The Memnosyne Institute

12/05/2022

The Memnosyne Institute's part in tonight's workshop. MANY thanks to everyone who took the time to make a contribution!

And thank you, Marcus X Russell and D'Ashleigh Brooks of Commissary Is Very Necessary, Inc.. for inviting us to contribute to your curricula!

Many thanks also to Marva and Merton Hanks, Orland Bishop, Rev. Dr. Jordi Bostock, and Kidd Waya for your generous and insightful contributions!
The video can also be found at: https://youtu.be/U4R45VcTNeI
or here on FB at: https://www.facebook.com/TheMemnosyneInstitute/videos/3361155140869134

11/07/2022

November is Native American History Month!
"Educate Yourself - We are still here."
Presented by Yolonda BlueHorse
Sponsored by The Red Path Warriors Society and The Memnosyne Institute

Save the DATE!! 🙏🏽💜💜 We will have dancers and speakers!

10/12/2022

Please help us put food into hungry mouths, not landfills by donating to The Memnosyne Institute's
FoodSourceDFW program
at:
https://www.foodsourcedfw.org/donate

2020 -2,535,549 pounds worth $4,259,722

2021 - 4,835,592 pounds worth $8,123,795

As of August 2022: 2,376,043 pounds worth $3,991,752

All Time as of August 2022:
23,344,642 pounds worth $43,421,035*

*number is before recent outreach to Florida and daily amounts of September have been added

10/09/2022

2022 Green Source Awards hops over to Fort Worth

2022 Green Source Awards hops over to Fort Worth

Our 11th annual Sustainable Leadership Awards will be held Sunday, Dec. 4, at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden.

08/14/2022

August 14th 2022 Holocaust Event Handout Full Front And Back

The Memnosyne Institute is proud to have Yolonda BlueHorse representing our organizations contribution to the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum's event tomorrow focused on s*x trafficking - both the history through the ages and where it is still tragically happening today. Yolonda will be making a presentation on the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women here in the United States. Please read the back of this handout to learn more about why this situation is such a challenge for the USA to tackle.

Pease also note that The Memnosyne Institute is following up on Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf's wonderful presentation in our "Library Salon Series" with the equally charismatic and insightful Rabbi Joshua Stanton this coming September 1st! It will be limited seating a free kosher gourmet food created by chef Avner Samuel!
https://www.calameo.com/read/001891479127e358532e3

August 14th 2022 Holocaust Event focused on the historical and resent issues of s*x trafficking. The Memnosyne Institute's contribution will be made by Yolonda Bluehorse. Handout Full Front And Back

08/13/2022

Completely informal sharing about the scope of The Memnosyne institute's work through the years till now and into the near future!

05/26/2022

It is with extreme sadness that everyone at The Memnosyne Institute mourns the loss of Dr. Don Edward Beck, one of our Advisory Board members and without whom two of our organization's most potentially prolific and life-changing initiatives, The Vital Signs Monitor led by Thomas Q Johns and the curricula offered in The school Out of A Box program, would not be nearly as effective in terms of their positive impact on the world. Don E. Beck was a pioneer whose work advised F.W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela in their quest to overthrow apartheid, but he didn't stop there. He continued taking Spiral Dynamics - while always crediting his own mentor, Dr. Clare W. Graves, for discovering it - and helping people around the globe from predicting the shooting in Norway after the Nobel Prize committee requested he demonstrate its application to seeing the forerunner of his Vital Signs Monitor (using AI to measure streaming data) form the basis of countries like Singapore, to predict terrorism and bioterrorism.....but Don always believed humanity was "much more than its worst parts" and dreamed of the day his work could be "computerized in full". It's heartbeaking to everyone at The Memnosyne Institute to have not had the chance to let Don know what has transpired over the last few weeks leading to being able to come significantly closer to transforming Don's visions for helping humanity evolve into a closer reality. But we will continue to be 100% dedicated to continuing to see his visions through and will always be deeply grateful for all the many ways he helped to shape the organization we have become - from our internal philosophy to our values to our priorities. Yet, no justice to Don's memory would be complete without our also stating how deeply Dr. Don Edward Beck affected the lives of multiple people on our team....Don, we hope you know the enormity of the lives you impacted...not just millions in South Africa, but all over the world. The seeds you planted in the hearts and minds of those who knew you are blooming and will will continue to help guide generations to come!

