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September 27, 2011 by Terry Patten 1 Comment

Join Us October 2nd for Duane Elgin on “Collective Crisis Meets Collective Wisdom””

Duane Elgin is one of the pioneers of evolutionary consciousness and integral philosophy. He has brought many crucial ideas into our collective conversation. Terry and Duane will explore freely, beginning with some of the key themes that Duane has so brilliantly clarified. For example:

1. A LIVING, NOT DEAD UNIVERSE: We live in a living, regenerative universe. This insight transforms our understanding of where we are, who we are, and where we are going.

2.  SUSTAINABLE WAYS OF LIVING: Consumerism makes sense in a dead universe.  But voluntary, happy, simplicity makes more sense in a living universe–and that is the view of reality emerging now.

3.  MASS MEDIA AND MASS MIND: At this pivotal time in human evolution, it is vitally important that messages in the mass media serve our psychological and spiritual health and not distort our collective intelligence, imagination and evolution.

4.  GREAT TRANSITION STORIES: We are in the early stages of a ‘great transition.’  There are a number of stories that offer insight into this process.

* HUMANITY IS GROWING UP

*  HUMANITY IS ON A HEROIC JOURNEY

*  HUMANITY IS EVOLVING INTO A NEW STAGE OF CONSCIOUSNESS

* WE ARE SHIFTING FROM A BIOLOGICAL TO A BIO-COSMIC IDENTITY

5.  TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION: We require processes that will acknowledge and work to overcome the thousands of years of separation that has been experienced by different people at different times, including: women/men, poor/rich, black/white, old/young, Muslim/Christian, humans/other life-forms, etc. We would benefit enormously from a global, truth and reconciliation process at every scale.

About Duane Elgin:

DUANE ELGIN is an internationally recognized speaker, author and trans-partisan media activist.  His books include: The Living Universe, Promise Ahead, Voluntary Simplicity, and Awakening Earth. With Joseph Campbell and other scholars, he co-authored the book Changing Images of Man.

Duane has worked as a senior staff member of a Presidential Commission on the American Future, and as a senior social scientist with the think-tank SRI International where he coauthored numerous studies of the long-range future.

He is also a passionate media activist and, over the past thirty years, Duane has co-founded three non-profit and non-partisan organizations working for media accountability and citizen empowerment.

Duane received an MBA from the Wharton Business School, and an MA in economic-history from the University of Pennsylvania.  In 2006, he received the international “Goi Peace Award” in recognition of his contribution to a global “vision, consciousness, and lifestyle” that fosters a “more sustainable and spiritual culture.”

HOW TO PARTICIPATE:

Sunday, October 2nd at 10:00 am Pacific

Please Note: There will be a limited number of lines available on the live conference call, so we encourage you to listen online if possible. To make sure you can get through by phone, we encourage you to dial in early.

  • To listen live by phone, dial: (206) 402-0100, then, enter Access Code: 272072#
  • To listen live online go to: http://InstantTeleseminar.com/?eventid=22976823
  • To download the audio after the teleseminar is complete, click here to gain instant access.

Join the Dialogue: About one hour into the dialogue, we’ll open up the lines and you’ll have the opportunity to interact with us directly over the phone or via instant message. Here’s what to do:

  • To interact live by voice, dial into the conference line number and wait until we ask for a question from someone in your region, or
  • Send us your question via instant message in the teleseminar window on your computer
  • Send us your questions and comments before or during the live dialogue by posting them on our Beyond Awakening Community Facebook page

We look forward to your attendance!

Sincerely,
The Beyond Awakening Team

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September 14, 2011 by Terry Patten Leave a Comment

Join Us September 17th for A.H. Almaas on “Responsive Enlightenment”

Note: Special broadcast time: 11:00 AM Pacific

Hameed Ali (also known as A.H. Almaas) states that

“Enlightenment is not a static realization; it is always evolving. It is the response of Reality to particular situations within particular cultural milieus, even if its basic awakenings and insights are universal and transcendent. Enlightenment is not a static realization, but a dynamic intelligent illumination of a particular situation as it relates to the entirety of existence.”

Thus, he teaches people to grow into freedom as an unfolding, living realization, one that doesn’t separate spiritual growth from psychological maturation, opening into a dynamic enlightenment wherein a transcendent truth can live personally in the world.
We will discuss how that process can empower our healthy creative responses to this historical moment. Cultural evolution is rapidly accelerating as cultures mix and encounter new religions, technologies, and environmental changes, producing what many see as an unprecedented global crisis.

We will explore the creative possibilities of this moment by exploring “skillful means” including how to use inquiry and other newly formulated spiritual practices to open up the infinite creativity of our Being, transforming our lives into a runaway realization continually responding to individual life circumstances that cannot help but encompass our whole contemporary global situation.

