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Transformative
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Expand
your mind, open your heart, and activate your full
potential.
For
twenty-five years, Dr. Bogzaran has taught internationally
innovative and transformative ways of working with dreams.
She combines scientific, creative, phenomenological
and experiential methods to help participants to gain
insight into their dreams. Her method allows for integral
dream awareness as a daily practice.
April
24-26, 2009
Creating
Personal and Global Coherence:
Skills and Practices to Assist Your Journey Toward Wholeness
and Global Transformation
Howard Martin
Breakthrough
scientific research on the heart-brain-body connection
has emerged that demonstrates how our physical hearts
send out powerful healing commands. In this program
you will learn coherence techniques that activate the
power of the heart to reduce feelings of overwhelm,
anxiety, and depression, as compassion and appreciation
are increased. Compassion and appreciation are access
codes for an integration of our spirit into our humanness.
Register
online, email workshops@noetic.org,
or call 707-779-8224.
See
a complete list of 2009
workshops.
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The
Retreat Center at the Institute of Noetic Sciences |
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Located
on 200 acres of beautiful rolling hills just 25 miles
north of the Golden Gate Bridge, we offer meeting facilities,
cuisine, and accommodations for 5-120. Our clients offer
educational programs, workshops and retreats, with a
broad focus on health, personal growth, and transformation.
We also welcome weekend workshops and retreats for small
groups (less than 25). Many programs are open to the
public.
For
more information and Events Schedule: www.noetic.org/retreat.cfm
events@noetic.org
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Retreat Center Events
San Francisco Bay Area |
Dennis
Klocek
March 10, 2009
Potluck dinner followed by a presentation by the Director of the Consciousness Studies Program at the Rudolf Steiner College.
Certified
Laughter Yoga Leader Training
March
14-15, 2009
This weekend will be an in-depth educational experience
for you to enjoy the powerful health benefits of
laughter, develop your own laughter practice, learn
to lead laughter clubs and to facilitate the use
of laughter to promote happiness at work.
Regression
Therapy Intensive Training
March
16-20, 2009
The wisdom of the ancient healing tool of hypnosis
can be utilized to help people learn the origins
of current life situations or difficulties, eliminate
many kinds of emotional and physical problems, and
improve the quality of everyday life.
Brad
Warner
March 19, 2009
Potluck dinner followed with a presentation
by an American spiritual seeker from Akron, Ohio
who took a most unlikely path to enlighten his consciousness.
Creative
Memories Scrapbooking Weekend
March
20-22, 2009
Celebrate and preserve your memories into treasured
keepsakes - your life, your story, your way. Felicia
will show you how with top quality photo albums
and organizing products.
Two
Week Intensive in Advanced Shamanic Healing with
Michael Harner
March
23-April 3, 2009
A variety of advanced methods are practiced in this
residential program, including extraction healing,
soul retrieval, psychopomp work, divination, and
work with the spirits of nature.
The
Healer's Journey: Enhance Your Healing Practice,
Increase Joy, and Reconnect with Your Life Purpose
March
27-29, 2009
This program is designed to enhance the life and capacity of all people in the healing arts. This would include massage therapists, yoga teachers, psychologists, physicians, naturopaths, social workers, nutritionists, teachers, and nurses.
Courage
and Renewal Retreat: Exploring Our Inner Life in
the Context of Our Work
April
3-5, 2009
You are invited to join with others engaged in the serving professions to spend time together to reflect, renew, and reconnect with the inner passions that brought you to your vocation.
Living
Undivided: A Silent Retreat Exploring Nondual Wisdom
and Psychotherapy
April
16-19, 2009
Through silence, experiential inquiry, and dialogue,
we will explore together both the effects of dividing
ourselves from what is here now, and the profound
healing that happens when we remain Undivided.
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Event
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13th International Conference
Toward
a Global Shift: Seeding the Field of Collective Change
June 17-21, 2009
JW Marriott Starr Pass Resort
Tucson, Arizona
Registration
now open at www.noetic.org!
Watch our conference highlight video as well.
This
month's featured presenter:
 Seane
Corn: Yoga teacher, activist, cofounder of
Off the Mat, Into the World® (website)
"I'm
in a steady state of buzz from the conference. It broke
my heart wide open. It was the best experience of my
life." - Harold Aldrich, previous participant
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Shift in Action |
You
can sign up for a $1 trial of Shift
in Action and receive the book Living Deeply,
written by IONS researchers, and other offerings including
live teleseminars, downloadable media, CDs, our quarterly
publication, and access to archives and our website
for convening with like-minded friends and community.
