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An Evening of Conscious Comedy with Swami Beyondananda

$20/advance, $22/door, Under 17/$10
Children under 12 free with paying adult

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Unitarian Center, 4th and C Streets, Ashland
Saturday, May 15, 2010 • 8PM

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Swami Beyondananda

Once in many, many lifetimes comes a being so evolved, so enlightened, so pure that the entire world is transformed. Unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be anyone like that around these days.

Fortunately, we do have Swami Beyondananda to help us maintain our jestive health in a world that has become less and less funny. As the Swami says, "Indeed, the world is in a grave state -- and the best way to overcome gravity is with levity."

At a very early age, it became apparent that young Swami was different from the other children. You know how children quietly put their heads down on the desk when they fall asleep in class? Well, Swami would float to the ceiling. His father realized he could not provide the spiritual training that his gifted young son needed, so he apprenticed him to the most evolved spiritual teacher in Oklahoma, the Native American shaman Broken Wind.

Swami was very impressed when an Oklahoma swami who called himself the Yogi From Muskogee (Swami has since taken that title) came to his boy scout troop and taught him to tie himself into twelve different knots. Swami quickly embraced the path of the yogi and mastered many advanced techniques, including levitation.

He moved to New York to study with the renowned guru of the stock market, Yuan Tibet, who instructed him in the Dowist path. Swami became more and more dependent on the stock market prophet, buying soybean futures like there was no tamari. Suddenly, the price of soybeans plummeted (due, it was later revealed, to a rumor planted by unscrupulous dairy-heir that tofu actually came from between the toes of Himalayan hikers). Swami frantically tried to call Yuan Tibet for his sage advice, but he could not be found. Tragically, there had been some prophet-taking on Wall Street, somebody took him, and he was never heard from again.

The most amazing thing happened. Swami was struck by enlightning during a brainstorm, his clown chakra opened, and now he sees funny. Since that time, Swami has traveled the world preaching FUNdamentalism -- accent on Fun. He has become a well-known figure in the Humor Potential Movement, helping folks release jestive blockages such as irregularhilarity, irony deficiency, humorrhoids and yes, even truth decay.

While Swami has no followers per se (he says he gets paranoid when he thinks he’s being followed), he does train comic-kazis in the ancient Chinese path of Fu Ling. "To live in this world," the Swami says, "you must be able to take a joke. And if you can leave a few as well, all the better."

 

For more information, visit www.wakeuplaughing.com.

 

 

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Building the Heartland Community:
Evolving Spontaneous Evolution From Ideal to Real Deal

with Steve Bhaerman
(Workshop)

Unitarian Center, 4th and C Streets, Ashland
Saturday, May 15, 2010 • 1:30-4:30PM

Spontaneous Evolution co-author Steve Bhaerman hosts this community event designed to activate the two characteristics of evolution: awareness and community. The first hour of this three hour event is about expanding awareness, as Steve offers a powerfully pointed Power Point presentation on how the principles of Spontaneous Evolution are already being put into action. The second hour is about building community, as participants break into groups of four to "tell a vision" for themselves, their community and their world. In the final hour, these visions are shared, as the whole group chooses to empower one or more of these visions with their ongoing participation.

This is the perfect event to bring together the entire "cultural creative" community, and to create a community focal point and gathering place, where activists, businesspeople, healers can gather under one big "intent": to re-grow the Garden, and have a heaven of a time doing it.

 

Spontaneous EvolutionWritten by Dr. Bruce Lipton and Steve Bhaerman, Spontaneous Evolution offers you the information, inspiration and invitation to participate in the greatest adventure in human history – conscious evolution. Economic meltdown … environmental crisis … seemingly endless warfare. The world is in critical condition. We’ve all heard stories of people who experienced seemingly miraculous recoveries from illness, but can the same thing happen for our world?

According to pioneering biologist Bruce H. Lipton, it’s not only possible, it’s already happening. We are surrounded by the proof that we are poised to take an incredible step forward in the growth of our species. Spontaneous Evolution reveals how changing our understanding of biology and human history will help us navigate these turbulent times, and invites readers to reconsider: The unquestioned pillars of biology including random evolution, survival of the fittest, and the role of DNA; the blueprint for our sustainable, life-affirming future that is literally inside you – encoded in each of the trillions of cells comprising your body; how our beliefs about nature and human nature shape our politics, culture, and individual lives; and how each of us can become planetary "stem cells" supporting the health and growth of our world and every individual in it.

By releasing the old beliefs that keep the status quo in place, and by building our lives and world on this heartening new story, we can trigger the spontaneous evolution of our species. Infused with intelligence and wit, Spontaneous Evolution is an insightful, playful, and ultimately hopeful look at the unfolding destiny of our species-and how you can play an active role in birthing the evolution of humanity.

Dr. Bruce Lipton is an internationally recognized leader in bridging science and spirit. He has been a guest speaker on hundreds of TV and radio shows, as well as keynote presenter for national and international conferences.

 

Cost is $30/advance, $35/door, $5 discount per person for groups of five or more. Call (541) 535-3562 for $5 discount per person for groups of five or more.

 
   

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