Bethany Gonyea, MS, has worked in the field of biofeedback teaching intention for almost 30 years. Daily, she witnessed how intentions inside the body could accelerate healing and sought to employ the same skills for synchronized group intention to soothe societal challenges. Her goal is to leave ample research for the next generation that inspires them to embrace their larger non-local loving nature to generate positive change. She lives by an understanding revealed through decades of her work, “Beauty is strength,” as it creates unassailable resilience, creative problem-solving, and palpable strength. Beauty is sorely missing in our culture, as evidenced by our heightened societal ills, including escalating violence, anxiety, and depression. Her greatest dream is to create a “legion of light” comprised of thousands of meditators led by meditation leaders from around the world who are willing to bathe this planet in light daily as a sacred mission to invite blessings for all during these challenging uncertain times. Please intend with her on raising the resources for this important work during these critical times when invocations for blessings could make a significant difference as evidenced by our heightened societal ills, including escalating violence, anxiety, and depression. Her greatest dream is to create a “legion of light” comprised of thousands of meditators led by meditation leaders from around the world who are willing to bathe this planet in light daily as a sacred mission to invite blessings for all during these challenging uncertain times. Please intend with her on raising the resources for this important work during these critical times when invocations for blessings could make a significant difference.
Bethany Gonyea, MS, has worked in the field of biofeedback teaching intention for almost 30 years. Daily, she witnessed how intentions inside the body could accelerate healing and sought to employ the same skills for synchronized group intention to soothe societal challenges. Her goal is to leave ample research for the next generation that inspires them to embrace their larger non-local loving nature to generate positive change. She lives by an understanding revealed through decades of her work, “Beauty is strength,” as it creates unassailable resilience, creative problem-solving, and palpable strength. Beauty is sorely missing in our culture, as evidenced by our heightened societal ills, including escalating violence, anxiety, and depression. Her greatest dream is to create a “legion of light” comprised of thousands of meditators led by meditation leaders from around the world who are willing to bathe this planet in light daily as a sacred mission to invite blessings for all during these challenging uncertain times. Please intend with her on raising the resources for this important work during these critical times when invocations for blessings could make a significant difference as evidenced by our heightened societal ills, including escalating violence, anxiety, and depression. Her greatest dream is to create a “legion of light” comprised of thousands of meditators led by meditation leaders from around the world who are willing to bathe this planet in light daily as a sacred mission to invite blessings for all during these challenging uncertain times. Please intend with her on raising the resources for this important work during these critical times when invocations for blessings could make a significant difference.
Click on the Soundcloud Link for the Daily Meditation
PLEASE NOTE; IF YOU ARE MEDITATING WITH MORE THEN ONE PERSON, please email the number of people meditating office@unityofeastlouisville.org with the number of meditators. Otherwise, we will count your participation when you click the link above this text
This is a double-blind study, so you will not know which district you are intending for. It will be referred to in all the mediations as the “focus area.”
If you have a hard time meditating for an unknown area, please take a moment and observe this symbol as it was coded through the intention to represent the Metro Council district focus area. (similar to the representation of a cross or flag symbols).
This beautiful intricate symbol was generously lent to the project by the Drepung Gomang Center for Engaging Compassion. It was created by monks with the intention of increasing the peace in Louisville.
Your Meditation leader:
Bethany Gonyea, MS, has worked in the field of biofeedback teaching intention for almost 30 years. Daily, she witnessed how intentions inside the body could accelerate healing and sought to employ the same skills for synchronized group intention to soothe societal challenges. Her goal is to leave ample research for the next generation that inspires them to embrace their larger non-local loving nature to generate positive change. She lives by an understanding revealed through decades of her work, “Beauty is strength,” as it creates unassailable resilience, creative problem-solving, and palpable strength. Beauty is sorely missing in our culture, as evidenced by our heightened societal ills, including escalating violence, anxiety, and depression. Her greatest dream is to create a “legion of light” comprised of thousands of meditators led by meditation leaders from around the world who are willing to bathe this planet in light daily as a sacred mission to invite blessings for all during these challenging uncertain times. Please intend with her on raising the resources for this important work during these critical times when invocations for blessings could make a significant difference.
Musical Artist:
Harry Pickens is an award-winning musician, educator, author, composer, contemplative performing artist, and meditation guide who helps people awaken to their true nature as Love. He is a recipient of the Kentucky Governor’s Award in The Arts and is featured in an Emmy-nominated Kentucky Educational Television documentary, Harry Pickens And The Garden Of Music. Harry is currently engaged in research exploring applications of music and sound to support emotional healing and spiritual transformation.
