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Why are we here? Are we fulfilling our life’s purpose? What is evolutionary intelligence trying to express through us? Golden Gate Center for Spiritual Living presents:

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Calling people in the edge of our collective evolution! The Transitioner.org is delighted to invite you to the next seminar on Collective Intelligence, Wisdom and Consciousness. The aim of this seminar is to train and support individuals who want to become pioneers in Collective Intelligence, Wisdom and Consciousness (CIWC), and who feel an irresistible call to be part of the co-creation of global wisdom driven organizations. Can you imagine organizations that can be at the same time global -- connected to the world and able to scale up -- AND wise?

In his visit to IONS NW last summer, Dr. Victor Shamas discussed the power of chanting as a healing tool. In this follow-up presentation, he will explain how chanting has led to three important developments of the past year, each of which is helping to usher in an age of peace, sustainability and balance in the world.

Join Beth Lisick, in dialogue with host Cassandra Vieten for a live discussion in our Living Deeply Series at 11:00 am Pacific Time.

Join author and Buddhist scholar Robert Thurman for an intimate and lively discussion with IONS President James O'Dea. They will discuss his latest book, Why the Dalai Lama Matters, including his personal reasons for bringing such a book forward this year, the year of the Beijing Olympics. Inspired by his 40-year friendship with the Dalai Lama and passionate about the cause of Tibetan freedom, Professor Thurman offers his vision for a peaceful resolution to the Tibet crisis and will explain why what happens in Tibet truly does affect everyone on the planet.

Bruce H. Lipton, 1 pm- 7 pm, August 14, 9 am- 5 pm, August 15; Rob Williams, 9 am-5 pm, August 16-17. For telephone registration contact Shari at 800. 245.9463. More information to come.

As stories from the indigenous world suggest, the consciousness of early humans was not separated from the matrix of life, especially not separated from the organism Earth and all its inhabitants. Animals talked, rocks talked, trees and rivers and wind and mountains‹all spoke, not only to (and about) humans, but among, and about, themselves. The separation of the "civilized" human from "nature" has been primarily a diminishment of perception, a culturally-determined reduction of consciousness. But an experiential re-discovery of what James Hillman calls a "psyche the size of Earth" is possible, and perhaps necessary. Like meditation, exploring the terrain beyond the individual psyche and the collective human unconscious toward the anima mundi, or greater ecological intelligence, takes practice. In companionship with the Grand Tetons and the Snake River, in the habitat of eagles, bears, elk, moose and other wild souls, on the land where the "Wilderness Act" was conceived, we will use ceremony, solo time, perception-enhancement practice, contemplative and imaginal techniques to approach the conscious, communicative more-than-human world. A brief application is required.

Awakening of Honor is a Gift We Give Our Children. Experience the Great Circle Ceremony in a Traditional Native American Way. Native American Indian Honor Day, since 2000 is usually observed annually on Aug.20. It honors the idea that each person has a gift that serves the world, in a good way, through honor, so we may solve the many tasks needed to build a world we love to live in and a life we love to live. This year's Hoop Ceremony features the Hoop of Spiritual Leaders and is observed on August 16, a free family event, open to the public.

Goddesses from all levels of tantric yogic background, come nurture, empower, enjoy your Selves --meet new friends. Single, coupled, lesbian and hetero womem all welcome. Details: email lovearts@att.

Join Joanna Macy, in dialogue with host Tina Amorok as they discuss, "Taking heart in a Dark Time: How fearlessly facing together the dangers and suffering in our world can help us break through to new vision and creativity"

Join Jean Watson, in dialogue with host Marilyn Schlitz.

How will the current ailing healthcare system nurture to retain its most precious resource, caring professional nurses, while preparing a new generation of health practitioners? How will the profound Caritas nature of caring-healing, and the ethic and ethos of love return to help the struggling healthcare industry?  Dr. Jean Watson, PhD, RN, AHN-BC, FAAN shares her work, her philosophies, and new going forward strategy---the birth of  her new international nonprofit foundation, the Watson Caring Science Institute.  "We are the light in institutional darkness, and in this caritas model we get to return to the light of our humanity”, shares Dr. Watson about WCSI which will deliver Watson’s renowned 30 year Caritas Model of Caring-Healing into expanded programs and services to help unify, mentor, and transform healthcare one nurse / one educator / one system at a time.  www.watsoncaringscience.org

Initial meeting for IONS group in Polk County. We will discuss organization issues and then view a DVD of Brian Swimme, author of The Universe Story along with Thomas Berry followed by a discussion of his view of the Cosmos.

