Beyond Awakening Series
BEYOND AWAKENING
Website: http://beyondawakeningseries.com/
Starts: September 12, 2010
Ends: May 8th, 2011
Host: Terry Patten
Speakers:
Terry Patten with Craig Hamilton – Kick-off Call, “The Evolution of Awakening”
Ken Wilber – “Creating An Integral Culture”
Michael Murphy – “The Embodiment of the Divine In Everyday Life”
Andrew Cohen – “The Practice of Evolution”
Claire Zammit – “A New Women’s Spirituality – Unleashing the Power of the Co-Creative Feminine”
Gangaji – “What are you practicing?”
Dr. Rick Hanson – “The Awakening Brain”
Katherine Woodward Thomas – “Evolving Together”
Thomas Hubl – “A Spirituality that Creates the Future”
Howard Martin & Debbie Rozman – “Using the Intelligence of the Heart to Bring Coherence to Our World”
Sadhguru – “Inner Engineering”
Diane Musho Hamilton – “Dancing With the Collective Field of Light and Shadow”
Brother David Steindl-Rast – “Great Full-Ness, an Open Heart, and Cultural Transformation”
Robert Augustus Masters and Diane Bardwell Masters – “Transformation Through Intimacy”
Dan Millman – “Head in the Clouds, Feet on the Ground”
Saniel Bonder and Linda Groves-Bonder – “Becoming a Human Sun”
Steve McIntosh - “The Spiritual Teachings of Evolution”
Lama Surya Das - “A Spirituality that Creates the Future”
Hale Dwoskin - “Letting Go and Beyond”
Dr. Jean Houston - “A New Order of Spirituality In Our Time”
Ram Dass - “Be Love—Right Here, Right Now”
Sally Kempton – “The Transformative Cycle and the Upward Shift: What is Progress on the Spiritual Path?”
Barbara Marx Hubbard – “Conscious Evolution: Communing with a Future that Wants to Manifest Through Us”
Adyashanti – “The Inner Revolution of Spiritual Awakening”
Marc Gafni – “Identifying Your Unique Gift”
Carter Phipps – “Are You an Evolutionary? The Birth of A New Kind of Spiritual Practitioner”
Terry Patten – “Awakening to Higher Octaves of Our Humanity”
Raphael Cushnir – “Blinders Off! Seeing Through Evolutionary Eyes”
Dr. Jean Houston - “Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose: How Living Your Highest Calling Can Change the World”
Craig Hamilton – “Integral Enlightenment: Embodying the Impulse to Evolve”
Lynne Twist – “Changing the Dream”
Michael Dowd – “Big Integrity: Deep-Time Eyes and a Global Heart”
Roger Walsh – “Becoming an Optimal Instrument of Service: What Does it Really Take?”
Candice O’Denver – “The Era of Inexhaustible Benefit”
Andrew Harvey – “The Divine Feminine”
Meet Your Host: Terry Patten
Terry Patten is a passionate Integral coach, teacher, trainer, consultant, and writer. He is committed to serving the emergence of Integral consciousness—by writing and educating, and by helping conscious individuals and organizations negotiate extraordinary transitions.
SPEAKERS
Dan Millman
Dan Millman is a former world-champion gymnast, Stanford coach, martial arts instructor, and college professor. After half a lifetime exploring the heart of various wisdom traditions, he has dedicated his life to bringing greater clarity, purpose, meaning, and perspective to men and women from all walks of life. Following his intensive, twenty-year spiritual quest, Dan Millman's teaching found its form as the Peaceful Warrior's Way, expressed fully in his books and lectures, and his work continues to evolve over time, to meet the needs of a changing world.
Dan Millman's books, including Way of the Peaceful Warrior, The Life You Were Born to Live, No Ordinary Moments, The Laws of Spirit andThe Journeys of Socrates, have inspired millions of readers in 29 languages. The feature film, Peaceful Warrior, starring Nick Nolte, was adapted from Dan Millman's first book, based upon incidents from his life.
Dan Millman brings a practical, light-hearted approach to the challenges of everyday life at work and at home. As a former athlete, Dan Millman prefers practical outcomes to abstract philosophy. His purpose is to teach, to share, and to remind people of what they already know but might have forgotten. Dan Millman's presentations range from 20-minute keynotes to full -day and weekend presentations, to week-long intensive trainings.
Married for over 30 years, Dan Millman and his wife live in northern California.
David Steindl-Rast
David Steindl-Rast was born July 12, 1926, in Vienna, Austria, where he studied art, anthropology, and psychology, receiving an MA from the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts and a PhD from the University of Vienna. In 1952 he followed his family who had emigrated to the United States. In 1953 he joined a newly founded Benedictine community in Elmira, NY, Mount Saviour Monastery, of which he is now a senior member. In 1958/59 Brother David was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Cornell University, where he also became the first Roman Catholic to hold the Thorpe Lectureship, following Bishop J.D.R. Robinson and Paul Tillich.
