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Richmond IONS March 2022 Meeting

Richmond IONS March 2022 Meeting (March 19) and Central Virginia IONS Community Group Meeting. It will feature a talk by Ryan Chappell.

Where: Online and in person, 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, February 19, 2022, 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon.

If you missed the meeting, you can watch the Zoom recording here:

https://www.quietmindrva.com/ions-presentation

Richmond IONS March 2022 Meeting

“Being and Playfulness – A New Paradigm”

Our March 19, 2022 program will feature a talk by Ryan Chappell, a Richmond-based energy worker, massage therapist, spiritual philosopher and channel.

Unlike most of us, Ryan is, at the soul level, a first-timer on Earth, despite being an old soul by any measure. A classic wanderer within the Ra framework, Ryan has come here from a higher density planet (in the Andromeda Galaxy) to assist humanity in this time of dramatic planetary transition and transformation.

From a young age Ryan began identifying distorted and erroneous ideas, assumptions and beliefs from and upon which massive social, cultural, religious and political infrastructures have been built.

Relying on his own observations, experience, intuition and channeled information from himself and close colleagues, Ryan set out on an ambitious undertaking to deconstruct flawed and distorted paradigms.

He also set out to start from scratch to create new frameworks and paradigms for unseen realities designed to expand human consciousness, personal freedom, empowerment and autonomy rather than to further contract consciousness, or further limit and restrict personal freedom, power and autonomy.

The focus of Ryan’s talk will be on human identity, relationships and cultural programming, and how those aspects of our lives may be adversely affected by distorted ideas and emotions or favorably affected by greater clarity.

We live in a vibrational universe, wherein our thoughts and emotions emanate from us into our environment like the ripple effects of pebbles tossed into a pond. An essential step in humanity’s expansion and ascension will be to gain a deeper grasp of how reality works and to take responsibility for our own vibration – i.e., for our thoughts, emotions and actions.

Ryan will offer tools to help us more fully comprehend this process, as well as to make it easier, faster and more fun. In some important ways, Ryan’s talk will pick up where Tom Coates’ December 2021 talk to our group left off, and further build on that expanded framework, with the ultimate aim of offering a new framework/paradigm which will bring greater joy and harmony to the lives of all.

About Ryan Chappell, our Richmond IONS March 2022 Meeting Presenter

Ryan Chappell is a native Richmonder and owner of Quiet Mind Massage. His outside-the-box approach has made him a rising star in Richmond’s spiritual community whose influence will be felt for many years to come.

Of his background, Ryan observes, “People have been telling me I’m an old soul since I was a child. In my teenage years I observed emotional healing experiences in adults in my presence as if they were in a therapist’s office.

It was a common experience for me to look calmly into the eyes of someone crying while explaining a traumatic experience they’d had. I just seemed to attract these kinds of encounters into my life one after another.

People would naturally feel safe around me because my emotions are pleasant and serene, my mind is quiet and peaceful. This perspective has enabled me to see the world in a different way.”

Ryan can be reached at quietmindrva.com.

If you missed the meeting, you can watch the Zoom recording here:

https://www.quietmindrva.com/ions-presentation

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 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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Richmond IONS September 2021 Meeting

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.

Richmond IONS September 2021 Meeting

“Geometric Technologies… for the Next Octave of Infinite Possibilities.”

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.

About Antonia Albano, our Richmond IONS September 2021 Presenter

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

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Richmond IONS March 2021 Meeting on Zoom

Richmond IONS March 2021 Meeting (March 20) and Central Virginia IONS Community Group Meeting. It will feature a talk by Albert Moore.

Where/When: Online only, through ZOOM, on Saturday, March 20, 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.

Richmond IONS March 2021 Meeting

“Experiential Introduction to the City of Union.”

Our March 20, 2021 program will feature a talk by Albert Moore, a New York, Santa Fe and Richmond based architect, urban designer and mystic visionary.

Since November 11, 1991, when he experienced Union with All-That-Is, Al Moore has been accustomed to having visions, insights, inner knowings, and remembrances about the original way of Being human as embodied Souls.

