Modern Knowledge 2015 - Toronto Guest Speakers
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Alex Grey
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Allyson Grey
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Alex Grey and Allyson Grey
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Nassim Haramein
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Marty Leeds
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Dr. Edgar Mitchell
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Tom Clearwater
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DAVID LION
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THE ANCIENT ORDER
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VERY SPECIAL TRADITIONAL FIRST NATIONS OPENING AND CLOSING CEREMONY GUIDED BY KEVIN NADJIWON
Kevin Nadjiwon is Anishinabe, Three Fires- Potawatami ,Ojibway, Odawa -Turtle Clan. A Member of Batchewana First Nation Band of Ojibways, Kevin has spent his life living and learning traditional and modern knowledge and experience to help fulfill his dreams, visions and higher spiritual callings of helping bridge traditional and modern knowledge, resources and people together. Taking his knowledge and life experience he had resigned in 2010 from the Federal Government to follow his higher callings, which he then helped start a non-for profit called the “Seventh Generation Healing Network” and helped organized a Healing Prayer Journey called the “Walk For Nations” which took a team of 4 youth and 4 young adults 8months and 8000kms across Canada sharing their stories doing ceremony, building traditional and modern networks and unity. Now He’s continuing his vision to continue to help bridge traditional and modern knowledge, resources and people to harmonize themselves with each other and the world around them for future generations with land based projects, art, music and cultural educational workshops and presentations.
Kevin Nadjiwon is Anishinabe, Three Fires- Potawatami ,Ojibway, Odawa -Turtle Clan. A Member of Batchewana First Nation Band of Ojibways, Kevin has spent his life living and learning traditional and modern knowledge and experience to help fulfill his dreams, visions and higher spiritual callings of helping bridge traditional and modern knowledge, resources and people together. Taking his knowledge and life experience he had resigned in 2010 from the Federal Government to follow his higher callings, which he then helped start a non-for profit called the “Seventh Generation Healing Network” and helped organized a Healing Prayer Journey called the “Walk For Nations” which took a team of 4 youth and 4 young adults 8months and 8000kms across Canada sharing their stories doing ceremony, building traditional and modern networks and unity. Now He’s continuing his vision to continue to help bridge traditional and modern knowledge, resources and people to harmonize themselves with each other and the world around them for future generations with land based projects, art, music and cultural educational workshops and presentations.
Modern Knowledge 2015 - Toronto Venue
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Toronto Speaker Topics and Presentation Synopsis
Alex Grey's and Allyson Grey's Modern Knowledge 2015 Presentation
Cosmic Creativity: How Art Evolves Consciousness
How visionary art is evolving the cultural body through icons of interconnectedness.
Creativity is a cosmic force. We are aligning ourselves with the force of the cosmos that is continually evolving and recreating in every moment. We are a cosmic force in action. Our journey begins with ancient cultures and religions whose foundation came from a creative connection with the cosmos. Meeting in the moment, we look at the cosmic creativity in the context of the new planetary culture. From the present perspective, we are able to gaze out towards future cultures and religions that could emerge out of a renewed connection to the cosmos. Join our Cosmologue, as visionary artists and scientists, dancers, musicians, poets, philosophers and physicists explore the human in the context of the cosmos and celebrate the cosmic creative force. The model of Four Quadrants, as conceived by the preeminent contemporary philosopher, Ken Wilber, describes the relationship between inner and outer worlds, the individual self and the collective. This theory applied to art and the creative process has the potential to transform and evolve consciousness. First Quadrant: a vision illuminates the artist’s inner world. In the upper left quadrant of Wilber’s model lies the subjective conscious interior of an individual. We first experience an image in our minds. Second Quadrant: A vision or subjective state is expressed as an individual aesthetic artifact -- a painting, story, or dance. A thought becomes a thing. Third Quadrant: The artifact enters the collective systems of aesthetic reception in a gallery, museum, newspaper, magazine, website, etc. A work of art is reproduced on apparel and other merchandise. A video of a performance is posted. Fourth Quadrant: The artifact is absorbed into the meme-stream of the cultural psyche by a public interpretation of the meaning of the artwork, potentially transforming the collective interior. A tincture added to a body of water alters the entire body. So, artworks can color and anchor a collective’s understanding of itself, birthing a unique worldview of cultural meaning for that community. The altered Zeitgeist becomes a context for the next phase of visionary aesthetic inspiration and the grand round of art continues on it’s evolutionary path.
Art is a way for the subjective inner world of the artist to be fully expressed into an outer world object. This creative process is inherently developmental because the psychology of “the subject of one stage becomes the object of the subject of the next.” Art literally objectifies the subject, allowing the artist the opportunity to witness and transcend a former stage of being. For example, an artist caught in a depressive state may be able to transmit feelings of despair into a painting. Observing the work of art can provide insight into emotions that catalyze a new level of maturity and uplifting. This is why art therapy works. The artist discovers clues embedded in each work and creativity unfolds in a transformative path. To the beholder, art can be an attractor toward higher development. Icons of wisdom masters like Christ and Buddha, are models of what we might become. Portraits of Bodhisattvas, Angels, and Deities are Sacred Mirrors of possibility for our own enlightenment.
