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2006
Healing with Orgone Energy: An Evening with Jorgos
Kavouras
Cosmos and Consciousness IV | The Third Annual Alexander Imich Lecture
In This World, Not of It: The Hidden Meaning of The Story of Jesus
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Healing with Orgone Energy:
Exploring the Medicine of the Future
with
Jorgos Kavouras, MD
The Mindshift Institute is
proud to present an evening with Dr. Jorgos Kavouras. This is a rare opportunity for anyone interested in healing—especially conventional and integrative medical
practitioners, psychiatrists, and body-oriented therapists—to engage a
professional whose experience is unique in the United States.
Nearly 60 years ago, Wilhelm Reich wrote
in The Cancer Biopathy, “I have no doubt that the initial
hesitant reaction to the novelty and simplicity of the apparatus will be
overcome and that the officials will eventually authorize the
distribution of orgone accumulators.
If this prediction comes true, it will be
because of the clinical work of physicians like Dr. Jorgos Kavouras, who
has been successfully treating patients in Europe for 25 years with
orgone energy devices designed by Reich. Dr. Kavouras has also done
extensive research work with the orgone accumulator and the Medical DOR-Buster.
He is one of the most experienced physicians in the world today working
with these powerful healing devices. Don't miss this chance to meet a true
pioneer in the practice of orgone energy medicine.
Wednesday, July 19, 2006 at 7:00 p.m.
METACENTER NEW YORK
214 WEST 29TH STREET — 16TH FLOOR
Between 7th and 8th Avenues in Manhattan
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COSMOS AND CONSCIOUSNESS IV:
OUR INTERCONNECTED UNIVERSE
"The latest discoveries are showing us that ours is a living universe,
linked at every level, where Love is the force that connects us."
September 16, 2006
10 a.m.--5:30 p.m.
The Rangeley Inn
2443 Main Street
Rangeley, Maine
Hosts
Trish Corbett and Michael Mannion
Co-Founders of The
Mindshift Institute
We are excited to be announcing our latest conference, Cosmos
and Consciousness IV: Our Interconnected Universe.We are also happy to be back in Rangeley,
Maine. It is easy to sense the cosmic
in the beautiful mountains and lakes of Rangeley. Especially when our guides are
leading explorers of new knowledge. We
were inspired to create this conference by Wilhelm Reich. He recognized an interconnectedness in
nature at every level, writing that in the natural world, "all seemed to be ONE."
The latest discoveries are showing us that every realm of
the universe is connected, from the microscopic to the cosmic.In addition, there seems to be some kind of
intelligence, knowing or reason present in every realm we investigate. And Love appears to be the force that
connects us. The implications of this
new knowledge are profound for all of us, as individuals and as a society.
Our work is devoted to fostering life-positive knowledge,
that is, wisdom and insights that improve life on Earth.We focus on work that we think can help us
wake up from what we call “The Trance,” a profound detachment from our inner
and outer reality.
Each of us is in a trance, to one degree or another. We cannot awaken from our trance alone, but
together, we can lovingly assist one another in waking up and
perceiving new truths that expand our view of reality. Such life-positive new
knowledge can have a transformative impact on us—if we are open to it, let it
into our hearts and consciousness, and then see what emerges that has meaning
for us.
Join Our Mindshift
Explorers
For a Day of Dialogue
This year, the day will unfold in a way that is very
different from our previous conferences.Rather than having speakers address the audience about
interconnectedness, we believe that this new format will help create a day
that is in itself interconnecting.
Our “Mindshift Explorers” have been invited because of their
experience and expertise but they will speak with us and interact with us as part of the group, not
separated from it. During our dialogue
with one another, we will all be part of the audience and we will all, at
times, have the opportunity of contributing, if so desired. It is truly a co-creative day that will be
influenced in important ways by those who attend.
