Left to Right: Reverend Ron Arnold, Doyle Brown, Daniel Sanchez, Rabbi ElisaBeth Beyer, Bishop Gene Savoy, Jr., Rajan Zed, Dr. Sherif Elfass, Dan Jacobsen, Reverend Phil Bryan, Sue Kennedy. PHOTO: Andy Hill

The greater Reno community was part of a global gathering to celebrate “the shift in consciousness occurring now.” The 30-hour event from noon Friday, December 21 through 9:00 PM Saturday, December 22 was attended by a number of groups and individuals. Participating from the International Community of Christ were Reverend Gary Buchanan and Bishop Gene Savoy Jr.

Rev. Buchanan spoke on the Community’s perspective of the year 2012, cycles, and changes in the sun. Bishop Savoy participated in a panel of interfaith leaders that included a Protestant, a member of Latter-Days Saints, two rabbis, a Buddhist priest, a Hindu, a Muslim, and an atheist. The group spoke on the topic “How can the religions get along?” Bishop Savoy promoted the fact that “heightened consciousness in the post-2012 world is the only viable way for people and religions to work together and transcend their differences.”

For more information on the Reno Birth 2012 event, read the attached PDF flyer.

PHOTO: Scribd.com

Dr. Gary Robert Buchanan has published a new essay on Cosolargy as a religion and communication science at Scribd.com. The eight-page essay is downloadable from the site.

Here’s how it begins:

“Etymologically, the word religion comes from the Latin religare, to reconnect. Naturally, the question must be asked, ‘To what are we reconnecting?’ Also implied linguistically is the idea that there must be a pre-existent something, a lost state of higher Consciousness, Being, Intellect, and/or Form, from which humankind has descended. In religion we refer to this something as a spiritual realm, i.e., ‘Heaven,’ or the ‘Worlds of Light,’ whence we originated or to which we aspire. If we accept this rather universally held concept, then in order to reconnect we must follow some kind of ‘system’ to re-establish that primordial connection, via a system of communication, or communion, in a logical and, yes, scientific manner.”

Read or download “Religion as a Divine Communication & Healing Science” online at Scribd.com.

Or read the PDF version here.

Rupert Sheldrake. PHOTO: sheldrake.org

“Bad religion is arrogant, self-righteous, dogmatic and intolerant. And so is bad science. But unlike religious fundamentalists, scientific fundamentalists do not realize that their opinions are based on faith. They think they know the truth. They believe that science has already solved the fundamental questions.”

Link to the Huffington Post online to read the entire article, posted in the Religion section on December 3, 2012.

link provided by Robert Petrovich