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July 2010

Talks and Workshops

Friday, 7/30

Simplification: Psychically, Spiritually and Physically with Donna Spring Gulick

Friday, 8/13

Film: Something Unknown is Doing We Don't Know What

Saturday, 8/14

Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) Workshop
- A Universal Healing Aid with Pat & Tom Connolly

Friday, 8/20

A New Approach to Grieving - The Role of After-Death Communication (ADC) in Grief by Beth Wechsler

Friday, Saturday & Sunday 9/24, 25 & 26

Talk- Reflections of a Psi Traveler and Workshop, The Art of Psi: ESP, Remote Viewing and Precognitive Dreaming with Dale E. Graff

Friday, 10/8

The Extraordinary Experiences of the Bereaved; Clinical and Practical Applications with Lou LeGrand

Ongoing Programs

1st Tuesdays 08/03

Monthly Psychic Experiences Group

2nd Wednesdays 08/11

Monthly Remote Viewing Group

8 week course Thursdays
9/9 to 11/04

The World of the Paranormal
with Phil Morse

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Simplification: Psychically, Spiritually and Physically
By Donna Spring Gulick

Friday Evening Talk: July 30, 2010
7:30-9:00 pm
Stedman Auditorium Duke Center for Living Campus
(The air conditioning in the Stedman can be very cold sometimes. You are advised to bring a sweater.)

Donna Spring Gulick, a popular speaker and workshop leader at the Rhine, is returning for one of our interactive Friday evenings. Slightly less than a year ago, Donna and her husband Dave simplified their possessions, their domain and their lives by selling their home, giving away or selling most of what they owned and transitioning to full-time RVing. Working part time from "the road," they still find themselves to be students of true simplicity, with much learned and much still to integrate and practice.

Donna will share techniques to simplify your psychic sponge experiences - the ones that mean you sopped up whatever was oozing around you. She'll help you to simply remain in your own energy instead of being buffeted by the energies of the world. She'll help you release energies of chaos; receive only those messages that are for your highest good and the highest good of all; and assist you in letting go of what you no longer need. All that..... SIMPLY.

Spiritual simplification is an individual journey, though it often threatens to become the path of paraphernalia, and even its wonderful tools and techniques can threaten to overwhelm us. Donna will invite all of us to return to simplification in Spirit.

Physical simplification involves our bodies, our possessions, our trivia, our mental overcrowding (the brain is physical too), and our cluttered spaces. Donna's hints, sharings, insights and amusing anecdotes will inspire us all. Donna welcomes questions and responds from experience and Guidance.

Through 26 years of serving as a psychic, medium, spiritual counselor, mentor, speaker, author and workshop leader, Donna has enchanted audiences with her enthusiastic authenticity and inspired them with her stories. She began spiritual teaching in her teens, followed by college and grad school in Speech Pathology, and a decade in that field, before becoming the intuitive guide she is now. A quarter of a century later, even after the major change of no house, fewer possessions, fewer responsibilities, she'll laughingly tell you, Simplicity is an inside job. We're all in the "Choose Simple Grad School" together. We need to be. The consciousness changes that are happening now, and in the near future, require space to evolve.

Rhine Members $10
Non-Members $15

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Something Unknown is Doing We Don't Know What...
A Renée Scheltema Film

Friday, August 13, 2010
7:30 to 9 pm
Stedman Auditorium Duke Center for Living Campus
(The air conditioning in the Stedman can be very cold sometimes. You are advised to bring a sweater.)

"Something Unknown.... is frankly one of the most artistic, comprehensive, beautiful, clear, fair and visionary documentaries on parapsychology and spirituality I have ever seen...." - Dr Gary E. Schwartz, Ph.D., Prof. of Psychology at The University of Arizona

"This is probably the best educational film on parapsychology and its implications that has ever been made. If you want to see and hear many of the most creative scientists doing research in this area and find out what we know, I can’t recommend this film more highly! " - Charles T. Tart, Ph.D., Prof. Em. Psychology, UC Davis, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, and Author

"Something Unknown is Doing We Don't Know What" is a moving story of a woman's spiritual journey to uncover the science of psychic experience. Under the guidance of Dr. Charles Tart, her journey explores and answers many questions about psychic and paranormal phenomena. Dutch filmmaker Renee Scheltema goes straight to the scientists, psychics and healers for straight answers about psychic and paranormal experiences:

Can we predict the future?
Can our thoughts and intentions affect the physical world?
Can we be spontaneously healed?
Are we “mysteriously” connected?

