We are so excited for Prem Rawat’s upcoming event in Ireland, where he will be discussing his best-selling book, Hear Yourself. Keep reading to find out more…
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Positive Nights presents Marianne Williamson, an online event co-hosted with Seminars.ie
We are thrilled to announce that we are co hosting an event with seminars.ie this October 13, 7pm. This is an online only event.
Marianne Williamson is a familiar figure to Irish audiences having presented several live events in Ireland over the years. We now have the opportunity to connect with her online and hear about her latest words of wisdom in the world today.
She ran for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in 2020 and in 2021 she launched MarianneWilliamson.Substack.com.
Marianne is an internationally acclaimed spiritual author and lecturer. She has been a popular guest on television programs such as Oprah, Larry King Live, Good Morning America, Charlie Rose & Bill Maher. Seven of her twelve published books have been New York Times Best Sellers. Four of these have been #1. The mega best seller A Return to Love is considered a must-read of The New Spirituality. A paragraph from that book, beginning “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure…” is considered an anthem for a contemporary generation of seekers.
Marianne’s other books include The Law of Divine Compensation, The Age of Miracles, Everyday Grace, A Woman’s Worth, Illuminata, Healing the Soul of America, A Course in Weight Loss, The Gift of Change, Enchanted Love, A Year of Miracles, and her newest book, Tears to Triumph: The Spiritual Journey from Suffering to Enlightenment
She founded Project Angel Food, a non-profit that has delivered more than 14 million meals to ill and dying homebound patients since 1989. The group was created to help people suffering from the ravages of HIV/AIDS. She has also worked throughout her career on poverty, anti-hunger and racial reconciliation issues. In 2004, she co-founded The Peace Alliance and supports the creation of a U.S. Department of Peace.
Tickets are €25 and can be purchased through the Seminars.ie website.
Get your tickets here: www.seminars.ie/event-shop/marianne-online-october-13th-at-7pm
Facebook Page| Thursday, February 15th, 2018, 7:30pm | Eur 20 / 15 euros concession | Location: The Powerscourt Theatre, Dublin 2.
We are pleased to be welcoming Richard Harvey to Positive Nights
Richard Harvey is a well-known spiritual development coach who aims to weave together the arts of psychotherapy and spirituality to help people arrive at a greater understanding of themselves. He is the author of “Your Sacred Calling: Awakening the Soul to a Spiritual Life in the 21st Century”. As part of his worldwide Enlightened Moment tour, he will be coming to Dublin to speak on the subject of how we can empower ourselves to be the great figures of enlightenment we seek.
He explains: “The enlightened moment is always available. It is here now and closer to us than our own breath. As your birthright, it is divorced from our experience through our belief in fear and the sense of lack that characterises human life. Humanity is at a stage of collective evolution in which its most precious treasures are denied in the activities of delusion. The Divine state has been projected outward onto beings who are merely a creation of mind. These beings have been perceived sometimes to be at the center of some spiritual illumination—a Buddha field or Christ light phenomenon, for example—and this perpetuates the spiritual error that we are ourselves mortal, striving, seeking, and perpetually frustrated while the charisma, character, and enlightenment of others maintains our inferiority and subordinated position. You are yourself the enlightenment you seek.”
He and Paul will be discussing these powerful ideas and exploring how we can integrate them into our everyday lives.
Click here to get your tickets or email us at positivenights@gmail.com for more info!
Richard will also be leading an Irish weekend workshop as part of the Enlightened Moment tour in the Maldron Hotel, Southern Ring Road, Roxboro, Co. Limerick, from the 23rd to the 25th of February. Click here for more details. Richard’s website is therapyandspirituality.com.
Facebook Page| Thursday, February 15th, 2018, 7:30pm | Eur 20 / 15 euros concession | Location: The Central Hotel, Exchequer Street, Dublin 2.
We are pleased to be welcoming Richard Harvey to Positive Nights
Richard Harvey is a well-known spiritual development coach who aims to weave together the arts of psychotherapy and spirituality to help people arrive at a greater understanding of themselves. He is the author of “Your Sacred Calling: Awakening the Soul to a Spiritual Life in the 21st Century”. As part of his worldwide Enlightened Moment tour, he will be coming to Dublin to speak on the subject of how we can empower ourselves to be the great figures of enlightenment we seek.
