RTA: (Roads to Awareness)
"Wisdom From the Four Directions" Mystery School
RTA is a sanskrit word referring to order and harmonious
design in the universe (see Ramundo Panikar for an in-depth description).
It is one of the oldest known words in the world, pronounced err-tah.
Here it also stands for Roads To Awareness, which is a traveling
wisdom school honoring all four directions, all four parts of the
self, body, heart, mind, and spirit. Sunheart envisioned such a
mystery school a dozen years ago, and has already put on several
major seminars in MD, NY, NEB, MICH, and other states around the
U.S. The gist of the original vision was that a global mystery school
could be developed which would bring together all the ancient teachings
from around the world by catergorizing each type of teaching as
either body teaching, heart teaching, mind teaching or spirit teaching,
(in accordance with the medicine wheel teaching, which is also universal),
bringing focus and clarity to each of these areas in daily life,
and then integrating them together holistically. RTA offers this
as a possibility for those who wish to work towards that goal. Seminars
involve lectures by experts, each speaking about one of the four
paths or directions in life, and then uniting them in some way through
activity, ritual, or discussion. The four paths of RTA are:
1. The Shining Spirit Path
2. The Clear Mind Path
3. The Flowing Heart Path
4. The Divine Body Path
There is also the path to father sky and the path
to mother earth--the yin and yang-- plus the seventh path, which
is the path of indescribable mystery and ecstacy, which brings us
to the center of the medicine wheel where we are transformed.
We need to keep these four in harmonious balance (rta)
in order to live a full life, but we cannot face all four cardinal
directions at once while in the body. By recognizing the fourness
of things, we can focus for a year or six months on one direction
without losing perspective, and then turn to the next phase of our
personal study. Sunheart's many books include works dedicated to
each of the four cardinal paths.
Seminars can be set up in states where RTA affiliates
or supporters already reside. "Coeur de Soleil" has already
been invited to Paris, France this summer to speak about his book
"Pense et Coeur," which has been available in France and
Quebec for the last five years, and is available through Amazon.com.,
though not through this site.
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