Richmond IONS Meeting January 21, 2017

Richmond Ions January MeetingFeaturing Edward F. Kelly, Ph.D.

Where: River Road Church – Baptist, 8000 River Road (NW corner of River and Ridge Roads)

When: Saturday, January 21, 2017, 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon, followed by potluck lunch at conclusion of program.

Richmond IONS Program Title:

“Parapsychology in Context – Towards a Personal Reconciliation of Science and Spirit.”

Our 21st Anniversary Program, on January 21, 2017, will feature a talk by Edward F. Kelly, Ph.D., author of numerous scholarly works and Senior Professor of Research at the UVA Medical School’s Division of Perceptual Studies (DOPS) in Charlottesville.

The so-called “mind-body” problem (whether mind begets body or body begets mind) has been the core dilemma of Western philosophical discourse for nearly 2,500 years, since the era of Plato and Aristotle.

Through the centuries the pendulum has swung in both directions, and the current drift of establishment science tilts the scales heavily towards a materialistic perspective, leaving little room for spirituality. The mission of IONS Founder, Dr. Edgar Mitchell, was to reconcile these seemingly divergent streams, and Dr. Edward Kelly’s career spanning nearly five decades has been similarly focused.

Ed will speak about his experiences and what he has learned during his 45 years of professional research in the parapsychology field, which started in experimental parapsychology with J.B. Rhine in Durham at Duke University in 1972, through his current role at UVA with a research group focused mainly on evidence for postmortem survival.

He will describe in personal terms what has emerged for him as the meaning of it all based on his experiences, and how his experiences have transformed him from something pretty close to conventional physicalism/scientific materialism in his early years towards a vision which puts consciousness at the heart of all, essentially inverting the mainstream conception of mind as secondary to matter. We are very pleased to welcome Ed as our 21st Anniversary guest speaker.

About Our Richmond Ions January Presenter:

Edward F. Kelly, Ph.D. is currently Professor of Research in the Division of Perceptual Studies at the University of Virginia Medical School. He received his Ph.D. in psycholinguistics and cognitive science from Harvard in 1971, and spent the next 15-plus years working mainly in parapsychology, initially at J.B. Rhine’s Institute for Parapsychology, then for ten years through the Department of Electrical Engineering at Duke, and finally through a private research institute in Chapel Hill.

Between 1988 and 2002 he worked with a large neuroscience group at UNC-Chapel Hill, mainly carrying at EEG and fMRI studies of human somatosensory cortical adaptation to natural tactile stimuli. He returned full-time to psychical research in 2002, serving as lead author (with his wife, Emily Williams Kelly, Ph.D., as a co-author) of Irreducible Mind (Rowman & Littlefield, 2007) and Beyond Physicalism (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015).

He is now returning to his central long-term research interest – application of modern functional neuroimaging methods to intensive
psychophysiological studies of psi and ASCs in exceptional subjects (http:cedaracreekinst.org).

Richmond IONS Meeting, December 10, 2016

Tom Coates, Richmon IONSRichmond IONS December Meeting, and Central VA IONS Community Group Meeting will feature a talk by Tom Coates + music by Dan O’Neal.

Where: River Road Church – Baptist, 8000 River Road (NW corner of River and Ridge Roads).

Saturday, December 10, 2016, 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon, followed by a potluck lunch at the conclusion of the program.

“Your Soul, Its Anatomy, Its Cosmic Journey and Its Meaning to You.”

Our December 10, 2016 program will feature a talk by Tom Coates, our group’s only still-active original member and one of our most popular guest speakers, with music by Dan O’Neal. 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 focus of this year’s talk will be an exploration of your soul’s cosmic journey as described in the channeled teachings of the Michael Group, the Ra Group, Group 7 and other sources. Tom is fortunate to have enjoyed a lifetime of communications with his own spirit guides, and for many years has augmented those through channeling sessions with a number of other higher plane spirit/soul groups or sources.

He also has been a student of esoteric and channeled writings throughout his life, and followed closely the works of Edgar Cayce, Jane Roberts (The Seth Material, etc.), Robert Monroe and countless others.

This program also will include practical tools intended to aid those interested in learning details about their own souls, e.g., about how, in concrete terms, their souls may be impacting and influencing their lives, about their past-life histories, and much more.

As part of this practicum, Tom will provide a line-by-line explanation of a sample “Michael Reading” soul chart, a chart channeled through the Michael Group which purports to describe various aspects of an individual’s soul including its role, history, soul age and other aspects.

