Events

Divine Compassion in a Broken World: 
Holy Longing for Mother Mary

The Center at Mariandale, Ossining, NY
Saturday November 14, 2026
10am-4pm

If we are to be healed, we must release the sacred sound of our pain—the cry of the mother in us at the agony of life’s brokenness (John Philip Newell) 

This program is an invitation for deepening connection with Holy Mary Mother of God. Regardless of your religious orientation, the Blessed Mother archetype is a psycho-spiritual resource at the Deep Heart of Being, reorienting us toward hope and resilience in a chaotic and frightening world. 

Our cultural landscaped has been scarred by discord, divisiveness and chaos. Sensitive and aware people are experiencing a heightened level of spiritual emergency caused by toxic bombardments upon the world stage. The inner world of the psyche is increasingly threatened by chronic levels of fear and alienation. The experience of peril is difficult to escape, especially when fear leads to widespread poverty of imagination and disconnection from the soul’s full wingspan of creative expression. 

The archetypal presence of Eros is a spiritual instinct at the root of our being, symbolizing the soul’s ancient longing and force of desire that wishes to connect. This movement of Holy Longing is the energy of divine imagination that mobilizes our attraction toward the healing presence of the Blessed Mother. Re-igniting this power of the soul mobilizes hope, restores our ability to be “strong in our brokenness” and facilitates our receptivity to the voices and movements of renewal in creation, in Mother nature, and in the depths of our own psyche.

In times of great uncertainty and alienation the instincts of the deep unconscious rise up into consciousness and call out for recognition and connection. Eros, in the depths of the soul, ignites the vitality of life force, the core powers of imagination, and the ancient desire of Holy Longing. In Jungian Psychology this is called the archetypal encounter with the Deep Self. This is the innate healing dimension of the Great Mother that hears the cries of the world and rises within us with compassion, renewal and wisdom. 

You will find her in your inner depths and in the beautiful landscape of Rivers and Mountains at Mariandale Spiritual Center as Sacred Soul and Sacred Nature.  

INSPIRATIONS

*Mystic Poetry

*Holding Space for movements of the Deep Heart

*Hope in the dark

*Mandala Meditation (Divine Palace Visualization)

*Heart Sanctuary Meditation (Embodiment)

*Divine Mother Meditation (Opening to Healing)

Mother Mary: Goddess Within Us

Reclaiming the Feminine Energy of God

Saturday, October 4, 2025
The Center at Mariandale

In the collective psyche of contemporary spirituality, a new movement of consciousness is longing to reclaim connection with the denied and forgotten Divine Feminine.

In this program we seek to return our souls to the embrace of Mother Goddess Mary in contemplative and prayerful devotion. We offer meditation focused on the Heart of Soulful Imagination, the Heart as the portal to Presence.

We are informed by Jungian Psychology and the movement toward balance and integration of the Feminine-Masculine aspects of God at the center of creation. (Craig Ciaran Lennon PhD)

1) The antiquity and prevalence of the Goddess (ISIS, INANA, ISHTAR)

2) Mandala Meditation (immersion in the space of the sacred feminine)

3) Blessed Mother Meditation (Mary Mother of Sorrows: protector, healer, transformer)

4) Poetry of mystic vision

5) Small group inquiry

Mary Mother of God, Has ancient origins in the lineage of goddesses. She resonates with the primal human longing for comfort, protection from fear and suffering, and the desire for connection with the transcendent mystery of love and compassion. She is savioress, alchemical container for transformation, and she is present and accessible to us in this painful earth dimension.

White Tara Healing Meditation:
Awakening The Innate Treasure of Our Hearts
With Craig Ciaran Lennon, PhD 

September 6, 7, 13, & 14th at 11:00am

Tashi Kyil Tibetan Center, 875 RT 28 Kingston, NY

White Tara is the female Buddha of compassion and wisdom. In this devotional meditation, the mind resonates with deepening poetic contemplation and we find White Tara in the deep sanctuary of our hearts. We abide there in lovingkindness, compassion, openness, and deep respect for all sentient beings. When we immerse ourselves in the boundless radiance of the great mother Tara, in her ocean of primordial pure consciousness, we realize we are never separate from her love.

Holding Sacred Space with the Divine Mother
Craig Lennon, PhD & Nina Cannizzaro, PhD

Saturday, March 15, 2025 10:30AM - 4:00PM
The Center at Mariandale, Ossining, NY

The Blessed Mother Mary appears to us when the world is broken and frightening. The Divine Mother of Buddhism, White Tara, is similarly sensitive and more manifest in our awareness when she hears the cries of the universe rising up.

When our souls are troubled, these Beloved Mothers offer us the embrace of protection and unlimited compassion. In this experiential program, we explore the ancient healing presence of the Divine Mother who in current times is appearing more and more frequently to individuals as apparitions, transformative dreams, and numinous experience. When we call upon the Divine Mother in prayerful and deepening Contemplation, she leads us from fear to freedom, from despair to wisdom, from alienation to the healing embrace of boundless love and compassion for our own souls and for the tears of the world.

We will explore:
1) Ancient origins of the Great Mother Goddess.
2) Practicing Meditation (Quieting the Mind) and Contemplation (Activating the Archetypal Healing Imagination).
3) The Divine Embrace of Protection, Solace, Purification, Forgiveness, Self-Compassion.
4) A Clear Outline for your Spiritual Practice of Connecting with the Creative, Transformative and Healing Energy of the Divine Feminine.

"When we call upon the Divine Mother, we find her within ourselves. She is the movement of creation, the source of all transformation, healing and love."

~ Craig Ciaran Lennon, 2023 (Mystic Connection with the Queen of the Universe)