Albany Peace Project Meeting: Unity Church 5/12 at 6:30

Bethany October 25, 2022

Hey Everyone
Our next Albany Peace Project meeting will be at Unity Church on May 12 at 6:30 PM.

Topics of discussion;

1) Albany Peace Project Certification Program: This year we will be training leaders to feel confident stepping out into the community to teach meditation through our certification program. Participants will get a “sneak peak” at the protocol we are using this year, and the science behind it.

2) Events: We will be brainstorming what types of events to offer to promote awareness for APP.

3) Fundraising: to help spread the word about APP, we are collaborating with Complaint Free World author, Will Bowen, who will inspire people to go 21 days without complaining (which takes the average person 4-8 months.) His program has people wear bracelets to help them keep track of their progress. If you have a work environment that would like to go complaint free, for a donation we can order bracelets for your office. Will talks about how offices can start by doing “moan free Mondays”. Please reach out if you are interested.

4) Social Media Campaign – Bryce Pullano has been studying social media approaches, and we will talk about how each one of us could do little things to help spread the word online.

We would greatly appreciate as much help as possible. There is much to do. Come on out and have some fun with very uplifting people who are willing to help lift the world.

Below is the recording of the talk given at Numinous last month. We talked about why we resist that the mind has powerful impact and also our “intention behind our intentions”

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The Importance of Cleansing Our Spirits for Intentioning: Many of us would not think of going more than a day or so without a shower for obvious reasons. Others of us practice regular dietary cleanses to help facilitate digestion and health. We prune our nails and wash our face. But…how often do we cleanse our spirit?

We often think that to improve our lives, we need to start adding to our list of things to do. However, as Meister Eckart wrote, God is not found in the soul by adding anything but by a process of subtraction.

Many of us are practicing setting intentions to create more the what we would like to experience in our lives. The problem is that we don’t quite realize how past experiences influence what we beckon from the future which eclipses our ability to allow our calling to emerge in the present.

In this class, we will discuss many benefits of subtraction, and be given a powerful meditation tool that will cleanse our intentional efforts. How do we cleanse our spirit so that the past is not contaminating our present ability to manifest. Once we really experience how important it is for us to press the “refresh” button in our spirit, we can finally create something new in our lives.

We will also explore why we resist intentional work (it is not the answer you may think!)

Next Numinous Intentional Talk: Becoming Relentless: 4:00 on 5/9 at the Yoga Lily in Clifton Park.

Steve Blank, a retired serial entrepreneur and Silicon Valley historian is quoted as saying, “You know what we call a failed entrepreneur in in Silicon Valley? ‘Experienced’. Find that in any other part of the world. Failure in other places of the world means ‘failure’. In Silicon Valley it means, ‘What is your next company?’”

So often people start with intentional work, and because they may see their world start to crumble before it gets better, they give up, saying that all intentional work is “bunk”. What they don’t see is that their current structures need to be broken so that something more fabulous, meaningful and purposeful can enter their lives.

There seems to be a myth that is traveling around spiritual circles. People often think that if things don’t come easily, their efforts are not supported by the Infinite Intelligence that connects us all. When we take a look at highly successful people, we quickly see the fallacy of this myth. In this Numinous talk, we will discuss how to keep our dialogue going with the Infinite, while facing the inevitable obstacles of our lives. Research shows that pure positive thinking by itself doest not do much to help us achieve our goals, but “mental contrasting,” visualizing overcoming obstacles, can actually make the critical difference for success.

Visionaries know how to, “hit the same note over and over and over”. They are relentless.

Since researchers at the National Center for Biotechnology Information are now documenting that our average attention span is now 8 seconds – 1 second less than a goldfish, we have MUCH work to do to instill the stamina needed to download the higher vision of our lives into this world. We will conclude this program with an intentional meditation that enables us to develop the mental muscles to sustain such meaningful growth.

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We Need Your Help! IMAGINE…..

Help Us Reach Our goal of $2700 to purchase 10,000 Complaint-Free Bracelets to encourage Albany to go Complaint-Free in 2015!

Hear the inspiration for this Complaint- Free Program from Will Bowen, Founder, in this inspiring Video:

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After we place this order for bracelets, we can book Will Bowen to come to Albany and present a live presentation of his Complaint-Free World Program at the State University of Albany in November!! Over 10 million of these bracelets have been distributed world wide and have inspired people to become more focused, effective and “certifiably happier” after taking the Complaint-Free Challenge.

