the mystical hearth 🔥
Dear hearth-tender 🔥
The Mystical Hearth (www.themysticalhearth.com) is a Sunday service for pluralistic explorations of the sacred in community. It is a place to practice reverence without dogma, to re-remember who we are, and to be together in the vastness of whatever we call God, Mystery, Reality, Love. You do not need a specific belief to belong here, or any belief at all. Only a willingness to be honest, present, and open with however the sacred emerges for you and together.
The Hearth is the simplest sacred technology: a living center we tend to together. It belongs to no one, yet it warms everyone.
We tend to this center at each service through different portals:
❤️ co-creation of altar
🧘♂️ guided collective meditation
🗣️ a sacred passage and sermon offered by a teacher from rotating wisdom lineages
📚 45 mins of deep reading of a sacred text of one's choosing (however you define sacred; whether that's a physics or 1,000 year old text)
✨ reading out loud passages or poetry that have moved us during our individual reading time
This weeks guest: Sozan Michael McCord
Micahel is the current President of San Francisco Zen Center, where he’s been a resident practitioner since 2009. Michael was ordained as a Zen priest by Ryushin Paul Haller in 2014. Before coming to Zen, he worked in both the technology and financial sectors.
Please bring:
📚 one sacred text to read during sacred reading time (whatever sacred means to you!)
🥘 sacred object to add to our altar
❤️ your full presence and open heart to step into vertical time
👫 a complimentary +1 friend
💰 100% of proceeds from this event go to ritual supples, snacks and tea
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