The third (or fourth) Monday of each month at 6:00 pm Pacific

Would you like to get the most out of your Shift in Action membership? It's a very powerful resource and quite easy to use once you learn how. With a few minutes of instruction, you can:

Join Sheila McKeithen , in dialogue with host Angela Murphy.

There is much talk today about 'purposeful' living. The 'hype' has caused some to find their purpose, others to ignore their purpose and still others to recognize that they are already on purpose.  This discussion will stimulate the audience to awaken to the power of living from their purpose;  the role that silent observation plays in recognizing one's purpose and the pitfalls that pull us off our purpose.

Belvie Rooks and Thomas DeWolf will discuss Inheriting the Trade, his trail-blazing memoir about his family's quest to face its slave-trading past and an urgent call for reconciliation. From 1769 to 1820, DeWolf fathers, sons and grandsons trafficked in human beings. They sailed their ships from Bristol, Rhode Island to West Africa with rum to trade for African men, women and children. Captives were taken to plantations that the DeWolfs owned in Cuba or were sold at auction in such ports as Havana and Charleston. Over the generations, the family owned 47 ships that transported thousands of Africans across the Middle Passage into slavery. They were the largest slave-trading family in U.S. history.

The School of the Sacred Feminine in collaboration with Veriditas is pleased to announce our fall session: The Sacred Feminine and the Wisdom Tradition in Democracy September 6, 2008 First Universalist Church

Join Van Jones, in dialogue with host Marilyn Schlitz for a live discussion in our Living Deeply Series at 11:00 am Pacific Time. You will have the opportunity to ask questions of the guests and then participate in a community discussion.

In this PBS NOVA presentation the possibility of a supermassive black hole lurking at the center of our galaxy is explored. Bob Johnston will facilitate our post-viewing discussion. Our IONS New Options Community Group meets weekly to explore the pros and cons of a wide variety of research findings, concepts, practices, and ideas for more integrally conscious, healthful, wise. mutually empathetic living, aging, dying and thereafter as they newly emerge from scientific, humanistic, and spiritual communities worldwide.

Join Brian Robertson, in dialogue with host Stephen Dinan.

Never before in human history have we faced a world of such complexity and change, unfolding at a dizzying pace. How will we organize to meet these challenges?

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The Power of Compassion
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"

Join depth psychologist and wilderness guide Bill Plotkin, who has been leading nature-based soul-encounter experiences for 25 years, in exploring your personal potential and destiny. This program is offered through Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts.

Join us for this wonderful journey into the heart of the sacred center through the use of the historic labyrinth in Chartres Cathedral. Through a series of workshops and trainings of your choosing, you will explore historical archetypes, use the labyrinth as a tool for unity and wholeness, learn the art of labyrinth facilitation to share with others, , and engage in spiritual skill building. The sections of the epic pilgrimage will frame your journey and inspire you with this ancient tool for gaining wisdom, spiritual insight, and contemplative awareness. We will engage in ritual, meditation, lecture, art, music, and sacred circle as vehicles for unfolding the deep mystery within and around us. Select one or more of the cycles and prepare for a life-changing and enhancing journey into the deep mystery of the labyrinth and your spiritual center.

Join Paul Ekman, in dialogue with host Cassandra Vieten for a live discussion in our Living Deeply Series at 11:00 am Pacific Time.

If you long to connect with your unique, evolutionary role and take steps to begin the work that only you can do for the planet, you are ready to become The Possible Human. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Join us to begin the exciting, very intense experience

Gaiadon Heart – Level 1A with Master Facilitators Torben Munk Nielsen and Trine Cecilie Johansen. NY Metro Area, Montclair, New Jersey, USA Experience the most revolutionary and amazing spiritual initiation into self-mastery, through powerful light body activation techniques preparing you for ascension!

In the introduction to this Science & Spirit article, historian of science and religion in America at the University of British Columbia, Adam Shapiro asks, 'Did You Hear the One About Galileo?' And goes on to list twenty-five "wrong beliefs" about science and religion, describing both the myths and the facts as he sees them. Bob Johnston is the facilitator for this meeting.

Join Bill Plotkin, in dialogue with host James O'Dea.

