Events

Community Events

Events listed here include short-term or daytime events such as art receptions, film showings, book signings, lectures, and dinner salons. If you are in the greater San Francisco Bay Area, please join us! To see longer EarthRise sponsored retreats, visit our Conscious Living Workshops section.

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  Special Event

  Full Moon Labyrinth Walk

  May 2013

  Sponsor

  Veriditas

  • May 24, 2013
  • Petaluma, CA

  Tonight's labyrinth walk has been cancelled.

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  Special Event

  Full Moon Drumming Circle

  May 2013

  Presenter

  Jason K. Norris

  Sponsor

  Lucid Drum

  • May 24, 2013
  • Petaluma, CA

  Come celebrate the Full Moon at EarthRise at IONS with our monthly drumming circle, facilitated by Jason K. Norris, founder of Lucid Drum! No experience is necessary, and all ages and levels are encouraged to participate.

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  Friendly Favors

  Transformational Movements Convergence

  Where Things are Heading and What the Global Crisis is Really About

  Presenter

  Richard Kelly Moore

  • May 16, 2013
  • Petaluma, CA

  This is a potluck dinner followed with a presentation by one of our most creative mathematicians and software problem solvers, who cashed out of Silicon Valley before its collapse and now enjoys studying from Europe our amazing American saga.

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  Science Buzz Café

  Twin Value Theory: Three Kinds of Money

  From Dr. Rudolf Steiner, Economist (The ‘other’ Austrian)

  Presenter

  Daniel Osmer

  Sponsors

  Aqus Café, EarthRise Center at IONS

  • May 7, 2013
  • Petaluma, CA

  Daniel Osmer will use PowerPoint images to stimulate a lively conversation about the nature of exchange, value, price, capital, and the economic process. Unlike stem cell research, modern life is asking us to ignore the ‘experts’ and wakeup economically in order to disenthrall ourselves from the idea that invisible market forces or the state direct the economy.

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  Special Event

  Full Moon Labyrinth Walk

  April 2013

  Sponsor

  Veriditas

  • Apr 25, 2013
  • Petaluma, CA

  Veriditas, in partnership with the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) and the EarthRise Retreat Center, will be offering a Full Moon Labyrinth Walk each month on or near the evening of the full moon. There is no cost for this hour-long event, but donations are gratefully accepted. First time walkers are welcome.

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  Special Event

  Full Moon Drumming Circle

  April 2013

  Presenter

  Jason K. Norris

  Sponsor

  Lucid Drum

  • Apr 25, 2013
  • Petaluma, CA

  Come celebrate the Full Moon at EarthRise at IONS with our monthly drumming circle, facilitated by Jason K. Norris, founder of Lucid Drum! No experience is necessary, and all ages and levels are encouraged to participate.

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  Special Event

  Living The Four Agreements

  A Transformational Workshop with don Miguel Ruiz

  Presenter

  don Miguel Ruiz, MD

  • Apr 21, 2013
  • Petaluma, CA

  Join author don Miguel Ruiz for an intimate evening of teachings on the principals found in his book The Four Agreements, and the worldwide media debut of findings from research conducted with Dr. Konstantin Korotkov at Ruiz events around the world, including his Dec 21, 2012 Teotihuacan program, Awakening the Giant.

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  Art Reception

  Circle, Circle, Circle

  Brushwork by Kazuaki Tanahashi

  Presenters

  Kazuaki Tanahashi, Aenea Keyes

  • Apr 14, 2013
  • Petaluma, CA

  Meet Kazuaki Tanahashi, Japanese born painter, calligrapher, writer, Zen Sensei, and peace activist for the joyful opening of his exhibit Circle, Circle, Circle. In a Violin-Brush Duet Waltz he will paint circles and spirals on a 6’x6’ canvas to the improvised violin music of Aenea Keys in a Violin-Brush Duet Waltz.

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  Friendly Favors

  Increasing Our Life Expectancy

  From Anti-Aging Herbs to New Longevity Drugs

  Presenter

  Bobby Wilder

  • Apr 11, 2013
  • Petaluma, CA

  Potluck dinner followed with a presentation by an investigative researcher who has been following for over 20 years the efforts of brilliant geneticists working fulltime to reverse aging and extend our human life expectancy to reach 150 years.

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  Art Reception

  Realms: In the Garden of Gaia

  An Exploration in Art and Vision

  Presenter

  Dana Lynne Andersen

  • Apr 4, 2013
  • Petaluma, CA

  Join us for this closing reception to celebrate the recent works of Dana Lynne Andersen and meet the artist. Deeply involved in creating an international Academy of Art, Creativity, and Consciousness in Assisi, Italy, she has pioneered the use of Art and Creativity as vehicles for transforming consciousness. Dana's evolutionary art has been on view at EarthRise Center since January. We invite you to this last opportunity to see them here!

