Richmond IONS Meeting with Gary S. Malkin

Where/When: On-line, through ZOOM* and In-Person at Unity of Richmond, 800 Blanton Avenue, Richmond, VA 23221, on Saturday, March 21, 2026, 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon, with Potluck Lunch at conclusion.

Program Title: : The Untapped Technology of Music: Rebalancing the Analytical Mind and the Wisdom of the Heart as a Pathway to Unity Consciousness. Our program will feature a talk by Gary S. Malkin, philosopher, metaphysician, author and Emmy Award-winning composer.

What if one of the most powerful catalysts for human evolution has been hiding in plain sight—so familiar we’ve underestimated it? In this experiential presentation, Emmy Award-winning composer and filmmaker Gary Malkin draws from the core arc of his TEDx message and his forthcoming book, The Resonance Revolution, to explore music not as entertainment or mood enhancement, but as an underutilized human technology for state regulation, emotional range, and collective connection. Through guided demonstrations—spoken wisdom set to carefully composed music, immersive contemplative media, group alignment experiences, and practices that cultivate comfort with silence—participants will investigate how music can settle overstimulated cognition and create conditions in which the analytical mind and the heart’s discernment work in partnership rather than tension. At a deeper level, Gary’s inquiry will address a civilizational threshold, i.e., that we cannot sustain outer peace without cultivating inner peace, and inner peace remains elusive without developing grief and trauma literacy. In a world shaped by unprocessed loss, polarization and chronic overstimulation, music may offer a reliable pathway toward the emotional maturity required for unity consciousness—not as ideology, but as lived experience.

This session invites the Richmond IONS community into a grounded exploration of music as a bridge between science and spirituality, regulation and reconciliation, personal coherence and collective transformation, and ultimately, toward a world that works because we have become mature enough to sustain it.

* ZOOM (Meeting ID: 865 1815 1952, Passcode: 142841)

About Richmond IONS aka Central VA IONS Community Group: Central VA IONS Community Group is an unincorporated association and a local community group of The Institute of Noetic Sciences, an international association based in Novato, California (www.noetic.org). Central VA IONS is not associated with any religion, religious organization, doctrine or set of beliefs or practices and is open to all. Central VA IONS is entirely dependent upon voluntary donations of its members and friends to support its programs, mailings and other costs, and a love offering is requested at each meeting from those attending in-person or online at richmondions.org/index.php/donations/. Central VA IONS meetings are held each month at locations announced in its program notices and are open to all. Our website is at richmondions.org.