Association for Global New Thought andInstitute of Noetic Sciences Present the Conference 2003

Awakening a Global Vision:Collective Wisdom and

Spiritual Activism

September 17-21, 2003

Riviera Resort, Palm Springs, California

Institute of Noetic Sciences101 San Antonio RoadPetaluma CA 94952-9524

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A Time for Celebration—Music, Dance and More.

Don’t miss this extraordinary five-day event, with cutting-edge speakers and themes, world-class music and entertainment, cross-cultural and intergenerational networking, multiculturalrituals, and more. Visit our “Awakened Village” exhibit hall filled with books, tapes, CDs, accessto top U.S. and international organizations, resources, gifts and information.

Modeling True PartnershipThe conference is designed and produced in partnership by The Association for Global New Thought(AGNT) and the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS). By bringing together members and supportersfrom both organizations–with IONS’ focus on exploration through science, and AGNT’s emphasison spiritual transformation–we will weave a new tapestry of experience and understanding.

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Pre-Conference InstitutesRegistration beginsOpening Ceremony: Awakening our Global CommunityMASTERS OF CEREMONIES: REV. MICHAEL BECKWITH, JAMES

O’DEA, MARY MANIN MORRISSEY AND LYNNE TWIST

Deepening Ways of Knowing: Science and Spirit MARILYN SCHLITZ, REV. MICHAEL BECKWITH, DEAN RADIN, BRIAN SWIMME

Concurrent Breakthrough Sessions (partial list)JOSEPH CHILTON PEARCE, ELISABET SAHTOURIS, BRUCE LIPTON, PETE RUSSELL

World Café/Community Dialogues

Deepening Ways of Knowing and Becoming JOHN HAGELIN, SPECIAL PERFORMANCES

Accessing Wisdom as a Way of Being DAVID WHYTE, BARBARA MARX HUBBARD

Concurrent Breakthrough Sessions (partial list)DAVID WHYTE, BARBARA MARX HUBBARD, CAROL CARNES, KATHY HEARN, LUISAH TEISH, JERRY JAMPOLSKY/DIANE CIRINCIONE,RICHARD ROGERS, GLENN MOSLEY.Cafés on Transformative Practices and Processes

IONS 30th Birthday PartyAPOLLO 14 ASTRONAUT EDGAR MITCHELL, MICHAEL MURPHY, JAMES O’DEA AND SURPRISE GUESTS

Living Spiritual Activism AZIM KHAMISA, BILL MCDONNOUGH, MARIANNE WILLIAMSON, WINK FRANKLIN

Concurrent Breakthrough Sessions (partial list)TOM ATLEE/ROSA ZUBIZARRETA, MICHAEL TOMS, HAMZA YUSUF,ALAN LITHMAN, GORDON DAVIDSON/CORINNE MCLAUGHLIN,SHARIF ABDULLAH, VICKI ROBIN, DAVID PATTEN

Action Learning and Passion Cafés

Youth: How Then Shall We live?HAFSAT ABIOLA AND JEAN HOUSTON

AGAPE INTERNATIONAL CHOIR IN CONCERT

Seeding a New StoryCLOSING CEREMONIES FEATURING AGNT AND SPECIAL GUESTS

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A Call for Collective Wisdom and Spiritual Activism

A Special InvitationAs we face tremendous challenges at this defining moment in our globalhistory, you are cordially invited to participate at this extraordinary inter-national conference. How do we move from our individualized, personalpractice into a unified field of sharing, listening, learning and knowing? Is itpossible to tap into collective wisdom and consciously awaken a new call toaction? A new kind of activism is emerging that incorporates prayer, meditationand silence as well as new modes of engaging in the world. Join ourexploration through dialogue, discussion, meditation, music, laughter, bodymovement, reflection, and more.

Come Prepared To Participate!Now more than ever we yearn to come together, share our stories, commonconcerns, and broad possibilities. The conference begins with experience

and conversation that will empower our sense of collective wisdom. Eachday offers large group, small workshop, and World Café experiences.What choices will you make as you move through your own explorationof personal and collective inquiry? An extraordinary community of

local, national, and globally-renowned leaders and teachers will bethere to guide you.

REV. MICHAEL BECKWITH

GORDON DAVIDSON JOHN HAGELIN

BARBARA MARX HUBBARD

JEAN HOUSTON

FRED LUSKIN

CAROL CARNES

JERRY JAMPOLSKY AND DIANE CIRINCIONE

AZIM KHAMISA

BRUCE LIPTON

CORINNE MCLAUGHLIN

EDGAR MICTHELL REV. MARY MORRISSEY

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REV. DR. MICHAEL BECKWITH is Founder &Spiritual Director of Agape InternationalCenter, co-founder of the Gandhi KingSeason for Nonviolence, Director of ErnestHolmes Institute, and Inductee, Hall of Preachersat MLK, Jr. Chapel, Morehouse College.