The film documents evidence that the mind can affect matter. It demystifies psychic and paranormal experiences and presents rare glimpses into laboratory experiments, spiritual healings and declassified government archives. “Something Unknown” reveals scientific evidence that consciousness can influence the physical world. It uncovers decades of pioneering research conducted by governments, universities, and independent scientists to explore quantum physics principles that indicate humans are interconnected and have extended capacities of consciousness that transcend time and space.

“Something Unknown Is Doing We Don’t Know What,” which takes its title from the uncertainty principle of modern physics, explores the big 5 of psychic phenomena: Telepathy, Precognition, Remote Viewing, Telekinesis (or Psycho Kinesis) and Spiritual Healing. Participants in the film include Charles Tart, University of California Professor emeritus of psychology; Dr. Gary Schwartz, University of Arizona Professor of psychology; Parapsychologist and noetic scientist Dr. Dean Radin; British biologist Dr. Rupert Sheldrake; and Dr. Roger Nelson of the Global Consciousness Project. Renee also collects anecdotes from experts within their fields, such as Apollo astronaut Dr Edgar Mitchell, Dr. Larry Dossey, a physician, writer and spiritual healing advocate, Psychic detective Nancy Myer, mind-body-spirit author Arielle Ford, internationally known healer, Dr. Eric Pearl, and intuitive Catherine Yunt.

The film also investigates, the power of healing, remote viewing, psychic archaeology, faith healing, Random Number Generators, psychic detective work, therapeutic touch, mind reading. Woven with intriguing personal accounts and video excerpts of laboratory experiments, Scheltema’s quest concludes with a new understanding that science and spirituality may not be mutually exclusive.

Rhine Members $10
Non-Members $15

Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) Workshop
- A Universal Healing Aid
with Pat and Tom Connolly

Saturday, August 14,
10:00 am to 2:30 pm
Alex Tanous Library in the Rhine Center

Through the use of guided experiential instruction, including lecture, case studies, and hands on experience, this workshop will provide you an introduction to the fundamentals of EFT and the opportunity to try the technique and
experiment with it on yourself. You will witness and participate in practice demonstrations, that will enable you to acquire real, immediately useful, and repeatable skills for your life. Participants typically experience, and recognize
immediate progress and achievement throughout the workshop.

Based on the ancient principles of acupuncture, EFT is a simple tapping procedure that gently realigns the body's energy system, without the use of needles. Unlike other energy healing methods, EFT incorporates an emotional
element to the healing process, addressing unresolved emotional issues as a likely cause of physical disease, psychological dysfunction, and personal performance limits.

Tapping is an easy, but effective technique that you can learn within a short time and use to apply relief to stressful situations. Negative emotional experiences disrupt the energy meridians that run through our body. The physical changes we feel from those disruptions, like nausea or anxiety, become attached to the memory of that experience and affect the way we see the world --- until we heal that disruption. Properly applied, EFT quickly realigns the energy meridians with respect to negative memories, disconnects the physical discomfort that we attached to it, and quite often removes the resulting symptoms.

Your instructors, Pat and Tom Connolly, have found EFT to be tremendously powerful, and have been so encouraged by their success with it, to try it on just about everything. It is a new relaxation and calming technique that: modifies the anxiety response, fosters body awareness and enables deeper and more positive cognitive shifts. As we have said, it is an emotional version of acupuncture without the needles. It is like talk therapy with the advantage that it allows us to get to the issues faster and resolve them more thoroughly.

Pat Connolly holds a Masters in Social Work from Fordham University, and is a Professional Health Coach and graduate of the Duke Integrative Medicine Center. She has previously held a number of positions in the New York State Criminal Justice System, and has taught Criminal Justice and Self Hypnosis at Marist College in New York, where she also worked as a therapist with private clients. At present, Pat leads Yoga, Creativity and Spirituality Retreats twice a year, and teaches Yoga and Optimum Wellness for the UNC Wellness Center and the Town of Cary.

Tom is a graduate of Marist College. Until his retirement from IBM, he was responsible as Program Manager for Technical Communications, Human Factors, and Industrial Design. Following his IBM career, he served as Director of
Employee Development and Consulting services Management, for Sykes Enterprises. Tom is the immediate past President of the Board of Directors for the Rhine Research Center. Pat and Tom, recently lectured and presented a workshop on EFT at the Spring and Fall conferences of the North Carolina Chapter of the National Association of
Social Workers. They also teach at the UNC Friday Center in Chapel Hill.

Members $60.00
Non-members $75.00

A New Approach to Grieving - The Role of After-Death Communication (ADC) in Grief
by Beth Wechsler

Friday August 20, 2010
a talk 7:30-9pm
Stedman Auditorium Duke Center for Living Campus
(The air conditioning in the Stedman can be very cold sometimes. You are advised to bring a sweater.)