His experience in Union led him to travel the world, studying with masters of shamanism and energy work. Then he applied these experiences to his professional expertise in architecture and the design of the complex systems we call our cities, towns and
communities.

Al invites us to imagine floating in the universe, completely free from any and all your beliefs in separateness. In this state you become aware that you are the extension of the light of your Soul. You know the real you, eternal and unlimited in your creative capacities.

Imagine too, during this Union, that you have a knowing that you and all humans have parts to play in orchestrating humanity’s remembering of Union. The system collapsing around us is simply the way creation works. There is nothing wrong!

You know that humanity is approaching a critical mass of remembering Union. And then Earth organically restores Herself to reflecting our Union. Everything changes!

At our Richmond IONS March 2021 Meeting

At our March 20, 2021 meeting, Al will share the visions and insights which came through his conscious awareness when he asked, “What does human life and Earth look like when humans have remembered their Union with All-That-Is?”

Al will discuss the steps he took to prepare himself to embody Union in his physical, mental, and emotional fields. Then he will take us on a journey inward to enter a simultaneous parallel reality where Earth reflects our collective Union.

He’ll draw upon excerpts from his book, Eyes In The Mirror, to paint a picture of the social systems of New Earth, and he’ll present a layout and details for a City of Union. A question and comment period will conclude his presentation.

About Albert Moore, Our Richmond IONS March 2021 Presenter:

Albert Moore has always been a visionary. As an undergraduate in architecture at Pratt Institute, he was fascinated by the effects on human behavior of geometry, proportion, light, color and texture.

While pursuing graduate studies at Columbia University, he applied behavioral design concepts to support positive human interaction in designing urban environments.

In his architectural practice, he developed a theory that architecture can transform human consciousness. Al presented applications of these concepts at the International Design Conference for rebuilding Bosnian cities.

After 45 years as an architect and urban designer, Al has returned to his visionary roots. Albert offers small group and individual mentoring sessions in Self-Mastery to prepare for Union and New Earth. He can be reached at: albertcmoore@gmail.com.

About Central VA IONS Community Group:

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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Richmond IONS February 2021 Meeting on Zoom

Richmond IONS February 2021 Meeting (February 20) and Central Virginia IONS Community Group Meeting. It will feature a talk by Vickie Griffith.

Where/When: Online only, through ZOOM, on Saturday, February 20, 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.

Richmond IONS February 2021 Meeting

“How to Give Up the Need to Be Right and Get What You Want.”

Our February 20, 2021 program will feature a talk by Vickie Griffith, Florida-based author and hypnotherapist, about her latest book,
entitled You Can Be Right About Everything and Still Have Nothing.

You are doing all the right things to grow your life, yet it still feels stagnant. Your family is unattached or bickering with each other. Your boss is getting on your last nerve and it is getting harder to enjoy your work. You have gone to seminars, read the latest spiritual or self -help book, but you are still stuck.

Same people, same office, same issues every day. Nothing seems to go right for you. You wake up in the middle of the night worried about money, your children, your health. You are plain tired out, worried, stressed and anxious.

It is not for lack of knowing what to do. You are a smart person. It is not for lack of working hard. You work hard. The truth is the self-help industry has you confused. Do you work a bit harder or stop working so hard? Do you seek outside advice or listen from within, to your own inner voice?

And they tell you it is all your fault, that you cannot have it all. Or can you? There is partial truth to “it is your fault,” but not in the way you think. It is not that you cannot stick to the plan. You have had some success or done it before. It is not hard work or putting in more time that gives you what you want in life.

It is something sneakier and slier that you do not even realize is the reason you give up. Your need to be right is keeping you stuck.

But hold on. You are taking that the wrong way. It is the need to prove your faulty and flawed belief systems are right that is getting in your way, and she’ll offer plenty more on that during her talk.

Vickie previously addressed our group in September 2016 and was one of the most engaging speakers we’ve ever had. We are very pleased to welcome her back.

