The EICSP is an events-led Scottish charity, SC038996, that works with the world's spiritual traditions, both in Scotland and internationally, seeking understandings of the nature of spirituality, and of interspirituality and intraspirituality, in its diversity.
The EICSP advances education of the public in Scotland, and elsewhere, concerning spirituality, culture and peace.
The EICSP continues the spiritual work previously undertaken by the former Edinburgh International Centre for World Spiritualities, EICWS, 2000-2008. See www.eicws.org for details of some of the past activities undertaken by the former EICWS.
Edinburgh Celebrates Middle Eastern Spirituality and Peace
The 2011 Middle East Festival, MESP 2011
5/2/2011: MESP 2011 Middle East Festival One World Peace Concert
10/2 - 21/2/2011: MESP 2011 Middle Eastern Film Festival
22/2 - 3/3/2011: MESP 2011 Pre Events
4/3 - 17/3/2011: MESP 2011 Main Events
January – March 2011: MESP 2011 Exhibitions and Displays
MESP 2011, Introduction
MESP 2011, Announcement and Invitation to Participate
MESP 2011, Guidelines for Participation
MESP 2011, Proposal Submission Form
MESP 2010, Report
From Friday 4 March - Thursday 17 March 2011 the 8th Annual Edinburgh International Festival of Middle Eastern Spirituality and Peace, MESP 2011, will bring together people from a wide range of spiritual backgrounds, people working with peace, conflict, reconciliation and justice, educators, teachers, scholars and students, people from artistic and cultural backgrounds, people working with health, wellbeing and healing experiences and concerns, people from diverse cultures, traditions and communities, and people from across Scotland and internationally.
More generally, everyone participates in an individual and non-representative capacity, to allow people to draw upon their own unique individual experiences and to share their unique visions and perspectives, and people of all backgrounds who respect the Festival ethos are warmly invited to participate in this spiritual, educational, artistic and cultural and international festival which celebrates peace and mutual understanding.
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Edinburgh Celebrates Middle Eastern Spirituality and Peace
The 2010 Middle East Festival, MESP 2010
6/2/2010: MESP 2010 Middle East Festival One World Peace Concert
7/2 - 26/2/2010: MESP 2010 Additional Events
12/2 - 1/3/2010: MESP 2010 Middle Eastern Film Festival
7/3 - 18/4/2010: MESP 2010 Middle Eastern Film Festival on Tour
18/2/2010: MESP 2010 Masterclass with Ibrahim El-Batout
20/2/2010: MESP 2010 Day Workshop on Egyptian Cinema
23/2 - 4/3/2010: MESP 2010 Pre Events
27/2 - 3/3/2010: MESP 2010 Middle East Youth Festival
5/3 - 18/3/2010: MESP 2010 Main Events
11/1 - 31/3/2010: MESP 2010 Exhibitions and Displays
MESP 2010 Downloads
MESP 2010 Main Events Booking Options
MESP 2010 Photo Gallery
MESP 2010, Introduction
MESP 2010, Announcement and Invitation to Participate
MESP 2010, Guidelines for Participation
MESP 2010, Proposal Submission Form
MESP 2009, Report
From Friday 5 March - Thursday 18 March 2010 the 7th Annual Edinburgh International Festival of Middle Eastern Spirituality and Peace, MESP 2010, will bring together people from a wide range of spiritual backgrounds, people working with peace, conflict, reconciliation and justice, educators, teachers, scholars and students, people from artistic and cultural backgrounds, people working with health, wellbeing and healing experiences and concerns, people from diverse cultures, traditions and communities, and people from across Scotland and internationally.
More generally, everyone participates in an individual and non-representative capacity, to allow people to draw upon their own unique individual experiences and to share their unique visions and perspectives, and people of all backgrounds who respect the Festival ethos are warmly invited to participate in this spiritual, educational, artistic and cultural and international festival which celebrates peace and mutual understanding.
Read more: Edinburgh Celebrates Middle Eastern Spirituality and Peace
Peacemakers of Israel/Palestine Exhibition
The Middle East Festival has commissioned this unique exhibition illustrating the work of peacemakers in Israel/Palestine who are working on a cross community basis. This has involved photojournalist Angela Catlin, and journalist Billy Briggs making a 10-day visit to Israel/Palestine, in December 2008, to photograph and interview the peacemaker groups, resulting in an exhibition and Feature Articles. The Exhibition was shown at the Scottish Parliament, Tuesday 10 - Thursday 12 February 2009 - see the Photo Gallery - Middle East Festival Reception and Exhibition Viewing of the Peacemakers of Israel/Palestine Exhibition, Wednesday 11 February 2009, and was then shown at Out of the Blue, Edinburgh, from 23 February – Monday 2 March 2009.
