Panels

One of the goals of Changing Times-Changing Worlds is to foster communication between different groups. If we share what we’ve learned with others, we can build on this shared knowledge, both showing us what we have in common, and allowing us to build on this shared experience to achieve more than we could have done separately. Our panels are designed to foster those discussions. In the past we’ve had shamanic practitioners from different traditions and backgrounds , and healers of many sorts discussing challenges in healing, diviners and those who express spirit through dance. The first step is to brainstorm ideas for panels, then we pick about 15 and see who wants to participate. You do not need to be a speaker to be on a panel, nor do you have to be a panelist to participate (although we try to recruit those who are knowledgeable in the topic), audience participation is vital, and the discussions often intimate.

This is a list of some of the topics we are considering to have panels on this year. Do contact us if you have other suggestions you think would be good (before mid-May at which point we start reducing it to a final list), and also let us know if you’d like to be on a panel.

2012, themes to do with the coming World Changes, Acceptance vs forgiveness, Aging, Ancestors, Birth as a spiritual activity, Blocks- what turns off your abilities? (can’t read for myself, can’t charge for my psychic abilities), Body Modification as a spiritual/psychic practice, Body mind connection- death rituals, amputations, How does spiritual practice influence concepts of death/pre-birth etc. (hot button topic, could get into abortion, etc.), Booklearning vs learning from live teachers, Borrowed words- chi, ki, mana, prana, od, tabu, shaman, how words aid or hinder communication, Chronic Diseases, City Spirits, Concentual Reality (how we’ve picked this one, and how to change the concensus), Crystals, Curses, Dream Panel, Drugs and psychidelics in religion and psychic practice, Death/ end of Life (as opposed to those without a metaphysical perspective, we can discuss what happens after death, as well as before), Divination/ possibly reading for special groups like children or animals, special challenging types of readings, Dying, Elementals, Energy moving/creating gadgets, cages, structures, Esceticism Virtue or ego trap?, Evil/sin, Faerie Familiars- who/what’s helping us and why? , Feng Shui, Filters/ personal and cultural- how we interpret what we see and experience, Folklore, Food /you are what you eat, Fraud vs. creating mood/ suspension of disbelief, Future- forming it/predicting it, Galenic humors, Gardening, Ghosts – the many kinds and views of them, Globalism- what we may be losing, what we can gain, Global Warming, Grail Cycle, Gullible vs open minded, Happy Squirrel- new tarot cards/alternative decks, Handwork as a spiritual practice, Health, Healing animals, Hearing Voices- when is it mediumship, and when is it psychosis- how can you tell if you’re crazy, and how do you find a therapists who differentiates and isn’t going to try to cure you of being psychic?,  Implanted memories/the suggestible mind, In too deep/too much relig/spirit/psychic in your life, Herbal mechanism (chemical, spiritual), Law of Return (2 fold/3 fold/ karmic), Leylines and energy pools, Man and his surroundings- how we change it, it changes us, Masonry, Mediumship vs. channeling vs. possession, Money and Religion, Monastecism, and/or Intentional Communities- leaving the world, Mythology- new myths for the modern world, New Age Harmonics, Occult in popular culture /old and Nouveau Witch,  Omens, The Other- how do we relate to that which is “not us”?, Otherkin, being born in the wrong body- the wrong species, Other worlds and traveling into them, Palmistry Panel, Parapsychology,  Past lives, Pollution- what pollutes, Popular Fiction and the occult in it, Proprietary traditions, how to share without poaching, what’s private what’s universal?, Psychic Radio- the changing face of media and how we can benefit by the changes, Psychic Tresspassing, Psychological problems in psychics- how do you differentiate?, Request vs Compel magic and prayer, Rites of Passage, Role of the teacher or spiritual leader (how to avoid abuse), See no evil, speak no evil, think no evil/the evil eye, Sex, Shamanic vs Shamanistic, Sorcery vs witchcraft- is magick learned or innate?, Swallowing Frogs, anger/emotions and illness, Superstition, Symbols (or a given symbol like water or fire, Other or Mother), Tarot Panel, Things everybody knows that are wrong, Urban vs Rural practice, Vampires, Weather Witching, Working with the mainstream (psychics and police, healers and doctors), Zombies