Together with Thomas Merton, Brother David helped launch a renewal of religious life. From 1970 on, he became a leading figure in the House of Prayer movement, which affected some 200,000 members of religious orders in the United States and Canada.
Brother David’s books have been translated into many languages. Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer and A Listening Heart have been reprinted and anthologized for more than two decades. Brother David co-authored Belonging to the Universe (winner of the 1992 American Book Award), a dialogue on new paradigm thinking in science and theology with physicist, Fritjof Capra.
His dialogue with Buddhists produced The Ground We Share: Buddhist and Christian Practice, co-authored with Robert Aitken Roshi.
His most recent books are The Music of Silence, co-written with Sharon Lebell, and Words of Common Sense.
At present, Brother David serves a worldwide Network for Grateful Living, through www.gratefulness.org, an interactive website with several thousand participants daily from more than 243 countries
Dr. Marc Gafni
Dr. Marc Gafni is a rabbi and iconlastic teacher of Kabbalah and Evolutionary Spirituality. He is a core founder and faculty member of iEvolve Global Practice Community as well as director of the Integral Life Spiritual Center of Integral Life. He has written seven books, including the national bestseller Soul Prints, and The Mystery of Love, a Kabbalistic exploration of the relationship between the sexual, the erotic, and the sacred. Gafni's teaching is marked by a deep transmission of open heart, love and leading edge provocative wisdom.
Gafni's path of personal evolution, in both the agony and the ecstasy of what he calls “sacred autobiography,” woven together with profound reverence and reading of sacred texts have formed the context for his personal realization. It is from this place of broken-hearted humility, radical joy and and sacred audacity that he teaches
Sharon Salzberg
Sharon Salzberg has been a student of Buddhism since 1971, and has led meditation classes and retreats worldwide since 1974.
She teaches both intensive awareness practice (insight meditation) and the profound cultivation of lovingkindness and compassion in a non-sectarian, inclusive framework. She is a co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts and The Barre Center for Buddhist Studies.
Sharon's Sharon's newest book is Real Happiness, The Power of Meditation: A 28-Day Program, published by Workman Publishing. She is also the author of The Force of Kindness, from Sounds True; Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience, from Riverhead Books; Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness and A Heart as Wide as the World, both from Shambhala Publications; and co-author with Joseph Goldstein of Insight Meditation, a Step-by-Step Course on How to Meditate (audio), from Sounds True.
Sharon has played a crucial role in bringing meditation practice to the West, and is committed to exploring the role of spiritual awareness in daily life and in issues of social justice. For more information about Sharon, and her teaching schedule, please visit: http://www.sharonsalzberg.com/.
Claire Zammit
Claire Zammit is the co-creator of the Feminine Power courses for women and co-leads a thriving community of thousands of women throughout the world. Claire is a highly trained specialist in transformative education with a unique gift for designing and delivering dynamic, leading edge programs that give participants access to life-altering worldview shifts that lead to embodied and lasting change.
Claire is currently completing her doctorate in the field of Transformative Learning and Change at the California Institute of Integral Studies, researching the life-changing transformations of women in her year-long Feminine Power Mastery program.
She also holds a Masters degree in Social Ecology. Claire is the co-author of the forthcoming book, Feminine Power: Awakening to the Creative Force of Life and co-creator and co-host of the internationally acclaimed Women on the Edge of Evolution teleseries.
Michael Dowd
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Howard Martin
Howard Martin brings more than 30 years of experience in business and personal development to the position of Executive Vice President, Strategic Development. Howard's responsibilities include global alliances, marketing, and program and product development. Howard has been instrumental in assisting Doc Childre in the development and teaching of HeartMath's programs since its inception. He speaks internationally on the HeartMath approach to advancing human performance that is based on compelling scientific research--linking heart function with health, emotional well-being and intelligence.
Howard is co-author with Doc Childre of The HeartMath Solution, published in 2000 by Harper San Francisco. He also developed Nightingale-Conant's tape series, "The HeartMath Method."
Howard is a dynamic speaker, and has delivered hundreds of workshops and keynote addresses to audiences ranging from corporations, to the armed forces, to educators, families, and human service providers. As a key spokesperson for HeartMath, he has conducted hundreds of media interviews. His appearances include CNN Headline News, U.P.I. Radio network, WNBC-TV-New York, WGN-TV-Chicago, Discovery Channel-Beyond 2000, CBN/Canada, New Women, Muscle and Fitness, San Francisco Chronicle, Billboard, and the Boston Globe.
