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2009
Center for New Knowledge: 2009 Events Archive | Cosmos and Consciousness VII: The Knowledge of Tomorrow -- Today | Consciousness and Mind Without Brain | What Does Quantum Consciousness Have to Do With the Apollo Space Program? | Center for New Knowledge: Open House | Bioenergy in Soil, Food and Health: A New Perspective on Natural Organic Farming and Food | Consciousness and Human Capacity:
Mind Without Brain: New York Session ; Northampton, MA Session
Center for New Knowledge: 2009 Events Archive
December 2009 Programs
Wednesday, December 9th at 7pm
Extraordinary Experiences
Why are they so difficult to discuss in our society?
Why do we need to find a safe place in which to share them?
Join us to learn about these
fascinating experiences
or perhaps share about
ones that you have had.
This event was cancelled due to inclement weather.
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November 2009 Programs
Saturday, Nov 7 from 10 am--4 pm
Pathways to the Actor’s Inner Life
Lecture and Workshop By
Arthur Bartow
former Chair and Artistic Director
Drama Department, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University
Acting is an art employing many effective techniques and approaches. But it is also a way of knowing, one that can be used to come to a deeper understanding of human nature, human culture and even the universe we inhabit. We are proud to have Arthur Bartow with us to offer this exciting workshop.
Session I – Discussion: 10:30 a.m. – 12 noon
Arthur Bartow will discuss the foundation of American acting traditons, focus on founder’s techniques, and answer questions about how these various approaches prepare and sustain actors today.
Session II – Workshop: 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Monologue and scene study workshop to analyze the participants’ personal method of working and how to improve their work.
Participants will please prepare a monologue or a two-actor scene lasting a maximum of five minutes. Actors of all ages who would like to participate in this afternoon workshop will be able to sign up during the morning session. Participation will be on a first come basis since the session’s length is limited.
Observers are welcome.
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For sixteen years, Arthur Bartow directed the training at Tisch’s Drama Department, which has prepared countless theatre workers including prominent actors such as Philip Seymour Hoffman, Alec Baldwin, John Leguizamo, Adam Sandler, Idina Menzel, Bridgit Fonda, Raul Esparza, Jesse L. Martin, Kathryn Erbe, Jessica Hecht, Felicity Huffman, Skeet Ulrich, Molly Shannon, Andrew McCarthy and directors Moisés Kaufman, Kate Whoriskey, Oscar Eustis, Neil Pepe, and David Petrarca.
Arthur Bartow’s books include Training of the American Actor*, a review of the major acting techniques as developed by Lee Strasberg, Stella Adler, Sanford Meisner, Michael Chekhov, Mary Overlie (The Viewpoints) Uta Hagen, Jerzy Grotowski, and David Mamet; and The Director’s Voice*, interviews with, among others, Hal Prince, Peter Sellars, Mark Lamos, Martha Clarke, Robert Falls, JoAnne Akalaitis, Des McAnuff and Richard Foreman.
*A limited number of discounted copies of Training of the American Actor and The Director’s Voice will be available for signing by Arthur Bartow
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Wednesday, November 11 at 7pm
Orgone Energy Research:
Crucial Support from New
Scientific and Medical Discoveries
with
Conny Huthsteiner, MD
Psychiatrist and Medical Orgonomist
We are excited to have Dr. Conny Huthsteiner with us for an examination of the connections between Wilhelm Reich's medical and scientific work and leading edge research being done today on such diverse topics as cell pulsation, weather modification, and zero-point energy. Dr. Huthsteiner will demonstrate that Reich's energy findings are being confirmed by leading edge research and also point the way to even more fundamental work that needs to be done.
Dr. Huthsteiner is the vice-president of the Institute for Orgonomic Science and a psychiatrist and medical orgonomist in private practice. She studied medicine, and trained in psychosomatic medicine, at the University of Munich, Germany. She also trained at the Mayo Clinic and Boston University. For many years, she was Staff at Harvard Medical School.
She is planning an experimental clinical trial on the use of orgone energy blankets on burns with a colleague. She is the author of an important article on weather engineering published in the Annals of the Institute for Orgonomic Science. Her information on weather modification could not be more relevant in light of the climate change crisis we are facing. She has also written a feature screenplay about Wilhelm Reich.
