2012 Infinity Foundation
Spirit Award Recipient

The question of how you can know what choices to make today and for your future remains at the heart of who you are. Today, much of the way you live your life, think about the world, and solve your problems is based in core beliefs of an outdated science. From Newton's view of the universe as a machine to Darwin's survival of the fittest, for nearly 300 years the ideas of science have formed the foundation of the modern world. It is during this same period of time that the world has found itself facing the greatest crises of war, suffering, and disease in recorded history.

In this compelling new work, bestselling author and visionary scientist Gregg Braden explores many of the hottest issues at the core of our great social divisions-seemingly separate issues such as abortion, suicide, right-to-die and the death penalty, war, terrorism, genocide, poverty, abuse, economic collapse, and nuclear proliferation-are actually related. They all stem from the false assumptions of science that have compromised core human values and have brought us to the brink of disaster resulting in the loss of all that we cherish as a civilization.
Deep truth reveals new discoveries that will forever change the way you think of yourself. Knowing who you are, where you are in the cycle of civilization and nature, and learning from the mistakes of past civilizations is the key to surviving the crises facing us today. The best science of this time, when it is married to the wisdom of the past, confirms that you still have ways to shift this time of crises into a time of emergence. You can be part of creating a new world based upon actionable and sustainable principles at the core understanding of your deepest truths.
Through a powerful synthesis of easy-to-understand science and the wisdom traditions of the past, explore the deep truths at the root of humankind's greatest threats. Make new discoveries that hold the key to life-affirming changes you can make in your personal life collectively in your family, community, and in the world. Be part of the wake-up call about ideas that now threaten our existence. Be a vehicle to spotlight the lifesaving discoveries that give meaning and hope for the new world that is emerging before your eyes.

Course 113154
Date  Saturday, May 19
Time  9:00 AM - 4:30 PM, lunch included
Cost  $120/110 payment 10 days in advance
Place Highland Park Country Club, FREE parking

A luminous energy field (LEF) envelops the physical body and holds a record of all your emotional, physical, and spiritual traumas. The LEF is an information field, a blueprint that determines how you will heal, live, and might die. This information also is encoded in neural networks in primitive regions in your brain and keeps you trapped re-living the same tired old stories, dramas, and diseases through many generations.
Shamans of old discovered how to erase the imprints of disease from the LEF, break free of generational curses, and wire the brain for joy and creativity. Alberto Villoldo, one of the foremost teachers of shamanism, will share the practices that can help you to break free of a genetic and psychological destiny that has been preselected for you. Repair regions in your brain that have been damaged by trauma, prime your brain for illumination, and heal the LEF. Apply ancient shamanic practices in a scientific and practical system of energy medicine to realize states of exceptional health.

Discover how to integrate shamanic wisdom with modern science and:

• Apply the illumination process to clear imprints in your energy field before they have a chance to express disease in the body
• Keep your body vibrant and mind clear with superfoods employed by shamans to heal the brain and wire it for serenity, brilliance, and wit

• Use soul-retrieval techniques to heal from soul loss, erase past trauma, and recover your essential, never-been-there, never-done-that, self

These ancient practices-combined with modern science-enable you to heal emotional wounds and reach states of exceptional well-being as you bring harmony to your LEF. It also offers you the opportunity for conscious participation in your future evolution. Experience a deep personal exploration that will illuminate your LEF and your life.

Course 113152
Date  Saturday, March 17
Time  9:00 AM - 4:30 PM, lunch on your own
Cost  $100/85 payment 10 days in advance
Place National Louis University, Skokie Campus, FREE parking

Experience a profound shift of consciousness that liberates your mind and heart. Whether you are motivated by illness, relationship unhappiness, or the desire to experience life to the fullest, radical aliveness wakes you up and transforms your life.

Join world-renowned consciousness teacher and healer, Richard Moss, in an exploration of the power of presence in your life. Presence is associated with feelings of aliveness, connection, creativity, satisfaction, and flow. Presence makes the difference in your ability to enjoy life, heal emotional wounds, experience intimacy, and support the growth and transformation of others.

Gain a fundamental understanding of the four places the mind goes when it leaves present-moment awareness. It is this habitual distancing from the now that creates mental and emotional suffering, intensifies physical pain, and hinders healing. By becoming conscious of how you disconnect from the present, you create unnecessary mental suffering. End that limiting thought process. Develop a healthy and productive ability to face and integrate even your most threatening feelings. Achieve mental clarity and emotional freedom.

