Indigenous Wisdom
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Teleseminar with Ed Bastian
In this teleseminar, host Tina Amorok talks with Ed Bastian, President and Founder of the Spiritual Paths Foundation. They explore various indigenous traditions and how their beliefs can effect our lives and how spiritual knowledge, values, and experiences can help solve the critical challenges of the 21st century.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2008-02-19
- 01:00:31
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"Frontline Spirituality" with Starhawk
Author and global justice activist, Starhawk, one of the most respected voices in modern earth-based spirituality, talks with host Stephen Dinan about permaculture, spiritual activism, and our sacred connection to the environment. She recommends taking at least five minutes each day to simply observe nature and deepen our sense of reverence for life around us.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2008-10-14
- 01:04:42
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"Shamanic Wisdom and Healing" with Angeles Arrien (excerpt)
Angeles Arrien and former IONS President James O’Dea explore shamanism, love, and the medicines necessary to heal the damage of our modern times. Angeles, a weaver of story and wisdom, draws upon teachings from indigenous peoples and modern wisdom to explore the initiation that Western culture is undergoing and how to navigate it successfully.
- Audio Shorts
- 2006-12-20
- 00:04:41
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Mythic Visions for Uncertain Times
When the world starts to feel unstable, people tend to cling to the known and absolute. Renowned mythologist-storyteller Michael Meade reminds us that the threads of any new story will ...
- Publications Articles
- Summer 2009
- 6 pages
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Aristotle and Human Flourishing
In the 4th century BC, Aristotle gave a series of lectures in Athens that became know as the Nicomachean Ethics. There he introduced the word eudaimonia, now translated to mean “human flourishing” – the innate potential of each individual to live a life of enduring happiness, penetrating wisdom, optimal well being...
- Inner Wisdom
- Personal Well-being
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The Transformation Project
A series of studies over a decade has investigated transformations in consciousness, or how people make fundamental shifts in perception that alter how they view and interact with themselves and the world around them.
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Living Deeply
A book, DVD, and series of workshops that move spirituality off the mountain top and into your daily life... one step at a time.
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Living Deeply Practices DVD
A digital video disc containing nine experiential practices guided by master teachers of transformative traditions including: Catholicism, Religious Science, Buddhism, Himalayan Yoga, Cross-Cultural Shamanism, Sufism, Expressive Arts, Kabbalism, and African Yoruban Spirituality.
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Luisah Teish One Minute Shift | A Different World
Author and ritual priestess Luisah Teish takes us on a journey through rituals and dreams to connect with capsules of energy that still exist from our thoughts, emotions and ancestors. We can create a different world if we recognize our energetic connection with everyone on this planet.
- Video Shorts
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"Healing Body and Soul" with Luisah Teish (part 3 of 3)
Initiated Yoruba priestess Luisah Teish introduces African healing modalities, including dancing, singing, body awareness, and working with nature.
- Audio Lectures
- 1997-07-10
- 00:44:31
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"Jungle Medicine" with Constance Grauds (part 1 of 2)
From the IONS lecture series Exploring the Frontiers of Consciousness.
- Audio Lectures
- 00:58:11
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"Jungle Medicine" with Constance Grauds (part 2 of 2)
Constance Grauds, R.Ph., is Director of Allied Health, Minneapolis Community and Technical College; President of the Association of Natural Medicine Pharmacists; Adjunct Faculty, University of Minnesota, Center for Spirituality ...
- Audio Lectures
- 00:28:37
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"Rites of Change" with Luisah Teish (part 1 of 2)
From IONS' Exploring the Frontiers of Consciousness lecture series.
- Audio Lectures
- 00:40:22
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"Rites of Change" with Luisah Teish (part 2 of 2)
From IONS' Exploring the Frontiers of Consciousness lecture series.
- Audio Lectures
- 00:43:33
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"Historical Roots of Noetic" with Mitch Horowitz
Noetic Sciences are not exclusively new but instead contain the esoteric core of all the world's religions, East and West, ancient and modern. During previous times of repression, the wisdom was hidden underground by various wisdom keepers. Mitch Horowitz describes how religious freedom in America provided safe harbor for such wisdom.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2010-09-08
- 00:58:06
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"Cross-Cultural Traditional Healing" with Sylver Quevedo
Dr. Quevedo discusses the integration of cross-cultural traditional healing practices with modern western medicine and the developing interdisciplinary curriculum for a new medical training center in Kenya.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2010-12-15
- 00:59:26
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Ancient Cosmology: A Map of the Future?
Like the mayfly, which lives but one day a year and knows nothing of the seasons, the human being has an average life span that comprises only one-360th of the roughly 24,000-year precessional cycle. And just as the mayfly born on an overcast, windless day has no idea that there is anything as splendid as sunshine or a breeze, so do we, born in an era of materialistic rationality, have little awareness of a golden age or higher states of consciousness – though that is the ancestral message.
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"Huichol Shamanism" with Brant Secunda
The Huichols believe healing is a way of life that permeates every aspect of our existence, not just a response to illness. By living in balance with Nature, and incorporating ...
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2011-07-13
- 00:54:04
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"The Labyrinth" with Lauren Artress
We live much of our lives in a left-brain oriented world that values knowledge as power. But there’s another way to experience the world—from the reflective, emotionally embodied ...
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2011-08-10
- 00:59:17
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"Eating with Reverence" with Shannon Kring Buset
For centuries, the Balinese have offered up daily prayers for the entire life cycle of food, from the planting of the seed to the harvest, and from the preparation of ...
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2011-08-24
- 00:58:16