Judging Voices/Sacred States - Ithaca, NY, Nov 5-7, 2010

We all have an inner voice that tells us we are doing things wrong - that we are somehow deficient. That voice leaves us feeling ashamed and guilty. It is tied to a false image of who we are and how the world is and anchors us in that image. This workshop will explore the inner structure that holds that voice (the superego), what it is, how and when it develops, and most importantly - ways to deal with it. When we can successfully confront our superego, and still that inner voice, we release the false image that we hold of ourselves and begin to access our True Being; our Essential Self.

Judging Voices / Sacred States
A workshop with
Mahdiah Esther Jacobs Kahn, LCSW
Sponsored by Ithaca Sufi Center
November 5, 6, 7, 2010

The workshop will be didactic and experiential and will cover the development of the superego and its evolution into an ethical system and eventually its absorption into essential structures that hold our values, ideals and a way of living that is in line with Being and our True Self. The critical judgmental voice anchors us to a limited false image of who we are and blocks our True Being and the sacred states that hold our real values. It ties us to ideals that we mistake for Truth and blocks the opening of spiritual dimensions of Being.

Mahdiah Esther Jacobs Kahn, LCSW is a senior teacher and retreat guide in the Sufi Order International. She is a professional therapist who earned an MSW from New York University in 1966. Mahdiah is also a senior teacher in the Diamond Logos work. She developed the work with the superego for the Diamond Logos teachings and it quickly became apparent that this work was a pivotal piece of all spiritual work. She lives in California and has taught in the United States and Europe.

Friday, Saturday and Sunday, November 5, 6, 7, 2010 from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at the Foundation of Light, 391 Turkey Hill Road, Ithaca, NY. [map]

The cost is $225.00 before October 1, $275.00 after. For any one day the cost is $100.00. (There will be a processing fee of $35 for cancellations and no refunds after October 15.)

Please register by sending a check written to Ithaca Sufi Center. Mail to NurQalbia Candice Emmons, P.O. Box 61, Van Etten, NY 14889. For more information and lodging needs email: cae5754 [at] gmail [dot] com.

This workshop can be preceded by 5, 10, or 14 day solitary retreats guided by Mahdiah at Light On the Hill in Van Etten, NY. For information on retreats, contact Light On the Hill at: lighthill [at] clarityconnect [dot] com. (Retreats are available whether or not the workshop is attended.)