2026 NEW YORK SOUL ADVENTURE ECKANKAR SEMINAR
Explore the Reality of Your Spiritual Experiences!
A Weekend of Discovery
Friday 4:00 pm Registration Opens
FRIDAY EVENING
RECOGNITION
Entering a New World of Being
“If we follow Truth explicitly we will realize an awareness of that something within us, which is eternal and deathless, indestructible, calm and wise.”
—Paul Twitchell, The Flute of God, pg. 128
FRIDAY EVENING PROGRAM
Host: Natasha Reynald
6:45 pm – 7:00 pm Ed and Ellie Bloom / ECK Fine Arts Slide Show
7:00 pm – 7:15 pm HU Chant – Mary Ann Baxter
7:15 pm – 7:30 pm Welcome from the RESAs and our Featured Speakers
7:30pm – 7:35 pm Creative Arts: The Heart of Love – Stan Burgess, Tom McCoy, Emma Laurence and Arlene Forbes
7:35 pm – 8:20 pm Workshop – Upgrade Your Spiritual Software and Raise Your Spiritual I.Q. Facilitator: Larry Siegel
8:20 pm – 8:30 pm Creative Arts: The Loving Heart – Melody Territo and Friends Simple Gifts – Spencer Smith
8:30 pm – 9:00 pm Keynote Talk: The Spiritual All-You-Can-Eat Buffet Laura Blank
SATURDAY MORNING & AFTEROON
EXPERIENCING
Expanding Beyond Perceived Limitations
“If the karma of man has brought him nothing more than a capacity to love, then he has not lived in vain for a thousand past lives.”
—The Shariyat-Ki-Sugmad, Book Two, p. 81
HIGH INITIATES MEETING Serving in the New Cycle (ID required)
Hosts: Linda and Paul Morelli
8:00 am – 9:00 am All HI Gathering – Featuring a video by Sri Doug Kunin
INITIATES MEETING A Whole New World (For current, active students of Eckankar)
Host: Barb Russo
9:00 am – 9:10am Hands and hearts, He is always there – The Ivory Coast Band / ECK Fine Arts Slide Show
9:10 am – 10:10 am Video by Sri Doug Kunin
10:10 am – 10:25 am Talk – Everything is the Same but Different Fran Blackwell and Renate Siegel
10:25 am – 10:30 am Creative Arts: Humor – Will Goodwin
10:30 am – 10:45 am Talk – Service: The Ticket to Eternal Life Sue Keck
10:45 am – 11:10 am Panel: Consciousness in the New 60-year Cycle of Light and Hope
Panelists: Harold Huggins, Ellen Noel, Lydia Shayne, Tom Lloyd
Moderator: Nikki Huggins
FOR NEWCOMERS & GUESTS
10:00 am – 11:10 am Have You Had a Spiritual Experience? – A Spiritual IQ Event Facilitators: Lisa and Chris Gage
11:15 am – 11:30 am Break
SATURDAY MORNING PROGRAM
11:30 am – 12:30 pm Workshop: Explore the Reality of Your Spiritual Experiences Facilitators: Stan and Jane Burgess
11:30 am – 12:30 noon ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS
ROUNDTABLE FOR NEWCOMERS:
How To Awaken to Higher Consciousness
GENERAL ROUNDTABLES:
The Answer is in Your Dreams
Your Life’s Purpose: Being a Beacon of Light and Sound in the World
How the Secret Voice of God Leads Your Home
What is Your Center of Gravity in Times of Change
When a Final Passing Comes to One We Love
ROUNDTABLES FOR HIGH INITIATES OF ECK:
Never Give Up Your Goal of God Consciousness
Being a Golden Leaf to All You Meet
Be Yourself and Serve All Life–a Step Toward Mastership
LUNCH BREAK & FREE TIME 12:30 – 2:30 pm
SPECIAL FEATURE: Catered lunch in restaurant and overflow rooms with Live Music Performances
SATURDAY AFTERNOON PROGRAM