Please help us raise the remaining $1,975 needed to purchase the bracelets that we intend to distribute around Albany through various retailers. We can’t book Will to speak until after we order the bracelets. We already have $725 in donations, but we need the remaining $1,975.

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To encourage people to participate, for donations over $175, Bethany is donating a free gift of a combination coherence and subtle energy biofeedback session with a customized meditation CD for you to invoke a healing state specifically focused on your challenge based the latest intentional research.

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Let’s raise this funding quick…so that we can book Will Bowen for November. Imagine…A Happier Albany…

Imagine if your family stopped complaining…

Imagine if your office stopped complaining…

Imagine if Albany stopped complaining…

“If you don’t like something, change it, if you can’t change it, change your attitude-don’t complain.” Maya Angelou

Imagine If we could positively impact the lives of everyone in our community.

Imagine If we could do this in a fun way that pulls our whole city together.

As outlandish as it sounds, that’s exactly the powerful opportunity that the Albany Peace Project team is working to provide.

To encourage people to participate in the Albany Peace Project, we are embracing Will Bowen’s wildly successful Complaint-Free World bracelet campaign. Will explains the complete Complaint-Free program in his book, A Complaint Free World—How to Stop Complaining and Start Enjoying the Life You Always Wanted. Bowen’s idea has been featured on Oprah, The Today Show on NBC, The ABC Evening News, CBS Sunday Morning, People Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek and more.

This program inspires people to go 21 consecutive days without complaining (which takes the average person 4-8 months). The program will be accompanied by a bracelet that we are distributing throughout Albany. The bracelets will be an outer representation of inner transformation. For more information please visit: http://www.acomplaintfreeworld.org and http://www.willbowen.com.

The impetus for distributing the bracelets is to inspire people to make positive changes in their inner life. These inner efforts strongly magnify the power of a meditation practice to promote inner peace and happiness.

These bracelets are NOT fashion statements, they are tools.

They are used to help us become more aware of our complaining patterns as we switch the bracelet from arm to arm each time we complain. The goal is to keep the bracelet on the same arm for 21 days. (See a brief summary of the program below)

We expect to start with approximately 1500 bracelets, and utilize some of them to inspire businesses to offer additional funding support. Please consider approaching your organization to see if they are interested in being a sponsor. This is actually a lot of fun when it is approached as a group. Listen to this endorsement already:

“By the way, I have started complain free Wednesdays at work. For every complaint, we put a quarter in a cup! It has been a blast today!!!” Ann Becker

Donate By Clicking Here

Our hope is to get 10,000 bracelets circulated in Albany within the next 6 months. Imagine Albany, NY a Happier City! Please consider helping us start the wave of happiness by contributing to our first goal.

You can also support us, by participating in the Albany Peace Project which simply involves meditating to generate peace and happiness each day in January. This historic research is not only empowers people to not only live happier lives, but also to feel that voting with their heart “counts” as we document people uplifting their communities through focused in intention of peace.

We are still gathering the initial funding to obtain the first batch of bracelets.

If you are interested in obtaining bracelets, please let us know by using the form below.

Also, please consider donating to the bracelet campaign by donating to our GoFundMe Campaign, or using the donate button at the top of this page.

Bracelets will packaged individually with a card directing people to the AlbanyPeaceProject.com website to encourage people to participate in APP for January 2016.

These bracelets will go further into the community than we can.

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Start Becoming Happier Now By Following These Complaint-Free Guidelines

Begin to wear the complaint-free bracelet on either arm. Goal: keep the bracelet on one arm for 21 days in a row.
If you catch yourself complaining, gossiping or criticizing, move the bracelet to the other wrist and begin again.
If you speak it, it counts. Start over. Thoughts are free!
Stay with it! It may take many months to reach 21 consecutive days. It takes the average person 4 to 8 months to complete the 21 days.

To learn how to obtain your bracelets(s), please use the contact form below.

Click Here To Donate

Please forward to anyone you think would be interested.

Bethany October 25, 2022

June: Something for EVERYONE!

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)

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 Sebastian Pauccar 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.

– 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

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!

