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Hay House – Spiritual Retreats & Events 2009
January 19, 2009 by Ray Baskerville · 5 Comments
Louise Hay formed Hay House in 1987, fully 22 years ago now. Beginning as an independent publishing company it has grown and evolved over the years. Activities now include HayHouse radio network launched in 2005 and an ever increasing number of annual events and author tours.
2009 is no exception and in these challenging times of change and uncertainty more are more will be looking for information and guidance to navigate their life choices. Let’s take a look then at some of the wonderful opportunities on offer over the coming months.
With Barack Obama coming into office tomorrow there could be no better time to attend "I Can Do It!" This year in Toronto April 2-5, it will feature Colette Baron-Reid, Gregg Braden, Sylvia Browne, Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, John Holland, Caroline Myss, Dr. Christiane Northrup, Marcelle Pick, Cheryl Richardson, Brian L. Weiss, M.D. You can join your favorite authors for the whole retreat or go for a specific day.
Or April 30 – May 3 join a massive line up of – Colette Baron-Reid, Joan Z. Borysenko, Ph.D., Gregg Braden, Sonia Choquette, Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, Jonathan Ellerby, Ph.D., Steven D. Farmer, Jonathan Goldman, Jean Haner, Louise L. Hay, Robert Holden, Ph.D., John Holland, Mark Husson, Deborah King , Loretta LaRoche, Robert L. Leahy, Denise Linn, Frank Lipman, Bruce H. Lipton, Ph.D., Lauren Mackler, Denise Marek, Thomas Moore, Caroline Myss, Dr. Christiane Northrup, Robert Ohotto, Marcelle Pick, Chris Prelitz, Gary R. Renard, Cheryl Richardson, Mona Lisa Schulz, M.D., Ph.D., Caroline Sutherland, Eldon Taylor, Sandra Anne Taylor, Doreen Virtue, Brian L. Weiss, M.D., Lisa Williams, Marianne Williamson For I CAn Do It! in San Diego
And if you are into cruises and fancy seeing Alaska in the summer there is I Can Do It! 2009 At Sea July 11-18, 2009 Featuring Gregg Braden, Sonia Choquette, Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, Louise L. Hay, John Holland, Caroline Myss, Cheryl Richardson, Iyanla Vanzant, Brian L. Weiss, M.D.
Other highlights to look out for are Wayne Dyer’s 2009 Live Tour
Excuses Begone! How to Change Lifelong Self-Defeating Thinking Habits
4/3/09 Toronto Canada
5/1/09 San Diego
7/11/09 Alaska
10/23/09 right here on Maui, Hawaii
An Intensive with Colette Baron-Reid
Your Partnership With Spirit …. Discovering the Truth of Having It ALL
Date: February 18, 2009 – February 22, 2009, Scottsdale Arizona
Your Partnership With Spirit …. Discovering the Truth of Having It ALL is a 5-day intensive about a Quantum Shift in perception. It’s about releasing false assumptions and beliefs that you’ve learned about yourself, and your relationship to the world around you. It’s about remembering, experiencing and reclaiming the powerful Truth about who you really are—Spirit first, human second.
Caroline Myss Tour -2009. This will be a day long workshop with Caroline Myss- Beyond Reason: Healing though Mystical Wisdom and Common Sense.
The day explores the mystical qualities involved in the experience of healing, instructing readers to move beyond the dilemma of needing to find logical reasons for why an illness has developed and instead get on with the task of personal transformation.
3/7/09 Boston MA
3/29/09 Mesa AZ
4/2/09 Toronto Canada
5/1/09 San Diego CA
7/11/09 Alaska cruise
Brian L. Weiss, M.D. 2008-2009 Tour
Many Lives, Many Masters: Experiencing Your Past Lives will be an all day workshop with one of the best know past life regressionists.
Do you want to know what happens before we are born and after we die and also our possible future lives. In such knowledge we awaken from the constrictions of our past conditioning to release anxieties and fears.
3/8/09 New York City
3/29/09 Seattle WA
4/2/09 Toronto Canada
5/1/09 San Diego CA
7/11/09 Alaska cruise
There are many other events with different authors and teacher full details can be found at Hay House Events 2009 Including Eckhart Tolle’s tour of Australia & New Zealand!
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Amma On Christmas & The New Year
January 3, 2009 by Ray Baskerville · 1 Comment
On Christmas day Amma gave a message to those in her Kerala ashram stressing the commonality of love in all mahatmas teachings. Amma went on to explaine the significance of Christ both referring to himself as “the son of man” as well as “the son of God.” She said that…Christ meant he was both the body, which exists in time, and the Atma, which is beyond time. “He meant that he was both a human being, as well as God." “He meant ‘I am this [the world] and I am that [consciousness].’”
