{"id":1456,"date":"2016-05-02T03:52:24","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T03:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/?p=1456"},"modified":"2016-05-02T03:52:24","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T03:52:24","slug":"neville-hodgkinson-speak-greenbelt-may-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/neville-hodgkinson-speak-greenbelt-may-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Neville Hodgkinson to speak in Greenbelt on May 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cScientists have demonstrated that both the brain and the body change constantly, according to how we use them. They tell us, for instance, that when we fall in love or become parents, massive brain reorganization takes place. Millions of old neural networks fall away, as millions of new ones form.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Brahma<\/a><\/p>\n

Thus, British journalist and author Neville Hodgkinson writes in the introduction to his latest book, \u201cI Know How To Live, I Know How To Die.\u201d The book discusses on many levels how quality of life is determined by the way the mind is nurtured.<\/p>\n

Hodgkinson, former correspondent for several national newspapers in the United Kingdom\u2014among them\u00a0The Sunday\u00a0Times,\u00a0Sunday<\/span>\u00a0Express, <\/em>and Daily Mail<\/em>\u2014will speak on the subject in a free public program entitled \u201cMy Consciousness, My Reality\u201d on\u00a0Tuesday, May 3<\/span>, 7-9 p.m.<\/span>\u00a0at OnStage theater in Greenbelt 1, Makati City.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a newspaper reporter,\u201d he narrates in the book, \u201cI specialized in writing about science and medicine partly because of my own appreciation for the scientific method and distaste for religious fanaticism and dogma.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, in the 1980s, he had \u201ca visionary experience\u201d that led him to what he describes as \u201can ascetic path whose central thrust is to quieten \u2018noise\u2019 from mental conditioning and the senses, in order to foster the experience of love and wisdom from a realm of awareness that lies beyond the brain.\u201d<\/p>\n

The path he embraced was Raja Yoga. The book is about his spiritual teacher, Dadi Janki of the Brahma Kumaris.<\/p>\n

When we change the way we look at things, Hodgkinson learned, it\u2019s as if those things change as well. He notes, \u201cSome physicists have argued that even the elements are, at some level\u2026capable of both holding and responding to subtle information.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hodgkinson\u2019s first book, \u201cWill to be Well\u2014the Real Alternative Medicine\u201d (Hutchinson, UK, 1984; Samuel Weiser, USA, 1986) is one of the first published materials to tackle intimate links between happiness and health.<\/p>\n

\u201cSpirituality is the engine of regeneration,\u201d declares Hodgkinson. \u201cIt makes healing and creative energy available to us. When we lose connection with that energy, life becomes purposeless.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Brahma Kumaris is an international non-sectarian, non-stock, non-profit organization. In the Philippines, it is a recipient of the UN Peace Messenger Award.<\/p>\n

For inquiries about the May 3<\/span> program and\/or reservations, text (+63927) 280-8363 or (+63917<\/span>) 834-0118; or call (+632) 890-7960.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Neville Hodgkinson, former correspondent for several national newspapers in the United Kingdom\u2014among them The Sunday Times, Sunday Express, and Daily Mail\u2014will speak on the subject in a free public program entitled \u201cMy Consciousness, My Reality\u201d on Tuesday, May 3, 7-9 p.m. at OnStage theater in Greenbelt 1, Makati City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[623,853,19,851,852,20],"class_list":["post-1456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsmakers","tag-brahma-kumaris","tag-conference","tag-health","tag-neville-hodgkinson","tag-seminar","tag-wellness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1458,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456\/revisions\/1458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}