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Saturday, November 14 from 10 am --4 pm
Talk and Workshop
Quantum in the Cosmos and the Mind:
A New Scientific Model
Dr. Rudy Schild
Harvard-Smithsonian Astrophysicist
Dr. Rudy Schild, an astrophysicist and cosmologist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, is highly regarded professionally for his work on gravitational lensing, baryonic dark matter and the study of quasars and black holes.
Dr. Schild has recently made astounding astrophysical observations, published in Astrophysics Journal, that challenge the current ideas about black holes, dark matter, dark energy and the nature of the physical universe. He has devised a new scientific model that he hopes will bridge the gap between cosmos and consciousness, the objective and the subjective. In his model, Dr. Schild describes the connections he has found among astrophysical phenomena, quantum science and consciousness.
Join us for an exciting talk and an interactive workshop. We will explore the implications of Dr. Schild's new scientific model for a range of anomalous phenomena that, until recently, have been judged as unsuitable for scientific study.
Wednesday, November 18, 7 pm
Forbes Library, Northampton MA
Exploring Worldviews:
What Is Your Worldview and Why Does It Matter?
Richmond Mayo-Smith with Trish Corbett and Michael Mannion
Albert Einstein famously observed that the consciousness that has created a problem cannot be the consciousness that will solve it. This remark of Einstein’s is widely quoted today. But what does it mean to take it seriously?
Richmond Mayo-Smith will join Trish Corbett and Michael Mannion, co-founders of The Mindshift Institute and co-directors of the Center for New Knowledge, for a “trialogue” about worldviews and the consciousness that creates them. They will share with us the experiences that have led them to take Einstein literally and begin to develop a new worldview based on a new consciousness.
Richmond, Trish and Michael believe that in this period of major social transformation, we must not only plan how to survive in a dying worldview, but also prepare for our position in an emerging new worldview. They will explore some basic attributes of the new worldview that appears to be emerging now and discuss their implications for our daily lives.
Join us for an enlivening investigation that may help broaden and deepen our worldview.
About the Presenters
Richmond Mayo-Smith presently serves on the boards of World Education, Sant Bani School and the Mindshift Institute. He graduated from Amherst College, and holds an MAT from Harvard Graduate School of Education. He served in the Army in Europe in WWII, and taught science at the Phillips Exeter Academy 1946-1961. He also served as a Fulbright teacher in England from 1950-51. He took a break from teaching to work in India in community development and was involved in a project to write elementary general science textbooks for the Punjab. From 1962-64, he worked for World Education in Lucknow in adult literacy.
Mr. Mayo-Smith served as Headmaster of The Roxbury Latin School 1965-1973. Since then he has helped to start organizations such as Educators for Social Responsibility and served on boards of a number of non-profits seeking to effect social change. Richmond works behind the scenes and on the front line in social change. For example, he spent time in jail in Nevada for protesting nuclear bomb testing. He is married to Nancy Fox, and they have three children and six grandchildren. They live in Boston, MA.
The biographies of Trish Corbett and Michael Mannion can be found here.
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October 2009 Programs
Wednesday, October 7 at 7 pm
DVD--The Cosmology Quest
The "Big Bang" theory dominates cosmology today. The term "Big Bang" was originally one of derision and the theory was given this name by its opponents. But now it is the leading secular cosmological creation story.
However, many serious scientists do not think that the Big Bang theory stands up to strict scientific scrutiny. New discoveries challenge basic assumptions of the theory. Join us for a critique of the Big Bang theory by some of its most eminent critics, such as Sir Fred Hoyle, Nobelist Kary Mullis, Halton Arp and Geoffrey Burbidge.
Wednesday, October 14 at 7 pm
DVD--Stairways to Heaven--The Practical Magic of Sacred Space
The spiritual technology of the ancients--as seen in sacred spaces, stone circles, temples, and Gothic cathedrals--has fascinated humanity for millennia. This exciting documentary takes you on an 8000-year journey that reveals the relevance of this ancient wisdom for us today in this era of great upheaval.
Wednesday, October 21 at 7pm
Emotional Intelligence and The New Human
Susan Kornacki, President, EI Skills Group
Many people have heard of the term emotional intelligence (EI). This concept has become popularized for use in personal development, in business and in college settings. We will learn how emotional intelligence is being incorporated into a variety of settings and explore what the implications of this work may be for our individual and collective evolution. We will examine the differences and similarities between EI and intuition, as well as EI and other extraordinary states of knowledge.
