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Jeffrey has an enlightening conversation with

Bill Siegal, owner and founder of the William Siegal Gallery in Santa Fe.

For over thirty years Bill Siegal has been assembling the world’s largest collection of fine ancient and antique Andean textiles dating from 750 BC to the 19th Century. His gallery also exhibits ceremonial objects and artifacts from Meso and South American Cultures, as well as objects from China’s Han and Tang Dynasties and Southeast Asia. Distinguished African and Indonesian textiles are also prominently featured.

The Gallery opened its new 5,000 square foot exhibition space in May of 2007, in which antiquities are now hung side by side with the works of outstanding contemporary artists, conveying sublime and timeless trans-cultural aesthetics.

The gallery is located in Santa Fe’s newly revitalized Railyard District, which is rapidly becoming the central locus of Santa Fe’s contemporary art scene.

In June, Lea Feinstein of ART NEWS said this about the William Siegal Gallery:

“With an informed eye, William Siegal has mixed contemporary art with antique textiles and ancient sculptural artifacts in a way that enriches both. In placing the old and new side by side, Siegal took them out of historical context and underscored their graphic analogies.”

Bill first became involved in textiles in 1971 working with the molas of the Cuna Indians of Panama. In 1974, he made his first trip to Bolivia in search of other textile art forms. He returned to La Paz, Sucre, Cochabamba, and Potosi several times in 1975. The weavings he found were of such technical excellence and beauty, he moved permanently to La Paz to study and collect on a full time basis.

By 1977, he was making long journeys throughout the 13,000 ft. high Altiplano with his associates. Using La Paz as a base, they traveled from one village to another buying what was available while learning as much as possible about this incredible and little-known art form. He visited every corner of the Altiplano over the next ten years. In 1988, Bill returned to the U.S. where he continued to study the ceremonial textiles of the Aymara.

In May, The Santa Fe Rape Crisis and Trauma Treatment Center produced a monologue series called The Testosterone Testimonials, which was similar to The famed Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler.

In this series of monologues however, the testimonials, as they are called, are self- written by the presenters themselves who were a diverse collection of community leaders from Santa Fe talking about what it means to be a man. The evening presentation was such a smash success that people have not stopped talking about it.

Bill Siegal was one of those presenters and gave a remarkable performance of his personal story. I enjoyed his presentation so much that I asked him if he would come on the Salon and perform it for us. He agreed, and so we are fortunate today to be able to hear Bills monologue from that evening as an introduction to the marvelous conversation that follows.

The Omni Art Salon theme music, When Angels Smile, is provided courtesy of Back To Earth

 

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Jeffrey has an enlightening conversation with

Bill Siegal, owner and founder of the William Siegal Gallery in Santa Fe.

For over thirty years Bill Siegal has been assembling the world’s largest collection of fine ancient and antique Andean textiles dating from 750 BC to the 19th Century. His gallery also exhibits ceremonial objects and artifacts from Meso and South American Cultures, as well as objects from China’s Han and Tang Dynasties and Southeast Asia. Distinguished African and Indonesian textiles are also prominently featured.

The Gallery opened its new 5,000 square foot exhibition space in May of 2007, in which antiquities are now hung side by side with the works of outstanding contemporary artists, conveying sublime and timeless trans-cultural aesthetics.

The gallery is located in Santa Fe’s newly revitalized Railyard District, which is rapidly becoming the central locus of Santa Fe’s contemporary art scene.

In June, Lea Feinstein of ART NEWS said this about the William Siegal Gallery:

“With an informed eye, William Siegal has mixed contemporary art with antique textiles and ancient sculptural artifacts in a way that enriches both. In placing the old and new side by side, Siegal took them out of historical context and underscored their graphic analogies.”

Bill first became involved in textiles in 1971 working with the molas of the Cuna Indians of Panama. In 1974, he made his first trip to Bolivia in search of other textile art forms. He returned to La Paz, Sucre, Cochabamba, and Potosi several times in 1975. The weavings he found were of such technical excellence and beauty, he moved permanently to La Paz to study and collect on a full time basis.

