Dear Brothers And Sisters!

Namaste Brothers and Sisters in the Light! It is my joy to offer you a possibility to start developing together the Academy of the Golden Age. The Academy’s role is to serve as connecting link for like-minded people, through which we can connect and share our ideas. My vision for the Academy is a forum for empowerment through offering a chance to all to step up and take the role of a teacher, guide and facilitator of whatever special skill they feel they want to share with others. The vision is the new, holistic and spiritual-based educational network with both a website and physical courses organized in various places. We need to overcome the limitations of the past and reunite our spiritual heritage through deeper understanding of the underlying principles in common to all spiritual movements. We will study the different aspects of our scientific western worldview and the different developmental stages it has went through. At the current moment there is a paradigm shift occurring within the scientific community, of which we however, due to structural reasons, don’t get to hear in the basic university studies, That is why we need new forums to discuss these new ideas. There is also a new tendency to find unity between east and west, matter and spirit and science and religion/spirituality. This has been foretold by several spiritual Masters, as the sign of the new Golden Age consciousness. As it is vital in this Age to overcome the dualistic separation of matter and spirit, which has manifested in the attitude, that religion need not to be understood with the intellect, we have created a schizophrenic situation, in which we have lost contact with our deeper Divine nature and the true

Science, which is not in contradiction with the eternal Divine Laws and principals. True Science encompasses also the spiritual realms of reality, and doesn’t reject any sphere of human experience as ”non-scientific”, but strives to develop new ways of understanding anomalous phenomena. Therefore aside from the academic discussion, we will aim at developing a personal, experiental connection to the Divine through meditation and spiritual music to achieve healing of the mind and heart. To further the cause of interfaith and spirituality-scientific dialogue, we will as a starting point accept all the worlds great spiritual traditions and respect them as different ways of discribing the same God, or Source. We will also admit, that the western way of knowing and the academic viewpoint is by far not the only valuable knowledge system in the world, but represents only one aspect of the whole. It can however be used as a tool to create a neutral language in order to find a common level to describe spiritual phenomena. As the problem currently is in the great variety of expressions and concepts around spiritual experiences, this can help us to understand their common foundation, and see the different traditions as word-games, to use Wittgentstein’s parable for it. We all are a part of a particular culture, and its narratives. Ours is the western scientific and Christian one, combined with the political level of them, such as the economic system etc. What we need to do, is to realize, that ours is not any better than the rest-approach, but one of many possibilities, that we can open up to explore more deeply. The more we open up to the various realities and approaches of other cultures, the more we realize their inherent value and start respecting different people and traditions. We are all here to find our mission in life and to serve the greater

cause. I therefore this dedicate this Academy for the unfolding of the Divine potential in each of us and by so doing encourage you to take a stand and contribute to this vision. We will be opening a new website for this in the near future. Please leave your contact info to Leif and we will get back to you on further details. But until then I Thank you for your support and hope this has inspired a spark in your soul to see higher, further! Love and Blessings to all! Artemis Miriam Kankare