Welcome One and All!

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The legacy and history of Holden Village belong to everyone. For more than four decades, teachers, scholars and artists from all disciplines have given of their own time and spirit to come to this place in the wilderness to freely share their gifts.

The resulting sessions, discussions and seminars have been faithfully recorded by village volunteers and constitute a collection of great breadth and importance.

For the first time, thousands of hours of this material (in .mp3 form) are available online, for free, right from this website. Eventually, this portal will contain most if not all material recorded at Holden Village, and all new audio as it is recorded each summer.

We hope that you will take time to explore this collection, either by searching for particular contents, or by browsing the large representation of presenters and sessions. You will notice that we need your help – both with troubleshooting and testing this new resource, but also with filling in details about presenters and resources in this collection. If you would like to comment or fill in background information on any resource you find on this website, please leave a comment or contact us.

For general questions, such as how to use this archive most effectively, we have developed a short FAQ.

Once again – welcome!

lecture archives

I was astounded to find my lectures on the internet. What a wonderful new asset for past and future visitors to your one of a kind facility.
I can once again enjoy the powerful lectures given at the Village.
I have not visited the Village for many years and miss it a lot.
Some of most renewing and relaxing and life changing times were spent at Holden.
Thank you for your continuing excellence in moving information to the masses.

Neil Gamroth

Ron Jensen

Is there any plan to make these lectures downloadable? Right now I can listen to them on my home computer, but I cannot put them on my iPod so that I can listen in the car, which is my most-used listening area.

Putting these lectures online is an incredible gift! I have ordered more than 100 Holden tapes through the years, but have been out of touch for the last ten or so. Those lecturers who have died will still be able to touch people. It is just great and a true blessing! Thank you!

Downloading files

Ron: Files on the audio archive are easily downloaded. Try this: Right click on the name of the file you want to download and select "save link as". Once you've saved the file to your desktop or somewhere handy, open iTunes and select "file" and "add file to library" (or "import" depending on your version of itunes). If you have more problems or technical questions feel free to contact audio{at}holdenvillage{dot}org. Happy Listening! -Rachel

Many thanks for the Archive!

Sincere thanks for the gift of this archive! - Ann and Peter Cohan