By 1977, he was making long journeys throughout the 13,000 ft. high Altiplano with his associates. Using La Paz as a base, they traveled from one village to another buying what was available while learning as much as possible about this incredible and little-known art form. He visited every corner of the Altiplano over the next ten years. In 1988, Bill returned to the U.S. where he continued to study the ceremonial textiles of the Aymara.

In May, The Santa Fe Rape Crisis and Trauma Treatment Center produced a monologue series called The Testosterone Testimonials, which was similar to The famed Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler.

In this series of monologues however, the testimonials, as they are called, are self- written by the presenters themselves who were a diverse collection of community leaders from Santa Fe talking about what it means to be a man. The evening presentation was such a smash success that people have not stopped talking about it.

Bill Siegal was one of those presenters and gave a remarkable performance of his personal story. I enjoyed his presentation so much that I asked him if he would come on the Salon and perform it for us. He agreed, and so we are fortunate today to be able to hear Bills monologue from that evening as an introduction to the marvelous conversation that follows.

The Omni Art Salon theme music, When Angels Smile, is provided courtesy of Back To Earth

 

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Jeffrey has a fascinating conversation with Aaron Stern, Founder, Executive Director and Core Faculty of the Academy For the Love of Learning in Santa Fe.

As designer of the core curriculum at the Academy, Aaron is also a composer, performer, educator and former dean of the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago. Aaron consults with educational, arts, spiritual and social-change organizations and communities, around the world and is also trained and certified as a transpersonal therapist.

A brainchild of a special relationship that Aaron had with the late musical genius Leonard Bernstein, the
Academy for the Love of Learning draws on a wide, multidisciplinary spectrum of resources: educational philosophy and practice, the arts, transpersonal studies, contemplative traditions, earth-based wisdom, body-centered practices, psychotherapy, organizational consulting, and the wisdom distilled from personal experience.

The scholar in residence at the Academy is American priest and theological exponent of Creation Spirituality Matthew Fox. Creation Spirituality is a movement grounded in the mystical philosophies of medieval visionaries Hildegard of Bingen, Thomas Aquinas, Meister Eckhart and Nicholas of Cusa. Author of twenty-eight books on philosophy, religion, and spirituality, Matthew Fox’s most recent book, The A.W.E. Project: Reinventing Education, Reinventing the Human has led him into an increased engagement with issues impacting the education of children, something very dear to the heart of The Academy and Aaron Sterns vision.

In Aaron’s and the Academy’s view, who we are as human beings is indicated by the depth of our openness to life, our engagement with our process of learning, and our self-awareness and capacity to be as fully awake as imaginable with one another. because of this viewpoint, the Academy is strongly experiential and calls forth a high degree of self-reflection, both individual and collective. This ground of deepening self-awareness provides the stability and freedom from which right action can grow.

I think you will find my conversation with Aaron warm, stimulating and uplifting because he is dedicated to living a life focused on the highest aspects of the human experience and bringing out the best in others so that they too can really enjoy the love of learning that is the deepest of human birthright’s.

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Jeffrey has a fascinating conversation with Aaron Stern, Founder, Executive Director and Core Faculty of the Academy For the Love of Learning in Santa Fe.

As designer of the core curriculum at the Academy, Aaron is also a composer, performer, educator and former dean of the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago. Aaron consults with educational, arts, spiritual and social-change organizations and communities, around the world and is also trained and certified as a transpersonal therapist.

A brainchild of a special relationship that Aaron had with the late musical genius Leonard Bernstein, the
Academy for the Love of Learning draws on a wide, multidisciplinary spectrum of resources: educational philosophy and practice, the arts, transpersonal studies, contemplative traditions, earth-based wisdom, body-centered practices, psychotherapy, organizational consulting, and the wisdom distilled from personal experience.