05/26/2022

It is with extreme sadness that everyone at The Memnosyne Institute mourns the loss of Dr. Don Edward Beck, one of our Advisory Board members and without whom two of our organization's most potentially prolific and life-changing initiatives, The Vital Signs Monitor led by Thomas Q Johns and the curricula offered in The school Out of A Box program, would not be nearly as effective in terms of their positive impact on the world. Don Beck was a pioneer whose work advised F W De Klerk and Nelson Mandela in their quest to overthrow apartheid, but he didn't stop there. He continued taking Spiral Dynamics - while always crediting his own mentor, Dr. Clare W. Graves, for discovering it - and helping people around the globe from predicting the shooting in Norway after the Nobel Prize committee requested he demonstrate its application to seeing the forerunner of his Vital Signs Monitor (using AI to measure streaming data) form the basis of countries like Singapore, to predict terrorism and bioterrorism.....but Don always believed humanity was "much more than its worst parts" and dreamed of the day his work could be "computerized in full". It's heartbeaking to everyone at The Memnosyne Institute to have not had the chance to let Don know what has transpired over the last few weeks leading to being able to come significantly closer to transforming Don's visions for helping humanity evolve into a closer reality. But we will continue to be 100% dedicated to continuing to see his visions through and will always be deeply grateful for all the many ways he helped to shape the organization we have become - from our internal philosophy to our values to our priorities. Yet, no justice to Don's memory would be complete without our also stating how deeply Dr. Don Edward Beck affected the lives of multiple people on our team....Don, we hope you know the enormity of the lives you impacted...not just millions in South Africa, but all over the world. The seeds you planted in the hearts and minds of those who knew you are blooming and will will continue to help guide generations to come!

05/23/2022

DEADLINE APPROACHING FOR TESTIMONY FOR H.R. 5444

An important sharing for survivors of USA Native American Boarding Schools: (Many thanks to The Memnosyne Institute's board member, Gregory G. Gomez, for sharing!)

https://mailchi.mp/nabshc.org/nabs-requesting-your-story-6024016?fbclid=IwAR1DUM59kNQAppH18m8C50aWNe41HCBqR7LcY2LvduwO4KAwQ3jJ5hgeOJI

Greetings relatives, We hope this email finds you well. The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition (NABS) is currently pursuing the passage of H.R. 5444 / S. 2907, the Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies in the US Act. The House Natural Resource Subcom...

05/04/2022

Local Ismaili community leader, Sulaiman A Hemani, of The Memnosyne Institute Board, and world renowned Sufi Muslim Theologian, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, of The Memnosyne Institute's Advisory Board, both wish to express good wishes to you on this Eid al-Fitr.🙏🏼

04/21/2022

The Memnosyne Institute's Green Source DFW interviews one of our sponsors, Trammell S. Crow about what Dallas can expect at the largest Earth Day event in the world, EarthX!

04/01/2022

Come out for The 2022 Oak Cliff Earth Day Festival!
Presented by The Memnosyne Institute's GreenSourceDFW program with leadership from Lybo Buchanan, Wendel Withrow and Julie Adams Thibodeaux:
OVER 86 vendors
offering
DELICIOUS FOOD
ART
CRAFTS
PERFORMERS
DANCERS
ACTIVISTS
COMMUNITY LEADERS
DIVERSE CULTURES
all coming together
THIS SUNDAY
APRIL 3, 2022
12:00 noon to 5:00pm
at
Lake Cliff Park,
300 E Colorado, Dallas, TX 75201
(Corner of Zang & Colorado)

https://www.facebook.com/events/314707030560159/?active_tab=discussion

04/01/2022

OVER 86 vendors
offering
DELICIOUS FOOD
ART
CRAFTS
PERFORMERS
DANCERS
ACTIVISTS
COMMUNITY LEADERS
DIVERSE CULTURES
all coming together
THIS SUNDAY
APRIL 3, 2022
12:00 noon to 5:00pm
at
Lake Cliff Park,
300 E Colorado, Dallas, TX 75201
(Corner of Zang & Colorado)

