UPLifted. Next Meeting: June 30, 2018 TPA s 39th Birthday Drum Circle Celebration at John & Cherie Sardella s home

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1 NEWS, VIEWS AND VISIONS FROM T.P.A. SYRACUSE TRANSPERSONAL PSYCHOLOGY ASSOCIATION...SYRACUSE, NEW YORK TPA / P.O. BOX 122-TP / LIVERPOOL, NY FOUNDED IN THE SPIRIT VOLUME 33 NUMBER 5 MAY 2018 Join TPA s Facebook Page for last minute updates and much more! Date: Saturday, May 19, 2018 Dinner: 6:00-7:00 Bring: Food & Drink to share. Community Meeting: 7:00 The Gift: 7:30 Place: Emmanuel Episcopal Directions: 400 West Yates St. East Syracuse, NY From 690 take exit 16 N (Thompson Road). Turn Right onto Burnet Ave. At the first light after the railroad overpass, turn Right onto W. Manlius St. Go one block and then turn LEFT onto East Ave (at the Post Office). We're at the corner of West Yates Street and East Avenue, one block north of the East Syracuse post office. The parking lot is just past the Church on East Avenue, with handicapped access through the door closest to the parking lot. Donation: $5.00 Next Meeting: June 30, 2018 TPA s 39th Birthday Drum Circle Celebration at John & Cherie Sardella s home 1 UPLifted With Dale Gallagher, LCSW, ACSW It s only logical that for something new to appear, the known and familiar has to fall by the wayside. If this didn t occur, you d be living in the same predictable past, which creates the same predictable future. Dr. Joe Dispenza Dr. Joe Dispenza, author of: The Evolving Brain, Breaking The Habit Of Who You Are, You Are The Placebo and On Becoming Supernatural tells us that: The secret ingredient to this process is to make the feedback in our outer world more consistent. That s what we re working towards and that s why meditation is a daily practice. To create something in our life, there must be a consistent vibrational match between our energy and the life we are envisioning between our inner and outer world and this requires persistence, determination, and focus. In this presentation, you are invited to listen to the soundtrack of your future life, to look at the daily mind movies in your head and how they impact your body and to experience a new baseline of feelings which will get you to fall in love with your life. Dr. Joe Dispenza reminds us that no matter how bad things can get, we have the power to change our internal state of being by: Learning how to surrender to outcomes; Learning how to stay in (and be uncomfortable in) the unknown without returning back to familiar thoughts, emotions, or behaviors; Learning how to regulate brain and heart coherence so we can maintain our energy in adverse or challenging circumstances; Continued on next page.

2 Continued Learning how to correlate the inward changes we make in our thoughts, behaviors, and feelings (personality), in order to see outcomes in our outer world (personal reality), so that we move from the subconscious belief that we are victims of our lives to the conscious belief that we are the creators of our lives. Together we will invite the future YOU who already exists in the eternal present moment and is waiting for the more familiar YOU, who is engaged in this presentation, to change your energy on a daily basis to match that more loving, evolved, conscious, more present, kind, exuberant, mindful, willful, more connected, more supernatural, and more whole YOU to emerge. Dale Gallagher, LCSW, ACSW is a Diplomate in Behavioral Medicine and has developed his own therapeutic modality, Recognition Therapy. He is a Master Practitioner in Neuro-Linguistic Programming. He is a Practitioner in Kam Yuen Full Spectrum Energetics and in John Perkin s Shape Shifting Into Higher Consciousness. He is a graduate of Dr. Jack Gibb s three year graduate program on Trust Level Theory. In 1979 Dale and Nancy Gallagher opened their doors and started the Association for Humanistic Psychology in Syracuse, NY which today has morphed into the Association of Transpersonal Psychology. You can contact Dale at: Stress Relief Meditation Script (from Joe Dispenza) "Take a deep breath in...and then out...let your shoulders drop and your body relax. You are in a safe space now. You are calm and balanced. You are calm and balanced. You breathe in...you breathe out...you breathe in...you breath out...well done. When you are ready close your eyes. If you are feeling stress at the moment, imagine that the stress is like having a storm or a hurricane in your life. See the chaos that this storm brings, but breathe in and out. You are safe. Now see within this hurricane that there is an eye to this storm. Imagine that you are looking from a satellite above the earth and you can see the still, calm center - the eye of the storm. You find yourself now in the center of this storm. You can feel and see the chaos around you, but you feel very peaceful. You are relaxed and calm. See that the storm is like your life and that you are in the eye of the storm at the moment. You can see what is going on around you, you can see things that could stress you out but they don't. They don't because you are in the eye of the storm, you are in the center where it is peaceful and calm. You breathe in...and you breathe out...and you see clearly that you have a choice whether to step into the storm, and to get dragged into the stress in your life. This does not mean that you hide in your room and lock yourself away in your house. It means that you now see that you have a choice of how you react when someone says something or something happens in your life. You have a choice whether you step into the storm and get carried away by the chaos or to stay calm and balanced, peaceful and at ease - knowing that all is well, as long as you keep breathing in and out. As long as you keep being calm and balanced. Calm and loving...at ease and in love...i will now count from 1 to 3 and by the time I reach 3 you will be refreshed and calm, and you will open your eyes - feeling yourself balanced on this earth, knowing that you have a choice of how you react and whether you get pulled into the storm or not. Breathe in... and out... One..Breathe in... and out... Two...Breathe in... and out... Three. May you be well." 2

