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New Ways to Talk About God

Esoteric Christianity
Part 2: Finding A New Language For God
with Father Thomas Keating, Rollie Stanich, and Ken Wilber

With all the amazing advancements of the 20th and 21st centuries, some say that religion no longer has any place in today's world, outside the crude backwaters of obsolete ideology. But astonishingly, quite the opposite is true—the fruits of modern and post-modern thought have actually made our spiritual traditions even more pertinent (and more understandable) than ever. But if our traditions are indeed more relevant today than they were yesterday, why does it seem that more and more people feel forced to sacrifice their spirituality for reason? If our very best psychological systems can explicitly show how spirituality factors into the rest of the human experience, why do so few scholars take God seriously? And if there is truly nothing separate from God, why do we have such a hard time seeing Him? These questions are at the core of this week's fascinating dialogue, and we invite you to listen. [+more]

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Shifting Perspectives

Integral Profiles: Cindy Wigglesworth
Part 1: Spiritual Intelligence and the Integration of Unity Church
with Cindy Wigglesworth and Jeff Salzman

In this remarkable discussion, Cindy talks about the notion of "spiritual intelligence" in considerable detail.  She describes how her own leadership influence, ability to understand problems, and ability to think systemically were dramatically expanding as she learned to relax her ego—which she ascribes to an increased ability to take more and more perspectives as our spiritual intelligence continues to mature.  She and Jeff continue to discuss the often-difficult transition from post-modern to integral values and behaviors, which often requires a great deal of work around reclamation and healing of previous stages of development, leading to her own story of re-owning her faith in the Christian tradition.  She talks about her deepening relationship with the Unity Church, and how she is assisting their recent pledge to become an explicitly Integral church in the next few years—bringing an all quadrants, all levels, all lines, all states, all types approach to the forefront of Unity Church's teachings and work in the world. [+more]

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Your Native Perspective: Understanding Meetings (with Joanne Hunt)
The Integral Leader’s Job Hazard: Walking on the Map (with Cindy Wigglesworth and Robb Smith)

Love, Not War

Going Home For the Holidays

Admit it. No matter how much you’ve changed through the years, you can still get stuck in the same family dynamics when you go back home. Isn’t it time you learned the simple tools you need to revitalize your family spirit this holiday season? Then join us! Unleash a new level of self-confidence and authenticity with your family this holiday season by joining us for Integral Life’s FREE “Home for the Holidays” interactive coaching teleseminar. This is big. This is Integral Life’s first teleseminar ever and if you know us you know this will be totally different than any you’ve seen before. [+more]

 

Insights at the Edge

Sounds True Presents: Integral Transformation, Part Two
with Tami Simon and Ken Wilber

Tami Simon, founder and publisher of Sounds True, interviews spiritual teachers, visionary writers, and living luminaries about their newest work and current challenges—the "growing edge" of their inner inquiry and outer contribution to the world. In this 40-minute dialogue, Tami speaks with Ken Wilber in the second of a two-part series, asking the question “What is genuine transformation?” (Note: this link will take you away from IntegralLife.com) [+more]

 

 

Take a Moment

Centering Prayer

In his Sermon on the Mount, Jesus says "When you pray, go to your inner room, close the door and pray to your Father in secret. And your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you."

Centering Prayer is a simple Christian practice that helps us to locate and take refuge in our "inner room," consent to the presence of God-in-2nd-person, and lead us into deep prayer, devotion, and contemplation of the divine. Largely popularized in recent decades by Father Thomas Keating, Centering Prayer traces its origin to the contemplative prayer of the Desert Fathers, the Lectio Divinia tradition of Benedectine monasticism, and to works like The Cloud of Unknowing and the writings of St. Teresa of Avila and St. John of the Cross. It endures to this day as one of the Christian tradition's most powerful contemplative practices.

Take 20 minutes out of your day, and do the following:

  • Choose a sacred word as the symbol of your intention to consent to God's presence and action within (e.g. God, Christ, I AM, Love, Now, Faith, Amen, etc.).
  • Sitting comfortably and with eyes closed, settle briefly and silently introduce the sacred word as the symbol of your consent to God's presence and action within.
  • When you become aware of thoughts, return ever-so-gently to the sacred word.
  • At the end of the prayer period, remain in silence with eyes closed for a couple of minutes, before returning to the rest of your day.

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Let's Be Real!
Stacie Hardison

"Love, support, growth, and authentic self-expression is all that really matters. Surely all of us with the deepest wisdom can open our hearts and minds a little wider, a little deeper. Without this, all the wisdom that has been given is nothing. I so hunger for your love and want to grow with you."

 

Climate Leadership Campaign Meshwork
Robb Smith

"Hey folks, the '2020 Climate Leadership Campaign' team has a huge pavilion in the middle of the Copenhagen exhibition hall this week for the COP15 climate conference. I thought I'd attach one of the documents the team is using in Copenhagen this week as we enroll leaders into the 2020 CLC global 'meshwork' software platform for large-scale change and progress-tracking across key areas of transformation...."

 

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