If you have donated online and not left your email, we are unable to thank you personally! Thank you if you donated but did not leave your email! We appreciate it!
Do you have questions about the project? In this brief video, Bethany Gonyea, founding director of NUMINIOUS, the organization sponsoring the project answers your questions and explains why you are the critical ingredient to yielding insightful research studies.
Would you like to learn more about the inspiration for this meditation research protocol and how you can train your nervous system to feel more fabulous each day? Chapter 6 ties it all together! Become A Consciousness Athlete!
It is with amazing gratitude that I write this post…As I look at each of these events, I recognize how blessed we are because I have met so many wonderful people of such wisdom and depth. You will see below that we are collaborating with amazing individuals. There is an event for almost everyone here this month, and two events will be held in beautiful outdoor places. Please scroll all the way down…all of these events support our efforts to encourage intentions for peace research. Living The Discipline of Conscious Intentionality Bethany Gonyea, NUMINOUS founder Wednesday June 1, at 7:00 PM Unity Church of Albany
More and more research is documenting that our mental intentions have real world impact. As we come to grasp the enormous implications of this research, we learn how important it becomes that we create through conscious intention rather than unconscious default. With Intention…everything counts…so we need to be brutally honest with ourselves about what intentions we are emitting at all times. We also need be aware when we are going “unconscious.” Conscious Intention only works when we are inputting the same signal into the field repeatedly, and we don’t fall asleep at the wheel.
To skillfully sculpt our lives through intention, we need to learn the discipline of keeping our desires alive while facing life’s inevitable challenges. We will discuss the concept that maintaining conscious intentions is similar to living from the peaceful eye of a storm. We may see all softs of things flying in the wind but learn not to attach to them and fly away ourselves. We will also discuss what is our role in creating our lives and how to interface skillfully with the Loving Intelligence that connects us all, to sculpt a lives of the deepest meaning and engagement.
$ 20 Donation Appreciated
The Jaguar Path: the Benefits of Shamanic Skills in Every Day Life – Part 1 Ray Crist, Shaman and Founder of The Jaguar Path Yoga School Wednesday June 8, at 7:00 PM Unity Church in Albany
Shamans are men and women who heal themselves an train others to cultivate their power and abilities to heal by learning to shift into “second attention” First attention includes all of the ordinary information we experience through our five senses every day. However, Shamans also access information form “Second Attention”, which means they sense the additional energy and information flowing around the filters of our five senses. A power innate to all of us. “Listen to your heart” ” Trust your gut feeling” etc.
When we train to widen our perceptual fields we can access this wealth of information along with a quite confidence and inner peace. Through the tools you will learn you will accelerate your healing and find both courage and the capacity to make the changes your heart and higher self wants you to make!
By training our minds to sense and become aware of this subtle information the way shamans do, we gain access to a whole new breadth of information that can be highly advantageous to our path. We can even start to make changes without “white knuckling” them, because we have accelerated accessing the crisp clarity required for sudden change. As we learn how to access this occluded information we gain great wisdom and discernment, and our steps become more sure.
In this class, we are happy to invite back by popular demand, Ray Crist, founder of the Jaguar Path School of Yoga and Shamanism. Ray will be offering us some practical Shamanic tools and understandings He will share with us how Shamanic training can help westerners to: – Learn tools that will help heal past traumas – develop an abiding sense of personal power, integrity and authenticity – understand your place and purpose in life – develop innate psychic impressions (second attention) and understand them as a spiritual resource – deepen creative inspiration and expression – strengthen established regular spiritual practices – deepen your understanding of your personal relationships with nature, people, and living environments – experience deep mystical states that can elevate and stabilize you morally, spiritually and emotionally
This fall, Ray will be opening a chapter of his Jaguar Path Yoga School through NUMINOUS this fall, so we will be offering similar classes so that people can get a good experience of his work, and learn whether they would like to expand their training through the comprehensive 9 month program . Ray is a grounded teacher, who loves to combine contemporary life with established primordial wisdom practices to help us live lives of greater meaning, purpose, ease and majestic wonder.
$ 20 Donation Appreciated
SPECIAL EVENT: Introduction to Alternatives To Violence and Numinous’s new program: Mindfulness As A Solution To Violence (MASV) Quaker Friends Meeting House 727 Madison Ave, Albany, NY 12208 June 11 – 9:00 AM-12:00 PM
Are you interested in working with helping to reduce youth violence?
