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Events
September 2008
Blueprint for Living
Lummi Wisdom and Values
When: Thursday, September 18, 2008,
7:00 p.m. (doors open at 6:30)
Where: Wise Awakening's Orca Room, 314 E. Holly St., Bellingham
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)
Where: Wise Awakening's Orca Room, 314 E. Holly St., Bellingham
Note: We are meeting on the 2nd
Thursday of June, rather than our usual 3rd Thursday
The Great Turning is Happening Now!
A Discussion and an Experiential Evening*
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!
**Joanna Macy, "has developed an international following over
the course of 40 years as a speaker and workshop leader on Buddhist
philosophy, systems theory and deep ecology. She is the author of
many books, the most recent being: COMING BACK TO LIFE: Practices
to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World". Joanna coined the concept
The Great Turning some time ago, and her friend David Korten used
it as the title of his important book.

Joanna Macy
May Event
BIONS presents a video evening
- Eckhart Tolle

What: Eckhart Tolle video: Freeing Yourself from Identification
with Your Mind
When: Thursday, May 15, 2008, 7:00 PM (doors open 6:30)
Where: The Orca Room at Wise Awakening, 314 E. Holly St
Following the viewing of this video there
will be discussion about Eckhart Tolle's message and how it relates
to the times in which we live.
More at Eckhart Tolle's website:
www.eckharttolle.com
Eckhart with Oprah on YouTube
video: The webcast classes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYyHghlHs1k
  
April Event
Bellingham IONS presents
When: April 17, 2008, 7:00 p.m. (doors open at 6:30)
Where: Wise Awakening?s Orca Room, 314 E. Holly Street, Bellingham
Human and Fairy Relations Congress
Preview
Mary Getten and Diana Gay Pepper
For the past 7 years people have been gathering at the Human
and Fairy Relations Congress to celebrate and renew our connection
with the spirits of the natural world. Our specific mission is to
increase communication and cooperation between humans, nature spirits,
devas and the fairy realm. All ancient earth-based religions are
founded on this concept of cooperation and gratitude for our interdependency
on each other.
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
March 2008 Event

What: Alan Seid presents
an introduction to a unique, exciting leadership training program
for youth he has brought to Bellingham - SGLA,
Sustainable Global Leadership Alliance
When: March 20,
2008, 7:00 p.m. (doors open at 6:30)
Where: Wise Awakening's Orca Room, 314 E. Holly St
If you are interested in the future of humanity and the planet .
. .
If you want to be involved in an incredible organization and program
for our community?s young leaders . . .
or
If you know any young adults (16-22) who are interested in making
a difference and participating in the world . . .
then this presentation is for you!
SGLA - Sustainable Global Leadership
Alliance produces a cutting edge leadership program for young
adults, with a focus on sustainability work and consciousness transformation.
Alan Seid, SGLA Director for Bellingham and Whatcom County, will
present about SGLA, including its history, purpose, and curriculum.
A couple of short video clips of students who recently completed
the SGLA program will be shown, and there will also be Q&A and
an open discussion, time permitting.
http://www.cascadiatraining.com/about/alanseidbio.html
Alan Seid has been a student of sustainability and spirituality
since 1989. The breadth of his studies and experience covers a wide
variety of tools, processes and methodologies, of which he has achieved
depth and mastery in a few. Alan owns Bodhi Creek Farm, an aspiring
Integral Sustainability learning center in the Mt Baker Foothills.
He is currently the Bellingham-Whatcom County Director for SGLA:
http://www.sgla.org/
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Our
theme for this season is
Awakening the Dreamer, Changing The Dream
February 2008 Event
February 21, 2008, 7:00 p.m. (doors
open at 6:30)
Wise Awakening?s Orca Room, 314 E. Holly St., Bellingham

Video Presentation:? THE COLOR OF FEAR
Directed by Lee Mun Wah.
"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.

