Hall of Culture - a space for the New World
by Fiorenza Bortolotti
When in 2003 the architects for the Community of Living Ethics began the design of the great construction for the Convention Center, every time they showed the sketches to the founder of the Community, Sergio Bartoli’s answer was: "Bigger, it must be bigger, we do not build for us, but for the Future! We must build so that the past conforms to the future!"
Back then, creating a space for over 200 people seemed exaggerated, and we wondered how we could fill such a large building. So, we began to follow some indications of the Teaching of Agni Yoga: ‘The builders, the creators are like eagles flying’ - from Community, 9
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The Roerich Pact, the path to Infinity
byAndrea Ruf, Ph.D
The Roerich Pact was signed on April 15, 1935, by twenty-one nations of the Americas, all the members of the Pan-American Union at the time, in the White House, in the presence of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
As an International Treaty for cultural protection, the Pact declared that all cultural sites should be considered neutral in time of war and in peace. The Banner of Peace by Nicholas Roerich was especially adopted on the Treaty to identify historic monuments, museums, scientific, artistic, educational and cultural institutions as treasures of the people and the world. Therefore, the Banner is also known as the Red Cross of Culture. (...)
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The gift economy: giving from the heart
The Community of Living Ethics has experimented in small ways in the past with the gift economy for its Programmes but the Agni Yoga Conference taking place shortly is the first international event where we have taken this approach. Inviting people who register, to pay what they feel is a fair amount by connecting through the heart is proving to be an interesting and powerful journey. Overall, the experiment seems to be working and one of our aims is to ensure that the conference is open to all and removing any economic barriers.
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