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SearchFoundation for Mind-Being orialsLinksContactMAY 2012The Reality of ESP:A Physicist's Proof of Psychic AbilitiesSubscribe to this newsletterWe now have proof of ESP "so strong it would be statistically unreasonable to deny," writesphysicist Russell Targ. "If facts alone can convince a skeptical investigator of the reality ofESP, this book should do it." In The Reality of ESP, Targ presents evidence from the 20million research program he co-founded at Stanford Research Institute (SRI), together withtheir Buddhist and Hindu origins. These amazing psychic feats include:Download Newletter While remote viewing for the CIA and Army Intelligence, SRIpsychics found a downed Russian bomber in Africa, reported onthe health of American hostages in Iran, described Sovietweapons factories in Siberia, and forecasted a Chinese atomicbomb test three days before it occurred.NEW FMBR BLOG! When San Francisco heiress Patricia Hearst was abducted fromher home in Berkeley, a psychic with the SRI team was the first toidentify the kidnapper and then accurately describe and locate thekidnap car. After leaving SRI, Targ's group made 120,000 by psychicallyforecasting for nine weeks in a row the direction and amount ofchanges in the silver commodity futures market - without error!Since most of us have psychic abilities we haven't tapped, Targdescribes how we can learn to develop our own ESP, working at homeusing the SRI techniques with a friend. His website.TIME: Friday, 7:00-9:00 p.m., MAY 25, 2012PLACE: Unity Community Church – Y.E.S. Hall, 3391 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto(doors open at 7 p.m.)Russell Targ is a pioneering laser physicist, a well-known author, and co-founder ofStanford Research Institute's program to explore psychic abilities He is author or coauthor of nine books dealing with the scientific investigation of psychic abilities andBuddhist approaches to the transformation of consciousness, He lives in Palo Alto,California and teaches remote-viewing workshops worldwide. Meeting flyer Map and picture to FMBR Meeting place.A 15 donation is asked of non-members, at the doorStudents with ID, a 5 donation is askedPDF of printed versionPDF of online versionFMBR's blog is up and runningwith a discussion ofconsciousness and earthquakes.Join the discussion.UPCOMING FMBREVENTSMAY 19: SPECIALFMBR Workshop with,Dr. Liliana Cerepnalkoski"Shamanic Body TalkWorkshop"11 :00 am to 4:00 pm.To register by credit card,Or call 650-948-0419MAY 25:The Reality of ESP -- APhysicist's Proof of PsychicAbilities"7:30 pm. With Russel TargJUNE 2:Experiences in Mind-to--MindCommunication with Jane KatraAll day workshop:AUG 24:Dr. Ibrahim Karimwill be speaking onBioGeometry7:30 pm.

Why Would A Scientist Pray?Today, many of us are searching for a comprehensible spirituality, one in which experience takesprimacy over religious belief. It is evident that a person need not believe or take on faith anything aboutthe existence of universal spirit, because the experience of God is a testable hypothesis, as wedescribe elsewhere is this paper. However, philosophical proof is not our purpose. Rather, we havebecome aware that this experience is available to anyone seeking a spiritual life who at the same timedesires to remain a critical and discerning participant in the twenty-first century. We can include God inour lives without giving up our minds, if we can transcend our usual analytical thoughts and learn tobecome mindful. A scientist might pray, or search for the peace which passes understanding as a wayto experience the truth without conscious thought.In his 1939 essay Science and Religion, Albert Einstein suggested that we each have the potential for a greater awareness of truththan analysis alone can offer: Objective knowledge provides us with powerful instruments for the achievements of certain ends.But, the ultimate goal itself, and the longing to reach it, must come from another source.Wisdom teachers throughout history have shown that the experience of God is possible without belonging to a church or followinga religion, as long as one's basic motive is to discover truth. Dr. Herbert Benson recently proposed that our bodies and our brainsare hard-wired for God. By this he means that throughout the past twenty-five hundred years from Buddha, Jesus, and the BaalShem Tov (the founder of Hassidic Judaism), to such poets as Rumi, Blake, and Emerson, mystics have shared a commonexperience that is actually available to us all. In all the mystic paths, the experience of God is celebrated, rather than the belief inGod, or the religious ritual. The Sufi poet Rumi shared his thoughts which arose after experiencing his own divinity:All day I think about it, then at night I say it.Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing?I have no idea.My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that,And I intend to end up there.Whenever we sit peacefully and quiet our mind, we have an opportunity to experience an oceanic connection with somethingoutside our separate self. To many, that connection is experienced as an overpowering feeling of love, and it may well constitutepart of our evolutionary process as a species.This feeling of universal love, without any particular object, is often associated with the realization that we reside within anextended community of spirit enveloping all living beings. Such feelings of unbounded interconnected consciousness have beendescribed by many as an experience of God. The gift of a quiet mind allows us to understand what it means to be in love, likebeing immersed in loving syrup, as contrasted with being in love with another person. It is possible to reside in love (or gratitude)as a way of life. This experience is the source of the often-heard expression that "God is love", which in an ordinary context