About Vickie Griffith, Our Richmond IONS February 2021 Presenter

Vickie Griffith struggled with her weight until…she stopped dieting. As a reserved, fat, unhappy teenager, she lived every day as a wall flower. Due to her lack of confidence and a low self-esteem, she was good at sabotaging any efforts to lose weight and keep it off.

That is until she lost 49+ pounds and has kept it off for over 20 years, using simple, easy to implement tools that stopped the food cravings, managed anxiety, and stopped the sabotage. She went from a ho-hum, unhappy, fat existence as a teenager to a certified hypnotist, an Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) professional, a professional speaker, and a regularly featured radio and television show guest.

She is the author of Stucked UP!: A Breakthrough Path to Getting Unstuck and co-author of Life Boosts with two New York Times Best Selling Authors, plus her current book. Her infectious enthusiasm and deceptively low-key, casual approach leave a lasting impression on her audiences.

Vickie loves to travel throughout the country offering keynotes, coaching, and workshops. She, along with her husband, Terry, moved south to escape the cold Michigan winters. They settled in Virginia for 15 years.

When the winters became too cold here, they moved further south and now live in Florida with their two dogs Surrey and Kim. She jokes that she has become one of those Floridians that she used to laugh at; bundled up when it is 70 degrees outside with mittens, a coat, and a scarf.

About Central VA IONS Community Group:

We are 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. Richmond IONS/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.

About Our Richmond IONS Facebook Page:

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Upcoming Richmond IONS Meetings:

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Richmond IONS January 2021 Meeting on Zoom

Richmond IONS January 2021 Meeting (January 23) and Central Virginia IONS Community Group Meeting. It will feature a talk by Dennis Lutz.

Where/When: Online only, through ZOOM, on Saturday, January 23, 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.

Richmond IONS January 2021 Meeting

“How to Maintain A High Vibration Throughout the Day − An Instruction Manual.”

Our program on January 23, 2021, will feature a talk by Dennis Lutz, a nonpareil holistic energy healer and light worker, well known to our group, who splits his time between Richmond and Sarasota.

Dennis practices a broad-spectrum holistic approach which includes therapeutic bodywork, energy work, breath work, spirituality, chakra balancing, diet, nutrition, exercise, yoga, meditation, hypnotherapy and essential oils for well-being.

Dennis not only uses a variety of hands-on physical protocols, but also practices remote energy healing. He has often has found this to be just as effective as in-person protocols.

With all the fear and judgment going on around the planet these days, Dennis’ intention is to share what he has been doing to keep his and his clients’ frequencies high in this environment. You are your own healer.

Every cell in your body listens and responds to your thoughts and feelings, so it is a good idea to pay attention to where they may be taking you. We are all beings of light, which is why we show up on infrared cameras.

Why Our Vibrational Frequency Is So Important

Our vibrational frequency determines our emotional and physical condition and we have the power to control it ourselves. If we choose to, we can enhance our own energetic field (and those of others) by expressing optimism, hope, love and freedom.

Currently, in part due to the pandemic, the dominant themes are more fear-based doom and gloom, and positive narratives seem few and far between.

Dennis will show us that the way to change the default system in our subconscious mind is by repetition and provide us with ways to quicken that process. The greater your awareness, the higher
your vibration, and the easier it becomes to let go of negative energy (if that is your desire).

Using specific methods, products, and tools, some at a cost, some not, requires only the time it takes you to focus on it. You already may have your own methods or may be completely content with where you are and that is perfectly fine.

Dennis had his own “aha!’’ moment 11 years ago. He realized that everything is perception and that our perception creates our reality. If you perceive yourself with little power, that is what is going to show up.

All of us are vibrating on frequency bands that create feedback loops. They shape our experience in positive or negative ways, and in expansive or contractive ways.

We are all magicians, creating as we think, feel, speak and act. Dennis’ talk will give us tools to expand our repertoire of magic we can create and manifest in our lives. This is especially helpful during these turbulent times.

