Welcome to Shift in Action!

For a limited time, you can explore the program for a trial month for only $1, which includes the Living Deeply book, and features the deepest insights of 60 major spiritual leaders. A Living Deeply Practice CD then helps you put this insight into practice.

Includes:

• BOOK: Living Deeply: The Art & Science of Transformation in Everyday Life, by Drs. Marilyn Mandate Schlitz, Cassandra Vieten, and Tina Amorok

• Living Deeply Practice CD — Featuring 11 leaders such as Michael Bernard Beckwith

• The 2008 Shift Report: Changing the Story of Our Future

ACCESS TO 500 HOURS OF ARCHIVES with 150 leaders such as: Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Neale Donald Walsch, Larry Dossey, Caroline Myss, Rabbi Michael Lerner, Candace Pert, James Redfield, Jeanne Achterberg, Matthew Fox, Michael Murphy, Paul Ray, Peter Russell, Joan Borysenko, Sam Keen, and Willis Harman.

• SHIFT magazine

• LIVE TELESEMINARS every week

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Message from the President

A Message from IONS President James O'Dea read to 10,000 people at the Symphony of Peace Prayers on Mount Fuji, May 18.

"Peace is our destiny. All of humanity's suffering and challenges are not to be considered pointless, for everything in our past gives birth to who we are and the possibilities we represent for the future. So we thank all the ancestors, all beings of all nations who came before us, for they have given birth to us.

"We are the people of the Great Shift, a time of massive transition on planet Earth when human beings collectively see there is no other road for us, or for the survival of life, but the road of Peace. No other time has been more pivotal in human evolution-because we have been given the opportunity to choose life and to choose peace; we have been given the opportunity to take the next leap in human development and end war, greed, and violence to each other and our beloved home in Nature.

"That is why finally, a generation of peacemakers is being born as an expression of the long journey of human evolution. Hold up your sons and daughters and honor them as the peacemakers we have waited so long for, and then look into each other's eyes with confidence and gratitude and say, 'we are the mothers and fathers of the peacemakers.' Peace is our destiny."

IONS on Voice America Radio three times in May

• Edgar Mitchell on Quantum Leaps (scroll to 5/22)
• James O'Dea on Baby Boomers of Today (scroll to 5/20)
• Stephen Dinan on "Creating a Global Shift Network" for the Manifesting Awesomeness show (scroll to 5/29)

In Discover

In Declare

In Share

In Commune

In Meet

Roberto Vargas

Howard Martin

Marilyn Schlitz

All Upcoming Teleseminars

Marilyn Schlitz Teleseminar - Dialogue with the Vice President(Tue, Jul 29, 2008)

Rinaldo Brutoco teleseminar on "The Economy Through a Consciousness Lens"(Wed, Jul 30, 2008)

Mary Jo Kreitzer teleseminar on "Creating Optimal Healing Environments"(Tue, Aug 5, 2008)

The Junior Attractors teleseminar on "Manifesting Planetary Awesomeness"(Wed, Aug 6, 2008)

Beth Lisick teleseminar on "Helping Me Help Myself: The Lighter Side of Transformation"(Tue, Aug 12, 2008)

Joanna Macy Living Deeply Teleseminar: "Taking heart in a Dark Time"(Tue, Aug 19, 2008)

Jean Watson teleseminar on "A Caritas Model of Caring Science"(Wed, Aug 20, 2008)

Recent Teleseminars

Roberto Vargas teleseminar on "Family Activism: Creating a Better World Beginning with Family and Friends" Visionary cultural activist, organizational planning consultant and ceremony leader, Roberto Vargas, DrPH discusses family communication and family activism with host Belvie Rooks. He is author of the book Family Activism: Empowering Your Community Begi (Wed, Jul 23, 2008)

Patricia Ryan Madson teleseminar on "Improvising Our Lives" Patricia Ryan Madson, Emerita professor from Stanford University, wrote the award winning book "Improv Wisdom: Don't Prepare, Just Show Up", named one of the "Top Spiritual Books of 2005! In this teleseminar she discusses 12 improv maxims, which are appli (Tue, Jul 22, 2008)

Howard Martin teleseminar on "The Power of the Energetic Heart and Global Coherence" Heartmath co-developer, Howard Martin, discusses the properties and power of the heart and the new Global Coherence project, with host Cassandra Vieten. (Wed, Jul 16, 2008)

Genpo Roshi Teleseminar on "How To Live A More Peaceful & Liberated Life" In this program Dennis Genpo Merzel Roshi shares his groundbreaking “Big Mind Big Heart” teaching, a combination of Zen & Western psychology. (Tue, Jul 15, 2008)

Steve McIntosh teleseminar on "The Rise of the Integral Worldview" Through its enlarged understanding of the evolution of consciousness and culture, the emerging integral perspective provides realistic and pragmatic solutions to our growing global problems, both environmental and political. (Wed, Jul 9, 2008)

Solomon Katz teleseminar on "The Science of Spiritual Trans-formation" Among many other pursuits in what has been a long and distinguished career in anthropology, Solomon Katz joins us to share his experience as Principal Investigator of the Metanexus Institute's Spiritual Transformation Scientific Research Program. (Tue, Jul 8, 2008)

Jay Shafer teleseminar on "Radical Simplicity: Beyond Green Architecture" Award winning, house designer, Jay Shafer, lives in approx. 100 sq feet. In this teleseminar he gives us helpful hints to live a more sustainable lifestyle and shares his vision for future sustainable neighborhoods. (Wed, Jul 2, 2008)

Consciousness and Healing

Next teleseminar guest: Jean Watson, speaking on the subject of "A Caritas Model of Caring Science: How Jean Watson’s Theory of Human Caring is transforming healthcare - one nurse, one educator, one system at a time." on Aug 20th.

