Saturday, December 27, 2008

The Common Thread Group - January 8th, 2009

Happy New Year!

Since our normal first Thursday of the month would fall on January 1st, we have moved our meeting to the following Thursday, January 8th.

This month we will have an open forum discussion with the topic being, "What in the World is Going On?!!!"

Everything seems to be coming apart at the seams, but is it?

See you at 7pm in the Greenwood room. As always we will be having a short meditation first.

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Saturday, November 29, 2008

December 4th, 2008 Common Thread Meeting

Happy Holidays Everyone!
I know how difficult it is to be happy right now with the economy where it is and the terrible news we receive from broadcasts and print, but it is for our best and highest good to stay grounded, centered in the moment, and ever diligent about our positive thinking for the future! (The law of attraction is really at work now!) It is always good to show and feel the gratitude for what we do have..... family, friends, health, etc.!


This month's meeting will be an "Open Discussion" again. Or as Steve says, "A free for all!" Our topic or topics will be on "Past Lives and Karma", but not necessarily in that order, together or exclusively. Anyone want to volunteer for a past life regression in front of the group?

We will begin, as always, at 7pm with a short meditation followed by our discussion. (If you are new, please see location information to the right.)

With love and light,
Bev Stone
Facilitator
The Common Thread Group

Sunday, October 26, 2008

November 6th, 2008 Common Thread Meeting

This should be a great meeting! So arrive early for a good seat. We will meet in the Greenwood room at 7pm and will start our session with a short meditation.

Then we will have Denise Poole as our speaker. Denise is known as THE STONE CRONE. She will present "How to Read your own Soul Records in Stones. "Denise Poole's unique communion with stones has evolved over 20 years, 12 spent living in New Zealand where she amassed more than a million stones. Her awareness was forever altered as she became a conscious channel for Mother Earth. Over the years, she has given thousands of soul readings, providing inspiration and guidance to seekers worldwide."Humanity has an innate ability to communicate with all levels of Creation. As we share our journeys together, we discover --- or should I say 'remember' --- that we already know how to read our soul records in the stones!"

DENISE WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR READINGS ON THURSDAY AFTERNOON NOVEMBER 6TH & FRIDAY NOVEMBER 7TH ...by appointment. If anyone is interested, they can call Denise direct at 641-469-5709 to reserve a time. Rates are $45/30 minutes or $90/hr....if a recorded session is desired, the client may bring along a cassette tape and she will be happy to record their session.

Thursday, October 16, 2008

October 20th - Monday Movie Night

We will have two movies this coming Monday night. The first movie will be
"From Science To God"; "A stimulating program exploring science, spirit, and the mystery of consciousness." (This one is only 23 minutes in length)

The second movie is "Parallel Worlds" by Michio Kaku from The International Conference of Science and Consciousness. (About an hour long)

With love and light!
Bev Stone
Facilitator
The Common Thread Group

Saturday, September 27, 2008

October 2nd - Common Thread Group

Loving energy to you all!

Exciting times sure seem to be in the wind. Don't you just wonder how it is all going to play out???!!! As spiritual beings, we all chose to be here in this human experience during this time! What were we thinking????????????????????????? ;o)

This next Thursday is scheduled for an "Open Forum" discussion. As it turns out, it is going to be another busy evening.

  • We will start with our meditation at 7pm. So, if you are running late, please, wait outside the door until we finish.

  • Right after our announcements, Corrine Switzer will finish up her talk about her new book, "The Reality of the Illusion" and her self-healing system, “The Science of Vibrational Medicine” which she wasn't able to finish in our August meeting.

  • Then we have a special guest, Lynda Austin, who is visiting from the twin cities. Lynda is an Internationally renowned channel who has made it her life's mission to create accessible wisdom. Lynda has been in dialogue with her source, Essence, for over 20 years and now you can listen in too! She will briefly provide us with a special group reading. You can visit her website at http://www.dialogueswithessence.com/ Hopefully, we will be able to get Lynda back for a full presentation next year!

