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Upcoming Conferences and Workshops with Ralph Metzner
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May 22 - May 24, 2009, Petaluma, CA (IONS)
Alchemical Divination:
Remembering the Past, Envisioning Possible Futures
June 12, 13 &14, 2009, Equinox Festival, London, England
Alchemical Divination:
Remembering the Past, Envisioning Possible Futures
June 16, 2009, October Gallery, London, England
Ralph will give a lecture on his new book with Ram Dass
Birth of a Psychedelic Culture
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Read Ralph's blogs at Alive Mind & Spirit
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ralph Metzner's three latest blogs are:
#13 Mythic Dimensions of Domination and War
#12 A Meditation on Oneness and Wholeness
#11 Expansions of Collective Consciousness -- The 1960s - II
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Just Published! by Ralph Metzner
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 Alchemical Divination
Accessing Your Spiritual Intelligence for Healing and Guidance
This is the third in the new series of books on The Ecology of Consciousness, published by Green Earth Foundation.
Click Here to Order
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Forthcoming by Ram Dass & Ralph Metzner
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Birth of a Psychedelic Culture, by Ram Dass and Ralph Metzner, with Gary Bravo.
Conversations about Leary, the Harvard Experiments, Millbrook and the Sixties
Forthcoming from Synergetic Press, Santa Fe, NM
Click here for more information
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| Current Commentaries
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * Ron Paul-A Radical Conservative - This is a link to a video of a speech by Rep. Ron Paul, in the House, on February 12. It's the watershed statement of a radical conservative.
http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Find-Freedom.htm?At=045665&From=News
* Re-thinking Afghanistan - President Obama just committed 17,000 more soldiers to fight the war in Afghanistan. This decision raises scores of questions that must be addressed about troops, costs, overall mission, and exit strategy. Historically, it has been Congress' duty to ask these questions in the form of oversight hearings that challenge policymakers, examine military spending, and educate the public. The President has demonstrated his commitment to plurality of opinion and open debate on issues that impact our country most profoundly. Rethink Afghanistan, is a new feature-length documentary in the tradition of Uncovered: The War on Iraq and Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers. This documentary will foster the kind of discussion, debate and dissent Obama has called for, hopefully serving as a driving force to help make oversight hearings a reality.
http://rethinkafghanistan.com/?utm_source=rgemail
* Hazel Henderson on Global Financial Reform - The inspiring article on global financial reform below was written by Hazel Henderson, one of the most courageous, unstoppable pioneers of our day. Independent futurist, worldwide syndicated columnist, and advocate for ecologically sustainable human development and socially responsible business and investment, Ms. Henderson is also founder of the transformational Ethical Markets website and TV program. Her concise essay describes why the old financial system is crumbling and how the new financiers are now creating global financial reform and offering exciting new possibilities for our world.
"The old financiers and central bankers can no longer have a monopoly on money and its creation. Information-based currencies and trading platforms will operate wherever necessary for evolving human communities so as to match needs with resources and create jobs - from local and regional to national and international exchange. Today's financial "crisis" is facilitating the evolutionary jump to the next stage of human development - shifting from faulty, money-measured GDP growth to the cleaner, greener, sustainable economies."
http://www.wanttoknow.info/banking_finance/080314_financial_reform_global
* Lester Brown on Global Food Shortages In the May 2009 issue of "Scientific American," Lester Brown discusses how food shortages could be the weak link that brings down civilization. In this feature article, "Could Food Shortages Bring Down Civilization?" Brown reveals that the biggest threat to global political stability is the potential for food crises in poor countries to cause government collapse. Those crises are brought on by rising demand and ever worsening environmental degradation. Without a massive intervention to reverse these three environmental trends, Brown argues, more and more states will fail, ultimately threatening civilization itself. In the article, Brown discusses measures to reverse the trends. "Among other steps," he says, "it will take a massive restructuring of the world energy economy similar in scale and urgency to the wartime restructuring of the U.S. industrial economy in 1942." (Lester R. Brown is president of Earth Policy Institute and author of Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization.)
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=civilization-food-shortages
* New Foundation to promulgate the teachings of Ram Dass - A group of friends and supporters have put together a new foundation called Love Serve Remember. It will disseminate the spiritual teachings of Neem Karoli Baba and Ram Dass. It will support Ram Dass' current online teaching and archive and digitize his lectures and writings so they will be more widely available. LSR also sponsors residential Ram Dass retreats in Hawaii, satsang gatherings, webcasts, and online dialogs with other teachers to keep the spiritual channel open to Ram Dass. For more information on the foundation, go to:
http://www.ramdass.org/LoveServeRemember/tabid/504/Default.aspx.
* Fantastic images of East Africans in body paint and costumes of leaves, flowers and branches.
http://greenearthfound.org/pdf/africa.pdf
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