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Personal Development Group | Insight Psychological Group …

Posted: February 5, 2019 at 7:44 pm


PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT GROUPWednesdays/Thursdays 7:30pm-9:00pm

The goal of the Personal Development Group is to become more aware of our impact on other people, to better understand ourselves, to discover what holds us back from living a more fulfilling life, and to learn how to have more satisfying relationships.

The Personal Development Group is a space where members are invited to express their immediate, here-and-now thoughts, feelings and reactions towards and about other members including anger, sexual attraction, fear, hurt, and affection. Members learn to access and express their own emotions and to comprehend and respond to the emotions of other people. They discover how they might sabotage relationships and explore how to create and sustain intimacy, to ask for what they need, and to receive it.

The group fee is $60 per week and is not covered by insurance at IPG. Group is not for people in acute crisis or psychosis, active addiction or suicidality. Members who are not currently in individual treatment will be encouraged to pursue individual therapy while they attend group. Members are renting a space in the group and are charged for every session, regardless of attendance.

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50 Great Inspirational Quotes By Zig Ziglar | Quote Ideas

Posted: February 4, 2019 at 12:45 pm


Hilary Hinton Zig Ziglar commonly known as Zig Ziglar. Born in Coffee county, Alabama is one of the most widely acclaimed motivational speaker. he was born on 6 November in 1926. He was an American Author, salesman and a highly famous motivational speaker. He was born in Alabama to John Silas Ziglar and Lila Wescott Ziglar. He had eleven siblings and he was the tenth of all twelve kids. When he was five years old his dad took up a job in Mississippi and they all moved there. His father passed away a year later because of heart stroke and two days after his fathers death his younger sister also passed away.

During World War 2 he served in the United States Navy from 1943 to 1945. He went to the University of South Carolina in Columbia. He later in life started working as a salesman in a series of companies. He was appointed as the Vice president and training director of Automotive performance company in 1968 and moved to Dallas, Texas. Despite the tragic fall down the stairs that left him with short term memory loss, he continued traveling around the world to be part of various seminars as a motivational speaker. He married Jean in 1944 in Jackson, Mississippi. When they got married he was just 17 and she was 16 years old. They had four kids.

He passed away at the ripe age of 86 on November 28, 2012 succumbing to Pneumonia in Plano, Texas. He led a complete and fulfilling life that inspired so many people. Below are some of Zig ziglar most famous quotes.

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Conscious Media Movement CE Explorers Lounge

Posted: February 3, 2019 at 10:41 am


In October of 2016, we raised $76,000 to help kickstart our new conscious news platform. With this platform we hoped to have a daily recap, a lot more investigative journalism and do regular video stories. We wanted to fill a missing gap in the way quality news was told from a truth and conscious perspective.

The money raised was a big help in getting things started, however by Dec of the same year, we saw a 35% reach cut on Facebook, essentially meaning a 35% cut to our revenue.

By June 2017, we saw another 20% cut, and by Dec 2017, another 30%.

This meant that while we had some kickstart money to begin a large project, we also lost most of our momentum and steam from our reach and other revenue sources, and eventually had to slow things down on the project. In 2017 we posted a loss of over $250,000 as a result of revenue cuts by Facebook.

So we re-focused and began building new ways of generating revenue to get ourselves to a point where we could thrive. However, more reach cuts came in 2018.

It wasnt until July 2018 when we started putting up monthly numbers where we were no longer losing money. As of Novemeber, 2018, we have not been able to expand much beyond this and are currently not fully sustaining.

We have plans with our new CETV platform to generate revenue, but because we opted not to generate any kickstart funding because of what happened in the past, it has been a grind.

As of Dec 26th, 2018, we have launched CETV and hope to get our company on track by mid 2019 and then bring our news station project back into the picture.

A big part of why we are doing this CMM campaign is to get consistent and secure revenue so we can do our work.