“On Christmas Day, Christian children exchange gifts and kind words and wish one another Merry Christmas. This really reflects a sense of brotherhood. Amidst our celebrations, we should also remember the life and teachings of Christ… May the Christ child take birth in the hearts of all my children. May our lives be full of love and
“Living Liberation - Meditation Training, and so much more" "It changed my life"Find out moreAdyshanti – Beyond Ego
December 27, 2008 by Ray Baskerville · 2 Comments
After Christmas dinner with friends the conversation turned to spiritual matters. Sadly from my perspective it got stuck in ‘talk’.In my experience it is very difficult when there are more than 2 people to not get caught up in projecting or defending the egoic mind self. One on one I have had some profoundly deep conversations with spiritual friends, sharing insights and understanding of our process. Something clicks in these moments and no one is trying to prove anything.
What has this to do with Adyshanti, well, lucky guy that I am my wife gave me a place on a retreat with Adyashanti in March. I am so grateful and happy. Meditation is much more of a luxury now living a family life and 5 days meditating with Adya, well that’s pretty exciting to me. So here he is talking about the egoic mind, see, it’s all tying together now. Enjoy.
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Time To Think About Jesus
December 22, 2008 by Ray Baskerville · 2 Comments
Jesus, the story of his life teaching, seem far removed from the jingle bells tinged commercializing of this holiday season. It’s interesting for me then to be reading at the moment Deepak Chopra’s ‘The Third Jesus’.
It makes very stimulating and thought-provoking reading. In the book Chopra looks at the life and teachings of Jesus through the lens of his own spiritual awareness. This view is stripped of all religious iconification. One of the things of this does is made clear exactly how far away from Jesus’s teachings the Church of his name so often is.
More importantly is the attention on the spiritual dimension of the teachings themselves, and the challenges we face in attempting to live them. A great example of this is a recuring point that Chopra returns to from many different angles. Rather than the church’s perpetuation of heaven as somewhere removed from the earth awaiting those who were were righteous, Chopra points over and over again to Jesus saying that heaven was within us. All of us.
Chopra references many different versions of the Bible, and other Scriptures which were left out in the Bibles construction over the years. To those with an open-minded interest this is both a valuable
“Living Liberation - Meditation Training, and so much more" "It changed my life"Find out moreAdyshanti – What Do You Really Want?
December 4, 2008 by Ray Baskerville · Leave a Comment
This is one of my favorite questions, when I am feeling confused. In this video Adyshanti touches on a deep application of the question with profound ramifications.
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Byron Katie & The Work
November 20, 2008 by Ray Baskerville · Leave a Comment
If you aren’t familiar with Byron Katie and ‘The Work’ I am very happy to introduce both to you now. The video gives a little glimpse of who this wonderful woman is and what she is about.
The work is outlined below, it is a simple method of self inquiry, of questioning the nature of a thought or belief. It elegantly leads to to the insight that a thought is only true when you believe it is, and when we question it freedom becomes available. Why not give it a try?
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Judge Your Neighbor
For thousands of years we’ve been told not to judge, but we still do it all the time—how our friends should act, whom our children should care about, what our parents should feel, do, or say. In The Work, rather than suppress these judgments, we use them as starting points for self-realization. By letting the judging mind have its life on paper, we discover through the mirror of those around us what we haven’t yet realized about ourselves.
Download a full worksheet for this part here.
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The Four Questions
Investigate each of your statements from the Judge-Your-Neighbor Worksheet using the four questions and the turnaround below. The Work is meditation. It’s about awareness, not about trying to change your thoughts. Ask the questions, then take your time, go inside, and wait for the deeper answers to surface. Download the blue sheet for use as a facilitation guide.
In its most basic form, The Work consists of four questions and a turnaround. For example, the first thought that you might question on the above Worksheet is "Paul doesn’t listen to me." Find someone in your life about whom you have had that thought, and let’s do The Work. "[Name] doesn’t listen to me":
Is it true?
Can you absolutely know that it’s true?
How do you react, what happens, when you believe that thought?
Who would you be without the thought?
Then turn it around (the concept you are questioning), and don’t forget to find three genuine examples of each turnaround.
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Turn it Around
After you’ve investigated your statement with the four questions, you’re ready to turn it around (the concept you are questioning).
Each turnaround is an opportunity to experience the opposite of your original statement and see what you and the person you’ve judged have in common.
A statement can be turned around to the opposite, to the other, and to the self (and sometimes to "my thinking," wherever that applies). Find a minimum of three genuine examples in your life where each turnaround is true.