Rick Hanson
Rick Hanson, Ph.D., is a neuropsychologist and founder of the Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom.
Dr. Hanson’s most recent book is Buddha’s Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom (with Rick Mendius, M.D.; Foreword by Dan Siegel, M.D. and Preface by Jack Kornfield, Ph.D.), is being published in ten languages.
An authority on self-directed neuroplasticity, he edits the Wise Brain Bulletin, and his articles have appeared in Tricycle Magazine, Insight Journal, and Inquiring Mind. His Your Wise Brain blog is on Huffington Post, Psychology Today, and other major websites, and he also has a weekly e-newsletter, Just One Thing. He has a chapter – 7 Facts about the Brain That Incline the Mind to Joy – in Measuring the Immeasurable, as well as several audio programs with Sounds True. His first book was Mother Nurture: A Mother's Guide to Health in Body, Mind, and Intimate Relationships (Penguin, 2002) Dr. Hanson is currently a trustee of Saybrook University, and a member of the Board of the Tricycle Foundation. He also served on the board of Spirit Rock Meditation Centerfor nine years, and was President of the Board of FamilyWorks, a community agency. He began meditating in 1974, trained in several traditions, and leads a weekly meditation gathering in San Rafael, CA. He enjoys rock-climbing and taking a break from emails. He and his wife have two children. For more information, please visit www.RickHanson.net.
Adyashanti
Adyashanti dares all seekers of peace and freedom to take the possibility of liberation in this life seriously. He began teaching in 1996, at the request of his Zen teacher with whom he had been studying for 14 years. Since then many spiritual seekers have awakened to their true nature while spending time with Adyashanti.
The author of The End of Your World, Emptiness Dancing, and True Meditation, Adyashanti offers spontaneous and direct nondual teachings that have been compared to those of the early Zen masters and Advaita Vedanta sages. However, Adya says, “If you filter my words through any tradition or ‘-ism’, you will miss altogether what I am saying. The liberating truth is not static; it is alive. It cannot be put into concepts and be understood by the mind. The truth lies beyond all forms of conceptual fundamentalism. What you are is the beyond—awake and present, here and now already. I am simply helping you to realize that.”
A native of Northern California, Adyashanti lives with his wife, Mukti, and teaches extensively in the San Francisco Bay Area offering satsangs, weekend intensives, and silent retreats. He also travels to teach in other areas of the United States and Canada.
Thomas Hübl
Thomas Hübl is a contemporary spiritual teacher. He respresents an uncompromising clarity, which brings the enlightened potential of a new “Culture of WE” into the light. His workshops and trainings invite people to experience a deeper dimension of self-awareness and individual responsibility. The radical path of transcendence from the ego-centric world opens the door to deeply authentic expression, service to the world and to the focus on the absolute. Experiencing a driving force to take part in evolutionary processes, people apply their gifts into the world in a concrete way.
Thomas is the initiator of the Celebrate Life Festival and the Synchronized Humanity Tour. He founded the Academy of Inner Science in 2008, creating a space for the exploration of contemporary mysticism, which directly contributes to a waking culture. The Academy offers an engaging invitation to all, who feel the call to awaken and wish to manifest this in the world. The programs of the Academy focus not only on personal transcendence, but also on the active commitment to respond to the challenges of the human condition, which we face in today’s post-modern world.
Saniel Bonder
Saniel Bonder is the author of Healing the Spirit/Matter Split and the founder of the Waking Down in Mutuality work. He has been a pioneer in the widespread embodiment and mutual, evolutionary exploration of awakened consciousness for over a decade.
Saniel is also a tantric and a shaman, an eco-entrepreneur, an activist for nuclear disarmament, a golfer, and a flute player. He writes, “The heart of my life since bodily awakening as the conscious Self is being related to the great Mystery in Female form, the Goddess. Of all Her forms, the most precious to me is my beloved wife and partner Linda. I can’t begin to tell you how grateful I am to her and for her every day of my life. We feel deeply privileged to serve others and the world together.”
He is extremely proud of the transitions he and Linda and their Heart-colleagues in the Waking Down in Mutuality community have accomplished. After more than a decade under his direction as the founder, their shared work and community life are now proceeding on a new, cooperatively created footing of democratic empowerment and mutual accountability. Please see The Spirit of Our Work, letters about this transition Saniel has written over the past year and more, and other relevant communications at www.wakingdown.org.
With Linda, Saniel is a founding member of the Integral Institute and a charter member of the Integral Spiritual Center.
