Sunday May 16th 1:00pm – 4:00pm

Facilitated by Glenda Goodrich

Cost: $50.00 (all materials provided)

Spring – Discovering New Beginnings through SoulCollage®

Spring is a time for new growth. Come join us for an afternoon to relax, play and use imagery to discover the Spring of new growth inside you. This workshop is open to everyone. Just come and enjoy yourself and take a break from the routine.

What is SoulCollage®?

SoulCollage® is a process through which you contact your intuition and create cards which have deep personal meaning and which can help you with life’s questions like: What new growth is emerging within me? What’s next for me in my life and work? What does my Soul and intuition tell me?

Following the simple Soul Collage directions, your hands move fragments of cut-out magazine pictures around, fitting them together in a surprising new way and gluing them down on a card. Cards containing the images you select—or the images that select you—come straight through your Soul, bypassing the mind. It is a relaxing, Soul-nourishing process that helps you stop and get in touch with deeper meaning in your life.

This is a multi-leveled, creative process which anyone can do. All you need is a good pair of scissors, pre-cut mat board cards, and images you can cut out from magazines, greeting cards, personal photos, postcards, catalogs, and calendars. It is wonderful to have other people with whom to share the process. The cards are fun to have on your work desk or coffee table to spice up the conversation, take to a friend’s house, or to share in groups.

Thursday April 15, 5:30pm – 7:00pm

Third Thursday Poets celebrates Tax Day with two un-taxing poets.

Barbara Drake writes poetry and prose. Among other works she is the author of Peace at Heart: an Oregon Country Life, published by Oregon State University Press. Her new poetry collection, Driving 100, was recently published by Windfall Press (2009). Earlier poetry books include Small Favors (Traprock Press), What We Say to Strangers (Breitenbush Press), Love at the Egyptian Theatre (Red Cedar Press, Michigan State University), and Bees in Wet Weather (Canoe Press). Her college textbook, Writing Poetry, originally published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich and now owned and published by Heinle of the Thompson Publishing Group, has been in print and widely used in colleges across the country since 1983. Drake’s memoir, Peace at Heart, was an Oregon Book Award finalist.

Drake’s poetry and prose works have appeared in anthologies such as Poets on Place, U. of Utah Press, The Plain Truth of Things, Harper Collins, The Sumac Reader, Michigan State University Press, The New Geography of Poets, U. of Arkansas Press, and others. Her poetry, fiction, and reviews have appeared in numerous literary magazines and she has been a scholarly contributor to the Oregon Historical Quarterly, the Dictionary of Literary Biography and other references.

She was the recipient of a Northwest Arts Foundation grant to study poetry in England in 1985 and the Linfield College Edith Green Distinguished Professor Award. In 1966, upon completion of her MFA in writing at the University of Oregon, she was awarded “the first National Foundation for the Arts and Humanities award to be given to an Oregonian.” She also received a $20,000 National Endowment for the Arts award in poetry in 1987.

Colette Tennant is an English Professor at Corban College. Her poems have appeared in Southern Poetry Review, Rosebud, Pudding, Dos Passos Review, Natural Bridge, Global City Review, among others. She has poetry forthcoming in Karamu, and Orpheus II. Her first poetry book, published in January 2010, Commotion of Wings, was a finalist in Main Street Rag’s book contest. In 2003, her book Reading the Gothic in Margaret Atwood’s Novels was published by Edwin Mellen Press.

Tuesday April 7th, 6:30 – 8:30

Presented by Vishara Veda

"From the Silence Beyond Time…The Joining" takes the reader on the intimate spiritual journey of two people, fulfilling an agreement made outside this lifetime.

Based on a true story, "The Joining" is an adventure through the distortions of human experience toward the recognition and awakening of their joint mission to support the current planetary shift, a Spiritual Awakening.

Tuesday April 13th, 6:30pm-8:00pm

View Kirk’s bio here

Join us for the book
launch party for local
author Kirk Spangler!
Capitol Crimes is set
right here in Salem!

Presented by Selena Whittle, M.S.

Sunday April 11th
11:00AM – 1:00PM

Shamanic Ceremony

As we move through our lives, each of us is moving forward in our spiritual evolution. You are not the same person you were 10 years ago. You have evolved and changed. If you’ve been around a good many years then you could probably say that you’ve had several “chapters” in this life, periods that were vastly different from each other, often marked by tumultuous change. Knowing and using ceremony during and after these transitions can close the old way with honor and gratitude, and can open the new way with solid intention.

