the mystical hearth 🔥

Sunday, Feb 22

6:00pm – 9:00pm

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Dear hearth-tender 🔥 The Mystical Hearth (www.themysticalhearth.com) is a Sunday service for seekers of the sacred across every path. 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 a collective altar· communal 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 mcdonald's menu 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. The flow: 6pm-6:15pm: 🍵 tea & snacks served, settling in 6:15pm-6:45pm: ❤️ introductions 6:45pm - 7:15pm: 🧘‍♂️ guided meditation + guest sermon + reading from Sozan Michael McCord (San Francisco Zen Center) 7:15pm-7:30pm: 👯‍♂️ deepening activity 7:30pm-8:45pm: 📚 silent reading to candlelight 8:45pm-9pm: 🕯️ closing circle Please bring: 📚 one mystical text to read during sacred reading time 🥘 [REQUIRED] one contribution: snack or sacred object to add to our altar for the duration of the ceremony ❤️ your full presence and open heart to step into vertical time Come read and roam the subtle realms with us 🐱