D-TH3 Living in Non-Local Consciousness
Early 4 Week Class | Registration opens Saturday, August 1, 2026 12:00 AM
Why is it that we have experiences like thinking of a person and suddenly the person calls us, or letting the mind go quiet and suddenly remembering where we left the car keys, or at a social gathering with our back turned feeling someone staring at us, or even having glimpses of past lives or future events? Because we live in non-local consciousness - the primal, universal energy Einstein called the unified field. This energy connects everything and everyone. It enfolds time and space. Intuitively we know this connective energy. We experience it through instances of synchronicity. But our minds are often mired in distraction so that we are unaware of the connective tissue that binds us to one another. We will examine non-local consciousness through the portals of physics, the human mind, Earth’s ecosystem, the social compact, and spiritual teachings
Lyla Yastion
Lyla Yastion received a Ph.D. in Anthropology from University of Albany and taught courses in anthropology and religious studies for 18 years at the college level, most recently at SUNY New Paltz. Since her retirement she has been presenting courses at various lifelong learning centers in the Hudson Valley. Lyla has written two books: Pause Now: Handbook for a Spiritual Revolution (2009) and Homesick: finding our way back to a healthy planet (2018) both published by Hamilton Books. A third book, which will be released by Blossom Spring Publishing in April 2025, is entitled My Years as an Alzheimer’s Caregiver: Transcending Loss by Nurturing Spirit. Lyla is a Reiki Master with training in Shamanic Healing. She studied mindfulness under Jon Kabat Zinn and is certified in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction.
Lyla lives in New Paltz with her cat, Henry.