"SPIRIT RISING: TAKING THE NEXT STEP"
The Institute of Noetic Sciences
July 11 - 16, 2001  *  Palm Springs, California

 COMPLETE SET OF AUDIOTAPES (not Pre and Post) FOR $379

CONFERENCE CODE: INS21

001 The Third Millennium of Consciousness - Edgar Mitchell  4  $36.00
Twenty-seven hundred years ago self-reflective thinking entered our historical record. Only now, with the help of leading edge science, are humans able to understand what that really means. The universe is far more grand, complex and beautiful than our ancestors could possibly imagine. A Renaissance (Wo) Man could know all there was to know at that period. Today the details are far too voluminous for even a legion of scholars. This institute examines frontier concepts from physics, medicine, biology, psychology, astronomy, education, cosmology, and the mystical experience, to present how understanding consciousness is changing answers to the question: “Who are we, and how shall we live?”

003 Sacred Work: Making a Life While Making a Living - Michael and Justine Toms  3  $28.00
Whether you are seeking to enhance effectiveness and creative expression in your present work situation or want to expand your horizons into new areas, this empowering encounter is an opportunity to explore how your daily labor is or is not sustaining your soul life. The Toms will help you learn how to develop skills to achieve what you want and how to use the creative genius of intention to recognize and create true wealth. Take an inventory of your skills and strengths, and learn to listen to your inner voice to discover and/or reveal the fullness of your calling.

004 Mystery, Mind and Medicine: Where Science and Spirituality Meet - Marilyn Schlitz and Elisabeth Targ  4  $36.00
Consciousness represents one of the greatest mysteries of human existence. Just what are the limits and what are the possibilities of consciousness? How might we use consciousness fully to promote health and healing? How might our understanding of consciousness help foster the emergence of an expanded worldview in which we are fully engaged in the world around us? These questions will be considered within the context of research exploring the nonlocal nature of consciousness and its possible effects on physical, psychological, and spiritual well-being.

005 This Precious Human Birth: To Blossom in the Life You Have - Mark Nepo  3  $28.00
This day-long institute will offer inner pilgrims the chance to explore their own transformative journeys in relation to the great archetypal wisdom of transformation. Using stories, metaphors and the wisdom of nature, we will attempt to retrieve aspects of our own personal mythology. Through meditation, journaling, and reflective dialogue, we will give voice to the poetry of our being; with the aim of better understanding our place in the universal stream of all living things. The heart of our journey can be carried in one question: How do we live authentically?

006 Stilling the Mind, Opening the Heart - B. Alan Wallace  4  $36.00
During our time together we will experientially explore three different ways of calming the mind as a means of revealing our own inner creativity and innate compassion. The first of these methods is to settle the awareness in the body while attending gently to the flow of the breath. The second method is to observe the activities of the mind from a place of inner stillness. And the third is settling the mind in the nature of pure awareness, with no object. Each of these techniques brings about a sense of inner peace and stillness. This enables us to truly be with others when we are in their presence, and to gain deeper insight into our own individual existence and the nature of consciousness. Participants are advised to wear loose clothing.

007 Walking the Mystical Path with Practical Feet - Angles Arrien  4  $36.00
In this institute we will learn about tools and spiritual practices from diverse cultures that help us remember who we are. We will explore the four universal ways of accessing spirit (singing, dancing, storytelling, and silence) to rekindle the soul and remedy any inner disheartenment. Shamanic, Eastern and Western spiritual practices show us other ways of seeing and shape-shifting realities. We will explore spirituality and the arts and the function of nature as a mirror of our own inner nature. Everything learned in this institute can be directly applied to family situations and professional settings. Participants will learn through experience that by healing ourselves, we contribute to healing Mother Earth and all our relations.

008 Mysteries at the Heart of Healing - Gay Luce (with Ilona Ireland and David Patten)  3  $28.00
An introduction to the mysteries that ancient spiritual disciplines taught in the esoteric schools we know as Mystery Schools. This institute will teach two relatively unknown forms of healing – and the practices that are their foundation. These forms are an antidote to some of the noise and stress of modern living.

009 Reconnecting with Earth - Laura Sewall and Antoine Seronde  4  $36.00
A sacred garden brings a "sense of the wild places of the world back into the heart of civilization." In this workshop, we will explore the ways that a sacred garden may reconnect us with the Earth -- thereby transforming our alienation from the natural world, from one another and from spirit. We review the history and character of sacred gardens and out of this draw conclusions about the processes of design and development. We will involve participants in experiential exercises designed to help us explore our intuitive sense of the sacred and how we might make this manifest through a garden.

