On the first weekend of many months, during the school year,the interfaith Chaplaincy Institute of Maine (ChIME) hosts workshops which are free of charge for its enrolled students and are often open to the public at a cost of $60 per day (pre-registration required).
ChIME student-led worship services are also held in Maine on the third Sunday of each month, and in Massachusetts on the fourth Sunday of most months.
The public is always welcome to these services. Additional ChIME events are scheduled as spirit leads. Please contact ChIME for more info on any of these events or to register: chimeadmin@gmail.com (207) 347-6740
Saturday, November 1st
Shamanism
with Rev. Dory Cote
November 1, 2008 - Shamanism Workshop
Shamanic healer Dory Cote will help us to explore the ancient art of shamanism and its applications in modern society and to have the experience of going on more than one shamanic journey during the course of the day.
Cost: $60.00
Pre resigration is required as space is limited. Contact Angie Arndt Administrator at 207-347-6740 or chimeadmin@gmail.com
Sunday, November 2nd
Naive American Pipe Ceremony
with Rev.Teresa Amato
Sunday, November 2nd – From Native American tradition: “Living in a Sacred Manner Upon this Earth: a Sharing of Teachings and Traditional Sacred Pipe Ceremony”
Teresa (Terry) Amato will offer this workshop on the Traditional Pipe Ceremony.
“I am grateful to those who came before us, and with devotion, sacrifice and immense kindness have offered these teaching to us. I am happy to share this most holy ceremony with you.”
Cost: $60.00
Pre resigration is required as space is limited. Contact Angie Arndt Administrator at 207-347-6740 or chimeadmin@gmail.com
with Rev.
On the first weekend of each month the interfaith Chaplaincy Institute of Maine (ChIME) hosts workshops which are free of charge for its enrolled students and are often open to the public at a cost of $60 per day (pre-registration required).
ChIME student-led worship services are held in Maine on the third Sunday of each month, and in Massachusetts on the fourth Sunday of most months.
The public is always welcome to these services. Additional ChIME events are scheduled as spirit leads. Please contact ChIME for more info on any of these events or to register: chimeadmin@gmail.com (207) 347-6740
“Awaiting you underneath everything is the Great Silence, ocean of oceans, galaxy of galaxies, where you've come from, where you'll return; your true home, the Great Silence.” —Rev. Jacob Watson
Massachusetts Campus
To make the ChIME program more accessible for those living in Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire, an alternate Massachusetts site, in the Newburyport area, is available for weekly classes of the program, under the guidance of Rev. Joel Grossman. Students attend the once-monthly workshops in Portland, Maine.
The Interfaith Tradition
Following the Transcendentalists’ interest in Eastern mystics in the 1800s, and inspired by one of them, Sri Ramakrishna, the Parliament of World Religions was held in Chicago in 1893. Sri Ramakrishna envisioned a new planetary civilization in which all faiths would be honored as complementary and distinct paths to God, spirit or the divine.
Organized by Charles Bonney of the Swedenborgian Church, the Rev. John Barrows, Swami Vivekananda and the Unitarians and Universalists of the Free Religious Association, the Parliament of World Religions was the birthplace of the modern interfaith movement. The first major interfaith conference in recorded history, it was described as the dawn of interfaith dialogue. Building on the accomplishments of the Parliament, a group of interfaith pioneers led by Rabbi Joseph Gelberman, Sri Satchidananda and Brother David Steidl-Rast created the New Seminary in New York in 1981.