I recently saw the Danish movie "What goes around" by comedian-actor-writer-director Anders Matthesen on the Spiritual Cinema DVD. Realtor Alex Klein is having a bad day, a bad week, a bad life. He is rude to people and is the victim. Everyone - his girlfriend, daughter, boss, clients even the 14-year-old baristas who think they know the difference between highland coffee beans, picked by virgins at midnight and the coffee from the local supermarket!

When Alex has  a collision with another car and is in critical condition on the operating table he is enroled in a divine game show. And the prize is to win back his life. Both funny and moving Alex learns from his mistakes. And he learns to be honest with love. But who will he be if he has to give up struggle and victimhood? And what would happen if people knew that his favorite color is pink?

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If you haven't come across Evolver check it out for consciousness and thought changing stuff. Somewhat similar to the worldwide Transition Town movement. Evolver is screening "2012: A Time for Change" movie December 9th.

2012
Directed by Emmy Award nominee João Amorim, the film follows journalist Daniel Pinchbeck, author of the bestselling 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl, on a quest for a new paradigm that integrates the archaic wisdom of tribal cultures with the scientific method. As conscious agents of evolution, we can redesign post-industrial society on ecological principles to make a world that works for all. Rather than breakdown and barbarism, 2012 heralds the birth of a regenerative planetary culture where collaboration replaces competition, where exploration of psyche and spirit becomes the new cutting edge, replacing the sterile materialism that has pushed our world to the brink.

More info at http://www.facebook.com/robin.gunkel#!/event.php?eid=112886885444138

Evolver
We have events at least once a month that span a broad range of consciousness-related topics, from food production to peak oil, entheogenic medicines to visionary film screenings. Please join us and share your ideas, stories, projects, communities or anything else related to the evolution of collective and/or individual consciousness.

More info at http://www.facebook.com/robin.gunkel#!/group.php?gid=210773933913

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This Wednesday Sandbox gathering we learn about Spanking for Health, Healing and Happiness with Steve Karuna Maitri and Rev. Fisher. Do you want create deep connection with others? Do you want to release blocked emotions and reduce stress? Would you like absolutely transcendent sex with playfulness and joy?


For so many of us, spanking can act as a direct gateway to our emotions, sexuality, happiness and well being. Yet this practice has gone unrecognized as the powerful healing modality that it truly is. Steve Karuna Maitri will show you the limitless possibilities that spanking offers for creating deep connection, understanding, emotional health and absolutely transcendent sex. Find out how this practice can help you release blocked emotions, reduce stress and foster a deep and balanced partnership between you and those you love while adding a healthy dose of joy and playfulness to your life.


Steve Karuna Maitri has been a Zen Buddhist practitioner and meditation teacher in the Washington, DC area for more than a decade. In his practice, he combines mindfulness meditation, deep listening, spanking and massage to help his clients transform their lives and move forward on the path towards being whole. He has worked with clients to relieve stress, release blocked emotions and transform negative behavior patterns. He also works with couples to understand how spanking can deepen and transform their loving relationships.


Rev. Fisher received her seminary and spiritual counseling training at The New Seminary Interfaith Minister Training Program, and One Spirit Interfaith Seminary of NYC where she was ordained in 2007. She is a Spiritual Counselor, Liturgical Singer, Reiki Master, Intuitive Empath, Energetic Healer, and a Sensual Shaman, utilizing sensual energy for the healing of geographic locations, people, and animals. She has been facilitating spiritual exploration for adults and children for over 20 years through her educational, meditation, and womens' spiritual support groups. As a sacred sexuality practitioner she is committed to helping expand people's awareness of the powerful therapeutic benefits and joys of spanking.

You can learn more at http://www.spankingforwellness.com

The workshop begins after dinner at 8pm.  I invite you to join us, though as always what ever choice you make you will be honored in.

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This Wednesday Sandbox gathering we learn how to have inner peace now as Sandra Soloman teaches us how to use the Work of Byron Katie. Do you want to learn a unique and easy way to resolve problems? Do you want to find inner peace? Do you want to transform your experience of life at warp speed? Then come learn the simple process of self-inquiry known as The Work of Byron Katie. This amazing process, when used honestly and with integrity, has the power to create enlightenment on purpose.

“Eckhart Tolle's teaching is the ‘what,’ and The Work is the “how,” - Byron Katie

“The Work is a razor sharp sword—use it.” - Eckhart Tolle

Here is what you will learn:

• Learn to investigate your stressful thinking using four questions and a turnaround.
• Experience how you live your life when you believe thoughts that are not true for you.
• Discover new possibilities and different perspectives.
• Learn how to facilitate yourself and others using The Work’s four questions and turnarounds.
• Realize what is true for you, and take home the ability to live effectively with clarity and in accordance with your own integrity.

With the Work “We begin to question stressful thoughts and we find something new happening. We come to see that thoughts aren’t personal. And when we see that, miracles take place. It's what we read about…like unconditional love. The next time you see this person and your judgments of him, you may wonder why you're not seeing it that way. You're seeing someone just doing the best he can. It's a radical shift—this glimpsing into oneself.”

The Work is something you can take home with you. It is a method which brings your own inner wisdom to the surface. You become your own healer.

Learn more about the The Work at Bryon Katie's website.

The Work Essentials

The following are free PDF files available from her website 

• Little Book
• Instructions for Doing The Work
• Judge-Your-Neighbor Worksheet
• One-Belief-at-a-Time Worksheet
• Facilitation Guide
• Emotions and Reactions List
• Universal Beliefs
• Yellow Card Template
• Judge-Your-Body Worksheet

Sandra Solomon, Teacher, Channel/Conduit of Energetic Healing & Transformational Consultant. She is  a gifted and accomplished healer who works on both an individual, group and planetary level.  Her practice utilizes a wide range of energy modalities including, Quantum Healing which includes Reconnective   Healing and Matrix Energetics. She attunes Reiki Masters to six levels beyond Master Level through the Lightarian Institute™. Sandra is also trained in Shamballa Healing.

