DECEMBER
8 - Spiritual Enquiry
18 - New Physics*
21 - Focused Intention
TBA - Ultimate Issues
(Events in bold or with an asterisk* are open to the public.)
EXPLORING DREAMS AT THE RIVERSIDE CHURCH*
The Dream Group meetings
at The Riverside Church
are on hiatus until
further notice. We will
let you know when the
meetings will resume.
FACILITATOR: Allen Flagg
TIME: 2:00 pm
LOCATION: The Wellness Center at
The Riverside Church
91 Claremont Ave.(Between 120th & 122nd Streets)
SUGGESTED DONATION: $2 each session for use of the Wellness Center?s facilities.
TO REGISTER: Call Allen Flagg, (212) 532-8042.
Thursday,
December 8
SPIRITUAL ENQUIRY
Spiritual Enquiry will
be showing a film to be
announced on a subject
of spiritual import. The
film will be followed by
a discussion. Please
RSVP via e-mail to the
address below if you
would like to receive
information on our
films. We will be
sending out details
prior to the next
showing.
FACILITATORS: Richard Schiffman & Bernard Starr
TIME: 7:00 pm
LOCATION: 275 West 96th Street, #31D
TO REGISTER: RSVP to
starrone@aol.com
Sunday, December 18th
NEW PHYSICS*
Tom Creacy will the acting as the Interim Coordinator during Allen Flagg's convalescence.
Please bring any salient topics or articles that you would like to discuss. We will also discuss how the group should proceed in the future. Allen has suggested that the discussion be expanded to include New Science.
We will continue to explore how the discoveries in physics affect our spiritual, emotional, and physical lives. The New Physics group follows the breakthroughs in our understanding of the universe and our place in it.
INTERIM FACILITATOR: Tom Creacy
TIME: 2:00 pm
LOCATION: The Riverside Church
91 Claremont Avenue (between 120th and 122nd Streets.) Ask at the
registration desk for the room number).
RSVP: Tom Creacy: 212-427-3229.
DONATION: Suggested: ($2 to cover the cost of the room.)
Wednesday, December
21
FOCUSED INTENTION
It looks as though the
Occupy Wall Street
movement about the way
democracy is
malfunctioning in the
USA, is not going away
any time soon. It's a
great opportunity
therefore, to examine
how focused intention
can be effective and
lead to real change.
Please join us.
Our individual
intentions can arise
from a number of
sources--personal,
work-related,
issue-related. After
clarifying the
motivations that
underlie the presenting
need, we practice
focusing our specific
intentions into the
circle.
Please plan to arrive
a few minutes early so
we may start on time.
This group meets the
third Wednesday of each
month.
FACILITATOR: Jane Hughes Gignoux
TIME: 7:00 - 9:00 pm
LOCATION: Upper West Side
TO JOIN: Call Jane at 212-580-1007 or e-mail janehg4@verizon.net for exact location.
TO BE ANNOUNCED VIA E-MAIL
ULTIMATE ISSUES
Ultimate Issues treats
topics of cosmic
importance that cross
the boundary between
spirituality and
scientific speculation,
and encompass both.
Examples include
reincarnation, the
existence of evil,
consciousness, metaphors
for God, the nature of
time, ESP, precognition,
and nonlocal
connections. The Quantum
Theory and Quantum
Holography may point to
a new understanding of
reality and individual
identity.Special
weight is given to the
works of famed author
Lynne McTaggart, who in
her works such as The
Field and The Intention
Experiment, points to a
new understanding of
reality and individual
identity. From a
non-technical viewpoint,
we regularly review
issues she raises,
especially evidence for
a New Physics that she
has uncovered in the
process of interviewing
scientists around the
world.
No prior scientific background is required.
FACILITATOR: Arthur Wiegenfeld
TIME: 7:00 - 9:00 pm
LOCATION: West Side, Manhattan (Directions provided upon registration.)