With medical and health insurance costs skyrocketing and millions of people having no insurance at all, there is growing professional frustration and despair among physicians. More and more patients are seeking alternative treatments, in which physicians are not well-enough informed to take part.

The Consciousness & Healing channel is hosted by Marilyn Schlitz and features content that calls health professionals and patients alike to carry the responsibility to help craft a new, more fitting way of practicing medicine in light of the major crisis in the practice and delivery of healthcare in the United States.

On this channel we take the time to consider the integral perspective, the view that the scientific quest is incomplete without data from many domains of inquiry, and that human transcendence can occur in the face of illness and disease.

Our guests in the past year have included Larry Dossey, Candace Pert, Lee Lipsenthal, Stanley Krippner, Elliott Dacher, Tom Janisse, Bridget Duffy, and Penny Livingston. All these teleseminars are available for download from the Consciousness and Healing home page.

Join us every six weeks for a fascinating new exploration of the frontiers of health and healing!

ConverZations that Matter

Next teleseminar guest: Thomas DeWolf, speaking on the subject of "Slavery's Enduring Legacy" on Aug 27th.

ConverZations that Matter: Frontiers of Race, Cosmology, and Consciousness brings consciousness studies down to earth, making them real and relevant for everyday life, looking especially at questions of race, cosmology and consciousness.

Host Belvie Rooks explores the full spectrum, from street realities to cosmic visions of human potential, with guests committed to harnessing frontier science and philosophy in the service of healing.

Belvie is an IONS board member and executive producer of Watts Up!, an IONS-sponsored documentary about 17-year-old Demaria Perry's journey from Watts, California to the Quest for Global Healing Conference in Bali. The conversations that Demaria shared with such visionaries as IONS founder Edgar Mitchell and Archbishop Desmond Tutu in Bali during filming inspired the ConverZations that Matter series.

This year's teleseminar guests have included Brian Swimme, Drew Dellinger, Barbara Holmes, Matthew Fox, Frans Johannsen, Noliwe Rooks, and Walter Link. All these teleseminars are now available for download from the Converzations home page.

Also, feel free to visit the Watts Up! homepage: www.wattsupjourney.com

Entangled Minds

The guests on Entangled Minds are scientists devoted to exploring the frontiers of consciousness research, including evidence suggestive of the survival of consciousness after bodily death, psychic abilities, mystical states of awareness, distant healing, mind-matter interaction phenomena, and other forms of exceptional human experience.

Recent guests have included Russell Targ, Roger Nelson, Charles Tart, Arthur Hastings, Will Arntz, Loyd Auerbach, Stephan Schwartz, Gary Schwartz, Bruce Lipton, and Rollin McCraty. All these teleseminars are available for download from this channel home.

Host Dean Radin is also the creator of the Psi Arcade, an amusing and engaging way to participate in games that advance our understanding of psychic phenomena.

Quest for Global Healing

The Quest for Global Healing channel explores how to deal with wounds created by conflict, collective trauma and large-scale oppression. We highlight areas of collective experience which remain unresolved, neglected, and repressed within the psyche of groups and even nations.

Our focus is on consciousness rather than politics per se; global healing is psycho-spiritual in nature and only activist in its consequences. The primary modalities for this work are truth, reconciliation, forgiveness and restorative justice.

This vital and emerging field of inquiry empowers us to dialogue with history - and history in the making – and not simply experience it as a series of externalized events or enactments that are beyond our reach. Join us in engaging some of the most amazing social healers of our time.

In the last year, we've hosted teleseminars with Jean Houston, Frances Moore Lappe, Azim Khamisa, Andrew Cohen, Kaethe Weingarten, Robin Casarjian, and Ervin Laszlo. Partners can now download all of these teleseminars from the Quest for Global Healing home page.

Radical Spirit

Next teleseminar guest: The Junior Attractors, speaking on the subject of "Manifesting Planetary Awesomeness" on Aug 6th.

The Radical Spirit channel explores the meeting point between consciousness and societal change, highlighting leaders who exemplify spiritual depth and passionate engagement in public processes, as well as offering practical steps to engage change work in life-enhancing ways.

We are especially focused on bridging between different evolutionary movements such as spiritual practice and political change. Our preference is to look at the leading edge – how is a more integral version of spiritual activism emerging in a next generation of leaders? How are these leaders engaging the public sphere?

This year's guests have included Marianne Williamson, Rabbi Michael Lerner, Van Jones, Corinne McLaughlin & Gordon Davidson, Saniel Bonder, Arjuna Ardagh, J. Manuel Herrera, and Noah Levine. All these teleseminars are now available for download on the channel page.

Workplace Revolution

Next teleseminar guest: Rinaldo Brutoco, speaking on the subject of "The Economy Through a Consciousness Lens" on Jul 30th.

The Workplace Revolution channel interviews a wide range of business leaders, change agents, and visionaries who believe in the potential of business to be a force for good in the world, but who also are aware of the challenges.

We address transformational strategies on both a personal and organizational level in a series of lively discussions that will explore the institution of business and our personal experiences at work from many perspectives.

Is there meaning in the workplace and hope for business to be conscious global citizens? Tune in and find out!

Our recent teleseminar guests have included Hazel Henderson, David Korten, Patricia Aburdene, Danah Zohar, Herman Maynard, and Margaret Wheatley,all of whom can now be downloaded from our channel home page.