For example, "Paul doesn’t understand me" can be turned around to "Paul does understand me." Another turnaround is "I don’t understand Paul." A third is "I don’t understand myself."
Be creative with the turnarounds. They are revelations, showing you previously unseen aspects of yourself reflected back through others. Once you’ve found a turnaround, go inside and let yourself feel it. Find a minimum of three genuine examples where the turnaround is true in your life.
As I began living my turnarounds, I noticed that I was everything I called you. You were merely my projection. Now, instead of trying to change the world around me (this didn’t work, but only for 43 years), I can put the thoughts on paper, investigate them, turn them around, and find that I am the very thing I thought you were. In the moment I see you as selfish, I am selfish (deciding how you should be). In the moment I see you as unkind, I am unkind. If I believe you should stop waging war, I am waging war on you in my mind.
The turnarounds are your prescription for happiness. Live the medicine you have been prescribing for others. The world is waiting for just one person to live it. You’re the one.
Examples of Turnarounds
Here are a few more examples of turnarounds:
"He should understand me" turns around to:
– He shouldn’t understand me. (This is reality.)
– I should understand him.
– I should understand myself.
"I need him to be kind to me" turns around to:
– I don’t need him to be kind to me.
– I need me to be kind to him. (Can I live it?)
– I need me to be kind to myself.
"He is unloving to me" turns around to:
– He is loving to me. (To the best of his ability)
– I am unloving to him. (Can I find it?)
– I am unloving to me (When I don’t inquire.)
"Paul shouldn’t shout at me" turns around to:
– Paul should shout at me. (Obviously: In reality, he does sometimes. Am I listening?)
– I shouldn’t shout at Paul.
– I shouldn’t shout at me.
(In my head, am I playing over and over again Paul’s shouting? Who’s more merciful, Paul who shouted once, or me who replayed it a 100 times?)
Embracing Reality
After you have turned around the judgments in your answers to numbers 1 through 5 on the Worksheet (asking if they are as true or truer), turn number 6 around using "I am willing …" and "I look forward to …"
For example, "I don’t ever want to experience an argument with Paul" turns around to "I am willing to experience an argument with Paul" and "I look forward to experiencing an argument with Paul." Why would you look forward to it?
Number 6 is about fully embracing all of mind and life without fear, and being open to reality. If you experience an argument with Paul again, good. If it hurts, you can put your thoughts on paper and investigate them. Uncomfortable feelings are merely the reminders that we’ve attached to something that may not be true for us. They let us know that it’s time to do The Work.
Until you can see the enemy as a friend, your Work is not done. This doesn’t mean you must invite him to dinner. Friendship is an internal experience. You may never see him again, you may even divorce him, but as you think about him are you feeling stress or peace?
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Enlightenment – Eckhart Tolle
November 10, 2008 by Ray Baskerville · Leave a Comment
Continuing our look at the how different spiritual teachers describe enlightenment, here is a video of Echart Tolle speaking on the subject.
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What Is Enlightenment? Adyshanti
November 6, 2008 by Ray Baskerville · Leave a Comment
If you consider yourself on a spiritual path, then most likely you have some ideas about enlightenment, probably many. Even if you aren’t, don’t meditate, do yoga and never said OM, you may have some ideas about enlightenment. During my life my ideas about enlightenment have altered radically, looking back what I thought when I was 23 seem absurd in the light of the experiences of the ensuing years.
Here speaking very straightforwardly about it – Adyshanti, personally i feel he knows what he is talking about.
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Spiritual Leaders For Obama
October 30, 2008 by Ray Baskerville · 3 Comments
I am not of the opinion that the spiritual and the worldly or profane are separate. It is my belief that as we move into the 21st century we will see more and more cohesion and integration of the spiritual in worldly life. Other than those living in remote caves in the high Himalayas, I imagine that the vast majority of the world’s population is aware that next Tuesday America will elect a new president.
America is a melting pot, of races, religions and spiritual paths. When understood and embraced this diversity gives great strength and character to what is still a relatively young nation. Spiritual leaders from different faiths and persuasions have come together as a group to write a letter and endorse Barack Obama as a true leader for these tumultuous times. I fully support their view and their endorsement.
Deepak Chopra, Jack Kornfield, Lama Surya Das. Jean Houston, Jack Kornfield, Reggie Ray, Reb Zalman Shachter-Shalomi, Seane Corn, Cyndi Lee, Jack Canfield, Shiva Rea, Pema Chödrön, Marianne Williamson, Barbara De Angelis, Roshi Joan Halifax, Joan Borysenko, Krishna Das, Sharon Salzberg, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Stephan Rechtschaffen, Judith Ansara Gass, Robert Gass – and more every day!
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