Free & Upcoming Lectures at Gateways Bookstore

Tuesday, September 4 at 7 p.m.

with NVC Santa Cruz

Non Violent Communication

Conflict Improv, Nonviolent Communication and strategies for living compassionately and fully. Bring your communication challenges whether at home and work, your partner and friends. We'll act out your stories using habitual speech then transform the scenario to a more connecting, life-affirming language based on Dr. Marshall Rosenberg¹s Nonviolent Communication.

Wednesday,September 5 at 7 p.m.

with Cynthia Copple

What is Ayurveda?

Learn how to become an Ayurvedic Practitioner
Learn your Body/Mind Type and How to Stay Healthy. The Vedic science of Ayurveda provides useful archetypes for understanding our individuality and how to make choices that will keep us healthy. We will discuss how body, mind, spirit, environment, diet, lifestyle, weather, stress and attitude affect our health and learn how to re-align our lives with our body/mind natures. She will also discuss how you can become an Ayurvedic Lifestyle Counselor, an Ayurvedic Practitioner, or get a Master of Arts - Ayurveda at Mount Madonna Institute College of Ayurveda.

Friday, September 7 at 7 p.m.

with Alx Uttermann and Jonathan Rosen

Inviting The Miracle Energy: Healing At The Heart Of Spirituality

This dynamic evening presentation with Alx Uttermann & Jonathan D. Rosen will provide a lively discussion and overview of principles of healing and self-transformation from a spiritual perspective, including insights into the role of karma, miracles, and spiritual practices (meditation) in the experience of evolution and wellness.

International teacher and healers, Alx & Jonathan have spent many years living in South India, training intensively in healing techniques with a living healing master, Sri Kaleshwar. The powerful spiritual insights, techniques, healing information & dazzling divine energy they're sharing flows directly from this dynamic, 'new ancient tradition' of spiritual knowledge from Sri Kaleshwar and the ancient saints of history.

The evening will culminate in a healing meditation, so that attendees can experience directly the peace, well-being, and 'divine fragrance' that is flowing through every human being.

Monday, September 10 at 7 p.m.

with James Jarvis and Leigh Wunce

Astro Night

Letting Go of Perfection
Saturn moving into Virgo 9/2/07-10/29/09, focuses our attention on manifesting goals without being attached to perfection. Join James Jarvis, master astrologer & Leigh Wunce, medical intuitive for an informative and enlightening event covering this month's planetary changes and astrological tips for working smarter and not harder. Learn more at www.lifeqwest.com and www.yourbodywisdom.com.

Tuesday, September 11, 18 and 25 at 7 p.m.

with Tulku Orgyen Zanpo Rinpoche

Intro to Tibetan Buddhism

Topic: Making Every Day Sacred: The Path of Loving-Kindness, a teaching series on Tibetan Buddhism. We have the opportunity to bring loving-kindness to each encounter in our lives. As we learn to do this, we become less concerned with the seeming difficulties we face, and our everyday life becomes truly sacred.

Learn More about this three-part series.

Wednesday, September 12 at 7 p.m.

with Stan Hall

Go Beyond 'The Secret' with PSYCH-K®

Learn why manifestation often requires more than conscious intention and attention. Mastering manifestation and healing is greatly accelerated by a combination of Self discovery and habituation of self-enhancing thought, both involving the subconscious mind. Beliefs at the subconscious level ­ many of which we are unaware ­ influence, if not completely determine, the quality of every aspect of our lives: physically, financially, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. Join Stan Hall, certified Advanced Instructor, for an introduction to PSYCH-K®, a set of self-empowering tools that quickly and easily facilitate change with subconscious beliefs. Live life as you intend and be the change you wish to see in the world! For more information contact Stan Hall directly at (415) 850-6871, stan@lifemuse.org, or visit www.LifeMuse.org

Thursday, September 13 at 7 p.m.

with Bob Livingstone

"The Body Mind Soul Solution"

Bob Livingstone, Licensed Clinical Social worker, is going to read from and sign his new book The Body Mind Soul Solution: Healing Emotional Pain through Exercise. The book teaches the reader that exercise leads to a calm, confident state that allows for facing emotional pain that has not been possible while sedentary. This is because the prospect of actually examining why you hurt inside is too terrifying while inactive. Ann Louise Gittleman calls the book “Groundbreaking.”

