The new series also marks the fast-growing nonprofit's tenth anniversary, and will be the successor to their last popular series, What Is Enlightenment? Held at Duke University in 1997, that series featured the likes of Huston Smith, renowned scholar and author of The World's Religions (over 2 million copies sold); Trappist monk and internationally-recorded organist, Fr. Francis Kline; and top Triangle CEO August Turak. "We filled Duke Chapel with nearly 1700 people during the last series, and we think Collisions with the Infinite will be even better," says SKS member Mary Alice Scott. For details, including times, locations, and ticket availability for the various events, please see www.selfknowledge.org.

"The Self Knowledge Symposium remains at the forefront of the growing national interest in spirituality," says Rob Ayres, professor of philosophy at Newbury College in Boston, Massachusetts. "People all across the country, especially young people, are hungry for meaning—it's on the cover of Time, The Wall Street Journal, on National Public Radio. The SKS continues to provide a community which supports that spiritual search."

Joel Grossman, Coordinator, Health Promotion Program, UMass Boston , agrees. "The model [SKS] provides for the academy [as] a place that supports spiritual growth is an inspiration for me to promote the same here at UMass Boston." Dr. Betsy Alden, Coordinator for Service-Learning, Kenan Ethics Program, Duke University, adds: "[The SKS'] power is in its student leadership, its focus on direct personal experience, and its openness to the world's great wisdom traditions."

Hundreds of Triangle residents, particularly college students, are expected to attend Collisions with the Infinite. "My work with the SKS has given me the courage to live my life the way I know I should," says Rachel Medlock, Duke '00. "So I won't miss a single event in this series."

The events which comprise Collisions with the Infinite feature a variety of perspectives on the spiritual search:

Five Years with a Zen Master by August Turak, former MTV executive and top Triangle software CEO, recounts Turak's first few years spent with Zen Master Richard Rose, who launched Turak into his lifelong spiritual search. "Augie has an uncanny ability to establish an immediate rapport with people and see right through to their soul," says Steve Grubbs, Executive Vice President, BBD&O Advertising, New York.

• 7:30 PM, Tuesday, August 31, Faculty Lounge, Morehead Planetarium, UNC
• 7:30 PM, Thursday, November 4,Von Canon A, Bryan Center, Duke University

Walking the Razor's Edge, also by Turak, features stories of ordinary people in extreme circumstances who find themselves touched by God, Grace, or whatever you want to call it. Turak explores how searching for the Truth can become the most challenging, demanding, intense adventure of your life.

• 7 PM, Thursday, September 2, Grand Ballroom, NCSU Student Center
• 8 PM, Thursday, October 7, Upper East Side, The Marketplace, Duke University

Einstein, Bill Gates, and the Buddha by Kenny Felder, entrepreneur and former Microsoft project manager, recounts Felder's struggle to integrate the intellect with the spiritual in his lifelong search for meaning. "This lecture helped me make sense out of the jumbled thoughts I've had in my head that plague me whenever I take a break and just think about life. It put the pieces together and gave me back the inspiration I thought I'd lost," Sarah Barden, Duke '02.

• 8 PM, Thursday, September 16, Upper East Side, The Marketplace, Duke University
• 7 PM, September 30, The Walnut Room, Student Center, NCSU

Meetings with Remarkable Teachers is an interactive discussion with David Gold, successful trial lawyer, partner in the multi-million dollar software company Raleigh Group International, and lifetime spiritual seeker. Joseph Chilton Pearce, world-renowned author of Crack in the Cosmic Egg calls Gold "[A]n exceptional human, mature, kind, intelligent, responsible, the kind of citizen our society and earth need so badly."

• 7:30 PM, Tuesday, August 24, Faculty Lounge, Morehead Planetarium, UNC
• 7 PM, Thursday, November 11, Room 3118, NCSU Student Center

Gold will also lead Loosen Up! An Introductory Yoga Workshop as part of this event series, as he has practiced and taught hatha yoga at universities across the country for over twenty-five years.

• 7:30 PM, Wednesday, September 8, Von Canon A, Bryan Center, Duke University

The Zen of Writing is a workshop led by Georg Buehler, business executive and author. Buehler was recently selected to be in a new book, The Spirit of Generation X, edited by Steve Dinan, Director of the Esalen's Center for Theory and Research, and introduced by Ken Wilber, author of the best-seller, Spectrum of Consciousness. Registration required—email info@selfknowledge.org to reserve.

• 2-6 PM, Saturday, October 16, Duke University—Location TBA
• October at UNC—Time, Date, Location TBA

For additional information about these events, including ticket information, please visit www.selfknowledge.org or contact Janet Buehler at 919/875-4307, Janet@SelfKnowledge.org.

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The Self Knowledge Symposium Foundation (SKSF) is an educational organization dedicated to encouraging people to consciously develop their own personal, moral and spiritual values and to live according to them. The SKSF creates experiential learning programs and social contexts within which people can explore the deeper questions in life, developing intellectual understanding and personal character in a quest for the life worth living. The Self Knowledge Symposium Foundation advises the SKS campus groups, sponsors a non-student discussion group, and co-sponsors meetings, lectures, retreats and The Symposium spiritual journal. For more information, visit www.selfknowledge.org.