Addressing the pervasive longing for meaning and fulfillment in this time of global crisis, this teleseminar introduces a visionary ecopsychology of human development that reveals how fully and creatively we can mature when we allow soul and nature to guide us. In his new book, Nature and the Human Soul, depth psychologist and wilderness guide Bill Plotkin presents a model for a human life span rooted in the cycles and qualities of the natural world, a blueprint for individual development that ultimately yields a strategy for cultural transformation.

Our twenty-first century version of this great and ancient tradition is dedicated to the examination of the world's mysticism, the plethora of great masters and spiritual paths. It is an adventure into conscious.

Pythagoras’ Daughter A Mystery School offers Manifest Destiny Do you want to ride the wave of the future? Do you honor the gifts of the past and assess unflinchingly the demands of the present? Do you embrace and enact the most inviting and successful future?

The Art of Conflict harnesses the energies of conflict, diversity, and complexity to create cutural change. As individuals, families, and organizations, we typically alternate between avoiding conflict and enacting conflict that does harm. Individuals, families, and organizations skilled in the art of conflict facilitate the recognition and engagement of differences necessary for creative collaboration and cultural change. This program explores these themes and the power of imagination in practicing the art of conflict.

Soulcraft Intensive in Colorado, Sponsored by Animas Valley Institute September 14 - 18 Guides: Bill Plotkin , Mary Marsden Guide Fee:695 Location/Lodging Info: Highlands Retreat Center, Allenspark, Colorado - lodging and meals fee is $340 for 4 nights (September 14-17) and all meals from dinner on the 14th through lunch on the 18th.

The third Monday of each month at 6:00 pm Pacific

Would you like to get the most out of your Shift in Action membership? It's a very powerful resource and quite easy to use once you learn how. With a few minutes of instruction, you can:

This is a brief DVD presenting people's stories from around the world which the producer's feel are valuable to share in the interest of developing greater cognitive and experiential consciousness of being a vital part of the interconnecting web of all existence.

Join Ilene Serlin, in dialogue with host Marilyn Schlitz.

Based on the new textbook Whole Person Healthcare (Praeger, 2007) introduced by David Spiegel and Dean Ornish and featuring giants in the fields of psychology, psychiatry, medicine, pastoral counseling and arts medicine,  this seminar will cover theory, and research behind whole person healthcare, as well as practical examples with Tool Kits of how to integrate these methods into ongoing clinical work. The modern healthcare system is in crisis, and integrative therapies have become especially useful as ancient yet modern, cost-effective complements to traditional medical and psychotherapeutic practices. A whole person approach brings together the best of Eastern and Western evidence-based treatments from a uniquely psychological perspective that is client-centered and based on the relationship between patient and healer. This approach draws from best practices from the American Psychological Association, as well as medicine, psychiatry and pastoral counseling. Example of the approaches include meditation, yoga, prayer, qigong, chaplaincy at the bedside, death and dying, arts medicine and expressive therapies. 

This special introductory evening presents an integral approach to enhancing the quality of your life through Integral Transformative Practice (ITP), a powerful mind/body program of practice created by George Leonard and Michael Murphy of Esalen Institute. The approach involves integrating movement, meditation, and mind/body practices, leading you on an inner journey to realize your inborn genius.

This 2 day Integral Transformative Practice experiential workshop with senior ITP International teachers, Barry Robbins and Pam Kramer, follows an introductory Friday evening program. ITP is a well researched program of practice developed by Michael Murphy and George Leonard, which integrates movement, meditation, and mind-body techniques for enhanced wellness. It offers an opportunity to create a long-term, daily practice for increased vitality, fulfillment, and joy.

Systems scientist Ervin Laszlo writes in this article, "Had he lived today, Hamlet would affirm with more conviction than ever: the question is, to be or not to be. He would be right. But it is not the skull of an individual that Hamlet would ponder, but the living Earth. Will we survive on this planet, or become extinct like the dinosaurs? The fact is that we are approaching a major watershed; a global tipping point. What will come is not decided yet, but one thing is certain. We can’t go on as we have been." Bob Johnston is the facilitator for this meeting.

Our twenty-first century version of this great and ancient tradition is dedicated to the examination of the world's mysticism, the plethora of great masters and spiritual paths. It is an adventure into conscious.

7-10:30 pm; Friday, Sept. 26, Mountain of Love Productions and Gateway Books present Bruce Lipton and Gregg Braden. Event details forthcoming. 9 am- 5 pm, Saturday, Sept. 27.