03/16/2022

The Laszlo Institute Of New Paradigm Research invited people selected by Dr. Ervin László to contribute to the online international Laszlo UpShift Festival and The Memnosyne Institute's co-founder/president, Mary Ann Thompson-Frenk D.D. (h.c.) was not only humbled to be included, but Ervin László selected an edited down version of her contribution as the introduction into the ebook version of his newest book, "The UpShift: Wise Living On Planet Earth". (which can be found on Amazon.) As not everyone could enjoy it when it was live streamed that day, here is Mary Ann's contribution in its entirety. The core being the simple message that "The most powerful thing you can do to have an impact in the world is in your mind!"

Please check out the work The Laszlo Institute of New Paradigm Research is doing as Ervin and Mary Ann are exploring potential collaborations in the near future between it and The Memnosyne Institute!

02/25/2022

¡Muchas, muchas gracias a Estrella TV por cubrir la historia de la donación de Aegle de 10,000 máscaras KN95 para la iniciativa de divulgación "Máscaras para la vida" del Instituto Memnosyne! ¡Y muchas, muchas gracias al Cultural Tolteca de Teotihuacan AC / Toltec Cultural Center por informarnos de las necesidades de la comunidad de Temazclampa!

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Many, many thanks to Estrella TV for covering the story of Aegle's donation of 10,000 KN95 masks towards Memnosyne Institute's "Masks For Life" outreach initiative! And many, many thanks to the Tolteca Cultural Center of Teotihuacan for informing us of the Temazclampa's community needs!

02/24/2022

The Upshift Festival

It was an honor to be included beside such remarkable people in The Laszlo Institute Of New Paradigm Research's "The Laszlo Upshift Festival"! All of the contributors are worth listening to!

(The Memnosyne Institute's Co-Founder, Mary Ann Thompson-Frenk's, contribution starts at 3:31:39)

https://www.facebook.com/thelaszloinstitute/videos/504303444371710

02/23/2022

Channel 29 at 10pm Central time tonight on Estrella TV Dallas, but shown nationwide as well!

01/22/2022

The Memnosyne Institute's co-founder and president, Mary Ann Thompson-Frenk, will be one of the contributors to the The Laszlo Institute Of New Paradigm Research's "UpShift Festival" on the 22nd! Ervin László has long been an inspiration to our co-founder's humanitarian outreach philosophy and continues to be someone with whom our organization is proud to recognize as an Advisory Board Member and collaborator. Tune in to watch the powerful content on PBS and on the podcast! It will require a ticket, but the tickets are FREE and can be found at: https://thelaszloinstitute.com/2022/01/12/the-laszlo-upshift-festival-2022/

01/02/2022

Encuentro de Medicina Tradicional

The Memnosyne Institute is proud of the leadership in our Maya Cultural Center who helped bring together traditional Mayan Healers for a conference in the Yucatan!

12/12/2021

The Memnosyne Institute deeply appreciates all the love Chef Avner Samuel has put into each one of these delicious meals!

Thank you sooo much, Chef Avner Samuel , for all the hard work you have out into preparing 25 turkeys for the Native American veterans today!🤗

12/10/2021

Gearing up....
🙏🏼 Many thanks to all who've donated!

12/07/2021

A NOTE TO OUR NEIGHBORS!!!!!!

On December 11th, The Memnosyne Institute will need full use of our 2902 Maple Avenue parking lot. So please, if you are not a team member or don't have an office in the Thompson Fine Arts, Inc, building, please do NOT park in our lot or use it as a "pass through" into the ally as we will be having a "drive through" through out property benefitting Native American elders/veterans and children. Thank you!🙏🏼

Want to donate? Then please contact us or donate here on Facebook, via PayPal or select "The Memnosyne Institute" when shopping on "AmazonSmile"!