It also includes personality traits of the individual which the soul has chosen to experience through that individual’s lifetime. Blank copies of this chart, along with instructions on how to use it, will be handed out to all in attendance.

This promises to be another blockbuster program and a fitting way to conclude our group’s twenty-first year and usher in its twenty-second. As always, Tom promises some secrets known only to a few will be revealed.

About Our 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 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 his most significant unfulfilled ambition of this lifetime is to make love to an extraterrestrial female, preferably of Pleiadean or Sirian origin.

Richmond IONS Meeting, November 19, 2016

Albert Moore Richmond IONSThe Richmond IONS January Meeting, and Central VA IONS Community Group Meeting will feature a talk by Albert Moore.

Where: River Road Church – Baptist, 8000 River Road (NW corner of River and Ridge Roads).

When: Saturday, November 19, 2016, 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon, followed by a potluck lunch at the conclusion of the program.

“Applying Harmonic Principles of Sacred Geometry to the Design of the New Earth.”

Our November 19, 2016 program will feature a presentation by Albert Moore, a retired Santa Fe-based architect, metaphysician, visionary and spiritual blogger.

Albert Moore will present applications of geometry, proportion, color, texture and light in architectural design and describe how they affect and alter human behavior for better and worse.

He will demonstrate how Sacred Geometry graphically illustrates the soul’s journey from Oneness through human experiences in the illusions of separation, then returns into Oneness.

Al will offer examples from his architectural career showing how, in designing buildings, cityscapes and urban spaces, he applied Sacred Geometry to facilitate human experiences of balance, harmony, order, union and healing.

In this presentation Al also will discuss the use of geometries and proportions in his visionary design for the City of Union on New Earth which he describes in detail in his soon to be published book of inspirational fiction, with the working title Eyes in the Mirror.

In his book he describes a process for communicating with our Souls and living our lives guided by our Soul’s Essence rather than ego’s fears and limitations.

Al will conclude his presentation with a tour of his imaginal City of Union and a detailed description of its social and physical systems. In the City of Union on New Earth, the sacred unity of all things, including the physical design of the spaces we inhabit, is the basis for all human endeavors.

About Our 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.

He writes a blog twice monthly at bluespacecreations.wordpress.com. In Eyes in the Mirror, his book of inspirational fiction to be published in 2017, he concludes a New Earth is being birthed where human endeavors are guided by the truth that all things are unified by a common origin.

Richmond IONS Meeting, October 15, 2016

Featuring a talk by Jenny Lynn Metevia

“Heaven is So Close: Spirituality, Energy and the Supernatural.”

Jenny Lynn MeteviaOur October 15, 2016 program will feature a talk by Jenny Lynn Metevia, M. Ed., a Boston-based psychic medium, clairvoyant, past-life regression specialist and spiritual teacher.

Since childhood Jenny has had the gift of second sight and has nurtured her relationships with the spiritual world and sharpened her sensitivities to energy in order to fulfill her sense of mission to “help the children of the stars.” Jenny firmly believes in the healing power of God’s grace and love through prayer and action.

Through education, healing and communication with our angelic guides and loved ones on the other side, Jenny helps pierce the veil to allow guidance and divine grace to be more accessible for others. Her goal is
to teach those who seek spiritual education, aid those who seek healing from grief and loss, and help reunite lost souls and seekers with the Source.

At this special program, Jenny will speak on many topics: from astral visits to the Heavenly realm, angelic experiences, and metaphysical phenomena; to personal questions on dreams, psychic experiences, past lives, as well as spirit visits and a variety of signs from the “other side.”

About Our Presenter:

Jenny Lynn Metevia, M.Ed., is a Spiritual Teacher, Clairvoyant Medium and Past-Life Regression Specialist. Jenny has been a professional Teacher and Medium for many years in the U.S., Europe and South America. She has trained with Dr. Brian Weiss (as seen on Oprah) in Past-Life Regression, as well as Sylvia Browne (as seen on Larry King Live) in Healing and Psychic Development.

Jenny has been a long-time special guest of WBZ News Radio’s Jordan Rich Show. You may visit her website at www.jennymetevia.com.

 

Richmond IONS Meeting, September 15, 2016

Featuring a talk by Vickie Griffith

“Still Stuck? Releasing Limiting Beliefs and Other Acts of Self-Sabotage.”

Vickie GriffithOur September 17, 2016 program will feature a talk by Vickie Griffith, a Florida-based hypnotherapist, emotional freedom technique (“EFT”) practitioner, author (Stucked Up! A BreakThrough Path to Unstuck), self-help and improvement coach and teacher, who formerly lived in Richmond.