About Dennis Lutz, Our Richmond IONS January 2021 Presenter

Dennis Lutz, CMT, SET, is a graduate of The Institute of Structural Energetic Therapy in Lutz, Florida. Dennis has studied and practiced Advanced Pranic Healing, Yuen Energetics, Structural Energetic Therapy-Cranial and Structural Core Distortion Releases.

He has also studied Advanced Cranial Structural Balancing, Pelvic Balancing, Head Neck and Shoulder, EVM, Full Body Torsion, Upper Body Torsion, Flexion, Shear, Carpal Tunnel, Lower Leg and Feet protocols, Cranial Structural Energetics and Emotional Energetic Release Therapy.

In addition, he trained at the NMT Center in St. Petersburg, Florida. His website is at http://www.therapeuticbodyworkers.com.

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Richmond IONS Meeting July 2020, on ZOOM

Richmond IONS Meeting July 2020 (July 18) and Central Virginia IONS Community Group Meeting. It will feature a talk by Joanne DiMaggio.

Where/When: Online only, through ZOOM, on Saturday, July 18, 2020, 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon. See the detailed ZOOM instructions in the email to follow this notice.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Our ZOOM calls are password protected. You need to be on our email list to get the password for each ZOOM event.

It’s easy though: 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. We will send about 2 emails for each monthly event.

Richmond IONS July 2020 Meeting

“I Did It to Myself… Again!”

Our July 18, 2020 program will feature a talk by Joanne DiMaggio, Charlottesville author, spiritual counsellor and past-life regression therapist and researcher, on her latest book, I Did It to Myself… Again! New Life – Between – Lives Case Studies Show How Your Soul’s Contract Is Guiding Your Life (May 2020).

She will share in greater depth than ever before what she has learned through her past life regression research about how past lives and soul agreements can affect the current one.

What does it feel like to die? What does the afterlife look like? What is your soul’s mission? Why did you choose your parents? Who in your soul family decided to join you in this life and why?

Why did you choose the body you are in now? Are your most intimate friends, family members and colleagues or adversaries in the workplace animated by souls with whom you have had past-life connections or issues? What memory triggers were given to you to help you remember your prior lives?

How past lives can affect the current one

I Did It to Myself… Again! seeks to answer those and other questions about the afterlife. Data drawn from Joanne’s yearlong research project chronicles the journeys of twenty-five men and women who revisited the past life most impacting them today and then explored the afterlife to see what souls do between lives.

Most importantly, research subjects learned first-hand the roles they played in designing their current lives, what unfinished business or unresolved trauma from past lives they would work on in their current lives, and which karmic attributes they would bring into their current lives to assist them.

Her fascinating case studies bring home the consistent theme that many if not most of the greatest challenges we face in our lives are not only self-created, but also soul-directed and planned in advance by our souls as pivotal teaching, learning and growth experiences for our lifetimes.

We know from her previous presentation to our group in October 2017 that Joanne, in addition to being a thorough and insightful researcher, also is an exceptionally thought provoking and engaging speaker, and we are delighted to
have her back.

About Joanne DiMaggio, Our Richmond IONS Meeting July 2020 Presenter:

Joanne DiMaggio, MA, CHt, is an inspired teacher who has been pursuing past-life research and therapy for over 30 years. Joanne earned her Masters degree in Transpersonal Studies and her Spiritual Mentor certification through Atlantic University.

She trained at the Eastern Institute of Hypnotherapy, completed additional training in hypnosis at the College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, IL, and studied under Dr. Irene Hickmanpast.

She is also the author of Soul Writing: Conversing with Your Higher Self (2011), Your Soul Remembers: Accessing Your Past Lives Through Soul Writing (2013) and Karma Can Be a Real Pain – Past Life Clues to Current Life Maladies (2016).

For more information about Joanne, visit her website at www.joannedimaggio.com.

About Central VA IONS Community Group:

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.

About Our Richmond IONS Facebook Page:

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Upcoming Richmond IONS Meetings:

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Richmond IONS Meeting April 2020

Richmond IONS Meeting April 2020 (April 18) and Central Virginia IONS Community Group Meeting. It will feature a talk by Dan O’Neal.