This meeting will introduce people to a new program that Numinous is starting called, Mindfulness As A Solution to Violence. A large component of this program will be Alternatives to Violence practices. This class will be taught by Bernard Shuman who holds a Gold Certificate for teaching and facilitating Alternatives to Violence, the highest certification possible and has spent thousands over 8,000 hours volunteering his time to support others in turning away from crime, hatred, helplessness, and hopelessness, while urging them to turn toward faith, emotional healing, and offering assistance to others. During his 24 year tenure in the NYS Department of Corrections, Mr. Shuman’s contributions were invaluable in creating the environment in Otisville Correctional Facility as the “Otisville Peace Academy.”
AVP Workshops are intensive learning experience which teaches interpersonal conflict resolution skills through a series of step-by-step processes. These experiences in small groups and one-to-one interactions build a sense of community and trust through exercises focusing on: The Advance AVP workshop focuses on the underlying causes of violence, both in ourselves and in the world we live in. It is designed to give participants opportunities to rebuild community, review in depth the concept of Transforming Power and proceed to set individual and group goals for the focus of the remainder of the workshop
This meeting will be offer some practical Alternatives To Violence Skills, and will facilitate a group discussion for expanding efforts in Albany, NY. If you have any interest in this subject, please attend. The goal of Mindfulness As A Solution To Violence is that we start a wave of peace within young people in the Albany area…As Bernard says, possibly starting the Albany Peace Academy.
An Introduction to the Avatar Material – Living Deliberately Anna Witt. Avatar Master Wednesday June 15, at 7:00 PM Unity Church of Albany
In this class we are fortunate to have Anna Witt, master of the extremely profound Avatar materials synthesized and collected by Harry Palmer. The Avatar® Course is a set of practical, effective tools that allows people, in a very short time, to identify and change the conclusions, decisions, and agreements that are shaping their lives. Participants set new goals or revive old ones, and use their rediscovered powers, create opportunities,motivation, and the courage to pursue dreams.
“Avatar is a non – religious practice that allows a person to reconnect with their true spiritual self. And along the way, students discover the source of issues, problems and concerns, learn ways to resolve and eliminate those issues, problems and concerns, and as a consequence gain the ability to create the life they want. This is known as living deliberately.”
So, Avatar doesn’t really discuss what is consciousness per se, but it provides you with fundamentals tools on how your consciousness works.
“Allow yourself the gift of universal perspective. Wisdom will appear and your actions will be motivated by an intuitive, spontaneous, benevolent intent. There is no regret. Do useful things. Help others for the delight of helping others. Concentrate on adding value to the world rather than consuming the world.” – Harry Palmer, author of the Avatar materials
$20 Donation appreciated
RARE SPECIAL EVENT: Aini Despacho & Sacred Fire Ceremony
Ceremony for Gratitude, Abundance and Resetting Ray Crist and Don Sebastian Paucar Flores June 18, 2016 – 6:00- 9:00pm – $50, $40 for NUMINOUS participants Austerlitz NY (40 minutes southeast of Albany)
Numinous attendees have been fortunate to receive an invitation from Ray Crist, Founder of the Jaguar Path Yoga and Shamanic school to participate in a ceremony of gratitude performed by Q’ero SebastianPauccar Flores who was born in the village Q’eros in the Andes at 17,000ft. Don Sebastian has been initiated as a Pacho and holds the Incan lineage from father to son for hundreds of years. Don Sebastian travels internationally and shares his heart connection to Pachamama. Several books are written about him, including The Andean Codex written by J.E. Williams, known as Santiago in the book. He shares all the ways that Sebastian taught Santiago the Andean Teachings in the Mountains of the Andes.
We invite you to share sacred space, clear and recharge your energy field, strengthen your balance and love in these challenging times, and offer your heartfelt gratitude for the abundance you have, or would like to have, in your life. Through ceremony we will cultivate gratitude for our provision and offer a thank you and remind our selves what is most important in life by honoring and appreciating our abundance, intimate relationships, jobs, home, family, health, dreams and plans. The Aini despachio ceremony brings balance to our relationship because as we connect with mother earth we regain perspective of what is real and important in life which helps us to swiftly gain focus which automatically enables us to repriorities and make choices that uphold what is most important to us!
Overcoming Chronic Pain by Tending to Mind, Body and Spirit Cindly Perlin, LMSW, Author, The Truth About Chronic Pain Treatments: The Best and Worst Strategies for Becoming Pain Free Wednesday June 22 at 7:00 PM Unity Church of Albany
The presenter, Cindy Perlin, is a licensed clinical social worker, certified biofeedback practitioner, chronic pain survivor and author of The Truth About Chronic Pain Treatments: The Best and Worst Strategies for Becoming Pain Free. Cindy will discuss the dangers of most conventional pain treatments and how to develop a safe, effective treatment plan that incorporates body-based, mind-based and spirituality-based approaches to maximize your healing potential.
