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Partner
Spotlight |
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New
Audio Course from Popular IONS Luminary Michael Bernard
Beckwith: Life Visioning
The Life Visioning Process is Michael Bernard Beckwith’s
transformational inner technology for expressing - and
receiving - unlimited love, wisdom, and beauty. The
founder and director of the Agape International Spiritual
Center invites you to his first full-length audio-learning
course: Life Visioning: A Spiritual Technology to
Unleash Your Soul’s Highest Potential. In
this immersive six-CD curriculum, you will begin the
adventure of conscious participation in the sacred purpose
of your life, as you discover:
- How
to embrace the creative impulse that governs the universe
- The
art of manifestation—from a cosmic perspective
- Developing
your intuition, the fundamental skill in the Life
Visioning Process
- More
than five hours of transformational insights, meditations,
visualizations, and affirmations, plus a complete
guided Life Visioning session with Michael Bernard
Beckwith
Free
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13 bonus gifts to help you unfold the highest potential
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Event
Spotlight |
A
"Consciousness Cruise," November 15th to 20th, 2008
You are invited to join us!
Let the sea breeze run her fingers through your hair.
Travel the Mexican Riviera from San Diego, Cabo San
Lucas, to Ensenada & back. Enjoy five delightful
days of relaxation, stimulation, sea, fun, meeting kindred
spirits, building life long friendships, great food,
and spectacular beauty. Join us for this unique first
ever "Consciousness Cruise" conference . Enjoy
face to face interactions, wisdom circles, fun, dyads,
cafes and more... Starring you and your fellow
participants - you are the luminaries!
Take home a tool chest of techniques, ideas, support
team in a new network, great memories and new friends.
Prepare to energize your own communities with these
consciousness tools.
All
for only $79 a day - which is part of why it is filling
fast!
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IONS
Campus and Retreat Center Events |
Rejuvenate
Your Practice Intensive
June 5-8, 2008
August 21-24, 2008
November
13-16, 2008
Petaluma, California
Learn how to build your successful Holistic or
Coaching Practice using heart-based strategies
so you can help more people and make more money
than you ever thought was possible.
Russell
Delman - Embodied Life Retreat
June 7-11,
2008
Petaluma, California
The Embodied Life™ refers to an approach to human
transformation developed by Russell Delman. These
programs are an integration of the teachings of
Moshe Feldenkrais, Zen based meditation and guided
inquiry. All of the practices are based on learning
to be present with the reality of our inner experience
in an open, authentic and curious way.
Meditation
Specialist™ Certification - Clinics 1
- 4 Gannett Healthcare Group
June 12–15, 2008 (Clinic
2)
October 5–8, 2008 (Clinic 3)
October 18–20, 2008 (Clinic 1)
Petaluma, California
This four-part course for healthcare professionals
provides in-depth training in the theory, science,
and practice of meditation therapy with a focus
on the use of meditation as a true healing science.
(Series continues in 2009.)
The
Roots of Attraction: Beyond the Personal
June 27-29, 2008
October 9-12, 2008
Petaluma, California
The powerful force of attraction constantly grabs
us and forces us to pay attention to something outside
ourselves. Whether we resist it, ignore it, run
away, leap towards it, every attraction--to a person,
an object or a cause--is trying to awaken some aspect
of our soul. In this workshop, we explore how to
let our attractions feed and nourish us by attending
to what's calling our heart and soul.
Nine
Gates Youth Mystery School
July 14-19,
2008
Petaluma, California
Designed to open doorways into a deeper connection with your inner strength, your inner wisdom, your authentic self, this program will give you an opportunity to step outside limitations and projections. For four and one-half days, participants dive deeply into explorations of their authentic self, create friendships that bind, and walk away feeling connected to a supportive community.
Lifting
the Veils Retreat
July 19-27,
2008
Petaluma, California
This 9-day retreat is a discovery of our own magnificent
power to generate illusions so brilliantly designed
that we believe they are reality. This is one
of two retreats that act as a foundation for the
Living in Truth Training.
Monroe
Institute Gateway Voyage
July 19-25,
2008
November 1-7, 2008
Petaluma, California
The heart of The Monroe Institute programs is the
Gateway Voyage®. This six-day intensive learning
adventure is designed to provide the participant
with tools that can enable: development and exploration
of human consciousness; deeper levels of self-discovery;
expansion of one's awareness; willful control of
that awareness; communication with and visits to
other energy systems and realities.