7-10:30 pm; Friday, Sept. 26, Mountain of Love Productions and Gateway Books present Bruce Lipton and Gregg Braden. Event details forthcoming. 9 am- 5 pm, Saturday, Sept. 27.

Join James O'Dea for a live discussion at 11:00 am Pacific Time.



In this special dialogue, members have the opportunity to speak directly with IONS President James O’Dea. There will be no specific topic for this discussion, so bring your questions!

A PRESENTATION TO INTRODUCING A METHOD CALLED "FEELING DISSOLVE©" THAT I DEVELOPED IN MY 24 YEARS OF GIVING SEMINARS IN EUROPE, AND WHICH I HAVE WRITTEN ABOUT IN MANY ARTICLES AS WELL AS MY BOOK, NOW CONSIDERED A CLASSIC, "FROM THE HEART THROUGH THE HANDS" "UNCONDITIONAL LOVE AND LAYING ON OF HANDS, THE NEW SYNTHESIS OF HEALING" PUBLISHED IN 1994/95 IN GERMANY, ITALY AND RUSSIA.

Join Eleanor LeCain, in dialogue with host Stephen Dinan.

Although we face multiple crises which threaten our civilization, breakthrough solutions already exist for virtually every social problem. The challenge is to identify these solutions and have them better known and more widely implemented. Ms. LeCain will discuss breakthrough solutions in vital areas such as education, crime and parenting/autism that can improve our quality of life, save money, and show us the way to a new world.

As you may know, while in Holland last June Rose Welch, James O'Dea and I talked a bit about the idea of an European Consciousness conference in 2008. Not so much an IONS conference in Europe, but one certainly inspired and supported by IONS. As far as I know, there isn't such an event on this side of the Atlantic in W-Europe. But perhaps others can fill me in on that.

This unique One-Day Introduction is designed to introduce prospective students to the principles and practices that guide Transformative Learning at the Institute of Imaginal Studies as well as orient participants to the Institute's graduate degree programs in psychology. At this One-Day Introduction, prospective students will have the opportunity to:

Join John Marks, in dialogue with host Marilyn Schlitz.

John will talk about the tools and methodologies that Search for Common Ground uses in carrying out this work, including extensive production of radio and TV soap opera to promote changes in attitudes and behaviors.

After his successful talk last year author Anthony Peake will be back at Widnes Library to give a lecture on his latest book, "The Daemon, The Guide to Your Extraordinary Hidden Self" which was published in September. Anthony will present compelling evidence for what he terms 'The Daemon-Eidolon Dyad'.

Join Starhawk, in dialogue with host Cassandra Vieten.

What is spirituality for? A spiritual practice and community can bring comfort and healing, and be a refuge from a harsh world. But if it remains only that, it loses depth and integrity. Engaged spirituality is about challenge as well as comfort, confrontation as well as healing. Creative, transformative powers are most needed in places of deep conflict, oppression and violence. Starhawk tells tales of magical activism, from actions in the peace and global justice movements, and from her work with the International Solidarity Movement, which does nonviolent intervention in occupied Palestine.

After his successful talk for WasPsi last year author Anthony Peake will be back at The Orwell to give a lecture on his latest book, "The Daemon, A Guide to Your Extraordinary Hidden Self" which was published in September. Anthony will present compelling evidence for what he terms 'The Daemon-Eidolon Dyad'.

Join Gary Malkin, in dialogue with host Marilyn Schlitz.

Research has shown that hearing is the first to arrive and the last to go before we take our last breath. This suggests a primacy to listening, serving as a bridge to our essential nature, our presence. The spoken word, when coming from presence, can express our innate wisdom, deeply nourishing to the human spirit.  By combining the emotional language of music (which is processed largely by the reptilian brain) with the spoken word (processed largely by the cerebral cortex), an alchemy of mind and heart occur, offering healing states of consciousness that can help cultivate greater emotional and spiritual intelligence.

The third Monday of each month at 6:00 pm Pacific

Would you like to get the most out of your Shift in Action membership? It's a very powerful resource and quite easy to use once you learn how. With a few minutes of instruction, you can:

Join Bradford Keeney, in dialogue with host Tina Amorok.

Ecstatic movement, pure and free, shaking to the rhythmic drums of Kalahari Bushman has been among the first spiritual healing and transformative practices and has remained a core practice in many cross cultural healing traditions to this day. Shaking medicine allows the spirit to enter us and unveil its sacred and wild transformative power – moving us from the inside out. Now the elders of shaking medicine want the world to know about the world’s first medicine. Whereas meditation & deep relaxation rests the mind and body, shaking medicine wakes up the spirit, tunes the whole being, and brings forth the original mysteries. When we are spiritually tuned we are good to one another. Now is the time for shaking medicine!