Eight North American men - two African American, two Latinos, two
Asian American and two Caucasian were
gathered by director Lee Mun Wah for a dialog about the state of
race relations in America as seen through their eyes. The exchanges
are sometimes dramatic, and put in plain light the pain caused by
racism in North America. -F. Guerini
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
When: January 17, 2008, 7:00 p.m.
(doors open at 6:30)
Where: Wise Awakenings Orca Room, 314 E. Holly St., Bellingham

Linda Adler: Memories of a Dream Change Journey
A 9-Day Expedition to Ecuador with John Perkins, co-founder of The
Pachamama Alliance
In August 1993 I accompanied John Perkins on a Dream Change
Coalition Journey that combined ecological studies, the preservation
of the rain forest and the learning of shamanic techniques. We visited
mountain villages, the worlds highest active volcano, and
hiked deep into the Amazon through ancient forests to a Shuar home.
A similar expedition followed when Bill and Lynne Swift accompanied
John, after which the Swifts and John co-founded the Pachamama Alliance.
During this awesome adventure to the Andes and Amazon, we
had the privilege of participating in the unique healing practices
of four different shaman and learned techniques for understanding
dreams and turning them into reality. Experience the beauty of this
exotic land, its people, and the magic and wonder of these shaman
ordinary people with extraordinary power. Join me as I share
memories and photographs of this exciting, spiritual, life-changing
experience.
LINDA ADLER, LCSW (retired) moved to Bellingham in August 2005 after
closing her 20-year psychotherapy practice in Miami. Linda is Past-President
of the International Association for Research and Regression Therapies
(IARRT) and is certified as a Past Life Therapist by the International
Board for Regression Therapy (IBRT). A student and teacher of multi-cultural
shamanic practices, Linda has traveled extensively to participate
in the healing methods of North and South American shaman. She was
given the name Moon Daughter and initiated as a ceremonial
pipe carrier and teacher.
Linda combines past-life regression and shamanic techniques in her
private sessions and workshops. She has presented at conferences
in Peru, Egypt, Bali, Greece, Tuscany, the Islands of Malta, Gozo
and St. Croix, and on cruises to the Mediterranean, Alaska and the
Caribbean. She can be reached in Bellingham at 360-714-8905 or email:
lindadler@aol.com.
Bellingham IONS is a community group of the Institute of Noetic
Sciences.
December
Event
Journey to Croatia:
The Praxis Peace Conference
with Paige Gronhovd
and
Music for Peace with Dean & Dudley Evenson

Empowering our intention for personal and planetary peace through
music , movement and meditation
December 13, 2007
Wise Awakenings Orca Room
314 E. Holly Street - Bellingham
7 p.m. - Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
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.
In
Paiges own words: I am a community member who felt called
to Croatia, and attended a peace conference there in June of 2007.
The event was organized by the Praxis Peace Institute and cosponsored
by IONS. It was my first conference, my first time in Croatia, and
my first acquaintance with Praxis. I felt strongly that although
I attended for my own personal reasons, I had a responsibility to
my community to represent them well and report back my experiences
once I returned home. I met and heard some amazing people during
that week, and am pleased to share my experiences with the IONS
community. I am a local business owner and believe in making global
issues, concepts, and movements relevant to people in their own
local communities. This talk is intended to further such ends.
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/
The Evensons website is Soundings of the Planet, http://www.soundings.com/
 
