Evolving Spirit Archives – Integral Life

The Sacred Mandala of Being: A Spiritual Journey with Kabir Kadre

Kabir Kadre — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 04:52:11 +0000

What if awakening isn’t the absence of limitation, but the presence of love within it? In this luminous dialogue, Kabir Kadre and Lama Kimberley Lafferty explore the path of embodied realization — where vulnerability becomes a teacher, the body becomes a mandala, and compassion becomes the clearest expression of truth.

This post was originally published on Integral Life.

Don’t Just Transcend Your Pain — Include It

Alexander Love — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 19:08:40 +0000

After the tragic murder of his father at age 20, Alexander Love began a decades-long journey through grief, spiritual practice, and shadow work — seeking not just to rise above his pain, but to finally and fully include it. In this deeply personal conversation, he shares how real healing began not with transcendence, but with embracing the very wounds he had tried to escape.

This post was originally published on Integral Life.

Tantra Is Not What You Think (And Way Better Than You Imagined)

Kimberley Lafferty — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 19:51:36 +0000

Two accomplished tantric practitioners — one from Kashmir Shaivism, the other from Tibetan Vajrayana — share their profound awakening stories and reveal how ancient consciousness technologies can accelerate the challenging transition from teal to turquoise awareness and beyond.

This post was originally published on Integral Life.

Trauma, Transcendence, and the Beauty that Breaks Us Open

Kimberley Lafferty — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 20:02:55 +0000

Geoff Fitch, Abigail Lynam, and Kimberley Lafferty explore how deep suffering, spiritual awakening, and developmental transformation often intertwine in the transition into meta-aware consciousness. Through personal stories, group process insights, and reflections on collective shadow work, they illuminate how real relationship and sacred community can hold and catalyze the most disorienting — and most liberating — phases of human evolution.

This post was originally published on Integral Life.

Return to the Roots: Tantra, Mormonism, and the Mystic Heart Behind All Things

Kimberley Lafferty — Fri, 16 May 2025 20:56:20 +0000

Kimberley Lafferty and Thomas McConkie explore how we can return to the spiritual traditions of our childhood with new eyes — not through regression, but through transformation. Drawing from Tantra, Mormonism, and Integral spirituality, they illuminate a shared mystical core that invites us to embody divinity through both transcendence and humble, concrete service.

This post was originally published on Integral Life.

Ethics and Awakening: Why Spiritual Growth Isn’t Enough

Jac O'Keeffe — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 19:20:52 +0000

Kimberley Theresa Lafferty and Jac O’Keeffe explore the critical but often overlooked role of ethics in the spiritual path, challenging the assumption that awakening alone leads to maturity. Through personal stories, developmental insight, and hard-earned wisdom, they reveal how true spiritual integrity requires psychological integration, relational accountability, and a lifelong commitment to ethical embodiment.

This post was originally published on Integral Life.

The Occupational Hazards of Awakening

Kimberley Lafferty — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 19:39:07 +0000

In this profound dialogue, Kimberley Lafferty and Santiago illuminate the occupational hazards of awakening, exploring the bliss and challenges of ego dissolution and emptiness within daily life. They offer deep insights and practical wisdom for integrating profound spiritual experiences into authentic human living.

This post was originally published on Integral Life.

Evolving Love: The Secret Path to Awakening

Kimberley Lafferty — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 20:31:35 +0000

This conversation explores how love evolves alongside human development, revealing how our relationships reflect and shape our consciousness. Through personal stories, integral psychology, and esoteric wisdom, Kimberley Theresa Lafferty, Dr. Daniel Stickler, and Dr. Mickra Hamilton uncover how intimacy, shadow work, and sacred partnership can become profound paths of transformation and awakening.

This post was originally published on Integral Life.

Making Sense of the Extraordinary

Kimberley Lafferty — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 10:25:16 +0000

In the debut episode of Evolving Spirit, Kimberley Theresa Lafferty invites us into a raw and heartfelt exploration of extraordinary experiences—those profound moments that challenge our understanding of reality and connect us to deeper meaning. From developmental insights to the importance of ethical grounding, Kimberley offers a sophisticated framework for integrating these transformative encounters into our lives with wisdom, compassion, and community.

This post was originally published on Integral Life.