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Events September 2008
When: Thursday, September 18, 2008,
7:00 p.m. (doors open at 6:30) Pauline Hillaire will be sharing values for living from a Lummi perspective. Further details TBA.
Upcoming Events: October 16: Vicki Robin
November 20: Pachamama for Youth
Past Events June 2008 Event When: Thursday, June 12, 2008,
7:00 p.m. (doors open at 6:30) Note: We are meeting on the 2nd Thursday of June, rather than our usual 3rd Thursday
Most of us are aware, on many levels, of the many changes we and our world have begun to experience. THE GREAT TURNING IS HAPPENING NOW! This evening Betty Kellow will highlight our BIONS Theme for this past year, "Awakening the Dreamer", focusing on our presentations about environmental awareness, social justice and spiritual fulfillment. Cyndy Sheldon will talk about the important social, spiritual and ecological movements that are emerging during these times, with a profound story coming out of Russia. Following this we'll facilitate a Joanna Macy** practice about the Great Turning. Details are secret! Come and be surprised! * Observers and participants are welcome
to take part!
May Event BIONS presents a video evening - Eckhart Tolle
What: Eckhart Tolle video: Freeing Yourself from Identification
with Your Mind Following the viewing of this video there
will be discussion about Eckhart Tolle's message and how it relates More at Eckhart Tolle's website: Eckhart with Oprah on YouTube video: The webcast classes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYyHghlHs1k
April Event Bellingham IONS presents Human and Fairy Relations Congress
Preview
This presentation includes two past and present Fairy Congress presenters. They will give an overview of what goes on at the Congress and will share some of its history and give information about current presenters. They will also share their own personal work with the world of nature. The Congress is a relatively small gathering in a secluded basin in the beautiful Methow Valley. It's mostly a campout event including vegetarian food, music and dancing, a fairy parade, a children's area, and a multitude of workshops. The Congress is held June 27-29. Mary J. Getten is a telepathic animal communicator, flower essence practitioner, naturalist and author of?Communicating with Orcas: The Whales Perspective. www.MaryGetten.com Diana Gay Pepper has been communicating with devas and fairies for years. She is co-oowner of Tree Frog Farm on Lummi Island and is a lecturer, spiritual healer and producer of flower essences. www.treefrogfarm.com
When: March 20,
2008, 7:00 p.m. (doors open at 6:30)
http://www.cascadiatraining.com/about/alanseidbio.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Our
theme for this season is February 2008 Event February 21, 2008, 7:00 p.m. (doors
open at 6:30)
"The Pachamama Alliance's Awakening the Dreamer, the BIONS theme for this year, focuses on three concerns enviornmental sustainability, spiritual fulfilment and social justice. This month's video presentation, The Color of Fear, shows how a group of men, dedicated to reaching across racial barriers in an open and honest way, can work through the eons of social injustice that has happened in their lives and histories.
Out of their confrontations and struggles to understand and trust each other emerges an emotional and insightful portrayal into the type of dialogue most of us fear but hope will happen sometime in our lifetime. 1994 & 1997. It turns out that much of what the group in the film talks about in the context of racism is actually fear. "I come from this real strong belief that anger is not a primary emotion. I think hurt is," Wah says. "When hurt is acknowledged and validated, it turns into anger." His grass roots approach to ending racism, one person at a time, has never been tried before. Its goal is to change people's core beliefs first, hoping positive actions will follow. Lee concentrates on using the film for diversity training in the workplace. A group called World Trust brings friends of friends together in their homes. For many of them, the film acts as a catharsis, especially when they see the film's central character, the white man, transform. "I'm deeply hurt that you would consider my race as the oppressor," he tearfully tells the group in the film. What the film does is open doors. "I don't think that there is a way to solve racism as such," one home viewer says. "I think all we can do is exactly what we are doing: work heart to heart." The story of these men and their journey
has so far been seen by half a million people. Producers plan to
take the story to a worldwide audience.
