New Dimensions

As a research scientist who is also interested in spirituality, Tart would like to see the scientific method applied to inform a deeper understanding of religious and spiritual phenomena. Here he explores the difference between scientism and science. He also shares his own personal psychic experience. Charles Tart, Ph.D. is the author of The Secret Science of the Soul: How Evidence of the Paranormal is Bringing Science and Spirit Together.Tags: Charles Tart, skeptics, pseudoskeptics, Dean Radin, Newtonian shields, quantum physics, nonlocality, spooky action at a distance, intellectual functioning, emotional functions, body instinctive functioning, materialism, psychical research, predictions, telepathy, parapsychology, esp, clairvoyance, remote viewing, precognition, psychokinesis, altered states, psychic healing, hypnosis, Western Creed, Science, Spirituality, Personal Transformation, Meditation, Parapsychology/Paranormal, Intuition/Psychic

Healer Nicki Scully tells us how it is time for us to move from healing ourselves to healing the planet. We can do this collectively by joining together in circles, in phone-bridges, and in our own personal meditations. Now is the time for us to make a quantum leap in consciousness. We must co-create this movement; we must allow spirit to come in through our hearts and minds. Scully says, “Now is the time of tremendous opportunity for people to put their hearts and minds together. If all of the individuals join in circles, and all the circles join, and we’re all focusing on planetary healing, this uniting of minds and hearts can give us a tremendous opportunity for quantum leap [in consciousness].” Tags: alchemy, cancer, co-crafting evolution, co-creation, fear, harmonic convergence, heart breath, intelligent evolution, mp3, Nicki Scully, quantum leap in consciousness, shamanic healing, shamanism, spirit medicine, Global Culture, Health & Healing, Personal Growth, Self-Help

Judith takes us on a historical journey and moves us into the present era. She has hope for the future and points out that there is an under-reported grassroots movement taking place today, but warns, “We need to be careful not to judge it as a system that doesn’t work just because it’s young… we have to move through the chaos and find a new organizing principle.” Tags: Anodea Judith, rational thinking, mythical thinking, chakras system, human kind’s stages of survival, static masculine, static feminine, dynamic masculine, dynamic feminine, butterfly and caterpillar, photosynthesis, single celled microbes became multi-celled organisms, consumers, imaginal cells, Arab spring, power dynamic, homeostasis, Jesus, democracy, internet, neocortex of the planet, three brains, limbic, reptilian, neocortex, twitter, facebook, Gaia, Occupy movement, web connection, ideagora, green technologies, heartmath, Global Culture, Psychology, History, Social Change/Politics, Personal Transformation, Spirituality

Here we explore the mind/body connection with pain, and the mechanism of chronic pain, with a spine specialist surgeon who has over 30 years experience in the care of chronic back pain. He advocates something he calls DOC, which stands for Direct Your Own Care, and he only performs surgery on patients he feels are certain to find relief through surgery. He is the author of Back in Control: A Surgeon’s Roadmap Out of Chronic Pain.Tags: David Hanscom, chronic pain, adrenalized nervous system, adrenalin, cortisol, anxiety, URTs, unpleasant repetitive thoughts, structural pain, nervous system pain, pain circuits, pain pathways, neuroplasticity, myelin, nerve cells, meditation, expressive writing, spinal fusion, sleep, mindfulness, Health & Healing, Personal Transformation

McDonough describes what is meant by the idea of “Cradle to Cradle,” and says “Things are designed to either go back to biology or back to technology without contaminating each other.” He tells us that we can and must design things to go back into an intelligent material pool for human benefit without contaminating the environment. Tags: bionutrients, cold fusion, Cradle to Cradle, e=mc2, ecology, effective, efficiency, environment, environmentalism, environmentalist, human rights, Make it Right project, nature, Pacific garbage patch, population, sewage plants, social equity, technology, technonutrients, triple top line, William McDonough, Business, Ecology, Nature, Environment, Personal Growth, Science, Self-Help, Social Change, Politics, Technology