Where/When: Online only, through ZOOM at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/106042756, Saturday, April 18,2020,
10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon. See the more detailed ZOOM instructions at the bottom of this notice.

Richmond IONS Meeting April 2020 Program

“Scientific Sound Healing for the 21st Century.”

Our April 18, 2020 meeting will feature a talk by Dan O’Neal. Sound has been used for healing the mind, body, and spirit from the beginning of Man’s history. Like the Hindu god Shiva, it has the power to create or cause chaos, to heal or harm depending on its use.

In this ZOOM presentation we will focus on the HEALING use of sound and learn about the most recent and exact techniques of SCIENTIFIC SOUND HEALING THERAPY.

Through a combination of PowerPoint and video clips shared remotely from Dan’s computer at home, Dan will lead us through history with sound clips and commentary to modern techniques of entraining our brains to our own personal frequencies of balance.

We will learn about brain wave entrainment, what brain waves are, and about the different brain wave frequencies from deep sleep to mystical states. We will also learn about different techniques to alter our brain waves, especially by focusing on binaural beats.

Dan will briefly cover a little anatomy and physiology of our autonomic nervous system and how the brain controls all functions in our bodies. This presentation will be educational and useful no matter what you watch it on, but, regrettably, we cannot experience it in-person together with a high-quality sound system as originally intended.

Given the current world condition with each of us “sheltering in place” (who thinks of these phrases?), we will attempt to make this presentation as experiential as possible. However, a large part of that experience will depend on the quality of your personal sound system.

To enhance your experience, we recommend using the highest quality device (computer/TV/speakers) that you can. You also can call into the presentation on your phone by teleconference if you wish, but you may miss the visual aspect and higher quality of sound.

About Dan O’Neal, Our Richmond IONS Meeting April 2020 Presenter:

Dan O’Neal has been passionately drawn all his life to healing practices, spiritual and metaphysical thought, and especially music. Growing up in a loving family in Baltimore, he remembers an experience at about 1 1⁄2 years old of kissing each molecule of air good night as he fell asleep.

As a young altar boy, he was exposed to the heady power of frankincense to enhance spiritual experience. Disillusioned at 14, he fell away from traditional western religion and was attracted to eastern mysteries, flirting with Rosicrucians and Yogananda and eventually finding Unity and A Course in Miracles.

At age 5, he was given a children’s drum kit which his mother quickly replaced with bongos after a short period of time. He began playing
guitar at 15 to “pick up girls” and hasn’t’ stopped since, with many folk, rock, jazz, and classical influences.

Dan has been a musician and sound man for over 50 years, a massage therapist for 25 years, and more recently a scientific sound healer. He was introduced to the healing uses of essential oils and has been teaching about them and using them regularly for the last nine years.

He studied with Dr. Jeffrey Thompson in California two years ago and is continuing his study on biweekly Zoom training calls with Dr. Thompson to the present. Dan uses Dr. Thompson’s cutting-edge sound equipment and techniques to find custom healing frequencies for clients. Dan can be reached by email at danshands11@gmail.com.

Zoom Instructions:

Many of you, like myself, may have recently downloaded the ZOOM app to your smartphone or computer, but for those who have not, simply click on the link above or right below (at 10 a.m. on Saturday) and follow the instructions:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/10604275

As anyone who has used ZOOM before is aware, this meeting platform is interactive and provides for participation by all in attendance, which will mean the potential for questions and answers during the program.

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Richmond IONS Meeting February 2020

Richmond IONS Meeting February 2020 (February 15) and Central Virginia IONS Community Group Meeting. It will feature a talk by Sandy Ward.

Where: St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, New Parish Hall, 12291 River Road, Richmond, VA 23238

When: Saturday, February 15, 2020, 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon, followed by a potluck lunch at the conclusion of the program.

Richmond IONS Meeting February 2020 Program

“The Answer is Love.”