Vickie describes her childhood as one in which she felt cut off from normal social interactions with others due to being overweight, a chronic problem she began trying, by the age of 10, to correct by dieting, but without success.

Change finally came for her when, as a teenager, she became fascinated with the possibility of personal transformation through the power of the mind. In college she pursued psychology courses and eventually discovered hypnosis, EFT, and, through the use of these tools, the power to transform herself.  This gave her a calling to help others do the same and she has been pursuing that calling ever since.

Here’s how Vickie describes the program in her own words: “There is no doubt we are being called to experience our present lifetimes on a higher level. Many experts agree we are moving towards a higher consciousness, beyond prescribed limitations of old cultural norms and paradigms.

Yet once we are exposed to the new era for humanity our ‘buts…’ get big. Fears and self-limiting beliefs saying ‘I can’t do that’ overshadow our movement towards freedom and peace, and we get stuck. It then seems no matter what we do we still remain stuck in old negative thoughts, destructive habits and debilitating feelings.”

Vickie will share practical energetic tools for everyday life that will help shrink and dissolve your self-negating and self-limiting beliefs (your “buts…”). You will learn which of the four self-limiting beliefs keeps you stuck, what four resistances you are using right now to excuse yourself, and easy-to-use, real-time energetic tools to release what is keeping you stuck.

If you are ready to get unstuck, find freedom and happiness and really begin to experience the higher consciousness you desire, this program is for you.

About Our Presenter:

Vickie Griffith is a certified hypnotherapist, EFT practitioner, life coach, self-help teacher and author. She has given workshops around the country, appeared numerous times as a featured guest on radio and TV talk shows and is known for her infectious enthusiasm and deceptively low-key, casual approach.

Vickie is also an adjunct professor at J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College and is a licensed minister. You may visit her website at www.break-through.org.

Richmond IONS Meeting, August 20, 2016

A talk and concert by Norma Gentile, Sound Shaman

“Sound Shamanism − an explanation and live demonstration.”

Norma Gentile, Sound ShamanOur August 20, 2016 program will feature a talk, live demonstration and concert by Norma Gentile, an internationally acclaimed singer, sound shaman, intuitive healer and channel for Archangel Michael, Mary and the Hathors. This is a rare treat for our CV IONS Community Group and we are delighted Norma could fit us into her schedule.

Norma has her feet in both the professional world (holding a master’s degree in Voice Performance from the University of Michigan) and in the shamanic healing traditions. Having seen auras and angels as a child, she learned to utilize her spiritual connections as an adult by training with shamans and psychics while developing her own means of using music for spiritual healing.

Drawn to music that facilitates deep states of inner awareness, Norma combines Tibetan singing bowls with the western medieval chants of St. Hildegard von Bingen.

Norma is known the world over as a “sound shaman” not only because of the quality of her voice, but also the remarkable healing power her singing can induce, aided and guided by the channeled influence of those guides and angels who work with her. They usually include Atamira (a Hathor), and the intelligences associated with Nature and Earth.

For those who would like a preview of what’s in store, we invite you to check Norma’s website at www.healingchants.com or Google “Norma Gentile sound shaman.” To enhance the acoustical qualities of this program, we will hold our August 20 meeting in the small Chapel on the wing of the Church closest to River Road.

Our potluck lunch following the program will be in Chapel Hall (where we met in July, as well as January for our 20th Anniversary program, and last December). The Chapel may be accessed either from the front door at ground level on the River Road side of the Church or from below via a stairway adjacent to Chapel Hall.

In addition to our August 20 program, Norma also will conduct an all-day workshop in Charlottesville on Sunday, August 21, and private healing sessions in Richmond on Monday, August 22 and on Tuesday, August 23.

Please see Norma’s website, www.healingchants.com, to schedule a private session in Richmond or attend her workshop in Charlottesville.

About Our Presenter:

Norma Gentile is a recording artist with four solo musical CDs to her credit, plus 50 meditation and teaching CDs and many online courses. She also is an energy healer and channel, and receives channeled information for individuals during healing sessions, as well as written transmissions from Archangel Michael, Mary and Thoth which she shares in newsletters, blogs and articles. She also channels the Hathors and healing energies from Nature in her music.

Richmond IONS Meeting, July 16, 2016

Featuring a talk by Dennis Lutz

“Energy Pathways to Health and Healing.”

Dennis LutzOur July 16, 2016 program will feature a talk by holistic energy healer and light worker, Dennis Lutz, who only recently (in May and June of this year) relocated from the Tampa, Florida area to Richmond.

