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Event
Spotlight |
Human
Forum 2008: A Symphony of Transformation
March 11-13, 2008
San José, Costa Rica
with
IONS President James O'Dea and Stephen Dinan
The
Forum will explore how the world is moving away from
four prevailing myths that today still define human
relationships amongst themselves and with nature: money
brings happiness, technology yields well-being, weapons
provide security, and natural resources are unlimited.
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Event
Spotlight |
InterSpiritual Meditation in Service of Environmental
Living andAction
February 8-10, 2008
Santa Barbara, California
A 3-day program with Stephen Aisenstat, Ph.D. (Pacifica
Graduate Institute), Tina Amorok, Ph.D. (Institute of
Noetic Sciences), Rev. Cynthia Bourgeault, Ph.D. (Christianity),
Rabbi Rami Shapiro, Ph.D. (Judaism), Shaikh Kabir and
Camille Helminski (Islam and Sufism), Swami Atmarupananda
(Hinduism), and Ed Bastian, Ph.D., (Buddhism).
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IONS
Retreat Center Events |
Activating
Life Energy for Self-healing and Healing of Others
February 2-3, 2008
Petaluma, California
In this complete training, you will learn the ancient
technology of Qigong.
Awaken
the Light Within
February 2, 2008
Petaluma, California
Master Mingtong Gu will teach and lead the universal
healing energy field with the profound techniques
prescribed by the world's largest medicine-less
hospital in China.
Meditation
Specialist Certification Clinic 1: Build Your Foundation
February 4, 2008
Petaluma, California
The Meditation Specialist (TM) Certification is
a complete course in the theory, science, and practice
of meditation with a focus on the use of meditation
as a true healing science that can be applied in
a wide variety of health conditions.
The
Li of the Land
February 16, 2008
Petaluma, California
In this workshop, artist Christopher Castle leads an exploration of the subtle influences that place has upon our well being. Artists and non-artists are welcome to take part in this creative and transformative day.
Nancy
Marie: I Create What I Believe!
February 21, 2008
Petaluma, California
A Simple and Effective Way to Transform Your Life.
Potluck dinner and participatory presentation by
Bruce Lipton, collaborator and author of Passages
of Change. A Friendly Favors Event.
West Coast Mystery School: The Mystery of Deep Partnership
February
22-24, 2008
May
2-4, 2008
September
12-14, 2008
October
10-12, 2008
December
5-7, 2008
Petaluma, California
with Jean Houston & Peggy
Rubin
Beginning with spiritual partnership in the form
of the Beloved of the Soul, we explore the path
of intimate companionship, finding ways of bestowing
this miraculous capacity on all our relations.
Wisdom
Healing Retreat
March 1, 2008
Petaluma, California
Qigong practitioners of all levels, body workers
and those that are health-conscious are invited
to join us for this journey towards optimal health.
No previous qigong experience is required.
Understand
Your Mind, Understand Your Life: Be Happy, Loved,
Successful
March 8, 2008
Petaluma, California
Adele Tartaglia (Bd Cert. Regression Therapist,
Ericksonian Hypnotherapist) leads experiential exercises
for locating and deleting self sabotaging patterns
and beliefs, forgiveness and releasement, clearing
cellular memory.
GRANDparents
Weekend
July 4-6, 2008
Petaluma, California
Grandparents Weekend together with 1 grandchild,
by School of the New Spirituality & Institute of
Noetic Sciences. Contact: Cathy@noetic.org
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Special
Events |
James
O'Dea: Portland Unity Church Sunday Service
February 3rd, 2008
Portland, Oregon
Sunday
Service at Portland Unity with Reverend Billie Blain
and James O'Dea on the theme "What is Your Place
in the Conscious Universe?"
Mind
Before Matter
February 23, 2008
San Francisco, California
In this one-day book launch conference, speakers
Larry Dossey, Amit Goswami, Dean Radin, and Paul
Devereux will discuss worldview and the limitations
of philosophical materialism.
An
Evening Talk and/or an Afternoon Intensive with
Eckhart Tolle
March 7-8, 2008
San Rafael, California
With his international bestseller The Power
of Now, Eckhart Tolle introduced millions to
the joy and freedom of a life lived in complete
presence. Now you are invited to experience this
visionary teacher in a live, face-to-face encounter.
Here is a rare opportunity to be drawn into the
"spaciousness that words can only point to" by the
vibrant, conscious presence of Eckhart Tolle himself.
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Products
Spotlight |
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VISIT
THE BLEEPSTORE Information • Community •
Networking
At
Bleepstore.com
you can find inspiring, enlightening, and intriguing
books, music, videos and more. PLUS there are monthly
articles online about the latest in
Consciousness
studies • Science • Green living •
Alternative health • Conscious parenting
There
are also articles and book and movie reviews from The
Bleeping Herald as well as The
Global Intelligencer.
