Judith Pennington is an internationally published journalist, author, singer, and world authority on EEG and the Awakened Mind, Judith Pennington is the founder and director of the Institute for the Awakened Mind (IAM), an international consortium of certified consciousness trainers using the Mind Mirror EEG to guide people to the ideal Awakened Mind brainwave pattern for profound meditation, creative insights, self-healing, and peak performance.
She is the co-developer of and driving force behind the Vilistus Mind Mirror 6 EEG, a scientifically proven fast-track to meditation and consciousness development, and co-developer of the Mind Mirror Portal and its life-enhancing Meditation Center. The author of two books and seven meditation albums, she trains people from all over the world in EEG-assisted meditation and conducts research on remote viewing, out-of-body travel, and hands-on healing with leading U.S. institutions involved in the scientific exploration of consciousness. Visit the IAM website to read this research and sign up for IAM’s monthly webinar program and a free periodic newsletter.
Visit JudithPennington.com to access her two free e-magazines and YouTube Channel. Judith’s goals are to guide people to the healer within and to contribute evolutionary research on the brain, meditation, and spirituality.
The Resonant Peaceful Cities Project, sponsored by NUMINOUS, performs peace meditation research. NUMINOUS offers cutting edge programming for teaching people how to live from heightened states of consciousness PeacefulCities.org.
Countless people from 3 continents and five countries sent intentions to Minneapolis and St Paul today. Eight of those people were connected to the Mind Mirror EEG and readings were recorded in the cloud via the grand opening of the Mind Mirror Portal.
This was a combined effort of many people and organizations. The meditation was written by Bethany Gonyea, founder of the Resonant Peaceful Cities Project, with audio support composed by Robert Holbrook, Innovations Director for The Monroe Institute. The participants’ brainwave patterns live-streamed to the Mind Mirror Portal, a web-based global consciousness initiative that combines Mind Mirror EEG patterns into a single pattern that reflected validated the peaceful intentions sent to Minneapolis and beyond.
After the meditation, Institute for the Awakened Mind (IAM) founder Judith Pennington commented on the brainwave changes observed in the eight participants and the averaged group brainwave pattern. Pennington is the co-developer and driving force behind the Vilistus Mind Mirror 6, a research-grade electroencephalogram which displays a visual language that anyone can read, understand, and use to adjust their brainwaves to optimal states of awareness.
This event was the culmination of the insights of Andrew Tang, Software Entrepreneur, Investor, and Founder of the Mind Mirror Portal. “I wanted to create an opportunity where people around the world could share live EEG data for further research in mass meditation. The possibilities are awe-inspiring.”
“The Mind Mirror is the perfect—and only—EEG that measures visually intelligible brainwave changes that everyone can understand,” said Pennington. “IAM is excited about this collaboration, which is the first of its kind. The Mind Mirror Portal makes it possible.”
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!
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!
QUICK NOTE FOR TONIGHT’S MEETING AT 7:00 WITH RAY CRIST’S SHAMANIC TALK: (WEDNESDAY) NEW VENUE – Cultural Center/Hindu Temple, 450 Albany Shaker Rd, Albany, NY 12211
This Saturday, Bernard Shuman and I are so happy to offer a Special Event that is the start of yet another wave of peace through the Albany Peace Project….for everyone, but also specifically reaching Albany’s youth!!
WATCH VIDEO ABOVE TO LEARN MORE!!!
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? Are you interested in creating more peaceful relationships?
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 as an inmate, Mr. Shuman’s contributions were invaluable in creating the environment in Otisville Correctional Facility affectionately referred to 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!
BE PART OF A LIVE STUDIO AUDIENCE AT THIS UNIQUE EVENT CO-SPONSORED BY NUMINOUS Saratoga Integrative Medicine Education Network/SIMEN, in conjunction with the Healing Springs Journal, are putting on a major fun and festive event, and it will be free.
Saturday, June 20, 2015 at 7:30 PM
The event is called Interviews with the Leading Edge: A Live and Free Event!
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.
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:
People 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 series Producer/Host Dr. Michael Wayne. During the interview, Michael Wayne 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.
OTHER NEWS:
Living With Intention: Erasing the Neural Networks Responsible for Negative Thought Patterns, Using Memory Reconsolidation, A Neuroplasticity Tool – Tuesday June 2 at 7:00
Shenendehowa Adult Community Center, 6 Clifton Common Ct, 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 yourself 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 our lifetime. Although we can build different neural networks with new patterns of behavior, we often build these new networks in our brain “over” the old programming.
Because the brain is an energy hog, when we have low energy, we quickly revert back to outdated thinking patterns because the neural pathways for the old behavior still exist. They have 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, especially if were are going to be cultivating the art of intention to create something new in our lives.
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. This facilitates the more stable and sustained elevated consciousness required for successful intention.
$20 Suggested Donation
Spiritual Conversations For Men, Tuesday June 2 at 7:00 PM
The conversation started on April 7 and it was spirited! Participants learned that there are many topics to explore regarding men’s spirituality, and they were grateful for the opportunity.
Most 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 manage the competitiveness of the business environment and not loose our soul? How do we learn how to manage ourselves and others in a way that honors each of us? How do we learn how to connect in relationships but still stand firm in understanding our own needs. Many of us have felt the burden of doing life “alone” and would prefer to find a way to collaborate with others, but find ourselves exhausted as we try to partner as well. In these discussions we will learn how to integrate input from Spirit, women, and other men, without loosing our vital 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 challenging questions of our lives. In a quiet environment, we can safely discuss the biggest puzzles of our lives, and obtain invaluable insights from others 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 will offer us clarity and direction as we learn to connect, and yet still hold individual balance.
Numinous will be offering Spiritual Conversations For Men on a bi-weekly basis starting at Fo Castle Farms. We are extremely fortunate to have Tim Moon, MA, CASAC and Fo Castle Owner/Operator Glenn Hogue. These two have over 55 years of combined spiritual understandings to chart this prosperous territory.
Shenendehowa Adult Community Center, 6 Clifton Common Court, Clifton Park, NY 12065
There are many times in life where we know we need to confront something BIG, like a death, divorce, bankruptcy, or a serious illness. No one gets out of this life unscathed, as the longer we live, the more difficulties we face.
Thinking about our indomitable challenge often causes pits in our stomach, and feelings of unfairness, resentment, wastefulness, and loss as we come to begrudgingly acknowledge the only way out of our challenge is through it. Facing these huge shakedowns with only corporeal skills can feel daunting.
When our worlds are getting rocked, is it possible to face these shattering life challenges with dignity and hope? Absolutely!
That is the blessing and the promise of the spiritual path.
In this Numinous talk, we will discuss how to face life’s shakedowns with dignity. Because the truth is is that these difficult times have the perfect alchemy to convert our base natures into pure gold. It has been asked, where else is there room for the sorrows of the world except in a broken heart? During these times we come to rely on our skills of presence, self-compassion, and deep honoring to sweeten the bitter soup we are asked to swallow. This approach to challenge enables us to be abundantly nourished by our spiritual path during difficult times so that we emerge from the other side of the challenge more whole and integrated, as the challenge taught us to abide and trust in a greater peace. We delight in the fact that we have become enlarged by the experience, instead of diminished, with a wider more resolute perspective to face future challenges.