January
2008 Event
December
Event
December 13, 2007 Note: Remember this is your last chance
to become a member and be included in the drawing for the $25 gift
certificate to Wise Awakening. The Praxis Peace Institute is dedicated to radical inquiry, deep dialogue, creative problem-solving, and informed action. The 2007 Conference was “Transforming Culture: from Empire to Global Community”. For more information about the Praxis
Peace Institute and this incredible conference, go to
http://www.praxispeace.org/
Bellingham IONS presents: A DVD evening with Van Jones: Wise Awakenings Orca Room
So we live together in these bubbles that touch, and we call that diversity, but we don’t know each other. And when that bubble breaks for just a second and we’re face to face with each other, it’s very, very hard to hear that reality. Spiritual practice & environmental
commitment What I’m saying is that when you really get what it’s going to take to turn this thing around, the politics of inclusion, of solidarity, of love, of empathy—it’s not optional, it’s the only way we’re going to survive. What’s next: giving up our ignorance
Multiplying Our Impact - Van Jones In the last century, the model change agent was the powerful speaker, as exemplified by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and John F. Kennedy. In the new century, the model change agent will be the powerful listener. By being truly present, deeply listening to others, and intently trying to put ourselves in their reality, we can transcend our differences and find a “third way out” of our common challenges. Drawing on his experience in building powerful coalitions against social injustice and environmental degradation, Van will share his thoughts about what it takes to amplify our power through meaningful connection with others. http://www.leveragepoints.com/pc07/keynotes.html
October Event - Thursday, October 18, 2007 Pachamama: Taking a Leadership Position Wise Awakenings Orca Room After last month’s program about
the work of the Pachamama Alliance, we were left with questions
- What can we in our community do to make a difference? What are
the tools available to us in BIONS to take a leadership role? This talk will be followed by showing and discussing excerpts from the August 2007 IONS International Conference, which will link us to the direction being taken by the larger community of which BIONS is a part. Interactive discussion will follow. Donna Peach has a background in the sciences
and system and software development for commercial applications,
engineering and wireless communications. Ms. Peach has been a senior
executive and high tech manager in both entrepreneurial and large
companies such as Motorola where her career path ranged from Software
Development Manager to International Business Manager for Europe,
Asia and the South Pacific. She has a proven ability to visualize
future products and systems as well as the ability to manage and
bring these to fruition. Membership Drawing! It’s time to renew your membership for the coming year You may sign up at one of our meetings. Membership is $20 for September to August. Once again we are offering an incentive for early membership. Names of those who sign up by the December 13 meeting will be eligible for a drawing to win a gift certificate from Wise Awakening.
September Event - September 20th Bellingham IONS presents When: Thursday, September 20, 2007 Who: Mara Mitchell, Cyndy Sheldon and
Lynnette Allen will present.
Special Notice David Korten recently presented a vision of “The Great Turning”…transforming our collective agreement from Empire…to Earth Community.
Everyone is now being invited to take part in transforming that collective agreement. Please consider attending:
The Pachamama Alliance Symposium:
Saturday, October 27 Cost: $25.00
To register go to http://woodsidespiritualcenter.org The aim of the Symposium is to come to grips with the assumptions that underlie the way we see the world, our place in it, and with what each of us can do - both individually and cooperatively - to move the world in a new direction. The Symposium explores the link between three of humanity’s most critical concerns: environmental sustainability, social justice and spiritual fulfillment. Collectively, it seems we are living inside a dream; sleepwalking in a trance. We live in an outmoded worldview - a way of seeing the world in which unthinkable acts appear reasonable, sensible, and even intelligent. The indigenous Anchuar people of Ecuador, who still live in earth honoring ways, have urged us, for the sake of all life, to “change the dream of the North.” Our root crisis is a crisis of consciousness. Changing our collective dream will be a do-it-yourself-together project that will be accomplished by committed individuals working in concert with one another; tens of millions of us, each willing to think and act in a whole new way. This is one of the generating principles behind the Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream Symposium. Using video clips from some of the world's most respected thinkers, along with inspiring short films, leading edge information and dynamic group interactions, the Symposium allows participants to gain a new insight into the nature of our time, and the opportunity we have to shape and impact the direction of our world with our everyday choices and action. If you are ready to be disturbed, inspired and moved to action, if you are ready to be introduced to a thriving community of like-hearted, deeply committed cohorts who are actively engaged in awakening from and changing the dream of our modern industrial culture, we invite you to come to the Symposium. For more information about the program: The video on site: “A New Dream, The Story of the Pachamama Alliance”, offers a quick and comprehensive overview of this remarkable project.