iseasily dismissed as a simple cliche, or worse, as not even comprehensible.These oceanic, loving, peaceful experiences are examples of the compelling feeling of oneness that mystics have been urging usto explore for millennia. Jesus called this state of awareness the peace that passes all understanding, and "a kingdom which is notof this world". Hindus call it bliss, or ananda. And Buddha called it a state of no-mind, meaning the absence of thoughts disruptingawareness of indivisible unity.This state is available to us now, while we reside in the world, whether or not we know or follow any religious teachings.Psychologist Joan Borysenko has written, "When the heart is open, we overcome the illusion that we are separate from oneanother."An excerpt from an article entitled "The Scientific and Spiritual Implications of Psychic Abilities" by Russell Targ and JaneKatra, Ph.D. Reprinted with permission. The full article can be found at www.espresearch.com/espgeneral/docAT.shtmlCOMING EVENTS

AN FMBR WORKSHOPAN FMBR WORKSHOPEXPERIENCES IN MIND-TO-MINDCOMMUNICATIONS:Remote Viewing, Healing, and What TheyImply About Who We AreWith Jane Katra, Ph.D.SHAMANIC BODY TALK WORKSHOP:Conversing with the Body and Supporting It'sAbility to Heal ItselfDr. Liliana CerepnalkoskiRemote viewing. The term carries with it an air of mystery.Remote viewing is often associated with secret militaryprograms to exploit the powers that -- for most of us -- liedormant in our minds. Some find it ironic that it was themilitary that sought to unlock those powers -- and so it is in away. Ironic that one of the most conservative and hardheaded institutions in our society was forward thinkingenough to ask the questions and fund the studies that led toa breakthrough of which all of us can now take advantage.You, too, can develop the same mental skill developed forthe military. You can learn to take advantage of your owninnate extrasensory capabilities to experience and perceivelocations, objects, persons, or events that are hidden fromyou by shielding, distance, or even time.About Jane Katra, Ph.D.Jane Katra holds a Ph.D. in Public Healthfrom the University of Oregon, where shetaught mind-body health classes in the1980's. Dr. Katra has also practiced as anatural spiritual healer for thirty-fouryears, after receiving instructions in anear-death experience. Katra is thecoauthor with physicist Russell Targ of the books Miracles ofMind: Exploring Nonlocal Consciousness and SpiritualHealing (1998), and The Heart of the Mind (1999). Her workhas been featured in the book Reinventing Medicine by LarryDossey, and in Science of Mind, Natural Health, AlternativeTherapies, New Dimensions, Spirituality and Health, andNoetic Sciences Review. Dr. Katra transmits an evolutionaryexperience of naturally radiating energy, and teaches classesin Esoteric Wisdom, Psychic & Spiritual Development,Remote Viewing, Forgiveness as Transformation, FacingDeath & Meeting Soul, Awakened Activism; Patanjali,Ramana Maharshi & Becoming Who We Are. Dr. Katra isactive in healing research, is featured as part of The Science& Consciousness Visionary DVD Club, and has presented atOmega, Esalen, The Institute of Noetic Sciences, TheMonroe Institute, The International Conference on Science &Consciousness, the Rhine Research Center where she is onthe advisory board, and to medical schools and spiritualorganizations internationally. Her website iswww.janekatra.org.Remote Viewing Workshop with Jane Katra, PhDJune 2, 2012: 10:00AM - 4:00PMLos Altos Masonic Lodge, 146 Main St, Los Altos, CA94022 100. FMBR members 115. non-membersPlease call 650-948-0419 to register orpay with your credit card or through PayPalor mail a check (include note,"Remote Viewing Workshop")with the appropriate amount made out to FMBR.This well-received workshop is repeated in the interest of thosewho wish to study more in depth with Liliana. This energeticworkshop is a prerequisite for attending the upcoming 8 week"Energy Makeover Workshop" series."I have taken many workshops from various teachers.With Liliana's course, I received concrete tools thatworked immediately for a health condition with lastingresults. I highly recommend her work." ChristineRosche,MPH,CNSLearning to talk with our body, askquestions and receive answers is a veryuseful intuitive technique as it may provideanswers to health problems. Also, applyingthe 2 principles of energetic medicine cleansing and recharging - we may optimizethe energetic status of organs and systemscreating the conditions for the "inner doctor"to do its job, for the body to heal itself.Dr. Lilana Cerepnalkoski was trained in Europe as a physicianand in America as a scientist. She completed two postdoctoralfellowships training in cancer research and AIDS research atthe University of Southern California Keck School of Medicinewhere she was also appointed on the faculty in the capacity ofresearch instructor.A spiritual experience led to the opening ofher latent intuitive abilities and prompted her to concentrate herattention on the subjects of medical intuition and energymedicine, studying with eminent visionaries in these fields. Sheis a member of the International Society for the Study of SubtleEnergies and Energy Medicine. Liliana maintains a scientificand educational consulting practice in Los Angeles. Herwebsite: www.intuitionandenergy.com/index.htmlMay 19, 2012, 11:00AM - 4:00PMPathways to Self Healing Classroom, 4153 El Camino Way,Palo Alto, CA 94306 90. FMBR members 115. non-membersTo register call 650-948-0419, or register and pay with paypalor your credit card, or mail a check (include note,"ShamanicBody Talk Workshop") with the appropriate amount made toFMBR. Mail to FMBR, P.O. Box 449, Los Altos, Ca 94023The check or payment should be made no later than May12The fees are non-refundable, but transferable to future FMBRworkshop with Liliana