Karen Kington
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Your name | kanta masters |
| Your name in school, if different | Karen Kington |
| kantaji@gmail.com | |
| Website or Facebook URL | www.sourceseminars.com |
| If you're bringing someone to the reunion, please describe your guest | Dennis Holz, spouse. Lifelong work as Managing attorney of a San Diego law firm representing the poor and disenfranchised. Former Mayor of our city (Encinitas), private Superior Court mediator and co-leader of our seminar company. |
| Alhambra elementary school(s) attended | Emery Park |
| Current occupation (e.g., retired, working full/part time, volunteering, caring for family, other) | Semi-retired, still co-leading seminars and retreats, Life-Coaching, Sound-healer |
| Describe your family/extended family | One daughter, Sundari, Product Manager for Slacker Radio. Bright, beautiful, spiritual. The photo on the right, above, is my daughter and me, in my original wedding dress, celebrating at my 25 year Wedding Vow Renewal in 2013. |
| How have you gained knowledge or continued your education after high school? | B.A. from Univ. of Colorado, Masters in Education from College of Notre Dame, AMI & AMS Montessori & Ca. State Teaching Credentials pre-K thru high school, Certified in Sound Healing, Breathwork, and several other alternative therapies. After college I was a Social Worker for the City of Los Angeles and a Parole Agent for the State of CA. Becoming interested in education, I founded two Montessori schools. |
| What would like to share about your life's work? | I have worked in Consciousness since age 24 and co-founded Source Seminars in '99. My prime focus has been to uncover the true meaning of life and assist others to do so. Revelation of our pristine, perfect inner natures has been paramount. Some of my students from Montessori have subsequently attended our seminars for adults and witnessing their flowering Consciousness has been deeply gratifying. |
| What special interests and/or activities have you enjoyed during the last half century? | Meditation, self-growth, Self-Realization as an ongoing process. Traveling to sacred spaces & places and leading group pilgrimages to them. |
| Please share the highlights of the places you've lived or traveled | India six times, including the Kumbh Mela in 2013. Really enjoy the Himalayas. Yearlong training in Montessori Education in India in 1977-78. Countless hidden sacred places in Italy, Israel, Ireland, England, Scotland, Egypt, Bulgaria. Vision Quest with Larry Hobbs in 2010. Incredible to share Awareness & Spirituality with a high school classmate. |
| What is your favorite AHS Memory? | My joyful enthusiasm as a cheerleader. I seem to still be a "cheerleader" in several aspects of my life. |
| What are your favorite books or movies? | Books: Autobiography of A Yogi, God Talks to Arjuna, both by Paramahansa Yogananda, The Far Pavilions by M.M. Kaye, Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon, Valley of Horses by Jean Auel, The Untethered Soul. Movies: The Matrix, Gibson's The Passion of the Christ, In-Laws (original w/Peter Falk/Alan Arkin), Taking Care of Business. |
| What were your favorite songs or artists from 1960 to 1964. What genre of music and type of dance do you enjoy most? | Music: Beatles, I saw her standing there, And I love her, She Loves You. Dick Dale & the Deltones-Miserlou, Let's Go Trippin', Midnight in Moscow (Kenny Bell), Beachboys, Dion, Roy Orbison, Lion Sleeps Tonight (Tokens) Jan & Dean, Four Seasons, Four Tops. Dance: Oldies, Spiritual, Classical (Bach) Dance, Swing, Fast and slow dancing of our youth, Viennese Waltz |
| How do you spend your quality time? | At "Inshallah", our four acre Idyllwild, CA mountain meditation retreat in the incredible stillness and beauty of nature. Sharing the setting & seclusion with family and dear ones is a special treasure. |
| In your life thus far, what stands out as most significant, growth-producing, moving, or heart-opening? | The closer I get to the Divine within me or experience Divinity in others, the more I realize who I/we truly are. There has been nothing more moving, growing, heart-opening or significant than my own Awareness of my (True) Self, and that very same beautiful Self in all others... the Oneness we share. |
| What matters most to you about the life you've lived? | I am getting closer to KNOWING WHO I AM. I am at last beginning to grok the Truth about loving. The Beatles nailed it: Love is all you need. |
| As you move forward into the future, what are your aspirations, hopes, dreams? | My husband and I hope to live in a very small community of like-minded spiritual seekers on the North Coast of California or Southern Oregon in a river valley basin growing our own food, living quietly and peacefully, in deep spiritual practice. |
| What do you still hope to accomplish or experience? (What's left on your bucket list?) | I care deeply about Planet Earth and the Environment. About a good life for EVERYONE. I do what I can to promote peaceful and positive social and environmental change...I have faith and hope the world is Awakening to a better way of living so ALL living beings will enjoy well-being. Travel dreams. Family trip to Iceland Fall 2014 (Aurora Borealis), Machu Picchu, China, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Valley of Flowers (Himalayas). |
| What else would you like to share about yourself? | My motivation in Chairing our 50th Class Reunion was to work with others choosing to make this event one of great inclusion, love, joy...allowing the opportunity for each attending to have an experience they would truly cherish and find both inspiring and solacing in the remaining years of our lives. Lorna and I (along with an amazing team) focused on EACH classmate having the opportunity to attend if they desired...and each to feel special, loved, important. I truly believe each of us is very significant in the WHOLE of the AHS Class of 1964. I and our Committee are open to any suggestions to assist the manifestation of this inclusive, warm, and joyful experience at the Reunion. |
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