Sandra offers Transformational Consulting using a variety of techniques, including: the Work of Byron Katie, Psych-K  which is Psychological Kinesiology,  EFT-    Emotional Freedom Technique and The Sedona Method. These techniques assist in whole brain synchronization.  Her Transformational Consulting helps you to fine-tune your life into a more peaceful and balanced journey. She employs transformational techniques to assist you in attaining your goals.

Sandra’s explorations include quantum physics, sacred geometry, the Mayan Calendar, Kabbalah, the Sacred Alphabet, Universal Laws, the nature of reality and consciousness. She empowers people to discover their own self-authority.  You can reach Sandra at mayanone (at) juno (dot) com or 434-825-5564

The workshop begins after dinner at 8pm.  I invite you to join us, though as always what ever choice you make you will be honored in.

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This Wednesday Sandbox gathering we go on a Sharmanic journey with Randy. Do you want to over come subconscious blocks and self sabotarge? Do you want to get help from ancestors and animal spirits? Do you want to get beyond you logical left brain mind for deeper intuition and guidance?

Journeying, like meditation, is a tool for spiritual growth. It also
can be used for healing, obtaining information, and working
through psychological issues. The drum or rattle is frequently used by shamanic practictioners. The slow repetitive rhythm shifts the individuals "rhythm" so that he or she can journey, just the way a soothing song can help someone achieve a calmer state. The rhythm of the drum puts you in a trance. The journey is then achieved by the person'sintent. When someone goes on a journey they can visit guardian spirits, ancestors, animal totems, inner guides, etc. This form of active imagination allows for deep insights, not achieved by one’s intellectual process.

Randy is a former Yoga monk, a Craniosacral therapist, a world famous astrologer interviewed by the Washington Post and by CNN. He facilitates Family Constellation therapy for individuals and groups.

randy (at) randygoldberg.org or 202-380-6850 www.randygoldberg.org

Please bring a blanket to lay on. The journey begins at 8pm. I invite you to join us, though as always what ever choice you make you will be honored in.

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This Wednesday Sandbox gathering we watch the movie "V for Vendetta" and discuss how it relates to overcoming our fears, whether they are self induced or promoted by companies, government or the media. With November 5th coming up and the Rally for Fear/Sanity on the Mall this weekend I figured it was time to revised this classic movie and become more aware of how fear is used for manipulation and to gain power in the modern world.

Most chillingly, the film invokes the dread once feared in 1984, Animal Farm, Brave new world, or Fahrenheit 451 but with a renewed vigor that drives home the horrors Orwell foresaw, and still loom large in our comfy modern world. It also makes us realize that the word 'terrorist' is thrown around excessively,
if someone earns this title by simply standing up for what they believe in, and let's just say anyone hearing that word labeled to someone is not only a stereotype, but it makes a default hate for anyone who hears it about this person. What creates the chaos and hate of this world.

 

How a government can quickly go from the minimal required to ensure that free trustworthy citizens can go about their life, to an overprotective, lying, ends justifies the means tyrant system.  It reaches down into the very root of the modern political warmaking machine and totally debunks the War on Terror with all its sloganeering and xenophobia. Why is it that the state's terrorism as being of greater evil and rationalized by its political machinery, while V's acts are seen as "terroristic" because they are done by a single individual.

 

"Remember, remember the fifth of November," for on this day, in 2020, the minds of the masses shall be set free. So says code-name V (Hugo Weaving), a man on a mission to shake society out of its blank complacent stares in the film V for
Vendetta. His tactics, however, are a bit revolutionary, to say the least. The world in which V lives is very similar to Orwell's totalitarian dystopia in 1984: after years of various wars, England is now under "big brother" Chancellor Adam Sutler (played by John Hurt, who played Winston Smith in the movie 1984), whose party uses force and fear to run the nation. After they gained power, minorities and political dissenters were rounded up and removed; artistic and unacceptable religious works were confiscated. Cameras and microphones are
littered throughout the land, and the people are perpetually sedated through the governmentally controlled media. Taking inspiration from Guy Fawkes, the 17th century co-conspirator of a failed attempt to blow up Parliament on November 5,
1605, V dons a Fawkes mask and costume and sets off to wake the masses by destroying the symbols of their oppressors, literally and figuratively. At the beginning of his vendetta, V rescues Evey (Natalie Portman) from a group of
police officers and has her live with him in his underworld lair. It is through their relationship where we learn how V became V, the extremities of the party's corruption, the problems of an oppressive government, V's revenge plot, and his
philosophy on how to induce change.

Based on the popular graphic novel by Alan Moore, V for Vendetta's screenplay was written by the Wachowski Brothers (of The Matrix fame) and directed by their protégé, James McTeigue. Controversy and criticism followed the film since its
inception, from the hyper-stylized use of anarchistic terrorism to overthrow a corrupt government and the blatant jabs at the current U.S. political arena, to graphic novel fans complaining about the reconstruction of Alan Moore's original vision. Many are valid critiques and opinions, but there's no hiding the message the film is trying to express: Radical and drastic events often need to occur in order to shake people out of
their state of indifference in order to bring about real change.
From http://www.amazon.com/Vendetta-Two-Disc-Special-Hugo-Weaving/dp/B000FS9FCQ

The movie and discussion begins after dinner at 8pm and for this night only we continue after 10pm due to length of movie (2h 10m).  I invite you to join us, though as always what ever choice you make you will be honored in.

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