Richmond IONS Meeting August 2020, on ZOOM

Richmond IONS Meeting August 2020 (August 15) and Central Virginia IONS Community Group Meeting. It will feature a talk by Michael and Aaron Payne.

Where/When: Online only, through ZOOM, on Saturday, August 15, 2020, 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon. See the detailed ZOOM instructions in the email.

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Richmond IONS August 2020 Meeting

“Organic Intelligence – Being Life Ready in a Difficult World.”

Our August 15, 2020 program will feature a talk by Michael Payne and his son Aaron Payne, founders of Living Well Today, which focuses on the healing and health modalities of functional and naturopathic medicine and nutrition.

All of us of a certain age are keenly aware that the world has changed. Our days are no longer filled with baseball, hot dogs, apple pie and Chevrolets, but rather with a strange mixture of Bytes, Atoms, Neurons and Genes. Some might say it is a technological BIG BANG.

The old adage, “an apple a day keeps the doctor away,” now seems a faint echo of a bygone age or a quaint anachronism as we search our iPhones for a long list of invisible ailments that we may or may not have.

Moreover, our alphabet seems to have been reduced to only six letters, “GOOGLE.” Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the push to singularity have created vast amounts of information, if not knowledge.

However, there are some important missing elements-spirit, wisdom, grace and communion, to name a few. These are cosmic values of Organic Intelligence that support a more fully actualized life.

Michael Payne’s Story

From 1975 to 1995 Michael Payne was a fixed-income trader for several Wall Street Firms. Life was great or at least he thought so. His wife once said, “It is a shame that you are not a narcissist, because you would make a good one.”

Not surprisingly, he recounts, his initiation into the second half of life was difficult. Broken vertebrae with a prognosis he would never walk again, broken relationships and a broken spirit lead to a 20-year transformation for the good.

After advice from a Jungian therapist directed him to live his archetype or true self, he found himself walking the road to Santiago, running a monastery and going back to school at MCV to learn about rehabilitation medical techniques. He did not realize the habits for monks did not come in seersucker.

Over the last 20 years, Michael and his son Aaron, along with the support of their families, have built a restorative, functional medicine and naturopathic based practice called Living Well Today.

They have worked and/or consulted with thousands of individuals with complicated issues ranging from autism to autoimmune disease. Children with autism were a gift and paved the way for thinking bigger powered by Organic Intelligence. Their talk is about how to be life ready in a difficult world, and how to engage Organic Intelligence for a more fully actualized life.

About Michael and Aaron Payne, Our Richmond IONS Meeting August 2020 Presenters

Michael has a Master’s Degree from VCU/MCV in Rehabilitation Therapy, plus a post-graduate certification in Functional Medicine and is a Certified Nutrition Specialist and a member of the International Peptide Society. Michael was a founding member of the Scientific Board of Xymogen.

Aaron is a Naturopathic Doctoral candidate with 15 years of clinical experience and has been involved in the development of the FDA-cleared Qubit 300 devices used in support of neuro recovery.

Living Well Today International has developed many programs to support neuro-immune communication, blending the principles of functional medicine, homo-toxicology and photo-dynamic therapy for advanced solutions to neurological conditions. For more information, please visit https://www.lwtinternational.com/

About Central VA IONS Community Group:

Central VA IONS Community Group is an unincorporated association and a local community group of The Institute of Noetic Sciences, an international association based in Petaluma, California (www.noetic.org).

Central VA IONS is not associated with any religion, religious organization, doctrine or set of beliefs or practices and is open to all. Central VA IONS is entirely dependent upon voluntary donations of its members and friends to support its programs, mailings and other costs.

A love offering is requested at each meeting from those attending who are not dues paying members. Central VA IONS meetings are held each month at locations announced in its program notices and are open to all. Our website is at richmondions.com.

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