Many thanks to Yolonda BlueHorse for leading this effort, to all the incredible donors who have given toys for the children and to the Native American families caring for elderly veterans and to Chef Avner Samuel for cooking 25 turkerys for them! ALL OF YOU ARE HELPING TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE AND WE OFFER YOU OUR GREATEST RESPECT! 🙌🏼

11/19/2021

How to Celebrate Native American Heritage Month

The Memnosyne Institute is very proud of the wonderful job Yolonda BlueHorse did representing the Native American community on NBC! Way to go, Yolonda!

(Also, many of our Native American and Maori and African American community friends may catch glimpses of themselves in this piece as the news station took pics from over multiple past years to share!)

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Vivian speaks with Yolanda Blue Horse, director of the indigenous cultures program at the Memnosyne Institute, and discusses the many contributions Native Americans have made in this country. Visit the Memnosyne Institute website to learn how you can help support this organization. MORE: MemnosyneIn...

11/18/2021

Quanah Parker descendant to speak at Green Source Awards

The Memnosyne Institute's GreenSourceDFW Awards will be live on the internet tomorrow night with a fascinating speaker fit for Native American History Month!🤗

Way to go, Wendel Withrow and Julie Adams Thibodeaux​​!

Fort Worth native Lance Tahmahkera will speak about the Comanche culture on Nov. 18 on Zoom.

10/27/2021

The Memnosyne Institute would like to thank the following people and organizations for helping us to deliver 10,000 KN95 masks to the Temascalapa Tribe in Nopaltepec, Mexico!

Thank you to the Tolteca of Teotihuacan who informed us of the Temascalapa Tribe requesting assistance from the Centro Cultural Tolteca de Teotihuacan AC / Toltec Cultural Center! Thank you also for agreeing to receive the masks and to deliver them in person to the Temascalapa tribe!

Thank you to Chase M Robertson of RR Robertson Wealth Management for connecting our organization to Aegle and to Thomas Richards who advocated with Aegel to make the donation of 10,000 KN95 masks! Thank you, Sandeep Ramachandran for approving our request in behalf of the Temascalapa tribe!

Thank you to Ricardo Blackal of FedEx Nacional and to Hugo Mendez of estafeta (https://www.facebook.com/groups/1594360264162700/user/1516155218/) for generously donating shipping of the 10,000 KN95 masks to the Tolteca of Teotihuacan where they will then deliver the masks on to the Temascalapa Tribe!

Thank you to our team as well - especially to Joshua Raymond Frenk who drove and carried the masks to San Antonio so we could benefit from the shipping donation and to Isabell Welcher Rossignol who shared her contacts for the shipping!

It truly takes a team to make these things happen and we can't express enough how much we appreciate you all!🙏🏼

09/16/2021

Please join us TONIGHT at 6:00pm for The Memnosyne Institute's GreenSourceDFW podcast, "Green Source On The Air" hosted by Wendel Withrow and Victoria Howard to hear insights from some extraordinary DGW leaders tackling hunger and good waste!

TUNE IN HERE: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81245845220

The program will feature interviews with:

Marcus X Russell, founder of Commissary is Very Necessary, which supports low income communities with high incarceration rates and has won statewide recognition from.the Sierra Club for their work

Dawan Shockley, cofounder of the Wyatt-Shockley Community Garden in Dallas

Tramonica Brown, founder of Not My Son, a Dallas-based non-profit organization focused on reforming city policies that perpetuate systems of oppression.

Rev. Dr. Todd Collier, director of The Memnosyne Institute's Center For Interfaith Inquiry and Initiatives, including the "FoodSourceDFW" program, which rescues excess food from suppliers and redistributes it to food pantries that provide the food directly to hungry families

07/24/2021

A special shout out of gratitude goes to Isabell Welcher Rossignol, Joshua Raymond Frenk and Alan Keith for going above and beyond to help pull off the logistics of the workshop!

3 hour "Advocacy Training" workshop presented by The Memnosyne Institute's president, Mary Ann Thompson-Frenk for "Smart Nature Learning Academy" to Advanced Preparatory International Students by Commissary Is Very Necessary, Inc.. led by Marcus X Russell!