010 Essential Capacities for a Wisdom Society - Wink Franklin and Robert Thurman  1  $10.00

011 Mapping the Invisible: Research at the Frontiers of the Noetic Sciences - Marilyn Schlitz  1  $10.00

012 Training the Attention: The Education par Excellence - B. Alan Wallace  1  $10.00

013 The Dark Night of the Species Soul: The Collective Dynamics of Self-Transformation - Chris Bache  1  $10.00

014 The Science and Role of Love in a Wisdom Society - Angeles Arrien, Rob Lehman, Kate Olsen, Frances Vaughn & Mark Nepo  1  $10.00

015 Presentation of Temple Awards for Creative Altruism -  1  $10.00

017 Walking the Mystical Path with Practical Feet - Angeles Arrien  1  $10.00
Learn about tools and spiritual practices from diverse cultures that help us remember who we are. We will explore the four universal ways of accessing spirit (singing, dancing, storytelling, and silence) to rekindle the soul and remedy any inner disheartenment. Shamanic, Eastern and Western spiritual practices show us other ways of seeing and shape-shifting realities. We will explore spirituality and the arts and the function of nature as a mirror of our own inner nature. These teachings can be directly applied to family situations and professional settings. Participants will learn through experience that by healing ourselves, we contribute to healing Mother Earth and all our relations.

018 Practical Applications of Refining the Attention - B. Alan Wallace  1  $10.00
How malleable is our attention, and what significance does it have for how we experience the world and lead our lives? These are some of the questions we shall explore in this workshop, in addition to engaging in a practical technique for enhancing the stability and vividness of the attention.

019 Transpersonal Consciousness - Marilyn Schlitz and Elizabeth Targ  1  $10.00
This presentation is an exploration of one of the lease well-understood aspects of consciousness: what may be called non-local or transpersonal consciousness. In particular, we will focus on the data for intercessory prayer and direct intentionality, in which one person intentionally tries to affect another person(s) physiology at a distance. More specifically, we'll look at the implications of non-local intentionality for health and healing.

020 Supramental Transformation - Amit Goswami  1  $10.00
Now that we have reached the epitome of the information age, it is time to think of the next step of human evolution, transformation. In this workshop physicist Amit Goswami will demonstrate how transformation requires not mental, but supramental intelligence. He will also provide guidance for the participants of the workshop to help awaken their supramental intelligence through experiential techniques.

021 Experimenting with Experience - Ron Kurtz and Donna Martin  1  $10.00
All experience is organized through habits of perception, thinking and expression. Like all habits, these remain outside awareness. By creating little experiments, done in an open, calm state of mind, we can discover these habits, understand their functions and modify them, if we choose. In this workshop, we will do several short, experiential experiments pertaining to our own organizing habits. Using the results, we will discuss the method in general and a few particular techniques.

022 The Gift of Attention: Being a Spirit in the World - Mark Nepo  1  $10.00
This workshop will offer participants the chance to uncover the gifts of attention that help us live as a spirit in the world. There are teachers everywhere: in the stories around us, in the stories within us, in the life of expression that sings where we are broken, in the kinship of gratitude that reminds us that we need each other as we become the earth. In this workshop we will explore how to find and listen to these teachers and offer ways to personalize our relationship with the sacred. Topics will include: Steering Our Way to Center; Befriending the Whole; and the Art of Facing Things.

023 What Is It that Happens to Us When we Travel? - Carole Angermeir  1  $10.00
Meet Carole Angermeir, president of Cross Cultural Journeys, who plans and operates specialized journeys for IONS. Carole will talk about the CCJ philosophy towards travel, describing the inward journey you take when you leave all that is familiar and allow new experiences, people, places and customs to touch you and be your teacher.

024 The Good News: A WHOLE New Way of Living - Gail Holland  1  $10.00

025 Stumbling Blocks to Stepping Stones - Stewardship Council  1  $10.00
This workshop is a time of sharing and learning. We will consider the challenges community groups are facing and spotlight practices that have been successful. We encourage your participation to support yourself, your group and the vision of IONS.

026 Understanding Globalization as an Evolutionary Leap - Elisabet Sahtouris  1  $10.00

028 Breema: The Four Bodies and the Four Dimensions of Consciousness - Jon Schreiber  1  $10.00

029 The Seven Practices of Essential Spirituality - Roger Walsh  1  $10.00

031 The Role of Science and Technology in a Wisdom Society - Edgar Mitchell and Joe Firmage  1  $10.00

033 Emergence: The Shift from Ego to Essence - Barbara Marx Hubbard  1  $10.00
Explore the new spiritual/evolutionary Path of the Co-creator. It is designed for those who feel deeply called to participate in the transformation of the self and the world. Emergence offers a 10 step process to shift our identity from the "local," driven, egoic self to the "essential self," a universal human who is connected through the heart to the whole of life, attuned to the deeper intelligence of nature and called forth passionately by Spirit to express his or her gifts in the transformation of society. Emergence offers practical experiences that lead to a profound reunion of the human and the divine within. Based on my new book: "Emergence: The Shift from Ego to Essence - 10 Steps to the Universal Human." (Walsch Books, Hampton-Roads, 2001.)

035 Understanding Globalization as an Evolutionary Leap - Elisabet Sahtouris  1  $10.00
The intelligent biological evolution of Earth as "Living Spirit" provides a wonderful context for understanding the current human process of Globalization as "Transformative Practice." This process is a natural and necessary evolutionary step as huge as that two billion years ago when the cells we are made of evolved. By understanding the embeddedness of living systems and the evolutionary cycle from competition to cooperation, it will become clear why Globalization is evolution's push toward our cooperation with each other and with all other species.

036 The Holiness of Consciousness - Peter Russell  1  $10.00
Modern science, which has enjoyed so much success in furthering our understanding of the material world, has singularly failed to account for consciousness. Integrating leading edge ideas in physics, psychology, and philosophy, Peter Russell challenges science's assumption about the nature of reality. Rather than trying to account for consciousness in terms of the material world, he proposes that consciousness is as fundamental as space, time and matter-perhaps even more so. This leads to a radical new understanding of mystical and religious teachings, and to a new worldview in which science and spirituality are no longer in conflict.

037 Essential Spirituality: Experiencing the Seven Central Transformative Practices - Roger Walsh  1  $10.00
At the contemplative heart of the great religions lies a common core of both wisdom and practices. This common core comprises the perennial philosophy, which offers an understanding of the nature of reality, the perennial psychology, which describes our usual clouded mental state and our potential for awakening, and the perennial practices, which are the methods for awakening. In particular, seven practices are said to be central and essential for awakening. These seven are redirecting motivation, transforming emotions, living ethically, cultivating concentration, refining awareness, and developing wisdom. This workshop will introduce exercises for each of the seven practices, exercises that participants can try immediately and then use for ongoing practice in daily life.

038 To Build a Sacred Garden - Laura Sewall and Antoine Seronde  1  $10.00
A sacred garden brings a "sense of the wild places of the world back into the heart of civilization." In this workshop, we explore the ways that a sacred garden may reconnect us with the Earth - - thereby transforming our alienation from the natural world, from one another and from spirit. We review the history and character of sacred gardens and out of this draw conclusions about the processes of design and development. We will involve participants in experiential exercises designed to help us explore our intuitive sense of the sacred and how we might make this manifest through a garden.

039 Breema Work - Jon Schreiber  1  $10.00
The body is a living, dynamic phenomenon which is constantly changing, it is an energy system connected to all levels of life; a hologenic map, indicating both our essential nature as beings, and the organized nature of our Universe. By coming to the body, we find a reference point from which we can begin to understand not only who and what we are, by the dynamic nature of the Universe we live in, and the purpose and meaning of our lives. In this workshop, we will use the principles and practices of Breema, to explore the body as Matter, Energy, Consciousness, Awareness and discover the true meaning of health.

040 Conscious Evolution: The 7 Keys to Sustainable Change - David Womeldorff  1  $10.00
provides a framework for a way of thinking, interacting and action planning which alters the way individuals, teams ( including community groups) and organizations approach change initiatives the challenge of sustainability. Based on the presenter's 25+ years of personal and professional exploration and application of human and organization development processes, this workshop results in a spirit of hope and optimism along with practical tools to apply to the challenge of our modern era.