REV. CAROL CARNES is Minister of the Centerfor Conscious Living, Santa Cruz, California.

JOHN HAGELIN, PH.D. is currently Directorof the Institute of Science, Technologyand Public Policy. He is a quantum physicist,author, and has appeared on Nightline,Meet the Press, Larry King Live! Hardball,and is regularly featured in the WashingtonPost, WSJ, NYTimes, USA Today, Los AngelesTimes, SF Chronicle and more.

BARBARA MARX HUBBARD is a visionaryfuturist, author, speaker, spiritual pioneer,and president of Foundation for ConsciousEvolution. Her books include The Evolution-ary Journey and The Hunger of Eve: OneWoman’s Odyssey Toward the Future.

DR. JEAN HOUSTON, scholar, philosopherand researcher in human capacities, isone of the foremost visionary thinkersand doers of our time. She is long regard-ed as one of the principal founders of theHuman Potential Movement.

JERRY JAMPOLSKY, M.D. AND DIANE

CIRINCIONE, PH.D. are the founders ofForgivenessWorks and co-authors of severalbooks including Love is Letting Go of Fearand Love is the Answer. Jerry is the founderof the Center for Attitudinal Healing.

EDGAR MITCHELL, ScD, Captain USN (Ret),is founder of the Institute of Noetic Sciencesand a pioneer in efforts to expand sciencetoward understanding consciousness andinner experience. He was an Apollo 14 astro-naut and the sixth man to walk on the moon.

REV. MARY MANIN MORRISSEY of the LivingEnrichment Center in Portland, Oregon isalso the former President of theAssociation for Global New Thought.

MARIA NEMETH is a clinical psychologistand internationally-recognized seminarleader and speaker. She is the author ofThe Energy of Money, and is founder andCEO of the Academy for Coaching Excellence.

JAMES O’DEA is the new President ofIONS. Previously he was ExecutiveDirector of the Seva Foundation. He alsoserved as the Washington Director ofAmnesty International and was co-leaderof the Spirit of Human Rights Dialogues.

JOSEPH CHILTON PEARCE is the author ofseven books including four on child devel-opment. His first book, Crack in the CosmicEgg, has been in print for 28 years. He hasspoken at more than 2,000 public programs,and lectures throughout the world.

DEAN RADIN, PH.D. is a Senior Scientistand Laboratory Director at IONS. For thepast 15 years he has conducted researchon the frontiers of human capacities atPrinceton Univ., Univ. of Edinburgh, Univ.of Nevada, SRI International, and twoSilicon Valley think tanks.

REV. RICHARD ROGERS is Senior Minister,Unity of Phoenix; Board of Trustees, UnitySchool; and has a weekly television series,“Inspire and Awaken.”

PETER RUSSELL is a fellow of the Instituteof Noetic Sciences and is the author ofseveral books including From Science toGod: A Physicist’s Journey into the Mysteryof Consciousness. Other books include TheBrain Book, The Global Brain Awakens theCreative Manager, and Waking Up in Time.

MICHAEL AND JUSTINE TOMS are the co-founders of New Dimensions WorldBroadcasting Network and serve as hostand producers of the award winning, NewDimensions radio series.

MARILYN SCHLITZ, PH.D. is IONS' VicePresident for Science and Education andSenior Scientist at the ComplementaryMedicine Research Institute at theCalifornia Pacific Medical Center. Shehas published hundreds of articles onconsciousness studies.

BRIAN SWIMME, PH.D. is professor ofcosmology at the California Institute ofIntegral Studies in San Francisco. He isco-author with Thomas Berry of TheUniverse Story and his acclaimed videoseries Canticle to the Cosmos has beendistributed worldwide.

DAVID WHYTE is a Yorkshire-born poet anda Fortune 500 consultant. He is the authorof four volumes of poetry, and two books:The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preser-vation of the Soul in Corporate America andCrossing the Unknown Sea-Work as aPilgrimage of Identity.

MARIANNE WILLIAMSON is an internationallyacclaimed author and lecturer. Her bookshave been #1 N.Y. Times bestsellers includ-ing A Return to Love and Everyday Grace.Others include Illuminata, A Woman'sWorth, and Healing the Soul of America.

Honoring Indigenous Cultures

Movement Individual and Collective Practices

Wednesday, September 17

A1 Activism of the Living Spirit:Paths to Collective WisdomTOM ATLEE AND ROSA ZUBIZARRETA

An experiential day on bringing forththe collective wisdom needed to addresschallenges we face as a species. With afew short presentations and engage-ment with one another, we'll exploreour way toward a new politics of co-creativity, passionate dialogue andshared spirit.TOM ATLEE AND ROSA ZUBIZARRETA areexplorers in the field of co-intelligence.Tom is the author of The Tao of Democracy:Using Co-Intelligence to Help Create AWorld That Works for All. Rosa practicestransformational approaches to facilitation.