Spiritual
Activism: Compassion in Action
July
25-27, 2008
September 26-28, 2008
December 12-14, 2008
Petaluma, California
This four-weekend program, led by Andrew Harvey,
explores the concept of Spiritual Activism and trains
participants in key aspects of becoming and being
a Sacred Activist.
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Special
Events |
Living
Deeply Workshop Intensive
June 6-8, 2008
Techny, Illinois
This workshop blends the rigors of science with
the deep wisdom of the world's spiritual traditions.
Join IONS' research staff as they offer key insights
from their decade-long research study of how people
transform their lives.
3rd
Annual International Conference on "Engaging the
Other:" The Power of Compassion
September 4-7, 2008
San Mateo, California
with Marianne Williamson,
Dennis Kucinich, Don Beck, Corinne McLaughlin, James
O'Dea, Stanley Krippner, Sharif Abdullah, and more
An international, multi-cultural, multi-disciplinary
conference examining concepts of "The Other"
from a universal, cross-cultural perspective to
promote wider public dialogue about concepts of
"Us and Them."
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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
2008 Shift Report: Changing the Story of Our Future
You
can get a PDF
or hard
copy of this year's Shift Report
at the Bleepstore.
About
the 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.
For
a more than 10 copy discount, contact Tiffany at tmitchell@noetic.org.
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| From the Editor |
|   Stephen
Dinan /
In
June, we invite you to join us in deepening your journey
of Living Deeply with our newest offerings:
- The
Living Deeply book and a new Living Deeply
Practice CD, shipping to all Shift in Action
members in June.
- Our
new Shift magazine entitled Living
Deeply, with articles from Bill Plotkin,
Angeles Arrien, Rachael Kessler, Rabbi Michael Lerner,
and Shirley Freriks.
- Our
live Living Deeply teleseminars (Tues. 11 am Pacific)
include George Zimmer, Richard Miller, Caroline Casey,
and Gabrielle Roth.
- Living
Deeply Retreat - June 6-8th in Chicago (information
and registration)
When
you sign
up now for Shift in Action membership via
our $1 trial
month, you'll receive the book, CD, and the magazine,
as well as access to the live teleseminars.
Next
month, we will also offer a very special new retreat
on campus: Grandparent/Grandchild Weekend -
July 4-6 Co-hosted by Neale Donald Walsch's
School of the New Spirituality. This retreat offers
a chance to bring multiple generations together in a
shared space of fun, heart, and exploration. (information
and registration)
Please
save the date for our 2009 International Conference,
Toward a Global Shift, which will
take place June 17-21st in Tucson, Arizona at a spectacular
(and very green) resort called Starr Pass. We aim for
this to be our most dynamic and participatory conference
yet!
Finally,
we invite you to celebrate IONS 35th anniversary with
a donation to our mission. (donate
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| The
Edge |
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Message from IONS President James O'Dea read
to 10,000 people at the Symphony of Peace Prayers on
Mount Fuji, May 18.
"Peace
is our destiny. All of humanity's suffering and challenges
are not to be considered pointless, for everything in
our past gives birth to who we are and the possibilities
we represent for the future. So we thank all the ancestors,
all beings of all nations who came before us, for they
have given birth to us.
"We
are the people of the Great Shift, a time of massive
transition on planet Earth when human beings collectively
see there is no other road for us, or for the survival
of life, but the road of Peace. No other time has been
more pivotal in human evolution-because we have been
given the opportunity to choose life and to choose peace;
we have been given the opportunity to take the next
leap in human development and end war, greed, and violence
to each other and our beloved home in Nature.
"That
is why finally, a generation of peacemakers is being
born as an expression of the long journey of human evolution.
Hold up your sons and daughters and honor them as the
peacemakers we have waited so long for, and then look
into each other's eyes with confidence and gratitude
and say, 'we are the mothers and fathers of the peacemakers.'
Peace is our destiny."
IONS
on Voice America Radio three times in May
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Media |
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Noteworthy
Releases
  The
Visitor - Spirituality &
Practice writes: "The Visitor
is one of the most touching and impressive films
of the year with its tender depiction of how a
closed-off professor's heart is opened by music,
friendship, and love." (more)
  Midnights
with the Mystic: A Little Guide to Freedom and
Bliss - by Cheryl Simone and Sadhguru
Jaggi Vasudev, an Indian spiritual teacher who
honored IONS staff with a visit in May. (buy)
 13-year-old
Shannon Leonard wins our latest One Minute
Shift video competition with "We're
Ready." (view)
IONS Scientific Fellow Dean Radin
in a new video clip, "Psychic Scientist."
