CONFERENCE > WORKSHOPS
2 DAYS PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS
Selected presenters offer an exciting opportunity to engage and discuss their ideas in an interactive workshop setting.
The workshops prices are:
- If registered for the conference - $55 until Oct 1st and $65 after Oct. 1st
- If registered for a workshop only - $65 until Oct 1st and $85 after Oct. 1st
Wednesday morning, October 19th, 2011
9:00am - 1:00pm
Ross room
PETER DZIUBAN
The Never-before-ness of All
Join us to experience firsthand why Life always is a “brand-new clean slate.” Even as time still seems to arise, it is easy to see clearly why there really has been no prior time, no past or history whatsoever. See why nothing, not even Presence, Awareness, has existed “before”! It means all that is, is so pristine and pure—the freedom and magnificence is indescribable ...read more
9:00am - 1:00pm
Santa Rosa
PAMELA WILSON
Abiding Pleasure: The Return to Natural Joy
Within every movement is an invitation to be still, to notice that which pulses in every circumstance, experience, emotion and being. There is an offering of relaxation within any tension, of clarity within confusion, and of constancy within the changeable...
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9:00am-1:00pm
Ross room
9:00am - 1:00pm
Petaluma room
SUSAN MOKELKE
Michael Harner’s The Shamanic Journey Outside of Time
Experience core shamanism—as originated and developed by Michael Harner—the universal and near-universal methods of the shaman to enter nonordinary reality for problem solving and healing...read more
Wednesday afternoon, October 19th, 2011
2:00pm - 6:00pm
Santa Rosa room
Jeff Foster
Freedom In Every Experience
Being open to life, no matter what happens. We spend our lives seeking wealth, love, success, approval, and even ‘spiritual enlightenment’ in the future. Yet right at the heart of life there is an intimacy, a simplicity, a vast spaciousness that is totally beyond words...read more
2:00pm-6:00pm
Ross room
PETER RUSSELL
The Timeless Light of a Conscious Cosmos
Discover how the essence of your own being is the essence of all that is. Integrating physics, psychology, philosophy and mysticism, Peter Russell shows that we are on the threshold of a revolution in worldview even more profound and far-reaching than that initiated by Copernicus 500 years ago...read more
2:00pm-6:00pm
Petaluma room
FLORIAN SCHLOSSER
Who we are is consciousness - already free, impersonal, ever-present. Yet within the human experience, this recognition is not automatically a synonym for the consistent realisation of Freedom and Oneness...read more
2:00-6:00pm
Novato room
Fred Alan Wolf
Getting into How the Trick is Done: For Time Magicians Only
In this workshop we will look at how our understanding of the nature of mind, time, space, and matter have changed—even what we mean by these terms—in just the last few decades. It will take us into the world of fundamental particles ... read more
2:00-6:00pm
Petaluma room
Wednesday evening, October 19th, 2011
7:30pm - 10:00pm
Santa Rosa room
Bentinho Massaro
The Unified Nature of All Experiences
Awakening to nonduality in every-day life is far simpler than often suggested. Through a simple change in how we understand experiences, the freedom and indivisibility of everything becomes naturally obvious to us!...read more
Thursday morning, October 20, 2011
9:00am-1:00pm
Ross room
Peter Fenner
Undivided and inseparable—the nonduality of relationship
This workshop explores different manifestations of nondual, liberating awareness. You will experience how the ultimate state of pristine awareness arises in the silence of smooth, high-quality, inner contemplation: and how centerless awareness is equally available in the richness of our relationships with others... read more
This session is eligible for CE credit (4 credits)
9:00am-1:00pm
Santa Rosa room
RUPERT SPIRA
You Are Peace Itself
You are present as the knower of your experience. You know your thoughts, feelings, images, sensations and perceptions but you are not made out of any of these. You - this open, transparent, aware presence - are inherently free of any resistance just as the room in which your body is now sitting is inherently free of any resistance to whatever may or may not be taking place within it.... read more
9:00am-1:00pm
Santa Rosa room
Amit Goswami
Quantum Physics’ Guide to Enlightenment
In this workshop, quantum physicist Amit Goswami uses recent advances in our understanding of quantum physics to elucidate the nature of spiritual enlightenment and guide people to pursue enlightened living. ... read more
10:00am-12:30pm
John Hagelin
HIGHER STATES
Harnessing the Power of Consciousness to
Fulfill Your Desires and Change the World
Renowned quantum physicist, educator, and brain researcher John Hagelin presents the landmark discovery of higher states of consciousness—beyond waking, dreaming and sleeping—that display expanded mental capabilities and enhanced power to fulfill one’s desires... read more
This session is eligible for CE credit (2.5 credits)
9:00am-1:00pm
Think not-thinking: Dogen's style of zen meditation
In this workshop we will study, practice, and dialog about the zen meditation style of dogen kigen (1200-1254), the Japanese founder of soto Zen, and one of the great religious thinkers of all time...read more
Thursday afternoon, October 20, 2011
2:00-6:00pm
Petaluma room
2:00-6:00pm
Petaluma room
UNMANI
Unmani points very directly to who you really are beyond all the words and concepts. If there is a readiness to hear this, then there is a possibility to investigate the reality of everything that you have ever believed in. Realizing more and more that your whole life is based on an assumption of who you think you are, there is a total freefall into not knowing. .... read more.
2:00-6:00pm
Santa Rosa room
Menas Kafatos
Underlying Principles In Quantum Theory And Metaphysics: Clues To The Fundamental Role Of Consciousness In The Universe
There are compelling reasons to pursue a new, integrative science. According to Drãgãnescu and Kafatos (2000), “The inability of physical science to solve problems concerning the nature of ultimate reality and also to contribute to an understanding of the nature of life and of consciousness...read more
This session is eligible for CE credit (4 credits)
Monday October 24th, 2011
10:00am - 12:30pm
2:00 - 4:30pm
Santa Rosa
room
Jeff Foster & Scott Kiloby
Post-conference workshop
Feelings and Time
How we create suffering by running away from present experience into an imagined future... read more
Monday October 24th, 2011
10:00am - 1:00pm
2:00 - 6:00pm
Sausalito
room
Thomas Hübl
Post-conference workshop
THE "NEW WE"
The Evolution of New Ways of Creating Community, Society, Spirituality
Where do science, society and spirituality head to? The current shift in the world points to an evolutionary leap of consciousness... read more