065 The Ecology of Wonder - David Abram  1  $10.00
Does the practice of magic in traditional societies really involve supernatural dimensions of the world -- or, rather, does it involve a heightened, profoundly intensified awareness of nature itself? Cultural ecologist Dave Abram is also a skilled sleight-of-hand magician, and has lived and worked closely with indigenous sorcerers and shamans in Indonesia, Nepal, and the Americas. In this workshop, he'll explore with us the deeply ecological role of the magician, or shaman, in traditional, indigenous cultures -- cultures for whom every aspect of the earthly world is felt to be alive, awake, and even aware. Together, we'll ponder the vital relevance of the magician's world-view today, for our own technological civilization on the cusp of a new millenium.

044 Creating a Wisdom for Our Time - Paul Ray and Sherry Anderson  1  $10.00

045 Gateway to Our Conscious Evolution - Barbara Marx Hubbard  1  $10.00

047 Closing Ceremony - Ocean Robbins, Julia Butterfly and Company  1  $10.00

048 Exploring the Deep Questions of a Wisdom Culture - Paul Ray and Sherry Anderson  1  $10.00
What is Wisdom, and compassionate action, in building a new culture for our planet? It will not come from experts or the powerful, from government or business. It emerges from us, as we hear each other into speech and dive into the juicy, engaged work of creating the future together.

050 The Mythical Journey to the Inn of Silence - Ana Lia Alvarez, ana Ines, Julio Avrui & Susana Galperin  1  $10.00
An in-depth enlargement of consciousness experience, by means of the Journey of the Soul archetype. It is a call to leave behind what is known, to explore the path of inner adventure. One walks along thresholds and portals where the pilgrim is confronted with his/her personal quest. The process takes him/her into the mystery of his/her own inner self. The transforming journey finishes by returning to the community with what was learned. We shall explain the activities, as they are part of an integrating process. Each activity in the Mythical Journey includes and transcends the previous one, as a unified experience. Every step helps inner silence allowing listening to the voice of one's soul. Out of the encounter with innate joy and creativity comes the courage to radiate compassion and goodness in a more responsible way of life. Ana Lia Alvarez is the coordinator of the Buenos Aires IONS Community Group and a member of the IONS Stewardship Council and will be assisted by group members Ana Inés y Julio Avruj. The workshop will be presented in Spanish with English translation.

051 The Wooltru Leadership Program - Colin Hall  1  $10.00
Using practical exercises, participants experience the extent to which most people are inhibited from releasing their energy, talent and ability. The program identifies the inhibitors energy traps which adversely affect their performance and the achievement of their objectives.The phenomena of independence, interdependence and interconnection are examined in relation to how we see our world today. The wisdom of some of the ancient cultures of the World and of Nature are related to the new sciences of quantum physics, chaos theory, evolutionary biology and field theory. The program utilizes these ideas to promote new "pictures" of optimum organizational structure and leadership.

052 Pathfinding and Future Generations Initiative Workshop - Gregg Ganschaw  1  $10.00
An intergenerational dialogue, including invited representatives from the Youth for Environmental Sanity, will engage you to contribute to creating a sustainable world that works for all. Interactive format allows everyone to generate ideas. This is key to the collective transformation into a Wisdom Society. We'll introduce programs including the Pathfinding Process of Inquiry, Visions and Action that work in real organizations and living communities today. We will address important areas including: Development of Pathfinding Conferences, Commons Cafes to build Communities, and "Best Practices in Child Development" to evoke our collective wisdom.

054 The Transformational Power of Music - Doris Lora  1  $10.00
One of the powerful tools of transformational practice is music. Music has the power to induce various trance states, including feelings of ecstasy, feelings of poignancy, and deeply-felt mood changes that defy verbal metaphor or explanation. Witness Yo-Yo Ma's face during a performance; recall Leonard Bernstein conducting a Beethoven symphony; watch an infant attending to a lullaby; notice a withdrawn Alzheimer's patient begin moving to a waltz rhythm.The goal of this presentation: to create an environment in which the participants experience the transforming power of music in a new way.

055 Spirit: Soul’s Journey - Brian Seaward  1  $10.00
This workshop synthesizes a wealth of wisdom on the topic of human spirituality with a particular focus on the relationship between stress and human spirituality. Using Joseph Campbell's concept of the hero's journey, aspects of the human journey as described through seasons of the soul, roadblocks, distractions, and muscles of the soul are highlighted and explained through a series of experiential exercises from art therapy to journal writing. As an interactive workshop, participants will complete several exercises and activities which help them grain insight into their own life journey and integrate this ageless spiritual wisdom into everyday life consciousness.

056 Spirit, Vision, and Political Activism in a Wisdom Society - Georgia Kelly  1  $10.00
Creating a Wisdom Society suggests a balance between our inner and outer lives. What is the relationship between spiritual consciousness and responsible citizenship? How does our commitment to personal growth impact society and politics?Living in a world that limits "realistic" thinking and behavior to a very narrow band of acceptable expressions, our imaginations, visions and collective power have atrophied. This will be an out-of-the-box experience in exploring what's possible in the world of political activism. We are assuming that creating a Wisdom Society requires Vision, Intention, and a willingness to commit.

057 Being with Children - Laura Huxley  1  $10.00
Children depend on adults -- and society depends on how children are raised. Laura Huxley's foundation, Children: Our Ultimate Investment is dedicated to reducing the isolation between generations which leads to violence and suffering. In this workshop Laura Huxley and Elizabeth Crawford will present the programs of COUI which embody "Visionary Common Sense" - ways that communities can prepare for the future by transforming the present.

059 Being and Being with: The Practice of Loving Presence - Ron Kurtz and Donna Martin  2  $20.00
Using clear concepts and experiential exercises, we can, in a relatively short time, learn to see and understand each other from a state of being that is loving, and highly effective in providing emotional support. In all relationships, including personal and healing professional, this way of relating greatly enhances emotional satisfaction, bonding and mutual support. We will teach the most important element – state of mind or Loving Presence - in this institute. The intention that creates it is simple: remain attentive, loving and focused on finding spiritual nourishment in being with the person you're relating to.

060 What a Wisdom Culture Would Be - Paul Ray and Sherry Anderson  2  $20.00
We’ll use a mythic story to help us reflect on some key issues of a Wisdom culture, then reflect on our personal and societal capacities to create it. We’ll explore the question “What would be wise for a civilization to include, if that culture were good for all Earth?” in terms of seven characteristics of Wisdom: focusing on the long term, caring for all children, manifesting spirit in practical action, and aspects of personal and species transformation. Starting with vision and heart, we move toward will and action, gaining support from the IONS community, and our own communities at home. (Much Discussion)

061 Sound Healing, Sound Yoga - Tuning into the Science & Spirit of Music - Dean and Dudley Evenson  4  $36.00
Awaken your senses to a richer, fuller experience of the healing power of music with this highly participatory institute. You will learn how sound affects you on emotional, physical, spiritual, and molecular levels and how music and sound can be used to support health and well-being. We will also explore the science of sound healing and find out about vibrational fields, the Earth Resonance Frequency (ERF) and personal resonance frequency, and experience how music can be used to support stress reduction, self-empowerment, opening the heart, visualization, manifestation, rhythmic release, and improved communication.

062 Cooperating with our Conscious Evolution - Barbara Marx Hubbard and Chris Bache  4  $36.00
Barbara Marx Hubbard and Christopher Bache are joining together for the first time to invite you into an experience of personal and collective awakening. Playing off one another and sharing their own experiences as described in their books, The Revelation and Dark Night, Early Dawn, they will invite others into the dialogue to add their own unique experiences until the field is full. In that sacred space of shared reality, we will then explore the patterns of emergence of a more universal human, long gestating in the human heart and pre-figured in the great avatars and mystics. We will share key practical steps and exercises that can help one cooperate with the accelerated pace of our collective evolution and awaken to the unified, essential, or divine self.

063 Bringing Spirit Down to Earth - Peter Russell  4  $36.00
Never before have there been so many factors pushing us to explore the deeper resources of the human mind, and so many opportunities to do so. We are rediscovering the essence of spirituality – beyond techniques, teachings, teachers and texts. But what do we really mean by a change in consciousness? What are some of the processes that help this shift in everyday life? Sharing some of his own journey of self-discovery, Peter Russell will explore the challenges of learning to listen to the still quiet voice within, how to distinguish our inner guidance from our inner garbage and the implications for prayer, forgiveness, and other spiritual practices.

064 From Information to Transformation: Awakening Supramental Intelligence - Amit Goswami  2  $20.00
Now that we have reached the epitome of the information age, it is time to think of the next step of human evolution: transformation. In this institute, physicist Amit Goswami will demonstrate how transformation requires not mental, but supramental intelligence. He will also provide guidance for the participants to help awaken their supramental intelligence through experiential techniques.