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Partner
Spotlight |
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Laurie
Monroe, President and CEO of the Monroe
Institute, passed gently from the physical
in her sleep early on the morning of December 18, 2006.
Laurie had been diagnosed as having non-small-cell lung
cancer which had advanced to Stage 4. Complications
arising from treatment overwhelmed her body and she
moved on to a much more welcoming environment. Although
we will all miss her presence, we wish her God speed
on her journey.
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Event
Spotlight |
Mark your calendar for the 4th annual 2007 Yoga
Journal San Francisco Conference, January 18-21!
Spend one day or four practicing all styles of yoga
at the Hyatt Embarcadero, San Francisco.
Presenters
such as Baron Baptiste, Seane Corn, Shiva Rea,
Patricia Walden, and Rodney Yee
will offer workshops and intensives for participants
of all levels, from the beginner to the most experienced
yogi.
Events
include a Community Connection party, Yoga Trance Dance,
panels, keynotes, kids yoga, and demonstrations. Shop
the Yoga Marketplace for the latest yoga products, stylish
yoga wear, CDs, DVDs, books, and much more!
For
more information, visit www.yjevents.com
or call 800-561-9398. Use promo code SF34 to receive
$20 off Main Conference tuition (Saturday and Sunday
only).
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On-Campus
Events |
Stillpoint
School of Integrative Life Healing: Intensive
II
February 3-7, 2007
Intensive
III
April 14-18, 2007
Intensive
IV
June 16-20, 2007
Petaluma, California
Dr. Meredith Young-Sowers will guide you through
a series of powerful and connected exercises and
experiences in the innovative and deeply spiritual
five days of A Sacred Connection - Igniting the
Inner Light.
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Special
Events |
Imagination,
Consciousness, and the New Sciences: Opening New
Doors of Perception
May 18-20, 2007
New York City, New York
Presenters:
Gerald
Epstein, M.D. (Convener, Keynoter, Imagination)
Roger Nelson, Ph.D. (Consciousness)
Elizabeth A. Rauscher, Ph.D. (New Science)
Catherine Shainberg, Ph.D. (Imagination)
Ingo Swann (Consciousness)
William A. Tiller, Ph.D. (New Science)
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Conference
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IONS is
co-sponsoring with AHP, the Association for Humanistic
Psychology, a number of weekend seminars across
the country with such highly appreciated presenters
as Caroline Myss, Gregg Braden, Bruce
Lipton, Joan Borysenko, Marianne Williamson, Belleruth
Naparstek, and others. IONS members receive
the $25 AHP member discount and can get CECs if
desired. For details go to ConferenceWorks.com
or call 800-395-8445.
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Media
Spotlight |
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Inspiring
photographs from around the world convey our oneness
in Spirit in this award-winning Prayer &
Meditation 2007 Calendar. With each image is
a prayer or quote from the world's religious traditions
and an enlightening aphorism by Swami Amar Jyoti inviting
us to deepen our relationship with the Divine.
This calendar comes at a time
when clarification of purpose, a deepening of practice,
and the focusing of intention are indispensable for
personal and planetary transformation. Let yourself
take a break and feel the peace and calm while sitting
in meditation or drinking in the incredible beauty of
nature with this stunning calendar.
—Shift Magazine
More information at
prayermeditationcalendar.org
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| From the Editor |
|   Stephen
Dinan /
The
New Year is a time for reflection about where we've
been and visioning for where we dare to go. This month,
we share an inspiring New Year's message from our President
James O'Dea, as well as transcripts of three
interviews on the Essential Shifts of our day, and Swami
Beyondananda enlightens us about prosperity.
We
also want to bring attention to our next International
Conference, which is shaping up to be a historic convergence
of scientists, spiritual leaders, and societal change
agents. Entitled Consciousness in Action:
The Science and Practice of Transformation,
it will be held August 8-12, 2007 in Palm Springs, CA.
Featured
presenters include: Robert Thurman, Andrew Harvey, Lynne
McTaggart, Charles Tart, Hazel Henderson, Swamiji Chidananda
Saraswati, Riane Eisler, Van Jones, Lynne Twist, Edgar
Mitchell, Shiva Rae, Kali's Angels, and many more.
Early
registration will save you an extra
$75 and opens on January 10th. Visit
www.noetic.org for
the latest updates.
We
also invite you to start the New Year with an inspiring
audio meditation from IONS President James O'Dea
entitled "You Were Born For Such a Time as This,"
set to music by Emmy Award-winning Gary Malkin.
(3 minute sample - low
bandwidth / high
bandwidth) (full 15 minute piece - low
bandwidth / high
bandwidth)
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the Frontiers / The Edge |
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 New
Year's Message from IONS President James
O'Dea - "Just what is your speed as
you cross the threshold from 2006 to 2007? Time is accelerating
quickly, isn’t it? How many emails are in your inbox?
