Science & Spiritual Practices

With Rupert Sheldrake, Merlin Sheldrake and Cosmo Sheldrake

July 26 - 30, 2021

Date and Time Details:
Starts with dinner on July 26
Ends with lunch on July 30

Location: Cortes

Tuition: $535 CAD

Package Price: $979 - $1,967 CAD / 4 nights. Includes tuition, room, all meals, and Hollyhock activities (depends on accommodation choice). Taxes and fees are additional. A $395 deposit is required at registration, with the balance due on your departure day.

Scholarships: Full and partial scholarships are available based on financial need. We prioritize Indigenous people, people of colour, people who identify as LGBTQ2IA+, youth, elders, and those who can articulate how their Hollyhock experience will support positive impact in their life and communities. A $195 refundable deposit is required (please contact us if you are unable to pay this deposit). Apply within your registration form.

Health & Safety: Learn more about our Covid-19 policies and procedures here.

  • Single w/ensuite Oceanfront* – CAD $2,333.00
  • Single w/ensuite* – CAD $2,001.00
  • Single w/shared bathroom* – CAD $1,833.00
  • Couple w/ensuite Oceanfront* – CAD $3,534.00
  • Couple w/ensuite* – CAD $3,218.00
  • Couple w/shared bathroom* – CAD $2,902.00
  • Twin w/ensuite oceanfront* – CAD $1,769.00
  • Twin w/ensuite* – CAD $1,609.00
  • Twin w/shared bathroom* – CAD $1,449.00
  • Women Dorm – CAD $1,089.00
  • Male Dorm – CAD $1,089.00
  • Mixed Dorm – CAD $1,089.00
  • Tent Site Single – CAD $1,069.00
  • Tent Site Couple – CAD $1,938.00
  • Commuter – CAD $929.00
    • (All prices include CAD $829.00 base amount)

People who have a regular spiritual practice tend to live healthier, longer, more content lives. Science sheds new light on many spiritual practices, including pilgrimages, meditation, chanting, prayer, and rites of passage. Explore the interface and overlap of science and spirituality in Hollyhock’s beautiful, natural setting.

In this program we spend part of our time outdoors – in the garden, seashore and forest – learning how to reconnect with the world around us and integrating understanding with direct intuitive experience. We explore spiritual traditions through our own experiences and through singing, listening, looking, telling stories, thinking, and having fun. We reflect on our connections with our Ancestors and with the collective memory on which we all draw.

Rupert Sheldrake will show how his hypothesis of morphic resonance enables us to understand rituals and mantras in a new way, and provides a new interpretation of memory and the survival of bodily death. Our minds are much more extensive than our brains, and can stretch out to affect people on the other side of the world, and even reach the stars.

Song and the pilgrimage greatly enhanced the experience. Merlin’s presentation was riveting with visuals. I love Rupert’s humility which shines powerfully, along with his deep intelligence. What a treat to learn with him! – Gail Stevens, 2019 participant

Schedule

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Rupert Sheldrake on the importance of spiritual practice: 

About the Presenters

Rupert Sheldrake

Rupert Sheldrake, PhD, is a biologist and author of more than a hundred technical papers and nine books, including Ways To Go Beyond, And Why They Work. He was a fellow of Clare College, Cambridge University, where he was Director of Studies in Cell Biology, and was also a Research Fellow of the Royal Society. […]

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Merlin Sheldrake

Merlin Sheldrake, PhD, is a biologist and author of Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures, a New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller, and winner of the Royal Society Book Prize and the Wainwright Prize. Merlin is a research associate of the Vrije University Amsterdam, and works […]

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Cosmo Sheldrake

Cosmo Sheldrake is a multi-instrumentalist musician producer, composer, and sound artist. Cosmo released his first single ‘The Moss’ in 2014, which was followed by the ‘Pelicans We’ EP in 2015 and his debut album The Much Much How How and I in April, 2018. Much of Cosmo’s work is concerned with ecology, extinction and the […]

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