 Rudy Schild, PhD
Astrophysicist
Dr. Schild, an astrophysicist at the
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, has recently published a paper in
the prestigious Astronomical Journal, a leading peer-reviewed
publication in his field. His findings
challenge the accepted view of black holes. If confirmed, his theory would lead to a revolutionary new picture of
the physical universe. Some experts
believe that Dr. Schild’s paper may come to be seen as a turning point in his
area of astrophysics.
He will explain his exciting discovery to
us, but even more, he will share with us his inspiring speculations on the
significance of this discovery regarding the existence of interconnectedness,
some kind of intelligence, and even love, in the cosmos.
Unlike the majority of his colleagues, Dr.
Schild has investigated a number of anomalous phenomena (e.g., UFOs and ET
encounters, life-after-death). Such
phenomena suggest to him that the astrophysicist's concept of the universe has
serious shortcomings. As a practicing scientist, he has studied anomalies
looking for clues to guide him to a correct theory.
At the same time, he has recognized that advances in cosmology indicate that
dark energy may dominate the content of the universe. Dr. Schild’s new theory of the nature of the magnetic and quantum
electrodynamic properties of black holes can help us understand that an
“intelligence” or “guiding principle”
may be present in the cosmos and may enter and influence events in our
universe.
According to Dr.
Schild, “Quantum non-locality can bring the subtle energies concealed within
the black hole network to realization within all life forms throughout the
cosmos. Apparently, we live in a
universe seemingly driven by simple physical forces, yet
guided by an Intelligence or Source, the nature of which remains unknown to
science—but which has been experienced by many people.”
 Paul
Bernstein, PhD
Researcher
Dr. Bernstein has a natural science degree
from the University of Michigan and a social science degree from Stanford
University. He has taught at the
University of California at Irvine and Boston College. He has been published in academic books
(e.g., Endophysics, Time, Quantum and the
Subjective) and periodicals (The
Journal of Economic Issues; Administrative Science Quarterly). His work has also appeared in the popular media (e.g., The Boston Globe, National Public Radio, The
Progressive, Christianity Crisis).
Dr. Bernstein served on the Board of Directors and the
editorial staff of the International Association for Near-Death Studies from
1999 through 2004. His outlook on fundamental questions has also been
influenced by a training in Mediumship, and by learning experiences gained in a
wide range of situations, among them Dr. John Mack’s Program on Extraordinary
Experience Research (PEER), the Findhorn Community, the Dolphin Cognition
Laboratory, Tibetan Buddhism (Kalachakra), Christian Science, and Quakerism.
Dr.Bernstein’s
contributions to our dialogue will be based on his study of near-death
experiences, his exploration of the quantum and holographic underpinnings of
intuition, his work in the area of inter-species communication, and his
examination of the overlap of
psychology with spirituality.
During
the day, he will share with us what he learned from his years of work with
women and men who have had near-death experiences (NDEs) with a focus on the phenomenon of Love. A wide
range of people described to him in detail the Love they sensed during their
NDE.
They spoke of a deepening encounter with a light that is a
peaceful, enveloping force. The light is felt to be somehow knowing and alive.
Ultimately, the light is experienced as unconditional love—and, for many, as
“Home” or “Source.” The implications of
these experiences for our understanding of interconnectedness in the universe,
and of Love in the cosmic sense, are many and powerful. The reports of those who have had near-death
experiences can certainly help to expand our view of reality. They contain
important “lessons from the light,” to use Dr. Kenneth Ring’s phrase, from
which we can all benefit.
 Stephane Allix and Natacha Calestreme
Writers and Documentary Filmmakers
Stephane Allix and Natacha Calestreme are both successful
documentary filmmakers and writers. They live and work in Paris, France with
their two children, Charles and Luna. Stephane is a highly respected,
award-winning photojournalist, formerly a war correspondent and investigative
reporter, who covered conflicts in Afghanistan, Kashmir, Somalia and other
war-torn areas. Since 2003, he has been
exploring a “new frontier” for him: using new discoveries in science to help
him understand unexplained phenomena.