(view)
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WebWatch |
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Heart-basedliving.org
- The reclusive founder of HeartMath, Doc Childre,
opens his new website with a paper showing how
we can transform the earth by the awakening of
heart-based intelligence.
Wave
1 - the latest globally synchronized
meditation, happening on June 18th, organized
by Victor Shamas, a psychology professor at U.
of Arizona.
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Top
Ten |
This
month we link to a beautiful Top Ten Fundamentals
for Changing the World derived from study of Gandhi.
We list the ten principles here, but you can follow
this
link to a longer article with full explanation:
1. Change yourself.
2.
You are in control.
3.
Forgive and let it go.
4.
Without action, you aren't going anywhere.
5.
Take care of this moment
6.
Everyone is human.
7.
Persist.
8.
See the good in people and help them.
9.
Be congruent, be authentic, and be your true self.
10.
Continue to grow and evolve.
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Shift
in Action / Live Teleseminars |
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Our
weekly LIVE teleseminar series, now on both Tuesdays
and Wednesdays. All Tuesday teleseminars are in
the Living Deeply series, which features spiritual
leaders and practical visionaries who share their
practices for living a deeper, more fulfilling
life.
This
month's schedule of live calls:
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Tuesday,
June 3rd at 11am Pacific - Marilyn
Schlitz with George Zimmer
on "Balancing Stakeholder Interests in
Business"
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Wednesday,
June 4th at 5pm Pacific - Stephen
Dinan with John Gray on "Why
Mars and Venus Collide"
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Tuesday,
June 10th at 11am Pacific
- Cassandra Vieten with Richard
Miller on "Integrative Restoration:
Healing Soldiers with Post-Traumatic Stress
Disorder"
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Wednesday,
June
11th
at 5pm Pacific - James
O'Dea with David Hawkins
on "What Is Consciousness, Anyway?"
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Tuesday,
June 17th at 11am Pacific
- Tina Amorok with Caroline
Casey on "Animating the Compassionate
Trickster"
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Wednesday,
June
18th at
5pm Pacific - Marilyn Schlitz with
Susan Taylor on "The
Healing Power of Meditation"
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Tuesday,
June
24th at
11am Pacific - Angela Murphy with Gabrielle
Roth on "Slow Dancing with Chaos"
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Wednesday,
June
25th at
5pm Pacific - Belvie Rooks with Steve
Piersanti on "A Community Dedicated
to Creating a World That Works for All: The
Berrett-Koehler Story"
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Join
Shift in Action today to participate
in these calls! |
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Shift
in Action / Recent Releases |
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 Free
samples from the Shift in Action program
Great
Shift Dialogues recently released
- Nina
Utne and Matthew Sanford
- Van
Jones and Majora Carter
- Many
more when you join
Join
Shift in Action today! |
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Shift
Magazine |
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 Shift
19 - The Living Deeply Issue - now available!
(Join
now to receive)
Table
of Contents
The Wild Human
Bill Plotkin
In his new book, Nature and the Human Soul,
depth psychologist Bill Plotkin introduces a visionary
ecopsychology of human development that reveals
how fully and creatively we can mature when soul
and nature guide us. The goal is to evolve from
an egocentric view of ourselves and the planet
to a soulcentric one.
Welcoming
Soul to Our Schools
Rachael Kessler
Does a child's inner life have a place in the
classroom? The answer is obvious, according to
educational visionary Rachael Kessler. Her "Seven
Gateways" map a set of yearnings that all young
people have as they try to make sense of their
universe.
Wisdom's
Way: Growing into Spiritual Maturity
Angeles Arrien
Preparing ourselves for the second half of life
may be the most important work we can do. And
yet our culture has little interest in what happens
in our later years. It's time to shift that perspective,
says Arrien, and there are rituals of passage
that can help.
Healing
Ourselves, Healing the World
Rabbi Michael Lerner
The founder of Tikkun magazine wants
to strengthen the connection between our hearts
and how we engage with a world in need. His answer
lies in cultivating a consciousness of compassion
and generosity and recognizing that our own well-being
depends on the well-being of everyone else on
the planet.
From
"Me" to "We": A Community
Group's Transformative Experience
Shirley Freriks
An IONS community group applies some of the principles
of the book Living Deeply to their own
transformational potential. Sharing, storytelling,
and celebration anchored this process of individual
and collective deepening.
If
you're not a member, you can join
Shift in Action for a trial month
for only $1 and receive this issue as soon as
we finish printing it.
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GreenShifting |
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 Dry
clean green.
Scope
out your local area for organic dry cleaners.