$ 40 Donation Appreciated

Bethany October 25, 2022

This Friday: Special Guest Speaker from Brazil…and New events

Best Meditation in town on Friday night!
Guest Speaker: Kelsie Kenefick, Official Guide for John of God

Friday September 30 at 7:00 PM
Shenendehowa Adult Community Center
6 Clifton Commons Court, Clifton Park, NY 12065

Internationally renowned healer, John of God, will be at Omega Institute in October 2016. John of God has been healing people for over 55 years. He is most famous for his ability to perform physical surgeries without anesthesia or sterilization.

John of God has been on multiple television shows throughout the world, and Oprah went to visit him personally. Wayne Dyer described in his book Wishes Fulfilled, how John of God healed him of leukemia…at a distance.

Kelsie Kenefick, author of Journey to the Spirit World, and official Casa Guide of John of God’s working residence in Brazil will be at Omega in Rhinebeck to help support the work of John of God where he sees approximately 1000 people a day.

I asked Kelsie if she would come lead us to into deep transformative meditation similar to the meditations that occur at the Casa where John of God sees thousands of people a day at no cost to participants.

It is this type of meditation, referred to as “current” that provides the powerful energetic charge through which John of God performed his healings. In fact, when the “current” gets too low,(especially when he is performing a more intricate surgery, for example a heart surgery) he will ask for more meditators to come sit in current. This is a special opportunity to experience sitting in the “current” of energy of the world’s most revered spiritual healers and Kelsie is highly skilled at leading such currents.

Kelsie will talk briefly about meditative current to help explain how miracles can occur when saints and doctors from the spirit world come through to heal. This brief introduction will be followed by a powerful healing meditation.

Kelsie is an amazing person who has been traveling between the US and Brazil for the last several years, and who outlined how she personally experienced the miracles of John of God in her book “Journey To The Spirit World.” It is her greatest joy to encourage others to have the experience. She will lead us in a deep cleansing current.

This is a special opportunity to experience sitting in the “current” of energy of one of the world’s most revered spiritual healers. Kelsie is skilled at leading such currents.

$35 Donation Appreciated

Please wear white, if possible.

Feel free to bring photos of others for healing to be brought to the Casa in Brazil to receive prayer for a year.

John of God Blessed Herbs…

The blessed herbs are imprinted with the exact energy you need for your soul’s healing…

Pharmacy where Kelsey picks up the blessed herbs

TO ORDER BLESSED HERBS…

Your photo needs to have the following information written on the back: name, address where herbs will be shipped to, date of birth, up to 3 requests for healing. The cost is $75 and that includes having your photo shown directly to John of God, getting the herbs, getting them to the United States, and shipping them to you.

When you come to the event in Clifton Park on Friday, September 30th bring a photo with you if you would like to order blessed herbs. You may order for other people but you must let them know the protocols and have their permission!

The herbs will be sent to you in January from the U.S.

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There is a strict protocol to follow when taking blessed herbs:

No alcohol for the entire time you are taking the herbs

No black pepper, hot chili peppers (bell peppers are okay)

No fertilized eggs (easy in this country)

(Not following the protocol will interfere with the effectiveness of the herbs and could, in fact, make your symptoms worse. Take one cap 3x/day until the bottle is finished.)

NOTE: If you are ordering herbs for a loved one you must talk to them first and make sure they are agreeable to the protocols.

http://johnofgodboulder.com/upstate-ny.html

10 Week Prosperity Plus Program Starting Monday 10/3

6:30 pm Mondays Starting Date change – starting 10/3 (was 9/26)
off of Central AvenueMotion Industries, 12 Jupiter Lane, Albany,

Call Ann Becker to help with directions in office park: 857-1705, or email at: Ann.Becker@motion-ind.com.

Don’t miss this unique opportunity

Numinous is offering the Prosperity Plus program, created by Marry Morrissey, a world-renowned life coach, motivational speaker, spiritual author and creator of Dream Building program.

This is a dynamic, video based 10 week program that starts Monday 3/28. It teaches a new way of living centered on spiritual practices for an abundant life. The program focuses on 10 universal laws that govern an abundant life and encouraging participants to put these laws into daily practice.

To learn more, please visit this link: http://prosperitypluscourse.com/

The strength for participating in a group like this one is to have the support of a mastermind group that helps you with your goals, that helps you keep motivation up and installs and maintains new thought systems and behaviors.

TESTIMONIALS FROM NUMINOUS PARTICIPANTS

– Prosperity Plus allows you to become a person of increase. During the 10 week course, I became wealthy in every aspect of my life. I reconnected with family and friends, became more financially solvent, and enjoyed every day as a brand new opportunity to allow all that I want into my life.

