Please join us for the Montague May Festival for music, dance, singing, weaving of the Maypole on the Montague Center Commons and then more celebration at the Somers’ Home for verse, feasting, conviviality and song featuring the Spirit Song Singers. Please click on link below for address and further information.

Beatrice Birch, co-founder of Inner Fire will discuss and unfold for us their unique mission and vision. Inner Fire is a proactive healing community offering striving individuals the choice to recover from debilitating and traumatic life challenges and strengthen themselves on a physical and deeper soul spiritual level while tapering off ( or to an appropriate level) of the mind-altering psychotropic medications.

Presenting an ensemble theater piece based on the true stories of people who have reported near death experiences. The stories follow a travel journey narrative starting with the “moment of death” when the characters have been declared clinically dead or experienced a medical crisis that brought them to the edge of death. This leads to a crossing of the veil between life and death where they had profound experiences and visions of life in the post-mortem realms. The journey concludes with a return to physical life and the challenges of sharing the experience with others and integrating it into their lives.

As polarization, violent conflict, threats to democracy and mass displacement are on the rise across the world, many of us are asking how we might come to a deeper understanding of the particular moment in which we are living. What are the more veiled dynamics at play today? Some of us, as well, may be asking ourselves how to be a force for the good through inner work and outer deeds.

Our gathering will focus on these themes, seeking to share our varied spiritual and practical insights, and through listening to be enriched by one another, which may, in turn, inspire each of us to take action individually or with others.

Come join us to celebrate the warmth of our community in the deepening darkness of winter.

Join us to light a candle and walk or observe the journey through the spiral of lights.

With quiet and reverence, in community we will cultivate our own inner glow and warmth during the darkening and colder winter season.

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Olivia Stokes Dreier, former Executive Director of the Karuna Center for Peacebuilding, will address the potential for the field of peacebuilding to address the dangerous rise of polarization in the US and around the globe.

The All-Souls Celebration is intended as an opportunity to quietly reflect on the passage from the sun-imbued summer into the darker, more inward time of year. It is an evening to gather our thoughts of those who have crossed the threshold, and to light a candle in their memory.

Join Jim Ritchie in exploring some of the many ways that Anthroposophy has in-formed, as a formative force, how social scientists are mapping a strategic way forward for communities, organizations, and networks to embrace the flourishing of whole-human well-being.

Michaelmas Festival. Please join us as—together—we carry the warmth and light of summer inward and into autumn. There will be verse, song, festivities, shared food, and community.