Drawing from his professional experience with tens of thousands of people, Moss aims to enhance your ability to incorporate present-moment awareness into your daily life to support positive change in yourself and others. Bridge the gap between knowing about presence and experiencing living presence. Applying radical aliveness you will:

• Experience present-moment awareness
• Use tools to engage the present moment in your daily life
• Create a solid foundation for healing in all areas of your life
• Better handle difficult situations with more elegance and ease

Improve both your personal and professional relationships with your changed perspective. Expand your capacity for genuine empathy and compassion. Once you taste, live, and breathe the present moment, you will enjoy more richness, gratitude, and fulfillment in your life and relationships. Register early, space is limited.

Course 113153
Date  Sunday, March 18
Time  9:00 AM - 4:30 PM, lunch on your own
Cost  $95/80 payment 10 days in advance

You know those goals that you never achieved, the ones you had full intention of making, are because you have to be able to receive that which you ask for. While the Giver archetype is well-known and celebrated in our culture, its counterpart, the Receiver, is almost wholly unfamiliar. Yet, the act of receiving is the natural, healthy complement to giving. When the Giver and Receiver are out of balance, your life can't help but reflect disharmony. If you devote your energy and time to helping others or have so much on your plate that you wonder when you will find time to take a nap, let alone achieve your dreams, you need a plan that gives you relief. Amanda Owen, author of The Power of Receiving, guides you to manifest a goal in an engaging, intriguing, and interactive manner.

Amanda's power-of-receiving philosophy "brilliant, elegant, profound, and enormously practical."
Christiane Northrup, MD, bestselling author

Based on more than two decades of research into the nature and benefits of receptivity, Owne leads you through transformative exercises that produce practical results you can apply immediately to your life as you:

• Discover how to achieve greater reciprocity in your relationships
• Construct a new life-template that creates energy and confidence
• Take a goal from inception to completion by using the power-of-receiving techniques
• Remove barriers that prevent you from receiving what you are attracting

Goals that were once written with good intention and forgotten or not reached will never be looked at in the same way. This interactive, yet practical, technique of working with goals as live entities is a masterful approach to receiving what you want and deserve. Your whole view of what it means to receive will enhance your ability to both give and receive with grace and confidence.

Course 123135
Date  Saturday, April 28
Time  9:00 AM - 4:30 PM, lunch on your own
Cost  $85/75 payment 10 days advance

Equanimity is a spacious stillness of mind that allows you to be with things as they simply are. It does not imply indifference, however. Rather, when equanimity is present, it is the ground out of which sustained transformation can occur. It is also the foundation for the boundless arising of other qualities of the mind and heart, such as lovingkindness, compassion, and sympathetic joy-joy in the happiness of others. The predominant tone of equanimity is one of calm. Be fully connected to whatever is happening around you. Fully connect to others without habitual reactions of careening toward what is pleasant and pulling away from what is unpleasant. Without equanimity, you might offer friendship only as long as your offering is acknowledged and appreciated, or as long as someone responds in kind. You would offer compassion to yourself only when you were not overcome by pain and compassion to others only when you were not overcome by their suffering. You would offer sympathetic joy only when you did not feel threatened or envious. Cultivate equanimity and your tremendous capacity to connect can blossom-for you do not have to push away or cling to anything that may happen.

Sometimes in teaching meditation we say, "Sit like a mountain. Sit with a sense of strength and dignity. Be steadfast, be majestic, be natural and at ease in awareness. No matter how many winds are blowing, no matter how many clouds are swirling, no matter how many lions are prowling, be intimate with everything and sit like a mountain." This is an image of equanimity. We feel everything, without exception, and we relate to it through our own strength of awareness, not through habitual reactions.

Equanimity's strength derives from a combination of understanding and trust. It is based on understanding that the conflict and frustration you feel when you can't control the world does not come from your inability to do so, but rather from the fact that you are trying to control the uncontrollable. You know better than to try to prevent the seasons from changing or the tide from coming in. Following autumn, winter comes. You may not prefer it, but you trust it because you understand and accept its rightful place in a larger cycle, the bigger picture. Apply the same wise balance to the cycles and tides of pleasant, unpleasant, and neutral experiences in your life through guided meditations, talks, and Q&A periods to explore the practice of equanimity. Go deep into the practice and find equanimity:

• Through mindfulness
• Alongside lovingkindness and compassion for yourself and others
• By reducing the stress of daily life
• In deep peace meditations

As you begin to understand and practice equanimity, you move from a mode of struggling to control what comes into your life a mode of simply wishing to truly connect with what is. This is a radical shift in worldview. Be part of it. This retreat is suitable for both new and experienced meditators.

Course 123146
Date  Saturday, June 23 and Sunday, June 24
Time  10:00 AM - 4:30 PM, Sat. night optional Q & A 7:00 - 900 PM
Cost  $300/275 by May 23
Place Techny Towers, 2001 Waukegan Rd., near Northbrook, IL