We will also learn how emotional intelligence can be measured and, more importantly, how one’s emotional intelligence abilities can be increased for optimal outcomes. This has led many people to experience enhanced states of higher consciousness and increased positive vibration.
Join us as we explore this exciting way of ...being!
Wednesday, October 28 at 7 pm
DVD-- Man's Right to Know (Introducing the life and work of Wilhelm Reich)
What is the unifying theme that connects Reich's work in psychoanalysis, mass psychology, physiology, biology, biogenesis, energy medicine, mass-free energy physics, meteorology, astrophysics and cosmology? Join us for an exploration of a new view of an ancient concept--life energy--and learn about orgonomic functionalism, a new way of thinking needed to comprehend the life energy.
This evening is also the introduction to a new ongoing reading group at the Center for New Knowledge --Wilhelm Reich: The Work--which will focus on the basic texts of orgonomy, the body of knowledge that is Reich's legacy.
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August 2009 Programs
Crop Circles:
Modern Mysteries
Wednesday, August 12 at 7pm
Join us for a fascinating film featuring
beautiful cinematography of
the mysterious crop circles.
and a scientific examination of their
origins, effects on people, and their
possible meanings for humanity.
Whatever happened to...Woodstock Nation?
Wednesday, August 19 at 7pm
From August 15-17, 1969, an estimated 500,000 people gathered on a farm in Bethel NY, near the better known town of Woodstock, NY, for a celebration of peace, music and love. It seemed to be a great moment for the "Counter Culture," which some later called "Woodstock Nation." Did "Woodstock" mark the beginning--or the end--of the radical changes that characterized the turning point of "The Sixties?"
What did this landmark event mean in its day and what is its significance for us 40 years later? We hope you can join us for an exploration of how the achievements and failures of that era helped shape our world today and how they can be important signposts for us in our effort to build a better future.
Film clips of the historic concert will be shown followed by an enlivening conversation.
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July 2009 Programs
Wednesday July 15, 7pm
DVD: Pulitzer Prize-winning Harvard psychiatrist, the late Dr. John E. Mack, speaking about the pioneering physician-scientist, Wilhelm Reich in November 1997 at the Wilhelm Reich Centennial in NYC. This rare recording is being shown for the first time.
Wednesday July 22, 7pm
DVD: Celebrate the 40th anniversary of the first lunar landing on July 20 1969 by viewing a talk by Apollo 14 Astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell, the sixth man to walk on the moon. Dr. Mitchell had a transformative experience on his way home to Earth from the moon. Find out what happened and where it led him.
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June 2009 Programs
Wednesday June 10, 7 pm
DVD: Nature Was My Teacher: The Vision of Viktor Schauberger
The fascinating story of a true visionary, followed by a conversation about his ideas about the nature of water and life.
Tuesday, June 16, 12-5 pm
"Bloomsday:" A Celebration of James Joyce's Masterpiece, Ulysses
From 12-5pm, the Center hosts an Open House celebrating Joyce's brilliant "stream of consciousness" novel with music, readings and light refreshments. At 7 pm, there will be a short talk on "Consciousness and the Novel" by Michael Mannion followed by the DVD of the film Ulysses.
Wednesday, June 17, 7 pm
DVD: Cold Fusion
Cold fusion--a virtually limitless source of nonpolluting, renewable energy--is back, if it was ever truly gone. Find out who tried to destroy this new discovery and who is bringing it back to scientific life. The screening will be followed by a conversation about new energy possibilities.
Friday, June 19, 7pm
DVD: Worldviews in Collision
A talk by the late Dr. John E. Mack, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Harvard psychiatrist and best-selling author. The talk will be followed by a conversation about the power of worldviews.
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May 2009 Programs
Tuesday May 12
Noon: DVD Bee Extinction: Solving the Mystery (a new documentary)
Wednesday May 13
7pm: DVD Interview: Astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell: Nature's Mind
Thursday May 14
Noon: DVD Interview: Astrophysicist Dr. Rudy Schild: Black Holes and Consciousness
Friday May 15
7pm: DVD Arthur C. Clarke's Colors of Infinity: Power and Beauty of Fractals
Saturday May 16
11 am: Saturday Morning Cinema-TBA
Tuesday May 19
Noon: DVD Interview: Peter Russell--From Science to God
Wednesday May 20
7pm: DVD Man's Right to Know (introduction to Wilhelm Reich)
Thursday May 21
Noon: DVD Dr. Jenny Wade: Mind Without Brain
Friday May 22
7pm: DVD Dr. Amit Goswami: The Self-Aware Universe
Saturday May 23
11 am: Saturday Morning Cinema--TBA
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COSMOS AND CONSCIOUSNESS VII
The Knowledge of Tomorrow--Today
Saturday, September 19, 2009
10 a.m.--5:30 p.m.