“Doctors are trained to treat the result and not the cause. Cindy Perlin’s book reveals important and significant information about the many effective treatments for pain other than a pill prescribed by your doctor. I know from my experience as a surgeon that there are many treatments, from emotional to physical, which can heal the cause and relieve the resulting pain. This book is a wonderful resource for those in need of relief from pain. I have also personally experienced energy healing and the effectiveness of hypnosis in my life and work. I know from my experience that what Cindy shares speaks the truth.” – Bernie Siegel, MD, Author of The Art of Healing and Love, Medicine & Miracles
To see more endorsements for Cindy’s amazing book…visit cindyperlin.com
$20 Donation Appreciated
Albany Peace Project Volunteer Meeting Wednesday June 29 at 7:00 PM Unity Church of Albany
Lots to do for several events. We could use your help. Please consider coming out and working with some of the kindest, light hearted people who love to laugh and enjoy making the world a little happier place.
Note: We recommend you come early 6:30 to take part in the silent meditation at Unity Church lead by Rev. Crystal Muldrow. Experience how you can often deeper in your own meditation by meditating with a group.
Donations Accepted
The Jaguar Path: the Benefits of Shamanic Skills in Every Day Life – Part 2 Stable Gate Winery Sunday June 26 from 10-12:30 10 Linda Way Castleton-on-Hudson, NY info@stablegatewinery.com www.stablegatewinery.com
For this event, we are so blessed to be able to learn shamanic skills outdoors through the invitation of Val Feldman, owner operator of Stable Gate Winery, only 15 minutes from Albany.
Shamans are men and women who heal themselves an train others to cultivate their power and abilities to heal by learning to shift into “second attention” First attention includes all of the ordinary information we experience through our five senses every day. However, Shamans also access information form “Second Attention”, which means they sense the additional energy and information flowing around the filters of our five senses. A power innate to all of us. “Listen to your heart” ” Trust your gut feeling” etc.
When we train to widen our perceptual fields we can access this wealth of information along with a quite confidence and inner peace. Through the tools you will learn you will accelerate your healing and find both courage and the capacity to make the changes your heart and higher self wants you to make!
By training our minds to sense and become aware of this subtle information the way shamans do, we gain access to a whole new breadth of information that can be highly advantageous to our path. We can even start to make changes without “white knuckling” them, because we have accelerated accessing the crisp clarity required for sudden change. As we learn how to access this occluded information we gain great wisdom and discernment, and our steps become more sure.
In this class, we are happy to invite back by popular demand, Ray Crist, founder of the Jaguar Path School of Yoga and Shamanism. Ray will be offering us some practical Shamanic tools and understandings He will share with us how Shamanic training can help westerners to:
– Learn tools that will help heal past traumas – develop an abiding sense of personal power, integrity and authenticity – understand your place and purpose in life – develop innate psychic impressions (second attention) and understand them as a spiritual resource – deepen creative inspiration and expression – strengthen established regular spiritual practices – deepen your understanding of your personal relationships with nature, people, and living environments – experience deep mystical states that can elevate and stabilize you morally, spiritually and emotionally
This fall, Ray will be opening a chapter of his Jaguar Path Yoga School through NUMINOUS this fall, so we will be offering similar classes so that people can get a good experience of his work, and learn whether they would like to expand their training through the comprehensive 9 month program . Ray is a grounded teacher, who loves to combine contemporary life with established primordial wisdom practices to help us live lives of greater meaning, purpose, ease and majestic wonder.
In case of rain, we will be working in a large space indoors…bring your curiosity and a healthy desire to perceive things in your life differently!
New Venue for This Wednesday Shamanic Class & More…
Watch video to learn more about a New Program with Ray Crist coming to Numinous this Fall!
The Jaguar Path: the Benefits of Shamanic Skills in Every Day Life – Part 1 Ray Crist, Shaman and Founder of The Jaguar Path Yoga School
Wednesday June 8, at 7:00 PM Cultural Center at the Hindu Temple – NEW VENUE 450 Albany Shaker Rd, Albany, NY 12211
Shamans are men and women who heal themselves, and train others to cultivate their power and abilities to heal by learning to shift into “second attention”. First attention includes all of the ordinary information we experience through our five senses every day. However, Shamans also access information from “Second Attention”, which means they sense the additional energy and information flowing around the filters of our five senses. This is a power innate to all of us. “Listen to your heart” ” Trust your gut feeling” etc.
