Music Of the Spheres: Finding The Ancient Chords
of Being.

An Evening Of HARMONIC PRESENCE
With DAVID HYKES
Harmonic Chant ≈ Contemplative Practice ≈ Healing Harmonization

David Hykes's inspiring "evening" of our potentially united states of mind will be largely devoted to practice and exploration, including direct group immersion in his "mu- sic of the spheres," Harmonic Chant, and the Harmonic Presence work of the past 40 years, with practices with subtle breath (prana), listening awareness, sensation and vibration, group harmony, and luminosity-- as part of a full-spectrum approach to well-being and creative and spiritual inspiration. In short, the work links music, healing harmonization, and contemplative awareness practice, to help us reattune mind, heart and body, and to culti- vate deep qualities of being-- sense of har- mony, compassionate accompaniment, toler- ance, presence, joy, and openness. And to find again the ancient chords of being. 

PRESENTER: David's journey as artist, mu- sician and contemplative practitioner and teacher includes immersion in wisdom tradi- tions, especially Tibetan Buddhism, native american tradition via the Taos Pueblo, in New Mexico where he was born, sacred world music, and cosmology. Remarkable beings he has had the honor to offer his music for include His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Na- tive American elders, the Gyuto Monks and nuns of Nagi Gompa in Nepal, and his Ti- betan Buddhist teachers, filmmaker Dzong- sar Khyentse Rinpoche, Tsoknyi Rinpoche and Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche, and for the Mind and Life Institute (which brings to- gether neuroscientists and contemplative practitioners). He is a noted “sacred cinema” composer ("Travellers and Magicians”, "Ba- raka”, "Meetings with Remarkable Men"...) as well as for films including "Ghost," and "Dead Poets Society" and Terrence Malick's "The Tree of Life." Hykes’s work has been honored by UNESCO, the National Endow- ment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Founda- tion, the Edwards Art Fund, and NYSCA. His 12 albums include "Hearing Solar Winds," the best-selling "throat-singing" album of all time. Info: www.harmonicpresence.org. 

New Harmonic Presence groups forming in the Hampton(e)s and NYC. Info harmonicpresence@gmail.com 


An Evening with William Irwin Thompson

Join us this week as we converse with Thompson in a mind-jazz session.  We will likely flow through time, touching on cave art, ancient texts, and postmodern politics in one breath, and the Vedas, Rudolph Steiner and Marshall McLuhan in the next.  As every breath is a prayer, so art, science, and the mystical are but light reflected from the facets of Thompson’s finely cut diamond turned this way and that. 

“Because we have separated humanity from nature, subject from object, values from analysis, knowledge from myth, and universities from the universe, it is enormously difficult for anyone but a poet or a mystic to understand what is going on in the holistic and mythopoeic thought of Ice Age humanity. The very language we use to discuss the past speaks of tools, hunters, and men, when every statue and painting we discover cries out to us that this Ice Age humanity was a culture of art, the love of animals, and women.”  (From The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light)

PRODUCER: William Irwin Thompson

William Irwin Thompson was born in Chicago in 1938, moved to Southern California in 1945, where he grew up to graduate from Los Angeles High School in 1957 and Pomona College in 1962. He received a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship to study at Cornell in 1962 and a Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship to do his doctoral research in Dublin in 1964. He received his doctorate from Cornell in 1966 and published his first book, The Imagination of an Insurrection: Dublin, Easter 1916 in 1967. In 1972, his second book At the Edge of History was a finalist for the National Book Award. In 1986 he won the Oslo International Poetry Festival Award for his novel, Islands Out of Time.

Thompson has taught at Cornell, MIT, and York University in Toronto. His interdisciplinary interests are indicated in that he studied anthropology, philosophy, and literature at Pomona, and literature and cultural history at Cornell. He has served as visiting professor of religion at Syracuse University(1973), visiting professor of Celtic Studies at St. Michael's College, the University of Toronto (1984), visiting professor of political science at the University of Hawaii at Manoa (1985), Rockefeller Scholar at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco (1992-1995), and Lindisfarne Scholar-in-Residence at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York in the autumn of each year from 1992 to 1996. In 1995 he designed an evolution of consciousness curriculum for the Ross School in East Hampton, New York and still serves as a Founding Mentor. Thompson founded the Lindisfarne Association in 1972 and served as its Director until 1997; he has retired from

Lindisfarne and teaching and now devotes himself to writing essays and poetry; he contributes regularly to the Wild River Review. Review.( http://www.wildriverreview.com/

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Trauma and Disease: Surviving Cancer and Other Immune Syndromes

 

More and more people are diagnosed with cancer and other complex diseases. The accelerating increase in these psychological, neurological, and immunological diseases provide evidence, in our view, of a how fear and materialism continue to destroy man's body and soul and how the medical industry collaborates in this process. Several still unrecognized doctors and scientists have uncovered perspectives of cancer and its treatment that are far more accurate and holistic than the traditional medical models.  By understanding the traumatic source of disease and illness, we can now implement an integrated psycho-neuro-immunological healing method to prevent and heal it in ourselves and in others. 

