Sunday, May 13, 2012

Institute of Noetic Sciences: IONS 

Exploring the mysteries and the  

extraordinary potential of consciousness

IONS UPDATE: Meeting Tuesday, May 15, 2012 

Hello Baltimore IONS Members!    

We have a very special author event for this month's meeting. Join us on Tuesday, May 15, at 7 pm, to meet the author Theodore Richards, who is visiting us from Chicago. Theodore is the author of several books, including The Crucifixion and Cosmosophia. 

Theodore will focus on the importance of what he believes to be one of the most fundamental roles of the human: the Mythmaker. This work is particularly crucial at this moment in human history, which describes as "apocalyptic."

Theodore Richards, PhD, is a poet, writer, and religious philosopher. He is a long time student of the Taoist martial art of Bagua and hatha yoga and has traveled, worked or studied in 25 different countries, including the South Pacific, the Far East, the Indian subcontinent, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America. Theodore has received degrees from the University of Chicago, The California Institute of Integral Studies, Wisdom University, and the New Seminary where he was ordained. He has worked with inner city youth on the South Side of Chicago, Harlem, the South Bronx, and Oakland, where he was the director of YELLAWE, an innovative program for teens in Oakland created by Matthew Fox.  

He is the author of Handprints on the Womb, a collection of poetry; Cosmosophia: Cosmology, Mysticism, and the Birth of a New Myth, recipient of the Independent Publisher Awards Gold Medal in religion; the novel The Crucifixion; and the forthcoming Creatively Maladjusted: The Wisdom Education Movement Manifesto, which radically re-imagines education. Theodore Richards is the founder and executive director of The Chicago Wisdom Project and a dean and lecturer on world religions at The New Seminary. He lives in Chicago with his wife and daughter.  

Theodore's books will be available for purchase and signing.