But ceremony is not only for the major transitions in life. It can also be used as a truly potent practice towards enlightenment. A daily gratitude ceremony, for example, is a potent way of moving your awareness towards the Truth of who you are. It can also bring up all the negative issues to work on, but that’s another class…

In this class you’ll learn about Shamanic Ceremony. We’ll plan and do a ceremony created by you for your purposes. For this class, you’ll need to bring a drum if you have one and also an object that holds intense meaning about you.

Presented by Selena Whittle, M.S.

Sunday April 3rd
11:00AM – 5:00PM

Soul Healing
(prerequisite: Intro to Soul Healing or Journey to Enlightenment)

In this class, you’ll learn about the process of Soul Healing—the phases that we all go through in that process, how to do the preliminary journeys that heal the Soul and then actually work on current issues. Whether we actively engage in the healing of our Souls or whether we choose to allow the winds of life to move us in our needed direction, there are phases that we all pass through. Knowing what these phases are not only helps us negotiate the rough waters, but also helps us remember that it is a phase, which enables us not to be so consumed by it.

Journeying to Heal the Soul is something that can be learned, but does take some practice. You have to learn how to see inside a Journey, what to look for, what to ask. You will begin to learn it here.

As participants in the class work on current issues within the Journey space, you will see how we share the same issues and you will also witness first hand how it is done. Journeying to heal the Soul is one of the most powerful practices available today.

Presented by Selena Whittle, M.S.

Sunday March 21st
11:00AM – 1:00PM & 1:00PM – 3:00PM

Intro to Soul Healing
Within each of us is an enlightened Being, a Soul that needs nothing, that wants nothing, that is completely at peace. We know this, yet our immediate experience is far, far from this knowing. We’re caught up with negative emotions, mind chatter, being in this world, attachments, addictions, drama.

This class will show you how the Shamanic Journey can be used to heal the Soul or to be more accurate, to heal the negativity that surrounds the Soul. In Selena’s 20 years of experience, nothing, absolutely nothing holds more power to move you so quickly towards enlightenment or healing the wounds that prevent you from being who you truly are.

Journey to Enlightenment
Named for the book by Ross Bishop, this class focuses on how to use Shamanic Journeying to move towards Enlightenment. We’ll discuss the process, from the formation of the ego to repeated life cycles to the return home. Clarity of the process is helpful to undermining our belief in the illusion and moving us in the direction we seek.

Using the Journey to help us move towards Enlightenment, we are healing the shadow aspects that surround the Soul, allowing the Truth of who we are to shine forth. Reflections of the shadow can be readily seen in our lives and in our spiritual practices. If you meditate or do yoga, much will arise from the internal realms that you can then heal with a Journey. But even if you don’t have such a practice, the events of life itself will reveal where there is healing work to be done. This class introduces you to the method of Journeying as a way to heal the Soul and thus propel you further towards Enlightenment.

Thursday April 1st, 6:30pm – 8:00pm

Join us for a free introductory talk about the ancient techniques known as The Ishayas’ Ascension

What if……..the original teachings of Buddha and Christ were pointing to the same thing….A permanent living experience of Unbounded Freedom, Wisdom, and Love.

What if……..that’s the Truth of who you Are and there IS a tool that can change your life?

The Art of Ascension as taught by the Ishayas is an essential effortless approach to redirect the mind to its most natural state of expanded awareness while healing the body by giving it deep rest.

This tool is actually a series of techniques based in Praise, Gratitude and Love. The science of joining the individual lower self with the Universal Higher Self has been known for thousands of years. These techniques awaken individuals to realize the Truth within the spiritual renaissance occurring on the planet today.

Wearin’ O’the Green

Thursday, March 18, 2010, from 5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.

Third Thursday Poets is a monthly series celebrating the art of poetry and giving prominent area writers a chance to share their favorite poetry, whether it’s their own or someone else’s.

Third Thursday Poets celebrates
all things green and Irish
with two fine poets

A poet featured on The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, Paul Hunter has published fine letterpress poetry under the imprint of Wood Works for the past 15 years. His farming collection, Breaking Ground, reviewed in the New York Times, won the 2004 Washington State Book Award. Companion volumes include Ripening, 2007, and Come the Harvest, 2008. His latest book, One Seed to Another: The New Small Farming, is prose, and has just appeared from The Small Farmer’s Journal.

Paul has worked corn, hay, wheat and oats, from plowing to harvest. Stretched fence, tended cattle and hogs, forked and spread manure. Fingered the full range of whatall goes in a garden. Fixed machinery. After a good while spent teaching high school English, history, arts and manners, he mostly writes, whittles, sets type, and plays music.