Roger Walsh
Roger Walsh, M.D., Ph.D. graduated from Australia’s Queensland University with degrees in psychology, physiology, neuroscience, and medicine, and then came to the United States as a Fulbright Scholar. He is now at the University of California at Irvine where he is professor of psychiatry, philosophy, and anthropology, as well as adjunct professor of religious studies.
Roger’s research and writings span several areas. The main topics include enhancing psychological health and wellbeing, meditation and contemplative practices, the nature of religion and spirituality, and the psychological roots of our contemporary social and global crises. He has been deeply immersed in contemplative practices as a practitioner, researcher, and teacher for over three decades.
Roger’s books include Staying Alive: The Psychology of Human Survival (one of New Option’s “Outstanding Books of the Year.”), Paths Beyond Ego (one of Common Boundary’s “Most Influential Books”), Meditation: Classic and Contemporary Perspectives (“Outstanding Academic Book of the Year Award”), and Essential Spirituality: The Seven Central Practices with a foreword by The Dalai Lama.
Terry Patten
Terry Patten is a leading voice in the emerging fields of integral evolutionary leadership and spirituality. In his cutting-edge writings, talks, and teachings, he not only inspires transcendental awakening, love, and freedom, but also calls us to accept and incarnate our full humanity. This expresses itself in a profound sense of purpose, spiritual inspiration, and evolutionary activism.
Terry is a faculty member in the Integral Executive Leadership programs at Notre Dame University, a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Integral Theory and Practice, and serves on the board of the Wellsprings Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom. He holds degrees from the University of Michigan and John F. Kennedy University.
He worked with Ken Wilber a core team at Integral Institute to develop Integral Life Practice, which distills ancient and modern practices into an intelligent contemporary transformational lifestyle. Earlier, for 15 years, he undertook a life of intensive spiritual discipline in the monastic setting of Vision Mound Seminary. Upon leaving he founded the catalog company Tools For Exploration, which defined the field of consciousness technologies. Terry is also a social entrepreneur involved in supporting restorative redwood forestry.
As an entrepreneur and consultant he has worked for twenty years to help leaders bring higher consciousness into practical actions that transform complex human systems. He is also a teacher, coach and consultant who travels widely, challenging and connecting leading-edge individuals and organizations worldwide.
Integral Spiritual Practice integrates the insights earned during Terry's decades of intensive spiritual practice with those from his years as an entrepreneur and grassroots activist. In his current work, he is helping to articulate an authentic spirituality that illuminates the vital relationship between sincere care, discriminative intelligence, personal responsibility and spiritual awakening.
A coach, consultant, teacher, and author of four books, Terry lives in Marin County near San Francisco, CA. He is the author, with Ken Wilber, of Integral Life Practice: A 21st-Century Blueprint for Physical Health, Emotional Balance, Mental Clarity, and Spiritual Awakening.
His personal web site is http://integralspiritualpractice.com.
Andrew Cohen
Andrew Cohen is an internationally recognized spiritual teacher, evolutionary philosopher and author. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of award-winning EnlightenNext magazine. A visionary thinker and revolutionary idealist, Cohen is widely recognized for his original contribution to the emerging field of evolutionary spirituality and for his original spiritual teaching, Evolutionary Enlightenment.
Through his talks, intensive retreats, publications, and ongoing dialogues with leading philosophers, mystics, and activists, Cohen has becoming a leading voice in an international alliance of individuals and organizations that are committed to the transformation of human consciousness and culture.
Cohen is the author of Living Enlightenment: A Call for Evolution Beyond Ego, Embracing Heaven and Earth and Enlightenment Is a Secret. His forthcoming book, Evolutionary Enlightenment, is due for release in the spring of 2011.
Sadhguru
Sadhguru, a yogi and mystic, is a visionary humanitarian and a prominent spiritual leader. Rooted as strongly in mundane and pragmatic matters as he is in inner experience and wisdom, Sadhguru works tirelessly towards the physical, mental, and spiritual well-being of all. His mastery of the mechanisms of life, an outcome of his profound experience of the Self, guides in exploring the subtler dimensions of life.
Marking a clear departure from mere customs and rituals, Sadhguru's scientific methods for self-transformation are both direct and powerful. Belonging to no particular tradition, Sadhguru incorporates and presents what is most valid for the contemporary life from the yogic sciences.