3 Madis Senner Sacred Sites in North Star Country: Places in Greater New York State (PA,OH,NJ,CT,MA,VT,ONT) That Changed the World Paperback January 11, 2017 Great Reads For The Summer Place matters. Sacred Sites in North Star Country tells how the land influenced the dramatic social changes that took place in greater New York State that shaped the world. It provides a listing of sacred sites to experience that consciousness. North Star Country was the birthplace of the Women s Movement and American Democracy, as well as the home to America s Second Great Awakening. It has been called the Burned-over District for its spiritual wildfires and America s Psychic Highway. It is a place where prophets walked, religions were born and great souls lived Harriet Tubman, Susan B. Anthony, Fredrick Douglas, William Seward, Gerrit Smith One of the Holiest places in the world, is how the Sikh mystic and guru Baba Virsa Singh described Gobind Sadan his ashram in North Star Country. The great Iroquois prophet the Peacemaker planted the Tree of Peace and gave his people the Great Law of Peace on the shores of Onondaga Lake. This Law would serve as a model for America s founders and inspire the Women s movement It was here that the great mystic and teacher Swami Vivekananda, who introduced yoga and Hindu Vedanta to the West, achieved the highest meditative state of Samadhi, Nirvikalpa Samadhi. The Spirit and Consciousness that motivated and inspired so many lies sleeping in the land. Come help reinvigorate it, tap into it and dream of a better world and in the process make a better you. May 19th, 2018 PRESENTER: Dale Gallagher HOSTING: Elaine Chandler HOST HELPERS: Sue Savion COMMUNITY MEETING: Nancy Gallagher CLEAN UP: Joe Thompson CLOSING CIRCLE: Nancy Gallagher Don t let any place that you are standing frighten you. All it is, is a byproduct of some Energy alignment, which only gives you stronger clarity about what you want and, most importantly, greater sensitivity about whether you re in a receiving mode or locked off of it. Abraham-Hicks 3

4 From Nancy and Dale: How To Become That Which We Are Seeking Genius is a crisis that joins the buried self, for certain moments, to our daily mind. William Butler Yeats The 13th Century mystic Saint Francis of Assisi claimed we are that which we are seeking. For the last two weeks, at two back-to-back Advanced Workshops in Cancun, Mexico, I witnessed more than a thousand of our genius students do exactly that they became their future. Do you ever wonder why I always call our students geniuses? Because in the original sense of the word, genius means attendant spirit being in the care of something unseen but near. In this case, that unseen but near something was their future. Day after day in their meditations our passionate and committed students became true geniuses by going after their future with the level of intensity that s required for us to move from the limiting thoughts, beliefs, and emotions of our past, to the unlimited possibilities of our future. observe it to bring that future to us. Going into the workshop, my personal goal was to take our students deeper than they ve ever gone. We accomplished this feat through standing, walking, laying, and sitting meditations, and we did it with both our eyes opened and closed. At the end of the event, I wanted our students to believe in their future more than they believed in their past. What we ultimately achieved was we took a community of people who were thinking, acting, and feeling one way when they arrived to the event, and 1 they left thinking, acting, and feeling another. We helped them create a new future from a place of wholeness and oneness as opposed to the common way to create from a place of separation, duality, and lack. Why this is important is because the quantum model of reality says we are not separate from that which we seek; rather, we are connected to it through the unified field. We only need to feel and The beauty and the agony of the return For those of you who attended, as well as anyone who might need a refresher, I wanted to take this opportunity to remind you of a few things to keep you on your creative track. So let s start by demystifying the unknown. The main reason why we retreat from our lives for several days to meditate is to remove the constant stimulation in our external environment. We do this for three reasons: 1 Because our brain operates as a record of the past; 2 When we live by the same feelings every day, we are living in our past, which means more of our attention is in our past than in our future; 3 External stimulation reminds us of who we think we are as a personality. But when we separate long enough from the people we know, places we go, and the repetitive actions we do every day, we are reminded of the truth about who we are infinite creators. So now let s say you just had an amazing work workshop, connected with likeminded people, perhaps experienced synchronicities or mystical experiences but then you have to return to your life. Then what? For some of you, you may return to your life feeling great, but quickly be confronted with your past. For others, unforeseen struggles may appear out of nowhere, causing you to question everything you thought you just created. And still for others, the things you ve been working on creating may begin to actually show up. 4