His most recent film, Experiencers, focused on the
life and work of the late Dr. John E. Mack. We are proud of the fact that Stephane met John Mack at our first Cosmos
and Consciousness conference held in Rangeley in 2003. Stephane is now working on a four-part
series about anomalous phenomena for French TV. This September, his new book on the subject of extraterrestrial
life will be published in France. It is
called Extraterrestres: l’Enquete or Extraterrestrials: The
Investigation. He is already at
work on a new book about the nature of consciousness, its relationship to the
physical universe and its fate after the death of the body.
Natacha Calestreme began her career as a journalist. She is now a successful documentary
filmmaker and the creator of the series, Heroes of Nature. Since 2000, Natacha has been filming women
and men at work worldwide protecting endangered species and their habitats from
the destructive impact of human activities. Her last two films were about Laurie Marker and Merlin Tuttle, both
Americans, who are struggling to protect cheetahs and bats, respectively. She
is also the author of a recent book, Les Heros de la Nature, about those
who save wildlife.
Love and interconnectedness are evident throughout the work
of these two talented people. In
Natacha’s films and writings, we see men and women motivated by love for other
living beings, for the environment and for the planet itself, devoting
themselves to life-positive efforts to preserve and protect Life on Earth. And Natacha herself is motivated by love to
bring the crucial efforts of these heroes of nature to a wide audience so that
their work may garner support and inspire others. There is an interesting interconnection evident in the work
of Natacha and Stephane: she portrays human beings helping other life forms and
Stephane’s recent film examines the possibility that part of the
extraterrestrial phenomenon involves an attempt by other intelligences to help
humanity, in some way, at this turning point in our history and in our
understanding of the planet as an intelligent ecosystem.
In both filmmakers' work, the nature of specie-to-specie
interaction suggests that love and a sense of interconnectedness are both
involved. Natacha and Stephane will use
brief film clips to help us understand what they have learned in their exciting
work.
 Gillian Spencer
Writer,
Actress, Medical Intuitive
Ms. Spencer lives in
New York City and is an award-winning writer and actress working in television,
theater and film. More than 20 years
ago, she began a personal search which brought her to work with Dr. Helen Bonny
and training in music and altered states of consciousness at the Institute for
Consciousness and Music. Gillian’s early explorations with Dr. Bonny opened her
to an experience of love through which she was healed physically.
Eventually this
experience led Gillian to work as a medical intuitive, in collaboration with
physicians and other healing practitioners, offering health/life readings for
people. These personal readings were always reminders that each of us is known
and remembered in the universe; that we are cared about in a deep and
unconditional way. Over time, personal readings began to include stories about
the physical place in which a person lived—the house, the town, or even the
country itself and changes happening deep in the earth. Readings often expanded into stories about
our universe, the stars and the part Earth and her inhabitants play in a
process of on-going change and reconnection.
Currently, Gillian
is co-director, with Marilyn Clark, of Landsong Associates, a nonprofit
organization offering seminars and retreats which use music, myth and
discoveries in current science to explore our intimate connection to life on
every level. Marilyn is a pastoral
counselor with expertise in working with non-ordinary states of consciousness
who also acts as facilitator and ground for the readings process.
On this day of
dialogue, Gillian will share with us some of her own story and her view of
interconnectedness as it is manifests from the single cell, to the body, to
Earth and out into the Cosmos. Hers is
a message of love and intimate connection repeated in many ways, which says
that the “family of Earth” is reconnecting with families in the everywhere—a
link that makes all of Nature and the
Cosmos wonderfully personal, not separate, but an intrinsic part of who and
what we are. In a fascinating,
experiential session, Gillian will invite us to experience contemplative music
as a pathway to bring us deeper into ourselves and into greater contact with
each other, the earth and the universe.
We hope you will
join us for Cosmos and Consciousness IV: Our Interconnected Universe on September 16, 2006.