  • During the last 1/2 hour to 45 minutes we will continue our discussion on "The Law of Attaction".

Our time together is always so magical! Looking forward to see you Thursday night!

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Next Month, November 6th, 2008, Common Thread Meeting

THE STONE CRONE
"How to Read your own Soul Records in Stones"

Denise Poole's unique communion with stones has evolved over 20 years, 12 spent living in New Zealand where she amassed more than a million stones. Her awareness was forever altered as she became a conscious channel for Mother Earth. Over the years, she has given thousands of soul readings, providing inspiration and guidance to seekers worldwide.

"Humanity has an innate ability to communicate with all levels of Creation. As we share our journeys together, we discover --- or should I say 'remember' --- that we already know how to read our soul records in the stones!"

DENISE WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR READINGS ON THURSDAY AFTERNOON NOVEMBER 6TH & FRIDAY NOVEMBER 7TH ...by appointment
If anyone is interested they can call me direct at 641-469-5709 to reserve a time. Rates are $45/30 minutes or $90/hr....if a recorded session is desired, the client may bring along a cassette tape and I will be happy to record their session.

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

September 4th - The Common Thread Group

Beyond "The Secret": problems, solutions, and advanced uses of the Law of Attraction.

The movie "The Secret" has been criticized as being too materialistic. Steve Stone, our presenter this month agrees with that opinion and wishes to dive into that aspect of the topic. "We are finding that the Law of Attraction isn't as easy to apply as we have been led to think", Steve says. "So I would like to lead a discussion, not just give a lecture, about when the L of A works, when it doesn't, and why."

Steve feels that success in the Law of Attraction begins with our beliefs and our ability to change them. Additionally, there is much more to consider rather than just accumulating money, health, or a good relationship. Soul purpose, working in groups, and educating children are other great topics of conversation if we have time.

Steve says he has had a strong draw to the study of the Law of Attraction from the first time he learned of the concept, then called "manifestation". This has led to an intense study of the topic over the last six years to the point where he now sponsors a blog on the subject: Messages From The Old Monk. Feel free to visit his musings at http://www.oldmonkmessages.blogspot.com/ .

Thursday, July 31, 2008

August 7th - Common Thread Group

This month we will again start with the meditation at 7pm sharp in the Greenwood Room. It will be a 15 minute meditation (sitting, not standing) in which we will send, as a group, our powerful energy to those in need. If you choose not to be a part of the meditation, please join us at 7:15pm. If you arrive after we have begun the meditation, please quietly join us or remain outside until we have finished.

Corrine Switzer will give a talk about her new book, "The Reality of the Illusion" and her self-healing system, “The Science of Vibrational Medicine”. She created the healing system for each individual to be released from conventional medicine and become the authority in their own health. This information will also provide an understanding with a person’s spiritual nature to help them navigate in life without fear and with purpose. With a personal endorsement of her system by Dr. Norman Shealy, Corrine’s session will also include hands-on demonstrations with some very practical, beneficial information.

"It is now the time in our evolution and existing levels of understanding that we view our health, both mentally and physically; that we are eternal light-beings opposed to temporary carbon-based units on the earth by some cosmic happen-stance.” Corrine says. “The results I have seen with this process are nothing short of miraculous. I am so happy that I am in a supportive environment and I can now offer this to the public."

Currently living in Urbandale, Corrine is an intuitive, medium, Reiki master, LMT, practitioner of the healing arts, and has hopes of expanding her practice into a larger healing center for alternative medicine. Corrine’s background includes psychology, comparative religions and philosophies, and has personally studied with Donna Eden and Carolyn Myss. Most of her travels are dedicated to conventions such as the “Science of Consciousness” in Santa Fe, the A.R.E Edgar Cayce Foundation in VA Beach, and the “What is Enlightenment” salons. She promises this talk to be a very enlightening experience.If you are interested in a personal appointment with Corrine you can contact her at 515-326-4377, or her website at www.csvibrationalwellness.com which includes a great deal of information and a book directory. It is time to step out of the illusion.

