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Partner
Spotlight |
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Dr.
Don Beck's Spiral Dynamics
Adapting Clare W. Graves theory
within the Integral world of practice
Coast to Coast Theme in 2006: 'Change FROM What TO What?'
- Innovations
in Personal Emergence: How the brain makes a mind
and the mind makes a brain. Boulder, Colorado, October
22-29
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In the Natural Design of companies, communities, cultures
and countries. Santa Barbara, California, November
6-11
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Societal Transformation: Shifting from the clash to
the confluence of civilizations.
Getting to the source codes of religious, racial,
and ethnic conflicts and integration. A Macro-Memetics
initiative. Washington, DC, January 8-13, 2007
More information at
www.spiraldynamics.net
www.humanemergence.org
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On-Campus
Events |
Stillpoint
School of Integrative Life Healing: Intensive
I
Sept. 30-Oct. 4, 2006
Intensive
II
February 3-7, 2006
Intensive
III
April 14-18, 2006
Intensive
IV
June 16-20, 2006
Petaluma, California
Dr. Meredith Young-Sowers will guide you through
a series of powerful and connected exercises and
experiences in the innovative and deeply spiritual
five days of A Sacred Connection - Igniting
the Inner Light.
Zeitgeist:
The Spirit of the Times
October 27, 2006
Petaluma, California
Art Opening, Reception, and Presentation: Dana Lynne
Anderson, large scale paintings; Ginger Gilmore,
sculpture; Annie Harrison, sculpture.
Monroe
Institute Gateway Voyage
December 2-8, 2006
Petaluma, California
Spend an intensive week of exploration into progressively
higher states of consciousness. Now in its 33rd
year, this legendary program as helped thousands
realize they are more than their physical body.
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Special
Events |
Pachamama
Alliance Monthly Gathering
October 10, 2006
San Francisco, California
"We Were Born for a Time Such as This":
IONS President James O'Dea provides a look
at why the contemporary dialogue between science
and spirituality supports our awakening from the
collective trance of the industrial world.
Intention
Heals Conference
October 14, 2006
Norfolk, Virginia
Join cellular biologist, Bruce Lipton, and Apollo
XIV astronaut, Edgar Mitchell, and gifted young
energy healer, Adam DreamHealer, to learn how to
empower your own healing abilities.
International
Conference on Engaging the Other: The Power of Compassion
October 26-29, 2006
Kalamazoo, Michigan
An international, multidisciplinary, multicultural
conference examining concepts of "the Other"
from a universal, cross-cultural perspective.
Nine
Gates Mystery School
October 27, 2006
Lucerne Valley, California
Nine Gates Mystery School is an intense spiritual
training . . . not a "workshop" or "retreat", but
a journey taken by individuals seeking the depths
of life's mysteries.
Journey
to Bhutan
October 29, 2006
Bhutan
Visit this small, exotic, Bhuddist kingdom bordering
Tibet - a peaceful country of rare natural beauty,
breathtaking vistas and stupendous Buddhist treasures.
Energy
Psychology: Lighting the Way to Wholeness
November 9-12
Toronto, Canada
Marilyn Schlitz, Norm Shealy, Jeffrey Mishlove,
and others explore the leading edge of healing.
Website and registration:
http://www.torontoepc.com/
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Conference
Discounts |
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IONS is
co-sponsoring with AHP, the Association for Humanistic
Psychology, a number of weekend seminars across
the country with such highly appreciated presenters
as Caroline Myss, Gregg Braden, Bruce
Lipton, Joan Borysenko, Marianne Williamson, Belleruth
Naparstek, and others. IONS members receive
the $25 AHP member discount and can get CECs if
desired. For details go to ConferenceWorks.com
or call 800-395-8445.
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Media
Spotlight |
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Inspiring
photographs from around the world convey our oneness
in Spirit in this award-winning Prayer &
Meditation 2007 Calendar. With each image is
a prayer or quote from the world's religious traditions
and an enlightening aphorism by Swami Amar Jyoti inviting
us to deepen our relationship with the Divine.
This calendar comes at a time
when clarification of purpose, a deepening of practice,
and the focusing of intention are indispensable for
personal and planetary transformation. Let yourself
take a break and feel the peace and calm while sitting
in meditation or drinking in the incredible beauty of
nature with this stunning calendar.
—Shift Magazine
More information at
prayermeditationcalendar.org
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| From the Editor |
|   Stephen
Dinan /
We
are delighted to celebrate the launch of Shift
in Action 1.5! As part of this release, we'll
be rolling out weekly site videos from your favorite
leaders, starting a new weekly teleseminar called the
Essential Shifts Luncheon series, and offering a special
way to join and access the 400 hours of content we already
have on the site.