Cosmic Creativity: How Art Evolves Consciousness
How visionary art is evolving the cultural body through icons of interconnectedness.
Creativity is a cosmic force. We are aligning ourselves with the force of the cosmos that is continually evolving and recreating in every moment. We are a cosmic force in action. Our journey begins with ancient cultures and religions whose foundation came from a creative connection with the cosmos. Meeting in the moment, we look at the cosmic creativity in the context of the new planetary culture. From the present perspective, we are able to gaze out towards future cultures and religions that could emerge out of a renewed connection to the cosmos. Join our Cosmologue, as visionary artists and scientists, dancers, musicians, poets, philosophers and physicists explore the human in the context of the cosmos and celebrate the cosmic creative force. The model of Four Quadrants, as conceived by the preeminent contemporary philosopher, Ken Wilber, describes the relationship between inner and outer worlds, the individual self and the collective. This theory applied to art and the creative process has the potential to transform and evolve consciousness. First Quadrant: a vision illuminates the artist’s inner world. In the upper left quadrant of Wilber’s model lies the subjective conscious interior of an individual. We first experience an image in our minds. Second Quadrant: A vision or subjective state is expressed as an individual aesthetic artifact -- a painting, story, or dance. A thought becomes a thing. Third Quadrant: The artifact enters the collective systems of aesthetic reception in a gallery, museum, newspaper, magazine, website, etc. A work of art is reproduced on apparel and other merchandise. A video of a performance is posted. Fourth Quadrant: The artifact is absorbed into the meme-stream of the cultural psyche by a public interpretation of the meaning of the artwork, potentially transforming the collective interior. A tincture added to a body of water alters the entire body. So, artworks can color and anchor a collective’s understanding of itself, birthing a unique worldview of cultural meaning for that community. The altered Zeitgeist becomes a context for the next phase of visionary aesthetic inspiration and the grand round of art continues on it’s evolutionary path.
Art is a way for the subjective inner world of the artist to be fully expressed into an outer world object. This creative process is inherently developmental because the psychology of “the subject of one stage becomes the object of the subject of the next.” Art literally objectifies the subject, allowing the artist the opportunity to witness and transcend a former stage of being. For example, an artist caught in a depressive state may be able to transmit feelings of despair into a painting. Observing the work of art can provide insight into emotions that catalyze a new level of maturity and uplifting. This is why art therapy works. The artist discovers clues embedded in each work and creativity unfolds in a transformative path. To the beholder, art can be an attractor toward higher development. Icons of wisdom masters like Christ and Buddha, are models of what we might become. Portraits of Bodhisattvas, Angels, and Deities are Sacred Mirrors of possibility for our own enlightenment.
Nassim Haramein's Modern Knowledge 2015 Presentation
The Connected Universe: A Fundamental Transformation of Human Awareness
A new picture of the physics of our world is developing; a picture in which information and processes are no longer isolated events, but are interwoven in a complex network of a Connected Universe. This new understanding has a profound impact on the way we think of ourselves, each other, the universe, and our relationship to it, and will undoubtedly usher technological developments that can only be dreamed of today. Understanding the mechanics of this fundamental structure and the dynamics that makes up its network is critical to our interpretation of the biological scale, the inter-relationship of the body systems, and the event of consciousness. Nassim Haramein will be presenting some of his latest results published in his paper Quantum Gravity and the Holographic Mass, where his precise prediction of the charge radius of the proton was made (confirmed experimentally since then). He will expand on this result and discuss the implications of such a discovery to cosmogenesis and its consequences to our daily life, from social structures to energy production and health.
The Connected Universe: A Fundamental Transformation of Human Awareness
A new picture of the physics of our world is developing; a picture in which information and processes are no longer isolated events, but are interwoven in a complex network of a Connected Universe. This new understanding has a profound impact on the way we think of ourselves, each other, the universe, and our relationship to it, and will undoubtedly usher technological developments that can only be dreamed of today. Understanding the mechanics of this fundamental structure and the dynamics that makes up its network is critical to our interpretation of the biological scale, the inter-relationship of the body systems, and the event of consciousness. Nassim Haramein will be presenting some of his latest results published in his paper Quantum Gravity and the Holographic Mass, where his precise prediction of the charge radius of the proton was made (confirmed experimentally since then). He will expand on this result and discuss the implications of such a discovery to cosmogenesis and its consequences to our daily life, from social structures to energy production and health.
