Here's a WONDERFUL article by fellow ACIM student Mike L. about Gary and his work; straight scoop, and straight from the heart.

For those of you familiar with Gary Renard , author of the books: The Disappearance of the Universe and Your Immortal Reality (both of which I can't recommend too highly!) I can now joyously announce the details of his upcoming seminar in southern Oregon; thanks to Dain for sending these particulars! I'll be there, and I hope to see you there! Here's a printable flyer (feel free to share and pass around!

Thank you for your interest in the upcoming Gary Renard seminar. It will be a great weekend and a great chance to meet with other Course students in the area.

Dates
Saturday, August 16
10:00 – 4:00 with a book signing afterward
Sunday, August 17
1:00 – 5:00
 
We may have an event Sunday morning, i.e. breakfast or church event. We will keep you posted.
 
Venue (prior venue idea; note change below!)
Christ Unity Church of Medford
540 N.Holly Street - Medford, OR 97501

There is a new venue (hope everyone sees this in time! for Gary Renard's seminar in Medford, Oregon:

Rogue Regency Inn
2300 Biddle Rd.
Medford, OR 97504
(541) 770-1234
 
Cost
$150
 
Make check payable to: Dain Pape
 
Send to:
Dain Pape
2135 Eddy Drive
Mount Shasta, CA 96067

Inner Den is having a moving sale!
Paula and John Mageras are moving to Eugene, Oregon in July. We will miss them
and wish them great success in their new location there! Paula has been such a gracious
hostess for our Wed. ACIM study group since last September! (We will meet in individual
homes starting July.) Please support them by visiting their Eagle Point, Oregon location
(117 W. Main Street) between now and June 16 (or shortly thereafter). Here's some info from Paula:

Hello Everyone,
The word you’ve been hearing is true; we are relocating the shop and ourselves to Eugene.  I will be packing things up and doing inventory as I go the week of the 16th; close the doors the following week to move things out and be completely out of the building by June 30th.
 
Yes I am doing a sale on items throughout the shop.  Soaps & lotions 20% off. Figurines, coffee & tea cups, candles, nic/nac type items all at 20% off. I carry some face/body spritzers and sea salt scrubs that are organic from a couple of ladies from the Green Springs they are 40% off. All of Ginger’s Ravencroft products are 50% off.  She has created some nice essential oil teas, body/room spritzers and sugar scrubs.

Jay Goldner, who did a superb job of translating my Sacred Geometry Design Sourcebook into its German Edition (Mandalas der Heiligen Geometrie, published by Silbershnur Verlag) and also author of Messages from Space: Crop Circles Bring the First Indisputable Extra-Terrestrial Signs from Space, just sent me an email letting me know that his superb crop formation exhibit (which was open to the public in Switzerland and Austria) has recently been shown in Seoul, South Korea. Here's another update from Jay with some lovely patterns – not to worry if your German fluency is minimal (like mine) since the patterns communicate directly; a perfect example of how symbols which approach ideal mirrors of the principle and awareness of oneness tend to transcend language barriers... Music is another example, particularly music that exemplifies heartfelt compassion, kindness and quantum forgiveness!

On Saturday, February 23, 2008 at 5PM Pacific Time, I will be the guest on David Gibson's show on BBSRadio... I hope you can listen in!

David was the host and organizer of a wonderful conference last month that I was honored to give a presentation at ... The Globe Sound Healing Conference (There will be another in San Francisco in May 2008)... It was a marvelous experience where I got to meet lots of interesting friends and connect with many kindred souls such as: Randy Masters (a brilliant synthesizer of ancient and contemporary insights about sound - his workshop was great fun; his vesica delta bipyramid fold-up is featured on page 221 of my Sacred Geometry Design Sourcebook), Elizabeth Upton (a bright and enthusiastic videographer working on a documentary on sacred geometry), Judy Cole of Healing Partnerships (who won my 2007 contest - see the Feb 1 2008 post), Gary Schwartz, PhD (doing fascinating energy healing research), Mandara Cromwell (working with friend Jeff Volk bringing Hans Jenny's Cymatics work forward,) Rick Henderson (who created some superb 3D polyhedra visuals in real time for the evening concerts using Zuma software and his own MIDI setup), a pioneer in neuro-acoustic research Dr. Jeffrey Thompson, Barbara Hero (creator of the Lambdoma keyboard), Dr. Fred Bell (amazing inventor), John Gil (an architect incorporating sacred geometry) and Don Estes to name just a few.

