What's News - Sept. 2010

Crossroads Spiritual Center, a teaching affiliate of the Emerson Theological Institute, has announced its fall schedule of credit and noncredit classes and workshops. Designed to help you achieve personal and professional goals, learn practical tools for living a more joyous, productive life, and receive ministerial training credit if you desire it, there is something for everyone. Scheduled offerings include: Emerson’s Essays; Emotional Freedom Techniques; Hidden Mystery of the Bible; How Life Works; Forward Thinking/Forward Feeling: Practical Ways to Change Your Mind and Your Life, and more.

In addition to the current teaching staff of Rev. Diana Swenson and Rev. Dr. Marie Lane, three new teachers have been added to the fall schedule: Rev. Dennis Osgood, Debbie Lousberg, RScP, and Linda Gomez, EFT Practitioner. Please see our ad in this month’s “Calendar of Events” for the complete schedule and registration procedures. Find information at www.crossroadsntc.org or call the Center at 760-431-1831.

The Dance of Life-Into the Heart of Love Sept. 10–12

Join master musician and renowned Sufi teacher Pir Shabda Kahn for a joyous and heart-centered weekend of Dances of Universal Peace, Sufi Practices, teachings, and sitting and walking meditations. Experience the multi-cultural practices designed to awaken and touch the Spiritual Essence within. Shabda will be accompanied by drummer Gayan Gregory Long. Gayan has studied with teachers from around the world bringing masterful rhythms from the Middle East, Africa, and the Native Traditions of the Americas to the dance circle. Shabda is the Pir (Spiritual Director) of the Sufi Ruhaniat International, the Sufi lineage tracing from Hazrat Inayat Khan and Murshid Samuel Lewis. He travels throughout the world spreading the Sufi Message of Love, Harmony and Beauty. All are welcome! Come for the weekend, or just for Friday night. www.onesunsandiego.com/events or call Louise 619-415-3568

Richard Moss on ‘Awakening to Our Greatness’

“Awakening to Our Greatness” is the title of a workshop to be presented at Joyful Living Church in Mission Valley on Sunday, Sep. 12, by Rev. Dr. Rick Moss.

Dr. Moss is the developer of Pre-Cognitive Re-Education (Pre-Cog) and has an intuitive ability to read and help eliminate subconscious blocks. He developed this work after teaching meditation for 20 years and realizing that wholeness experience alone does not change subconscious patterns. By itself , it is not enough for transformation.

Dr. Moss says, “there exists within us a Greatness. It is our Inherent Nature, our Essence. And, yet, too often we live on the periphery of this Greatness.”

The workshop is designed to assist participants in beginning the process of releasing the limiting beliefs, retained emotions and old patterns that block access to the Love, abundance, intuition and joyfulness that is our True Nature and our birthright.

Dr. Moss will be the guest speaker at the Sunday morning service beginning at 10 AM and will facilitate the workshop from 1 to 3:30 PM. There is a $50 donation for the afternoon workshop. Joyful Living Church is located at 3505 Camino del Rio South in Mission Valley. Contact the Church at (619) 521-4800 or www.joyfullivingsandiego.org.

Recycle E-Waste Free at VISION Sept. 12

On Sunday, Sep. 12, beginning at 10am, VISION: A Center for Spiritual Living will be hosting a Free Recycling Event. It’s time to clean out the storage units of those old TVs, outdated computers, dead fax machines and copiers; find the cellphones that have been replaced by the newer technologies, and bring them in for proper recycling. This is an easy way to help protect Mother Earth and clean out your closets and storage units. VISION is located at 11260 Clairemont Mesa Blvd. For further information and directions visit www.visioncsl.com

“Our Toxic World” lecture by Dan Harper Sept. 16

Dan Harper, M.D., will be speaking on “Our Toxic World: Chemicals damage your body, brain, behavior and sex,” at the Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation (PPNF) Thursday. Sep. 16 from 7-9pm. Admission is $20 for nonmembers. Call 619-462-7600.

Dr. Harper believes the body was created to heal itself—given proper nutrition and removal of toxic factors in the environment that hinder health.

Learn: How chemicals and pesticides can hurt you and your family. Symptoms of chemical toxicity. Safe ways to detox. How to protect yourself, your home, your community, and the environment from further damage.

