We’ll have a very fun meeting at the Wilsonville Grange this Sunday, July 27th, 2-4 pm! We encourage you members and your friends to bring any collections of Egyptian art, games, cultural items, food dishes, photo albums of Rosicrucian trips through Egypt, and so on.
Also bring either healthy food to share when we break for snacks, or non-alcoholic beverages.
This event is open to all AMORC members, their family, and close friends of the Rosicrucian Order.
Members, please bring your current membership credentials.
I am writing to those of you who attended and those that didn’t make it to recap the day and cherish the shared memory. We enjoyed a serene meditation spot beneath the trees on a perfectly cool day while Master Anjala led us through the Meditation For Peace. Eight of us gathered in the semi-circular amphitheater, with seats made out of former paved roads that were torn up to create that park.
We learned how to estimate a Douglas fir’s age, by counting it’s laddering branches, starting at 10 feet off the ground. We sat quietly in the park for a minute, listening to birds and human-caused noises.
As we closed our eyes, the inner energies melded between us, strengthening the egregore we share. In the ritual, as we envisioned sending peace to the earth and collaboration between all the inhabitants, our own intentions and manifestations grew stronger.
Afterward, we saw yet again how prepared a deliberately unprepared metaphysical picnic can turn out! We didn’t specify for certain people to bring certain things, and yet we all brought either home–made foods or store-bought or farmers–market finds. There was enough for all plus some to take home and this became a snack worthy trip!
A folding table was assembled and we put on it all of our food items and condiments, plates, forks and napkins (cloth and paper alike). We all fit around the Park’s picnic table, enjoying one member’s dog named Oakley and each other’s presence.
From homemade apple crumble, to light and dark meat from a chicken, dips for chips and a home grown fruitjello as well as a salad made from members gardens, and vegancookies and cake and nuts and other things, nourishment was had by all.
Different topics of discussion came up, from chanting Rosicrucian vowel sounds, to humming for healing by causing resonance in the chambers of the body which hold the organs. These harmonics we create cause secretions from the organs to detox and rejuvenate them.
One Fratre spoke of his practice of humming so low that it’s not perceived externally and yet it sometimes leaves him in a high energy state that can’t be achieved any other way. Super Saiyan!
Another Fratre brought instruments to share. A hand pan, a twin pipe woodenA-noteflute. And another flute tuned to the harmonic resonance of a chamber from the GreatPyramid of Giza. One Fratre and Sorore each played the handpan for the first time.
A quartet of members remained when the rest departed. Holding hands in a circle we chanted Om 3 times before sharing a blessing with each other and finally departing physically. Knowing within that the connections we make when we gather, never truly fade.
We cleaned up, leaving very little carbon footprint from our waste. That’s ecology in practice!
See you all soon at the next gathering on July 13th where we come together for an Atrium Convocation Ceremony at Parkrose.
It is at this Ceremony that we are all reminded of our duties to be agents of Peace in the world, and we are given the meditational technique to spread Peace world wide.
After this ceremony, which lasts about 1/2 hour, we’ll picnic in the park. You bring your lawn blankets, picnic baskets, (portable table if you have one) hamburgers, hot dogs, side dishes, and favorite drinks (but no alcoholic beverages!). Plus one thing to share with everyone!
(We hope you’ll use your regular dishes and dishware, cups and the like, to reduce trash going to the landfill.)
Please also bring your yard games, board games, musical instruments, kites, and card games!
Why would anyone come to the Peace Ceremony?
Because it’s where we join with Fratres and Sorores throughout the region and jointly set Peace into motion world wide.
I remember after last year’s ceremony and the after-picnic I got to share a new passion and exercise toy with a friend and Frater who drove for hours to join us. The musician of the crystal bowls joined as well in playing.
Our group was taking photos and video and sharing their delight as we shared ours .
It was a small sampling of what it looks like to just be and enjoy each other as we played and ate together.
No one planned what to bring to cook. We just brought things, and it worked great. Let’s do that again!
I look forward to seeing you all for a day of fun in the sun.
The Sound Healing workshop held on May 3-4, 2025 was a wonderful experience at the Buddhist Temple in Portland. The first day was led by Soros Courtney Sappington and was on the physical properties of sound and some Vowell intonations. The second day was led by Frater Chaz along with Frater Vincent and they used various types of bowls and drums to produce music and healing sounds.
And we also came across from an article in the British Rosicrucian Beacon magazine on the very same topic of sound healing from 20 years ago.
Sunday June 8th Whittaker Ponds 11AM Nature Walk and Meditation
The Nature Walk and meditation at Whittaker Ponds, on Sunday June the 8th, at 11 am is open to all AMORC members, their family, and close friends of the Rosicrucian Order.
Members, please bring your current membership credentials.
Basics to bring: a hat, water, wear sturdy shoes and sunscreen/bug spray. Very nice to have and bring are a pair of binoculars, a bird i.d. book, or you can download the Merlin app onto your phone and it will help you identify birds by both sound and appearance.
Anjala will have a banner so you can recognize her, so we’ll meet up near the parking lot at 10:45 a.m. We will bird and animal watch and walk for about 45 minutes, then stop in the trees near the water for a guided meditation.
