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Partner
Spotlight |
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Wild
Divine introduces Healing Rhythms
this month, the first whole-body wellness program to
bring together some of the leading voices in health
and wellness - doctors Deepak Chopra and Dean Ornish. Healing Rhythms' interactive 15-Step Training
Program and biofeedback hardware gives you the tools
to build a happy mind and a healthy body.
At
IONS, we see this work as the leading edge of applied
consciousness research that is also FUN. When you purchase
Healing Rhythms and let them know you are an iShift
subscriber with the following code, you'll receive a
special bonus gift of Wild Divine soundtrack and free
shipping.
Click
here for more details
Use the redemption code: SHIFT
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Event
Spotlight |
The
Alliance for a New Humanity
Presents
The Human Forum:
Faces of Courage
December 7-9, 2006
Westin Rio Mar Resort, Puerto Rico
Explore consciousness with Deepak Chopra and James O'Dea,
dialogue with Andrew Harvey on the path of Sacred Activism,
with author Lynne Twist on the art of giving, be inspired
by the music of Grammy Award winner Nestor Torres, and
vocalist Fred Johnson, by the stories of Broadway playwright
and performer David Gonzales, by the passion of Nobel
Peace Laureates Betty Williams, Rigoberta Menchu, and
Buddhist nun and activist Mae Chee Sansanee.
For details, visit: www.anhglobal.org
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On-Campus
Events |
Traditional
Native American Sweat Lodge & Earth Healing Ceremony
November 3-5, 2006
Petaluma, California
Join us for a weekend of sweat lodges, healing, and ceremony with northern California Native American elders Charlie Red Hawk Thom and Tela Starhawk at the Institute of Noetic Sciences' campus in Petaluma.
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.
Stillpoint
School of Integrative Life Healing: Intensive
II
February 3-7, 2007
Intensive
III
April 14-18, 2007
Intensive
IV
June 16-20, 2007
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.
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Special
Events |
Conversations
at the Edge: Bay Area Science & Spirit Dialogues
November 2, 2006
San Francisco, California
"The Visionary and the Practical: Tensions in Science,
Spirituality, and Life" with speakers Martha Stampfer,
PhD, and Don Hanlon Johnson, PhD.
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 /
This
month in iShift, we share an opinion piece
written by our President James O'Dea
in response to the growing movement for a Department
of Peace. As he makes clear in this iShift
exclusive, a Department of Peace can make rational and
scientific sense, while also advancing key insights
from the consciousness movement in a truly trans-partisan
way.
We
also feature an historic first - ten playing cards in
a row guessed correctly on film, three new Essential
Shifts transcripts from our interviews with Don
Beck, Marilyn Schlitz, and Michael
B. Beckwith, and a Community Network event
in Florida called "The Emergent Heart Field Phenomenon."
Anyone
who is not yet a member of Shift in Action program can
still 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.
Find
out more about this special offer!
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the Frontiers / The Edge |
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 IONS
President James O'Dea on the proposed Department of
Peace - "I support a Department of Peace
because it is an eminently sane and reasonable initiative,
it can help government direct resources towards the
goal of peace, it can utilize the best science to help
us all attain our optimal development and it can provide
opportunities for practice in collaboration, dialogue,
mutual respect, and reconciliation without which peace
cannot take root."
Volunteers have begun transcribing more than 30 Essential
Shifts interviews. We share three this month:
Don
Beck - "One point of view says that we are
simply setting up the conditions for a major shift.
So rather than doom and gloom, Chicken Little thinking,
one could say these are simply symptoms of deeper problems,
tectonic-like shifts."
Marilyn Schlitz - "There has never been such
a rate of accelerated convergence, and by that I mean
that there are different world views, belief systems,
ways of engaging reality that are now coming together
at a rate and a pace and an intensity that have never
existed in world history before."
Michael B. Beckwith - "The average
person has a tremendous amount of static that prevents
him from hearing something that's always guiding and
speaking and pulling us to the next level of our evolution.
And that static includes fear, doubt, worry, a sense
of separation, a feeling that there is not enough time,
a feeling that there are not enough resources, that
we live in some kind of lack in some way."
If
you'd like to volunteer to transcribe three and receive
free Shift in Action memberships, contact Jeff Kihn
at jeffkihn@noetic.org.
Click
here to participate in a research study
on paranormal experience from Monash University.
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At
the Frontiers / Media |
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Healing
Rhythms - from the makers of Wild Divine,
the first whole-body wellness program to bring
together Deepak Chopra, Dean Ornish and Andrew
Weil with biofeedback hardware. Noetic thumbs
up! Use code: Shift when purchasing for special
bonus soundtrack. (buy)
Noteworthy
Releases
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Ethical Markets, Season One
- award-winning economist Hazel Henderson's
full set of 13 public broadcast shows on topics
such as green building, socially responsible investing
and more. (website)
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The Ultimate Journey: Consciousness
and the Mystery of Death, by Dr. Stanislav
Grof. A founder of transpersonal psychology
explores the last frontier. (buy)
2. Irreducible Mind,
by six authors. A product of Esalen's conferences
on the Survival of Bodily Death and explorations
into the legacy of consciousness pioneer F. W.
Myers. Pre-pub discount of 35% until mid-November
when you use the iShift code: 4S7KEESA.
(buy)
3.
Healthy at 100: The Scientifically
Proven Secrets of the World's Healthiest and Longest-Lived
People, by John Robbins - Conscious
diet pioneer looks at how we can live long and
vital lives. (website)
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At
the Frontiers / WebWatch |
- SacredSites.com
- A fascinating look at the sites that we love
and hold sacred around the world.
- Just-a-minute
- Cool little animation about how a minute of
meditation can change the world.