Today's technologies include state-of-the-art
"wet cleaning" with water, as well as a process
that uses liquid carbon dioxide as a kind of soap.
Conventional dry cleaning isn't even slightly
green, as it generally uses perchloroethylene,
a central nervous system depressant and hazardous
air pollutant. - Find
out more
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Living
Deeply |
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Our
Year of Living Deeply continues with the launch
of our new Signature Education workshops:
 Living
Deeply: The Art and Science of Transformation
in Everyday Life
These
workshops blend the rigors of science with the
deep wisdom of the world’s spiritual traditions.
Join IONS research staff Marilyn Mandala Schlitz,
PhD; Cassandra Vieten, PhD; and Tina Amorok, PsyD;
as they offer key insights from the decade-long
qualitative and quantitative research study of
how people transform their lives.
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Donor
Spotlight |
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When you invest as an IONS Circle member
you help support a powerful shift in consciousness
Circle members enjoy many special benefits, such as these excursions:
 See
the launch of Shuttle Discovery with Edgar Mitchell
at Kennedy Space Center Orlando, Florida - December
3 to 6, 2008
Enjoy
backstage tours, VIP launch viewing, and inspired
dialogues. The invitation to join this trip is
a benefit for Founder’s Circle members ($10,000
annual membership level and above).
 Travel
with IONS President to South India - January 28
to February 15, 2009
Join
IONS President, James O'Dea, on a journey to the
ancient land of India at this time of global shift
and transformation. This is a special opportunity
for Circle members ($1,000 annual membership level
and above) to be with James, and meet other Circle
members. As we travel we will share in conversation,
pondering the larger questions of life and the
universe, and open ourselves to the archetypes
of Hinduism in order to address our own deep consciousness
and spirituality.
For
more information about the trips and 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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DEAR
SWAMI
by Swami Beyondananda
"Where
Swami Answers Your Questions - and You Will Question
His Answers" 
Dear
Swami:
My mind never ceases its dialogue and is always asking questions. I'm wondering if you have a secret method that can end all questions? I seem to be trapped in a mental feedback loop.
Helen Teheven, Midland, Texas
Dear
Helen:
First of all, you can be thankful for one
thing. Your problems are all in your mind!
Therefore, the solution is simple. If you
want to stop the constant dialogue, you must
go out of your mind and into your heart. The
best way to do this is to gather all the thoughts
in your head in one intense ball of tension,
and then release these rapidly while breathing
out: "Aaa-a-a-a-a-ah!" The "ah" sound is specifically
related to the heart, and the process of sighing
-- particularly when there is a sizable sigh
-- allows maximum release. This isn't my idea,
by the way. I learned it years ago from Sigh
Baba, who was also known as "The Wizard of
Ahs."
Of
course, given the way the mind works you will
find questions creeping back into your consciousness.
No problem. Just remember that it takes two
to dialogue, so don't answer them. Before
long, the questions will stop and you will
begin to hear answers instead. Now you're
getting somewhere! Still, to clear the mind
and transcend thought completely requires
constant vigilance, especially nowadays where
information seeps in from everywhere. No wonder
so many of us are suffering from truth decay!
That's why four out of five transcendentists
recommend mental floss. That's what I do.
Anytime I feel the effects of too much thinking,
I place my thumb and forefinger about six
inches from each ear and gently move it back
and forth like I'm flossing. No better way
to release excess flossophy, and go from the
static of the head to the ecstatic of the
heart.
©
Copyright 2008 by Steve Bhaerman. All rights
reserved. To find out about Swami's fun products
and upcoming shows, go to www.wakeuplaughing.com
or call (800) SWAMI-BE.
Ask
Swami your own question. Send it here.
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Monthly
Intention |
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June
Intention:
At the beginning of each month, we encourage you to take a quiet moment to link your intention with people around the world. This month our intention is to create a feeling of global interconnection. We encourage you to imagine a linked grid of energy that connects every single country, race, and religion, honoring the contribution of each equally.
June
Action:
This month, we encourage you to
reach out in some way to an unfamiliar country,
perhaps through research, a movie, or even contacting
someone via the Internet. Expanding your sphere
of connections globally helps us all begin to
think of ourselves as one global family.
June
Question for Reflection:
If you were to spend an extended time in a completely new culture with a goal of fundamentally shifting your view of the world, what culture would you choose?
This
month's member intention comes from Donna Bedore:
"My intention is to embrace the illness brought about by this cancer and to learn from the gifts it has brought to me during this journey!"
If
you would like to offer an intention for next
month, please send it here.
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