He explains: “The enlightened moment is always available. It is here now and closer to us than our own breath. As your birthright, it is divorced from our experience through our belief in fear and the sense of lack that characterises human life. Humanity is at a stage of collective evolution in which its most precious treasures are denied in the activities of delusion. The Divine state has been projected outward onto beings who are merely a creation of mind. These beings have been perceived sometimes to be at the center of some spiritual illumination—a Buddha field or Christ light phenomenon, for example—and this perpetuates the spiritual error that we are ourselves mortal, striving, seeking, and perpetually frustrated while the charisma, character, and enlightenment of others maintains our inferiority and subordinated position. You are yourself the enlightenment you seek.”
He and Paul will be discussing these powerful ideas and exploring how we can integrate them into our everyday lives.
Click here to get your tickets or email us at positivenights@gmail.com for more info!
Richard will also be leading an Irish weekend workshop as part of the Enlightened Moment tour in the Maldron Hotel, Southern Ring Road, Roxboro, Co. Limerick, from the 23rd to the 25th of February. Click here for more details. Richard’s website is therapyandspirituality.com.
Positive Nights Presents: Leopard Warrior – The Making of a traditional African/Irish Shaman
Facebook Page| Thursday, August 31st 2017, 7:30pm | Eur 20 / 15 euros concession | Location: The Powerscourt Theatre, Dublin 2.
We are very pleased to welcome John Lockley back to Positive Nights. He was a frequent speaker at Buddha Bag. John will be speaking about his new book, ‘Leopard Warrior’ and how he became one of the first white man in recent history to become a senior Xhosa Sangoma (traditional shaman) in the same tribe as Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
His book will be published by Sounds True alongside his audio teachings, ‘The way of the Leopard’, how to empower your spirit and follow your destiny. Join us for a night of stories, teachings and mystery!
We will have refreshing cold pressed juices at the break courtesy of Sisú
Click here to get your tickets or email us at positivenights@gmail.com for more information.
More about John
John’s story is a remarkable testament to the human spirit to survive adversity and trust in one’s dreams. His story started in Dublin in the 1950’s with is Mother, Anastasia Kelly’s vision of African elephants whilst walking the Dun Laoghaire peer. For the last 20 years he has worked alongside some of South Africa’s top diviners, healers and herbalists. Now over 60 years later he has returned bearing gifts of African indigenous technology in the form of storytelling, ancestral dreaming, divination, plant healing, trance dancing and shaking medicine, to name but a few. John is a specialist with dreams and clients are welcome to discuss theirs with him.
A Review for ‘Leopard Warrior’:
“Leopard Warrior is truly a remarkable account of the initiation of a white male in South Africa into becoming a sangoma. This is quite a sign to be entrusted with these deep ancestral mysteries. John Lockley shares a wealth of stories that will bring tears to your eyes as well as inspire you to want to learn more. The exercises he provides are simple yet transformative. This book is brilliant!”
Sandra Ingerman, MA
author of Soul Retrieval and Walking in Light:
The Everyday Empowerment of Shamanic Life
Positive Nights Presents: Leopard Warrior – The Making of a Traditional African/Irish Shaman
Facebook Page| Thursday, August 31st 2017, 7:30pm | Eur 20 / 15 euros concession | Location: The Powerscourt Theatre, Dublin 2.
We are very pleased to welcome John Lockley back to Positive Nights. He was a frequent speaker at Buddha Bag. John will be speaking about his new book, ‘Leopard Warrior’ and how he became one of the first white man in recent history to become a senior Xhosa Sangoma (traditional shaman) in the same tribe as Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
His book will be published by Sounds True alongside his audio teachings, ‘The way of the Leopard’, how to empower your spirit and follow your destiny. Join us for a night of stories, teachings and mystery!
We will have refreshing cold pressed juices at the break courtesy of Sisú
Click here to get your tickets or email us at positivenights@gmail.com for more information.
More about John
John’s story is a remarkable testament to the human spirit to survive adversity and trust in one’s dreams. His story started in Dublin in the 1950’s with is Mother, Anastasia Kelly’s vision of African elephants whilst walking the Dun Laoghaire peer. For the last 20 years he has worked alongside some of South Africa’s top diviners, healers and herbalists. Now over 60 years later he has returned bearing gifts of African indigenous technology in the form of storytelling, ancestral dreaming, divination, plant healing, trance dancing and shaking medicine, to name but a few. John is a specialist with dreams and clients are welcome to discuss theirs with him.
A Review for ‘Leopard Warrior’:
“Leopard Warrior is truly a remarkable account of the initiation of a white male in South Africa into becoming a sangoma. This is quite a sign to be entrusted with these deep ancestral mysteries. John Lockley shares a wealth of stories that will bring tears to your eyes as well as inspire you to want to learn more. The exercises he provides are simple yet transformative. This book is brilliant!”
