Central Virginia IONS Community Group
We want to express our gratitude for everything that Elisabeth Kuhn contributed to the Richmond IONS Community, especially helping us set up our website and social media platform. She loved seeing everyone who visited her. Elisabeth will be remembered with love as she takes this next step on her journey.
Richmond IONS May 2023 Meeting (May 20) and Central Virginia IONS Community Group Meeting. It will feature a talk by Robert Bushman, Ph.D.
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, May 20, 2023, 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon, with a Potluck Lunch at the conclusion of the program.
Our May20, 2023 program will feature a talk by Robert Bushman, Ph.D., long-standing member of IONS and applied linguist.
In the common belief of our culture, God is thought of as a person – a wise and kindly old man, with a white beard, faintly Jewish, sitting somewhere up in heaven and directing human affairs. He is supposedly all-loving, all-knowing, all-powerful, and everywhere present.
Furthermore, He created everything – the Earth, the Sun, the Moon, all the stars, all the plants and animals, everything. Even us!
He knows what you’ve been thinking and doing. So, when you die, He will judge whether you go to heaven or hell.
Most of us, of course, have long since out-grown such naive notions, but the question persists: Who is “God,” anyway? Is “God” actually a person, or even a being at all? And how did the God-as-person idea ever get started?
Robert’s presentation will trace the origins of this idea, of the personification of God, and the beliefs which accompanied it, back to ancient Sumer in Mesopotamia, “the cradle of civilization,” and what we find will yield some big surprises. (Robert assures it’s not intended to shake your faith, only to clear things up.)
Robert previously has given talks to our group on exopolitics and remote viewing. They were among the most informative we’ve ever had, and we know this one will be as well.
Another not-to-be-missed program for all who can attend! See you there!
Robert Bushman grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and has lived in five other states, as well as in Europe and Asia. He is a retired Air Force Colonel and a Vietnam vet. His last military assignment was as a U.S. Embassy attaché in Stockholm.
He has a B.A. in Russian/Russian studies, an M.A. in applied linguistics, and a Ph.D. in instructional science. In the military, he retired as a senior intelligence officer with the rank of Lt. Colonel from the Air Force Reserve, and worked in that capacity for the Defense Intelligence Agency in Washington DC.
There he was being recruited into the Government RV program just before it was discontinued. As a civilian, he worked as a scientific linguist in translator evaluation and training and in language instruction, as well as a visiting professor of linguistics.
When the Soviet Union fell, he developed the first course in Estonian for the language school of the State Department. Robert is a long-standing member of IONS, and previously served as the community group coordinator in both Alexandria and Eugene, Oregon. with the world’s largest database on the subject.
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.
Please also visit and “LIKE” our 
Richmond IONS Facebook page
Looking for our upcoming meetings? Please CLICK HERE.
Richmond IONS September 2021 Meeting (September 18) and Central Virginia IONS Community Group Meeting. It will feature a talk by Antonia Albano.
Where: Online and in person, through ZOOM and at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, New Parish Hall, 12291 River Road, Richmond, VA 23238.
When: On Saturday, September 18, 2021, 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon, followed by a potluck lunch. See the detailed ZOOM instructions in the email.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Our ZOOM calls are password protected. You need to be on our email list to get the link and the password for each ZOOM event.
To get on the mailing list, just click on the Menu button at the top right of this page, and then on the Contact button. Then send us a message that you want to be added to our email list, and we’ll add you.
Our September 18, 2021 program will feature a talk by Antonia Albano, Mid-wife and Messenger for the Geometric Technologies of Love and co-owner and operator, with husband Barney Brown, of the Heartstone Lodge and South River Highlands Retreat, near Lexington, Virginia.
Antonia has had a life-long fascination both with how the un-manifest is made manifest and how the un-manifest is integral to our existence and permeates all life with its intelligence. While on a modern day vision quest in 2004, Antonia began to draw shapes that have become the focus of her life.
This exciting presentation to explore gifts from a more advanced civilization and the realms of the Seraphim and Cherubim, the highest of the realms in the Judaea-Christian hierarchy of angels, being offered in pure love to “jump start” Earth’s humanity and all life into the next evolutionary trajectory.
By aligning with their frequencies of light, we will be taken “beyond our ability to cognate,” offering us a preview of what is possible for human evolution.
Employing informative understandings-to-date, visuals with animations, signature songs, new sacred geometry and kinesthetic experiences, Antonia will share some of her journey these past 17 years with both the Geometric Technologies of love and the new, first time presented, Geometric Technologies of Conscious Creations!
