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Do you know your life’s purpose? Is your life filled
with meaning and happiness
right now?
Imagine watching
a feature film that is entertaining (with big Hollywood
stars in it) and shows you the way to discovering
your life’s
purpose! The movie is called The Shift,
and it stars
Dr. Wayne Dyer and Portia
DeRossi.
Through this inspiring
film, you will
- Discover how to fulfill your destiny and live
your life on purpose
- Learn how to recognize a “quantum moment”
- Understand the different ways men and women make the shift
Thanks to our friends
at Spiritual
Cinema Circle, you can receive The Shift (plus
several great short films and an exclusive interview
with Gary Renard) for FREE by
signing up for a free trial (you pay a small shipping
fee). The movies are yours to keep and you can cancel
at any time.
To see the trailers
of the films and get your FREE* DVD, click here!
*$4.95
US shipping fee applies, $7.95 international |
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Transformative
Learning Workshops
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Expand
your mind, open your heart, and activate your full
potential.
November
20–21, 2009
Clear
Mind, Wild Heart: Finding Courage and Clarity
through Poetry
David Whyte, poet and philosopher
January
29–31, 2010
Speaking the Soul: The Transformative Power of Words
Kim Rosen, MFA
March
19–21, 2010
Green
in Spirit: Healing through Permaculture and Biodynamic Gardening
Brenda Sanders (see Member Spotlight below)
Register
online, email workshops@noetic.org,
or call 707-779-8224.
See
a complete list of 2009–2010
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 up to 120 people. 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 an Events Schedule: www.noetic.org/retreat.cfm
events@noetic.org
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IONS
Retreat Center Events
San Francisco Bay Area
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November
Dinner Series:
The Lost Symbol
November 11, 2009
The
Monroe Institute: The
Gateway Voyage
November 14-20, 2009
Devatara
Holman –Buddhist
Medicine and the Eastern Principles of True Health
in Body, Mind, and Spirit
November 19, 2009
A Friendly Favors Event
Clear
Mind, Wild Heart: Finding Courage and Clarity through
Poetry
November 20-21, 2009
Open
Mic Poetry and Conversation
November 21, 2009
Donald
Hotson – Dirac's Equation and the Sea of
Negative Energy
December 10, 2009
A Friendly Favors Event
IONS
Holiday Open House
December 13, 2009
Jamie
Janover – The United Field Theory of Scientist
Nassim Haramein
December 15, 2009
A Friendly Favors Event
Speaking
the Soul: The Transformative Power of Words
January 29–31, 2010
New
Equations – 'The Physical Expression of the Soul'
Training Program
February 7–17, 2010
Ken
Jenkins – The Enneagram of Personality
March 9, 2010
A
Friendly Favors Event
Green
in Spirit: Healing through Permaculture and Biodynamic Gardening
March 19–21, 2010
Two
Week Intensive in Advanced Shamanic Healing
April 11–22, 2010
Foundation
for Shamanic Studies (Journeywork) – Three-Year Program in Advanced Initiations
in Shamanism and Shamanic Healing
October 17–22, 2010
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Special Events
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Save
the Date!
Fundraising Gala at the Chabot Space & Science
Center
February 20, 2010
Berkeley, California
Join Marilyn Mandala Schlitz, Edgar Mitchell,
Brian Swimme, and Siddha Master Sri Dattatreya Siva
Baba
as we explore ancient cosmology, map the cosmos, and give tribute to Edgar's
80th year.
Community Group
Gathering in France
May 12-16, 2010
Champtocé-sur-Loire, France
For further information, contact the coordinator, John
Ogden (607-756-4580). This event is co-sponsored by the Institute of Noetic
Sciences.
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| Noetic
Science |
|  Studying
NDEs
After a successful
18-month pilot study, the University of
Southampton in the United Kingdom announced in September
of 2008 the launch of AWARE (AWAreness during REsuscitation),
the largest study of its kind into the phenomenon of
near-death experiences (NDEs). Led by critical-care
physician Sam Parnia, a specialist in the field of
"consciousness at death" research
and author of What
Happens When We Die, the study
has brought scientists and doctors together at 25 major
medical centers throughout Europe and the U.S. Although
findings won't be made available for several years,
the program will provide deeper insights into the occurrence
of
such things as out-of-body experiences
and memory recall during cardiac arrest. For more information,
go here for
the original announcement and here ("Questions
and answers about moment of death")
for recent coverage by MSNBC.com.