The scholar in residence at the Academy is American priest and theological exponent of Creation Spirituality Matthew Fox. Creation Spirituality is a movement grounded in the mystical philosophies of medieval visionaries Hildegard of Bingen, Thomas Aquinas, Meister Eckhart and Nicholas of Cusa. Author of twenty-eight books on philosophy, religion, and spirituality, Matthew Fox’s most recent book, The A.W.E. Project: Reinventing Education, Reinventing the Human has led him into an increased engagement with issues impacting the education of children, something very dear to the heart of The Academy and Aaron Sterns vision.

In Aaron’s and the Academy’s view, who we are as human beings is indicated by the depth of our openness to life, our engagement with our process of learning, and our self-awareness and capacity to be as fully awake as imaginable with one another. because of this viewpoint, the Academy is strongly experiential and calls forth a high degree of self-reflection, both individual and collective. This ground of deepening self-awareness provides the stability and freedom from which right action can grow.

I think you will find my conversation with Aaron warm, stimulating and uplifting because he is dedicated to living a life focused on the highest aspects of the human experience and bringing out the best in others so that they too can really enjoy the love of learning that is the deepest of human birthright’s.

The Omni Art Salon theme music, When Angels Smile, is provided courtesy of Back To Earth

 

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Jeffrey has a fascinating conversation with Aaron Stern, Founder, Executive Director and Core Faculty of the Academy For the Love of Learning in Santa Fe.

As designer of the core curriculum at the Academy, Aaron is also a composer, performer, educator and former dean of the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago. Aaron consults with educational, arts, spiritual and social-change organizations and communities, around the world and is also trained and certified as a transpersonal therapist.

A brainchild of a special relationship that Aaron had with the late musical genius Leonard Bernstein, the
Academy for the Love of Learning draws on a wide, multidisciplinary spectrum of resources: educational philosophy and practice, the arts, transpersonal studies, contemplative traditions, earth-based wisdom, body-centered practices, psychotherapy, organizational consulting, and the wisdom distilled from personal experience.

The scholar in residence at the Academy is American priest and theological exponent of Creation Spirituality Matthew Fox. Creation Spirituality is a movement grounded in the mystical philosophies of medieval visionaries Hildegard of Bingen, Thomas Aquinas, Meister Eckhart and Nicholas of Cusa. Author of twenty-eight books on philosophy, religion, and spirituality, Matthew Fox’s most recent book, The A.W.E. Project: Reinventing Education, Reinventing the Human has led him into an increased engagement with issues impacting the education of children, something very dear to the heart of The Academy and Aaron Sterns vision.

In Aaron’s and the Academy’s view, who we are as human beings is indicated by the depth of our openness to life, our engagement with our process of learning, and our self-awareness and capacity to be as fully awake as imaginable with one another. because of this viewpoint, the Academy is strongly experiential and calls forth a high degree of self-reflection, both individual and collective. This ground of deepening self-awareness provides the stability and freedom from which right action can grow.

I think you will find my conversation with Aaron warm, stimulating and uplifting because he is dedicated to living a life focused on the highest aspects of the human experience and bringing out the best in others so that they too can really enjoy the love of learning that is the deepest of human birthright’s.

The Omni Art Salon theme music, When Angels Smile, is provided courtesy of Back To Earth

 

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Jeffrey has an uplifting conversation with Dr. Rick Levy, a licensed psychologist in private practice with an international clientele and a pioneer in the field of mind-body medicine. Dr. Levy’s groundbreaking work are simple techniques that empower anyone with the ability to heal themselves and master their destiny. Dr. Levy has been featured in various media, including Prime Time Live, FOX News, ABC radio and Washingtonian Magazine.

Fluent in Spanish, French and English, Dr. Levy has taken his techniques to five continents, to people of every culture, class and age, from the world’s international power-elite to the indigenous people of the Amazon and Africa, demonstrating that his techniques work universally well for all people and that anyone can apply them.