If someone you love has died, are you experiencing deep and painful feelings of loss and disconnection?

More than half of widows says that they have seen, smelled, heard the voice of, or experienced a "sign" from someone who has died. The experience dramatically softens grief. In addition to talking about mediums, this program will also introduce the work of Allan Botkin, PsyD in Induced After Death Communication. ADCs may happen spontaneously, but they can often be accessed in two other ways. The first is through a talented medium. In addition, a small but growing number of licensed psychotherapists have been trained in Induced After Death Therapy by Allan Botkin, Psy.D.

This 90-minute presentation on the ADC experience will explain what is involved in recognizing and finding a talented medium and will also provide an introduction to Induced After Death Therapy.

Beth Wechsler, MSW, LICSW is a psychotherapist in private practice in Massachusetts. She has presented on the role of psychic experiences in clinical care in more than 30 cities, as well as at the Rhine Research Center in 2009 where her program was extremely popular. Beth, whose work is on the leading edge of bringing PSI experiences back into healthcare, is the author of Psychic Moments Coming to Our Senses.

This presentation will be of interest to both clinicians and the public.

Rhine Members $10
Non-Members $15

Seeing the Surround: Aura Visions and Aura Viewers, a talk by parapsychologists Nancy Zingrone. Ph.D. and Carlos Alvarado Ph.D.

Friday September 10, 2010
a talk 7:30-9pm
Stedman Auditorium Duke Center for Living Campus

Aura vision seems to be all around us – the guy with the “special camera” at the mall, almost every psychic and medium offering aura reading services – but in reality aura vision is reported less often than any other type of psychic experience. Aura vision is a kind of orphan phenomena in parapsychology as well, being the object of systematic research less often than waking or dream ESP, than out-of-body and near-death experiences, than any type of psychic phenomena, in fact. Drs. Carlos S. Alvarado and Nancy L. Zingrone have been interested in aura vision and the type of people who report the experience for several decades. Starting with a small study conducted in Durham with volunteers from the Perkins Library staff, they have included aura vision questions in all of the survey research they have conducted over the last many years. Facts, figures, illustrations,lots of discussion and there will be plenty of time for questions, reports of auras, etc! Join us!

Nancy L. Zingrone has a PhD in psychology (University of Edinburgh), obtained doctoral candidacy in history (Duke University), an MSEd in community college education with a teaching specialty in psychology (Northern Illinois University), and a BA in psychology (Mundelein College). Active with the Parapsychological Association for more than twenty years including two terms as President, she was a first a Research Fellow and then a Visiting Scholar and Summer Study Program instructor at the Rhine Research Center from 1982 through 1993. Currently, she holds a joint appointment, as the Director of Academic Affairs at Atlantic University and as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Research in the Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Science at the University of Virginia.

Carlos S. Alvarado, Ph.D. has a Ph.D. in psychology (University of Edinburgh), an MA in history (Duke University), an MS degree in parapsychology (John F. Kennedy University), and a BA in psychology (University of Puerto Rico). Currently he holds three appointments, as the Scholar in Residence at Atlantic University, as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Research in the Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Science at the University of Virginia, and as Adjunct Faculty at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. He is on the editorial boards of Advances in Parapsychological Research, the Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, and is Associate Editor of the Journal of Scientific Exploration.

Rhine Members $10
Non-Members $15

Reflections of a Psi Traveler
By Dale E. Graff, M.S. Physics

Friday September 24, 2010
a talk 7:30-9pm
Stedman Auditorium Duke Center for Living Campus

Listen, learn and interact with one of our field’s most innovative psi travelers!!

Our intuitions, hunches or premonitions that are unexplainable by conventional standards may reflect extrasensory perception. Dale will review a variety of these psi experiences that occur in the form of telepathy, remote viewing or precognition from his own independent investigations and personal observations.

Dale will describes highlights of his odyssey through the psi field; some early troubling experiences and some later events that were potentially life threatening. These experiences led him into formal psi research involving the Stanford Research Institute’s remote viewing activity and eventually as the Director of the well-known US government’s STARGATE program He will also share observations from recent waking and dream-state projects that involved colleagues at thousand mile distances and make use of future newspaper photographs as targets..

The audience will be encouraged to further their own journey as psi travelers and to explore their natural psi talents to enhance the effectiveness and well-being of themselves and others. This presentation will provide an opportunity to gain insight into our psi potential and to learn how psi can be uncovered to be an ever-ready partner whether we are awake or are asleep and dreaming.

Interactive dialogue is encouraged during and after this talk, and questions about the Saturday workshop will be welcome..