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Our
upcoming conference, Toward
a Global Shift, is calling forth
wisdom from the four corners of the planet and
from diverse sectors of society to build a powerful
field for positive, collective change. You'll
hear from fascinating scientists, inspiring spiritual
leaders, and social entrepreneurs, as well as
from the many brilliant individuals like yourself
who will join in our innovative group explorations
to create new frameworks for our shared future.
This
conference takes an interdisciplinary and integrative
approach to change that will, in the tradition
of the noetic sciences, weave together research
experiments, groundbreaking ideas, passionate
performances, personal experiences, and community
ritual. Through our main-stage events and breakout
sessions, our goal is to bring the wisdom gained
in our small groups back into the entire conference
community to seed dialogues and deepen our experiential
journey.
We
will explore such evocative questions as:
- How
do we form our beliefs?
- How
might we engage more effectively with beliefs
different from our own?
- What
qualities do we see emerging in our global culture
today?
- What
is being born now?
- In
what ways can we together dream a new culture
into being that is healthy, sustainable, inclusive,
and whole?
- What
are the essential practices for us as individuals
and for our communities during this time of
radical shift?
- How
can we use the ideas and actions of our local
communities to help us seed the future we want?
Together
we will create one of the most memorable and rejuvenating
conferences of your life—complete with music,
celebration, laughter, and grounded practices
for awakening a new way of being.
Join
us June 17-21 in Tucson, Arizona, and register
by March 18 to receive the early-bird discount.
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Our research and education programs are forging new pathways to understanding the potentials of human consciousness. Here are a few current examples:
Laboratory
The Institute's laboratory is one of only a
few in the world that is actively devoted to scientifically
exploring the psychophysical interactions associated
with extended human capacities. It is equipped with
a wide range of psychophysiological and physical instrumentation,
an environmentally shielded testing chamber, and the
capacity to explore intuitive and non-sensory interactions
between people at a distance, unconscious responses
to events distant either in space or time, and mind-matter
interactions ranging from basic physics (photons) to
biology (cell cultures), psychology (human physiology
and behavior), and sociology (small and large groups).
Experimental
Tests of the Role of Consciousness in the Physical World
This research addresses the role of consciousness within
the context of two fundamental physical theories: quantum
mechanics and general relativity. The project's Phase
I focuses on how nonlocal observation, the "mind’s
eye," interacts with quantum objects, in this case
photons within a double-slit optical apparatus. Phase
II will study whether intention can directly affect
the speed of light as measured in optical fiber. The
purpose of these experiments is to go beyond demonstrations
of consciousness-related effects and seek to link them
with well-accepted physical theories.
Investigating
States of Nondual Awareness
This study empirically addresses the question
of how we should interpret mystical states of consciousness
in meditation. Are reports of being in a "timeless
space," for example, mere fantasies or hallucinations?
Or do they represent genuinely enhanced levels of awareness
that allow us to perceive an ontologically accurate
dimension of reality that exists beyond the everyday
boundaries of time and space? We will study this question
by exploring brain states associated with non-dual states
of awareness, and by correlating those states with performance
in an experiment designed to measure brain responses
to events that will occur a few seconds in the future.
If the brain unconsciously anticipates future events,
as suggested by previous studies we have conducted,
then this experiment will allow us to probe the nature
of the timeless states reported in non-dual awareness.
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Media
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Listen
in for live
teleseminars featuring authors and
luminaries in the field of consciousness.
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Wednesday,
March 4th at 5pm Pacific - Matthew
Gilbert with Craig Hamilton
on "The Role of Spirituality in Human
Evolution"
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Wednesday,
March
11th at 5pm Pacific - Cassandra Vieten
with Zen DeBrücke on
"The Seventh Sense: Your Internal Guidance
System"
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Wednesday,
March
18th at 5pm Pacific - Marilyn Schlitz
Dr. Fred and Ina Pockrass
on "Eco-Dentistry"
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Wednesday,
March
25th at 5pm Pacific - Dean Radin
with UFO researcher Richard Dolan
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 Shift
your view of the world in our new One
Minute Shift with author and ritual
priestess Luisah Teish. Teish
takes us on a journey through rituals and dreams
to connect with capsules of energy that still
exist from our thoughts, emotions and ancestors.
We can create a different world if we recognize
our energetic connection with everyone on this
planet.
Experience
Luisah Teish live at our International
Conference in June. Registration is now
open. For more information on Teish's presentation
and workshop, visit www.ionsconference.org.
 The
Institute's
radio show is a free internet broadcast
that showcases the voices of an emerging conscious
culture. Our weekly program gives you access to
some of the most inspiring leaders, brightest
minds, and top innovators who are committed to
building a better world.
It's
a great way to introduce your friends to the Institute.