5 Make no mistake; things are going to shake up in unforeseen ways. Why? Because you just spent several days investing an exorbitant amount of energy into the unknown and creating new things in your life. It s only logical then that for something new to appear, the known and familiar has to fall by the wayside. If this didn t occur, you d be living in the same predictable past, which creates the same predictable future. Don t let the shakeup shake you down When things begin to shake up in your life, a certain percentage of you will trust what s happening and say to yourself if this opportunity is showing up, or if this relationship no longer fits who I am, or my job doesn t align with who I want to be then these things must be showing up for a reason. I created it, so let s see what happens. But for others, you may begin to second guess yourself and recoil in fear. The biggest reason why this happens and why people revert to their past is because they don t really trust themselves, the creative process, or the experiences they re having. Now no one said trust is easy, but don t you think that by placing your trust in the unknown you re likely to experience some discomfort? That discomfort is actually a good thing. You have disrupted the energy of your preexisting life (before the event) by taking your attention off the people and things that emotionally bound you to the past. Now your external life is reorganizing to come into alignment with your internal creation now you re living in the quantum model of possibility, as opposed to the Newtonian model of measurement and predictability. Once you start choosing (unconsciously, by the way) doubt and fear, or start analyzing and figuring out how things are going to unfold, then you re back in the familiar, your possibility contracts, and what you created begins to disappear. Thus, because of the discomfort and fear you experienced, you take your attention off the future, return it to the past, and now you re back in the unconscious programs that previously ran your life. You can do two things in this instance; revert to the past, or you can look at it as an opportunity to turn discomfort into knowing. How to win the faceoff with your past Everybody is going to face their past when they return from a workshop because they re returning to their past/ present reality. This is why we meditate to remain connected to the frequency and vibration of our future self. Each time we disconnect from our environment, we move more deeply towards the unified field, or Source. The more we connect with this self-organizing field, the more we feel whole, the more our hearts open up, the more we trust, and the more our belief in our future becomes a knowing. But if you re not connecting with Source every day, and you re not connecting with your future, you begin to doubt yourself and return back to separation, polarity, duality, and lack. Then you find yourself unconsciously anticipating your future based on your past. This is going to happen from time to time. It doesn t mean you re doing anything wrong it s just life. But the choice is yours as to whether or not you go unconscious and fall back into your old programs of judging and analyzing yourself, trying to intellectualize a process, and/or trying to control and predict an outcome. But you can also make a difference choice you can choose to change your emotional reactions and habits and get beyond your mind and body. Instead of letting the program run itself, you can choose to think the thoughts you do want to fire and wire the thoughts, actions, and feelings connected to your future. This is where you need to remember to be kind to yourself and understand that true, lasting change is a gradual process. So as you walk back into your life, stay present to this moment and be confident in the creations that show up. If an opportunity appears or life is pushing you in a direction that you created you created it, so why not step into it? This is the journey, and this is being an active participant in the mystery, rather than separate from it and standing on the sidelines. If you start feeling fear, uncertainty, lack, or any other negative emotions, give yourself an adult timeout, meaning sit down in meditation and tell yourself you re not getting up until you feel empowered, trusting, or loving. This is how we cross the river of change. Remember that if you re feeling uncomfortable, it s a good thing. It s just thoughts or emotions within your programmed old self, and just because you have a thought doesn t mean it s real. Don t analyze it just change your state of being. Then do it again. My definition of genius has always been to be uncomfortable in the unknown, and to be okay with it. So if you find yourself getting used to the unknown, it might just become the new normal for you. As you keep stepping towards your destiny, you will continue to run into the unknown, but eventually the unknown will become the known and your life will become predictable. When this happens and your soul begins to stir, you ll want to create the next opportunity in your life, so you ll employ the same process, and once again you ll find yourself in a new unknown. And who knows, this might even become a habit. 5

