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Poetic Medicine
A Kind of Magic
Western medicine's zealous preoccupation with technology, prescription drugs, and financial return has taken much of the healing out of health care. Citing research and his own experience with patients ...
- Publications Articles
- September - November 2008
- 6 pages
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"Into the Heart of It" with Anodea Judith (part 1 of 3)
Navigating Humanity's Rite of Passage
Humanity is entering a rite of passage from our planetary adolescence to our future adulthood, from an operating system based on the love of power to one based on the power of love. This requires an internal shift from ego-based consciousness to an awakening of the global heart.
- Audio Lectures
- 2009-06-21
- 01:04:48
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"Into the Heart of It" with Anodea Judith (part 2 of 3)
Navigating Humanity's Rite of Passage
Humanity is entering a rite of passage from our planetary adolescence to our future adulthood, from an operating system based on the love of power to one based on the power of love. This requires an internal shift from ego-based consciousness to an awakening of the global heart.
- Audio Lectures
- 2009-06-21
- 01:18:15
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"Into the Heart of It" with Anodea Judith (part 3 of 3)
Navigating Humanity's Rite of Passage
Humanity is entering a rite of passage from our planetary adolescence to our future adulthood, from an operating system based on the love of power to one based on the power of love. This requires an internal shift from ego-based consciousness to an awakening of the global heart.
- Audio Lectures
- 2009-06-21
- 00:42:41
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"Yoga and Sacred Activism" with Shiva Rea (excerpt)
Shiva begins with a meditation from the ancient Vijnana Bhairava Tantra, which explores the vibratory nature of consciousness. She and host Stephen Dinan then explore how consciousness becomes "calcified" in the body, a state that can be shifted through dance, movement, yoga, and other spontaneous motions.
- Audio Shorts
- 2007-07-18
- 00:04:39
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Shift Issue 20
ART, SCIENCE & CONSCIOUSNESS
WHY SCIENCE NEEDS ART
by Jonah LehrerPOETIC MEDICINE: A KIND OF MAGIC
by John FoxON THE SIGNIFICANCE OF ARCHITECTURE
by Alain de BottonVISIONS FROM THE TECHNO-MYSTIC EDGE
by Kate McCallumFrontiers of Research
Reassessing the Link Between Psychotherapy and Cancer Survival
by Marilyn Mandala Schlitz- September - November 2008
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Intention Downloads Interview: Barbara Marx Hubbard
Barbara Marx Hubbard has long been a visionary leader, helping us all to imagine a bold and evolutionary future that we can co-create. In this interview with IONS President James O’Dea, she explores the power of entering into imaginal realms in order to link our creative intent with the power of the universe.
- Audio Interviews
- 2006-06-01
- 00:33:40
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Teleseminar with Sylvia Boorstein
Host Cassandra Vieten talks with author, psychologist, and spiritual teacher Sylvia Boorstein, who shares ways to bring spiritual practices into every day life. From standing in line at the grocery store to driving in heavy traffic, she suggests we repeat: “May I (“you” or a specific name) be peaceful; May I be happy; May I be free from suffering.”
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2008-03-11
- 00:59:40
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Diane Ackerman
DIANE ACKERMAN is the best-selling author of A Natural History of the Senses, A Natural History of Love, and Cultivating Delight. She has published several works of poetry and children’s nonfiction, and frequently contributes to the New York Times, National Geographic, the New Yorker, and Parade. She lives in upstate New York.
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James Carpenter, PhD, PA, ABPP
James Carpenter is a clinical psychologist (Board Certified, ABPP) and parapsychologist. He has over 30 years of active experience as a psychotherapist, educator and researcher. His involvement in parapsychology dates back to his undergraduate days at Duke in the mid-'60's when he became associated with the Parapsychology Laboratory there. He has published numerous articles and book chapters since. A graduate of the PhD program in clinical psychology at Ohio State University, he went on to teach at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill before entering private practice. He still provides clinical supervision for psychiatric residents at UNC. His current interests are primarily in the development of theory for a general understanding of parapsychological phenomena (First Sight Theory) and conducting research that tests and elaborates that point of view. His work as a clinician has been existentially-oriented and has focused on a broad range of human distress. He has served on the Boards of Directors of the American Academy of Clinical Psychology, the Parapsychology Association and the Rhine Research Center. He is also engaged in writing poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction.
