The Way Things Are
Huston Smith, PhD

Spinning off from The Way Things Are - Phil Cousineau's skillfully edited summation of Smith's lifelong search for the Real - Smith will point out the way things really are in contrast to the way pundits of modernity would have us think they are. Huston claims no originality for what he says. He will be conveying the winnowed wisdom of the human race as reported by the spiritual giants throughout history. Goal: To inform how much more there is to life and the world than we are normally aware of.

Learning objectives:

• to raise your sights on what you want to do with your life
• to orient you as to how best to deal with life's problems and opportunities
• to provide a framework in which to understand and deal with your emotions.

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Presenter Bio: Huston is Professor of Religion and Philosophy at Syracuse University. Most recently, he served as Professor of Religious Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He was featured in Bill Moyers' 1996 five-part PBS series, The Wisdom of Faith with Huston Smith. His eight books include The World's Religions, The Illustrated World's Religions, Forgotten Truth, Beyond the Post-Modern Mind, and One Nation Under God: The Triumph of the Native American Church.

www.hustonsmith.net

Wheel of the Four Winds:
Ancient Mystery Wisdom for Biding Your Time on Earth
Rabbi Gershon Winkler -

Gershon offers an anthropological exploration of Judaism as an aboriginal mindset reflecting an ancient consciousness rooted in the elemental human experience of earth and sky once common to most primordial religions. Sample teachings from the ancient Hebraic and Aramaic written and oral traditions are presented as well, replete with wisdom around sorcery, animal totems, bird spirits, sacred circles, and the mystery of consciousness. Rabbi Winkler offers us a rare and generous encounter with a rich body of ancient wisdom that has been long neglected and even longer misunderstood, a tradition that defies linear thinking and challenges ordinary givens and definitions, yet is uncannily congruent with contemporary scientific thought. Spiced with humor, chanting and stories, Gershon helps us access this rich, long lost dimension of Jewish mystery wisdom that is at the same time esoteric and pragmatic, as well as nurturing to the human consciousness and our quest for deepening our relationship with life.

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Presenter Bio: Gershon Winkler is cofounder and Director of the Walking Stick Foundation, an organization devoted to the recovery of aboriginal, earth-honoring spirituality. He has authored 13 books on Jewish theology, folklore and mysticism. He has lectured and served as Scholar-in-Residence at colleges and universities, and for ecumenical and Jewish retreats, across the USA, Canada, Europe and Israel. Two of his most recent books, Magic of the Ordinary: Recovering the Shamanic in Judaism and Kabbalah 365: Daily Fruits from the Tree of Life, encapsulate his nearly two decades of study and practice of the long-lost shamanic traditions of ancient and early-medieval Judaism.

www.walkingstick.org

The Power of Your Intuition and
Positive Energy to Heal
Judith Orloff, MD -

We are keepers of an innate intuitive intelligence so powerful that it can tell us how to heal and prevent illness. Dr. Judith Orloff, a psychiatrist, practicing intuitive, and pioneer in the new field of Energy Psychiatry shows how to reclaim this intelligence. She passionately believes that the future of medicine lies in using intuition to access our bodyòs subtle energies for greater wellness. This sacred energy is with us at birth, and throughout life. We must learn to draw upon it. Too many of us walk around exhausted, irritable or stressed out. Dr. Orloff offers a lifeline to all who feel depleted by the demands we put on ourselves and the pressures of daily life. This presentation, based on her new book, Positive Energy, offers practical ways to increase total well-being.

Learn how to:

• use intuition to access energies from physical to spiritual
• combat energy vampires who are sapping you dry
• avoid fatigue by not absorbing people's pain or negativity
• prevent Energy Defensive Eating, a major reason diets fail
• prevent energetic overload and exhaustion from being in crowds
• maintain your body's physical health and subtle energy system

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Presenter Bio: Transforming the face of psychiatry, Dr. Judith Orloff asserts that we are keepers of an innate intuitive intelligence so perceptive that it can tell us how to heal and prevent illness. Yet intuition and spirituality are the very aspects of our wisdom usually disenfranchised from traditional health care. The links between physical health, mental well-being, and spiritual connectedness cannot be ignored. It is our birthright, both as health-care givers and health-care recipients, to reclaim our intuition, restore it to full standing in the medical realm and thereby carry medicine into the future. As a board-certified psychiatrist and professor of psychiatry at UCLA, Dr. Orloff exhibits great courage in drawing upon her own intuitive abilities, evident to her since childhood. Her struggles acknowledging and then finally embracing her gift of heightened intuition are chronicled in Second Sight. In Dr. Orloff's Guide to Intuitive Healing, she explores the impact of her ideas in over fifteen years of psychiatric practice. Her newest book is Positive Energy: Ten Prescriptions to Transform Fatigue, Stress, and Fear into Vibrance, Strength and Love.

www.drjudithorloff.com