Rangeley, Maine
The Rangeley Inn
Guests
Dr. Paul Bernstein
Independent Researcher, Paris Institute on Extraordinary Experiences
Dr. Ken Hamilton
Author, Founder of H.O.P.E.
August T. Jaccaci
Author and Futurist
James O'Dea
Lecturer, former IONS President
Dr. Rudy Schild
Harvard-Smithsonian Astrophysicist
Hosts
Trish Corbett and Michael Mannion
Co-founders of The Mindshift Institute
The Underlying Unity of the
Cosmos and Consciousness Conferences
In 2003, The Mindshift Institute held its first conference in Rangeley, ME, Cosmos and Consciousness--The Transformative Impact of New Knowledge. The presenters were Harvard-Smithsonian astrophysicist Dr. Rudy Schild; Apollo 14 astronaut and founder of IONS Dr. Edgar Mitchell; and the late Dr. John E. Mack, a Pulitzer Prize winner and Harvard University psychiatrist.
It was our belief that when the discoveries of these three scientists were brought together, a new understanding of reality could emerge that might not if each person's work was considered in isolation. This was our approach in the succeeding conferences as well. Creative women and men were brought together to explore a particular theme because the combination of their ideas would produce an important new perspective. Our approach was not only applied to the presenters at each year's conference; it was applied to the entire series as well. Each year built upon the previous year. In our view, the first six conferences all lead up to this year's exciting event. They are listed below:
Cosmos and Consciousness I (2003)
The Transformative Impact of New Knowledge
Dr. John E. Mack, Dr. Edgar Mitchell, Dr. Rudy Schild
Cosmos and Consciousness II (2004)
What Is Life?
Michael Mannion, James O’Dea, Dr. Brian O’Leary, Dr. Rudy Schild
Cosmos and Consciousness III (2005)
The Cosmology of Love
Dr. Ken Hamilton, August T. Jaccaci, Michael Mannion, James O’Dea
Cosmos and Consciousness IV (2006)
Our Interconnected Universe
Stephane Allix, Dr. Paul Bernstein, Natacha Calestreme, Michael Mannion
Dr. Rudy Schild, Gillian Spencer
Cosmos and Consciousness V (2007)
Does Consciousness Create Reality?
Dr. Amit Goswami, Dr. Edgar Mitchell, Dr. Rudy Schild, Dr. Jenny Wade
Cosmos and Consciousness VI (2008)
New Scientific Perspectives on Extraterrestrial Life
In Our Living Universe
Dr. Bruce Maccabee, Michael Mannion, Carol Rainey, Dr. Rudy Schild
What Do We Mean by "New Knowledge?"
Our first conference focused on the power of new knowledge to transform our existence. The subsequent five events each dealt with a fundamental question of our existence: What is life? What is love? What is interconnectedness? What is consciousness? What is our place in the universe?
The investigation of the above questions is usually done in isolation from one another. But we believe these basic phenomena are connected by an underlying unity in nature. It is this unity in nature that we will explore in this year's conference.
We are engaged in exploring new knowledge that gives us a voice in the transformation of our world. New knowledge consists of (1) newly discovered information; (2) contemporary but older information that has not made its way into public consciousness; and (3) new findings that help us to understand ancient wisdom in new ways.
A New Worldview, A New World
We believe that existing, but little known, life-positive knowledge can form the foundation of a new worldview that has the power to help us make different choices about how to live our lives. In this way, our hopes for a better world can be realized. A new life-positive worldview is vital to this realization.
The investigation of ideas outside the dominant worldview may often assist people in waking up. We are all in some manner detached from our inner and outer reality. And it is difficult to "wake up" in isolation. But, together, we can help one another to be more present and aware of what is actually happening to ourselves and to the planet because of us.
A major goal of the Cosmos and Consciousness series is to connect leading edge, life-positive discoveries from diverse fields that have the potential to bring about a new worldview, one that will guide us in fundamentally altering our personal and social life in such a manner that we can successfully address the life-threatening situation humanity has created for itself.
