by SICA-USA | Nov 26, 2022 | News
Featured at the 2022 Fungi Film Festival coming in December. Hamilton Pevec’s new film explores the relationships that surround one of the most potent hallucinogenic mushrooms found in the natural world. He looks at how Psilocybe azurescens relates to the people who...
by SICA-USA | Nov 20, 2022 | Events, News
SICA Co-Founder Latifah Taormina is approaching 90 and not slowing down too much. From her: Here is an ad and book release announcement. This wonderful book design — as well as the book’s formatting and this release — was done by Marcus Bolt in the UK. There...
by SICA-USA | Nov 18, 2022 | Events, News
Halstein Stralberg passed away peacefully on Sunday November 6th, 2022 in Seattle, Washington due to heart failure. Halstein was born to Sigurd and Randi Strålberg with the given name Arne on May 12th, 1939, on a farm near the town of Farsund in southern Norway. His...
by SICA-USA | Nov 17, 2022 | Events, News
Thanks to Subud member Dahlia Van Gelder, I was alerted to a new documentary about gender relations in Hollywood and a thesis by a director that says the “visual rhetoric” of camera angles contributes to the objectification of women in Hollywood, along...
by SICA-USA | Nov 7, 2022 | Events, News
From Daniel Stralberg: Halstein Stralberg 1939 – 2022 Pappa may your soul be free and find its way to its true home. You were my father, and also my Subud Brother, Guide, and Mentor. I owe so much of what I am to you. You were 100% dedicated to Subud for 64+...
by SICA-USA | Nov 7, 2022 | News
From Fayra Teeters: As promised, I’ve attached my workshop proposal for Menucha 2022 – I intend to arrive on Saturday, Nov. 12th in time for Circle and pitch my presentation then, but already have the interest of 10 or so people who definitely want to...
by SICA-USA | Nov 2, 2022 | News
The connection between Latihan and song is something we do not consider enough as a community. Today we have a song received by Anne Padilla after the death of her husband, beloved Subud member Evan Padilla as interpreted by a third Subud member, Jim O’Halloran,...
by SICA-USA | Oct 24, 2022 | News
Hollywood’s fixation on “the Male Gaze” continues a legacy of objectification of women by that industry and the culture at large and it takes an effort to rid yourself of this condition once infected by it. This is the thesis behind a new film by...
by SICA-USA | Oct 24, 2022 | News
This is from Andrew Hall, former Chair of Subud Canada, on behalf of the Subud 2028 World Congress Proposal Committee: As you all know, the upcoming Subud World Congress is taking place in Kalimantan in early 2024, about 15 months from now. At the Kalimantan Congress,...
by SICA-USA | Oct 17, 2022 | Events, News
From Lucas Richman: Hi, Paul: I hope this email finds you and yours safe and well. If it is of interest to your readers, I have recently released a new CD of my piano music through Albany Records, “Lucas Richman: Variations.” Lucas Richman: Variations...