For more information about the event
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Archive of Past Events June Event
Barbara Gilday - Reflections on Being
a Global Citizen ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ May Event BIONS is co-sponsoring this David
Korten in Bellingham event as our May event. FACING THE FUTURE TOGETHER !
“We stand at a critical time in Earth’s history; a time when humanity must choose its future.”
DAVID KORTEN, author of The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community, and When Corporations Rule the World, is coming to town!
There is a sense of urgency now—with global warming, peak oil, the rising cost of gasoline, shrinking of the middle class, political upheaval, pollution, the unstable economy, the war and on and on. Our community needs to work more closely together as our future concerns are becoming present ones.
Thus we at Sustainable Bellingham, along with other organizations, are hosting David Korten to come talk with us on May 15th. His inspiring talk provides hope for us all during these unpredictable times.
For more information about David Korten’s books and community organization work go to www.sustainablebellingham.org, www.thegreatturning.net, and see the other attachment.
David Korten Presentation and Community Discussion Tuesday, May 15, 7-9PM
$5 Donation Tickets can be purchased
at the Food Co-op,
We Hope You Will Join Us & Bring Your Friends!
Sponsored by Sustainable Bellingham Co-Sponsors: Community to Community Development,
Fourth Corner Exchange, Whatcom Community College, Bellingham
Institute of Noetic Sciences, Wise Awakening, Village Books
Literature Live, Fairhaven College, Community Food Co-op,
The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community
“We stand at a critical moment in Earth’s history, a time when humanity must choose it’s future…We must join together to bring forth a sustainable global society founded on respect for nature, universal human rights, economic justice, and a culture of peace.” – The Earth Charter Empire or Earth Community? That is the choice before us. At this defining moment we face both the opportunity and the imperative to choose our future as a conscious collective act. We can no longer deny the need nor delay our response. A mounting perfect economic storm is fast approaching. A convergence of climate change, peak oil, and the financial instability inherent in an unbalanced global trading system will bring an unraveling of the corporate-led global economy and a dramatic restructuring of every aspect of modern life. We can, however, turn a potentially terminal crisis into an epic opportunity to bring forth a new era of Earth Community grounded in the life-affirming cultural values shared by most all the world’s people and eloquently articulated in the Earth Charter. The Great Turning is an essential resource which cuts through the complexity of our time to illuminate a simple, but elegant truth. We humans live by stories. We are held captive to the ways of Empire by a cultural trance of our own creation maintained by stories that deny the higher possibilities of our human nature—including our capacities for compassion, cooperation, responsible self-direction, and self-organizing partnership. Changing our future begins with changing our stories. A work already underway, it ultimately calls out for the participation of every person on the planet. The Great Turning points the way to the inspiring outcome within our reach.
David C. Korten is founder and President of the People Centered Development Forum, and is co-founder and chair of the Positive Futures Network, publisher of “YES! A Journal of Positive Futures.”
Book praise: "Employing history, psychology, economics, spirituality, and common sense, Korten not only critiques the dilemma we are in as a species, he also shows us doable and workable ways out of our morass. He has created a tour de force -- a call to compassion as much as a blueprint for survival.” - Matthew Fox, theologian and author of Original Blessing
"If you read only one book on how to address the looming ecological and social crises facing humanity, make it this one! ...he outlines a positive and realistic plan for actually creating a just and sustainable global society." - David Cobb, 2004 Green Party United States Presidential Candidate
"...a masterpiece of big thinking to help us find our way in this death-or-life historical moment..." - Frances Moore Lappe', author of Hope's Edge and Democracy's Edge
"a masterpiece! Fascinating, compelling, wonderfully readable, and broad reaching in its arc of history and significance." —Thom Hartmann, author of The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight
More info can be found at www.sustainablebellingham.org, including links.