As a respected clinician and proponent of state-of-the-art mind-body medicine, Dr. Levy has consulted with numerous health organizations, universities, government agencies, the U.S. Congress, and international peacekeeping organizations.

Dr. Levy has also served as Chair of the Greater Washington Association for the Advancement of Psychology, Legislative Affairs Chairman of the District of Columbia Psychological Association, and member of the American Psychological Association’s (APA) Joint Hospital Privileges Task Force. He led the National Hospital Privileges movement, which succeeded in winning hospital privileges for psychologists and ensured that patients in general hospitals would have access to psychological services. He also engineered the first credentialing standards for psychologists who practice in hospital settings.

Dr. Levy was awarded the Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Duquesne University in 1976. He is board certified in clinical psychology, psychotherapy, hypnosis, forensic medicine, and forensic examination. His work to increase scientific knowledge related to the potential of the human mind began in graduate school. In the twelve years that followed, he earned his stripes in traditional leadership roles that included: Chairman of the Departments of Psychology at Somerset State and Holidaysburg State Hospitals in Pennsylvania, Assistant Professor of Psychology at Frostburg University, and staff psychologist at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Washington, D.C. He has been the recipient of several awards, including the Distinguished Professional Service Award of the District of Columbia Psychological Association.

Dr. Levy’s science and methods are described in his book Miraculous Health: How to Heal Your Body by Unleashing the Hidden Power of Your Mind, published by Atria Books/Beyond Works Publishing, an imprint of Simon & Schuster.

Dr. Levy’s says his techniques:

“rely on a unique combination of knowledge from multiple fields: mind-body science, advanced psychology, theology, philosophy, clinical hypnosis, meditation, neurochemistry, neurophysics and quantum physics. He has the ability to guide a person or group through specific mental procedures that unleash vast amounts of power that is secreted away in the human mind.

Dr. Levy’s procedures deliver many times as much mental power as the methods employed by today’s self-help gurus, power a person can use to rapidly achieve their goals across the spectrum of human endeavor: health of body and mind, mastery over the challenges of day-to-day living, financial prosperity, finding love, or even shifting the political landscape to forge justice on a social scale. His methods result in instantaneous, measurable, permanent changes in health and well-being. By virtue of the simplicity and sheer effectiveness of his methods, delivered through an integrated system of touch-point communications, Dr. Levy has the potential to make a staggeringly large, global impact on human prosperity”.

I think you will find this conversation with Dr. Levy most informative and inspiring and help you to understand the great advances that are available to us all as we move into an unlimited future for all life on planet earth.

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Jeffrey has a great conversation with Dr. Paulette Kouffman Sherman author of Dating From The Inside-Out: Using The Law of Attraction in Matters of the Heart, published by Atria Books in February 2008.

Paulette is the owner and director of My Dating School in Manhattan where she offers classes in dating issues, dating coaching and sells her products. My Dating School works with singles of all ages and backgrounds around the world by phone and online.

A leader in the field of dating coaching, Paulette hosts an online social networking community where singles learn from each others dating experiences, while benefiting from her expertise. Paulette has coached many private clients to create successful long-term relationships.

Paulette is a monthly speaker at The Learning Annex, a dating expert on radio and television shows and has been quoted in many publications, including Glamour magazine. In addition to her career as a speaker, writer, coach and author, she has a private psychotherapy practice and leads numerous seminars.

Paulette earned her doctorate in Clinical Psychology and is a Licensed Psychologist in the state of New York. She is a Certified Coach, graduating from the Institute of Professional Empowerment Coaching and her specialty is helping clients to date successfully, while facilitating greater insight. She is also an ordained minister and is legally able to marry the singles that she coaches in most states.

In her own words, Paulette is foremost an educator in matters of the heart, and I think you will hear from this conversation that she has some very interesting insights into the machinations of romantic relationships and how to develop a solid foundation within yourself in order to furnish a powerfully positive environment about yourself in which a successful relationship can flourish.