Our February 15, 2020 program will feature a talk by Sandy Ward, Richmond-based spiritual medium, evidential psychic and spiritual counselor.

Sandy will share with our group the miracles, including miraculous healings, that she has witnessed in people’s lives from spirit to the physical plane through her experience helping people with their grieving process and providing them the knowledge that their loved ones are still around them today.

She will recount what she has observed and mediated through increased understanding of love and forgiveness on both sides of the veil. She will offer suggestions and guidance on how to recognize the common traits in others to better appreciate connections of love.

Sandy also will discuss and provide answers to some of the more typical questions she has encountered in her practice:

Does love transcend to the other side?
How can love from departed loved ones from the other side help me today?
Is it possible to feel love from those on the other side even though they never expressed love on this side?
Is it possible to tune into the spirit of departed loved ones?
Do my departed loved ones hear me?
Is grief a sign of love?

Sandy’s program also will feature 30 minutes of platform readings. This includes spontaneous mediumship with spirits who may be present with their loved ones at the program. It will conclude with 30 minutes of questions and answers from our group.

This is Sandy’s second talk to our group, her first having been in March 2017. We are grateful to have her back for what promises to be an exceptionally engaging presentation.

About Sandy Ward, Our Richmond IONS Meeting February 2020 Presenter:

Sandy Ward is a Certified Spiritual Medium, evidential psychic and spiritual counselor. She has had her gift since the age of three and specializes in spiritual healings through contact with loved ones that have passed. She received her certification from the James Van Praagh School, where she was his apprentice for over three years.

Sandy gives presentations on her life story with Spirit and her pure understanding of the other side. She is sought out to use her gifts with evidential mediumship and psychic abilities on criminal cases, development circles both locally and abroad and coaching development of other mediums.

Sandy also donates her time and gifts to local spiritual events and local fundraisers in support of education. She can be reached on her website at www.newenergymedium.com or on Facebook at Sandy Ward New Energy Medium.

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Richmond IONS December Meeting 2019

Richmond IONS December Meeting 2019 (December 14) and Central Virginia IONS Community Group Meeting. It will feature a talk by Tom Coates and music by Dan O’Neal.

Where: St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, New Parish Hall, 12291 River Road, Richmond, VA 23238

When: Saturday, December 14, 2019, 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon, followed by a potluck lunch at the conclusion of the program.

Richmond IONS December Meeting Program

“Another Day at the Amusement Park.”

Our December 14, 2019 program will feature a talk by Tom Coates, our group’s only still-active original member. He is one of our most popular guest speakers. Dan O’Neal will provide live music. This is a continuation of Tom’s Self-discovery series aimed at exploring the multidimensional facets of human identity and every human’s search for his or her authentic Self.

The Dalai Lama has often identified Mao Tse Tung (nka Mao Zedong) as his “greatest spiritual teacher.” This is despite or perhaps due to the fact that the Communist Chinese, at Chairman Mao’s direction, invaded and annexed his native Tibet in 1950. They eventually forced the Dalai Lama to flee to India in 1959 and spend the rest of his life as a refugee in exile.

In this year’s installment of his search for Self series, Tom will examine a variety of social, cultural, political, religious, spiritual and other currents and themes, in an effort to determine how they may influence and shape our ideas, our beliefs, our behaviors, our experiences, our lives, our world and our reality.

Tom also will explore how the personal/individual and sociocultural/collective metaphors we choose to describe, define, conceptualize and contextualize our lives will either have the effect of expanding and enhancing our experience, our lives and ultimately our spiritual growth and evolution, or have the opposite effect – of contracting and limiting our experience and our lives; and stories – some farfetched, some miraculous, some disturbing – illustrating these points will be shared.

An open-mic discussion

Tom will conclude the program with an open-mic discussion of our group, its meaning and significance to its members, the larger community and the world at large, We’ll explore some of the challenges and opportunities we face as a group.

The meeting will also include an experiential meditation exercise. It will create a space within which each of us can personally access and experience new and deeper layers of meaning about who we are and the purposes of our lives at levels which surpass and transcend our rational, intellectual understanding.