Depth hypnosis and the “Coming to Peace” process provide a pathway for healing conflict and coming to a place of reconciliation and wholeness. This process can involve one’s personal inner conflicts as well as the larger dynamics of family systems. Gucciardi says, “The truth is that the symptom is the tip of the iceberg . . .The symptom becomes the path to healing in depth hypnosis.”Tags: Isa Gucciardi, depth hypnosis, Huichol Indians, Bedouins, deep listening, Iroquois Confederacy, ho’oponopono process, inner wisdom, inner guidance, unconscious motivations, circle work, duality, polarization, forgiveness, Ubuntu, Psychology, Shamanism, Spirituality, Buddhism

Pevny shares the three phases of coming into elderhood: severance, neutral zone, and reincorporation. We need to sever ourselves from old identities in healthy and honoring ways. Then we enter a neutral zone where the seeds of possibility are gestating. He encourages us to deepen our spirituality so that we can move into reincorporation.Ron Pevny is the founder and director of the Colorado-based Center for Conscious Eldering. He’s a certified Sag-ing® Leader with Sag-ing® International and conducts workshop and retreats across North America. He is the author of Conscious Living, Conscious Aging: Embrace & Savor Your Next Chapter (Atria Paperback 2014)Tags: Ron Pevny, aging, saging, elderhood, eldering, elders, Stephen Foster, Meredith Little, vulnerability, fear, rite of passage, isolation, inner journey, inner guidance, cohousing, elder wisdom circles, Saging International, R. Buckminster Fuller, Bucky Fuller, Joseph Campbell, Jack Williamson, Intergenerational Writing, Patricia Sun, gratitude, grace, rites of passage, Jan Richardson poem “The Map You Make Yourself”, vision board, creative expression, dreams, solitude, synchronicity, Personal Transformation, Health & Healing, Community

Change is going to come no matter what. Pinchbeck is advocating nothing less than the need to embrace our responsibility for understanding what’s happening and play an active part in caring for the world. He feels this time in our human history can serve as our initiation to the next level of consciousness: ecologically, socially, politically, and spiritually. He is the author of: Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism Broadway Books 2003), 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl (Tarcher/Perigee 2007) and How Soon is Now: From Personal Initiation to Global Transformation (Watkins Publishing 2017)Tags: Daniel Pinchbeck, ecological crisis, methane gas, post-work society, agriculture, topsoil, farming practices, permaculture, Sahel Region in Africa, desertification, William McDonough, Cradle to Cradle, social systems, political systems, economic systems, debt, money, artificial scarcity, Bernard Lietaer, evolutionary biology, Time Republic, cryptocurrency, blockchain, private property, Rousseau, Tamera in Portugal, elder woman, Berlin wall, RegenVillages, Buckminster Fuller, participatory democracy, capitalist democracy, loomio.org, Podemos, DemocracyOS platform, psychedelics, Ayahuasca, Peyote, mushrooms, the internet, hippies, Mark Zuckerberg, Timothy Berners-Lee, cooperation, competition, Community, Ecology, Nature, Environment, Global Culture, Indigenous Wisdom, Money, Economics, Philosophy, Social Change, Politics

What would lead a person to choose to live alone for a year on a small, remote island on the coast of southern Chile? What is it like to truly notice how, as humans, we are constantly shifting from a sense of isolation into the experience of freedom and belonging?  Robert Kull discusses these questions, and more. Tags: MP3  Robert Kull, Solitude,  Wilderness,  Patagonia,  Storytelling,  Journaling,  Mindfulness,  Alon,  Wind, Ecology/Nature/Environment, Buddhism, Meditation, Spirituality, Travel

When stress feels overwhelming, we struggle to find the balance we desperately need to get through it all. Borysenko guides us through the warning signs of pessimism and the pitfalls of optimism, and offers up a wealth of suggestions for how to develop what she calls “stress-hardiness”—to handle all of life’s challenges with resilience, equanimity, and inner peace.Tags: Joan Borysenko, optimism, pessimism, fear, stress, realism, realist, optimist, pessimist, faith, discernment, judgment, Ilya Prigogine, Martin Seligman, Positive Psychology, commitment, Personal Transformation, Health, Healing, Psychology, Self Help, Spirituality