Sadhguru regularly speaks at the major International Conferences such as the World Economic Forum, the UN and TED, addressing issues as diverse as human rights, business values, social, environmental and existential issues. He has also served as a delegate to the United Nations Millenium Peace Summit and the World Peace Congress
He founded Isha Foundation, a non religious, nonprofit organization that addresses all aspects of human wellbeing from yoga practices to social justice-and the wellbeing of the planet. Isha Foundation is operated by over 1 million volunteers from more than 200 city-based centers spread worldwide. The foundation is headquartered in India at the Isha Yoga center, in the south of India and at the Isha Institute of Inner Sciences in the United States on the Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee
Under Sadhguru’s guidance, Isha Foundation also implements several large-scale human service projects to support individual
growth, revitalize the human spirit, rebuild communities, and restore the environment.
www.ishafoundation.org
www.innerengineering.com
Deborah Rozman
Deborah Rozman, Ph.D., President and CEO of Quantum Intech Inc. Deborah has thirty years of experience as a business executive, serial entrepreneur, psychologist, author, and educator. Since 1990, she was founding executive director of the non-profit Institute of HeartMath, executive vice president of HeartMath LLC, then founding director and President and co-CEO with Doc Childre of Quantum Intech (parent company of HeartMath LLC).
Prior to her work at HeartMath she was EVP of Biogenics, Inc., a biotech firm, from 1981 to 1987 and managed 90 employees through the company’s rapid growth, going from $3 million in sales to $17 million in nine months. She is also a co-author with Doc Childre of HeartMath’s Transforming Series: Transforming Stress, Transforming Anxiety, Transforming Anger and Transforming Depression, and a key spokesperson on HeartMath, heart intelligence, stress in these changing times and heart-based living.
Diane Bardwell
Diane Bardwell Masters grew up singing three-part harmony with her sisters. Her diverse background includes choir and madrigals, folk, piano, bass, guitar and Irish harp. She has been composing and performing professionally since 1974, playing and singing all kinds of music from rock to Celtic to children's songs. From 1997 through 2001 Diane sang and played harp in the Celtic duo Almost Avalon.
Diane's recording career includes two albums with the band Anahata, "Journey's Goal" and "Live at La Paloma," as well as the soundtrack for the movie "Harmony Within." Diane's lead and backup vocals shine on the award-winning "Tidal Wave of Song," an album of songs co-written with children that was released in 2001 (see www.kidpanalley.org).
Diane currently composes and performs songs of awakening, transformation and healing - many of which are co-written with her husband, Robert Augustus Masters – at all of their workshops and trainings and during their public talks.
Her most recent recording is a CD 'O Breathe Us Deep', co-written with Robert Masters.
Diane Musho Hamilton
Diane Musho Hamilton is a fully ordained Zen priest and teacher. She has studied Buddhism since 1984, and was given dharma transmission by her Zen master, Genpo Roshi, in 2006. She works with the Big Mind process; a facilitation technique synthesized by Roshi to convey Eastern teachings to Western audiences. Diane also teaches Integral Spirituality, and has worked with Ken Wilber and the Integral Institute in Denver, Colorado, since 2004.
Diane is a gifted facilitator, mediator and spiritual teacher. She is well known as an innovator in facilitating group dialogues, especially conversations about culture, religion, race and gender relations. Diane was the first Director of the Office of Alternative Dispute Resolution for the Utah Judiciary, where she established the original mediation programs in the state court system.
She lives in Salt Lake City with her husband, Michael D. Zimmerman, a lawyer and Zen teacher.
Linda Groves Bonder
Linda Groves Bonder is Saniel Bonder’s full partner in The White-Hot Yoga of the Heart transmission and teachings and a Founding and Senior Teacher of the Waking Down in Mutuality work.
Upon first attending Saniel’s meditation gatherings in October 1994, Linda was deeply attracted to his work and grew quickly in the process, entering her Second Birth in August 1996. She soon became moved to teach, eventually giving up her career as a professional photo-stylist to concentrate in transmitting and teaching the Waking Down in Mutuality process. Linda swiftly became a partner to Saniel not only in practical instruction of others but also in deep “holding” of the White-Hot Being- force and spiritual space of the work as a whole.
Linda’s first career was as a professional jazz-cabaret singer and songwriter and during the last two years she returned to the stage for a time as a singer, dancer, and percussionist with an international touring band. She recently resigned to focus on developing her book and, with Saniel, on new expansions of their work. Linda is the author of, Conversations with Margaret: A True Story of Self-Love, Conscious Awakening, and the Power of the Heart.
Linda is a founding member of the Integral Institute and a charter member of the Integral Spiritual Center. Please also see her page at www.wakingdown.org.
Lama Surya Das
Lama Surya Das has spent more than 30 years studying with the great spiritual masters of Asia, including 15 in India and the Himalayas and eight years in a cloistered Tibetan retreat. Surya is a poet, translator, spiritual teacher, and one of the foremost American Lamas in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition and a leading spokesman for contemporary spirituality. He is the founder and spiritual director of the Dzogchen Foundation in Massachusetts and California and leads workshops and intensive meditation retreats worldwide.
