Terry Patten – Living the Integral Heart

Life is often teaching us the importance of “showing up” 100 percent in every moment, beyond physical, emotional, and spiritual contractions — but this is much easier said than done. In this first session, we’ll set a sacred container and come face to face with the powerful opportunity to join together in a sacred community of practice dedicated to taking 100 percent responsibility for our own experience during this 7-week journey. Through a series of experiential processes and epiphanies, we’ll support each other in inviting forward our deepest integral heart. We’ll allow that integral heart intelligence to become not just the power source of our inspiration, but also the creative author of our most important life choices.

In this module, you’ll:

• Discover the deeper esoteric meaning of “showing up” in your life and relationships, and why integral spirituality is anything but an escape
• Explore the nature of authentic commitment and identify what stands in the way of your next level of commitment to being fully alive, conscious, and powerful
• Examine how to enact commitment and vulnerability right now, and truly show up for your sacred relationship with yourself
• Be given 2 essential practices you can do to bring this alive in your daily life
• Activate the five primary faculties of the heart’s unique intelligence
• Practice the yoga of bringing it all together in the alchemy of the integral heart

In this module, we’ll explore the art of opening (and always re-opening) an unobstructed heart connection with divine grace. We’ll engage the art of bridging the profound splits created by our personal and collective traumas — dividing our minds from our hearts and our sense of self from our inherent, natural, loving relationship with God. We’ll connect directly with our inner skeptics, integrating our doubting minds as we dare to break the ultimate taboo, and actually open an intimate channel of connection to the universal source of grace, good luck, and gratitude. Then we’ll reboot a potent universal spiritual practice, accessing the power of “the simplicity on the other side of complexity.”

In this module, you’ll:

• Find out how to relate to all 3 integral “faces” of God, and sense directly how each one can be ultimate, sacred, and ever-new
• Directly grasp the evidence-based reasoning (beyond metaphysical belief) for opening your heart to the universal “giver” of everything we tend to take for granted
• Befriend the skeptical inner critic and help him and her serve a greater good
• Activate the hard-wired neural pathways that fire in both peak performance and ecstatic devotional love
• Awaken from the belief patterns that tend to divide your intelligent discernment from your passionate spiritual feeling
• Wake up to the psychophysics of grace (aka “good luck”), and explore how to align with it
• Perform a ritual opening of your emotional connection with the mysterious dvine source of all happy accidents and unearned benefits

Feeling and intelligence are two words for — or facets of — a single capacity. In this session, we’ll tune in to the unexplored territory of feeling and the incredibly sensitive instrument of our precious human body-mind. You’ll explore the key principles of how to use your subtle feelings, sensations, and emotions as a source of information and guidance. When your understandings crystallize into a felt-sense, you can sync up with your whole body intelligence and move spontaneously. You’ll open up into the higher octaves of positive feeling — from acceptance to pleasure and enjoyment, and into joy, ecstasy, and bliss. Finally, you’ll develop the art of navigating the full spectrum of life experience as a yoga of feeling.

In this module, you’ll:

• Discover the difference between reacting to what is felt and allowing yourself to feel through it
• Discover the transformational yogic dimensions of consciously enjoying pleasure
• Open your heart to fundamental equanimity and freedom amidst discomfort, threat, pain, and loss
• Track the way that errors of reasoning, careless mistakes, weakness of will, and emotional insensitivity all have a common root that we can learn to feel directly
• Find out how to pay attention to your heart as a sensitive instrument registering extremely subtle contractions in your total energy field
• Discover how profound happiness and peace can coexist with experiences of insecurity, anger, sorrow, fear, and shame
• Discover how the yoga of feeling can actually shift the subtle energy patterns surrounding you, affecting the quality of what you magnetize into your life

The integral heart is a powerful force of intention and creativity — flowing directly from the marriage of the inner feminine and inner masculine natures. This is nothing like the hyper-masculine will that exaggerates our separation from the flow of life. In this session, we’ll encounter a series of powerful distinctions and exercises that will enable us to connect with the deep roots of our tenderness and toughness, the foundational care that powers an integrated will. It creates powerfully from love rather than ego. It’s rooted in an existential stand that sources our greatest power.

In this module, you’ll:

• Examine the different “places” from which choice and intention can arise in your being and the way they color your exercise of will
• Explore the subtle dynamics of the fear, resentment, and judgment spread by our culture’s universal victim psychology and how it affects you and everyone
• Find your fundamental “yes” to life — and learn how it can express itself through your projects and work
• Discover how you can directly connect your personal happiness to your service to the health of the whole
• Tap into the power of the authentic connection you already have to a “value gravity” that transcends and yet includes your personal interests
• Discover why your opportunity to choose and commit is not a challenging responsibility but the very essence of the creative opportunity of every moment of living
• Discover a more fundamental source for the power of your will
• Bring organic discipline to your choices about diet, exercise, and time management

The mystery of the present moment is so obvious, so profoundly deep and powerfully wondrous, and yet so elusive. The art of awakened living is the art of waking up with fresh eyes, in “beginner’s mind,” and rediscovering this living moment, letting go into it and letting it live us. Then, life is endlessly creative, an unfolding miracle. But this is not something “you” can “do.” It’s an art — a dance we can only do with a highly skilled partner — that same unpredictably alive in the ever-present Mystery. In this session, we’ll get a feel for the art of integrating everything we’ve already explored in the instant-to-instant dance of living.