The development of the exhibition was made possible by an Awards for All grant.
The exhibition was shown during the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, 21 May - 27 May 2009, General Assembly Hall, The Mound, Edinburgh.
The exhibition was shown during Refugee Week Scotland, 1 - 30 June 2009 at the Cafe Cosmo, Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose Street, Glasgow, G3 6RB.
See: Refugee Week Scotland
The exhibition will be shown during the 2010 Middle East Festival, MESP 2010, at the Mitchell Library, Glasgow, 11 January - 30 January 2010.
The exhibition will be shown during the 2010 Middle East Festival, MESP 2010, at the Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh, 6 February - 20 March 2010.
Other venues who want to be considered for hosting this exhibition, in Scotland and the UK, and under the auspices of the Middle East Festival, are very welcome to submit a proposal expressing their interest.
Contact: Neill Walker, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , 0131 331 4469.
His Holiness Paramhans Sri Swami Maheshwaranandaji Visit, Edinburgh, 7 - 8 September 2010
We are very happy to announce that Edinburgh will welcome His Holiness Paramhans Sri Swami Maheshwaranandaji (respectfully known as Swamiji) from 7-8 September 2010. The topic of Swamiji's lectures this year is: MEDITATION - THEORY and PRACTICE.
This is an unique opportunity to meet a Master of Yoga and Meditation who is well known around the globe as the author of the Yoga in Daily Life system. Swamiji is widely renowned as a great humnitarian worker and spiritual master.
PROGRAMME:
Tuesday 7 September - EVENING LECTURE
Starts: 7pm
Venue: Quaker Meeting House
3 Victoria Terrace, Edinburgh EH1 2JL
Wednesday 8 September - MORNING WORKSHOP
Starts: 10am
Venue: Mahaprabhu Deep Ashram
2 Montgomery Street Lane, Edinburgh EH7 5JT
Wednesday 8 September - EVENING WORKSHOP
Starts: 7pm
Venue: Mahaprabhu Deep Ashram
2 Montgomery Street Lane, Edinburgh EH7 5JT
For more info and bookings please contact:
Yoga in Daily Life Scotland
Mahaprabhu Deep Ashram
2 Montgomery Street Lane
Edinburgh EH7 5JT
0131 629 9895 / 07810 154181
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www.yogaindailylife.org.uk
His Holiness Vishwaguru Mahamandaleshwar Paramhans Sri Swami Maheshwarananda Visit, Poster and Flyer
Rev Prof Stephen G Wright Visit to Edinburgh, 24 - 25 September 2010
Rev Prof Stephen G Wright Visit to Edinburgh.
Organised by Edinburgh International Centre for Spirituality and Peace, EICSP, Scottish Charity, SC038996, and the Sacred Space Foundation.
On-Line Booking: The problem of evil
On-Line Booking: Burnout – a spiritual crisis: response and prevention
Friday 24 September 2010
1. The problem of evil: the role of the spiritual director.
A masterclass for Interfaith Ministers with Ref Prof Stephen G Wright.
Meeting Room, Quaker Meeting House, 7 Victoria Terrace, Edinburgh, EH1 2JL.
Registration: 9.30am-10am. Seminar: 10am-4.30pm.
Cost: IMA members: £55, Non-members: £75, Seminary Students: £35.
Ministers who also want to attend the workshop on 25 September can have the same discount.
For a Registration Form:
Contact: Neill Walker,
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, 0131 331 4469.
Saturday 25 September 2010
2. Burnout – a spiritual crisis: response and prevention.
A one day seminar for ministers and those who support them with Ref Prof Stephen G Wright.
Meeting Room, Quaker Meeting House, 7 Victoria Terrace, Edinburgh, EH1 2JL.
Registration: 9.30am-10am. Seminar: 10am-4.30pm.
Cost: £75.
For a Registration Form:
Contact: Neill Walker,
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, 0131 331 4469.
Read more: Rev Prof Stephen G Wright Visit to Edinburgh, 24 - 25 September 2010
Workshop Series: Living Creatively in Relationships
Event: Workshop Series: Living Creatively in Relationships: Toward Making Your Life a “Masterpiece.”
Workshop Series: 1 full day, followed by 5 evening sessions.