– Amazing. Growth enhancing. Be aware that your prosperity may come in avenues you do not expect. Welcome it.

– The Prosperity Plus class has changed my way of relating to my own thoughts and feelings, and to the world around me. Gratitude is more common in my life, and my reaction is down; I am acting upon my life now. The best gift: a group of like minded people I am blessed to be able to call my friends. I am so grateful for being given this opportunity. I’m also in for the next class!

Here are 10 key principles that we will address:

Key 1: Honor your discontent. It holds the gift of your dream.
Key 2: 5 questions to test whether your dream deserves you, your time and your life energy.
Key 3: Powerfully Rebut your story: “up until now it might have been true, but now I am partnering with a higher power. I and God can do anything.”
Key 4: Recognize fear for what it is: the border between the known and the unknown new you. In the unknown your answers lie. We have the solution to the problems we face.
Key 5: Raise your vibration: bless what you have & be an agent of increase to others. Intentioning requires an elevating emotions.
Key 6: Forgiveness work of self and others. It cleans your energy, removes blocks and leaks in your energy field, which creates a vacuum in your energy field for more positive things to come through.
Key 7: Get in touch with the voice of inspired insight, divine wisdom. Then act. (ALWAYS go to the edge of the light you see).
Key 8: Partner with someone to support each other in your dream. All things are possible to the ones that believe….others belief in ourselves helps us when we doubt
Key 9: Failure is just feedback. It allows you to know more of who you are. Choose to be better over bitter. Don’t let failure have you.
Key 10: Celebrate. It is about the process, and during it you discover who you are. That is what it is all about.

The power of this class is that of having a group that comes together each week to share their successes, which enhances everyone’s success. We will have lots of fun and sharing as we learn how to create a mindset that fosters abundance in all areas of life.

The cost is $50 for the video materials plus tithing to Numinous as advised by Marry Morrisey as part of the course

If you are interested, please email Karin Reinhold; kbreinhold@gmail.com

Changing Your Destiny Lines – Shamanic Ceremony for Accelerating Manifesting

(Tuesday, October 6 at 7:00 PM) CHANGED TO SUNDAY OCTOBER 9 AT 4;00
Shenedehowa Adult Center CHANGED SPIRIT TREE CONNECTIONS, 987 NEW LOUDON ROAD LATHAM

To accelerate manifestation, Shamans have been developing ceremonial technologies for millennia that externalize internal intentional processes. Through ceremony, we accelerate manifesting by moving intentions from the internal world to the external world. In this talk, Shaman Ray Crist and founder of the Jaguar Path Yoga and Shamanic school will be sharing a truly magical way on how to manifest something we want in the future. This can be a change in life, in relationships or even a goal we want to set for our work through the ceremony of Sand Painting.

The Jaguar Path Yoga and Shamanic school is accepting applications for the 2016-17 year. You can learn more at: www.JaguarPath.com

$25 donation appreciated

Using Meditation To Eliminate Emotional and Physical Pain

Tuesday, October 13 at 7:00 PM CHANGED TO THURSDAY OCTOBER 6 AT 7:00 PM
Shenendehowa Adult Community Center
6 Clifton Commons Court
Clifton Park, NY 12065

Often when people start to learn meditation, they may start with a formal process and formal instruction. This cookie cutter approach of course has it’s incredibly valuable benefits, however, it often doesn’t meet the needs of people going through incredible pain, either emotional or physical. People often attend these gatherings in crises and leave saying, “I tried meditation, it did not work for me.” That is unfortunate, because meditation offers amazing tools to reduce human suffering.

As former Director of the Albany TMJ & Facial Pain Center, Bethany Gonyea worked with car accident patients teaching them how to use their pain as a biofeedback instrument to accelerate consciousness. She uses these same skills to apply to emotional pain as well. Bethany will share with you techniques and understandings that she has been cultivating for 25 years to accelerate well being. It all begins with developing an “intolerance for feeling miserable.” She will be offering her basic techniques for personalizing meditation from her new audio book, “Using Meditation To Eliminate Emotional and Physical Pain” scheduled to be available by Christmas.

Leave with a digital download of a mediation that will reiniforce skills.