I found my time with Paulette delightful and truly investigative about the consciousness needed to develop ourselves further and how that can attract the best relationships possible.

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Jeffrey has an incredible conversation with Dr. Merlinda Arnold, an interfaith minister, psychotherapist, choreographer, and change agent recognized for the lectures and workshops she has presented internationally over the past twenty-five years to promote wholeness and peace. Dr. Arnold is also the and executive director of Sacred Way connecting ancient wisdom with contemporary insights which also produces guided tours of sacred sites worldwide.

As an expert in depth psychology, world religion, mythology, and cultural anthropology, Dr. Arnold has worked with prominent scholars such as James Hillman, Joseph Campbell, Marija Gimbutas, and Matthew Fox.

Dr. Arnold served as The New Seminary’s american representative in Israel during the intifada of the late 1980s and early 1990s and has led women’s groups in Egypt, Greece, and Crete, as well as throughout Europe and the Americas, to explore ancient feminine mystery rites. Her art and dance workshop program, “The Mystery Quest,” uses as a therapeutic tool a replica of the Phaestos Disk from Crete dating to 1700 BC.

In addition Dr. Arnold served as New Mexico events director for the presidential campaigns of Dennis Kucinich and John Kerry, led a pro bono group for murder victims’ families opposing the death penalty, and participated in several international relief efforts, including the 2005 Tsunami Response. She also co-founded Unity in Action, a nonpartisan political organization committed to uncovering common core beliefs to foster connections among people with different political views.

Dr. Arnold is the author of The Book of Grace: On the Missing Scroll of Light, as well as two other titles: Omm Sety Remembered and The Fertile Crescent Revisited: Awakening the Buried Feminine to Heal Trauma. She also produced the DVD Dancing on the Milky Way I, which was featured at the 2006 New Mexico Film Guild Festival.

We last spoke with Dr. Arnold last summer about her very special role as the guardian of the Om Sety manuscripts. Since that time Dr. Arnold has been to sacred sites throughout Europe, last fall focusing on a trip to the Rosslyn Chapel in Scotland. Recently she has has accomplished a great deal of research regarding the Pyramid Texts and the sacred areas of Abydos as they relate to the revelations in the Omm Sety manuscripts.

This is a very special conversation and it will be presented in 3 parts because of the detail and broad based nature of it’s content. I’m sure you will find it as fascinating and eye opening as I did, and you will come away with a greater understanding of the Egyptian mystery schools and their historical underpinnings and how they relate to astrology, the development of western civilization and conscious human evolution. I also think these conversations will contribute to your understanding of the historical development of metaphysics as we know it today.

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Jeffrey has an incredible conversation with Dr. Merlinda Arnold, an interfaith minister, psychotherapist, choreographer, and change agent recognized for the lectures and workshops she has presented internationally over the past twenty-five years to promote wholeness and peace. Dr. Arnold is also the and executive director of Sacred Way connecting ancient wisdom with contemporary insights which also produces guided tours of sacred sites worldwide.

As an expert in depth psychology, world religion, mythology, and cultural anthropology, Dr. Arnold has worked with prominent scholars such as James Hillman, Joseph Campbell, Marija Gimbutas, and Matthew Fox.

Dr. Arnold served as The New Seminary’s american representative in Israel during the intifada of the late 1980s and early 1990s and has led women’s groups in Egypt, Greece, and Crete, as well as throughout Europe and the Americas, to explore ancient feminine mystery rites. Her art and dance workshop program, “The Mystery Quest,” uses as a therapeutic tool a replica of the Phaestos Disk from Crete dating to 1700 BC.

In addition Dr. Arnold served as New Mexico events director for the presidential campaigns of Dennis Kucinich and John Kerry, led a pro bono group for murder victims’ families opposing the death penalty, and participated in several international relief efforts, including the 2005 Tsunami Response. She also co-founded Unity in Action, a nonpartisan political organization committed to uncovering common core beliefs to foster connections among people with different political views.