6 Infinite Light Yoga Information: or Crystal Singing Bowl Immersion- The Circle of Fifths with Jeff Gregory Wednesday, May 16, 2018, 7:00-8:00 pm $20 Sound Healing is often used to re-balance, tone and bring harmony to the physical, emotional and spiritual bodies. Come experience the angelic sounds of the hand held crystal singing bowls in all 12 astrological chords. A fifth is the ratio that the body is built in, so all 12 chords are in perfect resonance with the body. See which one of them is your favorite and let the sound take you away! Everyone will learn their primary note and their astrological chord. This sound healing experience will transport you into relaxation and meditation effortlessly. Listeners often experience a sense of connectedness and peace as the sacred sound of the crystal singing bowls clear blockages and restore the free flow of vital energy throughout the body, resulting in a sense of expanded awareness and higher consciousness. Jeff Gregory is a Sound Healer trained in multiple sound therapies including gongs, crystal singing bowls and pyramids, Tibetan bowls, Koshi chimes and tuning forks. The owner of Pyramid Wellness Center in Johnson City, NY, Jeff has taught classes and performed sound immersion experiences in several states. Intuitive Readings with Mark Shaughnessy Using the Native American Medicine Cards, Mark will help you to understand your current path in life and any points of imbalance you may be experiencing, as well as gentle ways to restore balance to your life. Contact us to schedule your session today! Annual Reiki Retreat with Mary Riposo Reiki Practitioners ~ Please join us for our Annual Reiki Retreat. Enjoy Reiki workshops, a healthy lunch and snacks, shopping, networking, self-directed practice, giveaways, and much more. Note: you must be a Reiki practitioner to register. Investment: $99 (Regular), $89 (CNYRA members). For information on the workshops offered, go to Friday, August 10, 5:00pm-9:00pm and Saturday, August 11, 9:00-5:00 Share your news for the newsletter any time. Send to Susan Savion. ssavio8@aol.com or suesavion6@gmail.com. Phone: or If you are a recipient of snail mail newsletters, please remit $15 to cover the expenses. 6

7 ... Carol Omhart Behan brought to us a topic that has clearly been a life changer for her. In her narrative about Avalon, she brought us right along with her as she discovered mythic experiences and astounding communications with that realm on the other side of the thin veil for which Glastonbury, England, is known.. From Carol Omhart Behan: Hello, TPA members and guests who attended the April meeting. I made the 2-hour drive home smiling the whole way and with the Moon smiling down with her own lovely blessing. What a marvelous and enthusiastic group you were in both your welcome and lively interest in my presentation on my Avalon book, spiritual pilgrimage, and the Goddess. I had such fun sharing stories of my UK adventures and responding to your questions and comments during and following my talk. These "good vibes" resonated for several days and I hope some did for you as well. And thank you again to those who went home with a copy of Answering Avalon's Call. I would love to hear from you after you finish reading it to find out what it stirred in you! A reminder for any who might want a copy at some point that it's available directly from me and through Amazon. All details are on my website, May your Springtime continue in marvelous and lovely ways! I look forward to visiting with you all again before too long. With Bright Blessings, Carol.Aziz Goksel: My impression of Glastonbury is that it was a magical place all around. I daresay it's the most special place that I've been to so far in England, and I've seen a lot of the country. It was helpful that Carol had a topographical map of the area so that I could see in my mind's eye what the place was like before they drained the flood plain. It had to have been breathtakingly beautiful..ask Sue Savion for tickets to the upcoming Women Transcending Boundaries fundraiser at Sycamore Hills Gardens outside of Marcellus on Sunday, May 20th. It is a wonderful place to spend an afternoon. Tickets are $12. They can also be purchased at the entrance table of the event. Children under six are free....beth Miller: Since I've been "retired" I've been volunteering two mornings a week at our local Catholic Charities office; co-facilitating a "First Friday" public poetry meeting at the Auburn Public Theater; hosting monthly plant-based potlucks; having tea and going on wildflower walks with friends. I've been continuing my studies of Emily Dickinson, Lao Tzu, Carl Jung, and nutrition - but - most of all - I've been enjoying the freedom to rest when I feel like it! To rest is such a luxury after all those years of nine to fiving! Loren continues to tune pianos and play rock 'n roll with his Tom Petty "tribute band," along with his bands, "The Odz," and the "Bobernackle" jam band. Life is good! We are sorry we've missed so many TPA meetings, but with Loren's gigs and Beth's reluctance to drive far distances late at night, we've kept in touch via this great newsletter. We are with you in spirit! Love, Beth and Loren Miller.Joanne and John Verone at their American Massage Therapy Association dinner dance. (And we know what good dancers they are!) They are pictured with Douglas Nelson from Champaign, Illinois, who taught at the convention....kaye Lindauer recently celebrated her birthday with a wonderful party at her home. By the time you read this newsletter, she will be in Switzerland at the annual Jung Conference. Undoubtedly, she will return with more Jungian wisdom to share with us in her classes at OASIS and the classes she will be teaching this summer at Chautauqua Institution. 7

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