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The Awakening Conference will also offer pre-conference
workshops, internationally recognized musical artists Jason &
Demarco (Their autobiographical and controversial, docu-
mentary-film “We’re All Angels” , Lucinda Drayton of Bliss, an
Meditate like the Einstein of
after hours dance concert Youth outreach program with famed
DJ B.T, a networking dinner, morning yoga and meditation
Consciousness in One Night, classes and over 50 vendors touting the latest products for the
Guaranteed!
body, mind and spirit.
For more information and a full event program guide
M
ediation Mondays—February is
please visit: www.TheAwakeningConference.com or call 877-
Integral Spirituality month. Ken
347-7799.
Wilber’s Integral Theory is called “The the-
Register online NOW to reserve your seat!
ory of everything.” President Bill Clinton,
www.TheAwakeningConference.com, 877-347-7799 or
speaking at the World Economic Forum,
email: stayawake@cox.net.
said, “If you want to raise consciousness in
the world and to solve the world’s prob-
lems, study Ken Wilber; read Integral
Natural Awakenings – Houston’s
Theory.”
During February, you will experience
First Contest
the five key elements of Ken Wilber’s Integral Spirituality:
States of consciousness, Stages of growth, Types—boy or girl, O
ctober is Natural Awakenings Magazine‘s Environmental
issue. To celebrate, this year, we are having a contest to
Lines of development & multiple intelligences, Quadrants— discover who the greenest for-profit business in the Houston
the four fundamental perspectives of any experience. These Area is. (If this year’s contest doesn’t exhaust us, next year we
five key elements explain every aspect of your consciousness may deal with non-profits.)
and experience. So, dear readers, we need you to nominate local business-
You will experience Integral through short talks and the es that are doing their darnedest to (1) bring green products
Big Mind process. Big Mind is a very simple, yet powerful and
rapid way to help you shift your perspective; a dramatic shift
into your wisdom, self-realization, and actualization; a shift
that may take a meditator many years to accomplish.
Big Mind, developed by American Zen Master Dennis
Genpo Merzel Roshi, combines Zen meditation with the
insights of such visionary western figures as Carl Jung, Fritz and/or services to the market, (2) bring sound environmental
Perls, and Hal Stone (Voice Dialogue), enabling virtually any- practices to their workplaces and the world. Our three judges
one to experience their true enlightened nature, a realization (to be announced) will have the hard job of weighing those
they can further deepen through meditation practice. companies’ efforts and the impact those businesses are having
Meditation Mondays is a weekly group, led by Alan in the war against air and/or water pollution, global warming,
Davidson that explores Big Mind, Integral Spirituality, and and stopping harm to the environment, etc.
Insight meditations forms, along with chanting and sense & All the contest’s nominees will be listed in our October
centering your body. issue, but the winner will be written up in a “Spotlight Page” (a
For more information, visit www.ThroughYourBody.com/ $650 value). The winner will also receive bragging rights to the
events.html or call Nicole at 713-942-0923. See ad page 17. title of Natural Awakenings Magazine’s Award for Most Earth-
Friendly Business in the Houston area (AMEBHA for short).
So, if you work for, trade with, own, or have heard about a
The Awakening Conference local company that has made an effort to put positive environ-
Series 2009: A Voice for Change
mental policies into practice, please nominate it. We’ll need
the company’s name and a brief summary of why you’re nom-
S
tay Awake Productions presents, The Awakening
inating them, i.e., what efforts they’re taking to better the
Conference Series 2009: a Voice for Change, February 26-
world.
March 1, 2009 at the Embassy Suites, 1001 McCarty Lane,
Please don’t delay. Send your nominations for The AMEBHA
San Marcos, Texas 78666.
(and your explanations of why they should be nominated) to bar-
America’s most sought after speakers and luminaries
bara.na@hotmail.com, now while you’re thinking about it.
including New York Times best-selling authors Marianne
Williamson, don Miguel Ruiz, Dan Millman, as well as, Joe
Vitale, Rhonda Britten, Dr. Patch Adams, and several
Sexual Assault Support Group
renowned musical artists including Jason & Demarco will
gather for an inspiring 3½ day conference designed to enter-
T
he Houston Area Women’s Center is offering a 12-week
closed sexual assault support group for adult women
tain, enlighten and uplift attendees from around the globe.
beginning February 23 at 6 p.m. Please contact Carine Meyer
www.naturalawakenings-houston.com
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