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Watch for details on Fall
2010
5th
ETO Conference
4rd
International Conference On
"Engaging
The Other:"
The Power of Compassion
Conference
Details and Registration
Featuring
over 70 presenters and facilitators,
with Opening
Keynotes by
Huston
Smith,
Michael
Lerner, and Michael
Ostrolenk
Thursday,
November 12
Opening
Ceremony: 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm
San Mateo Marriott Hotel
 Huston
Smith, PhD Keynote:
is holder of 12 honorary degrees, is internationally renowned
as the world's leading philosopher, scholar, and author on world religions,
and has devoted his life to the study of Christianity, Islam, Judaism,
Buddhism, Confucianism, and Hinduism, all of which he believes in. His
book The World's Religions has been the most widely-used textbook
on its subject for over 35 years - selling over 2,500,000 copies globally.
Bill Moyers devoted a 1996 5-part PBS special to his life and work, "The
Wisdom of Faith with Huston Smith." He has produced 3 series
for public television: "The Religions of Man," "The
Search for America," and "Science and Human Responsibility,"
and his films on Hinduism, Tibetan Buddhism, and Sufism have won international
film festival awards. His most recent books include The Way Things
Are, Why Religion Matters, and Cleansing the Doors of Perception:
The Religious Significance of Entheogenic Plants and Chemicals. His
other books include One Nation Under God: The Triumph of the Native
American Church, and Primordial Truth and Postmodern Theology.
He has authored over 80 articles in professional and popular journals.
Web:
www.hustonsmith.net/
 Rabbi
Michael Lerner, PhD Keynote:
author of a national best-seller in 2006, The Left Hand of God: Taking
Our Country Back from the Religious Right (in paperback, HarperSanFrancisco,
2007) is rabbi of Beyt Tikkun synagogue in San Francisco and the editor
of Tikkun magazine: A Bimonthly Jewish and Interfaith Critique of Politics,
Culture and Society (www.tikkun.org). He is the co-author with Cornel
West of a book entitled Jews and Blacks: Let the Healing Begin, and ten
other books. And with Cornel West and Benedictine Sister Joan Chittister,
he is chair of the interfaith Network of Spiritual Progressives.
Email: Web: www.spiritualprogressives.org
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Saturday,
November 14
6:40 pm - 7:00 pm
 Michael
Ostrolenk Keynote:
is a licensed psychotherapist (CA) and founder and national coordinator
for the Medical Privacy Coalition (2001-present). He is co-founder and
National Director of the Liberty Coalition, a transpartisan coalition
of groups working to protect civil liberties, privacy and human autonomy
(2005- present), and co-founder and President of the American Conservative
Defense Alliance, which works to promote a traditional conservative foreign
and defense policy (2008- present). He is a registered Personal Protection
Specialist and Private Investigator in the Virginia, and a public policy
consultant who works on health, education, privacy and national security
related issues. Michael is Vice President for Coalitions for Ron Paul's
Campaign for Liberty and sits on the Steering Committee for Openthegovernment.org.
Email: michaeldostrolenk@gmail.com Web:
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Conference Location
San
Mateo Marriott Hotel
1770
South Amphlett Blvd.,
San Mateo, CA 94402
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