Sandra Ingerman, MA
author of Soul Retrieval and Walking in Light:
The Everyday Empowerment of Shamanic Life
By: Aisling Cronin / Interviewer: Paul Congdon
Eckhart Tolle is a well-known writer and spiritual teacher, whose books ‘The Power of Now’ and ‘A New Earth’ have become seminal works within the field of self-development. Ahead of his planned appearance in Dublin in September, we heard about his thoughts on Jesus, his love of dogs, and his experiment with LSD.
Last time we spoke, you mentioned that you were writing a book on Jesus. How has that evolved and what are you currently working on?
I can’t say exactly when my writings are going to evolve into a book. There are many aspects of Jesus that are very important to understand: the actual person, the mythological figure, and the spiritual teacher, for example. However, I can say that Jesus’ teachings have more depth than, perhaps, many regular churchgoers realise. The essence of Jesus’ teachings is the transformation of human consciousness, and a recognition that there is a dysfunction within it. ‘Salvation’, in the terminology that he uses, is transcending the dysfunction that we inherit, which is sometimes referred to in Christianity as ‘Original Sin’. You can see that dysfunction clearly when you read history or watch the news tonight.
A lot has happened since we last spoke in 2015, and we have seen an increase in fear based politics in the USA and Britain. How can we navigate times like these?
The main thing is not to be drawn too much into reactivity, believing that the problem lies within individual people or groups. What we see on the news are movements of underlying unconsciousness that have to come to the surface to play themselves out. Unconsciousness always has to come to the surface. If it is not recognised within oneself, it is experienced as an outer event. The external world becomes a reflection of your inner world. This applies both to the individual and the collective. These events can definitely seem negative from one perspective, but seen from a higher spiritual perspective, they are necessary for the awakening of humanity.
Many people felt that the world was a kinder place at the time of Barack Obama’s inauguration, and that we have moved backwards since then. During the 1960s, a similar feeling of positivity and upward movement existed: a sense that peace really was coming. What is your feeling on this?
The evolution of consciousness is not a straight upward movement. It is cyclical, and always involves a regressive period. After a regressive period, you move forward again – further than you had done before. I believe that we are now experiencing a regressive movement, but not every individual alive now will be drawn into that movement. Those humans who are completely unconscious will have to go through that experience of suffering most strongly. Simply be as conscious as you can, and do not make any human being or group of human beings into ‘the enemy’. On social media, for example, you can see an enormous amount of reactivity and anger, so it is particularly important to bring the bright light of consciousness into all of your online interactions.
When you see someone close to you – perhaps a friend or family member – behave unconsciously, how best can you call that person out for their behaviour?
It is vital that when you do that, you yourself are free of reactivity or aggressiveness, and that you are not demonising the other person or making them ‘wrong’. You must communicate with the person while they are relatively conscious. All humans exhibit various degrees of unconsciousness at different times and in different ways, and it is a very delicate thing to point out to somebody that they have been behaving unconsciously. The most important thing is that you need to be totally present and conscious when you point it out … otherwise, you will be drawn into a fight.
When you had your spiritual awakening, you said that you had experienced an ’80% reduction’ in your thoughts. Has that level been maintained?
Oh yes. The most wonderful thing about that shift in consciousness – the transformation that I continue to experience every day – is that I am no longer tortured by my mind. For example, when I go to bed and I close my eyes, I can immediately dismiss all thought and simply be present in my body. There are also many times during the day when there is nothing much to think about, and I simply enjoy sensory experiences like looking out at the sky and the trees.
Do you spend a lot of time in nature?
Yes, I do. Here in Vancouver, I live in an apartment building right next to a nature spot. When I look out of the window right now, I see huge, wonderful trees, snowcapped mountains in the background, and a clear blue sky. It’s wonderful just to sit here and contemplate. I often go for walks in the forest or on the beach.
We’ve heard that you are a huge fan of dogs. Do you have a dog who accompanies you on those nature walks?
At the moment, I do not have a dog, but sometimes I look after other people’s dogs. I do love their wonderful rootedness – how they are so firmly centred in the present moment – and the joy they exhibit. A dog does not constantly ask themselves, “Do I love myself? Do I hate myself? Do I have a complicated relationship with myself?” A dog just is. Animals are conscious, but do not have a stream of conceptual thought running through their heads all the time. They haven’t arrived at thinking yet, and they are still more rooted in being. Once humans transcend the level of thought, we return to that state, but with an added dimension of awareness that the dog does not have. However, it is true to say that for many people, their cat or dog keeps them sane, as they simply accept them the way they are, without interference from the conceptual, judgemental mind.