Facilitator: Lee Gershuny, Ph.D., Artistic Director of The Elements World Theatre.
Organiser: Jointly organized by the Edinburgh International Centre for Spirituality and Peace, EICSP, Scottish Charity SC038996, and, The Elements World Theatre, a company limited by guarantee and registered in Scotland No. 283766, Scottish Charity SC022072.
Venue: Quaker Meeting House, 7 Victoria Terrace, Edinburgh, EH1 2JL
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Prajnaparamita Visit to Edinburgh, 22 - 24 October 2010
Prajnaparamita Visit to Edinburgh
Organised in association with Edinburgh International Centre for Spirituality and Peace, EICSP, Scottish Charity, SC038996.
22 - 24 October 2010
Weekend of Awakening
Talks on Awakening, Love, Truth and Compassion
Prajnaparamita is an enlightened Master from Holland. She has been giving retreats and satsangs internationally for the last decade.
This is her 8th visit to Scotland in the last five years and she is delighted to meet you.
Satsang with Prajnaparamita will be held on the following -
Friday 22 October 2010: 7.30pm-9.30pm.
Saturday 23 October 2010: 3pm-5pm and 7.30pm-9.30pm.
Gayatri Meditation: 9am-10am.
Sunday 24 October 2010: 10.30am-12.30pm.
Venue: Augustine United Church,
41 George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, EH1 1EL.
Cost: Satsang: £15. Meditation is free.
Be courageous
and surrender to the unspeakable mystery
that you are
Give yourself to the sublime Love
silently abiding in the depth of your heart
Marcela Jacova Giavris Visit to Edinburgh, 23 October 2010
Marcela Jacova Giavris Visit to Edinburgh
Organised by Edinburgh International Centre for Spirituality and Peace, EICSP, Scottish Charity, SC038996.
Saturday 23 October 2010
More Truth Will Set You Free Healing Workshop: Awaken your creativity to your fullest potential while holding a space of love and healing for yourself and others.
Meeting Room, Quaker Meeting House, 7 Victoria Terrace, Edinburgh, EH1 2JL.
Registration: 9.30am-10am. Workshop: 10am-4.30pm.
Cost: £20/£15 (Concessions). For a Registration Form:
Contact: Neill Walker,
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, 0131 331 4469.
Marcela Jacova Giavris Visit, Poster and Flyer
Read more: Marcela Jacova Giavris Visit to Edinburgh, 23 October 2010
World Sufism Symposium Edinburgh: Sufi Path in the 21st Century, September 30 – October 2 2011
Invitation to Participate in:
World Sufism Symposium Edinburgh:
The Sufi Path in the 21st Century,
Friday September 30 – Sunday October 2, 2011
Co-sponsored by the Edinburgh International Centre for Spirituality and Peace, EICSP, Scottish Charity, SC038996 (www.eicsp.org) in conjunction with the International Association of Sufism (www.ias.org)
An international gathering of Sufis with participants from schools, orders and tariqas worldwide demonstrating the diversity within and across this mystical school of the Islamic traditions. Art, music, poetry, storytelling, lectures, spiritual practice and discussion amongst world leaders in the Sufi tradition. The previous World Sufism Symposium in Edinburgh, in 2006, drew participants from Egypt, Bangladesh, Senegal, Holland, Germany, UK and USA.
Sufism is a diverse spiritual path, with expressions unique to many world geographical areas and cultures. At the same time, the Sufi path focuses on and expresses the ideal of "unity" based on at least 1,300 years of tradition. As such, Sufism represents a post-modern form of interspirituality that emphasizes respect and empathy, as well as the importance of deep relationship and social responsibility.
We invite proposals for short talks (20-25 minutes) from among the following panel themes: Sufism and Ecology, Sufism and Economics, Sufism and Multicultural Societies, Sufism and Women, Sufi Practice in Everyday Life, The Way of the Sufi (personal experience with and introduction to the Sufi path), Sufism and the Arts, Sufism and Health, Wellbeing and Healing, Sufism and Peace, Conflict, Reconciliation and Justice.
We also invite proposals for open sessions of Sufi practice—including meditation, music and chant, (30 minutes) to be shared among attendees.
The two-day conference will be launched with a World Sufi Concert on Friday evening, September 30 2011, the birthday of Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi. Proposals to participate in this are also invited, including details of technical needs.
Presenters are responsible for their own travel and accommodation costs.
To express an interest in participating, and to submit proposals:
Contact: Neill Walker,
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