At the Globe Sound Healing Conference, Woodland Hills Marriott (Los Angleles) 26-28 Jan. 2008 next Sunday, I will be giving a Workshop: Sacred Geometry and Sound Healing : How Ancient Hermetic Laws, Quantum Physics and Universal Symbolic Archetypes all converge in Your Optimum Wellness... I hope to see you there!

Last Saturday, some friends of ours, John & Paula Mageras, had a grand opening celebration of their new store, Inner Den, in Eagle Point (117 West Main Street, next to Antonio's Italian Restaurant and WAMU. They are featuring a beautiful selection of unique gifts, crystals,
books (including my Sacred Geometry Design SourceBook), candles, incense, CDs, Dagoba chocolate and much more... (including 7 framed giclée prints from my Martineau Solar System series) Check 'em out! Here are some photos from their new store.

Composite (all seven Hermetic Laws) example still image from the animations in The Geometry Code Screensaver/Meditation tool/eBooklet

If anyone is in southern Oregon and would like to see a very abbreviated presentation of my recent work, I'll be sharing some fun info with the ORIONS (Oregon Institute of Noetic Sciences) group tonight. Check out my Events page for details.

Our Hedronists (a.k.a. Ashland Geometers) Open House time has been shifted to 5:30-8:30 PM (same date Sat. June 23, 2007) to allow folks to attend Ron's Vaastu workshop earlier that day; details forthcoming. See my Events page for details.

I am in a state of heartfelt acknowledgment for the work of our my new friend, Dr. Leonard Laskow ... He is the author of a marvelous book entitled, Healing with Love. His 3-day workshop which I attended this last weekend was truly life-transforming for me... can't say enough good things about the wisdom, genius and astonishingly simple and profound truths he shared... and the catalytic effect his presentations and exercises had for me... LOTS more to say, although most of the impact was on an intuitive & emotional level that is rather ineffable.

Thanks to Lani for letting me know about the 2nd Annual Northwest Labyrinth Gathering - May 18-20, 2007 in Medford, Oregon! Looks like a great event coming up featuring an interesting slate of speakers, including Dr. Jean Houston.

Suzie Daggett (who did a superb job arranging speakers for our New Frontiers group a few years ago and has been making similar great contributions to the community since with her Insight directory) is involved in the Heart of Healing Conference, which will take place March 24-25, 2007. It looks like a great lineup of presenters for those of you in the Sacramento, California area. Check it out! Here's the flyer she sent:

Yesterday, I met with colleague Dan Shaw and several other "fellow geometers" in Ashland, Oregon, and it was a joy to share mutual inspirations and support; much more to follow as a result of our collaborative brainstorming ... There are details of our most recent public collaboration at the Mobius on 21 Sep 2006 here. For now, here is a timely post (for multiple reasons, since it is Dan's birthday as well as the day before he presents one of two upcoming events in Ashland if you can attend... Here's Dan's update, along with a few comments from me...

Sound is such a wonderful "universal language" which in many respects is even more intuitive than geometry. Sound also embodies geometry so beautifully, as noted by visionaries from Pythagoras to Hans Jenny (the Cymatics sound/form research pioneer whose modern work is currently carried forward through the efforts of Jeff Volk who was one of our New Frontiers speakers.) Dan's work explores the realm of spatial orientation, which seemed to have a renaissance in the 1970s with quadraphonics (now seemingly absorbed into the "surround sound scene"), and John Chowning's computer generated sound (where a tetrahedron of speakers, one directly over the listener's head could make sounds so realistic that a simulated fly buzzing around one's head might evoke a swatting response The magic of architectural acoustics is yet another aspect of sound and spatial interaction; an early inspiration for me (and probably lots of others was Paul Horn's classic recording in the Taj Mahal, Inside, and Inside the Great Pyramid. Another early influence was Paul Beaver & Bernie Krause's "Gandharva" album, half of which was recorded in San Francisco's Grace Cathedral, which I had the pleasure of visiting a few weeks ago with my family. I was inspired by the Inside recording to do similar acoustic research in the Great Pyramid, and eventually recorded sound within it such as this clip of the resonance of the granite box erroneously referred to as a sarcophagus within the depths of the Great Pyramid of Egypt. Add to the mystical experience of interacting acoustically with an inspiring space with the mystical experience of feeling kinship with other souls attuning with sound, and the potential for transformation can multiply astronomically!

Here's details on Dan's upcoming events in Ashland, Oregon on 16 Jan 2007 and 7 Feb 2007:

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Hey! I Invented a New Musical Art Form
by Dan Shaw

What is a Vortex? I wanted to give people the experience of being in a Vortex, not just talk about it, as I have at VortexMaps.com. It's easy to demonstrate the geometric reinforcement of patterns of energy vortexes, using musical instruments. With these simple instructions you can try it yourself, and be among the very first to develop this new art form.