A2 The Living Classroom: Exploringthe Living Intelligence of Group MindsCHRIS BACHE

The dynamics of group mental fieldsin the classroom are alive, intelligent,and can have a profound impact onindividual students. We will explorethe application of Rupert Sheldrake'smorphic field theory to the classroomand group settings. Participants will begiven practices for working with thesefields to deepen the group learningexperience. CHRIS BACHE is professor of religiousstudies at Youngstown State Universityand adjunct professor at CaliforniaInstitute of Integral Studies. He is anaward-winning teacher and author ofDark Night, Early Dawn and Lifecycles:Reincarnation and The Web of Life.

A3 Relationship as a Vehicle forPersonal and Social TransformationLINDA AND CHARLIE BLOOM

The work of inner liberation is thesame as the process of building amore peaceful and just world. Thisworkshop will provide “technology fortransformation” that can be integratedinto our lives and illuminate the bridgebetween the personal and global.LINDA AND CHARLIE BLOOM have workedwith couples and individuals as therapists,organizational consultants, group facilita-tors and teachers since 1974. They havedesigned and led hundreds of seminarsworldwide and have appeared on radioand national TV. Their new book, 101Things I Wish I Knew When I Got Married,will be published in 2004.

A4 The Secret of Being a PracticalVisionary: Aligning Your Passionand Gifts with the Higher Plan ofEvolution GORDON DAVIDSON AND

CORINNE MCLAUGHLIN

Learn how to bring your vision andaction together. Discover how theHigher Plan for human evolution iscurrently unfolding, and how yourcontribution fits within this largercontext. You’ll learn to shape yourpersonal vision into a practical strategy,and balance mind, heart and will fortrue leadership. GORDON DAVIDSON AND CORINNE

MCLAUGHLIN are internationally knownauthors, teachers and founders of fivesuccessful social change organizationsand three businesses. They co-authoredSpiritual Politics and co-founded theCenter for Visionary Leadership.

A5 Spiritual Activism: Healing theWounded ImaginationMOLLY DWYER, PH.D

This institute is designed for activistswho seek to tap inner wellsprings ofspirit in their work. Emphasis will beon practical skills for following thesilent wisdom of our hearts and explor-ing principles for spiritual activism.MOLLY DWYER, PH.D is vice president ofSatyana Institute. She received the Vicker’sAward from the International Society forthe Systems Sciences in 1999 for hergroundbreaking paper, “The EmergentFeminine,” a cosmological inquiry into therole of the feminine in the evolution ofthe universe. She has two upcomingbooks: Strange Attraction: Toward a NewCosmology of Being and A Revolution ofHeart: Gender and the Global Crisis.

A6 Resource Alignment for Work,Play, Family, Health, Citizenship and Soulmaking TRACY GARY

Would you like to get support forunleashing the spirit of generosityand hope? Come internalize howthousands of citizens, including manyCultural Creatives, are harnessing andexpressing value-based goodness andright relationship to money, serviceand community. TRACY GARY has been a philanthropic advisorand activist for consciousness and hearttending for over 30 years. She is the founderof 17 nonprofits and has worked with over3,000 donors and 100,000 citizens on makingchange. She is the co-founder of Change-makers, a foundation making global impact.

A7 How to Instantly Tell Truthfrom Falsehood About AnythingDAVID R. HAWKINS, M.D., PH.D.

A calibrated Scale of Consciousnesswill be presented that encompassesthe entire human domain. Learn thetechnique of instant differentiationbetween truth and falsehood, andexplore transcendence of the limita-tions of ego to the nonlinear realm of subjective spiritual realities. DAVID R. HAWKINS, M.D., PH.D. is a psy-chiatrist, author, and spiritual teacher, Hisrecent books include trilogy of Power vs.Force: An Anatomy of Consciousness; TheEye of the I: From Which Nothing is Hidden;and I: Reality and Subjectivity.

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JOSEPH PEARCE

MARIANNE WILLIAMSON

PETER RUSSELL

BRIAN SWIMME LYNNE TWIST

DEAN RADIN

ELISABET SAHTOURIS

JUSTINE AND MICHAEL TOMS

RICHARD ROGERS

MARILYN SCHLITZ

DAVID WHYTE

MARIA NEMETH JAMES O’DEA

Explore Collective Wisdom and SpiritualActivism with Full-Day Sessions

In addition to the conference, enjoy one-day institutes on Wednesday,September 17 and Monday, September 22. Each institute is from 9:00amto 4:00pm, and provides an intense, focused learning experience relatedto the overall Conference theme. Spend a day with leading thinkers,researchers, educators, and trainers. These additional sessions areavailable whether or not you attend the conference.

Please note that registration for each institute is an additional fee of$100 with the conference, and $125 if not attending the conference. Usethe institute code number when completing the registration form.

Listed below are some of the more than 50 presenters offering plenaryand/or 90-minute sessions on fascinating topics, deep inquiries, currentresearch and other experiential opportunities.

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