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Debt: The First 5,000 Years with David Graeber
Jan 30 2012 - Jan 31 2012The anthropologist David Graeber has a strong claim to being the house theorist of Occupy Wall Street. A veteran of the antiglobalization uprisings in Seattle and Genoa, he helped orchestrate the first “General Assembly” in New York this summer, and has since become one of the movement’s most outspoken defenders.
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Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find-and Keep-Love with Amir Levine and Rachel Heller
Feb 10 2012 - Feb 11 2012In their provocative work, the authors share revelatory findings from studies done on adult attachment and debunk many of the relationship myths by which we live, date, and mate.
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The Enneagram of Nonduality with Helen Palmer
Feb 16 2012 - Feb 17 2012The Enneagram specifies an interface between our personal story and the deeper realities produced by spiritual practice.
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Grieving and Ritual with Sobonfu Some
Feb 17 2012 - Feb 18 2012There is a need to periodically feel and express grief in order to purge the soul from hurts and pains.
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The Art of Spiritual Memoir
Feb 24 2012 - Feb 25 2012Spiritual memoir is where your outer life meets your inner world. It uses the raw material of your life story to reveal the deeper intelligence of your inner journey
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The Relevance of the Body in Accessing the Unconscious: Rosen Method Bodywork with Marion Rosen and Sara Webb
Mar 2 2012 - Mar 3 2012Marion Rosen has a unique ability to decipher body language to see through the outer layers of a person into the innermost working of the human heart...
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Filosofía Caribena: Music as Identity and Resistance with John Santos
Mar 9 2012 - Mar 10 2012The Creole nature of Latin jazz, and Caribbean culture in general, are in many ways templates for diversity, respect, and understanding for the entire planet. It tells an urgent story that is a beautiful testament to human perseverance, but it is not a pretty story....
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Bending Towards Justice: Exploring Individual and Social Transformation
Mar 9 2012 - Mar 10 2012Social Justice Lecture Series
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Love, InshAllah: The Secret Love Lives of American Muslim Women with Ayesha Mattu and Nura Maznavi
Mar 26 2012 - Mar 27 2012In the groundbreaking book, Love, InshAllah: The Secret Love Lives of American Muslim Women, 25 writers sweep aside stereotypes to share their real-life romances, showing just how varied the search for love can be
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Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome with Joy DeGruy
Mar 29 2012 - Mar 30 2012DeGruy authored the book Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Enduring Legacy of Injury and Healing, which addresses the residual impacts of trauma on African Descendants in the Americas.
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Trees and Tree People: Greening Ourselves, Saving the Planet with Jean Shinoda Bolen
Mar 30 2012 - Mar 31 2012The learning experience that led to this talk and Jean Shinoda Bolen's latest book, Like a Tree: How Trees, Women, and Tree People Can Save the Planet, began when a huge, beautiful tree in front of her house was cut down through a vote by a homeowner's association...
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Hard Words of Struggle: The Role of Literature and Art in the Quest for Justice and Democracy with Keorapetse Kgositsile
Apr 7 2012 - Apr 8 2012Keorapetse William Kgositsile is a South African poet and political activist, and was an influential member of the African National Congress in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Food Justice: Building Local Systems to Nourish Communities with Nikki Henderson
Apr 13 2012 - Apr 14 2012Nikki Henderson is an extraordinary leader with a vision for how food and urban farming can be tools of empowerment.
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Gates of Dharma: The Emerging World and Its New Economy with Rick Jarow
May 4 2012 - May 5 2012Rick Jarow, author and pioneer of the anti-career movement, looks at the emerging world of manifestation and its new economy...
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