$25 donation appreciated

Funny You Should Say That…A Lighthearted Message Circle with Brandon Russ
Sunday October 16 at 2:00 PM
Spirit Tree Connections
987 New Loudon Road,Latham NY

Possibly receive a message from a well established local pyschic, Brandon Russ, co-founder of Spirit Tree in Latham.

$25 Donation

New event!
Violence Interrupters: Film Screening and Panel Discussion
Meet Everyday Heroes that Protect Albany Streets!
Saturday October 22 at
Hubbard Interfaith Sanctuary
College of Saint Rose
959 Madison Ave, Albany
6:00-9:00 PM

The Interrupters documentary presents unforgettable profiles in courage, as three former street criminals in Chicago place themselves in the line of fire to protect their communities. The two-hour film follows the lives of these “Violence Interrupters,” who include the charismatic daughter of one of the city’s most notorious former gang leaders, the son of a murdered father, and a man haunted by a killing he committed as a teenager. As they intervene in disputes to prevent violence, they reveal their own inspired journeys of struggle and redemption. This work is the inspiration for our local Cure Violence chapter (formerly SNUG) funded through Trinity Alliance of the Capital Region.

After the documentary, we will have a panel discussion featuring real life Cure Violence Interrupters who work heroically to reduce violence in Albany.

Donations will be collected to support local organizations that support peace in Albany.
CANCELED FOR OCTOBER – TO BE RESCHEDULED IN THE FUTURE Transformational Leadership Summit – Full Day Retreat For Peace Leaders –

Sunday October 23 12:00-8:00 PM
15 minutes from Albany at Stable Gate Farm & Winery
10 Linda Way, Castleton-On-Hudson, NY

Bethany October 25, 2022

APP Meeting – Tuesday 4.26 at 6:00 Off Wolf Rd & MUCH MORE!

Hey Everyone….
Wow! Great stuff happening for the Albany Peace Project 2016. Please check out all four program below:

1) This Tuesday, (5.26) we are holding the meeting off of Wolf Rd, at 4 Computer Drive West, Albany, at 6:00 PM. We will be teleconferencing the meeting with Teri Suda, of Wauconda, Illinois who was responsible for inspiring the entire town of Wauconda to go “Complaint-Free” based on the program created by Will Bowen, author of the “Complaint-Free” world.

Will has been on Oprah and traveled the world teaching people how to go 21 days without complaining (which takes the average person 4-8 months). The program will be accompanied by a bracelet that we are distributing throughout Albany. The bracelets will be an outer representation of inner transformation. The impetus for distributing the bracelets is to inspire people to make positive changes in their inner life. These inner efforts strongly magnify the power of a meditation practice to promote inner peace and happiness. If you want to help support the Albany Peace Project by inspiring your office or family to go “Complaint-Free” please attend this meeting and you can learn how you can obtain the bracelets.

We will be beginning a “GoFundMe” campaign to raise the $2000 needed to start our bracelet campaign. Bracelets will have both the imprint of the “Complaint-Free World” and actual colored print of “AlbanyPeaceProject.com. Discover The Peace & Happiness Within Starting 1.1.16” These bracelets are NOT fashion statements, they are tools. They are used to help us become more aware of our complaining patterns as we switch the bracelet from arm to arm each time we complain. The goal is to keep the bracelet on the same arm for 21 days.

We expect to start with approximately 1500 bracelets. Please consider approaching your organization to see if they are interested in being a sponsor. This is actually a lot of fun when it is approached as a group. Listen to this endorsement already:

“By the way, I have started complain free Wednesdays at work. For every complaint, we put a quarter in a cup! It has been a blast today!!!”

Our hope is to get 10,000 bracelets circulated in Albany within the next 6 months. Imagine Albany a Happier City! Please consider helping us start the wave of happiness by contributing to our first goal. If you are interested in helping us gather the seed money to start the wave of happiness, please use the donate button located at the bottom right of this page.

2) We will soon be starting our Albany Peace Project Certification Program to help people feel confident stepping out to teach meditation at organizations throughout Albany.

It still amazes me that meditation is such a profoundly simple and powerful tool that has the startling potential to positively transform society in so many impressive ways. Meditation offers the solution to so many of society’s ills, including lowering violence, reducing stress related disorders and burnout, and improving academics. This powerful tool is literally “under our noses”, and we have not even yet begun to tap it’s potential. And what makes it even more amazing…it has all this power…and it is FREE!!! I have already been observing how just talking about Albany Peace Project Certification Program is already changing perspectives and paradigms through Albany. If you want to help spread the wave of peace and happiness throughout Albany by becoming a Certified Albany Peace Project leader…please attend the next APP meeting, tentatively scheduled for June 9…location to be determined.

