TECHNO COSMIC CELEBRATION
HONORING THE CREATIVE PULSE

Sunday May 9, 1999 (Mother’s Day)
6:30 PM - Doors open
7:00 to 8:30 PM - Celebration
8:30 to 10:30 PM – Open Ecstatic Dancing

University of Colorado Memorial Center -
Glenn Miller Ballroom
Boulder, Colorado

Co-sponsored by Common Spirit and The Naropa Institute
Produced by the Community Celebration Council
All are Welcome
Supported by a suggested donation of $10.00 or more

 

Our theme, Honoring the Creative Pulse, recognizes our potential for rebirth during this season of spring.

The Techno Cosmic Celebration is a revolutionary new form of worship that welcomes the sacred into body, mind, heart and spirit. It blends Western liturgical tradition, Eastern and indigenous spiritual elements with multi-media imagery, ecstatic music and dance to create an interfaith, multi-cultural and intergenerational celebration.

Techno refers to the sacred use of technology in our celebration. Being surrounded by photographic images and computer generated art, and reuniting ancient with postmodern forms of sound, participants celebrate with dance, prayer, chant and silent reflection. Cosmic refers to cosmology, the sacred connection of all creation as described by ancient wisdoms and the new science. The Celebration brings a community together to experience a common story, to bring praise and thanksgiving to the Creator, and to offer spiritual sustenance for works of compassion and justice in the world.

The Techno Cosmic Celebration is created by our local community for our larger community. Together, we create liturgy (work of the people), which is a communal outward-flowing prayerful expression. The process of creating ritual and sharing it with our community brings renewed spirituality into our daily lives and helps us become stronger, clearer vehicles for Divine presence in our world.

Each Techno Cosmic Celebration is an experiment in bringing together people of diverse ages, faiths and cultures in shared prayer, while holding true to our ancestral traditions, respecting and honoring our differences, and highlighting our common bonds.

The Four Paths -- In the Celebration, we move through the four paths of the spiritual journey as articulated by Creation Spirituality: Via Positiva - the paths of awe, wonder, joy and gratitude; Via Negativa - the path of darkness, silence, grief, pain and letting go; Via Creativa - the path of renewal, rebirth and creative expression; and Via Transformativa - the path of compassionate action, justice-making and celebration.

Experiential -- The Techno Cosmic Celebration is a communal prayer experience. Ritual leaders facilitate the divine experience through communal chant, song, dance, spoken word and silence. Use of spoken and written word is de-emphasized. In egalitarian style, the Celebration is always celebrated in circle form; the center signifying the heart, womb, universal core from which all is birthed. You may participate at whatever level you feel most comfortable.

Diversity -- The Techno Cosmic Celebration recognizes itself as a vehicle for transformation in our lives and times. At the heart of the Techno Cosmic Celebration is the desire to participate in the dissolving of boundaries that divide humanity from each other and other forms of creation. The Techno Cosmic Celebration is intentionally ecumenical, multi-cultural, gender-inclusive and intergenerational.

Youth -- The Techno Cosmic Celebration is an intergenerational form of worship and is particularly inspired by the leadership, wisdom and language of youth. Live and electronic music, environmental lighting, trance dancing, rap, multi-media imagery, computer-generated art and video are some ways in which young people are expressing the sacred today.

Please respect our policy of no drugs, alcohol or tobacco use.

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