Cosmos and Consciousness VII
The Knowledge of Tomorrow—Today
We are excited to bring together five speakers from past Cosmos and Consciousness conferences. Dr. Rudy Schild has been a presenter at five of the six annual events; James O'Dea has spoken at two; and Dr. Paul Bernstein; Dr. Ken Hamilton; and August T. Jaccaci have all been with us as speakers once before.
These individuals have pursued paths in life that have taken them outside the confines of mainstream society. And they been changed by their life experiences and their encounters with "new knowledge." They have incorporated this new knowledge, gained from unorthodox "ways of knowing," into their professional and personal lives. At the conference, we will have two panels in which our guests will share with us where they are today on their journeys and tell us about insights they have gained that might be useful to us all.
 Paul Bernstein, Ph.D. is co-director of the Clinical Handbook being published by the Paris-based Institute for Research on Extraordinary Experiences. Previously, he served on the Board of Directors of the International Association for Near-Death Studies and was Editor-in-Chief of their quarterly publication, Vital Signs. He also worked as Research Associate in the Program for Extraordinary Experience Research directed by Dr. John Mack at Harvard University, and was co-editor of their publication, PEER Perspectives.
Dr. Bernstein has taught at the University of California and Boston College, and has degrees in both the biological and social sciences from Stanford University and the University of Michigan. He has had personal training in mediumship, and has explored inter-species communication and consciousness at the University of Hawaii’s Dolphin Cognition Institute. His published articles include “Intuition” (in the book Endophysics, Time, Quantum, and the Subjective), “Life’s Three Stages: Infancy, Ego, and Transcendence” (in the Journal of the International Association of Spiritual Psychiatry), “Scholars Assemble Evidence of Life after Death” and “Physicist Uses NDEs to Clarify the Nature of Time” (in Vital Signs). He is based in Boston and can be reached at pbernste@verizon.net.
 Dr. Ken Hamilton is a board-certified allopathic general surgeon. His roots comprise allopathic medicine and Christian Science. As a small boy, he knew that God and Love were synonymous, and that healing was as much psychospiritual as it was physical. His curiosity about healing led him into medicine and surgery. His patients showed him that the surgeon-patient relationship had a powerful impact on the outcome of surgical therapies. He started a support group in his practice in 1987. Its participants chose to call it a HOPE Group, using the acronym, Healing of Persons Exceptional. He sheathed his scalpel in 1988 to concentrate on bringing hope and love into healthcare. He is the author of SoulCircling: the Journey to the Who.
 August T. Jaccaci has worked with leaders throughout the world who want to envision and architect an ideal future for themselves and their enterprises. He is a gifted speaker, a respected visionary and a social inventor. He earned both undergraduate and graduate degrees from Harvard University. He is president of the nonprofit organization Unity Scholars and the founder of the Nature Planning Network and the author of two books, Chief Evolutionary Officer—Leaders Mapping the Future and General Periodicity: Nature’s Creative Dynamics. In addition to his earlier books, he has completed two more books: America Awake! and America Means Love. He has also begun work on a new book titled New Universe.
Mr. Jaccaci is currently working with four colleagues on the startup of a business in Boston and Portland called Social Architects Collaborative. He is also working with his wife, Joanne, on the fall 2009 launch of the College of Future Planning which will be located in Portland, Maine.
 James O’Dea is engaged in international social healing initiatives and consults with globalsystemsinitiatives.net. and other new paradigm organizations. He lectures widely and offers workshops on societal healing, individual and collective transformation, creative stress and understanding the 2012 phenomenon.
He is a Fellow and former President of The Institute of Noetic Sciences, former Executive Director of The Seva Foundation and former Director of The Washington Office of Amnesty International. He is a founding member of The Evolutionary Leaders group with Deepak Chopra and others.
 Dr. Rudy Schild is an astrophysicist and cosmologist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. He is highly regarded professionally for his work on gravitational lensing, baryonic dark matter and the study of quasars and black holes.
Dr. Schild has recently made astounding astrophysical observations, published in Astrophysics Journal, that challenge the current ideas about black holes, dark matter, dark energy and the nature of the physical universe. He has devised a new scientific model that he hopes will bridge the gap between cosmos and consciousness, the objective and the subjective. In his model, Dr. Schild describes the connections he has found among astrophysical phenomena; quantum science and consciousness; and subjective anomalous phenomena.