Also, you can probably see that we are creating a new website, which should be finished within a few weeks. My heartfelt appreciation for Sara McCauley for donating her time and talent for the website.

3) Next Numinous Talk: Erasing the Neural Networks Responsible for Negative Thought Patterns – Tuesday 6.2 at 7:00 PM. Shenendehowa Adult Community Center, 6 Clifton Common Blvd, Clifton Park, NY

Have you ever felt you changed a bad habit permanently, only to find it re-emerge at a later time? Do you still feel anxious when you are not meditating? Do you try to think positive uplifting thoughts but still find your self rapidly slipping into negative thought patterns?

Although we may change outward behavior, it is common for our old negative emotional reaction patterns to still be consolidated — stored in the brain’s long-term, “implicit memory” circuits. If we don’t work to skillfully change these circuits, they remain indelible and permanent for the lifetime of individuals. Although we can build different neural networks with new patterns of behavior, we often build these new neural networks in our brain “over” the old programming.

Old behavior often emerges because the brain is an energy hog, and when we have low energy, we can quickly revert back to outdated thinking patterns because the neural pathways for the old behavior still exist. These old programs have often only been “written over” with the new behavioral programming.

This is a powerful understanding to have for those of us who are dedicated to a spiritual path. The spiritual life is one of reprogramming and redefining past experiences while developing greater intimacy and communication with the Infinite. This Divine intimacy requires a mind that is available, not stuck in the past.

So….How do we actually ERASE the brain of old programming?

In this NUMINOUS talk we will apply what current neuroplasticity research has revealed, that the only way to to actually erase old mental patterns is through skilled memory reconsolidation. We stop trying to abandon the lower self, and finally start integrating it with our higher nature, which facilitates more stable and sustained elevated consciousness.

4) One more big event..Numinous is a sponsor for an event with author, Michael Wayne on June 20. If you are interested in how prominent new thought leaders are using the understandings promoted through Numinous and the Albany Peace Project to positively transform society, you will be definitely be interested in this free event. I am excited that I have been asked to interview Michael Wayne. Not only is he a pioneer in consciousness, but his “Interviews With The Leading Edge Series” has been helping to spread the ideas of how new thought-systems that promote the dignity and creativity of all people is being utilized to help solve our complex societal problems.

The event will be Sat. evening June 20 at 7:30pm, the Saratoga Integrative Medicine Education Network/SIMEN, in it is being offered in conjunction with the Healing Springs Journal.

The event is called Interviews with the Leading Edge: A Live and Free Event! It will take place at the Dee Sarno Theater at the Saratoga Arts Center, 320 Broadway in Saratoga Springs.

This event will be a live filming in front of a studio audience for the Interviews with the Leading Edge series. By coming, you will be part of the studio audience and get to be part of a complete film studio production.

The event is free, and there will be free food, refreshments and wine, so it truly promises to be a fun and festive occasion.

If you’re not totally familiar with the Interviews with the Leading Edge series, or you just want to see something really, really awesome and inspiring, here is a 3 1/2 minute trailer that features a number of the prominent people from the series, each of whom has something profound to say. Here is the link to the trailer: https://youtu.be/la16D-YY7nM

This event is also a fundraiser for the Interviews with the Leading Edge series, as with your help the series can remain sustainable. Donations made that night will be tax deductible.

Interviews with the Leading Edge is a video interview series with people who are on the leading edge of transforming society, doing work to further the consciousness revolution and how it is manifesting in culture, politics and spirituality, in order to help bring along a more enlightened society. Here is the link to the website: www.LeadingEdgeInterviews.comPeople interviewed include Peter Yarrow (Peter, Paul & Mary); Donna Eden (author – Energy Medicine); John Perkins (author – Confessions of an Economic Hit Man); Barbara Marx Hubbard (Founder – Foundation for Conscious Evolution); and Charles Eisenstein (author of Sacred Economics).

The filmed interview will be with me, series Producer/Host Dr. Michael Wayne. During the interview, I will talk about the genesis of the interview series and the ideas behind it, what it’s like to meet so many brilliant and illuminating people, and my perspective on where we are going as a people and what it will take to create a more holistic, sustainable and enlightened society and world. Questions and answers from the studio audience will also be taken during the filming.