When we train to widen our perceptual fields we can access this wealth of information, along with a quite confidence and inner peace. Through these tools you will learn to accelerate your healing, and find both the courage and the capacity to make the changes your heart and higher self wants you to make!
By training our minds to sense and become aware of this subtle information the way shamans do, we gain access to a whole new breadth of information that can be highly advantageous to our path. We can even start to make changes without “white knuckling” them, because we have accelerated our access to the crisp clarity required for sudden change. As we learn how to access this occluded information, we gain great wisdom and discernment, and our steps become more sure.
In this class, we are happy to invite back, by popular demand, Ray Crist, founder of the Jaguar Path School of Yoga and Shamanism. Ray will be offering us some practical Shamanic tools and understandings. He will share with us how Shamanic training can help westerners to:
– learn techniques that will help heal past traumas
– develop an abiding sense of personal power, integrity and authenticity
– understand your place and purpose in life
– develop innate psychic impressions (second attention) and understand them as a spiritual resource
– deepen creative inspiration and expression
– strengthen established regular spiritual practices
– deepen your understanding of your personal relationships with nature, people, and living environments
– experience deep mystical states that can elevate and stabilize you morally, spiritually and emotionally
Ray will be opening a local chapter of his Jaguar Path Yoga School through a cooperative program with NUMINOUS this fall. We will be offering several similar classes, so that people can gain greater experience with his work, and discover whether they wish to further expand their training through an even more comprehensive 9 month program . Ray is a grounded teacher who loves to combine contemporary life with established primordial wisdom practices, in order to help us live lives of greater meaning, purpose, ease and majestic wonder.
$ 20 Donation Appreciated
SPECIAL EVENT: Introduction to Alternatives To Violence and Numinous’s new program: Mindfulness As A Solution To Violence (MASV) Quaker Friends Meeting House 727 Madison Ave, Albany, NY 12208 Saturday June 11, 9:00 AM-12:00 PM
Are you interested in working with helping to reduce youth violence?
This meeting will introduce people to a new program that Numinous is starting called, Mindfulness As A Solution to Violence. A large component of this program will be Alternatives to Violence practices. This class will be taught by Bernard Shuman who holds a Gold Certificate for teaching and facilitating Alternatives to Violence, the highest certification possible and has spent thousands over 8,000 hours volunteering his time to support others in turning away from crime, hatred, helplessness, and hopelessness, while urging them to turn toward faith, emotional healing, and offering assistance to others. During his 24 year tenure in the NYS Department of Corrections, Mr. Shuman’s contributions were invaluable in creating the environment in Otisville Correctional Facility as the “Otisville Peace Academy.”
AVP Workshops are intensive learning experience which teaches interpersonal conflict resolution skills through a series of step-by-step processes. These experiences in small groups and one-to-one interactions build a sense of community and trust through exercises focusing on: The Advance AVP workshop focuses on the underlying causes of violence, both in ourselves and in the world we live in. It is designed to give participants opportunities to rebuild community, review in depth the concept of Transforming Power and proceed to set individual and group goals for the focus of the remainder of the workshop
This meeting will be offer some practical Alternatives To Violence Skills, and will facilitate a group discussion for expanding efforts in Albany, NY. If you have any interest in this subject, please attend. The goal of Mindfulness As A Solution To Violence is that we start a wave of peace within young people in the Albany area…As Bernard says, possibly starting the Albany Peace Academy.
$ 30 Donation Appreciated
An Introduction to the Avatar Material – Living Deliberately Anna Witt. Avatar Master Wednesday June 15, at 7:00 PM Unity Church of Albany
In this class we are fortunate to have Anna Witt, master of the extremely profound Avatar materials synthesized and collected by Harry Palmer. The Avatar® Course is a set of practical, effective tools that allows people, in a very short time, to identify and change the conclusions, decisions, and agreements that are shaping their lives. Participants set new goals or revive old ones, and use their rediscovered powers, create opportunities,motivation, and the courage to pursue dreams.
“Avatar is a non – religious practice that allows a person to reconnect with their true spiritual self. And along the way, students discover the source of issues, problems and concerns, learn ways to resolve and eliminate those issues, problems and concerns, and as a consequence gain the ability to create the life they want. This is known as living deliberately.”
So, Avatar doesn’t really discuss provides you with fundamentals tools on how your consciousness works.
“Allow yourself the gift of universal perspective. Wisdom will appear and your actions will be motivated by an intuitive, spontaneous, benevolent intent. There is no regret. Do useful things. Help others for the delight of helping others. Concentrate on adding value to the world rather than consuming the world.”
