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Upcoming Conferences and Workshops with Ralph Metzner
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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
April 27 to May 2, 2010, Lucerne, Switzerland
Janus and the Gateway of the Heart
Metzner Alchemical Divination Training
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Read Ralph's blogs at Alive Mind & Spirit
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ralph Metzner's three latest blogs are:
#14 What is Divination?
#13 Mythic Dimensions of Domination and War
#12 A Meditation on Oneness and Wholeness
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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
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ *President Obama just made a remarkable speech in Egypt, committing personally to building peace in the Middle East. Unexpectedly, his first move is to directly challenge the new right-wing government of America's ally Israel -- pressing them to stop their self-destructive policy of settlements (illegal colonies set up on territory recognised by the US and the world as Palestinian). This is a moment of rare crisis and opportunity. Obama's bold strategy is facing powerful opposition, so he's going to need help around the world in the coming days and weeks to strengthen his resolve. Let's start right now -- by raising a massive global chorus behind Obama's statement that the settlements in occupied territory must stop. There is broad agreement that the settlements are a significant barrier to peace, a view also shared by a silent majority of the Israeli public. Combined with a network of roadblocks and barriers, these colonies now blanket the West Bank, seizing territory and forcing Palestinians to live effectively as prisoners in smaller and smaller pockets. Until this problem is tackled, it seems impossible to build a viable Palestinian state or any kind of lasting peace. For Arab states deciding what more they themselves can do for peace, stopping the settlements has become a crucial test of Israel's seriousness. We'll need to urge the other parties to take bold steps too. If we can help Obama to stay the course on settlements, shift Israeli policy and encourage the Palestinians and key Arab states also to stretch out their hands, a new beginning for the Middle East is possible. https://secure.avaaz.org/en/obama_stop_settlements/
*Tikkun, is the magazine of Politics Spirituality and Culture associated with the Network of Spiritual Progressives (both founded by Rabbi Michael Lerner). The May/June '09 issue carries a number of very interesting and provocative articles on the economy and sustainability. They include "Why Capitalism Shouldn't be Saved," "Why Marx was wrong and Mother Nature is right," "A Case for Economic Democracy" and others. http://www.tikkun.org/
*Nexus, which calls itself "a magazine for alternative news, health, future science and the unexplained." Is published in Australia and edited by Duncan Roads. The essays in the May/June '09 are typical of the scope of this unusual source: "America's fiscal and social collapse," "The Prostate Cancer Link to Bacteria," "The Cordyceps Medicinal Mushroom," "Solar Cycles and Earth's Magnetic Field," "Prophecies and the Great Pyramid," and "Alien Implants under the Microscope." http://nexusmagazine.com/
*Vaccine Autism Coverup, an interview with Robert F. Kennedy: Six out of every 1,000 kids get it, and nobody knows exactly why. But my next guest says ... part of the blame ... needs to fall on government. And it has to do with a drug called thimerosal. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a senior attorney for the Natural Resources Defense [Council]. Let's talk tonight about thimerosal. There are a lot of people out there ... very concerned about the impact of this drug, which is found in vaccines, and how it causes autism. KENNEDY: Thimerosal is a preservative that was put in vaccines back in the 1930s. Almost immediately after it was put in, autism cases began to appear. Autism had never been known before. Then the vaccines were increased in 1989 by the CDC and by a couple of other government agencies. We went up from receiving about 10 vaccines in our generation to these kids receive 24 vaccines. And they all had this thimerosal in them, this mercury. And nobody bothered to do an analysis of what the cumulative impact of all that mercury was doing to kids. As it turns out, we are injecting our children with 400 times the amount of mercury that FDA or EPA considers safe. A child on his first day that he is born is injected with a hepatitis B shot. Under EPA guidelines, he would have to be 275 pounds to safely absorb that shot. What happened was that, in 1988, one in every 2,500 American children had autism. Today, one in every 166 children have autism. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8316237
Note: For an excellent article by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. revealing the severe manipulations around vaccines, click here. For a seven-minute video clip of the above interview click here.
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