April 8, 2010- Common Thread Group

We always meet on the first Thursday of the month which would be April 1st, however; this year the first Thursday is April 1st and it's Maundy Thursday for the church. This means that we are unable to meet there, but we were able to reschedule to the following Thursday, April 8th. I hope this doesn't create too much of a problem for all of you!

Our April 8th meeting will be in the Greenwood Room, and will begin at 7pm with our meditation. As usual, we will follow with brief announcements and Cathy Lindsay's monthly astrological report.

We are honored and excited to have Jane Kearney from Mankato, Minnesota as our speaker this month.

Jane has taken courses with Japan's Dr. Masaru Emoto and his staff in 2005 and has become a Certified Hado Instructor.

She will show us a power point presentation to demonstrate Emoto's work with water crystals proving that water is a message carrier and that our thoughts, words, music, etc. have a clear and definite effect an ourselves, others and everything around us. With positive or negative "hado" we greatly influence the world around us.
To see more of Dr. Emoto's work you may go to his website at http://www.hado.net/ .

March 4th - Common Thread Group

Our next meeting will be back in the Greenwood Room for the next two months. After that we will be back in Waveland Hall. Sorry for the shift!

We will meet at 7pm (as usual) with a short meditation, followed by short announcements. Please remember that we need to keep this part short. You are welcome to bring copies of your information for people to pick up. That way we are not taking up our guest speaker's time. Thank you for your understanding on this issue.

Cathy Lindsey will give the monthly astrological update and then we will have our guest speaker Dan Berger from Iowa Paranormal Advanced Research Team http://www.diepart.com .
It should be an extremely interesting evening!

Dan's presentation consists of a power point program that includes:

Who the Iowa Paranormal Advanced Research Team is, their goals, equipment they use, examples of explainable pictures, video that Dan has captured and cannot be explained, and examples of EVPs. (electronic voice phenomena)

Dan explains how he got started:

"There is no official study material on the subject. I have spent my whole life trying to understand the unknown. This comprises of just about anything and everything. Paranormal
issues are just one of many interests of mine."

Below is an excerpt from their brochure:

The Iowa Paranormal Advanced Research Team is a paranormal research organization that is dedicated to investigating phenomenon that is out of the ordinary or unexplained. We are a group of professional men & women from all walks of life with regular full-time jobs, who join together to pursue our shared interest in the paranormal and our passion for investigating the paranormal as well as otherwise unexplained activity. All our members are dedicated to educating others about the paranormal and passionate in helping those who request our services Our group is made up of open minded mainstream people who are both believers in the paranormal or afterlife, as well as skeptics. Our mission is to investigate to first find any possible reasonable and logical explanations of any activity that is presumed to be paranormal or unexplained in nature before determining or concluding the activity to be paranormal in nature. All our investigations are conducted in a very professional manor using only scientific methods and approach. Which allows us to make you the promise of: If you have nothing paranormal when we come… You will have nothing paranormal when we leave your home or business.

February 4th - Common Thread

The Common Thread Group will be meeting in Waveland Hall at 7pm beginning with a meditation.

Since weather prevented us from meeting in January, our topic for the February 4th Common Thread meeting will be “Intention”, presented by our own Fraya Parker. “Intention” has become one of the key buzzwords in today’s spiritual and self-help communities. Abraham-Hicks, Wayne Dyer, Carlos Castaneda, and even in every meeting of Common Thread, “intention” is being defined, analyzed, and explained.

Now we have hard scientific evidence to prove what our spiritual teachers have been telling us. Our “beliefs” are supported by facts and can actually be proven! Over the past thirty years, in laboratories all over the world, pioneering scientists in physics have been conducting careful experiments investigating human intention. What they have found has literally rocked the scientific community and exploded some of the most basic tenets that our “modern science” has been based on.

From this information, we can now use the “Science of Directed Intent” in incredibly powerful new ways. With just a little “tweaking,” our old ways of co-creating our world by using intentions and affirmations can be dynamically intensified. And when we come together using this simple, new intention process, we can create the kind of world that we have previously only dreamed of.