Anyone
who is not yet a member of the program can join for
a trial month for only $1 and receive
Dean Radin's new book Entangled Minds, a CD,
and a Director's Sampler DVD from What the Bleep's Down
the Rabbit Hole. In addition, more than 30 pioneering
leaders have offered exclusive interviews about the
Essential Shifts of our day, including Deepak
Chopra, Dennis Kucinich, Bruce Lipton, and
Marianne Williamson. Finally, three
partners - Chopra Center, HeartMath, and Wild Divine
are offering special discounts on their services to
encourage people to become SIA Partners.
Find
out more about this special offer!
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the Frontiers / The Edge |
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This
month, we're blessed that volunteers have transcribed
some of the more than 30 Essential Shifts interviews.
We share three:
Jean
Houston, with James O'Dea - "We're between
two eras. Whenever you have two eras you always have
radical fundamentalism rising, as people try to sanctify
their mediocrity and thus feel safe and secure - because
not only do the new maps not fit the territory, there's
no map, we don't know what the territory is, and it
is the pathless path."
Stanislav Grof - "We have many separate movements
- the pacifist movement, the ecological movement, the
feminist movement, and so on. But I think we need to
bring them together and have all these movements spiritually
informed."
Elisabet Sahtouris - "We have all
these indications that we are right at our own stage
of maturing into global family cooperation."
If you'd like to volunteer to transcribe three and receive
free Shift in Action memberships, contact Jeff Kihn
at jeffkihn@noetic.org.
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At
the Frontiers / Media |
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Noteworthy
Releases
 1.
Conversations
with God, The Movie - Let's make
October 20th a big box office night for the biggest
consciousness movie of the fall. (website)
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Everyday Hopes, Utopian Dreams
by Don Hanlon Johnson - The ex-Jesuit
and emiment philosopher who helped shaped the
field of somatics reflects on American ideals.
(buy)
2. Making Waves: Irving Dardik and
his Superwave Theory by Roger Lewin (released
in 2005) - A maverick scientist
whose work supports interconnection, recommended
by our friends at the Peace Alliance. (buy)
New
Edgar Mitchell DVD
In
the 35th Anniversary year of his Apollo 14 walk
on the moon, IONS founder Dr. Edgar Mitchell releases
an award-winning DVD on which he is the narrator.
Timely and timeless messages poignantly detailed
in The View From Space - A Message
of Peace are enhanced by an expanded
menu with personal interviews, awe-inspiring visuals
from NASA, The Hubble Telescope, and Artist-Astronaut
Alan Bean.
TO
PLACE ORDERS and read more about this, visit the
Autographed Photos Page on www.Edmitchellapollo14.com
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At
the Frontiers / WebWatch |
1.
ThePeaceAlliance.org
- Last month, we mispublished the address
for the Dept. of Peace campaign. The correct campaign
should contain a "the." We strongly
encourage you to visit them and get involved in
the trans-partisan effort to establish principles
of non-violence at all levels of our society.
2. Gaiafield.net
- A beautiful and exciting new site linking
spiritual peacemakers for large scale global meditation
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Shift
in Action / Recent Releases |
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month we are excited to offer some free samples
of the Shift in Action program.   Free
Audio Downloads
Other
releases available to Partners include:
• Lynne Twist in a interview
on the Soul of Money - Details
• Edgar Mitchell and Joe Firmage
on the Role of Science and Technology in a Wisdom
Society - Details
• Don Beck on the Many Dimensions
of Change - Details
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Shift
in Action / Shift Magazine |
 Shift:
At the Frontiers of Consciousness
Issue 12
Sept.-Nov. 2006
Consciousness, Passion, & Purpose
Table
of Contents:
Page
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Edgar Mitchell - Cosmic Activist
by Barbara McNeill
Thirty-five years ago Edgar Mitchell
walked on the moon. Two years later he founded
a research institute, IONS. This profile pays
homage to the legacy of a man who is still exploring.
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Navigating the Future: A Guide for Conscious
Activism
by Andrew Beath
From nonviolence and introspection to
Eros and joy, environmentalist Beath weaves inner
work with outer engagement for personal and social
transformation.
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Conscious Leadership at the Crossroads
of Change
by Monica Sharma
In the global battle against AIDS, inequality,
and economic injustice, United Nations'
program specialist Sharma is empowering people
at all levels with an innovative synthesis of
psychological, emotional, and organizational tools.
Page
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Generation Awakening
by Tarra Christoff
A new generation of social activists
is emerging, seeking to embody "the change
they wish to see" at a time when everything
is at stake.
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Movies on a Mission
by Matthew Gilbert
From full-length features to social consciousness
documentaries, the landscape of film is being
transformed by mission-driven artists who hope
to change you and the world you live in.
>>Download
PDF of this article<<
Page 32
The Power of Culture: An Exploration of
Collective Transformation
by Georgia Kelly
Is society doomed to repeat the mistakes
of the past, or can we break our addiction to
old beliefs and patterns? A new guiding mythos
is possible, says Kelly, informed by civic engagement
and deep reprogramming.