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February 3rd, 2019 at 10:41 am

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About Jack ButlerJack Butler is a social entrepreneur, coach, workshop leader and speaker. His latest venture provides full spectrum human development through coaching, programmes and other development resources for leaders and entrepreneurs. He founded Future Foundations (www.future-foundations.co.uk), a leading youth personal development training organization. He is a professional member of the International Enneagram Association and a former fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Jack was the IAB 2007 Young Entrepreneur of the Year runner-up and took a double first class degree in Social and Political Sciences from the University of Cambridge. Jack spends his time between London and Brighton in the UK and Boulder, CO and the Bay Area in the US. In his spare time, he enjoys physical challenges (3 Peaks Challenge 2010, Tresco Marathon 2006) and supporting The Simultaneous Policy Organisation (www.simpol.org.uk). He is a Partner in Passion and Purpose of the Grubb Guild, a voracious reader of personal, cultural and spiritual development, and likes to inquire, journal, travel and write.

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Best Investment Companies: List of 10 … – brokerage review

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Commissions and Fees

Services

Best Investment Companies Overview

Some of these top 10 investment companies allow opening an account with no initial deposit requirement ($0 down) and no obligation (customers can close non-retirement account with no fee with all of these firms; and some brokers, such as Scottrade and Charles Schwab, also don't charge retirement account closing fees). This is a great opportunity to open a few brokerage accounts, and see first-hand which one you like better.

All of the top financial investment firms in the list above do not charge account maintenance fees for non-retirement accounts (except IB). Some of the companies have retirement account fees: we suggest to check our Fees pages for a complete information (links to these pages are available in our brokerage reviews). IB is the only broker in the list above that might charge account inactivity fee in some instances.

As you can see, commissions on stock and ETF trades range anywhere from $0 charged by Firstrade all the way up to $6.95 at TD Ameritrade and Etrade. Some of the investment firms have lower pricing for active traders. TD Ameritrade will also give traders better pricing but they don't advertise this ability - customers that can show that they are active traders can call the firm and negotiate lower rates.

Mutual funds commissions have even wider range of prices: the rate is anywhere from $0 at Firstrade and all the way up to $76 for purchase transaction at Charles Schwab. Many of these investment firms also offer no transaction fee mutual funds and that allows their clients to buy and sell mutual funds without paying commissions.

On the surface it may seem that some of the brokerage firms mentioned are expensive (TD Ameritrade or Etrade) while others are very cheap (Ally Invest and Firstrade). Generally speaking it's true. But for many clients there is a way to invest with some higher priced brokers basically for free. TD Ameritrade is the best case: the firm offers 296 commission free ETFs, thousands of no transaction fee mutual funds, and a promotion that offers 60 days of trading for free. With all these perks most customers could essentially create a diversified portfolio at the firm without paying any commissions.

Each of the 10 top financial investment companies has its strengths and weaknesses, and not every firm is right for a particular investor. We encourage readers to take a time to read the reviews, to see if a specific firm is a good fit for them.

The top investment companies are not shy to offer new customers promotional deals and incentives for opening a new non-IRA or even a retirement account: anything from reimbursing account transfer fees charged by an old broker; free trades for a period of time (usually one or two months); and up to significant cash bonuses (where amount of bonus often depends on the amount of initial deposit). Investors should definitely take advantage of these offers!

The Bulls and Bears of Investment Firm Advice

Besides selling funds, there could be other conflicts of interest. For example, a stock investment company could benefit from placing trades in a managed account. The firm could also receive compensation by recommending a certain custodian for client assets.

Investors who elect to turn over their assets to an investment advisor also lose the incentive to educate themselves about financial topics. There's a certain level of blind trust when clients simply turn their money over to an advisor.

Despite the disadvantages of investment broker advice, there are certainly benefits. A financial advisor is an excellent choice for beginners who aren't confident enough to make decisions with their own money. Financial planning could also benefit older people who are in retirement or approaching retirement. People who simply don't have enough time to manage their finances could also benefit from the services of a professional money manager. Many of the above top 10 investment companies offer such investment advice.