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 The Third Annual Alexander Imich
Lecture
Pratt
Mansion, New York
1026 Fifth
Avenue at 84th Street
Cosmos and Psyche has received great advance praise. Christopher Bache, former IONS
educational director and author of Dark Night, Early Dawn, has
written, “Breathtaking in the scope and scale of its vision, this
extraordinary book shatters our cosmological assumptions as it awakens
us to a living universe and its creative intelligence. Tarnas succeeds
masterfully in bringing his encyclopedic knowledge forged in writing the
critically acclaimed Passion of the Western Mind to the task of
discerning the archetypal pulse of history. Spellbinding, eloquent,
compelling, Cosmos and Psyche will be a marker for an entire
generation.”
And William Van Dusen Wishard,
author of Between Two Ages: The 21st Century and the Crisis of
Meaning, has said, “It is hard to think of many books written in the
past century that will still be read two hundred years from now. Cosmos and Psyche will top that short list. It is majestic,
sweeping, and profound. This will be a book for the ages. It will
stand over time with the seminal expressions of the human spirit.” Join Richard Tarnas, PhD, for an enlivening evening as he challenges
the basic assumptions of the modern world view and points towards a
profound new understanding of the evolving human role in the cosmos at
this critical moment in our planet’s history.
Dear Mindshifter,
The limits of our
cosmological imagination define the limits of our existence:
Do we live in a
disenchanted, mechanistic, purposeless universe as a randomly
produced oddity of isolated consciousness, or do we participate in
a living cosmos of unfolding meaning and purpose?
In 1991, Richard
Tarnas, PhD, published The Passion of the Western Mind, a
work regarded by many scholars such as Joseph Campbell and Huston
Smith as one of the finest histories of Western thought ever
written. Though it became both a best seller and required reading
in many university courses, most of its readers did not know that
this work was written as a preparatory foundation for a second
book containing a more revolutionary perspective. Cosmos and
Psyche, just published this year by Viking Press, challenges
the basic assumptions of the modern world view and points towards
a profound new understanding of the evolving human role in the
cosmos. Based on 30 years of research, Tarnas sets forth a
remarkable body of evidence that suggests the existence of a
systematic correspondence between planetary movements and the
archetypal patterns of human experience.
This research
began at Esalen in 1976, when Tarnas and Stanislav Grof, then
Esalen’s scholar-in-residence, discovered to their astonishment a
consistent correlation between the timing of major psychological
transformations and planetary transits to individuals’ natal
charts. In subsequent years, Tarnas expanded the compass of the
research to include intensive analysis of the biographies of
hundreds of prominent cultural figures, as well as the dynamics of
the collective psyche evident in major historical events and
cultural epochs. These correlations, rather than indicating a
fatalistic determinism in the cosmic scheme, appeared to open up a
new dimension of awareness through which human beings could
participate more consciously and intelligently in their encounter
with and embodiment of the great archetypal forces that shape
human life.
Join us for an
enlivening evening as Richard Tarnas, PhD, discusses this
evidence, the new light it sheds on both the human psyche and the
cosmos, and the new horizon of possibility it reveals at this
critical moment in our planet’s history.
Trish Corbett and
Michael Mannion
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In This
World, Not of It:
The Hidden Meaning of The Story of Jesus
December 6,
2006 at 7 p.m.
The Pratt
Mansions
84th Street and Fifth Avenue
Admission: $15
For over 2000
years, the story of Jesus has had a powerful hold on human beings in
diverse cultures on every continent. Myths and legends abound on Earth
and have for all of our written record. They rise, exert great
influence, and then fade away. We no longer worship or fear Mithras,
Ra, Zeus or Apollo. Wotan and Thor have been reduced to days of the
week. Yet after two millennia, the Christ story continues to exert its
influence and shape the destinies of nations as well as individuals.
What accounts for
the power of this tragic tale? Why does it resonate so deeply with over
two billion people on the planet today? What does the Christ story tap
into in the human heart and unconscious? What makes it so universal in
its appeal that it transcends time and space?
Thousands of books have been written about Jesus
Christ. Some promote the narrow beliefs of specific Christian sects;
others demonstrate the perversion of Jesus’ simple message of love into
its opposite. Many historians have shown how aspects of the Jesus
narrative were taken from earlier myths and grafted onto the Christ
legend. And a number of books claim that Jesus never existed.
