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Peering into the human condition with psychic Collette Baron-Reid

Has watching Rod Ford got you down? If you ask me, the right-wing surge is getting way too close for comfort. What the hell is going on in the psyches of this once-considered intelligent species?

I ask myself questions like this regularly which may be part of the problem (note to Klein-haters -- that is a joke).

Nevertheless, when I heard that home-grown psychic heavy-hitter Collette Baron-Reid was coming to town to give a show tonight (Friday, October 15) with medium John Holland at the Isabel Bader theatre (7 p.m., see listing), I decided ask her for her thoughts.

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Learning from nature's design

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What is life really all about? Is nature trying to tell us something? The young discipline of biomimicry is coming into being based on a deep biological read of exactly these two questions.

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babble: Mystic experiences as an alternative spirituality

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Mystical experiences, and the pursuit of them, present an alternative path to god that is both more progressive and both more consistent with our observed reality.
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A healing walk around the tar sands dead zone

Organized and led by Indigenous people and welcome to everyone, roughly a 100 walkers trekked through a 13-kilometre loop that could be called the Ground Zero of Alberta's dirty oil industry. Photo: Jason Franson.

I had the honour of participating in a healing walk through the Alberta tar sands on Sunday, Aug. 14. Organized and led by Indigenous people and welcome to everyone, roughly a 100 walkers trekked through a 13-kilometre loop that could be called the Ground Zero of Alberta's dirty oil industry. We witnessed the images you are probably familiar with by now: the industrial plants spewing smoke into the air, the enormous tailings ponds that are deadly to all life, the moonscape denuded of trees or anything green.

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Healing ancestral relationships is important to activism

"There's a cartoon where activists march bearing placards. ‘No more motorways,' says one. ‘Stop the War,' demands another. ‘Down with the corporations,' shouts a third. And, finally, the guy at the end proclaims, ‘I hate my dad!'"
- Andrew Harvey

While personal pain is probably not the sole motivation for why activists do what we do, we probably all have to admit that it plays some role, even if only to sensitize us to the suffering of others. Perhaps, however, we are unaware of just how much personal pain we carry with us into our work.

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Protest culture: How's it working for us?

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In any given week (outside of G20 season) I receive no less than 10 (and usually more) call outs for protests, rallies, marches, pickets, vigils or other actions supporting a variety of causes. Like every other activist, I support these causes but find it impossible to actually attend all.

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Community, 'relationship framework' and implications for activism

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What is community? It was a question I got asked a lot when I worked for a community arts organization.
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Cosmogony of the Gulf spill: The world is ours as we are the world's

Writing in The Guardian on the Gulf spill as a "hole in the world," Naomi Klein says: "Virtually all indigenous cultures have myths about gods and spirits living in the natural world. ... Calling the Earth ‘sacred' is another way of expressing humility in the face of forces we do not fully comprehend. When something is sacred, it demands that we proceed with caution." I'd like to extend this intriguing thought beyond smallish surviving cultures to most of the history of thought about the nature of the world and our place in it.

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Can yoga help change the world?

Yoga for a World Out of Balance

Yoga for a World Out of Balance: Teachings on Ethics and Social Action

by Michael Stone
(Shambala Publications,
2009;
$21.00)

Yoga for a World Out of Balance is a refreshing look at why yoga practitioners and spiritual traditions concerned exclusively with the pursuit of inner peace and enlightenment for individuals is an inadequate and ineffective response to spiritual growth in today's (or any other) world. The book convincingly and passionately argues for conceptualizing one's personal spiritual growth as inseparable from spiritual evolution for all.

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Experience the genius of embodied thinking based on Philip Shepherd's book New Self, New World

Jan 15 2011 - 10:00am
Jan 16 2011 - 6:00pm

Location

Beit Zatoun
612 Markham Street (by Bathurst subway)
Toronto, ON
Canada
Phone: 647.726.9500
43° 39' 53.2584" N, 79° 24' 44.6868" W
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Part 1 - Saturday, January 15 from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

We are all limited by the story our culture teaches us about what it means to be human. The problem is that we grow up with that story from childhood, so it remains almost invisible to us -- and what we can't see, we can't question. Our particular story tells us in a million ways that it is normal to live in our heads -- and that creates a gap between our thinking and our being. So deeply are we affected that we consider it a great virtue to "listen to the body."

Contact email: 
info@beitzatoun.org
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Trans film night:: 'Two Spirits'

Nov 22 2010 - 6:00pm
Nov 22 2010 - 8:00pm

Location

William Doo Auditorium
45 Willcocks
Toronto, ON M5S 1C7
Canada
Phone: 416-978-8201
Fax: 416-978-1078
43° 39' 40.608" N, 79° 24' 2.5668" W
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==>Trans Film Night: "TWO SPIRITS"
==>Free Film! Free Snacks! Free Talk!

The Trans Inclusion Group hosts a FREE screening of: "TWO SPIRITS"

co-hosted by the Women and Gender Studies Student Union

Everyone welcome. Allies welcome.

Contact name: 
The Centre for Women and Trans People UT
Contact email: 
womens.centre@utoronto.ca
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Five Paragons: A Visionary History of our Dawning Holistic Paradigm

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The secret to success on Earth

Spontaneous Evolution

Spontaneous Evolution: Our Positive Future (and a way to get there from here)

by Bruce H. Lipton and Steve Bhaerman
(Hay House,
2009;
$32.95)

The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter & Miracles by Bruce H. Lipton (Hay House, 2008; $29.95)

"What if everything you know is wrong?" So asks biologist Bruce Lipton in Biology of Belief, which illustrates how recent scientific discoveries, most notably those of quantum physics and the human genome project, require that we shift our thinking around health care.

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Yoga Meltdown

Jul 18 2010 - 12:00am

Location

Centre Island Toronto
Canada
43° 39' 9" N, 79° 22' 54.0012" W
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Yoga Meltdown

Third Annual Yoga Meltdown - July 18th, 2010 As Toronto's largest, free, outdoor spiritual yoga exhibition and festival, Yoga Meltdown has quickly made a name for itself amongst the GTA's multitude of yoga enthusiasts.  The 3rd Annual Yoga Meltdown - held as a part of the 38th Annual Festival of India (July 17th-18th, 2010) - will take place on July 18th, 2010, under the sun and amidst the verdent greenery of Centre Island.  With free outdoor yoga classes, yoga-inspired arts and performances, vegan cooking demonstrations, a free vegetarian feast, and much more, the 3rd Annual Yoga Meltdown celebrates yoga in a dynamic and uniquely holistic way!  

Contact email: 
info@yogameltdown.com
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