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 - $45 and $55 at the door
- If registered for a workshop only - $65 and $85 at the door
Wednesday morning, October 20, 2010
9:00am -1:00pm
Santa Rosa room
Jeff Foster
Using simple language and drawing on both personal experience and age-old wisdom, Jeff shares the possibility of waking up from the dream of separation. The possibility of absolute freedom...read more
9:00am-12:00pm
PETER RUSSELL
The Primacy of Consciousness
Which is more fundamental: Matter or Mind? Modern science assumes that the ultimate reality is material, whereas many metaphysical teachings hold that the ultimate essence of cosmos is mind or spirit. Two views apparently in... read more
9:00am - 1:00pm
Petaluma room
ROBERT DITTLER
Reacquainting with The (Nondual) Mind of a Child
From beyond the "I" - certainly not a new idea at all. Said in many ways: the Advaita Vedanta ("not this-not that"), Zen ("a field far beyond form and emptiness"), the Tao Te Ching ("The Tao that can be named is not the Tao that is") and on the contemporary scene ...read more
9:00am - 1:00pm
MARTI SPIEGELMAN
The intricacies of Oneness
Humans have been gifted the most puzzling role in the unfolding of the universe – the role is to be the housing for a unique 2-part style of consciousness, that is a key player in the evolution of life in the universe. This is recorded in all the great wisdom traditions of the world, shamanic and contemplative alike...read more
Wednesday afternoon, October 20, 2010
2:00pm - 6:00pm
Santa Rosa room
ELISABET SAHTOURIS
Consciousness as Nonduality, Duality, Plurality: Working with Science and other Wordviews in a Diverse World
At the Sages and Scientists Conference earlier this year, Dr. Marilyn Schlitz urged us to 1) recognize that we have biases/assumptions, 2) work to cultivate healthy skepticism (even as we "prove" our own theories), 3) recognize that consciousness "matters," but that it isn't "matter." ...read more
2:00-6:00pm
Petaluma room
NASSIM HARAMEIN
In this extraordinary presentation, Nassim Haramein will guide you on an exhilarating odyssey through humanity’s evolutionary path while delineating the inconsistencies in current scientific theories, exposing the changes necessary to produce an all-encompassing unified physics... read more.
2:00-6:00
Tiburon room
Peter Wrycza

Exploring Beliefs and Life-Patterns: Within and Beyond the ‘I’
Our beliefs are a key element in the patterns that provide stability and coherence to our lives. By beliefs we do not mean the ideas and opinions that we consciously espouse, but the often unconscious organizing principles which underpin our sense of who and what we are and how our world is. ... read more
2:00-6:00
Scott Kiloby
Natural Rest: Finding Recovery Through Presence
After a 20 year drug addiction, Scott began looking into non-dual presence and found that it holds the key to releasing the cycle of addiction. In this workshop, Scott will share simple ways to recognize presence ... read more
2:00-6:00
Jon Schreiber

Breema - The Art of Being Present
Our thinking mind is incapable of comprehending the timeless nature of reality. The mind thinks in concepts, imagining everything to be outside of itself. (That is the root of our judgmental attitude toward life.) The present moment is the domain of our Being, not our mind ... read more
Thursday morning, October 21, 2010
9:00am-1:00pm
Santa Rosa room
Amit Goswami
Quantum Consciousness and an Integrative Psychology
For all its progress psychology is not integrated. What’s more, different forces of it use different metaphysics: behaviorism and cognitive psychology use a metaphysics based on the primacy of matter... read more
9:00am-1:00pm
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
9:00am-1:00pm
Ross Room
RAVI RAVINDRA
Inner Journey Towards Oneness
Whatever science may tell us about the nature of reality, the journey towards the realization of oneness of all there is, the sort of oneness that the spiritual masters have spoken about, is a matter of inner psychological and spiritual ...read more
9:00am-1:00pm
Tiburon room
JAY MICHAELSON
God Does Not Exist - God is Existence Itself: Texts and Practices of Nondual Judaism
How is nonduality expressed in the Jewish mystical tradition? Nondual Judaism, as explicated by medieval Kabbalists, Eastern European Hasidim, and modern day cosmopolitan mystics, is at once similar to and different from nondual teachings of Vedanta, Buddhism, and other Asian traditions. ...read more
9:00am-1:00pm
Novato room
STEPHEN LABERGE
IN DREAMS AWAKE: An Overview of Lucid Dreaming, West and East
"Dreams are a reservoir of knowledge and experience," writes Tarthang Tulku, "yet they are often overlooked as a vehicle for exploring reality." Lucid dreaming (dreaming while knowing that you are dreaming) is the magic carpet of such vehicles ...read more
Thursday afternoon, October 21, 2010
2:00-6:00pm
Petaluma room
RUPERT SPIRA
The Dissolution Of The Separate Self
The essential discovery of all the great spiritual traditions, is that experience is not divided into a perceiving subject, an entity known as ‘I,’ and a perceived object, other or world... read more
2:00-6:00pm
Sata Rosa room
Stuart Hameroff
Quantum consciousness – biology, physics, spirituality
The notions that consciousness involves something more than electrochemical processes in brain neurons, that it could somehow also connect to a deeper reality, to all beings, and a cosmic wisdom embedded in spacetime geometry are termed quantum consciousness...read more
2:00-6:00pm
Tiburon room
Peter Fenner
Nondual Transmission: sharing unconditioned awareness in groups and one-on-one
Some people feel that the transmission of nondual awareness, by its very nature, is inexplicable and beyond all sense of comprehension... read more
Monday October 25, 2010
9:00-5:00pm
Santa Rosa room
Jeff Foster & Scott Kiloby
Post-conference workshop
Nonduality: The Possibility of Relationship
In nondual realization, the focus is mainly on awareness or nothingness or even non-separation as a final seeing. "Enlightenment" often refers to the absence of a separate self. But what about the possibility of relationship?...read more






