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Bellingham IONS presents:
A DVD evening with Van Jones:
Spiritually Fulfilling, Ecologically Sustainable AND Socially
Just?
Wise Awakenings Orca Room
314 E. Holly Street - Bellingham
7 p.m. - Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
Van Jones is the founder of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights,
a racial justice organization based in Oakland, California, that
works for positive alternatives to incarceration and violence in
urban America. He is also a passionate advocate for the environment
and for responsible business. Van has served on numerous governing
boards, including Rainforest Action Network, WITNESS, Bioneers,
the New Apollo Project, and the Social Venture Network. His efforts
have earned him many honors, including the Reebok International
Human Rights Award, the Ashoka Fellowship, and the Rockefeller Foundation
Next Generation Leadership Fellowship.
See the New York Times interview: Van Jones' The
Green Collar Solution
Highlights from Van Jones speech at the the Pachamama Alliance
Awakening the Dreamer Global Community Gathering. Reprinted
with permission from the Pachamama Alliance.
So we live together in these bubbles
that touch, and we call that diversity, but we dont know each
other. And when that bubble breaks for just a second and were
face to face with each other, its very, very hard to hear
that reality.
Spiritual practice & environmental
commitment
Now, it is literally impossible for most white people to hear people
of color speak about our pain, just literally impossible. The only
people who have a chance to pull it off, are people who have a spiritual
practice, who have a meditation practice, who have a contemplative
practice, who have the ability to stay present, even when its
difficult and know that if I can just stay present, if I can just
keep my mind calm and at peace and still through this painful moment,
some wisdom is going to emerge. And theres going to be some
insight that I had no idea was out there for me, if I can just stay
present. So your spiritual practice and your environmental commitment,
are the two rocks, the two anchors, the two pillars that will let
you move through this.
What Im saying is that when you
really get what its going to take to turn this thing around,
the politics of inclusion, of solidarity, of love, of empathyits
not optional, its the only way were going to survive.
Whats next: giving up our ignorance
Theres a pathway back to community that we have to walk. I
have to give up something, I have to give up my right to be mad
at white folks, cause thats not going to make a difference
for my child. But white people have to give up something too, which
is their right to stay ignorant about all of this. You have a perfect
right to be ignorant about all of this and youll be great
people, honestly. You could lead big environmental organizations,
you could lead spirituality retreats, you could do all kinds of
stuff and you will get cookies and congratulations and people will
cry at your funeral. You have a perfect right to not care about
any of this. There just wont be any human family left.
Nov 7, 2007 - Pegasis Conference - Seattle
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
Presented by Donna Peach, Vancouver BC IONS Coordinator
Wise Awakenings Orca Room
314 E. Holly Street - Bellingham
7 p.m. - Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
After last months 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?
Frequently when an initiative is started and spreads rapidly to
many communities, there is some diffusion of focus and number of
attempts to move forward in order to create meaningful results.
This evening is intended to create a focussed approach to making
a difference and to serve as a model for other communities to follow.
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.
Donna leads the Vancouver, BC, IONS group and is also one of the
three coordinators for the NW IONS Community Leaders.
Membership Drawing!
Its 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
Exploring The Trance We Are In:
An orientation and introduction to the Pachamama Alliance's
Awakening The Dreamer, Changing The Dream Symposium that will be
coming to Bellingham on Saturday, October 27th.
http://woodsidespiritualcenter.org
(Scroll down to see invitation)
Where: Wise Awakenings Orca Room
314 E. Holly Street - Bellingham
When: Thursday, September 20, 2007
7 PM - doors open at 6:30 PM
Who: Mara Mitchell, Cyndy Sheldon and
Lynnette Allen will present.
This will be an evening to see a short film (12 minutes) and learn
more about the symposium.
Cyndy will facilitate an engaging guided meditation process and
group sharing around the theme of the Symposium. Discussion afterward
http://awakeningthedreamer.org
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:
Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream
Saturday, October 27
9:00 to 5:30 (Doors open at 8:30)
Woodside Spiritual Center
2224 Yew Street Road, Bellingham WA
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 humanitys 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:
http://awakeningthedreamer.org/
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
itself:
call Leslie, 360-733-4356
Cosponsored
by: Woodside Spiritual Center,
Sustainable Bellingham, and Bellingham IONS
Archive of Past Events
June Event
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June Event
Bellingham IONS presents
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Barbara Gilday - Reflections on Being
a Global Citizen
Thurs. June 14th, 7-9 - doors open at 6:30
at Wise Awakening
(on Holly just below the Coop - on the left, between N.Forest &
State St.
314 E. Holly Suite. 101
Enjoy multimedia presentation of projects in West Africa
Contemplate issues of: generosity and joy, poverty, women and violence,
children- education emigration, health and sanitation, religion
and culture.