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February 2nd, 2019 at 12:44 pm

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Accounting for Investments | Types | Examples

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Investments are assets which represent a companys right to receive cash from its stake in another company, government, etc. Investments are made through purchase of bonds or shares or other financial instruments of the investee. The intent behind making such investments is to generate investment income (interest and dividend) and to benefit from expected capital gain.

Investments are reported by the investing company on its balance sheet, classified into current and non-current portion. Investments which are expected to be sold within next 12 months are called short-term investments while investments other than short-term investments are called long-term investments. Some investments, which are can be easily converted to cash with negligible fluctuation in its value, are classified as cash equivalents.

Investments can be made in debt securities, equity securities, commodities, derivative securities, etc. Debt securities are financial instruments that represent right to a determined stream of cash flows for a definite period of time. For example, government bonds, corporate bonds, municipal bonds, notes receivable, etc. all have a pre-determined payout for a specific period. Equity instruments are securities that represent residual (ownership) interest in a company, for example, shares of common stock, etc. Derivative securities are financial instruments which derive their value from other financial instruments. They are contracts whose value depend on another variable, for example, price of a common share of a company or its bond price or on price of a commodity, etc.

Traditionally debt securities have been classified into three categories:

However, new accounting standards (IFRS 9) require classifying debt investments into two categories: (a) investments carried at amortized cost and (b) those carried at fair value through profit and loss.

Accounting for equity investments depends on the extent of ownership:

Where the ownership is anywhere below 20%, the equity investment can be classified into any of the following categories:

New accounting standards have introduced a new classification framework for equity investments representing less than 20% ownership in companies. They require such equity investments to be accounted for either as (a) fair value through profit and loss or (b) fair value through other comprehensive income.

You are a Treasury Accountant at Flow, Inc., a futuristic technology-enabled financial services company. Its cash and cash equivalents at 1 January 2015 stood at $2.2 billion. A newly appointed Treasury Manager embarked on an aggressive investment spree. During the year, the company entered into the following transactions:

At the year end, i.e. 31 December 2015, investment in Dots, Inc. dropped to $290 million, investment in Air, Inc. rose to $500 million while investment in Fiber, Inc. was valued at $350 million. The company earned dividends of $2 million from Dots, Inc., nothing from Air, Inc., nothing from the equity mutual fund and nothing from Fiber, Inc. Fiber, Inc. net income for financial year 2015 amounted to $15 million.

Classify the above investments into different traditional investment categories and outline the accounting treatment of related gains or losses.

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Interspirituality: Evolutionary Hope for the Human Family …

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This retreat is being cancelled but will be rescheduled. We will post the new dates as soon as they are confirmed.

Interspirituality is the deep sharing of prayer and belief across spiritual traditions. When Wayne Teasdale presented the term at the 1993 Parliament of World Religions, the phrase had immediate resonance and added spiritual depth to interreligious dialogue.

In a time when many institutional religious structures are declining, what would it take to have the soul of religion be embedded again in its original meaningful context, namely, to bind together what has been and is now trying to be lived? It suggests a reflection back to our origins, to what has brought the human family to this point in time and holds the seed to the evolution of the spiritual life of all humans.

Just what is interspirituality and what hope does it hold for the human race at this critical time? What can older generations say to younger generations about the religious life they have known all their life? These and many more reflections and group discussion will be the goal of our time together.

Friday, March 9, to Saturday, March 10, 2017The retreat begins at 6:30pm on Friday and concludes at 3:30pm on Saturday.Cost of $175 includes $50 non-refundable deposit, overnight accommodations, and meals.