April Event Moving To Shalom: Field of Peace Thursday, April 19, 2007 Wise Awakening In this event we will explore
healing Hebrew mantras, powerful sounds that hold within themselves
the energies of peace, wholeness and healing. Here is an introduction to Ira
Fein: and here is an excerpt from an article he wrote: Through the Still Portal
Today we are literally assaulted by stimulus from TV, magazines, movies, computers and the pace that we maintain in our lives. This pace takes its toll on our bodies, minds and spirits. It is my belief, based upon my experience, that dementia is a survival mechanism that we humans are using to escape from the overstimulus that pervades our society and the sped-up velocity of our lives.
The more I do this work and see the effectiveness of stillness in helping others, the more I am convinced of this. Stillness is an antidote, as it were, to overstimulus. In the safe, sage and secure environment of stillness, fear is transcended, overactivity in mind and body ceases, and we relax into sweet recognition a wink and a smile.
This wondrous potential to return exists within us all. Our precious souls with dementia can return with the quiet we provide and come home, through the still portal.
March
Event WHEN: Thursday March 15 On January 31, 1971, Navy Captain Dr.
Edgar Come to hear IONS Founder Edgar Mitchell
share his Directions to Wise Awakening: 314 Holly
St. Bellingham More info: http://www.edmitchellapollo14.com/
Bellingham IONS presents: Attuning to Spirit Tuning in to the intelligent consciousness within plants, animals, and other manifestations Dorothy will share with us experiences and stories distilled from decades of communicating with devas and angels. In 1962 Peter and Eileen Caddy, their three children and friend Dorothy Maclean were unemployed and living in a caravan park near the seaside village of Findhorn, Scotland. They decided to make ends meet by planting vegetables - no easy feat with dry sandy soil, and a cold and windswept location that enjoyed only twenty-six inches of rain a year. Then Dorothy discovered she could contact the nature spirits or devas. They instructed her how to make the most of the poor soil, and over time sixty-five different vegetables, forty-two herbs and twenty-one types of fruit flourished in this soil. The forty pound cabbages, eight foot high delphiniums, and roses that bloomed in the snow, attracted horticultural experts near and far, and the internationally acclaimed spiritual community of Findhorn was born. When IBM research scientist Marcel Vogel visited Findhorn he commented, ‘This garden isn’t growing from the soil, only in the soil. The plants are fed by the consciousness of the community.’ As the community grew, Dorothy also attuned in to groups, organizations, cities and countries, and has for years been helping others to make similar attunements. Now, Dorothy travels teaching attunement skills to people in many parts of the world. In times of social and political turbulence, participants will benefit from this opportunity to learn how to tune in to the inner aspects of our human experience. Dorothy's wit, humor, and informal approach spices up her precious gifts of spiritual wisdom. Deva Translations by Dorothy Maclean "This small planet too is turning into its place of rebirth. Each planet at its appointed time and place responds to, and gives form, itself a new outburst of life, and this is now your time. All around you creation reflects the Oneness of life but what of the human mind? What a marvel if it were aiding the great energy release of the time, playing its part in fullest expression." "You humans have a part to play in this [evolution of the planet] because you are the innovators of change....With full cooperation between our kingdoms, developments are beyond imagination. We will play our part. will you play yours?.... Our evolution and yours depends on it." "This concept of Oneness is being stressed everywhere...we emphasize the practical side, the fact that your bodies are one with the environment and that you cannot abuse the Earth without harming yourselves. Oneness is not just on the high or inner levels where God is but is right here and now. Disturbing the pattern of the Earth, the balance of the seasons... is cutting through the ordained outworking of the One and ruining prospects for the future of man. We must repeat and repeat this, we cannot urge it strongly enough. The violence of the elements will be much more violent unless man picks up and acts on this truth [of Oneness]. Love all of life and so join up with it." Notice: Dorothy wll give an all-day workshop hosted by Wise Awakening, Saturday, February 17th, 10.00 am - 4.30 pm at Wise Awakening, 314 East Holly Street, Bellingham,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Maclean
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with the Soul using a Symbolic Language System
Chris Brewer will present the MARI symbol interpretation system that functions as a language to communicate at a deep, spiritual level of consciousness. The system is based upon many cultural and societal representations, including Carl Jung's symbol and color interpretations. Chris' PowerPoint presentation provides examples of how this interpretive system reveals insights into ones' current mental, physical and emotional state. It includes interpretations, cultural design examples and mandala drawings demonstrating how the symbol system uncovers subconscious and spiritual levels. Chris will also speak about the use of symbols as a life-guidance tool and how our American society has used these symbols. Chris Brewer, MA FAMI is a practitioner and trainer with the Mandala Assessment Research Institute, MARI, with a Jungian-based system using colors and symbols as a "language" that Carl Jung called 'a cryptogram--a coded message from the soul.' She also works with music and imagery and has implemented vibroacoustic music programs into medical facilities. Chris is the author of eight books and has worked with IONS founder, Edgar Mitchell as his biographer.