Reflect on such questions as: What is our community? Who are our
neighbors? What can we learn from such encounters- how do we need
people from developing countries? What are some of the issues around
aid in developing countries? Can grass roots initiatives create
meaningful change?
www.BarbaraGilday.com
Global Citizen Journey, Ghana - www.globalcitizenjourney.org
Bellingham Institute Of Noetic Sciences
www.bions.net
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May Event
BIONS is co-sponsoring this David
Korten in Bellingham event as our May event.
-The BIONS Team
FACING THE FUTURE TOGETHER !
We stand at a critical time in
Earths 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 nowwith
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 Kortens
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
First Congregational Church
2401 Cornwall St, Bellingham
$5 Donation Tickets can be purchased
at the Food Co-op,
Whatcom Community College, Village
Books or at the door
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,
Ad Hoc Peak Oil Group, First Congregational
Church
The Great Turning: From Empire to
Earth Community
A multi-media presentation and discussion with author David C. Korten
We stand at a critical moment in
Earths history, a time when humanity must choose its
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 worlds 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 natureincluding
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
- an interactive presentation
with Cantor Ira Fein
Thursday, April 19, 2007
at Wise Awakening
7pm, doors open at 6:30pm
Wise Awakening
314 Holly Street
It's a half block West, (down Holly) from the Community Food Coop,
on the left side. (On Holly between N. Forest and Railroad) more
directions: http://www.wiseawakening.com/home.php?var=location.html
In this event we will explore
healing Hebrew mantras, powerful sounds that hold within themselves
the energies of peace, wholeness and healing.
Together we will uncover the stillness, field of peace, within and
around us all. And, through meditative movement and sound, enter
this sacred field to be healed and made whole.
Here is an introduction to Ira
Fein:
http://www.healingmusic.org/IraFein/index.asp
and here is an excerpt from
an article he wrote:
Through the Still Portal
by Cantor Ira Fein, CMP
Over the years, I have witnessed many miracles in my work as a therapeutic
musician and sound healer...
...People get separated from their consciousness for a variety of
reasons. One cause seems to be overstimulus. The noted author and
speaker, Wayne Muller, has suggested that this society is tuned
to the speed of the mind, whereas previous generations were attuned
to the tempo of the heart. We are wired into the sound of the machine-
the hum of the refrigerator, lawn mover, lights and, of course,
our automobiles.
Just a hundred years ago, these sounds were not present. Life was
quieter and we could more easily attune to the sound and stillness
of nature and her wondrous, soothing cadences. Life was simpler
too, with less to propel our lives forward and fill our hearts and
minds.
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
"The View from Space-
A Message of Peace"
Edgar Mitchell's new dvd
WHEN: Thursday March 15
WHERE: Wise Awakening
TIME: 7:00-9:00 p.m. Doors open at 6:30
WHAT: viewing the DVD with discussion following
On January 31, 1971, Navy Captain Dr.
Edgar
Mitchell embarked on a journey into outer space that
resulted in becoming the sixth man to walk on the
moon. The Apollo 14 mission was NASA's third manned
lunar landing.
This historic journey ended safely nine days
later on February 9, 1971. It was an audacious time
in the history of mankind. For Mitchell, however, the
most extraordinary journey was yet to come.
Come to hear IONS Founder Edgar Mitchell
share his
epiphany from space and his words of hope for
humankind.
Directions to Wise Awakening: 314 Holly
St. Bellingham
It's a half block down Holly from the Community Food
Coop, on the left side. (on Holly between N. Forest
and Railroad). More directions: www.wiseawakening.com
More info: http://www.edmitchellapollo14.com/
February Event
Bellingham IONS presents:
What: Attuning to Spirit - An Evening with Dorothy Maclean
Who: Dorothy Maclean, co-founder of Findhorn
Where: Garden Street Family Center, diagonally across from Kinkos,
at N. Garden and Holly Streets
When: Thursday, February 15, 2007, 7-9 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM
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 isnt 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,
About DOROTHY MACLEAN
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Dorothy Maclean was one of the founders of the Findhorn community
in Scotland. Her contacts there with what she came to see as the
devic or angelic realms that over-light all aspects of existence,
helped its legendary gardens bloom on most unpromising soil.
Many of the messages from the devas were first published in a number
of books and pamphlets from that community, some still in print.
Dorothy's earlier autobiography, To Hear the Angels Sing, now republished,
contains many of her communications with not only the essences of
plants, but with minerals, animals and groups of humans too.
In her new book, Choices of Love, Lindisfarne Press, Dorothy talks
in a more detailed way about her own inner practices and attunement
to the Beloved. She gives suggestions for the reader's own practice,
and for the first time in print, information she has received from
the over-lighting presence's of cities and countries.
Born in Guelph, Ontario, Dorothy is still a Canadian, though living
in Washington State.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Maclean
- biographical sketch
http://spiritinthesmokies.com/interviews/dorothym.html
- an interview
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Findhorn_Foundation
- about Findhorn
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