Rhine Members $10
Non-Members $15

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The Art of Psi: ESP, Remote Viewing and Precognitive Dreaming
with Dale E. Graff M.S. Physics

Saturday September 25, 2010 a workshop 9-5pm
Sunday September 26, 2010 10-12 noon Coffee & discussion of dream results
Alex Tanous Library in the Rhine Center

Curious about Remote Viewing of present-time situations or Precognitive Dreams about future situations?? Then join author and psi traveler Dale E. Graff on a creative adventure that explores how these two basic psi abilities can be routinely integrated into your personal and professional life.

In the intensive workshop you will learn:
• Methods for enhancing your natural intuition and psi talents in either the awake state or the dream state.
• How to routinely receive assistance from your intuitive/psi talents.
• How to work with and understand ordinary dreams.
• How to evaluate or interpret suspected psi information.
• When to act on psi information and when not to act.
• How to communicate psi topics with others.
• How activating your psi potential can enhance your well-being.
• How psi experiences can be understood as a natural part of physical and mental reality.

A variety of illustrative examples show how these abilities can be helpful for you, your loved ones, or for others. Some of these examples are from Dale’s professional work during the STARGATE program and some from his independent research and personal experiences. Attendees are invited to share their psi experiences to better understand their significance.
These natural mental talents are explored from a conscious/subconscious connectivity principle, from a science viewpoint and from an historical perspective. The link between psi, art and other forms of creativity are examined, and Dale shows how psi can be an aspect of holistic healing potentials. The viewpoint of critics that question the reality of psi will be addressed.

Dale E Graff

This workshop has an equal mix of dialogue and experiential projects in intuition, ESP and remote viewing.

Dale is a strong advocate of maintaining physical and psychological harmony in all aspects of life and believes that a close connection with nature helps us achieve this naturally. He also believes that our psi potential can help us keep safe in an increasingly unsafe world.

An optional psi or precognitive dream exercise will be available for Saturday night, and will be the subject of the optional Sunday session.

This is a challenging, informative and enlightening workshop. Attend this workshop to expand your mental horizons!
Website: D ale Graff

Members $100
Nonmembers $125
Workshop cost includes Friday night talk
Space limited to 25

The Extraordinary Experiences of the Bereaved; Clinical and Practical Applications with Lou LeGrand

Friday October 8, 2010
a talk 7:30-9:30pm
Stedman Auditorium Duke Center for Living Campus
(The air conditioning in the Stedman can be very cold sometimes. You are advised to bring a sweater.)

The Extraordinary Experiences (EEs) of the Bereaved, often referred to as after-death communication are defined as events in which the mourner believes he or she has received a sign or message from the deceased loved one, or a divine being. Psi phenomena has historically played a major role in how individuals have coped with the deaths of loved ones, established a new relationship with the deceased, and become a turning point for reinvesting in life.

In this presentation Dr. LaGrand focuses on how the Extraordinary Experiences can be used by mourners, or suggested by support persons, as a significant way to deal with the many changes involved in adjusting to the physical absence of the loved one. It will also explore the power of memory in assisting the bereaved to capitalize on the potential of the EE to honor the loved one, help find meaning in death, and strengthen belief in an afterlife. Normalizing these experiences can have a major positive impact on the mourner and the course of his/her grief work. These results develop from embracing a powerful belief that love and the relationship live on, albeit in the form of loving in separation.

Louis E. LaGrand, Ph.D., is Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the State University of New York and Adjunct Professor of Health Careers at the Eastern Campus of Suffolk Community College in Riverhead, New York. He was a member of the debriefing team for the Nassau County Medical Examiner’s office on the TWA Flight 800 disaster, a former member of the Board of Directors of the Association for Death Education and Counseling, and a founder and past-president of Hospice of St. Lawrence Valley.

The author of eight books and numerous articles, he is known world-wide for his research on the Extraordinary Experiences of the bereaved (After-Death Communication phenomena). His first two books on the subject of the extraordinary have been translated into several languages. Messages and Miracles: The Extraordinary Experiences of the Bereaved is listed in the 100 Top Bestsellers for Counseling by the Online Dictionary of Mental Health. Love Lives On: Learning from the Extraordinary Encounters of the Bereaved, his latest book, was published in an eBook edition in June 2009 by Berkley Books, a division of Penguin.