– Harry Palmer, author of the Avatar materials
$20 Donation appreciated
RARE SPECIAL EVENT: Aini Despacho & Sacred Fire Ceremony Ceremony for Gratitude, Abundance and Resetting Ray Crist and Don Sebastian Paucar Flores June 18, 2016 – 3:00- 6:00pm – $50, $40 for NUMINOUS participants Austerlitz NY (40 minutes southeast of Albany) To register: please contact: info@NuminousOnline.com to reserve your space.
Numinous attendees have been fortunate to receive an invitation from Ray Crist, Founder of the Jaguar Path Yoga and Shamanic school to participate in a ceremony of gratitude performed by Q’ero SebastianPauccar Flores who was born in the village Q’eros in the Andes at 17,000ft. Don Sebastian has been initiated as a Pacho and holds the Incan lineage from father to son for hundreds of years. Don Sebastian travels internationally and shares his heart connection to Pachamama. Several books are written about him, including The Andean Codex written by J.E. Williams, known as Santiago in the book. He shares all the ways that Sebastian taught Santiago the Andean Teachings in the Mountains of the Andes.
We invite you to share sacred space, clear and recharge your energy field, strengthen your balance and love in these challenging times, and offer your heartfelt gratitude for the abundance you have, or would like to have, in your life. Through ceremony we will cultivate gratitude for our provision and offer a thank you and remind our selves what is most important in life by honoring and appreciating our abundance, intimate relationships, jobs, home, family, health, dreams and plans. The Aini despachio ceremony brings balance to our relationship because as we connect with mother earth we regain perspective of what is real and important in life which helps us to swiftly gain focus which automatically enables us to repriorities and make choices that uphold what is most important to us!
Albany Peace Project Volunteer Meeting Monday June 20 at 7:00 PM 6183 Johnston Rd., Alb Call: 423 – 6708 for more info
This meeting is devoted to finding meditators for January 2017. Special invitation to anyone who has been trained as an Albany Peace Project Meditation Leader, or anyone who wants to bring meditation to their organization, family or work life.
Donations always appreciated
Overcoming Chronic Pain by Tending to Mind, Body and Spirit Cindy Perlin, LMSW, Author, The Truth About Chronic Pain Treatments: The Best and Worst Strategies for Becoming Pain Free Wednesday June 22 at 7:00 PM Cultural Center at the Hindu Temple – NEW VENUE 450 Albany Shaker Rd, Albany, NY 12211
The presenter, Cindy Perlin, is a licensed clinical social worker, certified biofeedback practitioner, chronic pain survivor and author of The Truth About Chronic Pain Treatments: The Best and Worst Strategies for Becoming Pain Free. Cindy will discuss the dangers of most conventional pain treatments and how to develop a safe, effective treatment plan that incorporates body-based, mind-based and spirituality-based approaches to maximize your healing potential.
“Doctors are trained to treat the result and not the cause. Cindy Perlin’s book reveals important and significant information about the many effective treatments for pain other than a pill prescribed by your doctor. I know from my experience as a surgeon that there are many treatments, from emotional to physical, which can heal the cause and relieve the resulting pain. This book is a wonderful resource for those in need of relief from pain. I have also personally experienced energy healing and the effectiveness of hypnosis in my life and work. I know from my experience that what Cindy shares speaks the truth.” – Bernie Siegel, MD, Author of The Art of Healing and Love, Medicine & Miracles
To see more endorsements for Cindy’s amazing book…visit cindyperlin.com
$20 Donation Appreciated
Albany Peace Project Volunteer Meeting Wednesday June 29 at 7:00 PM Unity Church of Albany
Lots to do for several events. We could use your help. Please consider coming out and working with some of the kindest, light hearted people who love to laugh and enjoy making the world a little happier place.
Note: We recommend you come early 6:30 to take part in the silent meditation at Unity Church lead by Rev. Crystal Muldrow. Experience how you can often deeper in your own meditation by meditating with a group.
Donations Always Appreciated
The Jaguar Path: the Benefits of Shamanic Skills in Every Day Life – Part 2
For this event, we are so blessed to be able to learn shamanic skills outdoors through the invitation of Val Feldman, owner operator of Stable Gate Winery, only 15 minutes from Albany.
Shamans are men and women who heal themselves an train others to cultivate their power and abilities to heal by learning to shift into “second attention” First attention includes all of the ordinary information we experience through our five senses every day. However, Shamans also access information form “Second Attention”, which means they sense the additional energy and information flowing around the filters of our five senses. A power innate to all of us. “Listen to your heart” ” Trust your gut feeling” etc.