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Media
Spotlight |
The
2007 Shift Report: Evidence of a World Transforming
You can still purchase a PDF or hard copy
of last year's Shift Report before the new one is released.
The
2007 Shift Report: Evidence of a World Transforming
attempts to chart the transition we believe is underway
from a rigid, mechanistic, and materialistic worldview
to one that is built on a foundation of interconnectedness,
cooperation, and the intersection of science and spirituality.
Readers
have been raving about the power of this report and
its potential to create real change.
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| From the Editor |
|   Stephen
Dinan /
This
month marks the beginning of a year of Living
Deeply for IONS! Living Deeply
is not only our most recent book release, synthesizing
ten years of frontier research, it is also a DVD, a
new teleseminar series, tour events, retreats and e-learning.
We are also taking the Year of Living Deeply as a call
for each of us at hubquarters to deepen our own practices
personally and organizationally. We encourage you to
do the same.
New
resources to live more deeply:
In
this iShift, we also have an exclusive article
from Paul Von Ward on reincarnation, an excerpt of Swami's
"State of the Universe Address," a preview of The
2008 Shift Report, and a new feature called GreenShifting
where we will highlight one shift towards sustainability
that we are making as an organization.
Stay
tuned this month for the launch of our new Great
Shift campaign, with extraordinary dialogues on
how we can create a great shift on planet earth in the
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| The
Edge |
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Our
featured article this month extends the theme of the
current Shift magazine on "Death: Window
to the Infinite."
  What
If Reincarnation Is Real?
by Paul Von Ward, author of the upcoming book
The Soul Genome
"The
Latin-based word 'reincarnation' and its antecedents
in Greek, Sanskrit, Bantu, and many other languages
have focused conversations in all cultures for millennia.
But what do they really mean?"
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Media |
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Noteworthy
Releases
  The
Diving Bell and the Butterfly -
the story of a French publisher who becomes paralyzed
and can only blink one eye and writes a book by
communicating through blinking. (more)
  Whole
Person Health Care - a great new
compendium on the frontiers of integral health,
with a chapter from Marilyn Schlitz . (more)
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WebWatch |
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1.
How
Smallpox Was Eradicated - Google
Foundation CEO Larry Brilliant
2.
Gaia.com
- Zaadz.com and Lime.com have merged into this
new portal, brought to us by Gaiam.com
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Shift
in Action / Recent Releases |
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 Our
latest One Minute Shifts
- Barbara
Marx Hubbard - Supra-sexual Co-creation
- Details
- YouTube
contest winner CYRES - Details
 Free
sample from the Shift in Action program
- Ralph
Metzner on "Alchemical Divination"
- Details
 Recent
releases from our 2007 conference Consciousness
in Action
- Van
Jones on "Green-Collar Jobs"
- Details
- Dean
Radin on "Entangled Minds"
- Details
- Edgar
Mitchell on "Transformation as
a Vital Aspect of Sustainability" - Details
Join
Shift in Action today!
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Shift
Magazine |
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 Preview
of our forthcoming 2008 Shift Report: Changing
the Story of Our Future
(Our
celebrated 2007 Report is still available here
- PDF version as well)
About
the Upcoming Report
Over the past several decades, new scientific
discoveries along with a surge in grassroots initiatives
addressing social and economic injustices have
begun calling into question the view of the universe-and
essentially of ourselves-as ultimately cold and
mechanistic. Revealing both the mysterious directionality
of the evolving cosmos and the irrepressible humanity
within our own natures, new evidence is emerging
that we are innately capable of far more than
we realize. Yes, the evidence is compelling that
the arc of the human species is on a self-destructive
decline, and yet once the pieces are put together,
there is no denying that another reality is fighting
through the cracks of the dominant narrative.
We are just beginning to tap into our potential
as human beings despite, or perhaps because of,
the multiple crises that we are facing.
Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Letter
from President
- Introduction
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Section I: Evolution
& Human Nature
- A
Broadening Understanding of Evolution
- Science
Rediscovers Our Humanity
- The
Other Side of Human Nature
- The
Challenge of Our Time
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Section II: Toward a New Scientific Synthesis
- The
Science of Anomalies
- West
Meets West
- An
Age of Re-Enlightenment?
- Section
III: The Rise of Global Civil Society
- Social
Change - Institutional and Grassroots Movements
- Economics
and Prosperity - Beyond GDP
- Media
and Information: Democratizing Knowledge
and Catalyzing Rapid Shifts
- Section
IV: Internalizing Paradigm Shift
- The
Meditative Heart of the Mind
- The
Compassionate Mind of the Heart
- Participatory
Evolution
- Conclusion
- Endnotes
- Resources
- About
IONS
The 2008 Shift Report will be mailed
to IONS members at the end of February. Join
now to receive the Report! |
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GreenShifting |
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 This
month we highlight IONS shift to organic, local
food in our Retreat Center. We now use about 80%
organic food in the meals we serve on campus,
much of it from local farms with progressive practices
such as the Strauss Family Dairy. At the dairy,
they are not only local, organic and sustainable,
but they also use a methane digester to convert
their plentiful supplies of cow manure into 95%
of the electricity used to run their business.
