WORKING THROUGH ANCESTRAL KARMA
We inherit more than our DNA from family—we gain habitual patterns, particular ways of relating to money and time, and perhaps even ancestral karma. Join leadership coach and author Hylke Faber in conversation with Buddhist teacher Miles Neale as they discuss how a relationship with our authentic nature can transcend our sometimes wonderful and sometimes messy inheritance.
Hylke’s family have been farmers in the northern part of the Netherlands for generations. He argues that part of what connects us back to our authentic state is the memory that our ancestors lived with a deep connection to nature. We can further reclaim our true nature by seeing through our fear-driven conditioning, which Hylke calls our “crocodiles” in his recent book Taming Your Crocodiles: Unlearn Fear & Become a True Leader. Miles argues that what we do now has been influenced by the past but will also affect the future, on an individual, societal, and environmental level. Learn to work through family karma from a place of genuine connection by joining these two great teachers for one fantastic night.
A book signing featuring Hylke Faber’s Taming Your Crocodiles: Unlearn Fear & Become a True Leader and Miles Neale’s Gradual Awakening: The Tibetan Buddhist Path of Becoming Fully Human will follow the program.
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KARMA: ANCIENT WISDOM MEETS THE FUTURE Series at the Rubin Museum
Somewhere between inventing the wheel and rocketing to Mars, it seems that humanity has lost its ability to see the world as an interdependent enterprise, with humans, animals, trees, earth, sun, moon, and the stars karmically intertwined in ecological intimacy.
In a series of conversations, screenings, and performances, our Future Fellow Karenna Gore draws on a diverse set of wisdom and spiritual traditions to provide us with a rich source of ethical values. It is only through this non-anthropocentric worldview that is respectful of nature and compassionate to all forms of life that we can forge a sustainable future.