How many times do you get in and out of your car? How
many bits of information do you need to retain? How
much "news" can you take in? What is your data absorption
capacity? And how much time does all that leave for
quality relationships?" 
Volunteers have been transcribing more than 30 Essential
Shifts interviews. We share three this month:
Brother
David Steindl-Rast - "[T]he great problems
that we are facing are not, in a narrow sense, religious
problems. I think the biggest problem is our relationship
to the Earth and to our environment.... And therefore
we have here not only a problem area, but also an area
that could connect us with one another, a concern that
is our shared concern."
Dean Radin - "Some of the fear and hysteria
are associated with the worldview model which might
be called a classical model, a materialistic, mechanistic
model of science, in which we can use all the natural
resources we wish and we can push people around any
way we wish because it doesn't make any difference...
That view is changing."
Van Jones - "In the last century the model
leader was the powerful speaker, and in the new century
I think the model will be the powerful listener. That's
a big shift. But because there are so many constituencies,
there is so much pain, there is so much complexity,
the real opportunity and the real challenge to lead
now is to become as powerful a listener as Dr. King
was a speaker."
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At
the Frontiers / Media |
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Noteworthy
Releases
James
O'Dea and Gary Malkin present "You
Were Born For Such a Time as This" -
(3 minute sample - low
bandwidth / high
bandwidth) (full 15 minute piece - low
bandwidth / high
bandwidth)
 Featured
books from recent teleseminar guests:
1.
The Second Half of Life, by Angeles
Arrien (buy)
2. Saying Yes to Change, by Joan
Borysenko (buy)
3.
Waking, by Matthew Sanford
(buy)
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At
the Frontiers / WebWatch |
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1. MeetTheAuthor.com
- Video clips that take you behind the scenes
with intriguing authors
2.
Miniature-Earth.com
- If the world's population were reduced to 100,
it would look something like this...
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At
the Frontiers / Top Ten |
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This month, we share the top ten achievements of IONS in 2006:
1.
Hosted more than 600 participants for our regional
conference on "Global Consciousness:
The Missing Piece of the Sustainability Puzzle."
2. Launched Dean Radin's book Entangled
Minds, which has entered into its
fourth printing and was mentioned by Nobel Laureate
Kary Mullis as one of his favorite scientific
books.
3. Expanded our Shift in Action program from 4000
to 11,500 Partners.
4. Convened a cross-disciplinary symposium with
leading scientists, psychologists, and philosophers,
on "The Science of Peace" which
will be showcased in a PBS Special hosted by LeVar
Burton.
5. Created four Signature Programs,
including a sold-out retreat with Heartmath entitled
"Creating a Conscious Life: The Science, Heart,
and Practice of Transformation."
6. Published seven peer-reviewed papers,
including studies of Emoto's water crystal experiment,
retrocausaulity, mind-matter interaction, transformation
and altruism, and the experimenter effect.
7. Presented at more than 40 conferences and events
and on more than 30 radio programs.
8. Led a Partnership Summit that
convened organizational leaders from 18 organizations.
9. Created IONS' first book imprint, Noetic
Press, to launch in Fall 2007 with co-publishing
partner New Harbinger. Among the first books will
be Living Deeply: The Art and Science of Transformation,
which will showcase the results of our multiple-year
Transformation Study. Produced four issues of
Shift magazine and laid groundwork for the upcoming
"The Shift Report 2007: Evidence
of a World Transforming."
10. Enjoyed being in deeper relationship with
YOU!
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Shift
in Action / Recent Releases |
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  Free
Audio Samples
Other
releases available to Partners include:
- Brian
Luke Seaward
on "Health of the Human Spirit" -
Details
- Marilyn
Schlitz and Elisabeth Targ on "Transpersonal
Consciousness" - Details
- Fred
Luskin video series - Details
Join
Shift in Action today!
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Shift
in Action / Shift Magazine |
 Our
December issue on Toward a Science of Peace:
Table
of Contents:
PEACE:
A NEW CENTER OF HUMAN BECOMING
by James O'Dea
WHEN
EINSTEIN MET GANDHI
from the IONS Peace Colloquium
WHO ARE WE?
by Frans de Waal
BECOMING COMPASSIONATE
by Carolyn Zahn-Waxler
AVERTING THE TRAGEDY OF THE COMMONS
by Stephanie D. Preston
THE CHALLENGE OF FORGIVENESS
by Vesela Simic
A SWEETER MUSIC
by Martin Luther King Jr.
ORGANIZATIONS WORKING FOR PEACE
by Kimberly Weichel
Question:
Issues have been raised about the movement
of editorial in Shift magazine toward
a more social-change orientation. Should Shift
continue in this direction, focus more on frontier
science, or seek a balance of connecting inner
transformation with outer transformation?
Please
respond on our survey!