And so, come to this free event, and be part of a live studio audience as you partake of this festive occasion. You are guaranteed to have a grand time.For more information, call 518-210-1557.

Exciting Stuff…we hope to see you there!

Bethany October 25, 2022

1.27.16 Meditation: Glenn Hogue, Fo’ Castle Farms Owner/Operator

In today’s interview, Glenn Hogue eloquently describes how his meditation practice has changed over the 22 years, from “bullet train racing thoughts” to feeling a benevolent love that just gets “bigger.”Glenn talks a lot about putting space between our thoughts, and how that leaves plenty of room for “not knowing.” As we start to let go of the surface mind, the part of us that always wants to “know”, we leave room for awe and wonder, and that is when we start to suspect there is a loving intelligence that connects us all. We begin to not just feel love..but be love, and we sense that we are part of something larger.I often refer to myself a “tenderizer.” My work is to tenderize people, to poke holes in their rigid thought structures so that they finally allow their natural well-being to emerge. When well-being rises, it rises with such force, we just know it was there all along! It is because I trust this process implicitly that I work so hard to bring this information to as many people as possible.I think Glenn does a great job at describing this process, and I would recommend listening to his 1:39 minute poem to help you set the tone to put some space between your experiences and your thoughts before you begin the meditation.This interview was pre-recorded, so the NEXT Spiritual Conversations for Men’s group at Numinous is Wednesday February 3, at 7:00 PM at the Unity Church of Albany.Donations help us meet expenses to offer this work. If you would like to donate, please click on the donate button or send donations to: Numinous c/o Bethany Gonyea (be sure to include this) at PO 1322, Clifton Park, NY 12065. Interview.

1.39 minute poem written by Glenn to facilitate a mindset for Meditation: [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/243967071″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”300″ iframe=”true” /]Today’s Meditation: [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/243961998″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”300″ iframe=”true” /]NUMINOUS LECTURE SERIES FOR JANUARYPrograms are held weekly, on Wednesday evenings, at Unity Church of Albany, 21 King Ave, Albany, NY.

DONATION APPRECIATED OF $20 EACH SESSION.

