labyrinth  walk  at  the  full  moon
co-sponsored  with  F I O N S,
friends of the institute of noetic sciences

ariane  burgess

camino  de  paz  labyrinths

Wednesday, June 2, 7 PM
Battery Park (directions below)
NYSGS and FIONS Members Free
Non-members  $5

A beautiful  tree marks  the  beginning and ending of a Labyrinth experience in Battery Park, near where New York City began.  Entering this grassy space, with old cobblestones guiding our path, and with bushes, trees and flowers around us, we can go into an inner deeply felt sense of Self. 

Ariane Burgess will share with us some of labyrinth history and tell about this seven circuit Labyrinth of Contemplation which she inlaid into the existing landscape in August, 2002.  We will be out-doors for the entire activity and walking on grass, so please wear appropriate clothing and footwear.

Ariane Burgess is a labyrinth maker and facilitator.  She has been working with the theme of labyrinth throughout her life and currently creates them in the land for mindful  movement and as pathways to inner peace.  Her work will bring us into contact with the beauty and diversity of this living world.

Many people think, mistakenly, of seman-tics, and General Semantics, as stressing the meaning of words.  On the contrary, Alfred Korzybski pointed out that our lives are lived entirely on the objective levels of un-speak-able feelings and emotions, with the verbal levels being auxiliary, and effective only if translated back into actions, feelings, etc.  Charlotte Read regularly taught Sensory Awareness in seminars, and Wendell Johnson and Harry Weinberg have sections of their books on learning silence on nonverbal levels.

Our Labyrinth Walk is an opportunity to experience living on the silent level.

Directions: The Labyrinth is in the Jerusalem Grove, a fenced-in area on the north-western perimeter of Battery Park, where West Street meets Battery Place.  The en-trance is next to the Walloon Settlers Memorial.  Take the subway to Battery Park Station, and walk west, about two blocks. 

F I O N S, Friends of the Institute of Noetic Sciences
Our Co-sponsors June 2

Edgar Mitchell, the sixth man to walk on the moon, founded the Institute of Noetic Sciences in 1973 to study mind, conscious-ness, and ways of knowing.  Members in New York City founded FIONS in 1988 to collaborate with IONS and explore the many ways “consciousness” governs every aspect of life.  FIONS offers its members, and the public, talks, workshops, courses and in-formal discussion groups to bring together science and spirit through dialogue and practice. 

 

exciting events coming this fall :

 alfred korzybski
memorial lecture

   The 53^rd Annual Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture will be held in New York City.  Many famous people have been honored by speaking at these events, beginning in 1952.  Recent honorees:

Previous speakers have included Buckminster Fuller, Gregory Bateson, L. L. Whyte, Abraham Maslow, and Ashley Montagu. 

Watch for further announcements ! 

etc.  a new issue

published by institute of general semantics

Vol. 61, No. 1, April 2004

Conference Papers  -  Twelfth International Conference on General Semantics: “Confronting the Challenges of Conflict-ing World Views”  –  Las Vegas, 10,11/03      

Sponsored by   I G S,  I S G S,  N Y S G S

Twenty Two Papers, including:``

“On Time-Binding as an Instrument of Peace”

“From the Unconscious to the Conscious”

“On Belief Systems”

“Dreams, Nightmares, and Nonviolence”

“Toward a Civil Society: Anger Manage-ment using G S and the Techniques of the Professional Actor”

“A General Semantics Approach to Re-ducing Student Alienation”

“Challenging Culturally-Expected Ways of Thinking”

“Seeking Unmediated Truths”

“Religion as a Belief System”

“Ramifications of Julian Jaynes’s Theory of Consciousness for Traditional G S”

“Media Ethics Between Iraq and a Hard Place”

“France – U S A”

“The Challenge of Change: G S and Malcolm Gladwell’s ‘The Tipping Point’”

“Replacing Our Pattern of Universal Dis-cord”

“Intrapersonal Evolution: A Sharing of Semantic Jumps”

“Changing Reputations: Demarginalizing General Semantics”

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NEIL POSTMAN MEMORIAL SYMPOSIUM

Neil Postman, our Board member and frequent speaker, died in October.

He was one of only seventeen professors at NYU with the distinguished title of University Professor, and the only one in the School of Education.  He had a profound effect in his roles as educator, author, social critic and editor.

The Neil Postman Doctoral Fellowship Fund has been launched at the Steinhardt School of Education as an investment in future scholars and students in the Department of Culture and Communication. 

With the co-sponsorship of the Media Ecology Association, we are planning a Neil Postman Memorial Symposium.  The students who attained their doctorates under him will be invited to attend.  Dr. Lance Strate, Department of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University, is President of Media Ecology Association.  He spoke before NYSGS in December, and has published articles in ETC., including a biography of Neil Postman.

Neil Postman was at NYU for 44 years.  He wrote 20 books, including Amusing Ourselves to Death, The Disappearance of Childhood, Teach-ing as a Subversive Activity (with Charles Wein-gartner), Teaching as a Conserving Activity, and his last book, Building a Bridge to the 18^th Cen-tury.  The New York Times obituary noted that Postman’s core message was that an immersion in a media environment shaped children’s lives to their detriment, and society’s.

The Symposium will emphasize his personal legacy to our society, and his immense influence on many students in their research to extend our knowledge in communication.

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