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Infinity Foundation is the Chicago area's leading
holistic education center. Infinity offers Courses For
Life, providing you with experiential courses in personal,
professional, and spiritual growth to enhance your life.
Whether you are at the entry level to the vast world of holistic
education, health and healing or seeking advanced training and
certification, we are here to serve you. You are invited to attend
our courses and free mini-workshops.
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Infinity Foundation Named Best
Place for Lifelong Learning Classes and Best Place for
Meditation.

2012 Infinity Foundation
Spirit Award Recipient
The question of how you can know what choices to make today and
for your future remains at the heart of who you are. Today, much of
the way you live your life, think about the world, and solve your
problems is based in core beliefs of an outdated science. From
Newton's view of the universe as a machine to Darwin's survival of
the fittest, for nearly 300 years the ideas of science have formed
the foundation of the modern world. It is during this same period
of time that the world has found itself facing the greatest crises
of war, suffering, and disease in recorded history.
In this compelling new work, bestselling author and visionary
scientist Gregg Braden explores many of the hottest issues at the
core of our great social divisions-seemingly separate issues such
as abortion, suicide, right-to-die and the death penalty, war,
terrorism, genocide, poverty, abuse, economic collapse, and nuclear
proliferation-are actually related. They all stem from the false
assumptions of science that have compromised core human values and
have brought us to the brink of disaster resulting in the loss of
all that we cherish as a civilization.
Deep truth reveals new discoveries that will forever change the
way you think of yourself. Knowing who you are, where you are in
the cycle of civilization and nature, and learning from the
mistakes of past civilizations is the key to surviving the crises
facing us today. The best science of this time, when it is married
to the wisdom of the past, confirms that you still have ways to
shift this time of crises into a time of emergence. You can be part
of creating a new world based upon actionable and sustainable
principles at the core understanding of your deepest truths.
Through a powerful synthesis of easy-to-understand science and the
wisdom traditions of the past, explore the deep truths at the root
of humankind's greatest threats. Make new discoveries that hold the
key to life-affirming changes you can make in your personal life
collectively in your family, community, and in the world. Be part
of the wake-up call about ideas that now threaten our existence. Be
a vehicle to spotlight the lifesaving discoveries that give meaning
and hope for the new world that is emerging before your eyes.
Course 113154
Date Saturday, May 19
Time 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM, lunch included
Cost $120/110 payment 10 days in advance
Place Highland Park Country Club, FREE parking
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Equanimity is a spacious stillness of mind that allows you to be
with things as they simply are. It does not imply indifference,
however. Rather, when equanimity is present, it is the ground out
of which sustained transformation can occur. It is also the
foundation for the boundless arising of other qualities of the mind
and heart, such as lovingkindness, compassion, and sympathetic
joy-joy in the happiness of others. The predominant tone of
equanimity is one of calm. Be fully connected to whatever is
happening around you. Fully connect to others without habitual
reactions of careening toward what is pleasant and pulling away
from what is unpleasant. Without equanimity, you might offer
friendship only as long as your offering is acknowledged and
appreciated, or as long as someone responds in kind. You would
offer compassion to yourself only when you were not overcome by
pain and compassion to others only when you were not overcome by
their suffering. You would offer sympathetic joy only when you did
not feel threatened or envious. Cultivate equanimity and your
tremendous capacity to connect can blossom-for you do not have to
push away or cling to anything that may happen.
Sometimes in teaching meditation we say, "Sit like a mountain. Sit
with a sense of strength and dignity. Be steadfast, be majestic, be
natural and at ease in awareness. No matter how many winds are
blowing, no matter how many clouds are swirling, no matter how many
lions are prowling, be intimate with everything and sit like a
mountain." This is an image of equanimity. We feel everything,
without exception, and we relate to it through our own strength of
awareness, not through habitual reactions.
Equanimity's strength derives from a combination of understanding
and trust. It is based on understanding that the conflict and
frustration you feel when you can't control the world does not come
from your inability to do so, but rather from the fact that you are
trying to control the uncontrollable. You know better than to try
to prevent the seasons from changing or the tide from coming in.