Sunday, June 29, 2008

July 3rd - Common Thread Group

In many ways our world seems to be turning upside down right now.... with extreme weather conditions, flooding, the price of gas, and the negative news in which we are inundated on a daily basis. It's hard to stay positive and centered!!!! This beautiful group of people brings positive love and light energy to wipe away this illusion we call life! What amazing souls you all are!

It has been suggested that we utilize our wonderfully focused, powerful energy to help the world even more than we currently do at the end of our meetings. We have truly helped others who have been the focus of our healing energies!

So, here's what we would like to do.........
We will still start at 7pm in the Greenwood Room, but we will have our meditation first while we are still fresh and wide awake. At 7pm we will begin a 15 minute meditation (sitting, not standing). If you choose not to be a part of the meditation, please join us at 7:15pm. If you arrive after we have begun the meditation, please quietly join us or remain outside until we have finished.

Our meeting this month will be an open forum. It was suggested last month, that we share some of our own personal metaphysical experiences. From conversations I've had with many of you, I know angels have played huge rolls in some of your lives, and many of you are extremely psychically gifted. We'd love to hear your stories! In order for everyone to share, please keep your stories short and succinct. It should be a fun and interesting evening getting to know each other better. I, also, find that hearing other people talk about their experiences, helps me relate better to my own, building confidence and ridding doubt!

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August 7th - Common Thread Group
Corrine Switzer will give a talk about her new book, The Reality of the Illusion and her self-healing system, “The Science of Vibrational Medicine”. She created the healing system for each individual to be released from conventional medicine and become the authority in their own health. This information will also provide an understanding with a person’s spiritual nature to help them navigate in life without fear and with purpose. With a personal endorsement of her system by Dr. Norman Shealy, Corrine’s session will also include hands-on demonstrations with some very practical, beneficial information.

"It is now the time in our evolution and existing levels of understanding that we view our health, both mentally and physically; that we are eternal light-beings opposed to temporary carbon-based units on the earth by some cosmic happen-stance.” Corrine says. “The results I have seen with this process are nothing short of miraculous. I am so happy that I am in a supportive environment and I can now offer this to the public"

Currently living in Urbandale, Corrine is an intuitive, medium, Reiki master, LMT, practitioner of the healing arts, and has hopes of expanding her practice into a larger healing center for alternative medicine. Corrine’s background includes psychology, comparative religions and philosophies, and has personally studied with Donna Eden and Carolyn Myss. Most of her travels are dedicated to conventions such as the “Science of Consciousness” in Santa Fe, the A.R.E Edgar Cayce Foundation in VA Beach, and the “What is Enlightenment” salons. She promises this talk to be a very enlightening experience.

If you are interested in a personal appointment with Corrine you can contact her at 515-326-4377, or her website at
www.csvibrationalwellness.com which includes a great deal of information and a book directory. It is time to step out of the illusion.
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Even though it is a day before a Holiday Weekend, I do hope you'll join us Thursday Evening!
With much love and light!
Bev Stone
Facilitator
The Common Thread Group

Sunday, June 15, 2008

Monday Night Movie - June 16th

We have had a change of plans for our movie this Monday night. We will still meet at 7pm in Waveland Hall, but our movie will now be from The International Conference on Science and Conciousness which takes place in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

The movie is "Steven Greer - Cosmic Awareness & Cosmic Cultures: Higher States of Consciousness & Extraterrestrial Relations"

Steven Greer was an emergency room physician who is now working full time on the "Disclosure Project", which is uncovering the information that the "higher powers that be in the world" have kept secret concerning extraterrestrial life.

Monday, June 2, 2008

June 5th - Common Thread Meeting

This month we have a wonderful healer, Barbara Kerns, as our speaker!