Carlos Reyes is a noted poet, writer and translator. Of his work Carolyn Kizer has said: “Mr. Reyes is one of our local and national treasures. His poetry is as clear and strong as his social conscience. One is always struck by his sensual and sensory qualities: the touch, taste, feel, color of things, and his ability to capture a mood, a world, in a handful of lines.”

His latest book of poetry is The Book of Shadows; New and Selected Poems (2009) . Other recent books include At the Edge of the Western Wave (2004) A Suitcase Full of Crows (1995) (a Bluestem Prize winner and finalist for 1996 Oregon Book Awards). His books of translations are Poemas de la Isla/Island Poems by Josefina de la Torre (Eastern Washington University Press, 2000).

Carlos’ translation of the Obra poética completa (Complete Poetic Works) of the preeminent Ecuadorean poet Jorge Carrera Andrade, was published in 2004 in a bilingual edition in Ecuador. He is the publisher/editor of Trask House Books, Inc. In 2007 he was awarded a Heinrich Boll Fellowship to write on Achill Island, Ireland and in 2008 was awarded the Ethel Fortnter Award from St Andrews College. He was recently the poet-in-Residence in the Joshua Tree National Park. Carlos lives in Portland but travels often to Ireland and is a frequent visitor to Spain and Ecuador.

A poetry event ● organized by ● Maureen Clifford ● poetry lover

Tuesday March 16th, 6:30pm – 8:00pm

Meet author Clifford M. Scovell

Is Freedom on Earth a False Reality?

The Answer in an Ambitious Series Begins For New Author Clifford Scovell

NEW YORK (January 28, 2009) — The novel Prison Earth: Not Guilty, as Charged is now available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Black Rose Writing. www.blackrosewritingbooks.com

In his first published work, Clifford Scovell creates a fast-paced, interweaving story about planet Earth being used as a prison for aliens. The most dangerous criminals from this species are convicted and sentenced to live as humans on Earth as their punishment. But this is not one of your omnipotent-alien stories. It’s an elaborate social studies project that looks at both the criminals and those who imprison them.

In Prison Earth: Not Guilty, As Charged (Black Rose Writing, 2010), Scovell tells the story of Earth with humans as an embattled population under the control of powerful alien forces. We meet Wyatt and Megan. The characters have a deep connection between them: comfortable, familiar and human, or so we assume. The reader follows them as they begin to discover flaws in the alien’s perfectly-ordered prison system. Stunned by this new reality, Wyatt and Megan must risk not only their new bodies, but their precious souls in the struggle to prevent an explosion as destructive as the Big Bang.

“What makes this book different from other sci-fi stories is that it combines aliens, robots and humans in a battle for their “life force,” said filmmaker and producer Rick Shaw. “Humans fight daily to stay ahead of the alien influence and are kept in check by hovering Observation Units – a cut above in intelligence compare to the typical R2 droids in Star Wars.”

Based on his experiences and research, Scovell weaves a multi-dimensional alien adventure in with excellent story telling, exposing the bonds of our interconnectedness and offering a glimpse into the greater purpose in life.

“The idea goes back to the Greeks and Romans who believed the all-powerful gods manipulated their daily lives,” remarked Scovell. “If we can accept the concept of others being in control, irrational and unconnected thoughts begin to come together, as if we have found a way to see through the invisible shield meant to block our knowledge and understanding of other species.”

Scovell is among the many emerging authors who are working with independent publishing houses to see their dreams come to fruition. Prison Earth: Not Guilty, as Charged is just the opening chapter to an entertaining sci-fi series packed with human drama of epic proportions. The first book in the Prison Earth series is published by Black Rose Writing, an independent publishing house with more than 100 titles in print and for sale at www.blackrosewritingbooks.com.

A fifth-generation Oregonian and graduate of Oregon State University, Scovell has been a member of the Red Moon Writer’s Group for more than 10 years. Prison Earth is his first chance to share an out-of-this-world adventure with a wider audience.

“When I was thirteen I had a shockingly realistic nightmare about being abducted by aliens,” said Scovell. “That planted the seed, and explains why the book starts with a dream scene, that isn’t a dream.”

Beginning today, Scovell welcomes potential readers to engage in a dialogue about the characters and concepts in the book as he begins to shape the second book in Prison Earth series scheduled for release in October. You can read previously unpublished short stories that introduce the characters in the series or communicate with the author at www.prison-earth.com.

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