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Shift
in Action / Featured Channel |
Radical Spirit
The
Radical Spirit channel explores the meeting
point between consciousness and societal change,
highlighting leaders who exemplify spiritual
depth and passionate engagement in public processes,
as well as offering practical steps to engage
change work in life-enhancing ways. Our preference
is to look at the leading edge - how is a more
integral version of spiritual activism emerging
in a next generation of leaders? How are these
leaders engaging the public sphere? In the last
year, we've hosted teleseminars with Van
Jones, Marianne Williamson, Rabbi Michael Lerner,
Corinne McLaughlin and Gordon Davidson, Arjuna
Ardagh, Noah Levine, Anodea Judith, Manuel Herrera,
and Walter Semkiw. Partners
can now download all of these teleseminars from
our Radical Spirit home page. Coming this fall:
Donna Zajonc and Matthew
Sanford.
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Personal
Connections / Tales of Transformation |
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 "The
Sacred Wound"
by Margaret Wolff
www.InSweetCompany.com
buy
her book, In
Sweet Company
"Each
of us has a sacred wound. It is what makes us
both human and divine. It weaves its way into
the warp and weft of our lives like an invisible
thread that tugs at the twilight of our longing;
it twists our unconscious into knots until, one
day, it shapeshifts into an arrow that pierces
our complacency and cannot be denied. If we embrace
our sacred wound, if we make peace with it, it
delivers us into the waiting arms of Spirit."
Submit your own tales of transformation.
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Personal
Connections / Donor Spotlight |
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 Fresh
IONS Library Developed Thanks to Member Donation
IONS
is deeply grateful for the recently received gift
of a 4000-volume library, amassed over several
decades, from the estate of long-term Circle member
and IONS advocate, the late Fred Bernard Wood,
Ph.D. (1917-2006). Facilitated by his two sons,
Frederick Bruce Wood, Jr. and Peter Mead Wood,
the family chose IONS for the library donation
because we share Fred's cross-discipline
perspective. "We are pleased, and we know
that Fred Sr. is ecstatic, that these books are
now available to the IONS staff, members, and
visitors," says son Fred Jr.
For information on Circle membership, call Kathleen
Erickson-Freeman at 707.779.8232 or at KathleenEricksonFreeman@noetic.org.
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Personal
Connections / Comedy Corner |
Swami
Beyondananda Answers Your Questions - and You Will
Question His Answers 
Dear
Swami:
How do we shift Western culture away from causing
global warming?
Helen Highwater, Annapolis, Maryland
Dear Helen:
Well, the first thing is we have to shift our
lifestyle from things that cause more global
warming to things that reduce it. So I propose
a slogan: "Global warming just ain't
cool." I see a cartoon where Mother Earth
has the hand of a young boy, who is pointing
longingly at a brand new Humvee, and she is
saying, "I'm sorry son, but your
mother just can't afford that right now."
Meanwhile, we have to take on the mission to
"re-grow the Garden from the grassroots
up" and begin to plant the green things
that will help transform carbon dioxide into
oxygen. Like trees. They are rooting for us,
you know. And - back to lifestyle - we need
to make a new fashion statement that the Earth
can wholeheartedly agree with. No more of this
close-cropped brush cut. The Earth is ready
to grow her forests long again.
Finally, we must deal with the issue of overpopulation,
and I think I have the answer: multiple personalities.
Think about it. When you cram two, three or
even a dozen personalities into one body, think
of how much less food we'd need, not to
mention the extra space. It's just mathematical
logic: If we had more multiple personalities,
we'd need fewer people!
©
Copyright 2006 by Steve Bhaerman. All rights
reserved. Give the gift of laughter with Swami's
Fool Enchilada Special. To find out more about
that and Swami's schedule, call (800)
SWAMI-BE or visit the Swami online at http://www.wakeuplaughing.com
Ask
Swami your own question. Send it here.
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Personal
Connections / Monthly Intention |
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October
Intention:
This
month, we encourage you to take a quiet moment
to link your intention with people around the
world in support of healing. Together, we affirm
that we are each whole beings and that our psychological
and physical wounds are healing in their own way
and with perfect timing.
October
Action:
This month, we encourage you
to take one action with that might contribute
to someone's healing. Perhaps you could
lend an ear for an hour to a friend in need, just
providing loving presence and support.
October
Question for Reflection:
What would it look like if we
started each day with the intention to be a healing
presence that day for all with whom we come into
contact?
This month's member intention comes to us from Janet Lawson:
"My intention is to let go of bitterness.
To relax the muscles in my heart that hold onto
who didn't say what I wanted to hear - or what
didn't turn out the way I wanted it to. The feelings
that come from bitterness are tightness, cold,
isolation, forcing currents. The feelings that
awaken when bitterness is dropped are openness,
warmth, connecting to others and the life force
in everything."
If
you'd like to offer an intention for next month,
please send it here.
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