Internship at the Seven Ray Institute: Pheonix
LINK is a three week internship for all AHS juniors at the end of April. It gives us the opportunity to gain experience in the world, locally or otherwise. We have the opportunity to reach out to possible mentors on our own and plan our internships. We work a minimum of ninety hours and create a project that encapsulates what we learned.
I interned at the Annual Seven Rays Institute Conference with my grandfather Michael Robbins. The Seven Rays Institute is an organization that educates people on the intricacies of esotericism and the teachings of master DK and Alice Bailey. The Seven Ray Institute was founded on September 9, 1985, to inform the public about a subject that had been virtually unheard of until the late 1800’s when H. P. Blavatsky hinted at the “rays” in The Secret Doctrine. About thirty years later, Alice Bailey reintroduced the subject with much more than a hint, with many books about this idea. The Seven Rays Institute is based on these teachings.
LINK for me was an experience with coming to understand what it’s like to live an exist alone. Coming into LINK I would say I was still very much a dependent child with a work ethic that was laughable. I had the mindset that things would always work themselves out even if I did nothing to better the situation. I also think I had a point of view that revolved around myself and how I would get to places better if I did the work I was given. Being in a place where I was alone in my living situation, at most meals, and in my work was at first very difficult. I am a very social person, and I realized that in the future, working with a team in my workplace will really be the source for a lot of my social outlets. I found myself with a lot more of a clear direction in which I am heading after LINK. I know that I need to be in a field that I am constantly learning and expanding, and that is similar to my internship, but I also want to be in a field I really believe in and that will help other people. I want to help make the world better than when I got here.
I learned how to work with people with many different backgrounds, and of a much different age range than I am, and who had very different beliefs than I did. In the first couple of days that I was at LINK, I was working on unloading and unpacking, and repacking boxes of vases, candleholder, etc. There were hundreds of boxes, and at first, I was incredibly overwhelmed at the workload, and shocked at what was ahead. In the beginning, I would leave every few minutes to clear my head, leaving my team. When I came to the realization that this actually affected the whole process and organization, I learned how to like what I was doing. I learned that life will always be full of things you don’t want to do, and it's about learning how to be happy in all of life's situations, not just the ones you choose to do for fun.
The organization I worked for was constantly emphasizing the importance of spreading love and right human relations as well as the value in equality, all values with which I resonate with heavily. I think that any educational institution that has an impact on people, whether you believe in it or not, is positive if it is spreading beneficial ideas to the world.
I interned at the Annual Seven Rays Institute Conference with my grandfather Michael Robbins. The Seven Rays Institute is an organization that educates people on the intricacies of esotericism and the teachings of master DK and Alice Bailey. The Seven Ray Institute was founded on September 9, 1985, to inform the public about a subject that had been virtually unheard of until the late 1800’s when H. P. Blavatsky hinted at the “rays” in The Secret Doctrine. About thirty years later, Alice Bailey reintroduced the subject with much more than a hint, with many books about this idea. The Seven Rays Institute is based on these teachings.
LINK for me was an experience with coming to understand what it’s like to live an exist alone. Coming into LINK I would say I was still very much a dependent child with a work ethic that was laughable. I had the mindset that things would always work themselves out even if I did nothing to better the situation. I also think I had a point of view that revolved around myself and how I would get to places better if I did the work I was given. Being in a place where I was alone in my living situation, at most meals, and in my work was at first very difficult. I am a very social person, and I realized that in the future, working with a team in my workplace will really be the source for a lot of my social outlets. I found myself with a lot more of a clear direction in which I am heading after LINK. I know that I need to be in a field that I am constantly learning and expanding, and that is similar to my internship, but I also want to be in a field I really believe in and that will help other people. I want to help make the world better than when I got here.
I learned how to work with people with many different backgrounds, and of a much different age range than I am, and who had very different beliefs than I did. In the first couple of days that I was at LINK, I was working on unloading and unpacking, and repacking boxes of vases, candleholder, etc. There were hundreds of boxes, and at first, I was incredibly overwhelmed at the workload, and shocked at what was ahead. In the beginning, I would leave every few minutes to clear my head, leaving my team. When I came to the realization that this actually affected the whole process and organization, I learned how to like what I was doing. I learned that life will always be full of things you don’t want to do, and it's about learning how to be happy in all of life's situations, not just the ones you choose to do for fun.
The organization I worked for was constantly emphasizing the importance of spreading love and right human relations as well as the value in equality, all values with which I resonate with heavily. I think that any educational institution that has an impact on people, whether you believe in it or not, is positive if it is spreading beneficial ideas to the world.