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Trish Corbett and Michael Mannion, co-founders of The Mindshift Institute, will open the conference with a presentation that examines and connects the themes of the first six events, and explains their intent in choosing the subjects and speakers for each event. From their perspective, the first six conferences lead logically to Cosmos and Consciousness VII.
In the afternoon, Trish and Michael will connect the ideas of the presenters to a major focus of The Mindshift Institute: the cosmic primordial energy that is both the essence of these fundamental phenomena and the physical force that unites them. |
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Michael Mannion will share his observations on Wilhelm Reich's ground-breaking contributions and show how they shaped the previous Cosmos and Consciousness conferences at every level of development. Orgonomy, the medical and scientific legacy of Wilhelm Reich, is a crucial contribution to an understanding of the cosmic primordial energy (which Reich called orgone) that forms the underlying unity in nature.
Orgonomy is a body of work that perfectly illustrates what we mean by new knowledge because it:
- clearly demonstrates its potential transformative impact;
- is contemporary work that has not been incorporated into our culture;
- helps us understand important previous knowledge in new ways; and
- provides the foundation for a new view of the physical universe.
Reich's contributions to medicine and science did not exist in a vacuum. He was influenced by the valuable contributions of women and men in many fields such as natural philosophy, medicine, psychology, biology, physics, cosmology, astrophysics. sociology, and anthropology. In his writings, Reich acknowledged those whose work helped shape his own contributions. Throughout his 35 years of medical and scientific work, he stressed that "everyone is right in some way." The challenge is to discover in what way.
We have also invited a number of people to participate in a panel to discuss their use of the orgone energy accumulator. Like the speakers from previous conferences, these women and men are "walking their talk." They have been asked to join us as examples of people who have come upon a body of new knowledge, investigated it, seen its value for them, and incorporated it into their lives. Some have used this healing device for only a year or two, others for many years or even decades.
The panel is not intended to promote the use of this particular energy medicine device. Rather, its purpose is to help us learn from specific examples how we can benefit when new knowledge is actually put to practical use in our lives.
Throughout the day, there will be ample time for audience interaction with the panelists at each session, and, at the end of the day, there will be a Q&A session during which the audience can engage in dialogue with all of the invited guests. For those who participate in the Premium Weekend, there will be further opportunities for deeper discussions with the speakers.
Premium Weekend Package
COSMOS AND CONSCIOUSNESS VII:
The Knowledge of Tomorrow--Today
An Exciting Weekend in Rangeley, Maine
September 18-20, 2009
The Mindshift Institute is presenting an exciting day-long conference with a deeper weekend experience from September 18-20, 2009. The first six Cosmos and Consciousness conferences have demonstrated that participating in this weekend is indeed a special opportunity. In addition, Rangeley provides a wonderful setting for expansive thinking and exploration.
While the one-day conference on Saturday, September 19 is open to the public, we want to invite you to join us and the Mindshift Explorers— Dr. Paul Bernstein, Dr. Ken Hamilton, August T. Jaccaci, James O'Dea and Dr. Rudy Schild for an extraordinary weekend. You will have a rare opportunity to spend one-on-one time with five creative individuals who are making important contributions to the new worldview now emerging.
Because we want to ensure that each participant has time to connect with the presenters, there are only a limited number of places available for the Premium Weekend Package. All activities will take place at The Rangeley Inn and include:
- A special evening Friday with the speakers and fellow guests; including dessert, coffee, tea, soft drinks and wine
- Admission to the Saturday conference itself
- An excellent dinner on Saturday night with much stimulating conversation
- A thought-provoking Sunday morning session with the presenters and the weekend guests
We are well aware that many people have suffered because of the downturn in the economy over the past year. As a result, we are lowering the cost for the weekend by just about 25%, from $395 to $295. This does not include lodging. We recommend that the weekend participants stay together at The Rangeley Inn. After you sign up with The Mindshift Institute for the weekend, you need to call The Rangeley Inn at 1-800-MOMENTS for your room.
The reservations for the weekend will be filled on a first-come, first served basis. Some have already been taken. We encourage you to call us soon at 212-721-6785 or email us at Info@mindshiftinstitute.org.
Call the Rangeley Lakes Chamber of Commerce
for information on lodging, restaurants or directions to Rangeley
1-800-MT-LAKES or 207-864-5571.