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At
the Frontiers / Top Ten |
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month, we share an historic top ten with you -
the first time ten playing cards in a row have
been correctly guessed on film. The odds of this
happening are more than 1 trillion to 1.
Video
still image
The two individuals featured above
train two hours a day to accomplish such feats
and are now under more rigorous, controlled study
by Dean Radin in our labs. The footage comes from
an IONS staff meeting where Dean shuffled the
cards before the two proceeded to get 19 of 20
correct, including the run of ten. This could
be the Holy Grail of psi-research – effects
large enough to compel even skeptical observers
in the moment. Stay tuned for more research!
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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:
• Julia Butterfly Hill
on the Essential Shifts - Details
• Willis Harman on Living
Our Values in a Chaotic World - Details
• Caroline Myss video series
- Details
Join
Shift in Action today via the special $1
trial month offer.
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Shift
in Action / Shift Magazine |
 Sneak
preview of our upcoming December issue on The
Science of Peace:
Table
of Contents:
PEACE:
A NEW CENTER OF HUMAN BECOMING
by James O'Dea
The president of IONS applauds the emergence
of a vision of global peace but cautions that
there is still much work to be done.
WHEN
EINSTEIN MET GANDHI
from the IONS Peace Colloquium
What do you get when neuroscientists
and physicists sit down with psychologists and
activists to talk about peace? The potential beginnings
of a new field of study.
WHO
ARE WE?
by Frans de Waal
In this short excerpt from his new book,
the renowned primatologist shows that humans have
as much in common with the conciliatory bonobo
as with the bloodthirsty chimpanzee.
BECOMING
COMPASSIONATE
by Carolyn Zahn-Waxler
This pioneering psychologist-scientist
in the study of child development concludes that
nature needs nurture to nourish our inherent capacities
for humane behavior.
AVERTING
THE TRAGEDY OF THE COMMONS
by Stephanie D. Preston
Aggression and conflict in the quest
for survival are jeopardizing our common future.
Preston suggests that one way out is through mindfulness
and detachment from the ego.
THE
CHALLENGE OF FORGIVENESS
by Vesela Simic
The science on forgiveness is compelling
but still maturing. Whatever the data, the act
of forgiving will always depend on will, heart,
and letting go.
A
SWEETER MUSIC
by Martin Luther King Jr.
An excerpt from Martin Luther King Jr.'s
"The World House" speech.
ORGANIZATIONS
WORKING FOR PEACE
by Kimberly Weichel
A resource list of activist and educational
groups.
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Shift
in Action / Featured Channel |
Workplace Revolution
Hosted
by Shift Editor-in-Chief
Matthew Gilbert, the Workplace
Revolution channel interviews a wide range of
business leaders, change agents, and visionaries
who believe in the potential of business to
be a force for good in the world, but who also
are aware of the challenges. This series addresses
transformational strategies on both a personal
and organizational level in lively discussions
that explore the institution of business and
our personal experiences at work from many perspectives.
Our
recent teleseminar guests have included Hazel
Henderson, David Korten, Patricia Aburdene,
Danah Zohar, Herman Maynard, Margaret Wheatley,
and Kiril Sokoloff. Partners
can now download all of these teleseminars from
our Workplace Revolution home page. Coming this
month: Marc Lesser on "Zen
and Business."
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Personal
Connections / Tales of Transformation |
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 "Spirituality
in the 21st Century"
By Kurt Kawohl
"I
saw the universe stretched out with spirits engaged
in mental interaction, like master craftsmen contemplating
the creation of a new frontier."
Submit your own tales of transformation.
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Personal
Connections / Network Spotlight |
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The
Florida IONS Learning Community will host IONS
members and friends at "The Emerging Heart Phenomenon,"
an eclectic experiential gathering Nov. 11-12,
2006 at the Orlando Airport Marriott. Two significant
initiatives, the Florida Noetic Network and the
Florida Consciousness Project, will be launched
during this unique collaborative event. The weekend
will feature group processes, meditations, music,
activities and conversations to energize the "heart
field" and amplify its powerful, increasingly
coherent resonance. The event fee is $65. For
more information and registration, www.FL-IONS.org.
FL-IONS
is a co-leadership collective of IONS members
and community groups who share a vision of shifting
the consciousness of Florida through communication,
connection and partnership with like-minded, like-hearted
explorers. On Dec. 7, 2006, from Noon to 2:000
pm, IONS and FL-IONS will host a Lunch and presentation
by Dr. Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 astronaut and
IONS founder, and Dr. Marilyn Schlitz, IONS Vice
President of Research & Education. The event
is open to the public and will be conducted at
the Radisson Resort at the Port in Cape Canaveral,
FL. Contact Sharon Joy Kleitsch at Kleitsch@verizon.net
for details and registration information.
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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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November
Intention:
The
first of every month at noon (US Pacific), we
encourage you to take a quiet moment to link your
intention with people around the world. This month,
our intention is in support of releasing what
no longer serves. Together, we affirm that we
are each releasing any patterns, fears, or negative
conditioning that does not serve us in shifting
to the next level of conscious life.
November
Action:
This month, we encourage you
to choose one action that helps you go beyond
a sense of limitation. What can you accomplish
that you never believed possible?
November
Question for Reflection:
What would you choose
to do if you believed yourself capable of achieving
it?
This month's member intention was emailed to us
from TreeStory:
"My intention is to see, smell,
and hear Fall. To be particularly aware that it
is in this time of year that mother earth's gifts
are most profoundly felt. All the green she has
created over the spring and summer falls away
so that we may take to our breath and body all
the energies released from that transformation."
If
you'd like to offer an intention for next month,
please send it here.
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