Frederick R. Gustafson, Jr. is an author, psycho-therapist, and ordained Lutheran minister with a doctorate in ministry. He has lectured on mens spirituality, psychology, dreams, and the relationship between Western and Native American spiritualities. Fred has studied Jungian psychology in Switzerland and has long been active in the ceremonial life and culture of the Lakota Brule Sioux inSouth Dakota.

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Sri Aurobindo Ashram Donations

Posted: February 1, 2019 at 12:41 am


Sri Aurobindo Ashram Donations

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P. D. Ouspensky – Wikipedia

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Pyotr Demianovich Ouspenskii (known in English as Peter D. Ouspensky, ; 5 March 1878 2 October 1947),[1] was a Russian esotericist known for his expositions of the early work of the Greek-Armenian teacher of esoteric doctrine George Gurdjieff, whom he met in Moscow in 1915. Ouspensky was associated[by whom?] with the ideas and practices originating with Gurdjieff from then on. He shared the (Gurdjieff) "system" for 25 years in England and the United States, having separated from Gurdjieff in 1924 personally, for reasons he explains in the last chapter of his book In Search of the Miraculous.

All in all, Ouspensky studied the Gurdjieff system directly under Gurdjieff's own supervision for a period of ten years, from 1915 to 1924. His book In Search of the Miraculous recounts what he learned from Gurdjieff during those years. While lecturing in London in 1924, he announced that he would continue independently the way he had begun in 1921. Some, including his close pupil Rodney Collin, say that he finally gave up the system in 1947, just before his death, but his own recorded words on the subject ("A Record of Meetings", published posthumously) do not clearly endorse this judgement, nor does Ouspensky's emphasis on "you must make a new beginning" after confessing "I've left the system".[2]

Ouspensky was born in Moscow in 1878. In 1890, he was studying at the Second Moscow Gymnasium, a government school attended by boys from 10 to 18. At the age of 16, he was expelled from school for painting graffiti on the wall in plain sight of a visiting inspector; thereafter, he would be more or less on his own.[3] In 1906, he was working in the editorial office of the Moscow daily paper The Morning. In 1907 he discovered Theosophy. In the autumn of 1913, age 35, before the beginning of World War I, he journeyed to the East in search of the miraculous, visited Theosophists in Adyar but was forced to return to Moscow after the beginning of the Great War. There he met George Gurdjieff and married Sophie Grigorievna Maximenko. He had a mistress by the name of Anna Ilinishna Butkovsky.[4]

His first book, The Fourth Dimension, appeared in 1909; his second book, Tertium Organum, in 1912. A New Model of the Universe, as explained by Ouspensky in the foreword of the second edition, was written and published as articles by 1914, updated to include "recent developments in physics" and republished as a book in Russian in 1917. The work, as reflected in its title, shows the influence of Francis Bacon and Max Mller and has been interpreted as an attempt to reconcile ideas from natural science and the burgeoning field of religious studies with occultism in the tradition of Gurdjieff and Theosophy.[5] It was assumed that that book was lost to the Revolution's violence, but it was then republished in English (without his knowledge) in 1931. Since the earliest lectures this work attracted a who's who of philosophy (see below) and has been to this day a widely accepted authoritative basis for a study of metaphysics, or rather, to exceed the limits of the same by his "psychological method", which he defines as (paraphrasing p.75.) "a calibration of the tools of human understanding to derive the actual meaning of the thing itself."

This term is one of three high concepts of the material presented, along with "the esoteric method" which as he sums up (p.76) depends on the first to derive the possibility of something beyond ordinary human effort entirely. In high concept terms: "The idea of esotericism ... holds that the very great majority of our ideas are not the product of evolution but the product of the degeneration of ideas which existed at some time or are still existing somewhere in much higher, purer and more complete forms." (p.47) Ouspensky's reputation is presently degenerated to being a follower of Gurdjieff rather than a partner (see below) and the apex of esotericism, self-knowledge, and metaphysical thought. The title itself promises a model of the universe, or unified theory of everything, which it is. He also wrote the novel Strange Life of Ivan Osokin, which explored the concept of eternal recurrence or the eternal return.

