Enter the Realm of Reality!
Come to Peaceful Lake, Powerful Mountain, the 4th Annual peace retreat for activists, world-changers, and future Buddhas — Friends.
We will study the secrets of the way. We will push each other past religion as we've inherited it. We will dare each other to become enlightening beings — not someday, for the sake of everyone alive.
We'll use theater, improv, poetry, Zen, and meditation to burn the fog off our own minds. We will study the words of George Fox — and ancient Buddhist texts even older than his. We'll swim in the pure land of Beecher Lake, which, for three days, is not a metaphor. You have every reason to come. Enter a reality where we share the light inside us.
The 2026 Peaceful Lake, Powerful Mountain Retreat
Oct. 9-11, Beecher House
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Peace Activists Resist 25 Years of the 9/11 Wars
Featuring former Congressman Dennis Kucinich, September 6 in Manhattan
New York, NY — Former U.S. Congressman and presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich will speak at "Peace Activists Resist 25 Years of the 9/11 Wars," a public forum marking the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks. The event takes place Sunday, September 6, 2026, from 1:00 to 4:00 PM at Fifteenth Street Friends Meeting, 15 Rutherford Place, in Manhattan. Admission is free and open to the public. RSVP now - and More Info »
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Fox Machine
The book “Truth of the Heart” is a great collections of the quotations of George Fox. It’s an intimate look at the founder of the Society of Friends, i.e. The Quakers, i.e. the most radical form of Christianity. Fox's words have a living home online, with a random quote generator, here at this site. Anytime you need some Fox, one can simply visit the Fox Machine. https://nonviolence.works/foxmachine