Center for New Knowledge

114 Main Street, 2nd floor
Northampton MA 01060
413-587-4004

HOURS


MARCH 2010

Wednesday-Saturday
12-5 pm

And we will happily meet by appointment when possible.

Center for New Knowledge

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Events Schedule


March 2010 Programs



Wednesday, March 17th at 7 PM
Forbes Library, Northampton, MA

The Day Wilhelm Reich Met Albert Einstein:
The Story of a Road Not Taken


Michael Mannion
Author and Co-Founder of The Mindshift Institute and the Center for New Knowledge


On January 13, 1941, a young pioneering physician-scientist named Wilhelm Reich went to Princeton, NJ to confer with the most famous scientist in the world, Albert Einstein. This encounter was far more than a meeting of two creative human beings. It was a moment in history when two fundamentally different pictures of reality crossed paths.

The individual personalities of these men were not central to what transpired when they met. Rather, when they got together, two worlds of science collided. Albert Einstein was the leading scientist of the physics of dead matter and dead energy. Wilhelm Reich was the investigator of the emerging science of living matter and life energy, discovered through the investigation of emotions. This struggle between mechanistic science and the science of the living continues to this day.

Our Western culture took the path of Einstein's science and ignored the way opened up by Reich, with consequences that reach deeply into every aspect of our personal and social lives. How would our world look if we had pursued that other path? Join author Michael Mannion for an exploration of this fascinating, little-known story of the road taken--and the road not taken.

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Wednesday, March 24 at 7 pm

Cosmic Superimposition:
How Are We Rooted in Nature?


A Talk by Michael Mannion To Celebrate the Birthday of Wilhelm Reich

At the opening of Cosmic Superimposition, Wilhelm Reich asks "In what manner is man rooted in Nature?" To Reich, a cosmic primordial energy--which he called orgone--is the energy which governs the living and nonliving realms and roots us in Nature.

This cosmic primordial energy is the underlying unity in nature, the common functioning principle in the microscopic, macroscopic and cosmic realms. Human beings, and all living things, are specially organized energy systems. In Cosmic Superimposition, Reich followed the cosmic energy functions from human emotions to astrophysical processes, crossing the age-old barriers that have been erected separating the bioenergetic and astrophysical realms.

Reich was not understood in his day, but over the last 60 years, the flow of scientific development has been in the direction he pioneered. Join us for a fascination exploration of a new view of the universe and our place in it.

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Tarot and Kabbalah Workshops
with Joshua Berkowitz


March 27 - Full Day Workshop 11-5 PM. $25.
April 3 - Half Day Workshop 1-4 PM. Donation.

Back by popular demand, Joshua Berkowitz, local student and professional psychic, returns to the Center for New Knowledge for a day of Kabbalistic training. Learn the nature of Kabbalistic energy and thought and how this ancient system was used to pattern the modern Tarot. Learn how to use Kabbalistic meditation to study the esoteric meanings of the Tarot cards and even conduct a reading on your own. This workshop is aimed at developing an understanding of spiritual divinatory practices and will be taught on two Saturdays, one full day and a second half day. The half day will be focused on reading techniques.

Josh is a student at UMass whose academic work has been focused on ancient, esoteric ways of knowing and he has read many texts in their original languages, e.g., Hebrew, Aramaic, and Latin. Josh teaches spiritual philosophy and technique regularly in the Valley, and offers an abundance of services to the community.

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Wednesday, March 31st at 7pm

Psychic/Intuitive Development and Self-Protection
with Katherine Mayfield



Have you ever wondered if you're psychic? Are you an "emotional sponge", picking up other people's negative energy? This workshop will offer participants the opportunity to learn how psychic ability and intuition work, how to find their own best method for working psychically, how to develop more trust in their own insights and perceptions, and how to protect themselves psychically in a chaotic world.

Psychic self-protection is essential in a world where so many people are stressed and living in denial of their emotional lives. This is an experiential workshop which includes presentation, exercises, and guided meditation. Come and expand your psychic horizons!