Join Charles Halpern, in dialogue with host Belvie Rooks.

This teleseminar will explore the major themes developed in Charles Halpern’s book, Making Waves and Riding the Currents: Activism and the Practice of Wisdom.  Charles will describe what he means by the practice of wisdom and how this practice can help us to deal with global challenges of the 21st century, in order to build a more just, sustainable and reflective world. As he does in his book, he will draw on his rich experience as a public interest entrepreneur, an innovator in education, and a pioneer in the public interest law movement. He will discuss the creation of a new kind of activism, grounded in the practice of wisdom, and reflect on his experience as a path-breaking philanthropist, as Founding President of the Nathan Cummings Foundation, where he developed a unique grant-making program which drew together activism and the inner work that brings depth and wisdom to our work in the world.

Wildness and Shadowed Wonder with Bill Plotkin & David Abram October 24 - 28 Guides: Bill Plotkin , David Abram Guide Fee:$650 Location/Lodging Info: Westwind, Otis, Oregon near Portland - lodging and meals fee is $345 for 4 nights (October 24 - 27) and all meals from lunch on the 24th through lunch on the 28th. There will be an additional cost for the bus for those who will travel with the group to and from Knight's Ferry to the Portland airport.

An Evening with Michael Meade In this evening presentation, Meade will weave a tapestry of mythic tales and cogent commentary that truly inspire and offer a "mythic inoculation" for these troubled times. As nature rattles and culture unravels, mythic imagination tries to return to the world and awaken a meaningful purpose and helpful direction in each person's life.

Join Natalie Goldberg, in dialogue with host Angela Murphy.

From one of the foremost writing teachers of our time, “Old Friend From Far Away” recreates Goldberg’s trademark workshop style with its demanding writing “sprints” that train the hand and mind to quicken their pace, give up conscious control and self-censoring, and reach deep into memory for truth. Although we hope for a linear method of writing about our lives, as Goldberg reminds us, life does not plod along on an obvious path – so we must approach writing sideways.

The Masters Circle presents three powerful, highly impactful, quarterly regional seminars with one annual SuperConference each year where all members gather together to explore every aspect of practice growth and personal empowerment.

2012 Conference NOVEMBER 1ST - NOVEMBER 2ND, 2008 San Francisco, CA 2 Day Conference on Leadership towards 2012, the coming shift of the ages, bringing together national leading authors and scholars.

All cultures, have stories about how a dying person progresses through different psychospiritual stages. Reflecting on how to die physically serves as a guide for how to die symbolically. Occasionally in life, one comes to a place where something is “dying”: a troubled relationship, a dead-end job, a waning interest, a way of being in the world that no longer serves you. In order for a new life-affirming story to emerge, first you must do the hard work of letting the old story “die.”

What does it mean to be human in the twenty-first century when the fate of the Earth community lies in the balance? How might we engage fully with the emerging challenges and opportunities of our moment in history? The Year-Long Soulcraft Immersion is an advanced program for people already immersed in their self-discovery process and who are either in a leadership position or are longing to support radical change in our world through the cultivation and offering of their most vital, visionary essence. This group meets four times during the year (once each season) for five days each, in four spectacular and wild eco-systems in the American West. This year-long highly experiential program allows our personal relationships, our group field, our intimacy with the wild Earth, and our facility with soulcrafting to develop and deepen through extended contact and practice. The primary goal is to enable and support each participant¹s fullest contribution to the Earth community at this time of planetary transformation. During the year, we employ the full range of soulcraft practices, selecting them according to the developing needs of the individuals and the group as well as the challenges and seductions of the wild. Participants work on group and individualized assignments between sessions. An application is required. Optional individual mentoring sessions are available between group meetings.

Mishka Productions presents a spectacular & powerful weekend event featuring the country's top authors and speakers gathered in one place at one time

Join Michael McCullough, in dialogue with host Cassandra Vieten for a live discussion in our Living Deeply Series at 11:00 am Pacific Time.

If you long to connect with your unique, evolutionary role and take steps to begin the work that only you can do for the planet, you are ready to become The Possible Human. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Join us to begin the exciting, very intense experience

The 2008 IONS community gathering is happening
Nov 15th – 20th and YOU are invited.