Human Rights Watch Film Festival in San Diego

For the first time in its 21-year history, The Human Rights Watch Film Festival is coming to San Diego. The 2010 Human Rights Watch Film Festival is the world’s foremost showcase for films with a distinctive human rights theme. It creates a forum for courageous individuals on both sides of the lens to empower audiences with the knowledge that personal commitment can make a difference. Festival dates are Sep. 18-19 and 23-25 at the Museum of Photographic Arts, 1649 El Prado, Balboa Park, in San Diego. See www.mopa.org

Cathy Hearn Rev. Kathy Hearn Speaking Sept. 19

Rev. Dr. Kathy Hearn will be the Special Guest Speaker at the Sunday Celebration at VISION: A Center for Spiritual Living on Sep. 19 at 10am. Dr. Hearn is the Spiritual Leader for the United Centers for Spiritual Living, an international organization dedicated to introducing people throughout the world to the teachings of Ernest Holmes and Religious Science. VISION’s Founding Minister, Rev. Patti Paris, began her own spiritual journey as a student in a “Foundations Class” taught by Rev. Kathy Hearn. VISION is located at 11260 Clairemont Mesa Blvd. Visit www.visioncsl.com or call 619-303-6609.

Expand Your Consciousness Event Sept. 25 & 26

Reyon & Puddah will speak at special event Sep. 25-26 and have a boat trip Sep. 27.

The “Expand Your Consciousness” Event is in Encinitas, 10 AM to 5:30 PM. Come together to RAISE Your Vibration, from the Whales that hold the Codes of Creation , create YOUR Living Merkaba, and be a part of an amazing event unlike any other presented before!

Grandma Chandra will channel “The 13 Codes of the Whales of Creation & the Genesis of Peace” (GrandmaChandra.com). Hear world famous Galactic Messenger Judith Moore’s message, “The Prophecy of Creation through the Holographic Heart” (RecordsofCreation.com). Hear the music and message of world famous composer Paul Lloyd Warner (MusicforPeace.com). Experience creating your own Living Light Field-Merkaba and view the new film “Messages from the Whales & Dolphins” with Laurie Reyon & Puddah. For info & tickets, visit LaurieReyon.com or call 619/271-9461. One- or Two-Day passes available. Early Bird Tickets till Sep. 10.

Julian Apple Days Festival is October 2–3

Sponsored by the Julian Merchants Association, the Julian Apple Days Festival is Oct. 2 & 3, 10-5pm at Menghini Winery in Julian.

There are food and commercial/crafter vendor spaces available. More entertainment is also being sought for the event: clowns, magicians, musicians (old-fashioned music) and family style activities and games. Call Tracy Turner at 760-803-4377

Tom Zender: God Goes to Work on October 3

What if you got to work and found that God was already there? A new book titled God Goes To Work addresses the subject of God in the workplace. Author Tom Zender will be speaking & holding a workshop at Seaside Center for Spiritual Living in Encinitas on Oct. 3 at 1pm.

Some of the projected topics include: “How can you experience the Divine Presence in all you do?” and “Could you actually be ignoring your Higher Path to Prosperity?” A potpourri of subjects will be covered: your business tool kit, your spiritual assets, seven spiritual practices for the workplace, spiritual transactions and making spirituality & business true partners.

Though many well-known figures in New Thought highly recommend his work, including Marianne Williamson and Michael Bernard Beckwith, Deepak Chopra wrote the foreword to his book: “Tom’s understanding of both spirituality and business has led him to the knowledge that the two are not separate entities—they are two sides of the same coin, and he deftly shows their integration in this timely book.”

Go to www.SeasideCenter.org and click on events for more.

Dr. Jane Goodall speaking at Bioneers October 17

Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE, founder of the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI) and a UN Messenger of Peace, will be a plenary speaker at the 21st annual Bioneers (www.bioneers.org) Conference on Sunday, October 17, at the Marin Center in San Rafael CA.

This year marks a monumental milestone for JGI and Dr. Goodall. Fifty years ago, Goodall, who is today a world-renowned primatologist, conservationist and humanitarian, first set foot on the shores of Lake Tanganyika, in what is now Tanzania’s Gombe National Park. The chimpanzee behavioral research she pioneered there has produced a wealth of scientific discovery, and her vision has expanded into a global mission to empower people to make a difference for all living things.

It is Dr. Goodall’s frequent reminder: “Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.” Her lecture is titled, Gombe and Beyond: The Next 50 Years.

Bioneers, a nonprofit educational organization that highlights breakthrough solutions for restoring people and the planet, will kick off its annual conference in San Rafael October 15-17. Leading social and scientific innovators will gather to present breakthrough solutions inspired by nature and human creativity.

For more information, go to Bioneers.org.