This promises to be another blockbuster program. It will be a fitting way to conclude our group’s twenty-fourth year and usher in its twenty-fifth. As always, Tom promises some secrets known only to a few will be revealed. Another not-to-be-missed program for all who can attend! See you there!

About Tom Coates, Our Richmond IONS December Meeting Presenter:

Tom Coates is a Richmond-based lawyer who has represented numerous spiritually oriented and public interest groups throughout his career. He was a co-founder of Richmond’s Ekoji Buddhist Sangha in 1985. And he has been a member and contributor of the Richmond IONS chapter since its formation in early 1996.

In his spare time he enjoys reading, creative writing, painting, woodworking, alpine skiing, biking, backpacking, sailing, time travel, metaphysics, and relaxing with his family at their ancient Outer Banks beach cottage or their Appalachian Mountains retreat. He still reports that his most significant unfulfilled ambition of this lifetime is to make
love to an extraterrestrial female, preferably of Pleiadean or Sirian origin.

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Richmond IONS June Meeting 2019

Richmond IONS June Meeting, 2019 (June 15) and Central Virginia IONS Community Group Meeting, featuring a talk by Vandorn Hinnant.

Where: St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, New Parish Hall, 12291 River Road, Richmond, VA 23238, Saturday,

When: June 15, 2019, 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon, followed by a potluck lunch at the conclusion of the program.

Richmond IONS June Meeting Program Title:

“How Art Shapes Shape Us, the Next Installment.”

Our June 15, 2019 program will feature a much requested follow-up talk by Vandorn Hinnant, Durham, N.C. He is a painter, sculptor, poet and educational consultant. His talk will be moderated by his wife, AnaMaria Walle.

From an early age, Vandorn Hinnant consistently endeavored to translate his inner visions and other-dimensional experiences into something he could share with the world. In 1989 he began his formal studies of Sacred Geometry under the tutelage of physicist and inventor Robert L. Powell, Sr., who became his mentor.

Since that fate-filled day, Vandorn has developed a body of two and three-dimensional works of art, painting and sculpture. In fact, some have recognized his works as more than art. Meanwhile, many have encountered them and experienced transformative and expanded states of awareness.

Vandorn Hinnant: Before We Knew

“Before We Knew: From The Mother of Everything” – Artwork by Vandorn Hinnant

Vandorn draws inspiration from naturally occurring geometries and utilizes the Golden Ratio. The Golden Ratio is also known as The Golden Proportion or Section. Using these, Vandorn creates elegant compositions that embody fractal phenomena.

In doing so, he joins a long line of artists from Leonardo da Vinci to Salvador Dali. They too have used empirical methods to achieve aesthetic ends.

AnaMaria Walle began her studies of metaphysics in 1973 and never stopped. She tracked down Vandorn when she saw an image of one of his works, entitled “Voice,” on a postcard while on the West Coast. Her immediate response was, “I must meet whoever created this work of art.”

Now together for 17 years (married for 5), they continue to collaborate, exploring inspirations they encounter in the realm of the metaphysical.

Join Vandorn and AnaMaria in conversation and entertaining questions posed by the audience. They will share images of Vandorn’s work, along with creative explorations they have pursued such as pyramid power, meditation chambers and more!

About Vandorn Hinnant, Our Richmond IONS June Meeting Presenter:

Vandorn Hinnant received a BA in Art Design from North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro, N.C., and studied sculpture at UNC-Greensboro. His works of art are in private collections in Africa, North America, and Europe, and in public collections across North America.

He is the co-author (with Robert L. Powell Sr. and Jr.) of the book The Rest of Euclid. He has served as guest curator of exhibitions, as juror of many fine art competitions, and as guest lectured at colleges and universities.

He serves as an independent arts educational consultant, working with both youth and adult learners. Currently the artist is developing sculpture maquettes (models) to be fabricated into permanent materials. You may visit his website at www.vandornhinnant.com.

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