Katherine Mayfield has led psychic development workshops and taught classes at the Whole Health Expo in Northampton, MA, Green River Yoga in Greenfield, MA, Inspirit Common in Northampton, MA, The National Spiritual Alliance in Lake Pleasant, MA, and the Sober in the Sun Festival in Spencer, MA. She has studied psychic phenomena for over 20 years, and was co-leader of a weekly psychic development circle at The National Spiritual Alliance for seven years.

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April 2010 Programs


Sunday, April 11th, 1-5 PM

INTEGRAL POLARITY PRACTICE
Contemplative explorations in spirit,
relationship, and compassionate activism


A workshop lead by John Kesler
Suggested Donation: $25-$75

Integral polarity practice (IPP) is a meditation and awareness practice developed by John Kesler. It is grounded in the Big Mind voice dialog process, and has integrated elements from ego development theory and integral polarity work inspired by tantric theory. IPP is also informed by a number of Eastern and Western traditions including John’s own Mormon tradition. In this workshop John will lead us in a sequence of group activities that give voice to a range of archetypal polarities (energies, virtues, and transcendent resonances) that supports psychic integration and spiritual growth. IPP can be practiced to support inner exploration and growth, ethical relationship, en-spirited activism, and civic engagement. Ken Wilber the contemporary philosopher who has perhaps the most comprehensive grasp of the traditions of both East and West said "There is nobody doing more leading-edge work on the integration of Eastern and Western approaches to consciousness and growth than John Kesler."

John is a founding member of the Integral Spiritual Center and was one of the first to be certified as a large group facilitator in the Big Mind process by Zen master, Genpo Roshi, the founder of the process. The Big Mind process enables a person to access non-dual awareness or big mind and other transcendent states of awareness through an application of voice dialogue, a Jungian therapeutic technique. IPP makes no assertions about ultimate reality or that it is an exclusive path, but rather IPP provides a rich awareness and meditative practice which can complement any approach to life or spiritual practice.

More info at: www.johnkesler.com and http://tinyurl.com/keslernoho.

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Saturday, April 24th, 11 am-4 pm

Emotional Intelligence
Experiential Training

A Workshop Exclusively Designed for The Mindshift Institute

Susan A. Kornacki, MS
President, EI Skills Group; Founder, HR Power Associates


Admission: $65
For Information on Sliding Scale Admission or Bartering,
Email susan@eiskills.com

We are living in a time of rapidly accelerating change and increasing complexity. We are inundated with emotional messages that are targeted at us to manipulate us and affect the basic aspects of our lives, such as the foods we eat, the work we do, the relationships we have, and the leaders we vote for. How we manage our emotional lives is vital to our health.

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.

The workshop is divided into two sections, with a break for lunch in between:

PART ONE:
  • Introduction to the relevant research literature pertaining to the value of emotional intelligence and how the scope of EI affects higher consciousness in our rapidly changing world.
  • Experiential skill-building through engaging exercises in the areas of emotional identification, using emotions, understanding emotions, and emotional regulation for optimal outcomes for self and influence with others.

PART TWO:
  • Work through a challenging situation by using our unique emotional blueprint involving such questions as What emotions are you and others experiencing? How are these emotions directing and impacting thinking? What caused these emotions and how might they change? How do you manage your emotions and the emotions of others?
  • Learn to have you think about emotions, think with emotions, discern emotions, feel emotions, influence others to feel emotions and to build your self-awareness around the emotions (both overt and subtle) which you elicit and feel for more effective outcomes.

Each participant will leave the workshop with a do-able and immediate action plan for continued development.

Susan A. Kornacki is the President of EI Skills Group and founder of HR Power Associates. She achieved the highest rating in the world as an Emotional Intelligence trainer on the standard EI ability model course (MSCEIT). Susan is presently co-hosting a series of workshops on Spiritual Intelligence.

Susan has over a decade of consulting experience with such clients as Harvard Business School, University of Chicago GSB, UCD Executive Education in Ireland, London Business School, University of Singapore Medical School and Estee Lauder. Susan is also a certified Qigong instructor and has great respect for the knowledge gleaned from indigenous cultures around the world.

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