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Steve Ryals
Steve Ryals is the author of Drunk with Wonder: Awakening to the God Within, the culmination of years of research and decades of personal experience. It's been hailed as where Conversations with God meets What the Bleep Do we Know!? A study in the evolution of consciousness, both personal and planetary, Drunk with Wonder offers hope to those ensnared in addiction.
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About/Case Studies/Worldview Literacy
IONS Consciousness Research Sparks Innovative New Program for Cultivating Worldview Wisdom As globalization, technology, and urbanization change the face of our world at a pace previously unimaginable, and as we ... -
Luisah Teish, PhD
Luisah Teish is a writer, performance artist and ritual events consultant. Her writing credits include several plays (“Rice and Revolution”, ”The Division of the Cowries”, “The Rise and Fall of Sam DeClaws Or How DeClaws Got Clipped” and “ The Deer Woman of Owo), She is also the author of several books on African and African American Spiritual Culture. They include “Jambalaya: The Natural Woman’s Book of Personal Charms and Practical Rituals” a women’s spirituality classic. “ Carnival of the Spirit: Seasonal Celebrations and Rites of Passage “, Jump Up: Good Times Throughout the Seasons with Celebrations from Around the World”, and “What Don’t Kill Is Fattening Revisited: Twenty Years of Poetry, Prose, and Myth. She has contributions to thirteen anthologies and has written numerous movie, play and book reviews. She has published articles and interviews in magazines such as Essence, Ms., Shaman’s Drum, and the Yoga Journal.
Theater:
In the late 60’s through early 70’s Ms. Teish was a member of the Katherine Dunham Dance Company at The Performing Arts Training Center in E. St. Louis Illinois; and was the choreographer for The Black Artist Group in St. Louis, Missouri.Presently she is the Artistic Director of Ase Theater and “The Women in White Peace Performance Group” in Oakland (2002- to the present). She has served as a consultant and a performer on scripts with cultural, racial, gender, and spiritual themes. They include ”The Sanctified Church: The Works of Zora Neale Hurston” at Life on the Water Theatre in San Francisco. (1989) Club Termina: A Play on Women and Breast Cancer with Indecent Exposure Theater in Hollywood, California. (1991) Nzinga the King-Queen, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York (1993). From Whores to Matriarchs: Black Women Survivors on the Edge, at the Lorraine Hansberry Theater, and in the American Conservatory Theater’s award-winning production of PECONG in San Francisco (1995-98).She has also served as Storytelling Director, and an Artist-in Residence of Stagebridge Intergenerational Theater (2001-2003) and as a cultural consultant to the Prescott Circus Theater (1989-2006).
Film and Television:
Her film and television performance credits include, the Oprah Winfrey Show, the Rob Nelson Show, the Roseanne Barr show (with Eartha Kitt), the Other Side, ”Not A Love Story” and the Goddess Remembered film series (Canadian film board).
Conference Speaker/ Weaver:
Teish has delivered keynote addresses and/or served as a conference weaver for School of Conscious Evolution, the Body and Soul Conference, Bioneers: Collective Heritage Conference, the Wisdom and Action conference
The Business and Consciousness Conference and Mishka Productions to name a few.
Educator:
She is the Olori (director) of Ile Orunmila Oshun (The House of Destiny and Love www.ileorunmilaoshun.org) and the School of Ancient Mysteries/Sacred Arts Center in Oakland, Ca. She teaches Spirituality and Culture at the California Institute of Integral Studies, John F. Kennedy University, and the Institute for Transpersonal Psychology and New College of California, in the San Francisco Bay Area
Ritualist:
Teish designs and conducts weddings, naming ceremonies, memorials, and a host of seasonal celebrations. Teish designed Rites of Passage program for the Institute of Noetic Sciences, and is the director of the Full Faze Passage Council, a multi-racial, multi-cultural network of artists, consultants, and spiritual advisors experienced in event design and production.