About Hameed Ali:

A.H. Almaas (the pen name of Hameed Ali) is the founder of the Ridhwan School and is the author of, The Elixir of Enlightenment, Essence: The Diamond Approach to Inner Realization, The Diamond Mind Series, The Diamond Heart Series, and The Diamond Body Series, amongst many others.

He was born in Kuwait in 1944. At the age of eighteen, he moved to the USA to study at the University of California in Berkeley. While Hameed was working on his Ph.D. in physics he reached a turning point in his life and destiny that led him to inquire deeply into the psychological and spiritual aspects of human nature. He was among the first students of Claudio Naranjo, an early pioneer of the integration of spiritual and therapeutic work.

His interest in the truth of human nature and the true nature of reality resulted in the creation of the Diamond Approach, a path of investigation of Reality and transformative work on oneself designed to lead to human maturity and liberation.

“Because of our particular vision of Reality it is not completely accurate to think of this approach as spiritual work, for this work does not separate the spiritual from the psychological, neither does it see these two as separate from the physical everyday life and scientific investigation of the content of perception.”

Depending on one’s perspective, he might be termed, among other things, an Integral theorist, a mystic, a spiritual teacher or an exponent of the perennial philosophy. The curriculum of the work draws upon Sufism, Platonism, Buddhism, the Fourth Way, and many other of the world’s spiritual and psychological traditions. Teachers of the Diamond Approach focus on the students’ specific perception of their own immediate issues. His website is www.ahalmaas.com.

HOW TO PARTICIPATE:

Sunday, September 117th at 11:00 am Pacific

Please Note: There will be a limited number of lines available on the live conference call, so we encourage you to listen online if possible. To make sure you can get through by phone, we encourage you to dial in early.

  • To listen live by phone, dial: 216-258-0785, then, enter Access Code: 272072#
  • To listen live online go to: http://InstantTeleseminar.com/?eventid=20896752
  • To download the audio after the teleseminar is complete, click here to gain instant access.

Join the Dialogue: About one hour into the dialogue, we’ll open up the lines and you’ll have the opportunity to interact with us directly over the phone or via instant message. Here’s what to do:

  • To interact live by voice, dial into the conference line number and wait until we ask for a question from someone in your region, or
  • Send us your question via instant message in the teleseminar window on your computer
  • Send us your questions and comments before or during the live dialogue by posting them on our Beyond Awakening Community Facebook page

We look forward to your attendance!

Sincerely,
The Beyond Awakening Team

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August 12, 2011 by Terry Patten 2 Comments

Join Us this August 21st for Arjuna Ardagh “Cancel Your Subscription to Enlightenment

Arjuna Ardagh points out that most spiritual practitioners came of age under the influence of teachers, mostly men, from oriental traditions.  And we have been sold on the idea of a final state of arrival where the “ego” will finally disappear forever, and all that is left is a homogenous goo of bliss.

Holding on to the concept of a final  state of arrival comes with a price tag, however.  First of all, most of the teachers who have filled our heads with these ideas have turned out to be not so perfect and egoless as we had hoped. But more important, fixing our attention on a future state of arrival is the most reliable way to distract ourselves from what is here right now.

Arjuna asks, what would our lives be like if we cancelled our subscription to the idea of any glittering future better than what is already here, of any state of consciousness better than the one we are already in?  If we call back our energy from an imagined future, where could it possibly rest?  Only here.

For more than two decades, Arjuna Ardagh has been a passionate teacher of abandoning the idea of enlightenment.  He has helped tens of thousands of people to wean themselves off the idea of a future state of liberation, and to come into direct collision with the present moment. Arjuna claims that giving up the hope of enlightenment is the single most important step you can take in spiritual maturity.

About Arjuna Ardagh:

Arjuna Ardagh is an awakening coach, writer, teacher and public speaker. He is the author of seven books and many audio and video products, including the 2005 bestseller The Translucent Revolution, and his most recent book Leap Before You Look. He is the Founder of the Living Essence Foundation in Nevada City, CA, a non-profit organization dedicated to the awakening of consciousness within the context of ordinary life.

HOW TO PARTICIPATE:

Sunday, August 21st at 10:00 am Pacific

Please Note: There will be a limited number of lines available on the live conference call, so we encourage you to listen online if possible. To make sure you can get through by phone, we encourage you to dial in early.

  • To listen live by phone, dial: 216-258-0785, then, enter Access Code: 272072#
  • To listen live online go to: http://InstantTeleseminar.com/?eventid=21355707
  • To download the audio after the teleseminar is complete, click here to gain instant access.

Join the Dialogue: About one hour into the dialogue, we’ll open up the lines and you’ll have the opportunity to interact with us directly over the phone or via instant message. Here’s what to do:

  • To interact live by voice, dial into the conference line number and wait until we ask for a question from someone in your region, or
  • Send us your question via instant message in the teleseminar window on your computer
  • Send us your questions and comments before or during the live dialogue by posting them on our Beyond Awakening Community Facebook page

We look forward to your attendance!

Sincerely,
The Beyond Awakening Team

Filed Under: General

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