* Directions to Wise Awakening
:Thursday, November 16, 2006 DVD screening and discussion of:
DVD screening and discussion: David Korten has been organizing, researching,
and developing resources for years and his site See also online interviews of David Korten,
The Great Turning of the World
The Post Corporate World,
“My intellectual passion is to apply my knowledge of how culture and institutional structures shape human behavior and to search for ways by which we humans can do a better job of supporting one another in achieving the higher order potentials of our nature.
Following September 11th,… the administration… began a campaign to build support for an invasion of Iraq and spoke openly of using the full power of the US military forces to impose imperial order on the world. These actions made overt a larger imperial agenda and triggered recognition of the extent to which contemporary relationships between people and nations are shaped by the same dominator patterns that became established with the rise of the first empires in the Tigris Euphrates and Nile river valleys some 5,000 years ago.
I decided I must write a book that would reveal the nature and implications of this connection. The result is The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community, which places the step we humans must now take to a new level of species maturity and a creative balance with one another and the Earth in the larger context of the overall sweep of the human experience. “
David Korten: Brief Biography · Served in Vietnam as a captain in the Air Force · BA in psychology, MBA & Ph.D. from Stanford Business School · Taught at Harvard’s Business School · In the 70s & 80s lived overseas working for US AID & a Ford Foundation project · 1992 returned to USA ” to educate Americans on the devastating negative impact on democracy, people and the environment of the US economic and political policies around the world.” · 1994 accepted an invitation to join global activists which led to the formation of the International Forum on Globalization, which deals with the dysfunctions of corporate-led economic globalization. · Co-founded the Positive Futures Network, publishers of YES! , a journal of positive futures. · 2002 contributed to writing a consensus report of the International Forum on Globalization titled Alternatives to Economic Globalization, “the single most comprehensive and authoritative articulation of the design for a just, democratic, and sustainable planetary economic system.” Launched the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE), “as an initiative to advance the emergence of a new economy in the US built on a foundation of locally owned independent businesses free from the dysfunctions of corporate rule.”
October Meeting What: Beyond The Secret: Tools
for Manifesting Your Dreams Beyond The Secret: Tools for Manifesting Your Dreams
How do we use the concepts that are so brilliantly presented in the movie, The Secret, in our daily lives? What tools do we need to shift our perspectives? What tools are useful in accessing our emotional guidance system to let us know what is going on in our lives and find the feeling place of what we really want?
These questions and many more, as well as the scientific basis of many of the concepts presented in the film, will be explored in an interactive, lively discussion format. It is not necessary to have seen "The Secret" in order to gain full value from this presentation.
Presenter, Ariana Khent, is an educator/consultant
on the leading edge of the human potential realm. She has an MA
in Counseling and Educational Psychology. Her background includes
counseling, social work, seminar facilitation, professional organizational
consulting, and she is the co-author of Journey Into Wholeness:
A Map for Living Life Fully.
