THURSDAY, MAY 15 2008

Shift Commune Home

About Commune

Communing at the Frontiers

Stephen Dinan | 07.30.05

Commune is a deeper state of mind in which new realms of interconnection open. In Commune mode on SIA, we invite you to transcend traditional chat and go beyond personality to touch dimensions of higher consciousness through relating to visionary art.

When you join a Commune room, you are creating a sacred space for immediately connecting with other members of this site. We have several rooms that weave beautiful images, evocative music, and wisdom phrases for a unique ambience.

Commune rooms are designed to:

Feed the part of you that is hungry for expanded awareness, authentic relationship, and unexpected magic
Connect you with like-minded people who share your desire for transformation
Experiment with transforming consciousness through a virtal medium

In the future, we plan to be able to allow you to create your own Commune Room, enhancing the ambience with Flash-animated words such as mantras from Hinduism, Catholic prayers, words of the American Founding Fathers, quotes from quantum physicists, or even your own poetry. Eventually we plan to interact with live voices. Donate generously to IONS and that future will emerge more quickly!

Share This Page

Featured Commune Room

Our First Commune Rooms

Our Commune Rooms have been described as "a Chat Room Crossed with a Zendo." Each Room lets you chat with friends using a special interface on the right side of the page; but unlike other chat or IM applications, Shift in Action weaves evocative music, images and wisdom phrases into a transformative ambience to inspire your conversation and put you deeply in tune with your "Room Mates." Click on one of the rooms below to see what we mean. And please come back early and often, as we'll be creating many more rooms as well as enabling you to use music, images and words to create your own!

GaiaStar Room

Hosted by Brooks Cole
05.31.06

Note from artists Bonnie Gold Bell and David Sun Todd: In 1998, artists Bonnie Bell and David Todd began to meditate on the emergence of global being. When we see ourselves as human-spirit cells in a conscious, living world, how does that change our awareness and our bodies? Out of this meditation, we created a series of 64 images and text called The GaiaStar Codex: Seeds of a Turned-on World. In this slide show you’ll read phrases from the Codex mixed with mandalas and goddess icons from the Codex and some of our other visual series.

Thich Nhat Hahn Room

Hosted by Brooks Cole
08.01.05

A Monestary bell rings three times to begin this meditation, led by Thich Nhat Hahn, to music from “Graceful Passages� by Gary Malkin and Michael Stillwater. This room is about transmuting suffering into heart understanding and mindfulness.

User login