Friday, September 14 at 7 p.m.

with Alx Uttermann and Jonathan Rosen

Hanuman Chalisa

Learn to sing the Hanuman Chalisa (a great, 40-verse sacred kirtan created by the saint Tulasi Das in the medieval times). Krishna Das, Girish and many other bhajan/kirtan singers have made recordings of this epic sacred song -- it brings huge high blessings and the protection and the joy of the Hanuman energy when people sing it.

Monday, September 17 at 7 p.m.

with Mystic Jamms

Our monthly kirtan/ bhajans night of sacred song Music is the universal language that speaks directly to the heart, bringing peace & joy to everyone it touches. That peace and joy creates a place where healing can occur naturally... Come join The Mystic Jamms Band for a new monthly kirtan/bhajans night of sacred song. Learn more at www.karmatalk.com/JAMMS_concerts.htm

Wednesday, September 19 at 7 p.m.

with Barbara Hand Clow

"Mayan Code"

Time Acceleration and the Mayan Code We explore time with Barbara Hand Clow through her latest books: The Mind Chronicles: A Visionary Guide into Past Lives, spanning 100,000 years of human consciousness by means of past-life regression under hypnosis; and The Mayan Code: Time Acceleration and Awakening the World Mind, spanning 16.4 billion years of evolution in the universe. The real point of the last years of the Mayan Calendar is to maximize the potential of time acceleration—the creative force that drives evolution. The critical leap year for learning how to do this is 2007, when all the strings and patterns of the past weave into one unified intention—the advanced unifying synthesis. Barbara Hand Clow is the author of eleven books, including The Pleiadian Agenda and Alchemy of Nine Dimensions. She has been a teacher of Maya and Cherokee wisdom for twenty years. She lives in Vancouver, BC, and her website is www.handclow2012.com.

Thursday, September 20 at 7 p.m.

with Deborah Sundahl

$10 limited seating

Female Ejaculation and the G-Spot The G-spot is the female prostate. All women have one, as do all men. Therefore, all women can ejaculate. Learn how to get this wonderful feminine fountain flowing again! Sex educator and author Deborah Sundahl will teach you all you need to know about female ejaculation and the G-spot.
Call Gateways to register.

Wednesday, September 26 at 7 p.m.

with Charles Fisher

"Dismantling Discontent"

Dismantling Discontent: Buddha's Way through Darwin's World shows how human discontent or suffering can be seen as part of our evolutionary heritage and how meditation, also a part of that evolution, addresses that discontent.

Science and spiritual practice have long been considered mutually exclusive, and yet they are both methods of investigating the universe in which we live. Dismantling Discontent offers a provocative perspective on our existential suffering from the metaphorical viewpoints of Darwin and Buddha, synthesizing their two approaches—science and meditation—into a powerful union and shattering previous assumptions about the incompatibility of these two very different ways of knowing. Beginning with disease, old age, and death in the wilds, Dismantling Discontent follows discontent from its animal origins to its expression in hunter-gatherer, agricultural and finally modern societies and looks at how meditation may ameliorate suffering. Homo sapiens (man the smart) is unfortunately not man the happy. Evolutionary changes to our ancestors’ bodies and brains endowed us with an increased capacity for creative productivity and the discontent that comes with disconnection from our environment. This duality of our evolution sets us apart from other species and inspires our most profound intellectual and spiritual yearning.

Thursday, September 27 at 7 p.m.

with Graham Hancock

"Supernatural"

Graham Hancock sets out to investigate and discover the truth about the influences that gave birth to the modern human mind. Has this best selling author solved the greatest riddle in human history?

About Gateways

A Nonprofit, Independent Bookseller

Gateways Books, Gifts and Music is a nonprofit store founded in 1978 dedicated to providing support for people on the path of mindful living. We are devoted to creating a better world that fosters both inner and outer peace and in which the interconnectedness of all things is a primary value. Profits from Gateways support the philanthropic activities of the Hanuman Fellowship, a nonprofit corporation inspired by teachings of Baba Hari Dass, a master teacher of yoga philosophy and practice. In addition to Gateways, the fellowship sponsors a number of projects, including Sri Ram Ashram, an orphanage for 50 destitute and orphaned children, a school for 300 children and a medical clinic in Haridwar, India.