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Shift
in Action / Featured Channel |
The
guests on Entangled Minds are
scientists devoted to exploring the frontiers
of consciousness research, including evidence
suggestive of the survival of consciousness
after bodily death, psychic abilities, mystical
states of awareness, distant healing, mind-matter
interaction phenomena, and other forms of exceptional
human experience. Recent guests have included
Nassim Haramein, Russell Targ, Roger
Nelson, Charles Tart, Arthur Hastings, Will
Arntz, Loyd Auerbach, Stephan Schwartz, Gary
Schwartz, Bruce Lipton, and Rollin
McCraty.
Coming on January 31st: Richard Tarnas.
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Personal
Connections / Tales of Transformation |
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"The
Sound of Transformation"
by Alice Bartholomew
"I
waken at 3:00 am in a profoundly peaceful state
from what I realize is a lucid dream. I am awestruck
as I understand that I have just witnessed wisdom.
"In
my dream, in which I was completely awake and
aware, I was in infinity. It was completely dark
and black yet I was unafraid. I enjoyed the nothingness.
Then I saw something glowing in the distance.
I was able to immediately transport myself by
thought to the source of the glowing. As I neared
this indescribably beautiful and awesome sight,
I discerned an exquisite, harmonic sound I had
never heard before."
Submit your own tales of transformation.
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Personal
Connections / Donor Spotlight |
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 In
celebration of Visionary Circle Member Virginia
Miller Collier
IONS
is pleased to honor Visionary Circle member Virginia
(Gini) Miller Collier, along with her husband
Roy William Collier, whose meaningful legacy will
serve humanity for years to come. Their generous
bequest of over $25,000 to IONS will seed essential
work at the frontiers of science; promoting more
conscious paradigms and practices; and advancing
individual, social, and global transformation.
We are deeply grateful.
 IONS
Founder's and above Circle members and some of
their families traveled with Edgar Mitchell, Marilyn
Mandala Schlitz and Kathleen Erickson-Freeman
for a VIP tour of NASA , the Kennedy Space Center
and a viewing of the launch of Shuttle Discovery
earlier in December.
If
you would like to learn more about the benefits
of Founder's Circle membership contact Kathleen
Erickson-Freeman at 707.779.8232.
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Personal
Connections / Comedy Corner |
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DEAR
SWAMI
by Swami Beyondananda
"Where
Swami Answers Your Questions - and You Will Question
His Answers" 
Dear
Swami:
As long time lightworkers, we have devoted our
lives to selflessly helping others, yet we ourselves
feel very unsupported. We've read every one
of those prosperity books, and don't have a
nickel to show for it. In fact, if we had a
nickel for every time we helped someone and
didn't accept a nickel for it--we'd have lots
of nickels. Is there a prosperity secret we're
missing here?
Emma & Nate Light, Santz Cruz, California
Dear Emma and Nate:
If it makes you feel any better, a lot of folks
are in your situation. I don't know if
you've seen the latest Greenspan Report
but the average American family these days doesn't
have enough green to span the average month.
As for the prosperity secrets, they can be summed
up in four words: "Write a prosperity
book." That's how those people got
rich, so why not you?
Actually,
I'm hearing a lot from folks like you two these
days, people who've helped themselves to heaping
helpings of self-help--yet still are left helplessly
hoping and hopelessly helpless. You appear to
be suffering from a condition called "Selfless
Helplessness," where you are helpless to help
yourself because you are too busy selflessly
helping others. Now of course, helping people
at your own expense is fine--until your expense
account runs out.
Time to stop selfishly hoarding all the selflessness
for yourself, and let others selflessly help
you. Put yourself in your own shoes for a change,
and help yourself to a helping of what you've
been helping others with. Just think. If you
can help just one individual--yourself--that's
one less helpless individual needing help from
others.
©
Copyright 2006 by Steve Bhaerman. All rights
reserved. Give the gift of laughter with Swami's
Fool Enchilada Special. To find out more about
that and Swami's schedule, call (800)
SWAMI-BE or visit the Swami online at http://www.wakeuplaughing.com
Ask
Swami your own question. Send it here.
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Personal
Connections / Monthly Intention |
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January
Intention:
The
first of every month at noon (US Pacific), we
encourage you to take a quiet moment to link your
intention with people around the world. This month,
our intention is to open the field of visionary
possibility. Together, we affirm that we are each
capable of envisioning big dreams and attracting
the resources necessary to bring them into reality.
January
Action:
This month, we encourage you
to choose one action that is in alignment with
your biggest dream. What actions might take you
one step closer to a dream that is especially
bold?
January Question
for Reflection:
If you truly believed yourself to have limitless potential, how might you act differently in your daily life?
This month's member intention was emailed to us from Kim Fineout:
"It is my intention to leave the lightest footprint I can, and to live my life as a living example to my children. It is my intention to help affect a change. I wish to spread peace and love to all, not just my circle of friends and family. I intend to be present in the moment and be mindful of the ripples I create. I wish to always be able to see how I can be of service to others and then jump in and be of service."
If
you'd like to offer an intention for next month,
please send it here.
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