He has appeared on numerous radio and TV shows throughout the country including Unsolved Mysteries, Art Bell Coast to Coast, and Strange Universe. With over 30 years of counseling the bereaved, he is an international speaker who gives workshops on death-related topics in schools, hospices, and health agencies in the US, Canada, and England. His website is http://www.extraordinarygriefexperiences.com/

On Going Programs

Monthly Psychic Experiences Group
(PEG) sharing and discussion around personal experiences

Ongoing: Every first Tuesday of the month
August 3rd
7:00 -9:00 PM
Alex Tanous Library in the Rhine Center

There is an open discussion group that meets at the Alex Tanous Library in the Rhine Center. As an informal group, participants share personal experiences involving psi (experiences outside our ordinary daily lives). At times, various topics may unfold, but the evening always begins with the sharing of experiences. We honor participants' privacy for their stories outside the meetings. Facilitators are Pamela St. John and Debi Pratt. For questions or information, please contact: Pamela St. John, or call (919) 929-1578

Rhine Members: Free
Non-members: $10.00

Monthly Remote Viewing Group
led by Benton Bogle

Ongoing: Every second Wednesday of the month
Next meeting August 11, 2010
7:00 -9:00 PM
Alex Tanous Library in the Rhine Center

Interested in Remote Viewing Practice?
The Remote Viewing Practice Group meets regularly at the Rhine Center to do outbounder and other types of Remote Viewing that involve interaction. It is not be necessary to be trained as a Remote Viewer or to follow a particular method to participate. If you are interested in practicing Remote Viewing as a part of a small group of viewers and / or have questions, please contact Benton Bogle by email at bbogle@triad.rr.com.

Members free
Non members $10.00

The World of the Paranormal
with Phil Morse
an 9 week course in parapsychology
Back by Popular Demand!

Thursdays at 6:30 - 8:30 pm
September 9th through November 4th, 2010
Alex Tanous Library in the Rhine Center

One of the great, continuing mysteries of our time is the world of the paranormal. When people can apparently communicate with one another without words, when the form of a deceased loved one suddenly appears without warning, when otherwise sane, upstanding parents have a young child who begins to speak of a previous life which seemingly proves to be true, we are dealing with events which can often be incomprehensible and unsettling.
Sponsored by the Rhine Research Center in Durham, NC, Dr. Phil Morse will teach a course describing the areas of ESP, remote viewing, ghosts and poltergeists, near death experiences, mediums and channelers, and reincarnation together with some of the most compelling cases in each instance.

Participants will have an opportunity to ask about and discuss what they see and read about, share their own experiences, and be able to express what they think are possible explanations. We shall conclude by examining some of the latest attempts by quantum physicists to integrate both the paranormal and their own world into a grand design which they hope will ultimately explain what continues to be an elusive and mysterious realm.

For More Information About the Class

Dr. Phil Morse

Dr. Philip S. Morse is a professor emeritus at the State University of New York at Fredonia where he taught in the School of Education for thirty years. During that time, he was a visiting scholar at the Graduate School of Education at Harvard University and the University of California at Berkeley. He was also an adjunct professor at Cornell University.

Conducting more than one hundred presentations to international assemblies, national and state conferences, and local organizations, schools and interest groups, Dr. Morse is the author of numerous articles including one entitled “Nonlocal Consciousness: What Is It and How Does It Relate to Psychic Phenomena?” (InnerChange Magazine, Fall, 2006). He is the author or co-author of five books and has been listed in Who’s Who in American Education, Men of Achievement, and Outstanding Americans.

Dr. Morse has served on the Board of Directors of the Rhine Research Center and was the co-chair of the 2006 conference sponsored by the center entitled, “After Death: What Do We Know?” He taught a course on the paranormal at Duke University in the fall of 2009. For further bio information, go to www.anteaterbooks.com.

Comments after last session:
"I thought it was all well done---so many great topics---I would have been thrilled for the class to keep going a few more weeks."

"The overview of so many aspects of the paranormal was thorough. I feel like I learned a lot, even though I have been studying this topic for over 30 years."

"Very worthwhile."

We currently have a wonderful display of art works by Vandorn Hinnant in the Alex Tanous Library. If you get a chance please stop by to enjoy it.

This geometry, experienced through the senses, resonates with the underlying energetic substructures residing in and around each of us, and has the potential of activating the often dormant awareness we walk with of universal order, and the indwelling love, beauty, and grace of soul. -- Vandorn Hinnant May 2007 Lightweavings

More Upcoming Programs

October: Gary Schwartz PhD on his new book on THE SACRED PROMISE - How Science is Discovering
Spirit's Collaboration with Us in Our Daily Lives.

October: Pam Heath MD on her new book Mind-Matter Interactions

October: Carol Krucoff will hold a Yoga Discussion & Workshop in the Tanous Library. Her newest book, Healing Yoga for Neck & Shoulder Pain, will be published in May, 2010. Yoga for Neck Pain Website