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Consciousness and Mind Without Brain
DVD: Talk by Dr. Jenny Wade
Wednesday, July 29 at 7pm
Center for New Knowledge
Northampton, MA
Mind without brain is a scientific conundrum. Is there awareness without a functioning brain? Does consciousness predate birth? Can consciousness survive death? Dr. Jenny Wade, author of Changes of Mind: A Holonomic Theory of the Evolution of Consciousness, believes a cosmology is needed that accounts for consciousness and that can help answer such questions. The questions that Dr. Wade examines cannot even be asked in the present mechanistic-materialist paradigm. Such phenomena are by definition not possible. But when seen in a different context, we can come to a new understanding of these phenomena and expand our picture of reality.
 Dr. Wade will share with us her insights into consciousness before birth, in utero, at birth, and after physical death. Evidence of a physically transcendent source of human consciousness comes from the extremes of the life span when the brain and central nervous system are unable to function, according to most standard measures. For example, verified evidence substantiates that the fetus is aware, able to recall, and is affected by events around it inside and outside the womb. Verifiable fetal memories go back to the moment of conception. Likewise, near-death accounts have verified awareness when the individual?s measurable brain activity had ceased altogether. We hope you can join us for an evening of expansive exploration.
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What Does Quantum Consciousness Have to Do
With the Apollo Space Program?
Join us to mark the 40th anniversary of the first lunar landing on July 20, 1969 by watching a DVD of a fascinating talk by Apollo 14 Astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell.
On his way home from the moon to Earth, Dr. Mitchell had a transcendent experience — called Samadhi in Sanskrit — in which he saw the universe in its separateness but experienced it in its unity with bliss.
This profound event turned the explorer of outer space into an explorer of the inner space of consciousness. Dr. Mitchell’s research is changing our view of the universe and of ourselves fundamentally. This is an evening you won’t forget.
Wednesday July 22 at 7 pm
Center for New Knowledge
114 Main Street, 2nd floor
Northampton, MA
413-587-4004
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The Mindshift Institute Announces An
Open House
The Center for New Knowledge
114 Main Street, 2nd floor
Northampton MA 01060
413-587-4004
Saturday, May 9, 2009
Noon-4 pm
Presentation 4-5 pm
Trish Corbett and Michael Mannion
Co-Founders, The Mindshift Institute
The Mindshift Institute is engaged in exploring new ideas
in such fields as science, medicine and consciousness studies
that have the potential to expand our
understanding of reality fundamentally.
We believe that existing, but little known,
life-positive knowledge can form the foundation
of a new worldview that has
the power to help us make different choices
so that our hopes for a better world can be realized.
The Center for New Knowledge is devoted to
introducing leading edge advances in learning and wisdom
found in a range of ways of knowing
from diverse traditions, ancient as well as contemporary.
We hope you will join us and actively participate with us
in this exciting and vital work.
More information about the Center for New Knowledge
will be available soon here on our website,
including a calendar of events for
May and June 2009.
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The Mindshift Institute Presents
Bioenergy in Soil, Food and Health
--A New Perspective on Natural Organic Farming and Food
Joseph R. Heckman, PhD
March 18, 2009 at 7:00 pm
Forbes Library, Northampton, MA
The food we eat, and the soil in which it grows, are more than the sum of their chemical constitutents. There is a bioenergetic aspect to soil, food and living things that is not usually taken into account in natural organic farming practices. Bioenergy in agriculture, and in our own bodies, is the focus of tonight’s fascinating talk.
Joseph Heckman, PhD, is a Professor of Soil Science at Rutgers University where he teaches courses in Soil Fertility, Organic Crop Production, and Agroecology. His current research focus is on sustaining soil fertility with nutrient cycling and composting. His extension programs are designed to support healthy plant and animal ecosystems with the goal of establishing sustainable communities and local nutritious food systems. Dr. Heckman has served as Associate Editor of Journal of American Society of Horticulture Science, and as Chair of the Council on History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Soil Science. Dr. Heckman is currently serving on the American Society Agronomy, Committee on Organic and Sustainable Agriculture. In 2008, Dr. Heckman hosted a seminar series on Raw Milk at Rutgers University.
In addition to being an agronomist, Dr. Heckman is a student of orgonomy, the medical-scientific work of Wilhelm Reich. Orgonomy is the study of a universal life energy, which Wilhelm Reich called orgone. Reich believed that invesitgation of orgone energy functions in soil, food, and farming would lead to advances in agriculture.