When we train to widen our perceptual fields we can access this wealth of information along with a quite confidence and inner peace. Through the tools you will learn you will accelerate your healing and find both courage and the capacity to make the changes your heart and higher self wants you to make!
By training our minds to sense and become aware of this subtle information the way shamans do, we gain access to a whole new breadth of information that can be highly advantageous to our path. We can even start to make changes without “white knuckling” them, because we have accelerated accessing the crisp clarity required for sudden change. As we learn how to access this occluded information we gain great wisdom and discernment, and our steps become more sure.
In this class, we are happy to invite back by popular demand, Ray Crist, founder of the Jaguar Path School of Yoga and Shamanism. Ray will be offering us some practical Shamanic tools and understandings He will share with us how Shamanic training can help westerners to:
– Learn tools that will help heal past traumas
– develop an abiding sense of personal power, integrity and authenticity
– understand your place and purpose in life
– develop innate psychic impressions (second attention) and understand them as a spiritual resource
– deepen creative inspiration and expression
– strengthen established regular spiritual practices
– deepen your understanding of your personal relationships with nature, people, and living environments
– experience deep mystical states that can elevate and stabilize you morally, spiritually and emotionally
This fall, Ray will be opening a chapter of his Jaguar Path Yoga School through NUMINOUS this fall, so we will be offering similar classes so that people can get a good experience of his work, and learn whether they would like to expand their training through the comprehensive 9 month program . Ray is a grounded teacher, who loves to combine contemporary life with established primordial wisdom practices to help us live lives of greater meaning, purpose, ease and majestic wonder.
In case of rain, we will be working in a large space indoors…bring your curiosity and a healthy desire to perceive things in your life differently!
Do you ever want to make a difference in the world, but feel too tired and overwhelmed?
Do you ever watch the news and feel discouraged that you can’t change it?
Do you often feel stressed and trapped with life’s challenges?
Then learn how to overcome all these challenges by participating in the third annual Albany Peace Project! The Albany Peace Project is a 10 year research study designed to determine if an organized group of trained meditators creating a peaceful “coherent state” in their bodies and then focusing these peaceful intentions outwardly can measurably reduce local violence. Our hypothesis is that focused peaceful intention has a real world impact, and dozens of other research studies suggest it as well. We are gathering data to determine if this approach can positively impact the city of Albany, NY.
Not only does achieving a coherent state dramatically enhance the lives of individuals, but it has remarkable applications for the workplace. As individuals achieve a coherent state, they are much more likely to work better in groups.
The Albany Peace Project (APP) team is currently working toward gathering 2,500 participants to meditate/pray/focus to achieve coherence together for 15 minutes a day for the month of January 2016 while sending peaceful intentions to the City of Albany. Simultaneously, research will be conducted to record any favorable changes in the Albany, NY crime rates.
Research Protocol
Albany Peace Project team, lead by founder, Bethany Gonyea, MS and State University of Albany Mathematics professor, Karin Reinhold, PhD, are drawing inspiration for their research protocol from the Maharishi University and from the impressive research team of Lynn Mctaggert, author of The Intention Experiment. To date, dozens of studies have been performed, many published in peer reviewed journals, that suggests when a relatively small amount of people meditate there appears to be a corresponding calming of the entire population. (See a brief summary is listed below)
For the past two years, we have been fortunate to be collaborating with the Institute of HeartMath which has graciously approved use of their evidence-based Heart Lock-In Technique.® This state of the art mind-body tool leads the body-mind into a state known as Coherence, which facilitates synchronization between the heart and brain. Coherence is a “sweet spot” in your nervous system, and Institute of Heartmath’s emWave instrument provides reliable feedback to individuals to help them achieve and sustain a coherent state. The coherent pattern is characterized by its regular, sine-wave-like waveform, as contrasted to the irregular, jagged wave form of frustration.
When this state of coherence is maintained, it allows individuals to distinguish between the voice in the head, often the critical voice, and the one in the heart, where positive feelings of love, caring, and appreciation originate. Learning how to “think” from the heart quickly transforms individuals in ways they may never have dreamed possible. Learn the steps of the Heart Lock-In technique in the powerful book The HeartMath Solution, by Doc Childre and Howard Martin or purchase an emWave device to be sure you are in coherence by clicking here.
How The Albany Peace Project Will Add To This Inspiring Research…
The Albany Peace Project is a landmark historic effort. It is the first time that a city has organized from grass roots to invite people of all different religion, political and socioeconomic backgrounds to come together and simply contemplate and intend the common goal of peace.