He traveled in Europe and the East India, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and Egypt in his search for knowledge. After his return to Russia and his introduction to Gurdjieff in 1915, Ouspensky spent the next few years studying with him, and supporting the founding of a school.

Denying the ultimate reality of space and time in his book Tertium Organum,[6] he also negates Aristotle's Logical Formula of Identification of "A is A" and finally concludes in his "higher logic" that A is both A and not-A.[7]

Unbeknown to Ouspensky, a Russian migr by the name of Nicholas Bessarabof took a copy of Tertium Organum to America and placed it in the hands of the architect Claude Bragdon who could read Russian and was interested in the fourth dimension.[8] Tertium Organum was rendered into English by Bragdon who had incorporated his own design of the hypercube[9][10] into the Rochester Chamber of Commerce building.[11] Bragdon also published the book and the publication was such a success that it was finally taken up by Alfred A. Knopf. At the time, in the early 1920s, Ouspensky's whereabouts were unknown until Bragdon located him in Constantinople and paid him back some royalties.

Ouspensky's lectures in London were attended by such literary figures as Aldous Huxley, T. S. Eliot, Gerald Heard and other writers, journalists and doctors. His influence on the literary scene of the 1920s and 1930s as well as on the Russian avant-garde was immense but still very little known.[12] It was said of Ouspensky that, though nonreligious, he had one prayer: not to become famous during his lifetime.

Ouspensky also provided an original discussion of the nature and expression of sexuality in his A New Model of the Universe; among other things, he draws a distinction between erotica and pornography.

During his years in Moscow, Ouspensky wrote for several newspapers and was particularly interested in the then-fashionable idea of the fourth dimension.[13] His first published work was titled The Fourth Dimension[14] and he explored the subject along the ideas prevalent at the time in the works of Charles H. Hinton,[15] the fourth dimension being an extension in space.[16][17] Ouspensky treats time as a fourth dimension only indirectly in a novel he wrote titled Strange Life of Ivan Osokin[18] where he also explores the theory of eternal recurrence.

After the Bolshevik revolution, Ouspensky travelled to London by way of Istanbul.G. R. S. Mead became interested in the fourth dimension and Lady Rothermere, wife of Harold Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere, the press magnate, was willing to spread the news of Ouspenky's Tertium Organum, while Ouspensky's acquaintance A. R. Orage was telling others about Ouspensky. By order of the British government, Gurdjieff was not allowed to settle in London. Gurdjieff finally went to France with a considerable sum of money raised by Ouspensky and his friends and settled down near Paris at the Prieur in Fontainebleau-Avon.[19] It was during this time, after Gurdjieff founded his Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man in France, that Ouspensky came to the conclusion that he was no longer able to understand his former teacher and made a decision to discontinue association with him, setting up his own organisation, The Society for the Study of Normal Psychology, which is now known as The Study Society.[20]

Nevertheless, Ouspensky wrote about Gurdjieff's teachings in a book originally entitled Fragments of an Unknown Teaching, only published posthumously in 1947 under the title In Search of the Miraculous. While this volume has been criticized by some of those who have followed Gurdjieff's teachings as only a partial representation of the totality of his ideas, it nevertheless provides what is probably the most concise explanation of the material that was included. This is in sharp contrast to the writings of Gurdjieff himself, such as Beelzebub's Tales to his Grandson, where the ideas and precepts of Gurdjieff's teachings are found very deeply veiled in allegory. Initially, Ouspensky had intended this book to be published only if Beelzebub's Tales to his Grandson were not published. But after his death, Mme Ouspensky showed its draft to Gurdjieff who praised its accuracy and permitted its publication.