Enjoy the sheer pleasure of a relaxed 5 day Baja Mexico cruise/ conference, breathtaking views, warm sun, fun entertainment, exotic shopping, kindred spirits, new friends and an inspired soul.

The third Monday of each month at 6:00 pm Pacific

Would you like to get the most out of your Shift in Action membership? It's a very powerful resource and quite easy to use once you learn how. With a few minutes of instruction, you can:

Join Kenn Burrows, in dialogue with host Marilyn Schlitz.

The violence (social & ecological), alienation and depression of our times reflect an underlying crisis of imagination. The sustainability movement and other social movements often try to fix the future with a list of problems and a to-do list (carbon footprint, etc.). This fails to speak to the underlying problem of the loss of meaning inherent in the system.

Join Luisah Teish, in dialogue with host Angela Murphy.

In this session Teish will share  stories of  Yemaya-Olokun, the Mother of Dreams and the Deity of the Deep.  Teish will provide recommendations for Deep dreaming, visioning in the Dark and the ritual bath for Blue Mother Moon.  These spiritual practices from the African diaspora are designed to harness the power of Winter as the season of gestation before Re-birth.

Join Debbe Kennedy, in dialogue with host Belvie Rooks.

The leadership landscape has changed. Today its call touches all of us. It is as local as sitting at your own desk or as global and collaborative as differences, distance, and technology will take us. Belvie Rook and Debbe Kennedy explore the need for changing the prevailing rules of how to think, behave, and operate as leaders and innovators in both business and society and how it can influence great change. Learn about five distinctive qualities of leadership that we all need to add to our portfolio of skills to master the art of putting our differences to work.

Join Dacher Keltner, in dialogue with host Marilyn Schlitz for a live discussion in our Living Deeply Series at 11:00 am Pacific Time.

Kennedy Space Center
Orlando, Florida

Hosted by Edgar Mitchell
December 3–6, 2008

Enjoy backstage tours, VIP launch viewing, and inspired dialogues. The invitation to join this trip is a beneit for Founder’s Circle members ($10,000 annual membership level and above).

Join Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee, in dialogue with host Stephen Dinan.

This teleseminar takes the listener on a global adventure with Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee, the director of the Global Oneness Project. This project explores the meaning of such terms as "global interdependence", "sustainability," and " world citizenship" through footage of successful social innovators around the world. Emmanuel's aim is to illustrate the concept of oneness through vivid stories of engagement and transformation. A sample of his work was found in the Spring quarterly DVD for the Shift in Action program. In this show with host Stephen Dinan, you'll hear the story behind the making of this inspiring project and some of its most powerful lessons for the budding filmmaker.

Join Ervin Laszlo, in dialogue with host Cassandra Vieten for a live discussion in our Living Deeply Series at 11:00 am Pacific Time.

The third Monday of each month at 6:00 pm Pacific

Would you like to get the most out of your Shift in Action membership? It's a very powerful resource and quite easy to use once you learn how. With a few minutes of instruction, you can:

Join Jeremy Taylor, in dialogue with host Tina Amorok.

Unconscious energies regularly arise into our awareness and shape our actions in waking life. Three of the most intense expressions of these unconscious archetypal sources are love, violence and creativity. These three modes of conscious expression shape our actions today, just as they have since the dawn of humanity. Exploring our night-time dreams makes it possible to understand the influence of this unconscious material and see how it works as we try to live a life of meaning, with awareness of what "drives" us to love, create and to destroy.

Join Jeremy Geffen, in dialogue with host Marilyn Schlitz.

Today, more than ever before, people are seeking an approach to medicine that is more holistic, compassionate, and sensitive to their needs as a whole person. Patients, family members, and health professionals must grapple with a vast array of conventional and non-conventional treatment options while searching for meaningful ways to embrace the mental, emotional, spiritual and social dimensions of healing.

TRAVEL WITH IONS PRESIDENT Journey to South India, January 28 to February 15, 2009, with James O’Dea 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 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.

AN EXPERIENCE OF PERSONAL CONNECTION WITH THE DIVINE Are you ready for a Quantum Leap into the next grandest version of the next greatest vision you have about who you really are? This retreat will be an intensive and intimate conversation and a profound journey of exploration of ourselves and our interaction with each other and the greater world of the seen and unseen.

I founded the Medical Renaissance Groupm www.medicalrenaissance.org several years ago with Dr Jager Holly and we have currently over 100 members around the world, They are doctors and health professionals .