Following autumn, winter comes. You may not prefer it, but you
trust it because you understand and accept its rightful place in a
larger cycle, the bigger picture. Apply the same wise balance to
the cycles and tides of pleasant, unpleasant, and neutral
experiences in your life through guided meditations, talks, and
Q&A periods to explore the practice of equanimity. Go deep into
the practice and find equanimity:
- Through mindfulness
- Alongside lovingkindness and compassion for yourself and
others
- By reducing the stress of daily life
- In deep peace meditations
As you begin to understand and practice equanimity, you move
from a mode of struggling to control what comes into your life a
mode of simply wishing to truly connect with what is. This is a
radical shift in worldview. Be part of it. This retreat is suitable
for both new and experienced meditators.
Ram Dass, bestselling author of
Be Here Now and many other books, will join Sharon
Salbzerg via live streaming, health permitting, on Saturday night
for an interactive dialogue.

Course 123146
Date Saturday, June 23 and Sunday, June 24
Time 10:00 AM - 4:30 PM, Sat. night optional Q & A 7:00 - 900
PM
Cost $300/275 by May 23
Place Techny Towers, 2001 Waukegan Rd., near Northbrook, IL
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Each day offers miracles. You do not have to spend 20 years on a
mountaintop in Tibet to become enlightened. It is in the everyday
experiences and how you interpret them that lead you to be
spiritually awake.
Join Gary Renard, world acclaimed teacher of A Course in
Miracles (ACIM), and bestselling author of The Disappearance of the
Universe and Your Immortal Reality, in a practical application
using the Manual for Teachers in A Course In Miracles to open you
up to look at everything differently. Through guided meditations,
interactive exercises, along with question and answer sessions,
take the opportunity to apply the ACIM concepts and make them real.
Take specific aspects of your life experience and transform them
with new perceptions. Through group discussion and working with
partners, heal perceptions you have held as you enter into the
spiritual realm of understanding. Deepen different levels of
relationships as you relate differently to those around you.
Determine the choice of changing your perceptions and how you view
and interpret your life. Be prepared for the loving actions to move
you out of stuck places into grace.
Enter into the new cycle of life along with the new cycle that
2012 is bringing. Practice true forgiveness and apply it in your
everyday life with yourself and others. Discern the voice of your
ego as it opens to the voice of the Holy Spirit. By using the
teachings from ACIM your life becomes joyful, filled with grace,
and steadfast.
Course 123147
Date Saturday, July 21 and Sunday, July 22
Time 10:00 AM - 4:30 PM, Sat. night optional Q & A 7:00 - 900
PM
Cost $300/275 by June 22
Place Techny Towers, 2001 Waukegan Rd., near Northbrook, IL
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There is more to the universe than meets the eye. Just beyond
the veil of normal reality there is a vast realm of Spirit. It is
simply a matter of knowing how to step in through to the other
side. In this deeply empowering retreat, safety travel through
mystic portals to activate the shamanic ability to shape-shift,
journey into your dreams, find your true name, and discover past
lives. Denise Linn, bestselling author of Sacred Space, distills
shamanic wisdom gathered during four decades of training in native
cultures around the world to provide you with a transforming
experience. Take a soul journey that creates vibrational gateways
into other dimensions.
Embark on extraordinary shape shifting journeys where sacred
visions and personal direction are revealed to you such as shamans
experienced in ancient times. Commune with the world around you and
gain secret messages. Find mystical power in your name, how its
meaning affects your life, and your true spirit name. Enter
mystical gateways to gain powerful secret messages from your dreams
that you can program and remember. Discover how to tell a prophetic
dream from an ordinary dream, ones that warn you of danger and ones
that connect you with loved ones who have passed on. Use
time-honored techniques to transport yourself out-of-body and
experience the mysterious realm of dreams. Be informed of
little-known astral travel techniques that avoid common
pitfalls.
Traveling into your far past and into your (potential) future
are forms of shamanic journeys. Embark on a live shamanic journey
into your past lives and create your future. Release karma that you
received from your parents and ancestral family to help heal your
DNA blood line.
Safely travel through mystic portals for the journey of your
life. Create a liaison with Spirit to anchor in extraordinary inner
journeys. Open to receive sacred visions and personal direction for
your life journey. Deeply connect to your soul's wisdom.
Course 123148
Date Saturday, August 11 and Sunday, August 12
Time 9:30 AM - 5:00 PM, Sat. night optional Q & A 7:00 - 900
PM
Cost $300/275 by July 11
Place Techny Towers, 2001 Waukegan Rd., near Northbrook, IL
Register Online
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