PRODUCER: Scott Von

Dr. Scott Von is the founding director of the New Clinic for Integral Medicine & Psychiatry in New York. He has taught as a professor for many years at NYU, CUNY, Pacific College, and American College of TCM.

The Psycho(ana)lytic Dose: Psychedelic Medicine & Psychiatry

 

What is healing? What are disease and illness? What is the difference that makes a difference? What causes transformation? I will take a journey through my life and work in the fields of medicine & psychiatry, psychoanalysis & philosophy, art & poetics with the purpose of unveiling the psyche as it exists through the continuum of Desire, Love & Faith. I will explain the role of Psychedelia and Autopoesis in the utopian future of healing: an agonistic, aleatory, and aesthetic game of life.

PRODUCER: Scott Von

Dr. Scott Von is the founding director of the New Clinic for Integral Medicine & Psychiatry in New York. He has taught as a professor for many years at NYU, CUNY, Pacific College, and American College of TCM.

The Trust Frequency: Ten Assumptions for a New Paradigm

Based on Andrew’s and Connie’s book by the same title, The Trust Frequency, the intention of the night’s presentation is to introduce the audience to their prescription for higher consciousness on the "High Road to Happiness." It is a visionary synthesis of quantum science, indigenous cosmology, Eastern and Western wisdom, intuitive knowing and plain common sense that leads the participants into the heart of the conscious loving Universe, where joy, balance, peace, and abundance are the order of the day.  It is for those longing for an upward quantum shift in their own reality and that of society at large.

PRODUCER: Andrew Cameron Bailey & Connie Baxter Marlow

Andrew Cameron Bailey and Connie Baxter Marlow are original thinkers, filmmakers and social philosophers whose films, books, workshops and public appearances spread their down-to-earth, visionary, optimistic message about the future of humanity. Coming from divergent life experiences, they have reached similar conclusions: the prevailing paradigm is missing important information about the nature of reality, and this has resulted in a world out of balance. They challenge a number of basic assumptions that have driven humanity’s behavior for millennia and offer ten new ones for consideration. They have a home base in Sedona, Arizona, but spend most of their lives on the road in their custom TrustMobile. They love every moment of it. You can find more information atwww.TheTrustFrequency.net.

Brushstrokes At the Brink

"My passion for all things wild imbues me with the motivation to produce concise, relatable mixed-media artworks that empower the people who encounter them. My images are rich in educational content yet conceptual in execution and advance conservation initiatives across the world. Art serves as my primary medium for activism. I create because it is the oldest form of communication, and I use post-consumer waste, the ubiquitous raw material of the 21st century, to narrate the stories of the Anthropocene."  The evening’s presentation will pertain to efforts to raise awareness about conservation, waste management and renewable energies through creative media.

PRODUCER: Asher Jay

Asher Jay is an artist, designer, speaker, activist, writer and conservationist.  She is a staunch supporter of animal rights, wildlife conservation, and sustainable development, and she uses all her creative faculties to spark engaging visual discourses with audiences across the globe about contemporary ecological and humanitarian concerns.  She is the founder of her very own country, The United Flotsam of Garbagea (http://www.garbagea.com), and she makes public appearances as Garbagea’s Dump Dictator for Life and Ill-Will Ambassador to educate audiences of various age groups about the cultural mores and civic obligations embraced by citizens of her plastic provinces.  Additionally, Jay produces works for fundraisers under the EnAct (Environmental Activism) banner.  She also directed, illustrated and produced an animated short, Transparent Sea (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-vibgPdct8), which was awarded “Honorable Mention” at the Blue Film Festival in Monterey.  The film has since been amended to include hard facts about plastic consumption for 5 Gyres, who intend to use it as their Ban the Bag PSA.

Her most recent undertaking was a collaborative, global, educational art installation,Message in a Bottle, which was launched on June 8th 2012 (World Ocean’s Day) by Sea Speak Sphere (http://www.seaspeaksphere.com), a unified visual platform that Jay developed to foster creative dialogues about marine conservation. It is presently on display at the SAG Harbor Whaling Museum, and was at the American Museum of Natural History's Milstein Hall earlier.