Surya is the author of several books, including the national best-seller "Awakening the Buddha Within: Tibetan Wisdom for the Modern World". His most recent book is, “The Mind Is Mightier Than The Sword”. He lives in Concord, Massachusetts.
Robert Augustus Masters
Robert Augustus Masters' passion is to fuel, illuminate, and support the living of a deeper life, a life of love, integrity, and fully alive awakening. Providing environments (both inner and outer) in which deep healing and transformation can take place is my vocation and privilege.
Having just reached my 60th birthday, I notice that I am finding freedom more through intimacy — intimacy not only with my beloved Diane, but also with all that is — than through transcendence. There is a deeply satisfying joy for me in passing on what I have learned, especially through my integral psychotherapy apprenticeship programs and the couples intensives that I do with Diane.
Since 1977 I've worked as a psychotherapist (I have a Ph.D. in Psychology), group leader, bodyworker, and teacher of spiritual deepening practices, integrating the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual in my practice. Most weekends these days I'm leading groups or trainings.
Evolving in fitting parallel with this has been my writing, which is as much a passion for me as facilitating deep groupwork.
I've authored eight books, including Divine Dynamite, Darkness Shining Wild, and, most recently, Transformation Through Intimacy . My essays have appeared in magazines ranging from Magical Blend to the Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, as well as in several anthologies. And running rampant through all my writing is my poetry, keeping my prose on its toes.
Ram Dass
Ram Dass first travelled to India in 1967 as Dr. Richard Alpert, an eminent Harvard psychologist. There he met his guru, Neem Karoli Baba (affectionately known as Maharaj-ji), who gave Ram Dass his name, which means “servant of God.” Upon his return from India, Ram Dass became a pivotal cultural influence and has served as a guiding light for over forty years, carrying millions along on the journey. He is the co-founder of the Seva Foundation and lives in Maui, Hawaii.
Ram Dass is pleased to announce the release of his latest book (with Rameshwar Das), Be Love Now: the Path of the Heart. Combining timeless teaching stories, personal anecdotes, and soul-stirring insights, Be Love Now shares Ram Dass’ rich experiences while offering enduring insight into what is most important in life and in our lives.
In addition, the first E-book edition of Ram Dass’ iconic Be Here Now will be released in October 2010 to coincide with the publication of Be Love Now—the final installment in this powerful trilogy.
Sally Kempton
One evening in 1971, while sitting in her Manhattan living room, Sally Kempton was overcome by a feeling of all-encompassing, unconditional love that seemed to come out of nowhere. The dramatic experience initiated an inner search that led her, two years later, to encounter her Guru, Swami Muktananda.
Today, Sally Durgananda Kempton is a teacher of inner yoga, trained in the non-dual traditions of Hindu wisdom. Her classes and trainings offer a deep transmission of heart-based spaciousness. She is known for her ability to convey esoteric tantric teachings with an acute sense of the psychological and practical challenges of contemporary life.
She is the author of The Heart of Meditation, and writes the popular Wisdom column for Yoga Journal.
Craig Hamilton
Craig Hamilton is a pioneer in the emerging field of evolutionary spirituality. In his inspired writings, talks, and teachings, he calls us to awaken beyond the confines of the separate ego and dedicate our lives to the further evolution of consciousness itself.
As the founder and guiding force behind Integral Enlightenment, Craig offers spiritual guidance and teachings to a growing international community of thousands of students in 30 countries around the world. Through his online Academy for Evolutionaries, he teaches a series of experiential telecourses guiding participants through a process of spiritual awakening into an "evolutionary relationship to life."
Craig is a founding member of Ken Wilber's Integral Institute, a member of Deepak Chopra's Evolutionary Leaders Forum, and was a participant in the Synthesis Dialogues, a 35-person interdisciplinary think tank presided over by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. His celebrated conversations with other luminaries are regularly heard by New Dimensions Radio’s seven million listeners, and form the basis of the acclaimed webinar series', “The Great Integral Awakening: Pioneering A New Spiritual Path,” and "Awakening the Impulse to Evolve: The Birth of Evolutionary Spirituality."A contributor to Shift magazine and co-author of IONS’ 2008 Shift Report, he is also co-writer of the forthcoming documentary film THE SHIFT. Craig lives with his wife, Claire, in San Rafael, California.
www.IntegralEnlightenment.com
Raphael Cushnir
Raphael Cushnir is a leading voice in the world of emotional connection and present moment awareness. He has shared his unique approach to personal and professional development with millions of readers in O, The Oprah Magazine, Beliefnet, Spirituality and Health, Psychology Today, and The Huffington Post. He is the author of five books, lectures worldwide, and is a faculty member of the Esalen Institute, the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, and the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies, In addition, he coaches individuals and teams at Fortune 100 companies, governments, religious organizations, and leading non-profits. Raphael's own heart was opened by an experience of profound grief.