After spending 35 years in real estate and construction in sunny Florida, Dennis Lutz realized that something in his life was lacking. He finally gave in and followed his intuition, which he says he had abandoned back in his teenage years, and was guided to the holistic healthcare field.

Having no formal education past high school, Dennis headed back to school and attended Manatee Technical College. He soon followed by enrolling at the Institute of Structural Energetic Therapy (“SET”) to become a therapeutic bodyworker.

Within about three months after beginning his practice, Dennis was amazed to discover the extent of the beneficial effects his work was having – many clients who had suffered chronic pain for years, some for as long as they could remember, suddenly reported being pain free. Most, until they met him, were not aware such alternative therapies existed.

His initial success helping these clients motivated Dennis to explore deeper healing modalities in the form of energy techniques. Dennis now practices a broad spectrum holistic approach which includes therapeutic bodywork, energy work, breathwork, spirituality, chakra balancing, diet, nutrition, exercise, yoga, meditation, hypnotherapy and essential oils for well-being.

Dennis not only continues to practice a variety of hands-on physical protocols, but also practices remote energy healing, and often has found this to be just as effective as in-person protocols. Dennis will share his experiences in support of non-invasive pain relief, health and healing techniques that can be easily combined with standard medical practices, when and as needed.

The breadth and depth of health care applications Dennis has found for his work, which have, on occasion, even included dramatic therapeutic benefits in unexpected categories of maladies like bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, is quite remarkable.

About Our Presenter:

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

He also practices 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. He also trained at the NMT Center in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Richmond IONS Meeting, June 18, 2016

A presentation by Drs. Tom & Jane Hansen

“Finding and Expressing One’s Self.”

Our June 18, 2016 program will feature a presentation by Drs. Tom and Jane Hansen, Charlottesville educators, authors, songwriters, composers and musicians. Tom has written about the metaphysical Self (Trying to Remember (1995) and Remembering our Oneness (2013)), and Jane about the importance of Self to writers.

Drs. Tom and Jane Hansen will offer their ideas of “Self” via discussion and music. Within this format attendees will travel from the mathematical and metaphysical space of “Flatland,” to Johnny Cash’s thoughts about love, to the possibility that “God” is the “context in which forever takes place,” and elsewhere.

Prompted by songs performed by Tom and Jane, the audience will have opportunities to think about and discuss:

• The idea that “Believing Is Seeing.”
• The power we all have to “Imagine” ourselves and the world to be.
• The claim that we are all spiritual beings who are still in Oneness.
• The hope that “Forgiveness” of each other and the world can be simply a
matter of “Remembering” one’s Self.
• The seemingly outlandish claim that our 3D physical world is an illusion, and perhaps even a “Simulation” that we make ourselves.
• The choice to simply “Let the Mystery Be” and just live our lives.

About Our Presenters:

Tom Hansen, Ph.D., is a retired mathematics education researcher, author of math books and teacher. He began his career in the Peace Corps in Liberia in 1964. Tom was the founder of a non-profit that coordinated citizen exchanges between the U.S.S.R. and the U.S. in the 1980s. He was a Non-Governmental participant at the Earth Summit in 1992.

Tom has sung and played guitar for decades, has several CDs of his songs and has performed at numerous festivals, workshops and conferences. He is a member of the Positive Music Association. His 2014 CD, “Book Concert,” consists of songs whose lyrics are all quotes from his Remembering Our Oneness book.

Jane Hansen, Ph.D., is professor emerita at UVA’s Curry School of Education, and began her career, with Tom, in the Peace Corps in Liberia. As a professor her specialty was to teach teachers how to teach K-12 students to write across the curriculum.

She has led workshops for teachers in many states and several foreign countries, including Brazil, Canada, Australia, the Bahamas and Belize. In working with writing her goal is to help others and herself, see writing as a means of expression of Self, as is music. Jane began playing the piano keyboard in fourth grade and now sees both that keyboard and her computer keyboard as equally important means of Self-presentation and Self-expression.

Richmond IONS Meeting, May 21, 2016

Featuring a talk by Debra Diamond

“Life After Near Death.”

debra diamondOur May 21, 2016 program will feature a talk by renowned Baltimore psychic and medium, Debra Diamond, about her recently published book, Life After Near Death: Miraculous Stories of Healing and Transformation in the Extraordinary Lives of People with Newfound Powers.