She will connect the dots that lead to the non-dual union of opposites, look at the significant role the golden ratio plays in this conscious evolutionary pivotal axis in human history, new light codes, new sacred geometry… all here at this moment in time because we have asked and we have been heard!
These geometric technologies “represent a latent possibility within ourselves” to grow and evolve into union with Source… opening to the infinite possibilities of the Divine within and without.
Antonia Albano has been facilitating workshops on the raising of human consciousness since early 1990s. This has taken her through many interesting and diverse fields, most moving into the esoteric sciences and sacred geometry. She is the founder of the World Love Project, Virginia’s Celebration of Love multi-day event and the Healing Resonance council.
She has been involved for over three decades with the California based Alohem Center for Transformational Studies and co-founded the California Institute of Mind-Body Awareness just north of San Francisco where she spent time as a Transformation Coach and Spiritual Mentor.
Antonia and her husband Barney Brown own and operate The Heartstone Lodge/South River Highlands Retreat, a 250-acre retreat center near Lexington, Virginia in the Shenandoah Valley, which serves as the International Headquarters of the World Love Project.
She continues exploring esoteric studies, expanding her inner knowing and dissolving illusions. See www.CelebrationOfLove2018.com, www.SouthRiverHighlands.com, and www.HeartstoneRetreat.com
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.
Please also visit and “LIKE” our Richmond IONS Facebook page
Looking for our upcoming meetings? Please CLICK HERE.
Richmond IONS April 2021 Meeting (April 17) and Central Virginia IONS Community Group Meeting. It will feature a talk by Dr. Mary Sanders.
Where/When: Online only, through ZOOM, on Saturday, April 17, 2021, 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon. See the detailed ZOOM instructions in the email.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Our ZOOM calls are password protected. You need to be on our email list to get the link and the password for each ZOOM event.
How to get on the mailing list: Just click on the Menu button at the top right of this page, and then on the Contact button. Then send us a message that you want to be added to our email list, and we’ll add you.
Our April 17, 2021 program will feature a talk by Dr. Mary Sanders,
DC, Portland, Oregon and Vienna, Austria-based chiropractor, energy therapist and chakra healer.
At our meeting, Mary will teach us about the relationship between our seven primary energy centers, i.e., our chakras, and our health. She will help us explore the seven primary chakras and their anatomy, along with their important connections to different parts of our bodies.
Mary has been trained as a medical intuitive and facilitates both in-person and remote healing from a distance via phone. Quantum physics has demonstrated that consciousness is nonlocal, and anecdotal evidence has shown that remote energetic healing work, including prayer and other modes, can be just as effective as hands-on contact.
She holds sacred space, a space filled with compassion, non-judgment and neutrality, for clients as they reconnect with their own original essence and personal power. The end results can be quite dramatic and transformative, and have practical, tangible and
noticeable beneficial effects for her clients in their everyday relationships with themselves and others, both in their work and in their personal lives.
Combining years of clinical practice and experiential wisdom, Mary has shown proficiency in supporting clients with a wide variety of physical, psychological, and emotional ailments.
Physical issues such as structural alignment and visceral function, psychological imbalances such as chronic depression and anxiety disorders, and emotional imbalances such as excessive anger, fear and sadness, are common conditions that respond well to intentional
energetic healing practices and chakra balancing.
Mary has presented talks to a number of IONS community groups
around the country and we are very pleased to have her as our guest speaker this month.
Dr. Mary Sanders “knew” at a very young age that she wanted to grow up and have her hands on people. She was diagnosed as hearing impaired at the age of three but was acutely aware of “feeling/sensing” others early on.
Her innate skills became desensitized to some extent during her childhood, but when she attended chiropractic school in 1991 she was reconnected with the energetic properties of the human body. She was in private practice in Colorado for 22 years before moving to Vietnam, where she went through an identity crisis and deeply questioned her purpose in life.
She completed her Yoga Teachers Training in Bali and got back into meditation. Mary’s curiosity to better understand the power of the brain led her to study Positive Psychology, neuroplasticity, meditation and mindfulness. She applied those skills in South America in the educational arena for 5 years via a non-profit, Aviva Education.
Soon after the death of her mother and sister she experienced a renewed awakening as to the importance of life and resolved to further align her actions to support personal transformation and the evolution of consciousness. She enrolled in the Academy of Intuitive Medicine in Sausalito, California and after two years she completed her Masters of Intuitive Medicine ®.
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.
Please also visit and “LIKE” our Richmond IONS Facebook page
Looking for our upcoming meetings? Please CLICK HERE.