Fraya intends (pun intended…ha, ha….that’s intended, too) to present the major ideas resulting from these scientific investigations into intention in very broad strokes and in everyday language. Then, we will end the presentation by joining together vibrationally, amplifying our individual potential by creating group consciousness, and then send a group intention for the betterment of Des Moines out to the universe so powerfully that it cannot help but manifest!

Fraya got started meditating in the 70's because of scientific research into what happens in the brain during Transcendental Meditation. She worked for the TM movement for a year, followed by a three-month course in Europe to learn to be a teacher of TM. About a year ago she was introduced to the “Intenders”, and since then has been working to get more people involved with Intenders here in Des Moines.

New Vortexes

Kevin Thoren emailed me this week with the following information:

I received some information about one month ago and we will be seeing many more vortexes opening in the Central Iowa area not far from the others. A total of 10 or 7 major new ones, with some opening up this spring. The information I received was a sneak peek as to what is coming and feels like I will get more detailed info later.

Blessings, Kevin

December 3rd, 2009 Common Thread Meeting

This month we will be back in Plymouth's Waveland Hall. As always, we will begin with a short meditation at 7pm, followed by a few announcements and Cathy Lindsey's informative and helpful monthly Astrological reading.

Angela Clark will be our speaker for this December meeting.
Her topic is:
Grounding Yourself for 2012
Angela will be teaching about the the importance grounding ourselves everyday as the energies are continually shifting. We will do a couple of grounding exercises involving self-care, building community, sustainability and Law of Confluence. This is another way of teaching the essential basics of remembering the Divine in our everyday life experiences. The Divine is waiting to be remembered in each and every aspect of your life experience.

Angela will talk about the importance of bringing Spirit into areas of our lives, like finance and business and health, that we have not done in this lifetime. Setting intention in our every area of our daily lives is vital to our physical, mental, emotional and Spiritual health.

We will also talk about the most powerful way to co-create Global Sustainability. Building community is a very important element of the shifts we are seeing in the world today: Why is it so important and what role does community play in our growth and development? She will share tools for helping you define the community(ies) that will best serve your growth.

Angela Clark, Serial Eco-preneur and perpetual student of Remembering the Divine. The Ki Inside, Healing Arts Practice offering Reiki, Emotional Freedom Technique, Ear Candling, Sinus Health Education & Classes.enrgPATH, a web-based resource directory for businesses offering services that are healthy for people and the planet.Committed Language Communications, We assist you with building and launching your business. Brainstorming unique promotional and educational opportunities, writing print marketing copy, web site copy, and general business confidence. Business workshops, classes, and coaching are also available. EnrgPATH has partnerships for graphic design, web site building, copy editing, event planning, marketing and social media resources.

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Common Thread Group - November 5th

Our November 5th meeting will be back in the Greenwood Room due to previous commitments by the church. We will begin at 7pm with a short meditation, as usual, followed by short announcements. Those of you who have announcements, please have materials available with information by the door that you can briefly refer to as being available. This way, we don't have to take valuable time away from our speakers. This month we are blessed to have Robert Waggoner who will speak to us about:

Using Dreams and Lucid Dreams to Access Our Greatest Potential

Since recorded history, dreams have informed, guided and mystified mankind. With dream accounts of precognition, telepathy, spiritual encounters and interactions with the deceased, dreams have naturally suggested a more complex view of reality. In this session, you will learn how to use dreams to move towards your greatest potential, and how some dreamers are becoming lucid or consciously aware while in the dream state. Please bring your stories to share of amazing dreams that gave you insight, emotional and physical healing and news of events to come!

Our presenter: Robert Waggoner is President of the International Association for the Study of Dreams (IASD) and author of the new book, Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self. A summa cum laude graduate of Drake University with a degree in psychology, he is co-editor of the online journal, The Lucid Dream Exchange, the only ongoing publication devoted specifically to lucid dreaming. Robert frequently speaks on lucid dreaming at national and international dream conferences, workshops and college classrooms (for example, Sonoma State University, Iowa State University and Evergreen State College), as well as various radio shows, like Iowa Public Radio.


Robert Waggoner
author of Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self
http://www.lucidadvice.com/