TO REGISTER: RSVP is required as space is very limited. Additional sessions may occasionally be scheduled. An email response is preferred. Please specify "Ultimate Issues" on the subject line. Or call 212-724-4335, and leave your phone number. If you register and then are unable to attend, please be sure to advise Arthur at: artw@rcn.com
Noetic Stories
We hosted our first evening of noetic story-telling on February 3rd, 2011 to wide acclaim. Many of you shared your stories of transcendental experiences, epiphanies, deep insights, and lives transformed. To continue the momentum, we are inviting everyone with a story to tell to
submit them for publication in our Newsletter and our Web site.
Submissions to Noetic Stories
FIONS welcomes noetic stories from members and friends. In all instances, these stories must be original and cannot be copied from any other publication or writer. FIONS retains the right to edit for clarity, spelling or grammar. If you want us to run the final version by you for approval after editing and before publication, do let us know.
To send us your story, click here. Please copy you story in the body of your e-mail. Any accompanying photographs or illustrations should be submitted in JPEG format.
To be announced
Worldview Literacy Project Training
Exploring how we are shaped by and can learn to shape our beliefs.
The World View Literacy Project is an educational curriculum designed to illuminate the relationship between perception and experience and to cultivate health and wisdom. The initial curriculum, Seeds of Change, is being pilot-tested with school students.
IONS and the Chair of Global Sustainability at Fordham University, are considering the possibility of co-sponsoring a World View Project training in New York City for those interested in learning how to offer this program in educational, corporate, and community environments. FIONS has agreed to support this initiative.
If you are interested in participating in this initiative and would like more information, please contact: fions@mindspring.com.
Get involved with Something Big!
BECOME AN ACTIVE MEMBER!
At our most recent Annual Meeting in March 2011, we voted to eliminate paid membership and create a new all-encompassing designation: Active Members. Active Members are the people who allow FIONS to exist and make things happen. Please become part of this inner circle.
We welcome members who would like to serve on the Board, design and produce programs, or create and facilitate a "small group".
Please become an Active Member. FIONS needs you.
Areas where you could volunteer:
Program Committee
Facilitator of a Small Group
Finding space for an event
Taking reservations for an event
Bringing refreshments to an event
Set up, clean up and staffing the door for an event
Advertising FIONS activities
Maintaining contact lists
If you are interested, call the FIONS voice-mail (212-741-2207) or
e-mail: fions@mindspring.com.
Coming Attractions, 2011-2012
We have exciting plans for our 2011-2012 Program Season. Mark your calendars and watch your e-mails for more information.
March 2012
A Conversation with Dennis Kucinich
Program to be presented after FIONS' 2012 Annual Meeting.
Late May/Early June 2012
Active Members Party
Given by FIONS Board of Trustees to honor active members.
To Be Announced
Worldview Literacy Project Training
Exploring how we are shaped by and can learn to shape our beliefs.
This exciting new program from IONS (Institute of Noetic Sciences) may be coming to New York City soon! With the life-altering experience of IONS Founder, Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell, as its inspiration, The World View Literacy Project is an educational curriculum designed to illuminate the relationship between perception and experience and to cultivate health and wisdom. The initial curriculum called, Seeds of Change, is being pilot-tested with school students.
Using experiential exercises, tools for self-reflection and dialogue, innovative media, and multiple ways of knowing (including music, movement, and meditation) in a spirit of play and exploration, this curriculum is designed to empower people of all ages to make conscious choices and to know that their participation in their environment always matters,
IONS and the Chair of Global Sustainability at Fordham University, are considering the possibility of co-sponsoring a World View Project training in New York City for those interested in learning how to offer this program in educational, corporate, and community environments. FIONS has agreed to support this initiative.
If you are interested in participating in this initiative and would like more information, please contact - fions@mindspring.com.
Open Call for Volunteers
As we look forward and plan ahead, we see FIONS as an active, growing, vibrant, organization with members and friends fully engaged in the work of consciousness, not just in our local communities, but also in the world community at large.
We have a number of areas where you can make a difference. We will send out a more detailed description of our areas of need in a future e-mail, but here are the broad categories where FIONS has a pressing need.
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