Integral Awakening Process

Integral Awakening Process includes the best of the western therapy and eastern meditation traditions, including adaptations of:
  • Voice Dialogue
  • Zen Meditation
  • Soulcraft (Bill Plotkin)
  • Big Mind Process (Genpo Roshi)
  • Evolutionary Enlightenment (Andrew Cohen)
  • Self-Inquiry (Ramana Maharshi)
  • The Work (Byron Katie)


What is the Integral Awakening Process (IAP)?

IAP allows participants to experience ego integration, soul-purpose embodiment, evolutionary enlightenment and spiritual transcendence.  IAP helps us to recognize these essential dimensions of our wholeness, and then uses a technique called Voice Dialogue to elicit an embodied experience of these facets of self.  Participants experience Soul embodiment through the recognition of their soul’s true calling and Spiritual embodiment through a taste of Awakened Mind.

IAP is a facilitated process that can benefit both beginners and advanced students alike. Through an interactive process, participants will experience elements of their soul-purpose and a taste of the limitless/timeless dimension. 


What can I expect at an IAP event?

In these workshop you will learn the principles and practices of Integral Awakening Process using  the Three Worlds Model:
Spirit:  Experience a taste of the transcendent.
Soul:  Connect with your Soul-Purpose.
Ego:  Experience integration between the different “voices” of the self.


Ego Integration – There are multiple voices that comprise the ego.  Such voices include: Protector/Controller and Fear/Anger, which act as guardians, keeping our lives (relatively) safe and comfortable.  We also have more adventuresome voices, such as the Innocent Child, the Seeker, and the Adventurer.  The essential question is, “Are these multiple voices living in harmony?”  Through the IAP a reconciliation and reunion is achieved amongst the many voices of the egoic self.  Through the dialogue process, each voice is explored and honored, enabling a more harmonious and effective functioning.

Soul Embodiment – To become a whole person we must reach deep into ourselves to the very center of our being.  There we can find the shape of our own unique soul.  In his book Soulcraft, author Bill Plotkin writes, “Discovering what is truly yours is the journey of the soul.  By soul I mean: the deepest core of your human nature, the reason spirit has taken shape as you, and the essence of your specific life purpose.”  Soul embodiment means that we clearly recognize our specific life purpose and that we are living it!  In IAP, we dialogue with voices of soul-purpose.  The result is soul embodiment: a soul-infused and soul-rooted life where we know our truest place in the world.

Spiritual Realization – The mind is dualistic in nature, meaning it perceives things as inherently separate.  Living exclusively in the sense of a separate self impedes spontaneity because we are not responding from wholeness.  We lose some of the richness in our lives when we live only from the ego.  Spiritual realization can restore full spontaneity by transcending (yet including) the sense of a separate self.  IAP facilitates this awakening to the transcendent dimension through dialogue with: Awakened Mind, Zen Mind, Big Mind, and Timeless Mind.


Integration – Like muscles that atrophy from disuse, whole dimensions of our being languish from lack of exercise.  The IAP is exercise for your whole being.  Through dialoguing with the voices of self, we begin the process of embodiment.  IAP, is integral because it includes all essential elements of human existence: body/nature, ego, soul, and spirit.  If we want to experience life as a whole human being, we must embody what we are.  IAP is an awakening process because it seeks to call forth our latent potentialities into full awareness.  The purpose of IAP (and perhaps life in general) is to awaken to our full potential and joyously serve the world as a soul infused, spiritually realized human being.


To learn more, read the article The Integral Awakening Process, by Jonathan Gustin.


DATES:
Thursday May 17, 2012

TIME:
7:00pm-9:00pm

LOCATION:
Rudramandir
830 Bancroft Way at 6th, Berkeley

COST
By donation
 
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