In the meantime,
a group of critical-care doctors at George Washington
University studied the brainwave patterns of seven
dying patients and found similar physiological evidence
of abnormal activity—"a sudden electrical ‘alertness’ or
spike in brain waves"—at
the moment before their death. A brief summary of the
study is available here;
a PDF of the actual paper ("Surges
of Electroencephalogram Activity at the Time of Death:
A Case Series")
can be purchased at the Journal of Palliative Medicine website.
While the phenomenon
of NDEs is provocative enough, what happens afterwards
to those who experience them and to the people in their
lives? One answer comes from a study recently published
at the University of North Texas, titled "Marital
Satisfaction and Stability Following a Near-Death Experience
of One of the Marital Partners."
It is part of a series of seven studies initiated by
Janice Holden, EdD, Department Chair of Counseling
at UNT. Holden presented each of them at the recent
national conference of The
International Association of Near-Death Studies.
She is also the co-editor of The
Handbook of Near-Death Experiences:
Thirty Years of Investigation,
published last summer and featuring presentations
from the 2006 IANDS conference. The book also commemorates
the history of NDE research since the publication of
Raymond Moody's classic
book, Life after Life, in 1975. Moody has
written both the prologue and the epilogue to the soon-to-be-released
book, There
Is Life After Death: Compelling Reports from Those
Who Have Glimpsed the Afterlife by Roy Abraham
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New
Logo / New Website! |
 IONS
will unveil its new website in early 2010, which
will include
a content section called "The Noetic Post"—the
name of the new semi-annual bulletin recently mailed
to IONS members. We have also redesigned our logo
after a long relationship with Leonardo da Vinci’s
"Vitruvian Man." We like its clean look
and the sense of forward movement—transformation—as
your eye moves from left to right, and the treatment
of
the "O" evokes the
life-changing experience of IONS founder and Apollo
14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell during his return trip
from the moon. The new look will be slowly integrated
into the Institute's various print and digital vehicles—including
iShift, whose design and name will change
when the new website is launched.
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Media Spotlight
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Our twelve-week teleseminar series on
"The
Noetic Science behind The Lost Symbol" features
prerecorded sessions with leading noetic
scientists from
our
rich library of interviews, teleseminar programs, and presentations
at the 2009 IONS Conference. Each prerecorded session is followed
by a live, guided discussion, creating a space to share your insights,
thoughts, and feelings about the powers and potentials of noetic
science.
We
invite you to become a monthly member of IONS and participate
in this new series. If you sign up now, you can listen to past
sessions and join in for all the teleseminars
still to come.
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Wednesday, November 4 at 5 pm Pacific -
"Spontaneous Evolution" with Bruce
Lipton, PhD
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Wednesday, November 11 at 5 pm Pacific -
"Shifting Archetypes—Nature and
Cosmos" with Jean
Houston, PhD
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Wednesday, November 18 at 5 pm Pacific
- "The Biology and Sociology of Good and
Evil" with Van Jones and Tom
Lewis, MD
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Wednesday, November 25 at 5 pm Pacific
- "More Than Skin Deep" with Loren
Eskenazi, MD
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Film
Highlights
 Eat
the Sun
This personal favorite from the just-concluded
Mill Valley
Film Festival is a provocative
documentary about healing, intention, and belief
systems that will forever change your notion
of "solar power."
 Film on Darwin
Fails to Find U.S. Distributor
No matter what
your views on evolution vs. creationism (or something
in-between), this movie-industry news on the
fate of Creation
was an eye-opener.
Cinema Nondualite
The recent Science and Nonduality Conference
featured a program of
full-length and short films on mysticism, spirituality,
and transformation,
some of which are currently in limited release. CD and DVD recordings from the 2009 conference can be purchased here.
Environmental
Media Awards
The EMA has honored entertainment
industry efforts to promote ecological consciousness
since 1991. The 2009
Awards
were recently announced, and included the feature-length
documentaries Food, Inc. and The
Cove.