Community Activist:
A resident of the Bay Area for thirty years, Ms. Teish has been actively involved in teaching transformation, working to insure justice and peacekeeping. She is the past Vice-president of the Association for Transpersonal Psychology, a member of the International Women’s Writing Guild, founder of the Spirit Women’s Art Network.
Sacred Sites Tour Guide:
She conducts research in cultural history and Eco-spiritual sacred sites tours in Nigeria, the Caribbean, and the Americas. Teish is internationally known for her rituals, writings, and performances of traditional folklore and re-imagined mythology. She has lectured and performed in South America, New Zealand, Australia and Europe.
Spiritual Guidance Counselor:
She is an initiated elder and Womanchief in the Ifa/Orisha tradition of Southwest Nigeria and the chair of the International Committee on Women’s Issues. She is an initiated elder (Iyanifa) in the Ifa/Orisha tradition of the West African Diaspora, and she hold a chieftancy title (Yeye’woro) from the Fatunmise Compound in Ile Ife, Nigeria. Teish is an initiated elder (Iyanifa) in the Ifa/Orisha tradition of the West African Diaspora, and she hold a chieftancy title (Yeye’woro) from the Fatunmise Compound in Ile Ife, Nigeria. Presently she is the Chair of the World Orisha Congress Committee on Women’s Issues. She is a devotee of Damballah Hwedo, the Haitian Rainbow Serpent, under the guidance of Moma Lola. She was awarded a Ph.D. in Spiritual Therapeutics from Open International University’s School of Complementary Medicine in Colombo Sri Lanka in 1993. She holds an Inter-Faith minister’s license from the International Institute of Integral Human Sciences. In 1969 she received initiation into to the Fahamme Temple of Amun-Ra in St. Louis, Missouri.
She later went on to study indigenous Native North and South American traditions (including the Caribbean). She has conducted workshops on Black and Native American culture at Medicine Wheels (under the directions of Sun Bear’s tribal elders). And La Casa de la Poesia in Caracas Venezuela uses her book, Jump Up, as a text on the mythology of the Goddess Maria Lionza. Teish has conducted tours with the School of Conscious Evolution, to sacred sites in several countries, including Egypt, Nigeria, and Jamaica. -
Conscious Living WorkshopWriting Yourself Alive
Finding Your Life's Deep Current
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- Roger Housden
Become more alive as you discover the rewards of curiosity, see and listen with fresh eyes and ears, and rewrite life-changing moments. In bringing loving attention to ourselves and our world, the writing practices of this weekend encourage access to joy, wonder, and awe; vulnerability and tenderness; and above all, truth. Writing experience not necessary. more...
- Conscious Living Workshops
- Jul 5, 2013 – Jul 7, 2013
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In Search of Happiness
There has been an unprecedented explosion of interest in the pursuit of happiness. Is this a useful quest in a time of global instability? The science of it may surprise you.
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EarthRise Retreat Center/About Us/Lucid Art Curated Exhibits
Collaboration with the Lucid Art Foundation Thank You to the Lucid Art Foundation for their Collaboration 2008-2012 The Lucid Art Foundation—cofounded by Robert Anthoine, Fariba Bogzaran, and the late ... -
TO GRACEFULLY RETIRE.
ASCENSION SUPPORT TEAM. DAVID AND YVONNE BRITTAIN. . TO GRACEFULLY RETIRE. This article is written for the benefit of anyone who has or is about to retire from work, and who ... -
Metaphysics in Popular Culture
In the following dialogue, excerpted and adapted from the Institute of Noetic Sciences’ teleseminar series “Essentials of Noetic Sciences,” IONS Director of Research Cassandra Vieten talks with Jeffrey Kripal, chair of the Department of Religious Studies at Rice University. Kripal’s latest book is Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred (University of Chicago Press, 2010).