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  Science Buzz Café

  Extremophiles: Life At The Extremes!

  Presenter

  Philip D. Harriman, PhD

  Host

  Daniel Osmer

  Sponsors

  Aqus Café, EarthRise at IONS

  • Apr 2, 2013
  • Petaluma, CA

  Microbes have managed to live at the extremes of the conditions under which we find life on Earth. Phil will describe the hunt for, and study of, these “Extremophiles” — models for NASA, as the agency explores the possibilities of finding life on other bodies in the Solar System.

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  Special Event

  Full Moon Labyrinth Walk

  March 2013

  Sponsor

  Veriditas

  • Mar 27, 2013
  • Petaluma, CA

  Veriditas, in partnership with the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) and the EarthRise Retreat Center, will be offering a Full Moon Labyrinth Walk each month on or near the evening of the full moon. There is no cost for this hour-long event, but donations are gratefully accepted. First time walkers are welcome.

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  Special Event

  Full Moon Drumming Circle

  March 2013

  Presenter

  Jason K. Norris

  Sponsor

  Lucid Drum

  • Mar 27, 2013
  • Petaluma, CA

  Come celebrate the Full Moon at EarthRise at IONS with our monthly drumming circle, facilitated by Jason K. Norris, founder of Lucid Drum! No experience is necessary, and all ages and levels are encouraged to participate.

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  Science Buzz Café

  Animal Tracking & Bird Language as Central Metaphors for Spiritual Practice

  Presenter

  Jim Sullivan

  Host

  Daniel Osmer

  • Mar 13, 2013
  • Petaluma, CA

  Jim will give an overview of tracking, bird language, and some of the lore that comes down to us from the ancient verbal and contemporary animal tracking traditions. Treating this material in the context of biology and the cognitive sciences, he will explore the outline of a fully modern spiritual life based on gratitude, consistent with science and tied back to our very earliest roots as human beings.

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  Friendly Favors

  Rethinking Money

  How New Currencies Turn Scarcity Into Prosperity

  Presenters

  Bernard Lietaer, Jacqui Dunne

  • Mar 12, 2013
  • Petaluma, CA

  Join this Friendly Favors potluck dinner followed with a presentation by the authors of Rethinking Money. Bernard Lietaer is the architect of the Euro, who partnered with Jacqui Dunne, an award winning journalist, to explain the promise of emergent complementary currencies.

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  Special Event

  Research in Out-of-Body Experiences and Their Benefits for Personal Development

  Presenters

  Wagner Alegretti, Nanci Trivellato

  Hosts

  International Academy of Consciousness (IAC), IONS

  • Mar 10, 2013
  • Petaluma, CA

  The out-of-body experience (OBE), or astral travel, is a tool to directly experience other non-physical dimensions. Current scientific research on the study of this ability will be presented. Advantages and common exit sensations will be explained.

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  Special Event

  Full Moon Drumming Circle

  February 2013

  Presenter

  Jason K. Norris

  Sponsor

  Lucid Drum

  • Feb 25, 2013
  • Petaluma, CA

  Come celebrate the Full Moon at EarthRise at IONS with our monthly drumming circle, facilitated by Jason K. Norris, founder of Lucid Drum! No experience is necessary, and all ages and levels are encouraged to participate.

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  Friendly Favors

  The Citizen Hearing on Disclosure and the Extraterrestrial Truth Embargo

  Presenter

  Steve Bassett

  • Feb 21, 2013
  • Petaluma, CA

  Join this potluck dinner followed with a presentation by the organizer of the April 29 - May 3 Citizen Hearings in Washington, with 40 key witnesses, to urge our government to lift the truth embargo on UFOs, their occupants, technologies, and propulsion systems.

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  Science Buzz Café

  Ancient Temples of Turkey: Photos & Geology

  Presenter

  Richard Ely, Geologist

  Host

  Daniel Osmer

  • Feb 13, 2013
  • Petaluma, CA

  Turkey has an urban history that goes back to the Neolithic, and was the wealthiest part of the Roman Empire. The archaeological record there is extraordinary and not as well appreciated as it deserves. Richard will show photos of numerous ancient sites, including Gobekle Tepe, the oldest stone temple on record; Catal Huyuk, the largest Neolithic town know to date; Hattusa, the capital of the Hittite Empire; and more.

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  Friendly Favors

  The Power of Impossible Ideas

  Evidence That Ordinary People Can Accomplish Extraordinary Feats Even in International Relations

  Presenter

  Sharon Tennison

  • Feb 12, 2013
  • Petaluma, CA

  Join this Friendly Favors potluck dinner followed with a presentation by the San Francisco nurse that one day quit her job, founded the Center for Citizen Initiatives, went to the Soviet Union with a few friends, and committed herself to help end the Cold War.