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With warm regards,
Jeanine
on behalf of EnlightenNext Australia

By Andra Kins

Some weekends you never forget! We just had one such weekend in Perth with Mary Adams. Mary is a cultural visionary and senior teacher of Evolutionary Enlightenment based in the US. The EnlightenNext Perth group organized two public events with Mary on 19th and 20th April. One focusing on creating meaningful gender partnerships, and the other re-defining what it means to be a woman at the start of the 21st century. Both events were held at the awarding winning Grove Community Learning Centre in Peppermint Grove. (above) The Gender Debate: Cracking the code to true partnership in the 21st century (click images to see full size photos)

On Friday evening Mary Adams and local EnlightenNext leader Imants Kins had a thoroughly engaging dialogue on cracking the code to true partnership in the 21st century. The audience was introduced to an evolutionary perspective on gender roles since ancient times showing how men and women have related to each other over time.

Then together they explored the gender polarisation we find ourselves in today, and through their own transparency and authenticity came together in a way that showed us the path forward to a liberated partnership between men and women. Their enthralling dialogue led seamlessly to a lively conversation with the audience in the question and answer period. Who would want such an evening to end – everyone stayed to continue the conversation over refreshments.

On Saturday Mary Adams led 30 women in a serious and focused exploration of what it means to be a true leader and helped us to identify within ourselves still active old biologically and culturally conditioned drives which when listened to can highjack our highest aspirations. The topic was brought to life through Mary’s comprehensive presentations based on her own experience and insights in the area of women’s development.

She set us discussion topics in break out groups that opened up a beautiful intimacy between all of us. The focus and positive energy in the room enabled us to speak transparently about our own experiences and to identify our own tendencies. Speaking about the qualities of the Authentic Self brought them very much into the space between us all.




We look forward to Mary’s next visit to Perth!

by Jeanine McMahon



In Sydney on her first stop in Australia, Mary Adams presented three seminars attracting people from the east coast excited to hear her speak and with the opportunity to meet her. Topics such as The Gender Debate, Re-Defining Women 2.0, How to live an extraordinary and significant life drew a wide range of interested and inquiring people. The women’s event was held at Santa Sophia College at the Sydney University, a beautiful venue with weather allowing lunch outdoors or in the library.









Quiet contemplation in the College Council room







Meeting, connecting and engaging with like minded women






Graeme Burn delivers lunch to the Sancta Sophia College library








Mary presents an evening seminar at The Hub in downtown Melbourne







Mary Adams at the Shiva ashram with Swami Sharadananda – Mt Eliza, Victoria








A delicious lunch is shared with Shiva ashram friends

These discussion forums provide an opportunity to engage in deep spiritual enquiry. The next call will be the fifth in a series of ten dialogues/discussions over five months, based on the central theme of each chapter from Evolutionary Enlightenment.

Please join Morgan Dix and Mary Adams on their next call Tuesday, 7 May at 9.00pm AEDT (Sydney time).

Register with Maestro for the call details.
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Listen to the previous calls, suggest using Mozilla Firefox or Chrome.

‘A Big Yes’
‘We Were There When it all Began’
‘Nonduality’
‘Back to Before the Beginning’
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EnlightenNext Regional Discussion Groups

You are warmly invited to EnlightenNext’s regional discussions. These take place fortnightly at 6.30pm Sydney time on the Sunday following the Tuesday evening forum with Mary Adams and Morgan Dix. These one hour conversations are an opportunity to further deepen our exploration of the chapter of Andrew Cohen’s book Evolutionary Enlightenment which Mary and Morgan speak about in their Tuesday calls.

Our next regional call is on Sunday 12 May and call details will follow.
If you would like to receive a direct invitation to these calls email graeme51@gmail.com

Mary Adams, senior teacher at EnlightenNext, is coming to Australia again in April 2013 to run events in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth. Details will be released soon Here are a few of images from her last trip to Australia in 2012 – leading the Women’s seminar in Perth, with a group of inspired evolutionaries and with Imants Kins.

SYDNEY 12-14 April
MELBOURNE 17-18 April
PERTH 19-20 April

by Christopher Liddle

With the meditation marathon on the weekend of Dec 8/9 approaching it’s the perfect time to reflect on meditation and the place pushing one’s boundaries plays in deepening one’s practice.

For many years I’ve been attracted to meditation and while practicing sporadically and I guess unsurprisingly, I never seemed to make much headway in terms of depth or in seeing the effects of it in my day to day life.

What would typically happen was I’d do a meditation retreat, return home and invariably I’d lose the amazing retreat level of access to consciousness and gradually return to my own level. Then somewhat dispiritedly resign myself to half heartedly continuing a practice that wasn’t really going anywhere.

At some point 2 or 3 years ago I realised that to reap the benefits that meditation is renowned for I was going to have to really apply myself. As anyone who meditates knows it can be spontaneous and effortless but more often than not one has to push through resistance repeatedly before depth opens up.
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Listen to previous calls with Mary and Morgan held on
4 Dec “Spiritual Self Confidence”
13 Nov ‘Anything is Possible’
6 Nov ‘Emergence: the arising of something entirely new.’
16 Oct ‘The Art of Self Enquiry.’
31 July ‘Creating the Future’
17 July ‘Calalyzing Emergence’
3 July ‘A Higher We’

Jeanine,
for the Australian EnlightenNext team

by Dr Melisah Feeney

I remember the day Australia got its first female Prime Minister. I had a mixed response – first a sense of joy and optimism that we actually finally had a female Prime Minister. Second curiosity, would there be a new ways of tackling things under the leadership of a woman? Then dread and confrontation to think why had it taken this long? I mean women had been liberated to become highly educated, control their fertility and make choices to follow political careers (that require everything) for many, many decades now.

As the months have rolled on with Julia Gillard in the central seat of power, my response has been to move into sadness that her gender has become a political hand grenade with plenty of power to divide, destroy and detract from the serious business of governing a country. There has been attention about the fact she lives with a man and isn’t married, doesn’t have children, the size of her butt, whether her pubic hair matches her flaming red hair on her head and so on. I don’t recall gendered sexualised attention being directed toward our male Prime Ministers.

The ugliness of the carnage following the sexism we are witnessing in the circle of parliament offers us a gift. It shows us the shadow lurking in the Australian psyche that we are not comfortable with taking women who have the power to influence society and culture seriously. We have deep work to do, digging into the underlying structures that are holding us back from having a society where gender doesn’t divide and destroy creative potential.

It not just a problem that men have to fix. We are all implicated in this, as women have been just as attacking of Julia as men have. Women need to come together with each other to start looking at how we have deep groves in our psyche that prevent ourselves from being significant change agents. How we contribute to our own sexualisation, and can often give our outer appearance more time and attention than we do cultivating deeper dimensions of our being and consciousness.

A group of us woman will be getting together in Sydney on Sunday 25 November to explore how we can support each other to influence these deeper dimensions in ourselves and culture. We need to do this work at the level of consciousness to help bring about change so that our next female Prime Minister’s creative offering is not weighted down by the politics of gender.

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MELBOURNE EVENT

When you take the step to come together with like-minded people who care deeply about creating a better future, you become an agent of a new emergence fueled by a deeper sense of meaning and purpose.

Sunday, 21October 2012
10am – 3pm
The Sharwood Room, Trinity College, Melbourne University
Contact Mendy Urie papillio@hotmail.com
For more details go to the Melbourne page