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Last January I was in Athens, Greece, presenting a paper on the evolution of New Thought into a Global movement. The actual paper was all academic, but I did a popular version, which is linked HERE. And here are a few of the slides I used for the presentation:
The Institute of Noetic Sciences Community Group of Vancouver, Washington, contacted me to help them deal with the high level of falsehood that has become the norm in our culture. Their moderator said this in the description:
“Years ago, we began to notice that some news sources, and many ads, were not telling us the actual facts about things. These days we could say we've entered an "age of blatant lies," where media and leaders feel empowered to exaggerate, cherry pick, and outright lie in their statements, and AI "hallucinates" or creates fake videos using peoples' likenesses and voices. Yet, playing the “ain’t it awful” game doesn't serve us. Futurist and consciousness researcher Dr. Ruth L. Miller offers some insight into this dynamic, what we can do to discern factual reporting, and how important it is, both spiritually and metaphysically, to "be not deceived.“ “ Here are some of the YouTube links I used: Perceptual Deceptions https://youtu.be/oYp5XuGYqqY?si=uQzDDbQr4_R3GB60&t=237 Behavioral Clusters in Humans From a deception specialist https://youtu.be/iSqmOGojRpw?si=qa9aLsON4Zd-fzGE&t=287 Glitches in AI From 2 young guys: https://youtu.be/M4TXO4kQwSQ?si=1wwJzjLDHGDh_otK&t=103 From a software developer https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3Vwkg4Z_cAs From a debunker https://youtu.be/7akzhpx0EIU?si=w5_5Zlesr7qep52S&t=32 Here are a couple sample slides, linked to a PDF of the slides I used for the presentation on Saturday evening, February 21. 
It's hard to believe, but here we are in January, and I've already agreed to several presentations in the coming year, as follows:
At Center for Spiritual Awakening in Pacific Grove, California:
At Unity Village, outside Kansas City, Missouri
Check the Classes & Schedules page a few weeks ahead of each for details, or use the Contact form to learn more. The Affiliated New Thought Network (ANTN.org) invited me to present a workshop on how Advent can be a useful, even important, part of a New-Thought-based spiritual practice. A recording of that workshop is available on the ANTN site. CLICK HERE for a pdf file.
From the ancient year-end traditions of the Celtic people, the Roman Christians adopted and adapted a time of preparation for the birth of a new Son of the Sun, a Day-Spring, through whom the Light of God is with us. Today, these 4 weeks help us focus on the core of the New Thought tradition: the Hope of a New World, manifest through Faith and Love, through which Peace becomes our norm.
Recently, a student asked this question, clearly in reference to the many reports we hear these days of horrid things happening to people in the world today. I've wrestled with this for a long time, and found myself going beyond my usual answer, so I thought I'd share here what came out of my mouth in response :) I grew up being told and believing that to be compassionate was: "Oh, those poor people, how horrible for them!" That, however, was actually a form of pity. It placed me outside and above the experience of others, and made me quite uncomfortable. As I became an adult, I realized that pity is useless. In the world of Buddhists, Christian ministers, and social workers that I was working in, compassion became a sense of "there but for Grace go I" combined with a call to action: see someone suffering; do what you can to fix it. That form of compassion, though, required barriers and boundaries. I was no longer outside the situation and I couldn't actually "suffer with" (the literal meaning of com - from the Latin cum, with - and passion - from the Latin passio, endure/suffer) if I was going to fix the problem. I didn't have the kind of boundaries that would let me deal with people in great distress without becoming distressed with them, which, as I told my student, was why I chose not to work in "Skid Row" when I was doing community development. As I sat there saying these things, the following words happened: "Compassion is dropping the barriers we've built against others so we see them as they truly are, regardless of the circumstances they are in, and as we do so, seeing the circumstances replaced with what the person is ready to experience." Effectively, then, the highest form of compassion is to engage in a Spiritual Mind Treatment, as outlined in this slide from last night's presentation:  Last night, August 16, I did a slide presentation for an IONS community group, designed to help them make sense of what is happening in the world today, and what we can do to move through it - individually and collectively. Below are some key slides... the YouTube link .... and CLICK HERE for a pdf file
Resources from the presentation:
It's the time of year when people all over the world have, for millennia, celebrated the Great Mother - as the Earth, as the Divine Feminine, as the "Mother of God." And a huge part of our relationship with the Mother is our experience in the womb and the birthing process - which is, in many ways, what is happening today. Here's a link to a talk I gave as part of the May 4 (may the "forthe" be with you :) Sunday service at Portland Center for Spiritual Living that provides an overview of the birthing we're going through today.  I delivered a talk at the Florence Unitarian Universalist Fellowship that I hope will help people have less anxiety as we move through this transition period for all of humanity. CLICK on the image below for a link to a pdf of the slides i used. I included a short video of Donald Hoffman's explanation of how what we perceive is not real; CLICK HERE for a link to the full lecture.  When my book, Unveiling Your Hidden Power, was translated into German and published last winter, we began to schedule a book tour. It looked like the easiest way to get from town to town without constant packing and repacking was to take a boat tour up the Rhine from Basel, Switzerland, to Amsterdam. What follows are some of my accounts from that trip.   CLICK HERE for a link to a talk I gave to the Florence Unitarian Universalist congregation on the Sunday following the November 2024 election of Donald Trump as president. Most of the people in the room were in distress because of what they believed the election of this man, and this platform, means for the future of Americans.
And if you need another voice saying very much the same thing, here's a longtime student of intuition and prophecy, with his take on what's happening now: https://youtu.be/-qB9AO2JJAc?si=0uBq3zQdoW0Uinsb |
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