In this module, you’ll:

• Viscerally connect up the gladness of your grateful heart, recognizing it as the essence of your awareness and identity
• Befriend yourself and your personal hopes and fears from the perspective of divine freedom
• Know the nature of your covenant with the Mystery, give it your conscious assent, and tap into the empowering grace that is always flowing from it
• Experience “being lived” by the Divine Mystery, and strengthen the neural and energetic pathways of trusting that Source
• Experience the subtle energetic principles embodied by the “crucifixion” and the “resurrection,” and let them transform your relationship to experience

We’ll bring the ever-present dance of our personal awakening into relationship with one another. In mutuality, a field of “We-Space” is created when our consciousness opens into undefended contact with the consciousness of another person. This field becomes intelligent in a way that is much more than the sum of the parts — and that intelligence holds remarkable potentials. It can grow and develop, and it can function as a container and channel for the transmission of awakening.

In this module, you’ll:

• Discover the field of intelligence that emerges from the “space between” when you are able to meet, and be met by, a practitioner of integral heart intelligence
• Explore the territory of this “awakened We-Space” with other sincere explorers
• Let the wisdom of the We draw you into a higher level of your own intelligence
• Train to develop the capacity to engage a social experiment in sincere trustability and trusting mutuality
• Understand and honor the venerable ancient principle of transmission and lineage, while freeing yourself from bondage to what no longer serves you
• Help enact the turning of an evolutionary “corner” from the old feudal model of spiritual culture to a network of enlightened intelligence
• Discover how to apply your heart intelligence to day-to-day relationships in a way that brings clarity, luminosity, and love

To really “get real” with each other amidst the challenges of our time, we must become capable of sharing deep tantric paradox. This means relaxing and rejoicing in gratitude — with lightheartedness — while simultaneously getting very serious about effectively addressing the sobering challenges of our time. Our blessedly wonderful and terrible times represent a profound koan, an impossible riddle that we must resolve, an infinitely deep question that undoes our mind and reconfigures our consciousness. We’ll enter into the territory of daring and discovery from a new level of evolutionary friendship and responsibility.

In this module, you’ll:

• Join others in facing and intelligently feeling into the overwhelming challenges and amazing opportunities of responsible adulthood in a world in crisis
• Discover the liberating intensity of standing together, heart-to-heart with other evolutionaries who are letting this koan transform their consciousness
• Choose truth over hypocrisy, facing the hypocrisy of aspiring to a virtue beyond you, confessing it, and discovering new levels of honest evolutionary friendship
• Find the strength, sanity, and ground to defy the voices that are telling us that it’s grandiose and impractical to take our utopian impulse seriously
• Initiate a new trajectory of your personal growth, that of mutual awakening and “being the change” together with others

Your life’s purpose is unique, but it’s a heroic ordeal to truly live it. However, it’s not a static thing; in fact, it’s a vision which is shown to you as an ongoing revelation. It’s always evolving, because you’re evolving. The soul clarifies, reveals, and evolves our purpose throughout our lives, especially when we’re changing rapidly. Learn from a true master about the art of participating consciously in the journey of the ongoing revelation and empowerment of your soul’s purpose.

Jean Houston, PhD, scholar, philosopher, and researcher in Human Capacities, is one of the foremost visionary thinkers and doers of our time. She’s long been regarded as one of the principal founders of the Human Potential Movement. Dr. Houston is noted for her ability to combine a deep knowledge of history, culture, new science, spirituality, and human development into her teaching. She’s known for her interdisciplinary perspective delivered in inspirational and humorous keynote addresses.

Most of us are accustomed to (and unconscious of) the ongoing combat between our internal sub-personalities. These different parts of the psyche mean well. But they often create fear, resistance, and confusion, making it much harder for you to hear the voice of your soul, live your purpose, and have the impact you’re here to have. When we apply integral principles to these internal parts, we can relax these obstructions, resulting in a completely different kind of psyche, one far better suited to being an agent of change. Join purpose expert Tim Kelley as he explains powerful and little-known methods for creating a powerful and integrated mind.

Tim Kelley is a global change agent and internationally renowned expert on higher purpose. He works with top leaders in many fields and countries to transform human institutions and evolve society to its new form. Tim’s methodology, True Purpose™, has been featured internationally in magazines, newspapers, and on television. Tim has trained over 1,000 consultants, therapists, and coaches in his methods. He’s worked with hundreds of CEOs, including top leaders and executive teams from such companies as Nabisco, ING, Oracle, Lexmark, and AOL. He formerly worked as a leader at Oracle, two levels below the CEO. He’s the author of True Purpose and the co-author of three other books. Tim has commanded military organizations, including an amphibious assault craft unit, and is a retired Naval Reserve officer. He holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from MIT.

The fierce and brutal crisis of our time threatens the entire world. It’s at once a severe warning and a glorious opportunity. It’s a warning that if we don’t change and put love and wisdom into action, horrific global disaster is likely to upend human civilization. However, it’s also an opportunity to embrace these challenges and turn deeply to spiritual practice to fuel radiant sacred action that could birth a new adulthood for humanity and a new world. With his deep knowledge of all the major mystical traditions, Andrew will lay out his vision of this crisis, explore the five kinds of sacred practices necessary for staying aligned with the Divine, and introduce his map of sacred activism. He and Terry will also orient listeners to the archetypal and personal work with the shadow, which can restore our hearts to the light.

Andrew Harvey is an author, speaker, and founder/director of the Institute of Sacred Activism, an international organization focused on inviting concerned people to take up the challenge of our contemporary global crises by becoming inspired, effective, and practical agents of institutional and systemic change in order to create peace and sustainability. He’s written or edited more than 30 books and received many awards, including the Benjamin Franklin Award and the Mind Body Spirit Award.