Dr. Arnold is the author of The Book of Grace: On the Missing Scroll of Light, as well as two other titles: Omm Sety Remembered and The Fertile Crescent Revisited: Awakening the Buried Feminine to Heal Trauma. She also produced the DVD Dancing on the Milky Way I, which was featured at the 2006 New Mexico Film Guild Festival.

We last spoke with Dr. Arnold last summer about her very special role as the guardian of the Om Sety manuscripts. Since that time Dr. Arnold has been to sacred sites throughout Europe, last fall focusing on a trip to the Rosslyn Chapel in Scotland. Recently she has has accomplished a great deal of research regarding the Pyramid Texts and the sacred areas of Abydos as they relate to the revelations in the Omm Sety manuscripts.

This is a very special conversation and it will be presented in 3 parts because of the detail and broad based nature of it’s content. I’m sure you will find it as fascinating and eye opening as I did, and you will come away with a greater understanding of the Egyptian mystery schools and their historical underpinnings and how they relate to astrology, the development of western civilization and conscious human evolution. I also think these conversations will contribute to your understanding of the historical development of metaphysics as we know it today.

The Omni Art Salon theme music, When Angels Smile, is provided courtesy of Back To Earth

 

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Jeffrey has an incredible conversation with Dr. Merlinda Arnold, an interfaith minister, psychotherapist, choreographer, and change agent recognized for the lectures and workshops she has presented internationally over the past twenty-five years to promote wholeness and peace. Dr. Arnold is also the and executive director of Sacred Way connecting ancient wisdom with contemporary insights which also produces guided tours of sacred sites worldwide.

As an expert in depth psychology, world religion, mythology, and cultural anthropology, Dr. Arnold has worked with prominent scholars such as James Hillman, Joseph Campbell, Marija Gimbutas, and Matthew Fox.

Dr. Arnold served as The New Seminary’s american representative in Israel during the intifada of the late 1980s and early 1990s and has led women’s groups in Egypt, Greece, and Crete, as well as throughout Europe and the Americas, to explore ancient feminine mystery rites. Her art and dance workshop program, “The Mystery Quest,” uses as a therapeutic tool a replica of the Phaestos Disk from Crete dating to 1700 BC.

In addition Dr. Arnold served as New Mexico events director for the presidential campaigns of Dennis Kucinich and John Kerry, led a pro bono group for murder victims’ families opposing the death penalty, and participated in several international relief efforts, including the 2005 Tsunami Response. She also co-founded Unity in Action, a nonpartisan political organization committed to uncovering common core beliefs to foster connections among people with different political views.

Dr. Arnold is the author of The Book of Grace: On the Missing Scroll of Light, as well as two other titles: Omm Sety Remembered and The Fertile Crescent Revisited: Awakening the Buried Feminine to Heal Trauma. She also produced the DVD Dancing on the Milky Way I, which was featured at the 2006 New Mexico Film Guild Festival.

We last spoke with Dr. Arnold last summer about her very special role as the guardian of the Om Sety manuscripts. Since that time Dr. Arnold has been to sacred sites throughout Europe, last fall focusing on a trip to the Rosslyn Chapel in Scotland. Recently she has has accomplished a great deal of research regarding the Pyramid Texts and the sacred areas of Abydos as they relate to the revelations in the Omm Sety manuscripts.

This is a very special conversation and it will be presented in 3 parts because of the detail and broad based nature of it’s content. I’m sure you will find it as fascinating and eye opening as I did, and you will come away with a greater understanding of the Egyptian mystery schools and their historical underpinnings and how they relate to astrology, the development of western civilization and conscious human evolution. I also think these conversations will contribute to your understanding of the historical development of metaphysics as we know it today.

The Omni Art Salon theme music, When Angels Smile, is provided courtesy of Back To Earth