New
Books
 The
Age of Empathy: Nature’s
Lessons for a Kinder Society by Frans
de Waal. The renowned primatologist continues
to challenge the prevailing notion that
human beings are essentially brutish, selfish,
and competitive.
 The
Force Is with Us: The Higher Consciousness
that Science
Refuses to Accept by Thomas Walker.
A thoughtful layperson’s guide to the broad
scope of paranormal phenomena and alternative
forms of healing.
 Eyes
Wide Open: Cultivating Discernment on the Spiritual
Path by Mariana Caplan (foreword by
John Welwood). Hard-earned wisdom from a long-time
seeker and author of Halfway
up the Mountain.
 The
Sacred Universe: Earth, Spirituality, and Religion
in
the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Berry
(foreword by Mary Evelyn Tucker). A collection
of essays
over a thirty-year period by the late theologian-ecologist.
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In
the News |
Barbara Ehrenreich and Positive Thinking
 Activist-writer
Barbara Ehrenreich, a long-time critic of the shortcomings of the American Dream,
has set her sights on a new target: positive thinking.
Her new book, Bright-Sided:
How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America,
takes issue with what she feels is the dark underside of optimism run amok—the
new-age nostrum that people in distress are victims of their own negative thinking.
She wrote the book after a ten-year battle with breast cancer. Ehrenreich,
who has a doctorate in cell biology, does
not believe there is a connection between positive thinking and the immune
system or cancer survival rates. She was interviewed recently by the San
Francisco Chronicle,
which also featured comments from Dacher Keltner, co-director of UC Berkeley's
Greater Good Science Center, who did agree that Ehrenreich’s book was "a necessary
critique of a movement that we need to take stock of." Be sure to read the
comments section that follows the article.
IONS
and The Lost Symbol – Media Transcripts
 After
a month of widespread media attention over IONS and
"noetic science" being
featured in Dan Brown's new book, The Lost Symbol, we offer the
following links to transcripts and major coverage:
NPR: "Woman
Reads Dan Brown Novel, Discovers Herself"
Dateline: "Secrets
of The Lost Symbol"
Huffington Post: "Behind
The Lost Symbol: Woo-Woo or Frontier Science?"
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Member
Spotlight |
| Brenda
Sanders
 You're
stuck in traffic; horns are blasting and radios are
blaring. Tension builds as you look around and see
nothing but buildings and concrete. You long to see
wildflowers or a remote beach with pelicans skimming
over the waves.
What is this longing? Why do we feel as if it points
to a hole in the very fabric of our being? "We feel
that way because it does," says IONS Circle Member
Brenda Sanders, PhD. As an environmental biologist,
she is keenly aware of how vital this connection is.
"This longing is a call for us to restore our
relationship with the natural world," she says. "Nature
is our venue. We evolved within its womb. It has nourished
us for
thousands of years and is now lost from our daily lives."
Brenda hasn't
always had this deep sense of connection with nature.
A scientist by training and a professor for most of
her career, she had an unexpected awakening into unity
consciousness (nonduality) in 1997, which instantly
altered fundamental aspects of her personality and
her perspective on life. "I now know that everything
is interconnected, that each of us is a facet of a
perfect whole. Nothing is separate, and this knowledge
changes everything." Shortly afterward, Brenda
joined the Institute of Noetic Sciences. IONS has become
a
focal point in her life, a gathering place of kindred
spirits and pioneer scientists who accept her for who
she is. With this support, she has developed a method,
informed by biology, to restore our vital connection
with nature. This spring on our Petaluma campus she
will offer a workshop, "Green
in Spirit: Healing through Permaculture and Biodynamic
Gardening." Her memoir, Split
Wide Open: A Scientist Wakes Up to a New View on Life,
will be published in 2010. For more information, go
to www.NewViewOnLife.com.
To learn more about IONS' Circle membership,
please contact Donor Relations: Deborah
Breitbach at 707-779-8216, Kathleen
Erickson-Freeman at 707-779-8232, Robert
McDowell at 707-779-8215.
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The Institute
of Noetic Sciences is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit research
and
educational 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 depend on and
gratefully accept your financial
support.
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