Dr. Heckman will compare and contrast traditional and conventional views of agriculture with his bioenergetic, orgonomic perspective to help us better understand why, for example, organic and non-organic foods may exhibit little difference in chemistry but result in functional
differences in health for people and animals. He will also look at the impact of industrialized food processing technologies (e.g., pasteurization) on the bioenergetic charge of the foods we eat. For example, Reich demonstrated that the bioenergetic charge of raw milk was nearly twice that of pasteurized milk. There is much confusion and misinformation about food and health today. We hope you can join us for an enlightening and enlivening evening.
For more information call Trish Corbett or Michael Mannion at 413-238-4433.
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The Sixth Alexander Imich, PhD Lecture
Dr. Jenny Wade
Consciousness and Human Capacity:
Mind Without Brain
Monday, February 16, 2009, 7:00 pm
META Center New York
214 W. 29th Street (btwn 7th & 8th Aves.), 16th Floor
Dr. Jenny Wade, author of Changes of Mind: A Holonomic Theory of the Evolution of Consciousness, will share with us her insights into consciousness before birth, in utero, at birth, and after physical death. In her work, she focuses on consciousness itself, not the content or expression of consciousness. Dr. Wade believes a cosmology is needed that accounts for consciousness and that can help answer such questions as: Is there awareness without a functioning brain? Does consciousness predate birth? Can consciousness survive death?
Mind without brain is a scientific conundrum. Evidence of a physically transcendent source of human consciousness comes from the extremes of the life span when the brain and central nervous system are unable to function, according to most standard measures.
Prior to the third trimester, measurable brain activity associated with awareness is virtually nonexistent—yet verified evidence from independent sources substantiates that the fetus is aware, able to recall, and is affected by events around it inside and outside the womb. Verifiable fetal memories go back to the moment of conception.
Likewise, near-death accounts have verified awareness of resuscitation and other activities in the here-and-now when the individual’s measurable brain activity had ceased altogether. A close examination of the evidence rules out the materialist arguments many scientists use to explain away the existence of individual awareness both before life and after death.
The relationship of human awareness to “reality”—including its ability to slip the bonds assumed by conventional science—suggests that the more conscious we are, the more we can shape reality by accessing realms and possibilities now considered “para”-normal but that are well within the capacity of humanity, including transcending time and space.
The questions that Dr. Wade examines cannot even be asked in the present mechanistic-materialist paradigm. Such phenomena are by definition not possible. But when seen in a different context, we can come to a new understanding of these phenomena and expand our picture of reality.
ADMISSION: $20
To register, call Trish Corbett or Michael Mannion at 212-721-6785.
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Dr. Jenny Wade
Consciousness and Human Capacity:
Mind Without Brain
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
7:00 pm
Forbes Library, Northampton MA
Dr. Jenny Wade, author of Changes of Mind: A Holonomic Theory of the Evolution of Consciousness, will share with us her insights into consciousness before birth, in utero, at birth, and after physical death. In her work, she focuses on consciousness itself, not the content or expression of consciousness. Dr. Wade believes a cosmology is needed that accounts for consciousness and that can help answer such questions as: Is there awareness without a functioning brain? Does consciousness predate birth? Can consciousness survive death?
Mind without brain is a scientific conundrum. Evidence of a physically transcendent source of human consciousness comes from the extremes of the life span when the brain and central nervous system are unable to function, according to most standard measures.
Prior to the third trimester, measurable brain activity associated with awareness is virtually nonexistent—yet verified evidence from independent sources substantiates that the fetus is aware, able to recall, and is affected by events around it inside and outside the womb. Verifiable fetal memories go back to the moment of conception.
Likewise, near-death accounts have verified awareness of resuscitation and other activities in the here-and-now when the individual’s measurable brain activity had ceased altogether. A close examination of the evidence rules out the materialist arguments many scientists use to explain away the existence of individual awareness both before life and after death.
The relationship of human awareness to “reality”—including its ability to slip the bonds assumed by conventional science—suggests that the more conscious we are, the more we can shape reality by accessing realms and possibilities now considered “para”-normal but that are well within the capacity of humanity, including transcending time and space.
The questions that Dr. Wade examines cannot even be asked in the present mechanistic-materialist paradigm. Such phenomena are by definition not possible. But when seen in a different context, we can come to a new understanding of these phenomena and expand our picture of reality.
For more information call Trish Corbett or Michael Mannion at 413-238-4433.
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