Recently in the spiritual community, there has been a lot of talk about plant medicine. Do you see it as a road to enlightenment?
I don’t see it as a road to true and lasting awakening, but it can give people a glimpse of freedom from the prison of their conceptual mind. Years ago, I was asked a lot of questions about LSD and acid, so I tried acid because I couldn’t really answer the questions if I didn’t! I’ve never felt the desire to repeat that experience, but I could see that for some people, the enormous amplification of sensory experience – as if somebody had ‘turned up the volume’, not only on hearing but also on smell and colour – would give them very little room for compulsive thought. The use of plant medicine can be an opening for some people, but ultimately, from there, you have to go to ‘presence practice’ in your daily life, and not be dependent on any substance.
What is your advice for people who want to bring themselves into the present moment?
Don’t wait for some imagined future state of liberation or awakening that you want to achieve. Simply accept what is, in the present moment. Accept each moment as if you had chosen it, and then you will already be liberated. You will already be awakened. There is nothing to look for anymore.
What advice would you give to parents on how to help their children?
The most important thing is to give them attention. Much of the time, when parents think they are giving attention to their children, they are doing so through the medium of ‘do this’ or ‘don’t do that’. Giving attention means to look at a child and to listen: to truly be present and communicate with that child. Give your child the gift of your presence. In that way, your essence will reach the child’s essence, and they will feel truly recognised.
Eckhart Tolle will be speaking in Dublin on September 9th in the RDS, Ballsbridge, Dublin. For more information about the talk, go to: seminars.ie
May 1st saw the release of Kryon’s new book, entitled ‘The New Human’. We meet with Lee Carroll, channeller of Kryon, to find out more about how he and Kryon formed their partnership, and about the support they offer to human beings awakening to the unfolding shifts in consciousness.
By Alison McEvoy
How did channelling come into your experience?
As an engineer, I was married to a woman who was very esoteric. What happened gradually, is that she ended up taking me to a channeller, to a psychic. I said no, I did not want to go, but I did, for her. They gave me some information which I didn’t believe, and I didn’t even keep track of. Except, there was one phrase that kept coming up – “There is a magnetic master named Kryon who tried to get hold of you.” A man in his sixties and a man in his twenties, three years apart, and who didn’t even know each other, gave me the same phrase. That engineering brain in me says – this is impossible. Finally, I had to acknowledge that there was something going on.
Who is Kryon?
Kryon is an angelic, celestial being who gives powerful, comfortable, benevolent, loving messages, about the times that are changing.
Why does Kyron say that he’s of ‘magnetic service’?
There is an alignment between the magnetic field of the planet and consciousness. We have to have the magnetic grid on the planet shift in order to allow for new consciousness. And it did. That was something that Kryon said would happen. So he’s in service to humanity, that’s the first thing, for the shift.
What is Kyron’s most powerful teaching to share with our readers?
We’re born magnificent. Humans have a soul, and that soul belongs to God. Over and over, he says – you are a piece of God… We have to then take our magnificence and believe it. That’s a tough one, because we are taught that we’re less than, so truly the teaching is for us to recognise that we can do things that we didn’t think we could do.
How do you feel about being in Ireland?
Kryon says there’s a natural alignment of numbers and grids on the planet, and there are specific places like the Bermuda triangle, and here, where those grids are abnormal. When you get those kinds of places…I feel Gaia, the earth, just pours out energy, and it’s benevolent. Of all the traditions in mythology of little people, fairies and all these things, you find them almost always cheerful, benevolent, mischievous, happy, wanting to show you things…You’ve got benevolence here, and I feel it.
What closing message do you have for our readers today?
Kryon says if you look at the prophecies of the shift and what’s going on from the ancients – we’re so new at it. We’re going to go through ‘a couple of steps forward, a couple of steps backward’. It’s not all going to be roses. There’s going to be lots of learning, and there’s lots of humanity that doesn’t want to change….I want people not to fear the future, no matter what happens. So, in other words, it’s common for us all to be afraid of what we don’t understand, especially if it is not in the program that we thought it would be. So what’s happening here, what’s happening in my country, there are so many people that are invested in stopping whatever is happening, or fearing whatever is happening and all that energy is pouring into soul anxiety. What Kryon has said is, let’s get used to change, and be wiser with understanding that it’s not all bad. It’s going to change institutions, everything. The way they think, what they do.