From The Alex Tanous Library At The Rhine Research Center

Two Forms of Meditation (at all three presentations)
Learn meditation techniques to create a quiet mind and to experience your Heart Center

Talk 1: How To Cultivate Healing (Jan. 13, 2012 at The Stedman Auditorium)
Find healing relief from fear, stress, worry, chronic pain, anxiety, panic, feelings of unworthiness, and guilt. Techniques that really work!

Talk 2: Inner Peace: A Practical Approach (Jan. 16, 2012 at The Rhine Center)
Learn how to create inner peace by living your life to the fullest in the present moment and becoming free of all your internal enemies.

Talk 3: Visiting Seriously Ill People (Jan. 19, 2012 at The Rhine Center)
Learn effective ways of visiting seriously ill people that synergistically benefit you and the patient.

The course takes you on a journey of cultivating healing, to obtaining inner peace, to sharing, and to continued healing and peace.
As you travel, you will create an endless cycle of personal growth.
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Tom Spector began meditating while in graduate school at Yale University in 1968. He realized he had low self-esteem, lots of anger, and was flunking out of an intense, specialized program. Meditation helped him immensely. He began to work out his deep-seated personal growth issues and rapidly became a star student, completing the full Ph.D. program in record time. In 1976, after a magical meeting with Elizabeth Kubler-Ross at a Ram Dass meditation retreat, Tom started sharing the techniques that helped him so much. He continued meditating and teaching, even when he was the International VP For Cancer Research at GlaxoWellcome (now GSK). Tom is internationally regarded as a refreshingly effective meditation teacher. He teaches at many different venues, including meditation retreats, universities, hospitals, corporate firms, and other organizations. Tom also sees individual clients. He has a special gift for helping people discover the root of their suffering and their path to heal. His Meditation and Healing CD and new book, Our Two Gardens: How to Cultivate Healing will be available at the presentations.

Robert Sitler

He completed a PhD in Hispanic Literatures at the University of Texas-Austin in 1994 with a dissertation on Maya-related Criollo fiction with the late Dr. Linda Schele overseeing the project’s Mayan dimensions.

Dr. Sitlers’ on-going academic passion for things Maya has been complemented by numerous immersion experiences among Maya from a dozen language groups in Guatemala, Mexico and Belize. His primary interests have been the Mam-speaking community of Todos Santos Cuchumatán, Guatemala and the significance of year 2012 in the Mayan Long Count calendar. In 2006 he published the first academic work to focus on the 2012 phenomenon. His CV also includes a 2012 book entitled The Living Maya and a translation into English of the only 2012 book written by a Mayan author.

Robert has published several articles on Mayan literature and 2012, and has been interviewed both on radio and on-line concerning the Maya and their calendars. He lectures regularly about beneficial dimensions of Mayan culture while clarifying common public misconceptions about 2012. Dr. Sitler has worked to include more Mayan perspectives in the discourse concerning the significance of this much-anticipated year.

Robert is currently a Professor of Modern Languages at Stetson University in DeLand, Florida and serves as Director of its Latin American Studies Program, teaching courses in Spanish, Mayan culture and the Latin American humanities.

Does the Maya calendar really predict 2012 apocalypse?

The talk will look at the 2012 phenomenon with a well-grounded approach that relies entirely on sources from within the Mayan world. Learn about what the Maya themselves said about 2012 in the ancient glyphs, in their calendars, and in their Chilam Balam prophecies. Discover what contemporary Mayan elders say regarding the date based on interviews in numerous Mayan linguistic communities in Mexico and Guatemala.