Raphael's own heart was opened by an experience of profound grief. In 1996, both his career and his marriage fell apart. "It was a classic dark night of the soul," he recalls. "Many people experience something similar in their own lives. The particulars are always different but the essential experience is the same -- a deep, depressing, gut-wrenching pain. In my case, everything I thought I knew about life went completely out the window."
Then, luckily, one of Cushnir's mentors convinced him to embrace the pain instead of turn away from it. He suggested that, in fact, this was a perfect opportunity to "wake up". Cushnir took his mentor's advice and ran with it. Fifteen years later he's waking up still, one moment at a time.
Helping others to do the same has become his new life mission.
Dr. Jean Houston
Dr. Jean Houston, scholar, philosopher and researcher in human capacities, is one of the foremost visionary women of our time and one of the principal founders of the Human Potential Movement. A powerful and dynamic speaker, she holds conferences and seminars with social leaders, educational institutions and business organizations worldwide.
In 1965, along with her husband Dr. Robert Masters, Dr. Houston founded The Foundation for Mind Research. She is also the founder and principal teacher since 1982 of the Mystery School, a school of human development dedicated to teaching history, philosophy, the New Physics, psychology, anthropology, myth and the many dimensions of human potential.
She is a prolific writer and author of 26 books including A Passion for the Possible, Search for the Beloved, Life Force, The Possible Human, and Manual of the Peacemaker.
Dr. Houston holds a B.A. from Barnard College, a Ph.D. in psychology from the Union Graduate School and a PhD in religion from the Graduate Theological Foundation. She has also been the recipient of honorary doctorates.
Candice O'Denver
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Michael Murphy
Michael Murphy is the chairman of Esalen Institute, which he confounded with Richard Price in 1962. He is also known for helping to spark, along with George Leonard, what has come to be known as the human potential movement. After graduating from Stanford University in the mid-1950’s, he studied at Sri Aurobindo Ashram in South India, where he developed the spiritual and philosophical foundations that led to the founding of Esalen.
Murphy is author of many nonfiction books that explore evidence for extraordinary human capacities, including The Future of the Body, The Life We Are Given (with George Leonard) and The Physical and Psychological Effects of Meditation (with Steven Donovan). He has also written four novels: Golf in the Kingdom, The Kingdom of Shivas Irons, Jacob Atabet, and An End to Ordinary History.
Andrew Harvey
Andrew Harvey
Andrew Harvey was born in south India in 1952 where he lived until he was nine years old. It is this early period that he credits with shaping his sense of the inner unity of all religions and providing him with a permanent and inspiring vision of a world infused with the sacred. He left India to attend private school in England and entered Oxford University in 1970 with a scholarship to study history. At the age of 21, he became the youngest person ever to be awarded a fellowship to All Soul’s College, England’s highest academic honor.
By 1977 Andrew Harvey had become disillusioned with life at Oxford and returned to his native India, where a series of mystical experiences initiated his spiritual journey. Over the next thirty years he plunged into different mystical traditions to learn their secrets and practices. In 1978 he met a succession of Indian saints and sages and began his long study and practice of Hinduism. In 1983, in Ladakh, he met the great Tibetan adept, Thuksey Rinpoche, and undertook with him the Mahayana Buddhist Bodhisattva vows; later, in 1990, he would collaborate with Sogyal Rinpoche and Patrick Gaffney in the writing of The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying. In 1984, Andrew Harvey began a ten-year-long exploration and explication of Rumi and Sufi mysticism in Paris with a group of French Sufis and under the guidance of Eva De Vitray-Meyerovitch, the magnificent translator of Rumi into French. In 1992, he met Father Bede Griffiths in his ashram in south India near where Andrew Harvey had been born. It was this meeting that helped him synthesize the whole of his mystical explorations and reconcile eastern with western mysticism.
Ken Wilber
Ken Wilber is the most widely translated academic writer in America, with 25 books translated into some 30 foreign languages and is the first philosopher-psychologist to have his Collected Works published in his own lifetime. Credited with developing a unified field theory of consciousness—a synthesis and interpretation of the world's great psychological, philosophical, and spiritual traditions—Ken Wilber is the most cogent and penetrating voice in the emergence of a uniquely American wisdom. He is widely regarded as the preeminent scholar of Integral theory, which continues to gather momentum around the world.
Ken Wilber's many books include: Grace and Grit, Sex, Ecology, Spirituality, and the "everything" books: A Theory of Everything and A Brief History of Everything.