September Meeting Who: Alan Seid Spend an evening with Alan Seid
who will give us a guided tour of Ken Wilber’s AQAL Model (All
Quadrants, All Levels) a theoretical and practical framework which
attempts to honor and include the knowledge and wisdom from as many
After covering the basic layout of the
integral model, Alan has spent much of his life studying
various tools, processes and practices. He has been studying Wilber’s
work since 2000, and completed Integral Institute’s Integral
Ecology and Sustainability seminar in
June Meeting When: Thursday,June 15, 2006 Please note change of venue for June! For more information about this film go to http://thesecret.tv/home.html Notice: BIONS does not meet in July
and August.
May Meeting Renaissance in Education in Rural
Cambodia The people and work of BIONS are inspirational
in many ways. The Bellingham Cambodia Rural Schools Project is an
example of how seeds planted in the BIONS garden several years ago
germinated into a "spirit acting in the world" experience.
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What: Spiritual Callings Forum
We are sometimes prompted by Spirit to
stretch beyond our ordinary lives to travel to take up a mission
or project that leads us into the unknown. How we receive these
messages and the gifts and challenges of such callings will be addressed
by a panel of four presenters from our community. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ March Meeting When: Thursday, March 16, 2006
Tap into the group's creativity and synergy when you attend this BIONS meeting. The Brain Exchange is an effective problem-solving tool that utilizes the creativity of every participant. It builds cooperation, involvement, and enthusiasm among participants. It is an inclusive process, and differing points of view and backgrounds are welcomed. In many meetings, too much time is
spent exploring problems instead of developing solutions. The
purpose of the Brain Exchange is to provide a safe and spirited
environment for actually solving problems -- personal, spiritual,
community and global -- for an individual or a group. It is fun,
lively, non-threatening and productive. When a group engages in
the Brain Exchange Process, the possibilities expand for taking
action to improve one's self, one's community, and the world. This Brain Exchange will be facilitated by Phyllis Shacter, a local BIONS member, who has facilitated groups and taught communication and problem solving skills for 30 years. She has been a school educator and a consultant to businesses. She is very enthusiastic about group problem-solving tools as a means to improve ourselves and our community. February Meeting When: Thursday, February 16, 2006 Program: Working with the Opposition The world we see is largely of our
making: not the earth, clouds, oceans, mountains and earthquakes,
but the cities, gardens, and highways. If we don't like what
the world has become, if we don't like seeing children starving
for no good reason or people dying from toxic pollution or mangled
bodies in Baghdad, there rises in us a passion to change the world.
The problem is how. January Meeting When: January 19, 2006 Beyond the Edge and Back: Integrating
Spiritual Gifts
Inspirational teacher and spiritual counselor Elke Siller Macartney will share some insights, gleaned from 28 years of personal experience. She will also suggest ways to evaluate, interpret, and integrate what we, as spiritually awakening beings, are beginning to encounter. Elke is currently working on a book series sharing people's experiences with the Divine: Letters from God Dropt in the Streets. For more information about Elke: www.inspirationu.com Bring your experiences and questions! December Meeting When: Thursday, December 15, 2005 THE MARRIAGE OF SCIENCE AND SPIRIT: This program will include... - An exploration of how "The Great Story" - the epic of evolution told as a sacred story - bridges science and spirituality, and how it provides common ground for spiritual seekers of all sorts. - A way of thinking about God, the Cosmos, and All Our Relations that will touch, move, and inspire you to be in action in a grounded, peaceful, yet passionate way. - An exploration of directionality in the cosmos (What God's been up to for billions of years and how evolution has led to greater complexity, cooperation, and interdependence over time) and a look at long-term evolutionary trends and short-term historic trends that are especially hopeful and inspiring for those of us committed to a just, healthy, beautiful, and sustainably lifegiving future. Michael Dowd and his wife Connie Barlow, a popular science writer,
live permanently on the road, teaching and preaching "the marriage
of science and religion for personal and planetary wellbeing"
to groups all across North America. Their website: http://www.TheGreatStory.org,
is one of the best community empowerment tools in the conscious
evolution / green spirituality movement, It is a non-commercial
