Good News submitted by Mayatiita
Dada Shubhacetananda has done successful pracar in Detroit, Cleveland, Bridgeport, and Washington, D.C. A new Prout unit has been established in Boston. More pracar is planned in Chicago, Minneapolis, and Puerto Rico. Dada has worked with Dada Advaeyananda to address student leaders and to prepare a Prout retreat in Dallas for May 12. Dada Advaeyananda has been teaching classes, working on finances, and assisting Ravi Batra with his book. Mayatiita is continuing to teach yoga classes at the
The youth are organizing a retreat in Meramec State Park, Missouri to take place June 29 to July 1.
Highlights include:
* Inspiring programs collectively led, centering around the heart of Ananda Marga ideology: cosmic fraternity, universal love and divine inspiration.
* Nature walks and hiking through the beautiful Meramec St Park
* A mini-concert led by Nirmal and his team of RAWA artists, straight off the Kundalinii Express!
* Kiirtan, kiirtan, and more kiirtan!
Is Venezuela Heading Towards PROUT?
Sunday, Apr 29, 2007
By: Andy Malinalco - PROUT Venezuela
Today there are countless movements and struggles which are fighting for the creation of a more just, sustainable, and human society, that guarantees individual safety and freedom. Of all these, many progressive people around the world see the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela as the one with the greatest possibility to transform social reality.
An experiment in localized economy
“The basic question is how to remove the unhealthy influence of centralized economy. The real issue is, who will bell the cat? If the vested interests fail to be guided by righteous intellect, then people will have to
take matters into their own hands. They will have to create circumstantial pressure from all sides, uniting around the slogan: "Abolish centralized economy to end exploitation; establish decentralized economy."
Prout Research Institute of the U.S. has an on going project. At the moment 4 people are working to complete developed Proutist opinions and positions of advocacy for 6 pressing topics facing the U.S.
The topics include:
War in Iraq
Health care crisis
Debt crisis
Currency crisis
Alternative energy
Trade issues
Acarya Shubhacetanananda Avadhuta, Chief Secretary of PROUT. Dada visited for the first time Miami, FL. Dada Shubhacetanananda gave lectures on the following topics: The Science of Meditation, Mantra with Cakra Meditation, The Yoga Postures and Their Effects on the Glands/Cakras, The Success in Meditation through Universal Cardinal Principles, Neohumanism, and Socio-Economic Philosophy PROUT: Solution for the current problems. Dada gave lecture in Miami Dade College(MDC) for three hours. Dada taught basic asanas and Kaosikii dance after his lecture.
EDUCATION AND NEOHUMANISM by P.R. Sarkar
There will be U.P.S.F. (Universal Proutist Students Meeting in Ananda Kanan during Summer Retreat 2007. All Students are invited to attend the meeting. We will form a national committee and discuss future plans and programs.
Students Aren't Customers; Education Is Not a Commodity
By William Astore, Tomdispatch.com. Posted June 1, 2009.
By only viewing education as a way to a higher-paying job we're giving a free pass to the prevailing machinery of power.