Video & Lectures

Lectures

Erdahaus Workshop Lectures 2002 – Day 1

Praying with Images – Lecture 3: Vegetation Deities

Erdahaus Workshop Lectures 2002 – Day 2

Praying with Images – Lecture 3: The Black Madonna and Trinity

Erdahaus Workshop Lectures 2002 – Day 3

Praying with Images – Lecture 2: Shamanic Journeys

Praying with Images – Closing Circle: Sacred Objects

Erdahaus Workshop Lectures 2002 – Day 4

Praying with Images – Lecture 3: Blood Mysteries

Making and Being Lectures – Kanuga 1992

Making and Being: Lecture 3

In 2002, I started following Meinrad around the country and videotaping her lectures. That same year, I also filmed one of her four-day “Praying with Images” workshops in Albuquerque. For years, I’ve wanted to make these widely available, but it’s a huge undertaking. We have nearly 50 hours of audio and video tape and hundreds of slides to work on. But we have begun! We have engaged professionals to edit the tapes into viewable segments.

We have begun to post the lectures from one of Meinrad’s 2002 four-day workshops at Erdahaus. With these presentations, we benefit from her extensive travels and knowledge of the Divine Feminine. Those of you who were lucky enough to attend any of Meinrad’s lectures will probably recognize these wonderful images.I’m very excited that we are able to share her wonderful ideas with our weary world.

To create the “Mystery of Being and Making” videos, we took audiotapes from Meinrad’s 1992 lectures at the Journey Into Wholeness conference at Kanuga Conference Center in the mountains of North Carolina, added the images that she describes, and subtitles that you can turn on or off. It is thrilling to hear Meinrad speaking again–describing her own work and exploring the Feminine Divine throughout history.

I hope that after watching these first segments you will want to see more. You can ensure that there will be more by making a gift to the Meinrad Craighead Project. You made it possible for us to make the Meinrad Craighead: Praying with Images documentary. Please help us share Meinrad’s lectures with the world.

To make a contribution, send a check to RCWMS, 1202 Watts St., Durham, NC 27701 with “Meinrad” on the memo line. Or give online at www.rcwms.org. Click the Donate button and select “Meinrad Craighead Project” from the Designations.

Thank you. I hope you will enjoy hearing Meinrad again as much as I have!

Amy Dosser

Praying with Images

A documentary about artist and teacher, Meinrad Craighead: Praying with Images tells the story of Craighead’s artistic and spiritual pilgrimage which began in her native Arkansas, where her greatest influences were the Catholic Church, the natural environment, and her grandmother who encouraged her to draw and paint.

The documentary includes nearly 100 of Craighead’s paintings, shown in beautiful detail. Viewers will see images that have flowed from her dreams and visions of the Divine Feminine over the last 50 years, experience her moving images and stories of the devastating 2003 bosque fire, and travel with her on a recent pilgrimage to visit her beloved Black Madonna of Montserrat in Spain.

“If I didn’t paint,” Craighead says, “I wouldn’t know where I am in the world.” Her truly original art spans time and distance and tradition to combine imagery from Catholicism, Native American shamanism, and ancient mythology. Add to the mix her own dreams and mystic visions and the result is a unique synthesis of energy, color, and connectedness.

DVDs of Praying with Images can be purchased from the Meinrad Project web site.

You can stream (rent or buy) Praying with Images on Vimeo.