resource for those working to heal the rift between science and
religion, and for those envisioning a just, healthy, beautiful,
and sustainably lifegiving world for future generations of all species. November Meeting When: Thursday, November 17, 2005 Program: An Evening with Dean and Dudley Evenson Bellingham Institute of Noetic Sciences (BIONS) is pleased to present
an evening with Dean and Dudley Evenson. They will be sharing reflections
from the recent Noetic Sciences national conference, including videos
of Deepak Chopra, Marianne Williamson, Fred Allen Wolf (What the
Bleep) and others. http://www.soundings.com October Meeting When: Thursday, October 20, 2005 Journeys through Nine Dimensions In 1994 Barbara Hand Clow received knowledge of nine realms of
In this workshop, discover the nine dimensions through teachings
that stimulate your mind as well as your body. Barbara incorporates
the latest scientific research with her explanations on each dimension,
Barbara Hand Clow is an internationally acclaimed ceremonial teacher,
astrologer, and author. Gerry Clow is a Polarity Therapy and Craniosacral
practitioner. Together they founded and directed Bear & Company
Publishers in Santa Fe, New Mexico, for seventeen years. Currently
they pursue their spiritual and healing practices in Canada and
the Caribbean. For more information on Gerry and Barbara, visit
www.handclow2012.com September, 2005 Join us to hear Philip Damon talk about his Living the Story Workshop. “Living the Story can be thought of as a philosophical method, combining the core ideas of all sacred traditions with the classical principles of literary narrative. Together, the approach toward narrative journal writing we practice in the workshop (LSW) plus a universal, 'perennial-wisdom' view of the purpose of individual life, constitute a new kind of autobiographical mindfulness. The growth-purpose behind our story’s events is thus the inescapable path of inner transformation, a path we share with the most secular of literary heroes and the most profane of flesh and blood personalities.” Philip Damon spent 34 years on the English faculty of the University of Hawaii, where he taught creative writing workshops and courses in spirituality, such as Mysticism in Literature, Man and God, and The Heroic Venture. He is an ordained minister, a “certified channel,” and has followed numerous mystic, holistic and artistic paths. His column, “Dancing on the Brink,” appears monthly in Organic Press, and his biannual seven-week workshop, Living the Story, begins its fall season on October 8 (cost $100) at Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship. For further information he can be reached at 738-9337.
When: Thursday, June 9, 2005 2020
Vision: Threshold of the New Age At the height of their art, Medieval Persian astrologers developed a very long range predictive technique for the rise and fall of religions, societies, and political rulers. Based on their technique, the Jupiter/Saturn Great Cycle demonstrates 800 year historic epochs composed of 200 year eras, with each era distinguished by a specific development theme. In the year 2020, Jupiter and Saturn will meet in our skies at zero degrees Aquarius (Tropical Zodiac). Their meeting here signals a new 200 year era of social, economic and political developments that will emphasize the mind and ideas, communication and relationships. We may also regard the 2020 Jupiter/Saturn meeting as a threshold of the Aquarian Great Age (New Age). The Jupiter/Saturn Great Cycle and historic correspondences to our current period offer a valuable perspective for understanding current global events and issues, and a basis for effectively charting our way to a life-affirming planetary culture.
This presentation will address the following: a brief description of the astronomy/astrology of the Jupiter/Saturn Great Cycle; historic features of the prior and current Great Cycles, and the transition period of 1980 – 2020; and a consideration of the coming era that begins with the Jupiter/Saturn Mutation Conjunction in Aquarius in 2020. Considering also the current global phenomena of peak oil and climate change, we will seek to discern a positive vision and expectation for this formative cycle that carries into the 23rd Century. A period of small group discussion and visioning will follow the presentation. Karen Steen is a consulting and teaching astrologer at Water Bearer Astrology & Consulting, Bellingham, WA. Karen is NCGR Level II-III Certified, and holds a Master of Nursing in Primary Care from the University of Washington and a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Louisiana State University. She has studied astrology since 1979, and practiced professionally since 2000. Current astrology articles and information about Karen's practice and services are available at www.WaterBearerAstrology.com.
Mayan Mid-light Celebration Thursday, June 2, 2005
Change your Mind, Change your Life:
April, 2005
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