So I took eight chimes, and did the simplest thing I could think of. I gave seven volunteers a chime and hammer(?!) and we stood at the center of the room, back-to back. The "audience" stood in a circle around us.

I began by slowly walking and chiming from the center to the edge of the room, outside the ring of the audience. Then I walked back to the center, still chiming. I then tapped the person across from me, and we each walked to the edge of the room and back chiming. This gave the audience the sense of their relationship to a "line" of sound-energy. Next, three chimers walked out and back, forming a triangle of sound. We progressed in this way, adding a chime at each repetition, until there were eight chimes, forming an expanding and contracting octagon of sound.

The entire process took just a few minutes. The audience had an experience they had never had before, their relationship to geometric patterns of sound. The audience and volunteers all enjoyed it. Had we taken more time, we could easily have come up with an infinite number of variations, such as counter-rotating circles of chimes.

The volunteers were unrehearsed, so we used a random assemblage of an octave of chimes. A quite different effect could be achieved with continuous instruments, such as violins, instead of chimes, which are more percussive and intermittent. The audience, on the dance floor, may move among the instruments, become participants in creating a unique soundscape, instead of sitting in an audience, removed from the instruments, hearing more or less exactly what the rest of the audience hears. The musical piece may be composed in complete synergy with a choreography of the physical movement of the instruments and musicians. One sound-healer called the new art form, "equivalent to the discovery of perspective in painting."

I invite you to contact me to let me know what you're doing and how we can work together.
--
Dan Shaw
http://VortexMaps.com/
http://DanShaw.com
P.O. Box 3028, Ashland, OR 97520

I'm happy (again!) to report that 8 of my Martineau Solar System prints are now on display in Linz, Austria, as part of his traveling crop circle exhibit. If you need to translate the German web page cited above into your favorite language, I find babelfish handy... If any of you are living or visiting Austria, and are able to visit this exhibit, I'd love to hear from you about it.

Here are some photos Jay Goldner sent me of my artwork (which is a small part of his much larger exhibit):





Here is the email (about the new Austrian venue) I just got from Jay, who, incidentally, did a superb job of translating my Sacred Geometry Design Sourcebook into German and has published other fascinating books in German and English.

Dear international friends of the crop circles!

We have just been able to find time to let you know that the world’s greatest and largest crop circle exhibition (1700 m2) has opened a few weeks ago in Austria. The original Swiss exhibition (it was shown in Erich van Daeniken’s Mystery Park in Interlaken) has been brought up to date and greatly expanded.

So far there have been 93.000 visitors to the exhibition and is now open to the public in the Upper Austrian capital city of Linz. The running time of the renewed exhibition has just been prolonged till 21st of January 2007. I have attached some pictures of the large presentation halls.

Our long term project is to establish a crop circle museum, more precisely a crop circle exploration center (look at www.cropcirclemuseum.com). But until then we would like to present this impressive exhibition (more than 300 objects) in many other countries. So we are looking for local partners worldwide and suitable exhibition space (1000 m2 upwards).
 
Please help to spread this information and perhaps to also make this exhibition possible in your city/country. We would of course also be happy if you could visit our Austrian exhibition. You will be amazed.

With crop circular greetings

Jay Goldner & the Phoenix Team

We're all just an infinitesimal, yet crucial part of the great spiral of life. Colleague Mingtong Gu just sent me a clip of the healing spiral ceremony he conducted in Ashland with several hundred in attendance a few months ago (I'm wearing a purple shirt, standing just left of the bottom of the screen about 2 minutes into this neat video taken of the event. We were also participants in a very fun multimedia event at the Mobius in Ashland, on 21 September 2006, along with a half dozen other geometry enthusiasts which you can read about on my events page.

As I've been telling folks for years, I'm working on a new book, which has evolved into a CDROM and DVD project with a companion book... stay tuned! I'm quite enthused about recent progress; I feel simultaneously challenged and inspired by the enormity of material to cover in the topic I've chosen, yet the heart of it is not material, at all! How's that for a teaser? Since a picture, as they say, can be worth a thousand words, here's a rough sketch of some of the core concepts, in geometric symbolic form. If we lived in a culture that was steeped in the deeper meaning of symbols, this might be the entire book, but not to worry, I'll be providing lots of accompanying words!


copyright (c) 2007 - Bruce Rawles - Elysian Publishing

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