Bring a rug scrap, camp chair, or something you can put on the ground. The trail is paved and accessible 3/4 of the way around the Ponds for people who use walkers, but then it becomes dirt with tree roots. This is suitable for older (9 or older) children. You’re likely to see beavers, nutria, kingfishers, ducks, geese, herons, egrets, frogs, turtles, fish, bald eagles, swallows, and surprise bird and animal visitors to the ponds. Here’s a photo of the entry, coming from the south driving north on 47th:
At that event, we’ll refine our understanding of the vital skill of Concentration with a short discourse and experiment on the skill.
Are you like me, and have you aspired to have the calm, cool, concentrated sureness of a Jedi Master? Well, one of the first things any aspirant to mental powers must perfect, is CONCENTRATION.
It is a building block that leads a practiced Rosicrucian to the ability to perform Mental Creation.
Bonus tip, you’ll also be reminded how to energize water, which Grand Lodge claims is why some of its retired employees are almost centenarians!
(I don’t know about you, but I know I am excited for the reminder around magnetizing water. I look forward to the discussion that emerges around the topic in sharing your experiences and expectations.)
Afterwards, bring healthy drinks and refreshments to share with each other for a social time and discussion.
Schedule
1:30 PM – Doors Open
2:00 PM – Doors Close for Atrium Convocation
3:00 PM – Refreshments
Best wishes for Peace Profound to you all, Frater Aaron ‘Lightbringer’ Howard
Friends and members visited Vietnamese Chau Nam-Quang Buddhist temple. This temple complex has been in the works since 1996, and the community has built a symbolic garden around Buddha’s Birth, Enlightenment, Teaching and Death. The extensive grounds have four comfy meditation gazebos, a mausoleum, a library, a practice hall, a lunch hall, and many other buildings. What you see in these photos are a few of the people who attended the tour, standing in front of the statue group representing the birth of the Buddha. Elsewhere on the grounds, the community is using huge logs, cut into disks, as pathways between gardens in a side yard about two acres in size. Buddhist community host Master Kevin took us into the library and gifted many of us with books his Master had written explaining the sutras, in both Vietnamese and English. In English, Master Kevin informed us that one of the most important lessons the Buddha imparted was to NOT believe anything he said until we did the practice he (the Buddha) recommended, and proved for ourselves that he was right. That is So Much like the Rosicrucian teachings that say, read the monographs, do the exercises and meditations, but do NOT believe anything we teach until you prove it for your self.
The man wearing the yellow and green top is being reverent in the courtyard that has statue deities rejoicing at Buddha’s enlightenment. Behind him is another member who is contemplating something different. The woman with long thin braids is looking over at the statue of Kwan Yin, who represents compassion, healing and the essence of female energy. The man in the meeting hall with red carpeting is examining the decorations on the huge bell that a person may ring, after composing a prayer in their mind as to what negativity they want removed from their life. The sound of the bell, whose name is “Meditation”, is supposed to fragment and break up the negativity for you. This hall also has huge drums that will be beaten in a ceremony in May to celebrate the Buddha’s birthday. Look on the Temple website: https://namquangtemple.org and for most of their events, the public is welcome. The man and woman posing for photos in the entry for the meditation hall. This Temple is the location of next month’s Sound Healing Workshop, for member’s only. (For more information on that, see https://sites.google.com/amorc.rosicrucian.org/rosicruciansinoregon/ and look for events on May 3rd and 4th.) The last photo is of the sculpture representing the Death of the Buddha. I took this close-up first, because there is a stripe of darker marble under the Buddha’s chin that goes down the length of its clothed body and I wondered why the sculptors chose to leave in this Yin to the glittering white marble Yang. Also, there was a very small flower, blown from a nearby tree, in the palm of the Buddha sculpture’s hand.
Convocation and Experiment on Vibroturgy @ Frogpond 2pm
April 27th – Sunday- Experiment in Vibroturgy at Wilsonville @ 2PM
What is vibroturgy you may ask? Have you ever picked up something that belonged to someone else and got an impression as to who that person is?
Well, that’s what Rosicrucians call vibroturgy.
“Broadly speaking, vibroturgy is an ability that consists of harmonizing oneself with the “memory’ of a place or an object.”
Every time we’ve done this experiment in the past, members have had impressions of the people behind the objects that are wayyyyy beyond chance guesses.
The Order has many many lessons to help you develop your intuition, and encourages you to practice your intuition often, so you gain confidence in it. This is one more way you can tap the information that is in the vibrations around you. This experiment explains scientifically, EXACTLY, how vibroturgy works and why you need to have been continuously developing your psychic centers.
Please bring some piece of jewelry that is not gender specific that belongs to you or a loved one, and that is worn often.
By this, we mean, no ring that is obviously for a woman, or a man. It could be a small chain, a simple neutral ring that either a guy or a gal could have worn, a watch, or a lapel pin. The Master will choose from the jewelry offered and use them in the experiment.
First time members please arrive by 1:30 so we can show you around and things you need to know for the ritual.
For those that may have missed it, we wanted to share the success of the experience with you from last year:
“At today’s vibroturgy experiment, every person who participated as the one who sensed vibrations from their individual item, and was surprised to find how accurate their impressions were. One held a bracelet, and sensed images of moss, trees and a bridge. The former owner (now deceased) of that bracelet, loved taking photos of moss and trees. One held a necklace, and sensed water, waves and wind. The former owner (now deceased) was a windsurfer. This exercise benefits from being repeated, and accordingly, we’ll schedule it again.”
Schedule 1:30 PM – Doors Open 2:00 PM – Doors Close for Convocation (members only) 3:00 PM – Refreshments
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