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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.

in her own words

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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in her own words

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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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.

Identity & Spirituality: The Eagle & The Raven: Aboriginal Identity on the Prairies and the Coast

May 4 2012 - 9:00am
May 4 2012 - 4:00pm

Location

Urban Native Youth Association
1618 East Hastings Street
Vancouver, BC
Canada
Phone: 604-254-7732
49° 16' 52.4784" N, 123° 4' 19.4556" W

Dr. Martin Brokenleg will speak with us about two important issues when working with Native youth and families: identity and spirituality.

Dr. Martin Brokenleg consults worldwide and serves as a Vice President of Reclaiming Youth International, providing training for individuals who work with youth at risk. He holds a doctorate in psychology and is a graduate of the the Episcopal Divinity School. He is an Emeritus Professor and was most recently Director of Native Ministries and Professor of Native American Theology and Ministries at the Vancouver School of Theology in Vancouver, British Columbia. For 30 years, Dr. Brokenleg was Professor of Native American studies at Augustana College of Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

Contact name: 
Urban Native Youth Association
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spirituality

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

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."

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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

==>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
spirituality

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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