Marty Leeds' Modern Knowledge 2015 Presentation
The Deconstruction of the Mathematical Foundation of the English Alphabet
Marty's lecture will be focused on walking step by step through the deconstruction of the mathematical foundation of the English Alphabet, decoding the cipher used to create the alphabet by exploring the ancient science known as gematria. Using mystical, religious, and secret society symbols, methodologies and concepts, as well as the transcendental and infinite number of pi, Marty will unravel the occult and esoteric application of the English Alphabet in myriad ways. Was the King James Holy Bible written mathematically? Can the Holy Name of God, known as the Tetragrammaton, used by occultists, kabbalists and religions worldwide be found within the English language? What do the concepts of Heaven and Earth refer to and what do they have to do with geometry and man's place in the cosmos? What have the Freemasonic brotherhood been trying to conceal and reveal to humanity throughout the ages in their symbols and lodges? All of these questions will be answered and more in Marty's hour and a half lecture.
The Deconstruction of the Mathematical Foundation of the English Alphabet
Marty's lecture will be focused on walking step by step through the deconstruction of the mathematical foundation of the English Alphabet, decoding the cipher used to create the alphabet by exploring the ancient science known as gematria. Using mystical, religious, and secret society symbols, methodologies and concepts, as well as the transcendental and infinite number of pi, Marty will unravel the occult and esoteric application of the English Alphabet in myriad ways. Was the King James Holy Bible written mathematically? Can the Holy Name of God, known as the Tetragrammaton, used by occultists, kabbalists and religions worldwide be found within the English language? What do the concepts of Heaven and Earth refer to and what do they have to do with geometry and man's place in the cosmos? What have the Freemasonic brotherhood been trying to conceal and reveal to humanity throughout the ages in their symbols and lodges? All of these questions will be answered and more in Marty's hour and a half lecture.
Dr. Edgar Mitchell's Modern Knowledge 2015 Presentation
The Conscious Transformation of a Moonwalker
Dr. Edgar Mitchell will be addressing the transformation he experienced on his journey and time spent on the moon as the 6th man to walk on it's surface. We will explore this very unique experience with an interactive Skype dialogue with Dr, Mitchell, and touch upon his thought, ideas and research involved with the Institute of Noetic Science (IONS) and the work and research he has done after his epic return from the moon.
The Conscious Transformation of a Moonwalker
Dr. Edgar Mitchell will be addressing the transformation he experienced on his journey and time spent on the moon as the 6th man to walk on it's surface. We will explore this very unique experience with an interactive Skype dialogue with Dr, Mitchell, and touch upon his thought, ideas and research involved with the Institute of Noetic Science (IONS) and the work and research he has done after his epic return from the moon.
Tom Clearwater's Modern Knowledge 2015 Presentation
Scalar Humanity
In his talk, Tom will introduce the audience to his scalar understanding of the human architecture. He will explain concepts vital to this understanding, like the notion of polarity and how polarity manifests in life and in human experience and inner and biological structure, including the subtle-energy structure of the chakras revisioned through this polarity lens. He will show how this dual-oppositional structure — the structure of duality itself — is essential to the manifestation of life, matter and experience itself, and how a person can use these insights to better understand the play and context of one’s life and experiences, what to look for and how to approach one’s experience to find greater clarity and mastery, and ultimately how to bring oneself into an inner coherence and resonance spoken of by enlightenment traditions around the world. Tom will in this respect show how enlightenment is a scalar oppositional reality, and a first step toward increasing states of inner coherence that go beyond what enlightenment traditions have attained and described. Finally, his presentation will touch on important events and affairs on this planet at this time, showing how these events are moving inexorably toward what he calls a scalar moment, which is a transformation of our social selves through increasing polarization of social institutions and power structures toward the state of absolute polarization. Topics to be discussed in this part of the presentation will include the inevitable disclosure and humanity’s awakening to ET and off-world realities, including their relevance to affairs experienced on this planet through our history informing this most important transitional phase we are now undergoing.
Scalar Humanity
In his talk, Tom will introduce the audience to his scalar understanding of the human architecture. He will explain concepts vital to this understanding, like the notion of polarity and how polarity manifests in life and in human experience and inner and biological structure, including the subtle-energy structure of the chakras revisioned through this polarity lens. He will show how this dual-oppositional structure — the structure of duality itself — is essential to the manifestation of life, matter and experience itself, and how a person can use these insights to better understand the play and context of one’s life and experiences, what to look for and how to approach one’s experience to find greater clarity and mastery, and ultimately how to bring oneself into an inner coherence and resonance spoken of by enlightenment traditions around the world. Tom will in this respect show how enlightenment is a scalar oppositional reality, and a first step toward increasing states of inner coherence that go beyond what enlightenment traditions have attained and described. Finally, his presentation will touch on important events and affairs on this planet at this time, showing how these events are moving inexorably toward what he calls a scalar moment, which is a transformation of our social selves through increasing polarization of social institutions and power structures toward the state of absolute polarization. Topics to be discussed in this part of the presentation will include the inevitable disclosure and humanity’s awakening to ET and off-world realities, including their relevance to affairs experienced on this planet through our history informing this most important transitional phase we are now undergoing.