Barbara will talk to us about SRT. According to Robert Detzler, "SRT is a meticulous process of researching the subconscious and soul records to discover and release (clear) hidden blocks to health, happiness and spiritual growth." This process was developed (he says "given to") by Mr Detzler from the universe itself. SRT clears away present life negativity as well as that remaining from past lives. SRT raises the soul's level of consciousness and opens doors to our full potential, however, we must still exercise our free will. We must take the responsibility of walking through those doors. In practice, there are two positive results of SRT. First the soul always benefits even if not consciously recognized; second, most people notice improvements in their daily life. Sometimes these improvements are immediate and dramatic; often they are subtle and may take days, weeks, months & sometimes years to manifest. Barbara has worked with this system for 17 years and is still amazed at the results.

Barbara Kerns has been a student of metaphysics since her early teens. She is a graduate of the Science of Mind Course, is a Reiki Master/Teacher, a Spiritual Response Therapy Counselor/Teacher and is certified to teach Spiritual Restructuring. Barbara was introduced to Spiritual Response Therapy (SRT) in 1988 at a First Iowa Dowser's meeting. A new book "Your Mind net" by Robert Detzler was the subject of discussion that day. Barbara purchased a copy and by 1991 had become a serious student of "SRT" earning her Certified Counselor's Certificate, and soon after, qualified as a Certified Teacher. Her training has been under the direction of Robert Detzler personally. Barbara continues to keep her qualifications for consulting and teaching current. You can reach her by phone at 515 289 0518 or by e-mail at bjkerns1@msn.com

Looking forward to seeing you Thursday night at 7pm
Plymouth Congregational Church, Greenwood Room, 42nd & Ingersoll, Des Moines, IA

Fill each day with love and light!
Bev Stone
Facilitator
The Common Thread Group

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

May 1st Common Thread Meeting - "Dealing with (the monster) 'EGO'"

Our May 1st meeting will once again be an open forum discussion, and our topic will be “Dealing with Ego”. How do we overcome it in ourselves? How do we deal with it in others?

Through our tribal conditioning we have learned to listen to our egos and not to our hearts, allowing Ego to control us in business, play, and even in relationships. Let’s look at examples, and then examine the ways to permanently transform “our shadow sides” and allow our hearts to do our thinking.

Sunday, March 30, 2008

April 3, 2008 Common Thread Meeting


Our April 3rd (Thursday night) speaker will be Cathy Lindsey, Evolutionary Astrologer.Cathy will share her near death experience to explain her unique journey to her life’s purpose of Evolutionary Astrology. She will provide basic examples of how Evolutionary Astrology differs from traditional Astrology. Cathy also will be sharing the Evolutionary perspective of your Sun Sign and provide a brief explanation of the 12 houses.Now the exciting stuff…….for all levels….whether you know astrology or not:Cathy will take you through an Evolutionary Astrology view of Elvis Presley’s fascinating chart to illustrate some key points. Cathy will also go into depth about the awesome chart of 2012 and what it means to the evolution of Humanity on Earth. She is looking forward to pointing out vital information in the leading presidential candidate astrological charts. Speaking of “Insider Information”!! Come and have some fun.
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Cathy Lindsey's passion lies in guiding you on your Soul’s Evolution for this lifetime. By understanding the lessons you are working on from past lives you learn to heal, so you can move towards your Souls’ intent, and use the gifts, strengths, and talents that are in your birth chart.After a near death and life-changing experience with cancer, Cathy's psychic gifts and Astrology interest became activated around 1994. Her mission became Evolutionary Astrology, Soul and Spiritually based Astrology, to guide others in their Soul’s intent while honoring the free will that we all have. She has studied with Jeffrey Wolf Green and Steven Forrest, is a graduate of Steven’s Astrological Apprenticeship Program, and has studied Esoteric Astrology from the University of Seven Rays. She has also studied Psychology, Sociology, metaphysics and ancient wisdoms.Cathy does many readings and events throughout the Midwest and has developed a following interested in her life changing ”Soul” level of work. She is spending a lot more of her time, writing articles and books on several astrological subjects. Cathy is available for teaching and speaking engagements by request and will travel within the U.S.
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Our May 1st meeting (May Day! Maybe we should do May Day Baskets!) will be an Open Forum discussion. If you have any thoughts on the topic you would like to discuss, please comment below.
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Then in June, Barbara Kerns will talk to us about Spiritual Response Therapy.
Hope to see you all this Thursday night!

