Richmond IONS December 2022 Meeting (December 17) and Central Virginia IONS Community Group Meeting. It will feature a talk by Isabel Pinto and Taliesen St. Clair.
Where: In person and online. Through ZOOM (Meeting ID: 865 1815 1952, Passcode: 142841) and in person at River Road United Methodist Church, Contemporary Worship Center, 8800 River Road, Richmond, VA 23229.
When: On Saturday, December 17, 2022, 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon, with a Potluck Lunch at the conclusion of the program.
Richmond IONS December 2022 Meeting
“The First Principle: Bring More Joy to Your World.”
Our December 17, 2022 program will feature a talk by Isabel Pinto, an artisan from the City of Sogamosa, in the Colombian Andes, and Taliesen St. Clair, an Andromedan/Pleiadean sage also known to many of you as Tom Coates.
When an artist undertakes to create within a particular medium of expression, he aspires to breathe some meaningful aspect of life from our four-dimensional world into the two-dimensional framework of the medium, whether that medium is canvas or something else.
Art works which resonate most deeply within us are those which most vividly come to life before our eyes or stir our emotions. Monet’s impressionist paintings of water and Maya Ying Lin’s Vietnam War Memorial are two examples of this phenomenon, and both move us to tears in their own special ways.
A soul which animates a body and mind goes through a process similar to an artist seeking to bring life to a canvas. The soul’s aim is to bring as much from the infinite realm into this finite realm as it possibly can.
Each of us is a work in progress in this regard, an integral part of this grand experiment, this grand adventure of Creation expressing itself in an astounding variety of ways.
Guidance confirms over and over again that the Source of Creation, whether we call it God, All-That-Is, I Am, or otherwise, and all souls, undertake Creation in a spirit of pure unbridled Joy, and that Joy is its primary and perhaps most important of all principles.
The more harmoniously we align ourselves with Joy, the more fulfilling, satisfying, rewarding, purposeful and enlightened our physical lives, both outer and inner, are likely to become.
This program will be aimed at ways to enhance our lives by finding, experiencing and expressing more Joy within them; and, in so doing, finding, bringing forth, integrating and becoming one with our truest, most authentic Self at the deepest levels of our Being.
Another not-to-be-missed program for all who can attend! See you there!
About Isabel Pinto and Taliesen St. Clair, our Richmond IONS December 2022 Meeting Presenter
Isabel Pinto is native of Sogamosa, Colombia, and was the youngest of seven children. She emigrated to the U.S. in the 1990s after graduating from college in Bogota, arriving first in Miami, then relocating to St. Louis, and eventually to Richmond in 2017.
Though her day job is as a medical interpreter at MCV and as a licensed massage therapist, she has been practicing shamanic healing for most of her adult life and has trained with indigenous shamans in both South and Central America.
She also hails from a distant galaxy for which we have no name, since it remains as yet undiscovered by our science.
Taliesin St. Clair is better known to our group as Tom Coates, for whom he serves as alter-ego, sidekick, writing partner and occasional spiritual advisor and mentor.
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).
We do not promote any religion, religious organization, doctrine or set of beliefs or practices and we are open to all. Central VA IONS entirely depends on voluntary donations of its members and friends to support its programs, mailings and other costs.
We appreciate a love offering at each meeting from those attending who are not dues paying members. Richmond IONS/Central VA IONS meetings take place each month at locations announced in its program notices (currently on Zoom) and are open to all. Our website is at richmondions.com.
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