shirur

Experience the Spirit of Success in the Workplace

Sangat Singh, MD.

Egoism: A Great Barrier Between Humans and God

Ram Jee Singh, PhD, D.Litt

Meditation: Secular in Form, Spiritual in Content

Richard Steele, Byron Steele

Introducing Quakers (Religious Society of Friends)

James Steinberg

The Tradition of Devotion to the Adept

Walking the Way IV: Five Aspects of Buddhist Practice

Ibrahim B. Syed

Organ Transplants, Genetic Engineering and Cloning: An Islamic Perspective

Tartit

Dance and Music of the Touareg Tribe

Andris Tebecis

Sukyo Mahikari: A Means of Helping to Integrate the Faiths of the World

Leslie Temple-Thurston

Awakening to the Oneness of All Things: Personal Transformation Leading to Unity Consciousness

Leslie Temple-Thurston, Christine Arundell, Brad Laughlin, Judith Baker Miller, Barbara Blackwill

We Left Our Hearts in South Africa-Building Bridges Between the U.S. and South Africa

The Themba Music Project

Brass Ensemble

Joseph Michael Thometz, Richard Hunt, Ronald Y. Nakasone, Jennifer Howe Peace, Heng Sure

A Neighborhood of World Religions: An Exploration of Collaborative Approaches to the Teaching of World Religions in a Pluralistic Society

Lisinka Ulatowska

Political Convergence in a Global World

Wopke Van Hoorn

The Common Path of Spiritual Liberation

Thamizh Thillai Koothan Veerabadren

Survival of Saivism in South Africa in the New Millennium

Martin Verhoeven

Giving By Reducing One’s Share: Toward Closing the Gap Between the Haves and Have-Nots

Rama J. Vernon

Interfaith Perspectives On Resolving Conflict in the New Millennium

Wayne A. M. Visser

Earth Spirit of Africa

Nila Vora

Microcredit: Development with Dignity

Lindsay Wakeford

Creativity within Christian Prayer: Stillness in Movement

William Walbrugh

A Citizen in the City of God

Caroline Ward

The Four Faces of Woman

Elizabeth C. Warren

Freedom of Religion in a Pluralist World

The St. Louis Steelband

Ulrike Wiethaus

Sacred Scripture, Women, and Interreligious Dialogue

Shamila Wilson

Religion and Masculinity

Michael York

Paganism: Serious Religion or Fantasy and Child's Play?

Aaron Zerah

Healing Our House: An Interfaith Truth & Reconciliation Service