BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Toronto Awakenings - ECPv6.15.17.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Toronto Awakenings X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://torontoawakenings.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Toronto Awakenings REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Toronto BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20180311T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20181104T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20190310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20191103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20200308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20201101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20210314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20211107T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200627T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20200627T153000 DTSTAMP:20260623T025504 CREATED:20200124T031757Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200701T005046Z UID:506-1593264600-1593271800@torontoawakenings.org SUMMARY:Seek Your Own Counsel: What do you do when a Guru cannot be found? DESCRIPTION:Aldona Mitrikas \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Living in small communities in northern Ontario\, Aldona Mitrikas was unable to connect with people knowledgeable about spiritual awakening or Near-Death Experiences when she was in the throes of these processes. She knew something healing was happening and turned to the resources she had at hand. She connected with helpers in the community: compassionate friends\, a minister\, a massage therapist\, and a network chiropractor. \nThrough prayer and meditation\, she came to understand that her experience was some type of healing process. She then developed a tool for allowing this process to take place safely and gently. As a Therapeutic Touch practitioner\, she used her modality to work through each of the chakras and assist her own transformation. Amazing things happened and she learned that her role was to stay present and allow. She will describe how in this journey of many years Therapeutic Touch has been a constant companion. \nAldona has a degree in psychology\, many ancillary trainings\, and had a career as a counsellor in the field of sexual assault and violence against women. For nearly 30 years\, she worked primarily in Sault Ste. Marie at Women in Crisis and at the Sexual Assault Centre of Sault Area Hospital. Subsequently\, she worked in Wawa\, Ontario\, focusing on the field of violence against women and holding workshops for Lady Dunn Health Centre Mental Health Department. She retired and moved to Toronto in 2016 to be closer to family and she continues to teach Therapeutic Touch. \nAldona Mitrikas will be sharing via video conference\, on June 27\, 2020\, from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m EST. This talk is offered without charge but you must pre-register to gain admittance to the live broadcast. Aldona’s talk will be followed by a live question and answer period. URL:https://torontoawakenings.org/event/seek-your-own-counsel-what-do-you-do-when-a-guru-cannot-be-found/ CATEGORIES:Meetings END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200111T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20200111T151500 DTSTAMP:20260623T025504 CREATED:20191206T013820Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200701T005346Z UID:448-1578747600-1578755700@torontoawakenings.org SUMMARY:Lessons From Outside Time and Space with Dr. Brian Sackett DESCRIPTION:Dr. Brian Sackett \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In this talk\, Dr. Brian Sackett will describe a Shared Death Experience that happened when his wife of 25 years passed away from thyroid cancer in his arms – this included experiencing her as a multi-dimensional being transmitting intense joy and love. \nFrom the Shared Death Experience and other Spiritually Transformative Experiences\, Brian will articulate in a simple and practical way\, how each of us is both a time-bound three-dimensional human being\, and a transcendent\, multi-dimensional spirit-being. He will also discuss ways to access our transcendent selves as well as what blocks our ability to connect more consciously with ourselves as spirit. \nBrian Sackett\, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist in private practice in San Jose\, CA and is a recent Toronto resident. He specializes in working with clients dealing with trauma and abuse\, spiritual emergence\, anxiety and depression.  Prior to becoming a therapist\, Brian worked for 25 years in high tech in a variety of positions\, including director of sales\, national accounts sales manager\, product marketing manager\, business development manager\, and engineering program manager.  His undergraduate degree is in mathematics\, from Stanford University\, and he has a master’s degree in counseling psychology and Ph.D. in transpersonal psychology from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. URL:https://torontoawakenings.org/event/lessons-from-outside-time-and-space/ LOCATION:S. Walter Stewart Library\, 170 Memorial Park Ave\, Toronto\, ON\, M4J 2K5\, Canada CATEGORIES:Meetings ORGANIZER;CN="Toronto Awakenings Sharing Group":MAILTO:info@torontoawakenings.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191123T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191123T150000 DTSTAMP:20260623T025504 CREATED:20191102T160952Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200701T005205Z UID:284-1574514000-1574521200@torontoawakenings.org SUMMARY:NDEs - The Essentials - Everything you need to know about Near-Death Experiences DESCRIPTION:Dr. Yvonne Kason MD \nStudies have shown that up to 20% of patients in critical care report having a Near-Death Experience (NDE)\, an out-of-body and/or mystical experience that occurs during accidents\, traumatic events\, clinical crisis when facing death\, or during cardiac arrest. As a case example\, Dr. Yvonne Kason will share the story of her own 2003 NDE during an accident where she suffered a traumatic brain injury. She will describe the diagnostic features of Near-Death Experiences and their common physical\, psychological\, and spiritual after-effects. She will also outline the diagnostic features of other Spiritually Transformative Experiences (STEs) and death-related STEs\, including end-of-life/deathbed visions\, death-watch/shared-death experiences\, and after-death communications. Special issues relating to NDEs in children\, active military\, and veterans will be discussed. She will describe how NDEs are not symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress and are not hallucinations or a sign of mental illness. \nToronto Awakenings Sharing Group is affiliated with the International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS). IANDS has been supporting NDE experiencers\, spreading awareness about NDEs\, and promoting NDE research for 40 years. \nDr. Yvonne Kason MD\, MEd\, CCFP\, FCFP is an internationally renowned medical expert on Near-Death Experiences and other Spiritually Transformative Experiences who has had 5 NDEs and multiple STEs herself. She is a retired family physician and transpersonal psychotherapist\, who previously taught at the University of Toronto. Propelled by a powerful Near-Death Experience in a 1979 airplane crash\, she began to research NDEs\, and in 1990 she became the first Canadian medical doctor to specialize their medical practice in the research and counseling of patients with NDEs and other STEs. Dr. Kason is a current board member of IANDS\, the International Association for Near-Death Studies\, and a member of ACISTE\, the American Center for the Integration of Spiritually Transformative Experiences. Dr. Kason was cofounder of the Kundalini Research Network\, the Canadian Coordinator of the Spiritual Emergence Network\, and co-founder of the Spirituality in Health-Care Network. \nAvailable at Amazon.ca \nShe has five published books\, her most recent\, Touched by the Light: Exploring Spiritually Transformative Experiences\, (2019).  She shares the conclusions from her 40 years of research with about 100 case stories\, including her own 5 NDE stories\, as a guide to help other NDE and STE experiencers as well as their friends and counselors. On demand as a media resource\, her interview on the Dr. Oz Show will air December 6\, 2019. \nLearn more about the meeting details and our sharing group here. URL:https://torontoawakenings.org/event/ndes-the-essentials-everything-you-need-to-know-about-near-death-experiences/ LOCATION:S. Walter Stewart Library\, 170 Memorial Park Ave\, Toronto\, ON\, M4J 2K5\, Canada CATEGORIES:Meetings ORGANIZER;CN="Toronto Awakenings Sharing Group":MAILTO:info@torontoawakenings.org END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR