About Beth & US

The Stream is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping us all fulfill our potential. It's not a membership organization; rather it's a community of spirit and intention. If you identify, you're one of us.

We have a Board of Directors, comprised of a cross-section of people working in different fields, from psychology to business. Many of us have been working together in one form or another since 1983, and some of us are fairly new to The Stream. But all of us share a commitment to consciousness.

We'd like to tell you about Beth Green, our Spiritual Director. She's an amazing woman, whose pioneering work in intuitive processes and spiritual teaching continue to guide us along the fun and challenging path of emotional healing and spiritual growth. Her dedication to her own evolution and ours has never flagged.

Beth has been an intuitive counselor, consultant and teacher since her psychic awakening in 1980. No one could have been more surprised than she, when she began to tap into higher consciousness. But she accepted the gift and challenge with enthusiasm.

Talk about surprised, as psychic as she is, Beth is still amazed by our love!

Born in New York City  in 1945, she was educated to be a classical musician, but chronic illness changed the course of her life when she was 15 years old. Her caring brought her into social activism very early in life, starting with the ban-the-bomb movement in 1961, when she was 16, and continuing through the anti-war, workplace organizing and women's movements. Always concerned with the alleviation of suffering, Beth believed she could help change the world from the outside. She couldn't.

In 1978, she met a practicing alcoholic, and that relationship brought her into a self-help program for the families of alcoholics; it also brought her into her spirituality. From there it was but a step to conversing with God or whatever voice was in her head. By 1980, she was full blown in her psychic awakening.

In 1983, while living in Los Angeles, Beth was guided to start The Stream, at that time an organization committed to bringing together psychology, new age spirituality and 12-step recovery, and people began to join her in  1984. The Stream was a pioneering mutual support organization, based in Los Angeles and San Diego, and we attracted therapists and lay people alike. Beth was channeling higher consciousness, and she started writing papers (see Articles) and doing tapes that year on Loving Ourselves, God & Others: Introduction to the Healing of God; Spirituality: The Last Block to Freedom; and The Alienation of Love (see  Recorded Talks &Tapes). She also gave public talks on topics, such as  Hope: the Magic Elixir and Healing the Healers (Recorded Talks & Tapes), which called upon those of us involved in healing modalities to examine our own behaviors and addictions.

 In some ways, The Stream flourished; we offered individual intuitively-guided self-awareness counseling, regular groups, four-day intensives, retreats, a food group and gatherings large and small.  But neither she nor the original members were  ready for the vision of mutual support and equality that Beth cherished. There was much more to learn, before that could be manifested, so The Stream disbanded in 1986. 

Chootchky, who rescued Beth in the spring of 2000, while she was living in Oregon. Chootch died in 2004. 

The stream at Beth's home in Oregon before she moved back to California. 

At that point, Beth and three other former Stream members created The Healing Partnership, which was primarily a group of intuitive counselors supporting one another.  During this period, Beth moved to rural San Diego County, where she worked a great deal on issues of sexual addiction and dysfunction and gave workshops on subjects, such as  Sexuality, Violence & God. She also wrote The Autobiography of Mary Magdalene, a powerful tool for healing published in 1989.

In 1990, while living in San Diego County, Beth founded and guided The Triple Eye Foundation for Intuition, Intervention and Integration, a teaching and learning organization, proposing innovative approaches to our collective needs for recovery, emotional, physical and spiritual well-being, creative expression, work and social organization. A teaching and learning organization, The Foundation, based in Los Angeles, and San Diego,  promoted challenging concepts  of collective consciousness and Breaking the I-Barrier. The Foundation offered services, including self-awareness counseling for groups and individuals, breathwork, addiction recovery, voice and speech intervention, kinetic intervention, martial arts classes, intuition training, spiritual services, support groups, business, healthcare and arts consulting, a men's program, and an extensive arts program. All these programs were innovative and intuitively guided. During these years, Beth had a number of articles published, such as Sober Spirituality (see Articles), and gave talks on topics, such as The Culture of Consciousness, which approached racism as a phenomenon of projection. 

The Foundation experimented with organizational forms, working through intuitive consensus. But by 1994, Beth resigned, one more time dissatisfied with our collective ability to create a form that met our needs, and The Foundation dissolved a year later. 

Two of the Foundation members joined Beth in creating Rising Mountains, Setting Suns in 1994, and this was a period of integrating spirituality and action through the Spiritual Activist Movement (SAM). SAM was an effort also to have a greater impact without the constraints of a large organization, and during that time Beth further developed  her concepts regarding the connection among body, mind and spirit.

In 1994, Rising Mountains disbanded, and Beth began a long period of internal work and hibernation. In 1997, she moved to Oregon, where she lived in relative seclusion. Finally in 1999, while still living in Oregon, she was guided once again to found The Stream, but this time with a new philosophy of organization, one much looser and free-flowing, more in line with her spiritual path, The Path of Not-Knowing. In the fall of that year, with the support of many wonderful people, Beth began to travel regularly to California, and The Stream has grown and flourished ever since. In September, 2001, she  moved back to Southern California, where a new adventure began. 

Beth and Sasha, her new friend, in California, after the death of Chootchky.

Some people never age.....

Beth and we have found ourselves in an entirely new way since Beth returned to Southern California. In 2002, she published Sacred Union: The Healing of God, a book about oneness and the integration of God's consciousness, and a new tape, The Healing of God: Integrating God's Fragments, and she began to address the larger social issues from a spiritual perspective. For example, prior to the invasion of Iraq, she was interviewed extensively on national and local radio programs about her book and the need to bring the consciousness of oneness into our political choices. 

At the same time, Beth began to develop The Living with Reality program, which teaches us how to fulfill our potential while, at the same time, supporting the collective to do the same. The heart of our current work, Living with Reality brings together spiritual teaching, energetic clearing and emotional healing. It helps people transform through its three legs: a book, a mutual support program and a series of workshops, and it changes the way we feel, think and behave. Through this transformational work, The Stream has found its power and its purpose, which is to help people connect to the source, so that we and they can fulfill our potential as individuals and as a collective. 

In early 2005, Beth published her delightful new book, God's Little Aphorisms, One-Liners from The Source, which is a book of 52 zingers from God that keep you laughing and learning. She is also continuing work on Living with Reality: Nine Platforms for Becoming Ourselves, which is the workbook accompanying the Living with Reality program. The book is already available as a free download on our website. Our donation-based mutual support meetings are growing and reaching more and more people. And Beth continues to lead the powerful series of Living with Reality workshops, opening people to more fulfilling and relaxed lives.

We have fun. Combining entertainment and enlightenment, Beth in 2004, playing a long-dead Transylvanian fortune-teller named Madam Mazurka. Her predictions were amazingly accurate.

There are two more wonderful twists to Beth's story. The first is her music. Chronically ill since she was 15 years old, she was unable to play the piano. In her 50s, she discovered the power of an electronic keyboard and synthesizer, and suddenly she was able to make music. To her surprise, compositions pored out of her. She tried to perform publicly, but her fragile health prevented her. In late summer 2002, Beth decided to create a CD, so she could share her music. She and we were amazed at the positive response, and so she released her first CD, The Gift of Peace, in the late summer of 2002. Because of the beauty and soothing effect of this music, we are offering it for free through the popular Gift of Peace program. Since then, Beth has composed another CD, A Soul's Journey through Darkness & Light, which is a program of gorgeous instrumental music, bringing us through life's journey. And she has recently completed another CD called In the Mist, which helps bring you into another dimension. Details to come.

And the second twist is that, despite her own history of weakness and lack of physcial lifeforce, Beth has become a conduit of increasingly powerful healing energies that support us all to move into altered states of consciousness.She bring this energy together with her musicality in the Free Healing Hours, where she chants and brings through transformative vibrations. And she becomes stronger herself. As her life force grows and expands, so does lifeforce of The Stream.

A few of us gathering to celebrate Beth's birthday in February, 2005. On the far left is Beth's mother, Lillian, who was 90 years old in this picture. 

Beth is an amazing person, whose dedication, perseverance and courage inspire us daily. She is also an incredible intuitive, whose insights and love bring light and healing to those around her. Currently Beth lives  in Bonsall, in Northern San Diego County.  Bonsall has become Stream Central, where Beth conducts groups and workshops, offers counseling, consulting and spiritual services, and meets you and other wonderful people.She is available for interviews and teaching as well.  

We are in the age of miracles, as Beth always reminds us. Both she and we are in the process of becoming who we already are, of reaching our potential and helping others do the same. As a nonprofit organization, The Stream is gathering the strength and support to bring our energies to a wider group of people and to bring our healing programs to those who need it.

Join us in whatever ways feel good to you. Check out our programs, workshops, groups and individual counseling. Enjoy our books, tapes and music. And bring your love, energy and awareness into our mix. Come for a day or a lifetime. You will always be welcome.

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