Debra Diamond began her quest to better understand the special significance of NDEs about five or six years ago. Just a few years earlier, in 2008, she had had an extraordinary, life-altering experience of her own, wherein she was instantly transformed and catapulted from a secure and well-established position as a prominent and successful Wall Street money manager, investment advisor, frequent media commentator in Forbes and on TV shows like CNBC, and business school professor at Johns Hopkins University.

She gave up all that to become a full-time psychic and medium, almost overnight. Several years into her surprising new career she was asked to do a reading for a man who had had an NDE. She didn’t think twice about it, but the reading itself changed her nonchalant outlook entirely.

In her own words: “When I began to read this man, I realized: this was no ordinary reading. This time, the information I was being shown was literally out of this world. This man’s brush with death had left him with extraordinary gifts, with special powers. This was no ordinary man.”

From then until now, Debra has sought to more fully comprehend the extraordinary gifts that often accompany NDEs. Thoughtful, compelling and engaging, Life After Near Death offers fascinating and often profound new insights into the breadth and depth of individualized NDE special effects, a realm few if any investigators have explored in detail before now.

Debra’s book also is groundbreaking in another way, in that she uses her spiritual channeling, psychic and mediumship abilities as an investigative tool to further inform her NDE research. Her talk promises to be a rare treat for our group and we are very pleased to have her as our May guest speaker.

About Our Presenter:

Debra Diamond is a gifted intuitive, channel, medium, psychic, healer, and now an author as well. She lectures, presents workshops and works with clients individually to assist in healing and expansion to enable them to live richer, fuller and more abundant lives.

She is certified in Reiki, a graduate of the Holistic Studies Institute of New York, has completed mediumship training at the Arthur Findlay College in  the UK and has trained at the Carl Jung Institute in Analytical Psychology in Zurich, Switzerland.

She has studied in Bali, trained in shamanism and worked with spiritual teachers in Colorado, New Mexico and Cassadaga, Florida. In her previous life on Wall Street, Debra often appeared on CNBC, hosted her own radio show on CNN, was profiled in Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Baltimore Sun and The Washington Post, and was a professor at Johns Hopkins University. When not on the lecture circuit, she splits her time between homes in Baltimore and Taos.

Richmond IONS Meeting, April 16, 2016

Featuring a talk by Faith Grieger

“A Door Has Opened for Humanity.”

faith griegerOur April 16 program will feature a talk by Faith Grieger, a Newton Institute-trained hypnotherapist who conducts a practice in Richmond specializing in past-life regression, Life-Between-Lives (LBL) and Quantum Consciousness (QC) explorations.

Through the exploratory journey of her own life, Faith Grieger has discovered a treasure trove of new tools for unlocking the secrets of who we are at the deepest levels, and of the eternal quest of our souls to advance creation through your lifetime and a multitude of others. She will share that journey and those discoveries with us in her April 16 talk.

Her talk will include group experiential demonstrations of hypnotherapy and regression techniques, of the landscapes, peoplescapes, worldscapes and healing potentials one may encounter in the explorations of other lifetimes, plus the rich tapestry of learning, connections with one’s own soul, spirit guides, councils of elders and more that may be encountered between lifetimes.

Faith also will introduce us to the newest session technique in her toolbox, one which merges spirituality with quantum physics known as Quantum Consciousness. Its aim is to enable exploration of additional realms or fields of consciousness that are otherwise beyond our reach, including stored consciousness (e.g. the akashic field), parallel and alternate realities and lives, interdimensional realms, and eternal consciousness.

Faith will conclude the program with a group regression in which all in attendance will be invited to participate (and share their experiences if they wish to do so). Faith’s presentation promises to be one of our most memorable and we look forward to it with great anticipation.

About Our Presenter:

Faith Grieger is a Richmond native who attended secondary school at St. Catherine’s in Richmond and Holton-Arms in Washington D.C. She graduated from Meredith College in Raleigh with a B.A. in art and sociology.

After living for more than 20 years in Oregon, Florida and Asheville, North Carolina, she returned to Richmond in 2015 and opened her practice under the name of All Souls Center, at 5500 Monument Avenue, Suite T (Monument Professional Building).

Her vocational background and training includes Art, Interior Design, Feng Shui, Astrology, Massage, Reiki, Healing Touch and Spiritual Response Therapy (SRT). She is one of only 200 therapists in the world trained and certified in Life-Between-Lives (LBL) therapy at the Michael Newton  Institute and is a former Board member.

She is U.S. Program Director of Quantum Consciousness (QC), founded by Australian Peter Smith, President of the Newton Institute, and she is the only sanctioned facilitator of QC sessions in the world outside of Australia.