Challenging Our Agreements, and How They Shape UsBryce Pullano, IT SpecialistWednesday January 27 at 7:00 PMOne of the four agreements in the wildly successful book “The Four Agreements” by Don Miquel Ruiz, is “Don’t make assumptions.”If we all took a moment to pause and consider how many assumptions we make in life, and how much these assumptions shape our destiny, we may become awestruck by their significance. These realizations have the potential to be so profound, they may inspire us to make lasting change in our behavior, changes that can effect the entire trajectory of our lives.In this talk, Bryce Pullano will ask us to challenge our most basic social contracts, and examine how much we assume things that simply are not be true at all. He will help us expose these flimsy mirages for what they are, which can help us find the truth that we need to experience real-world growth. These non-truths are best eliminated, so that we can proceed confidently in life with clear unwavering vision that sustains us in times of darkness. Come to this talk ready to challenge all areas of your life, and to mine new insights for positive change.Spiritual Conversations For MenFacilitated by Glenn Hogue & Tim Moon, MA – CASACWednesday February 3 at 7:00 PMMost spiritual programs are predominantly attended by women, which often causes women’s issues to be the focus of such programming. However, at NUMINOUS, we wanted to provide new programs that would specifically support Men’s spiritual discoveries as they do the significant work of pioneering how to blend ancient spiritual teachings with contemporary culture’s expectations of masculinity.This is critically important work, as we seem to be in a time in history when all sorts of established paradigms are falling. The rugged individualism of the late 20th century is being challenged on all levels, especially in relationships. The traditional roles between male and female are also being blurred as well.How do we maintain the integrity of our yang (masculine) energy while assimilating the gentler aspects of spirituality and still be effective in this world? How do we learn how to connect, while maintaining our individual authenticity and truth? Many of us have learned that we don’t need to do life alone, but we are unsure of how to skillfully include input from Spirit, women, and other men, without loosing connection with ourselves.Learning how to skillfully partner, listen, and still assert our truth seems to be a huge piece of the mission of our generation of men. These Spiritual Conversations For Men will give us an opportunity to gain answers to the some of the most distracting questions of our lives. In a quiet environment, we can safely discuss what matters to us most, and obtain invaluable insights from other men who have grappled with the same questions. Through this exchange, we learn that we don’t have to do “life alone.” Also, we learn how good it feels to be supported and to provide the same meaningful support for others. These discussions offer us clarity and direction as we learn to connect, and yet still hold individual balance.We are extremely fortunate to have Tim Moon, Counselor, and Fo Castle Owner/Operator Glenn Hogue facilitate these discussions. These two have over 55 years of combined spiritual understandings to chart this prosperous territory.Prosperity – Living a Life You Love LivingDr. Karin ReinholdWednesday February 10 at 7:00 PMCan you imagine a life full of purpose and passion that allows you to naturally enrich the lives of others around you and yourself?Do you wake up each morning feeling energized and ready to start your day?Do you enjoy higher levels of vibrant health, deep love, financial abundance, and time freedom?Do you experience the confidence that you can accomplish anything that you want?There are predictable, repeatable, spiritual and scientific method for turning dreams into reality. I first learned of these steps from Mary Morrissey – a world renowned author and coach – and her program “Dream Building”We’ll review the 10 keys of the manifestation process, and how these are rooted in spiritual principles.The W/Holeness Continuum: Moving from ‘Having a Hole to Fill’ to ‘Being Whole and Feeling Full’Tim MoonWednesday February 17 at 7:00 PMUnity Church of AlbanyWhat are the conditions in our lives and in our thoughts about our lives that leave us feeling empty, lonely and in search of ways to fill the Hole?There are an endless number of ways we attempt to fill the Hole; money, relationships, alcohol and substances, sex, new clothes, new cars, busy-ness, television, food…the list goes on. Deep down we all know that we are supposed to feel good, which is the root of all substance abuse issues. As we progress on the spiritual path, we learn that we need less and less of these external things, because we as we feel more spiritually whole, we learn to bask in the sweet satisfaction of that wholeness. We don’t just know this intellectually, we feel this on a profound level as the truth of our whole being.This workshop will explore paradigm shifting ideas from past and present spiritual teachings and our current understanding of the science related to happiness, mindfulness, and empathy to assist us in moving from Holeness to Wholeness (without necessarily having to change our circumstances!!! Wow!).Your Healing StoryVicki HartWednesday February 24 at 7:00 PMUnity Church of AlbanyStories and myths have a way of reaching deep into the hidden places within us. Reoccurring themes from different times and places help us to know that we are not alone in our experiences. In this talk, we will discuss ”Warming the Stone Child” and other stories about abandonment and the unmothered child. Based on the work of Jungian psychologist Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Phd.Learn through story how the psychology of abandonment in childhood affects us in later life. Uncover the special gifts and powers of the unmothered child.In this talk, we can discern what you can learn from your favorite childhood fairytale, and learn that we a personal fairy tale story of our own.Hearing Only One Voice – The Voice of WisdomBethany Gonyea, Founder Albany Peace ProjectWednesday March 2 at 7:00 PMUnity Church of AlbanyDo you ever wonder about the origin of that critical voice in your head?Do you ever become curious about your internal dialogue….even why we have an internal dialogue? (who exactly are we talking to???)Well, neuroscientists at Yale have discovered some startling facts about the brain regions activated while we are experiencing this internal dialogue.The set of brain regions responsible for this internal voices is now referred to as the default mode network. It is most commonly shown to be active when a person is not focused on the outside world and the brain is at a wakeful rest, such as during daydreaming and mind-wandering. Researchers have determined that this default mode network is responsible for us ruminating about four general areas, when we are 1) thinking about others (what they think of us), 2) thinking about ourselves (how we are doing), 3) remembering (processing) the past, and 4) planning (worrying) for the future. This internal dialogue is vastly responsible for much of our mental health, either good or bad.The good news is that not only are there cognitive strategies to help cope with the voice, but that skillful meditation actually silences it! Learn how to lower the volume of the critical voice, and hear only the voice of wisdom.Get Inspired All year Long!If you would like to be notified of Numinous talks that offer similar content, Please enter your email to the right of this link where it says “Get Inspired!” www.NuminousOnline.comHelp us get to 3,300 Likes on Facebook! We are at 3,203 Likes, we only need 97 More…“Like & Share” the Albany Peace Project Facebook Page by CLICKING HERE!

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Bethany October 25, 2022

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