Imagining Forgiveness

Santa Barbara IONS Community Group Institute of Noetic Sciences Sunday, March 30, 2014 2:00 – 4:00 pm Guided Visualization and the Noetic With Juliet Rohde-Brown, PhD Non-local consciousness has always been the major area of inquiry for IONS. How we make choices around what we visualize can have a crucial impact on our overall health […]

  PLEASE JOIN US AS WE ENTER INTO SPRING WITH FLOWER PAINTINGS BY JAMES PAUL BROWN

“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”                                                                                                                        William Shakespeare On a contemplative walk through the gardens at Mercy Center last fall, I took a photograph of a rose with my cell phone camera. My husband, James, then painted his impression of it. How wonderful […]

MLK by James Paul Brown   “Faith is taking the first step, even when you don’t see the whole staircase.” Martin Luther King Jr.

    As you enter 2014 and make some resolutions for the new year , I highly recommend a book by Stephen Levine entitled Becoming Kuan Yin as an anchor for being called to your true nature. Here are a few quotes from the book that I would like to share as a New Year’s […]

  A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

     “The song sings itself from the still small voice within, and we trust in not knowing what comes next.”   Stephen Levine (2013)                                                                                                                                         From the book Becoming Kuan Yin: The Evolution of Compassion, p. 57  

You may wish to attend a wonderful workshop coming up at La Casa de Maria Sept. 27-29th, facilitated by a very special couple who walk their talk. Here is the description provided as well as the link for registration: Compassion as a Way of Life: Becoming the Bodhisattvas that We Already Are with Radhule Weininger […]

  Photo by Shanthi Bhavana There are almost 4000 citations in the current psychological literature on mindfulness practices and the benefits to emotional, physical, and spiritual health. Extending from the research on mindfulness, there is a burgeoning area of research on Compassionate Care Therapy (CCT) and other compassion-based practices and related topics (i.e., empathy, the […]