07/24/2021

3 hour "Advocacy Training" workshop presented by The Memnosyne Institute's president, Mary Ann Thompson-Frenk for "Smart Nature Learning Academy" to Advanced Preparatory International Students by Commissary Is Very Necessary, Inc. led by
Marcus X Russell!

07/22/2021

The Tolteca Reported on Outreach Efforts During The Pandemic to The Memnosyne Institute's Executive Director, Phillip E. Collins. Adaptations to quarantine restrictions included not only their successful delivery of KN95 masks to multiple communities in multiple cities and towns, (via Memnosyne Institute's "Masks For Life" initiative), including to other Native American tribes as well as working with churches and educational institutions.....but also launching online education programs teaching meditation to students internationally, the basics of the temescal, and more. They have also adapted to reaching out to youth via syncing ancient prayers with techno/dance music as a way to redirect the youth's attraction to alcohol and the efforts have been successful with many youth preferring to dance without drugs to music with cultural meaning. They have also participated in educational documentaries that will be shown in Spain and Netflix. Their medicine garden and cactus garden have grown and they are hosting the indigenous senate meetings for Mexican tribal leaders at the cultural center as well. There is lots more on the horizon, but these are just a few of the ongoing efforts that they have been successful with despite the pandemic.

07/07/2021

2021-06-16_Mary Ann Thompson-Frenk Party

Many thanks to Sam Hsu for capturing these moments!

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Date: 2021-06-16; Wednesday Event: Location: Garland, Texas Camera: Nikon D7500

06/17/2021

A.F.I.S. feat Tonatiuh - Equinoccio (Original Mix), by Mexika Records

One of The Memnosyne Institute's cultural centers, Centro Cultural Tolteca de Teotihuacan AC / Toltec Cultural Center serving the Tolteca community of Teotihuacan, has participated in a project led by Mexika Records, (a mexican label of chillgressive, downtempo, chillout music inspire by the Toltec Philosophy combining sacred prayer with techno/dance music), in an effort to encourage the youth towards a healthier life ways while still embracing modern techno/trance sounds....Here, the cultural center's president, Tonatiuh has his invocation put to dance vibes....

https://mexikarecords.bandcamp.com/track/a-f-i-s-feat-tonatiuh-equinoccio-original-mix

from the album Air Element VA

06/17/2021

As Congress passed a bill to establish June 19, aka Juneteenth, as a national holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States, The Memnosyne Institute's GreenSourceDFW "Green Source On the Air" podcast will tackle local environmental justice issues through the lens of race for its "Green Juneteenth" themed online broadcast this month.

The online show, which airs TONIGHT Thursday, June 17th, at 6:00pm on Zoom, will feature three guests who have all worked on environmental justice issues in the Dallas area over the last few years:

When: TONIGHT Thursday June 17th 2021 6:00pm

Where: Zoom, https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82504126057

Ernest McMillan -
received the 2019 Green Source DFW Environmental Justice Award. He is a Dallas native who joined the Civil Rights movement in the 1950s before launching the Environmental Justice Network of Dallas in 2018 decades later. A relative newcomer to environmental causes, in 2019 he leaped in to organize a 3-day summit with General Russel Honoré, an internationally known author and speaker on disaster preparedness who now focuses on addressing climate change.

Collin Yarbrough -
a graduate student at SMU’s Lyle School of Engineering. He will talk about his work on the Environmental Injustice Archive, a collaborative project between Downwinders at Risk, SMU Sustainability and Development Program, Paul Quinn’s Urban Research Initiative, and the Clinton Global Initiative University.

Dawan Shockley -
will talk about the Wyatt-Shockley Community Garden, a project of the Skip Shockley Foundation. Shockley, who serves as COO of the Foundation, created the nonprofit with his cousin Neyssa Shockley to honor his uncle, a member of the Dallas/Denton Chapter of the Black Panthers, who worked to relieve food insecurity before his death in March of last year. The garden is named for both his uncle and his great grandmother, a Choctaw native who raised his uncle and Dawan's mother after their mother died. Ground was broken on the garden in December on the family’s property, left vacant after a house fire. Shockley, who also sits on the board of the Slow Food DFW, said the garden is a pilot program, which he hopes to replicate across Dallas.