Not just talk about peace…but become peace.
The Albany Peace Project has been created with the acknowledgement that not all faiths or political parties can agree on doctrine or political strategies, but they can certainly agree to employ focused healing intentions to reduce human suffering.
Political pundits can talk about peace, but how well are they actually doing? As hard as governing officials may work for the peace, they still need our support to help change the hearts and minds of people. Because until we shift as individuals, we will not shift as a whole. Establishing peace is work that needs to be done “by the people for the people,” which means we need participation from caring citizens such as yourself to do this incredibly empowering and promising research.
We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. Albert Einstein
Research demonstrates that when people become coherent, they become more empathetic, which enables them to more easily make wise and compassionate choices not only for themselves, but for the people around them.
We need to become the peace before we can beckon peace. How else will peace be accomplished unless we ourselves become peaceful, and from that peaceful state allow a greater compassionate wisdom to emerge?
Can this actually work? There is a growing amount of evidence to suggest it will and time is of the essence. Have you seen the news lately? Your participation is incredibly important both for ourselves and the next generation. How grateful our children will be when we leave them this research? This project will literally “make history” by empowering people to realize that how we focus our intentions influences what we experience.
But, We can’t do this research without your help.
Research suggests there is a “dosage effect”…which means we need a large enough “dose” of people participating before we will see a corresponding calming result. What is that percentage? We are not sure, we think at least 1%, but only time will tell. That is why this is a 10 year research study. We need to teach and train many many people.
Please tell your friends and family about taking advantage of this unique opportunity. If you think of any other tools we can offer, please send your suggestions to info@numinousonline.com, and LIKE AlbanyPeaceProject on Facebook and let us know you are there.
Help us encourage 2500 participants to take charge of their own health, by teaching people how to lead their own nervous system into states of much greater health and well-being, while simultaneously reducing the suffering of complete strangers…it is a Win-Win!
Thank you for your interest and support!
The Albany Peace Project Team
Sampling of Studies Suggesting that Collective Meditation Corresponds With a Calming Effect On The Entire Population
One Example: Transcendental Meditation Research Organization
Washington D.C.: June 7th – July 30th in 1993
For two months during the summer of 1993, up to 4000 people meditated twice a day. The maximum decrease in violent crime was 23.3% and it occurred when the the meditation group size was largest during the final week of the project.
As the number of meditators increased throughout the 8 weeks, violent crimes decreased
Source: Social Indicators Research, 47(2): 153-201
More Examples: Similar studies document a correlation between when a small percentage of people meditating lowered violence on the entire geographical population. They have been published in the following prestigious journals:
Journal of Conflict Resolution, 34, 756-768 (1990); 32(4), 776-812 (1988)
Journal of Mind and Behavior, 9(4), 457-486 (1988); 8,(1), 67-104 (1987)
Psychological Reports, 76, 1171-1193(1995)
Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 36 (1-4), 283-302 (2003)
Psychology Crime and Law 2(3), 165-174 (1996)
Journal of Social Behavior and Personality, 17(1): 285-338 (2005)
Journal of Crime and Justice, 4 25-45 (1981)
Social Indicators Research, 47,153-201. (1999); 22, 399-418 (1990).
Journal of the Iowa Academy of Science 95(1),1 (1988)
9/11 Peace Experiment on the 10th Anniversary of 9/11
Participants from 75 countries, from Iceland to Brazil, from California to Indonesia, and also every Arab country on the planet sent peaceful intentions to reduce violence in Afghanistan
From 9/11/11 to 9/18/11 participants all over the globe spend 15 minutes sent positive intentions, specifically to the southwest corner of Afghanistan, Helmand and Kandahar
Results Recorded: Decrease In Civilian Casualties In Afganistan
2011 Month
#Civilians Killed
% Drop In Deaths Compared to Prior Month
% Drop in Deaths Compared to Average Death Rate for 28 Months Prior
August
440
September
340
22% fewer deaths
10% fewer deaths
October
290
14% fewer deaths
23% fewer deaths
November
201
30% fewer deaths
26% fewer deaths
Decrease In Attacks By The Taliban In The Specific Areas In Afghanistan that were chosen to receive Peaceful Intentions (Helmand and Kandahar)
Month % Decrease In Attacks Compared To The Same Month in 2010
September 790% Decrease in Attacks
October 500% Decrease in Attacks
November 400% Decrease In Attacks
The NATO led security mission in Afganistan that was formed in 2001, The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) reported this time as the “longest sustained downward trend in enemy-initiated attacks recorded by ISAF” (since 2001). Source: UN and NATO Reports
