Open Sanctuary 2025
Open Sanctuary is a diverse community of people from different traditions and none who are exploring their spirituality together in the modern world through their relationships with silence, each other, the wider community, and the community of the natural world.
2025 is the 20th anniversary of the beginning of Open Sanctuary. Over the past 20 years we have gathered here in the little church that sits at the foot of Gulaga. We forged enduring friendships, cared for the little patch we inhabit, we have sung and kept silence and prayed together and we have laid down memories. This year we will celebrate this anniversary as we continue to enjoy the place and people giving thanks for the life here.
2025 is also a year in which we will see continuing heating of our planet, increasing political volatility and war. Social cohesion is threatened through the employment of ‘rage baiting’, ‘cultivated controversary’ and what is now being termed ‘angernomics’. This is the outrage marketing or anger engineered for profit as a tool of business through social media and the algorithms that increasingly drive human behaviour. Misinformation and disinformation confuse and undermine our capacity to make good decisions for the common good. More and more we need communities that practice loving-kindness, discernment, truth-telling and peace-making. For this we need spiritual practices that clarify our perception and clear inner turbulence.
At Open Sanctuary we are committed to the primary values of Beauty, Goodness and Truth. These values, according to the neuro=psychiatrist and philosopher Iain McGilchrist, are not relative values but are intrinsic to Being itself. In other words that are part of the very fabric of reality. Our human vocation is to live in such a way that we enable the flourishing of those values such that Life may continue to unfold as it ought. Human beings however have a choice. We can be co-creator’s or we can refuse that role and inhibit the flow of divine energy that would energise more life in all its fullness. We recognize how important it is to be part of communities that support one another to live in resonance with these essential values. McGilchrist suggests that there are three essential points of contact needed for life to flourish. They are connection with local community, connection with Nature and connection with the Divine. Open Sanctuary is committed to fostering these connections. We invite you to be part of our community and practice.
Timeless places
“There are places that call us
to still and be…..
places of reflection
quiet, wild, timeless
that overflow the soul
and draw us in
to the Silence of our own heartland.”
Noel Davis
If you would like to be included on our e-mailing list please let us know by contacting Linda at [email protected]
With love,
Linda & The Team
Open Sanctuary, Commonwealth Bank Narooma, BSB 062652 Account 10094985
Open Sanctuary, Tilba Tilba | Tilba Tilba NSW | Facebook
Open Sanctuary 2025
Open Sanctuary is a diverse community of people from different traditions and none who are exploring their spirituality together in the modern world through their relationships with silence, each other, the wider community, and the community of the natural world.
2025 is the 20th anniversary of the beginning of Open Sanctuary. Over the past 20 years we have gathered here in the little church that sits at the foot of Gulaga. We forged enduring friendships, cared for the little patch we inhabit, we have sung and kept silence and prayed together and we have laid down memories. This year we will celebrate this anniversary as we continue to enjoy the place and people giving thanks for the life here.
2025 is also a year in which we will see continuing heating of our planet, increasing political volatility and war. Social cohesion is threatened through the employment of ‘rage baiting’, ‘cultivated controversary’ and what is now being termed ‘angernomics’. This is the outrage marketing or anger engineered for profit as a tool of business through social media and the algorithms that increasingly drive human behaviour. Misinformation and disinformation confuse and undermine our capacity to make good decisions for the common good. More and more we need communities that practice loving-kindness, discernment, truth-telling and peace-making. For this we need spiritual practices that clarify our perception and clear inner turbulence.
At Open Sanctuary we are committed to the primary values of Beauty, Goodness and Truth. These values, according to the neuro=psychiatrist and philosopher Iain McGilchrist, are not relative values but are intrinsic to Being itself. In other words that are part of the very fabric of reality. Our human vocation is to live in such a way that we enable the flourishing of those values such that Life may continue to unfold as it ought. Human beings however have a choice. We can be co-creator’s or we can refuse that role and inhibit the flow of divine energy that would energise more life in all its fullness. We recognize how important it is to be part of communities that support one another to live in resonance with these essential values. McGilchrist suggests that there are three essential points of contact needed for life to flourish. They are connection with local community, connection with Nature and connection with the Divine. Open Sanctuary is committed to fostering these connections. We invite you to be part of our community and practice.
Timeless places
“There are places that call us
to still and be…..
places of reflection
quiet, wild, timeless
that overflow the soul
and draw us in
to the Silence of our own heartland.”
Noel Davis
If you would like to be included on our e-mailing list please let us know by contacting Linda at [email protected]
With love,
Linda & The Team
Open Sanctuary, Commonwealth Bank Narooma, BSB 062652 Account 10094985
Open Sanctuary, Tilba Tilba | Tilba Tilba NSW | Facebook