With love and light,
Bev Stone
Facilitator
The Common Thread Group

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Thursday, March 6th, Common Thread Meeting

It's a good thing time is going faster, because with this cold I need the wonderful warmth of our group to warm my chilly bones again soon!!!! Some times, as a human, it is just hard to stay in the light and this is one of them!!!! Brrrrrr.........


Our next meeting will be an "Open Forum" again, and we will continue our conversation about the coming of the "Year 2012". I encourage you to bring information that rings true to you that you have been reading on this subject and/or channeling that you have done.

You might, also notice, that I have switched our March movie night (over on the right) to "2012 The Odyesey". So in March we will finish up this topic and move on to our next.

Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Movie Night starting February 18th, 7pm-9pm

More exciting news!!!!!
Plymouth Congregational Church has agreed to let us have the Waveland Room the third Monday of every month!!!!

So this means, that in addition to our regular Common Thread Meetings on the first Thursday of the month in the Greenwood Room, we will now have The Common Thread Monday Night at the Movies in the Waveland Room on the third Monday of the month. Our first Movie Night will be February 18th from 7pm-9pm, and our first movie will be "Orbs: The Veil is Lifting".

In graditude to the church, who has been wonderful allowing us to meet there at no charge, we will have a "Graditude Basket" by the door. Please know, that this is not requested by the church or required by the Common Thread Group. This is simply available for those of you who would like to show their appreciation and it will be given entirely to the church.

A special thank you to Barbara and Jim Bell for representing us to the church and serving as hosts for our Group!

Please check the side bar for upcoming movies and their dates.

Always with love and light!
Bev Stone
Facilitator
The Common Thread Group

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

February 7th, 2008 Meeting

Next Month's meeting will be held on February 7th and Judith Hickman will be our speaker. The topic will be... VOYAGE TO YOUR INNER WISDOM Judith Hitchman, MSW, DD, will provide a short history of tarot and explain the major and minor arcana (lesson) cards. Participants will have the opportunity to learn to use their own inner wisdom to read the symbols on a deck, view several spreads, and learn how to use tarot in your daily life. And there will be time for questions.

Judith Hitchman's BIO

Judith Hitchman, M.S.W., holds the vision of Comfort Your Soul. Her background in social work includes over twenty years of counseling and family therapy, specializing in the field of addictions and mental health. She has completed additional training in color and aromatherapy as well as crystal healing, light therapy and sound healing. She is proficient in numerology. Judith is a Reiki Master in the traditional Usui and Tibetan Methods. She is a Certified Tarot Consultant using the Voyager deck. She is creator of Soul Strands, individualized crystal jewelry, and window jewels to energize and support the balancing of the chakras.

Judith believes the world needs to again learn how to comfort the soul from the inside instead of searching for outside “fixes”. Comfort Cards were developed following the ancient tradition of attuning charkas with color, tone, aroma, nutrients, crystal, and activity. Judith stands for the integrity of each individual’s right to follow his or her own spiritual truth and path. She is dedicated to providing safe space for that task. She has gathered other artists and healers who share the commitment to the healing of the planet, a person at a time. She also considers herself a member of the global village.

Identifying herself as a “Wise Woman” is the culmination of a long journey to self-empowerment and acceptance of the responsibility to share what she learned along the way…as those before her shared their wisdom with her. Comfort Your Soul grew out of that commitment to growth in balance. And she will be the first one to tell you, she is still learning, searching, growing, and walking that path.

Judith invites you to explore the many facets of Comfort Your Soul and find what fits for you! She is available for personal consultations in person, by telephone or on the Internet. She is also available for seminars and workshops on a variety of subjects as well as retreats and “Goddess” encounters. You may schedule events and sessions with Judith by calling (515)418-7434.