Ken Wilber is the founder of the Integral Institute, Inc., the co-founder of Integral Life, Inc., and the Senior Fellow of Integral Life Spiritual Center.
His most recent books include Integral Spirituality, Integral Life Practice and The Pocket Ken Wilber.
Katherine Woodward Thomas
Katherine Woodward Thomas is the national bestselling author of Calling in “The One”, a licensed psychotherapist and the co- creator and co-leader of the Feminine Power transformative courses for women. Katherine is a creative and inspired transformative educator with nearly 20 years experience designing and facilitating leading edge seminars that support the emergence of life-altering shifts in consciousness in both individuals and in groups.
She is the co-creator and co-host of the highly acclaimed Women on the Edge of Evolution teleseries, which gathers thousands of women weekly to engage the world’s most preeminent female luminaries, thinkers, scientists, artists and agents of change.
Katherine is an honored member of the Evolutionary Leaders Group, which both supports and promotes a call to conscious evolution.
Katherine is currently is co-authoring the forthcoming book, Feminine Power: Awakening to the Creative Force of Life.
Gangaji
Born in Texas in 1942, Gangaji grew up in Mississippi. After graduating from the University of Mississippi in 1964, she married and had a daughter. In 1972, she moved to San Francisco where she began exploring deeper levels of her being. She took Bodhisattva vows, practiced Zen and Vipassana meditation, helped run a Tibetan Buddhist Meditation Center, and had a career as an acupuncturist in the San Francisco Bay area.
Despite her successes, Gangaji continued to experience a deep and persistent longing for fulfillment. She pursued many paths to change her life including relationship, motherhood, political activism, career, and spiritual practice, but even the greatest of her successes ultimately came up short. In the wake of her disillusionment, she made a final prayer for true help. In 1990, the answer to her prayer came unexpectedly, taking her to India and to the meeting that would change everything. There on the banks of the river Ganga, she met Sri H.W.L. Poonja, also known as Papaji, who opened the floodgates of self-recognition. In this meeting, Gangaji’s personal story of suffering ended and the promise of a true life began to flower and unfold.
Today, Gangaji travels the world speaking to seekers from all walks of life. A teacher and author, she shares her direct experience of the essential message she received from Papaji and offers it to all who want to discover a true and lasting fulfillment. Through her life and words, she powerfully articulates how it is really possible to discover the truth of who you are and to be true to that discovery.
Hale Dwoskin
Hale Dwoskin is the author of the New York Times Best Seller, The Sedona Method: Your Key to Lasting Happiness, Success, Peace and Emotional Well-being. Hale is one of the 24 teachers from the movie The Secretand a founding member of the Transformational Leadership Council. He is the CEO and Director of Training of Sedona Training Associates, an organization headquartered in Sedona, Arizona.
He co-founded the company in 1996 to teach courses based on the emotional releasing techniques originated by his mentor, Lester Levenson. Hale Dwoskin is an international speaker and featured faculty member at Esalen and the Omega Institute. For over a quarter century, he has regularly been teaching The Sedona Method to individuals and corporations throughout the United States and the United Kingdom, and leading facilitator trainings and advanced retreats since the early 1990s.
Hale is also the co-author with Lester Levenson of Happiness Is Free: And Its Easier than You Think (a five-book series).
Barbara Marx Hubbard
Barbara Marx Hubbard is a pioneer in positive options for the future of humanity. A public speaker, author, and social innovator, she is founder and executive director of the Foundation for Conscious Evolution. She has been instrumental in the creation of many future-oriented organizations, including the World Future Society, New Dimensions Radio, Global Family, Women of Vision In Action, The Foundation for the Future, and the Association for Global New Thought.
Her books include: The Hunger of Eve, The Evolutionary Journey, Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential, Emergence: The Shift from Ego to Essence, Ten Steps to the Universal Human and The Suprasexual revolution: A
Radical Path to 2012 and Beyond. She is also the producer of the award-winning DVD series Humanity Ascending.
Barbara is the mother of five children and the grandmother of six and resides in Santa Barbara, California.
Steve McIntosh
Steve McIntosh is the author of Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution (Paragon House 2007). He is an original member of the Integral Institute think tank, and has taught integral philosophy to a wide variety of audiences. In 2008 he was invited to join the Evolutionary Leaders group spearheaded by Deepak Chopra. He is also the CEO of Now & Zen, Inc., an international manufacturing company marketing “natural lifestyle products”, including his famous Zen Alarm Clock.
Steve is a long-time participant in progressive culture, and has traveled extensively throughout the world. He has had a variety of successful careers including practicing law with one of the nation's biggest firms and working as an executive with Celestial Seasonings tea company.
He lives in Boulder, Colorado with his wife and two sons
