Join minister Michael Bingham of Mind Medicine Ministry for an interactive musical ritual that explores how belief shapes experience. Participants will be invited to enter the ceremony in one of two roles:
Believer or
Skeptic. Both roles are a critical part of the experiment.
Believers will be asked to open themselves fully to the offering and experience Michael’s voice as a channel through which their own hearts are allowed to sing. The ritual may awaken powerful energies within them, ranging from grief to joy to a renewed sense of purpose. It is designed to help participants connect with deep vulnerability in ways that facilitate energetic release and personal empowerment.
Skeptics will be asked to remain guarded, observe critically, and resist being moved by the music. For them, the experience may become an emotional and mental workout in witnessing, resisting, analyzing, and noticing what happens when one tries to hold the heart closed in the presence of something designed to open it.
After an intention-setting ritual and blessing of sacred space, Michael will perform eight songs using the Heart Song method he has been developing in his ministry work. Each song serves as a ritual vessel for the expression of a different truth of his heart. These songs are offered not simply to be heard, but to be felt and entered into, inviting participants to notice what awakens within them over the course of the experience.
If you would like to prepare yourself to be as active of a participant as possible, please learn the last song that will be sung in the program so we call all sing it together.
Earths New Heaven by: Beautiful Chorus (the 2 minute version that starts with "May you always know when the truth has been spoken..."
Come
exploring belief, receptivity, and the power of shared attention.