Over the ages,
great painters, sculptors, composers, poets, novelists, and dramatists
have portrayed this story in moving, profound creations. Philosophers
and theologians have peered deep into the legend and sought its meaning
for mankind.
Out of all of the
writings about Christ, one book presents a unique view—a shocking and
challenging interpretation of the meaning of the story of Jesus. Join
author and Mindshift Institute co-founder Michael Mannion for an
exploration of The Murder of Christ by Wilhelm Reich. Discover
what profound meaning the Christ tale had for Reich, and for our own
understanding of who we are.
To register for
this exciting evening, call 212-721-6785 or email Mindshift123@aol.com
Dear
Mindshifter,
Here’s
wishing everyone a Scintillating Solstice, Splendiferous
Saturnalia, Happy Hanukkah, Merry Christmas, Captivating Kwanzaa,
and/or Fabulous Festivus, whatever is appropriate.
Before the
festivities begin, we thought we would start the holiday season
with an exploration of the source of the emotional power of the
story of Jesus Christ on Wednesday, December 6 at 7 p.m. at the
Pratt Mansions on 84th Street and Fifth Avenue.
What is it about this legend or belief that still attracts women
and men as powerfully today as it did 2000 years ago? Whether or
not Jesus Christ actually existed; was a woman and not a man; was
a man and not a god or vice-versa; or was merely an amalgam of
earlier mythic figures created by the early Christian leaders, his
story resonates with the human heart and mind as few others do.
As a young
boy, I spent hundreds of hours listening to the New Testament read
at Catholic services. It seemed to me at that time that there was
a consistent message that was Christ’s and then there was all this
“other stuff” that came from the disciples and later sources. The
Jesus message was simple—love one another. The “other stuff”
concerned sin, judgment, fault, blame, guilt, salvation and so
forth. This year, I learned that Thomas Jefferson had gone
through the Gospels and selected what he believed was the message
of Jesus, eliminating all that “other stuff.” Intriguingly, this
Jefferson version of the gospels is strikingly similar to the
Gnostic gospel of Thomas, written two millennia ago.
As a teenager
and young man, I read many books about Jesus, among them—The
Last Temptation of Christ and other novels by Nikos
Kazantzakis; Dear Judas by Robinson Jeffers; The Man Who
Died by D.H. Lawrence; Barabbas by Par Lagerkvist; Jesus by Kahlil Gibran; The Imitation of Christ by
Thomas a Kempis; The Psychiatric Study of Jesus and The
Quest of the Historical Jesus, both by Albert Schweitzer; The Life of Jesus by Ernst Renan; The Greatest Story Ever
Told by Fulton Oursler; Jesus Christ and Mythology by
Rudolf Bultmann; and Socrates, Buddha, Confucius and Jesus by Karl Jaspers.
In recent
years, I was drawn to The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance
Art and in Modern Oblivion by Leo Steinberg; Christ: A
Crisis in the Life of God by Jack Miles; Jesus Through the
Centuries by Jaroslav Pelikan and books by such writers as
Elaine Pagels, John Lash and Gary Wills. But, to me, one book
stood out among them all—The Murder of Christ by Wilhelm
Reich.
To Reich, the Christ story both reveals and
conceals crucial truths about humanity that it needs to understand
if it is to survive—and that it is trying to avoid with all its
might. In his view, God is Nature, Love and Life. And Christ,
the Life Principle itself, represents the full realization of
natural law. So why, then, was Jesus murdered so ignominiously?
For thousands of years before the birth of Christ, and for
thousands of years since, what Reich calls “The Living” has
struggled to survive against the assault of the Emotional Plague,
which is characterized by a hatred for The Living in all of its
manifestations.
We hope you will join us for a fascinating
examination of this unique interpretation of the Jesus story.
Reich’s insights are vital for anyone who is working today to help
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