Jay’s work (http://www.asherjay.com) and interviews have appeared on Time Out NY, Mission Blue, ScienceLine, Scientific American, See 7 Magazine, Mother Nature Network, Eco Chick, ABC News Local, Green Upgrader, and on several NGO’s blog feeds (5 Gyres, Thinking Animals, GWC, USNC UN Women, etc.).  

Harmonic Presence: Accompaniment in the spheres of being. Silence, listening, and the music of what arises.


David Hykes's inspiring "evening" of our potentially united states of mind will be first and foremost an evening of practice and exploration, and will include direct exploration of a "music of the spheres," Harmonic Chant. The focus of the evening will broaden to include other dimensions of theHarmonic Presence work of the past 40 years, also including subtle practices with breath (prana), listening, sensation and vibration, and luminosity,
as part of a full-spectrum approach to well-being and creative and spiritual inspiration. The work links music, healing harmonization, and contemplative awareness practices. 

PRODUCER: David Hykes

David's journey along the way includes immersion in wisdom traditions, especially Tibetan Buddhism, music and science, native american tradition via the Taos Pueblo, sacred world music, and cosmology.    Transforming encounters with remarkable beings include His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Native American elders, the Gyuto Monks and nuns of Nagi Gompa in Nepal, and his Tibetan Buddhist teachers,  filmmaker Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche, Tsoknyi Rinpoche and Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche, and with the Mind and Life Institute (which brings together neuroscientists and contemplative practitioners). Contemplative awareness practicehelpsus transform the mind, and cultivate deeply present qualities ofbeing-- acceptance, compassionate accompaniment, tolerance, presence, joy, and openness. This evening will be about practice. And practice makes practitioner.

Exploring Nonduality

There is a knock on the spiritual masters door. “Who is it”? The knocker replies “It is I”, “Go away” says the sage. The stranger leaves and after pondering for a year returns and knocks again. “Who is it”? The stranger replies “It is you” and is immediately welcomed.
                                                                       Rumi
 

Our conventional view of the world is dualistic, splitting our personal reality into two categories “me” and everything else that's separate from “ me”. 

NonDuality means “not two” or “nonseparation.” It challenges belief in a separate self, declaring it an illusion, a mental image put together by thought and memory.
What's real, according to NonDuality, is the causeless background awareness, the "knowing presence" in which all thoughts, images, emotions and sense perceptions arise.

This knowing presence is our true Self, impersonal and the same in all beings. It is the source of true peace and joy; the One fundamental reality known by many names God, Love, Brahman, Tao, Universal Consciousness.  

Our presentation will attempt to make nonduality more present in our everyday experience.

PRODUCERS: Drs. Evelyn and Paul Moschetta

As Psychotherapists and Marriage Counselors Evelyn and Paul combine traditional Western Psychology with Eastern Spiritual practices in their work with individuals and couples.  They are the authors of three books on relationships: ARE YOU ROOMMATES OR SOUL MATES?  THE MARRIAGE SPIRIT and CARING COUPLES. They have been most fortunate to have had J.Krishnamurti and Jean Klein as spiritual teachers and have benefited greatly from the words of Nisargadatta.

Choosing the Present: Re-imagining Ourselves for Extraordinary Times (also entitled: Women Who Care Women Who Dare Action Circles: A Million Steps at a Time)

How do we imagine who we are? How do we frame our conversations? How do we catapult to collective action?   The evening will begin with the simplicity of love. Love moves to hope and hope moves to action. 

Alternating between presentation and interactive process, we will explore how we imagine and then both reveal and imagine powers for healing our world from the inside out. Our evening will include the powerful combination for solutions based gathering in WISE’s unbeatable combination of women&men + focused action circles + social media + interactive web hub = planetary health.  Conversations for next steps will be sparked from personal passions. ‘Where others see problems, we can see possibilities.’  - Diane Dreher

PRODUCER: Dorothy Reilly

Inspired by love for my native Southampton, I take a stand for a sustainable, just and joyful world and the interdependence of all living systems. Founding director of Women’s Initiatives for a Sustainable Earth:WISE, my goal is to bring millions of voices to bear for a healthy planet. Along with building our website HUB, current local projects include TEDxSouthampton in May 2013, Hamptons in Transition: Building Resilient Community, and Women Who Care Women Who Dare Action Circles.