2:45 pm – 4:00 pm Satsang Intensive: Thriving on the Shores of a Whole New World Facilitators: Arlene and Aubrey Forbes
2:30 pm – 4:00 pm Workshop: Enliven Your Spiritual Exercises Facilitator: Mary Carroll Moore
2:30 pm – 3:30 pm ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS
ROUNDTABLE FOR NEWCOMERS:
How To Awaken to Higher Consciousness
GENERAL ROUNDTABLES:
The Answer is in Your Dreams
Your Life’s Purpose: Being a Beacon of Light and Sound in the World
Spirituality in Relationships
How the Inner Master Works with Me and Walks with Me
Creative Techniques to Go Beyond the Mind
ROUNDTABLES FOR HIGH INITIATES OF ECK:
Never Give Up Your Goal of God Consciousness
Being a Golden Leaf to All You Meet
Be Yourself and Serve All Life–a Step Toward Mastership
FOR NEWCOMERS & GUESTS
3:30 pm – 4:40 pm Have You Had a Spiritual Experience? – A Spiritual IQ Event Facilitators: Mark Richardson and Jeanne Suggs
DINNER BREAK & FREE TIME 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm
SATURDAY EVENING
BECOMING
Our Emersion into All Life
“The only way we can find truth while in this physical body is to seek it beyond these planes. This is the higher truth that is always beyond the limitations of the physical worlds. In order to do this, the consciousness must be raised – another expression of Soul Travel – into the state where we hear, where we realize, where we can feel, with the senses of Soul, that higher quality called Truth.”
—Paul Twitchell, ECKANKAR The Key to Secret Worlds, pg. 166
SATURDAY EVENING PROGRAM
Hosts: Arlene and Aubrey Forbes
6:50 pm – 7:00 pm Tom McCoy / ECK Fine Arts Slide Show
7:00 pm – 7:05 pm MC Welcome and HU
7:05 pm – 7:25 pm Talk: Soul’s Awakening to the Speed of Love Paul and Linda Morelli
7:25 pm – 7:45 pm Talk: The Secret Universe of Soul Amanda Amend
7:45 pm – 7:55 pm Creative Arts: Love Will Find a Way – Tim Van Ness / I Am Soul – Becky Williams and Friends
7:55 pm – 8:25 pm Keynote Talk – Your Personal Call to Spiritual Growth Stan and Jane Burgess
8:25 pm – 9:10 pm Special Video from Sri Doug Kunin
9:30 pm – 11:00 pm ECK DANCE PARTY: Larry Siegel
SUNDAY MORNING
SERVING
Giving to Life: Key to Love, Growth and Mastership
“There is nothing to compare with the feeling of being of service to life. Once we get into the higher states of awareness, a dramatic change takes place: Never again are we satisfied to serve only ourselves. In one way or another, we must serve all life.”
—Harold Klemp, The Eternal Dreamer
SUNDAY MORNING PROGRAM
Host: Robin Wildes
9:00 am – 9:20 am HU Chant: Tara Gangaram
9:20 am – 9:30 am The ECK Melodies of Persia / ECK Fine Arts Slide Show
9:30 am – 9:50 am Talk: Find Your Personal Universe Within Emma Laurence and Bruce Fuller
9:50 am – 9:55 am Creative Arts: The Wake-Up Call – Larry Siegel
9:55 am – 10:15 am Talk: Breaking Out of Your Comfort Zone Alain Le Guillou
10:15 am – 10:35 am Panel: Using the ECK Teachings to Become Whole – Tips and Tricks
Panelists: Laura Blank, Stan Burgess, Jane Burgess, Amanda Amend
Moderator: Rodney Jones
10:35 am – 10:45 am Creative Arts: Calling My Name, Stones in My Path The Northeast ECK Vocal Ensemble
10:45 am – 11:15 am Keynote Talk: Initiation – A Treasure Beyond Measure Rodney Jones