And they use it to recharge their electric car!
The
kind of food we eat and where it is grown has
a big impact on the environment, so we are putting
our sustainable principles into practice with
the shift to local and organic.
More
resources on local, organic food:
More
information on IONS Retreat Center:
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Living
Deeply |
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Living
Deeply is a new program based on over ten years
of scientific research exploring how people make
significant shifts in the way they view the world
and themselves.
The
Living Deeply book is already spurring
considerably excitement and accolades. Deepak
Chopra says it is a "A brilliant synthesis of
science and wisdom from the world's greatest spiritual
traditions, both ancient and modern, translated
into practical tools for anyone who is seeking
more depth and meaning in their life.” (buy
now)
Our
new Living Deeply website (www.livingdeeply.org)
will serve as a hub for elearning and community
building around the themes of the book.
Our
new teleseminar series will build upon this
extraordinary research with spiritual teachers
and practical visionaries who have learned how
to live fully and deeply. It will be held every
Tuesday during the lunch hour (11 am Pacific)
and will be designed to inspire you in practical
ways to live more deeply.
Upcoming
guests: Riane Eisler, Ed Bastian, and Stephen
Post.
We'll
be using this space in iShift each month
to share resources to inspire you to live more
deeply. Send
us your ideas and requests!
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Donor
Spotlight |
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 Donor
Spotlight: Steve Vernon and the Quest
"What's
the best way to live the rest of our lives?"
This question has become increasingly important
to IONS Circle member, Steve Vernon, who now at
age 54 is more than half-way to 100. Answering
this question is key to his life's work of helping
people realize their potential for their retirement,
or as he likes to say, their rest-of-life.
 Steve
has put his skills, insights, and life experiences
together in workshops, presentations, writings,
and productions to help people plan for their
happiness, health, and wealth in their later years.
His latest work is a DVD/booklet combination called
The Quest: For Long Life, Health and Prosperity.
"My life's work, relationships, and interests
are coming together into a great mix for my rest-of-life,
and for that, I'm very grateful."
If you would like to learn more about the benefits
of Circle membership, contact Deborah Breitbach
at 707-779-8216.
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Comedy
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Excerpts
from...
 Swami
Beyondananda's 2008 State of the Universe Address
Swami
Predicts Heart Times Ahead
Every
year at this time, I am asked to make predictions,
and each time I politely refuse because I
don't want to jeopardize my nonprophet status.
But this year is different. With 2012 just
one quantum leap year away, we humans might
finally be ready for a quantum leap of our
own. The message is coming in loud and clear.
Time to shift or get off the pot.
In
order to upshift our karma into surpassing
gear, however, we must shift our awareness
downward from the static of the head to the
ecstatic of the heart. If we are to have an
awakening instead of a wake, I predict heart
times ahead.
Yes,
everyone is equipped to attune to universal
wisdom because everyone has been given a heart.
And yet, the heart seems to be the last gift
we open. The most underdeveloped resource
on the planet is the treasure inside our own
treasured chest! Given all the craziness in
the world, maybe if we invested in expanding
our hearts, we'd have less need to shrink
our heads.
As
the saying goes, money can't buy happiness,
although it can buy anti-depressants. But
if you are seeking more out of life than not
being depressed, the key to happiness is to
grow your own. Every one of us should be asking,
"What good am I?" What good can I add to the
greater goodness? Maybe if we had greater
goodness, we'd need fewer goods. As human
beings, our biggest asset is love, so now
is the time to get up off our big fat assets,
and practice supply-side spirituality. Because
we aren't here to earn God's love, we are
here to spend it. We are here to re-grow the
Garden from the grassroots up, and have a
heaven of a time doing it!
Read
the entire text of Swami's
2008 State of the Universe Address
© Copyright 2008 by Steve Bhaerman.
All rights reserved. To find our Swami's schedule
and get a free catalogue, call toll free (800)
SWAMI-BE or visit him online at www.wakeuplaughing.com.
Ask
Swami your own question. Send it here.
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Monthly
Intention |
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February
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 to live more deeply. Whatever
we are working on in the world is fueled by our
inner state. If that is frantic, stressed, or
depleted, our life will be much less satisfying
(and effective). We encourage you to hold the
intention to strengthen whatever practices you
need to live more deeply.
February
Action:
This month, we encourage you to
take one hour a week and do absolutely nothing, not even consciously meditating. Residing in stillness
can be deeply refreshing to body, mind, and spirit.
February
Question for Reflection:
What if we shifted
our focus from achieving more to simply living more
deeply? How might we reorient our days?
If
you would like to offer an intention for next
month, please send it here.
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Living
Deeply: The Art and Science of Transformation