Join host Stephen Dinan every
Tuesday at 9 am PST (rebroadcast at 9 pm PST)
on VoiceAmerica.
- March
3rd - Dean Radin - Entangled
Minds
- March
10th - Edgar Mitchell - Consciousness
Science
- March
17th - Anodea Judith - Humanity's
Rite of Passage from the Love of Power to the
Power of Love
- March
24th - Stanislav Grof - The
Future of Psychology
  The
winter issue of
the Institute of Noetic Sciences Shift
Magazine has arrived! If you join
us today you will receive this provocative
issue.
Table
of Contents
Consciousness
and Healing
In Search of Happiness
by Vesela Simic
There has been an unprecedented explosion of interest in the pursuit of happiness. What are scientists learning? Is the quest for happiness appropriate and useful in a time of global instability? What's missing from the discussion, and where is this quest taking us? Its pursuit is more—and less—complicated than we think.
Extended
Human Capacities
Twin Telepathy and the Illusion of Separation
by Diane H. Powell
Despite substantial evidence validating psychic phenomena,
the scientific community remains largely resistant. Enter the revolutionary phenomenon of telepathic communication between twins. Numerous cases have been accumulating since the late 1800s. If they can't be explained through synchronicity or genetics,
what other explanation could there be?
Emerging
Worldviews
The Adaptive Organization
by Carol Mase
The strains that most of us are feeling these days are also reflected within our institutions. In attempting to adapt, most still rely on traditional models of change that no longer work in a world where the old rules don't apply. Mase makes the case for a new model that bridges psychology, biology, and the principles of interdependence.
Transformation
A Quiet Revolution: An Interview with
Adyashanti
by Steve Donoso
Spiritual teacher Adyashanti, who
began his public teachings in 1996, shares his
wisdom on the nature of awakening consciousness.
"The most powerful impediments to awakening are
our beliefs about it," he says. His recommended
tools are self-honesty, meditation, and inquiry
into primordial silence.
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| In
the News |
 President
Marilyn
Mandala Schlitz, PhD, was recently invited
to be a keynote speaker at the Transformative Leadership
Council conference in Hawaii. The conference drew
thought leaders, speakers, authors, coaches, trainers,
researchers, and consultants who are leaders in the
fields of personal and professional development. Her
captivating talk, “Changing our Minds: The Art and Science
of Transformation,” touched on principles from the book,
Living Deeply, based on a
ten-year program of scientific research that explored
the phenomenon by which people make significant shifts
in the way they view the world and themselves.
State
of Global Emergency Declaration
- The Institute is a member of the Global Emergency
Task Force, which was initiated by the Club of Budapest
to call attention to the perilous condition of humanity
and to motivate serious endeavors to join forces to
cope with it. Ervin Laszlo and David Woolfson have prepared
a draft Declaration that is now available for review
and endorsement online.
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| Donor
Spotlight |
 Smiths'
Bequest—One Part of a Larger Plan
You
might think that the hurricane weather in Slidell, Louisiana,
would send residents scrambling to get their estate
plans done. But you would never know it from the serene
demeanor of Slidell residents David and Dee Smith. "Hurricanes
are simply part of living on the Gulf Coast, just as
tornadoes and earthquakes are a part of living elsewhere,"
David said matter-of-factly. As a retired federal ecologist,
David is intimately familiar with the coastal states
and their vulnerability to storms.
However,
common sense and a desire to prepare for the future—not
tumultuous weather—led the Smiths to draft a comprehensive
estate plan. Because they have no children to inherit
their estate by default, they needed a plan both to
distribute their assets as they wish at death and to
protect them during their remaining years. "Wills
are the kind of thing people tend to put off,"
Dee said. "We didn’t want to wait for an emergency
to force us to do our plan."
As
specified in their plan, one of their goals is to benefit
the Institute of Noetic Sciences. "I found Noetics
to be immediately interesting," said David, who
became a member in the early '90s. He was especially
attracted to its non-doctrinaire way of embracing spirituality.
Dee likes the idea that "Noetics is global, and
invites everyone to participate to the degree you wish."
The Institute is pleased to list David and Dee Smith
as members of its Visionary Circle.
To
begin your planning and request a complimentary estate
planning kit, please contact Kathleen
Erickson-Freeman at 707-779-8232.
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The Institute of Noetic Sciences is a nonprofit research
organization located in Northern California that conducts
and sponsors leading-edge research into the potentials
and powers of consciousness—including perceptions,
beliefs, attention, intention, and intuition. The Institute
explores phenomena that do not necessarily fit conventional
scientific models, while maintaining a commitment to
scientific rigor.
We
are a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that depends
on and gratefully accepts your generous financial
support.
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