Ouspensky died in Lyne Place, Surrey, in 1947. Shortly after his death, The Psychology of Man's Possible Evolution was published, together with In Search of the Miraculous. A facsimile edition of In Search of the Miraculous was published in 2004 by Paul H. Crompton Ltd. London. Transcripts of some of his lectures were published under the title of The Fourth Way in 1957; largely a collection of question and answer sessions, the book details important concepts, both introductory and advanced, for students of these teachings.

Ouspensky's papers are held at Yale University Library's Manuscripts and Archives department.

After Ouspensky broke away from Gurdjieff, he taught the "Fourth Way", as he understood it, to his independent groups.

Gurdjieff proposed that there are three ways of self-development generally known in esoteric circles. These are the Way of the Fakir, dealing exclusively with the physical body, the Way of the Monk, dealing with the emotions, and the Way of the Yogi, dealing with the mind. What is common about the three ways is that they demand complete seclusion from the world. According to Gurdjieff, there is a Fourth Way which does not demand its followers to abandon the world. The work of self-development takes place right in the midst of ordinary life. Gurdjieff called his system a school of the Fourth Way where a person learns to work in harmony with his physical body, emotions and mind. Ouspensky picked up this idea and continued his own school along this line.[21]

Ouspensky made the term "Fourth Way" and its use central to his own teaching of the ideas of Gurdjieff. He greatly focused on Fourth Way schools and their existence throughout history.

Students

Among his students were Rodney Collin, Maurice Nicoll, Robert S de Ropp, Kenneth Walker, Remedios Varo and Dr Francis Roles.[22]

Ouspensky personally confessed the difficulties he was experiencing with "self-remembering," which has later been defined by Osho as 'witnessing'. The present phraseology in the teachings of Advaita is to be in awareness, or being aware of being aware. It is also believed to be consistent with the Buddhist practice of 'mindfulness'. The ultimate goal of each is to be always in a state of meditation even in sleep. It was[clarification needed]a technique to which he had been introduced by Gurdjieff himself. Gurdjieff explained to him this was the missing link to everything else. While in Russia, Ouspensky himself experimented with the technique with a certain degree of success and in his lectures in London and America, he emphasized its practice. The technique requires a division of attention, so that a person not only pays attention to what is going on in the exterior world but also in the interior. A.L. Volinsky, an acquaintance of Ouspensky in Russia mentioned to Ouspensky that this was what professor Wundt meant by apperception. Ouspensky disagreed and noted how an idea so profound to him would pass unnoticed by people whom he considered intelligent. Gurdjieff explained the Rosicrucian principle that in order to bring about a result or manifestation, three things are necessary. With self-remembering and self-observation two things are present. The third one is explained by Ouspensky in his tract on Conscience: it is the non-expression of negative emotions.[23][24]

Self-Knowledge

According to Beryl Pogson, author of The Work Life, "...the only real poverty is lack of self-knowledge."[25]

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Personal Performance Awards

In January 2019, British Canoeing Awarding Body launched the new Personal Performance Awards. They replace the existing Star Awards.

After extensive independent research and wider consultation with the paddling community, British Canoeing Awarding Body and volunteers have created a framework of awards. This framework represents and supports the diverse paddling community.

The new Personal Performance Awards are designed for paddlers wanting to gain recognition of their learning and development, in the craft and environment they choose.

The process of completing the awards is based on learning. The ethos of supporting the paddler is the main focus of all the awards, encouraging individuals in their personal development.

Lee Pooley, British Canoeing Awarding Body Responsible Officer, says:

British Canoeing Awarding Body is delighted to announce the new Personal Performance Awards. They replaced the existing Star Awards from January 2019.

The development of the new awards has been an exciting project with many paddlers involved in creating Personal Performance Awards for paddlers, as well as people new to paddlesport.

The Personal Performance Awards Provider eLearning is designed to support Providers with the delivery of the British Canoeing Personal Performance Awards. The activities will give a range of information about how Providers can support paddlers and all the information they need to know about the Personal Performance Awards.

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