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Gratefulness
Conversations with Brother David Steindl-Rast
In this program, recorded during a conference called Living Deeply: Expanding Human Capacities, held on the IONS campus in May 2003, we explore the concept and practice of gratefulness with Brother David Steindl-Rast, PhD. Brother David also offers a fresh perspectice on the language of Christianity, especially the clichés that tend to alienate people from traditional doctrines.
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Essential Shifts Interview: Brother David Steindl-Rast
Network for Grateful Living founder Brother David Steindl Rast has walked in many worlds, from contemplative Christian monasteries to Naval academies to new paradigm workshops at Esalen. Out of his broad experience has emerged a deep wisdom that lights the path forward from traditional theistic religion and its reliance on doctrine and belief to panentheism, which focuses on direct experience and seeing God as fully present in the world.
- Audio Interviews
- 2006-11-02
- 00:34:27
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Taking in the Good course (class 7 of 8)
From "Greed" to Happiness
ACCESS RESTRICTED TO COURSE MEMBERS
Week 7 of the course Taking in the Good: Weaving Peace, Happiness, and Love into Your Brain and Yourself.
This class deals with neural nodes of liking and wanting, managing grasping for what’s pleasant, taking in goal attainment, and feeling glad, grateful, and fulfilled.
- Audio Taking in the Good
- 2012-04-25
- 01:26:59
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Intention Downloads Interview: Rupert Sheldrake
Biologist and author Rupert Sheldrake discusses intention as it relates to all living organisms in this discussion with IONS' Senior Scientist Dean Radin. Rupert's morphogenesis theory implies that intention is not a unique trait of human consciousness, but an essential part of the nature of life in all biological systems.
- Audio Interviews
- 2006-06-01
- 00:22:22
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Essential Shifts Interview: Marilyn Schlitz
In this interview, Dr. Marilyn Schlitz explores an expanded vision of health for ourselves and our society. In this time of rapid acceleration, it is easy to fixate on answers rather than questions, and speed rather than quality. Real transformation, as borne out by IONS research and new scientific studies, is a process that often requires slowing down, appreciating relationships in a new way, and quite literally smelling the roses.
- Audio Interviews
- 2006-05-15
- 00:19:22
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Intention Downloads Interview: Baba Harihar Ramji
Founder of the Sonoma Ashram in California and a teacher at the Nine Gates Mystery School, Babaji (Baba Harihar Ramji) discusses a unique perspective on intention as a state of tension in which something is desired.
- Audio Interviews
- 2006-06-01
- 00:28:31
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Learn to be grateful toward life.
Learn to be grateful for the opportunity to collect experience and to express your self. Learn to be grateful for the benefactions which you enjoy just now. What is recognized ...
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Thank you Matthew Gilbert for the Noetic Nows!!!
Dear Matthew, I have been so grateful to have had a venue from which to be engaged in with my consciousness studies, from my part of the world for the ... -
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What Do We Actually Do When We Are Dead?
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Special EventFull Moon Labyrinth Walk
June 2013
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- Veriditas
Veriditas, in partnership with the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) and the EarthRise Retreat Center, will be offering a Full Moon Labyrinth Walk each month on or near the evening of the full moon. There is no cost for this hour-long event, but donations are gratefully accepted. First time walkers are welcome.
- Community Events
- Jun 23, 2013
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What is the Original Origin of "Ideas?"
Pre-awareness Thought Induction Theory: “Ideas Preceding “Cognitive Thoughts.” ( Ideas + Consciousness = Thoughts ) Have you ever noticed when you are actively engaged in a vibrant communication that ideas just seem to instantly ... -
Special EventFull Moon Labyrinth Walk
May 2013
- Sponsor
- Veriditas
Veriditas, in partnership with the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) and the EarthRise Retreat Center, will be offering a Full Moon Labyrinth Walk each month on or near the evening of the full moon. There is no cost for this hour-long event, but donations are gratefully accepted. First time walkers are welcome.
- Community Events
- May 24, 2013
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Brother David Steindl-Rast
Br. David Steindl Rast was born July 12, 1926, in Vienna, Austria, where he studied art, anthropology, and psychology, receiving an MA from the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts and a PhD from the University of Vienna. In 1952 he followed his family who had emigrated to the United States. In 1953 he joined a newly founded Benedictine community in Elmira, NY, Mount Saviour Monastery, of which he is now a senior member. In 1958/59 Brother David was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Cornell University, where he also became the first Roman Catholic to hold the Thorpe Lectureship, following Bishop J.D.R. Robinson and Paul Tillich.
After twelve years of monastic training and studies in philosophy and theology, Brother David was sent by his abbot to participate in Buddhist-Christian dialogue, for which he received Vatican approval in 1967. His Zen teachers were Hakkuun Yasutani Roshi, Soen Nakagawa Roshi, Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, and Eido Shimano Roshi. He co-founded the Center for Spiritual Studies in 1968 and received the 1975 Martin Buber Award for his achievements in building bridges between religious traditions.
For decades, Brother David divided his time between periods of hermit's life and extensive lecture tours on five continents. On a two-month lecture tour in Australia, for example, he gave 140 lectures and traveled 12,000 miles within Australia without backtracking. His wide spectrum of audiences has included starving students in Zaire and faculty at Harvard and Columbia Universities, Buddhist monks and Sufi retreatants, Papago Indians and German intellectuals, New Age communes and Naval Cadets at Annapolis, missionaries on Polynesian islands and gatherings at the United Nations, Green Berets and participants at international peace conferences. Brother David has brought spiritual depth into the lives of countless people whom he touches through his lectures, his workshops, and his writings.
He has contributed to a wide range of books and periodicals from the Encyclopedia Americana and The New Catholic Encyclopedia, to the New Age Journal and Parabola Magazine. His books have been translated into many languages. Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer and A Listening Heart have been reprinted and anthologized for more than two decades. Brother David co-authored Belonging to the Universe (winner of the 1992 American Book Award), a dialogue on new paradigm thinking in science and theology with physicist, Fritjof Capra. His dialogue with Buddhists produced The Ground We Share: Buddhist and Christian Practice, co-authored with Robert Aitken Roshi. His most recent books are The Music of Silence, co-written with Sharon Lebell, and Words of Common Sense.
Brother David contributed chapters or interviews to well over 30 books. An article by Brother David was included in The Best Spiritual Writing, 1998. His many audio and videotapes are widely distributed.
At present, Brother David serves a worldwide Network for Grateful Living, through www.gratefulness.org, an interactive website with several thousand participants daily from more than 235 countries.
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