Spirituality Archives – Integral Life

Inhabit: Your Spiritual Life

Ryan Oelke — Fri, 23 Aug 2019 20:08:22 +0000

Need help shifting gears from mental map-making to actually inhabiting the spiritual territory? Watch as Ryan Oelke and Corey deVos explore what it means to truly inhabit and integrate our contemplative practice and our moment-to-moment experience of life.

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Hope for the Christian Contemplative Movement

Father Thomas Keating — Mon, 29 Oct 2018 21:11:46 +0000

In celebration of Father Thomas Keating’s life and his tireless effort to help people discover their innermost intersection with divinity, we invite you to watch the following free video where he shares some of his own hopes for the future unfolding of contemplative christianity.

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Dream Yoga: Open Your Doors of Perception

Andrew Holecek — Sun, 13 May 2018 20:43:52 +0000

Andrew Holecek talks to David Riordan about his new Dream Yoga teachings, presenting an opportunity to develop a liberating flexibility in your identity, transforming your very sense of Self, and exploring your mind in new and creative ways.

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From F#@king Up to Waking Up: A Tale of Addiction, Volition, and Liberation

Chris Grosso — Tue, 13 Mar 2018 00:17:51 +0000

Today our dear friend Chris Grosso talks to Jeff and Corey about his latest book, Dead Set on Living: Making the Difficult but Beautiful Journey from Fucking Up to Waking Up, which pivots around Chris’s provocative and profoundly moving journey out of the shadows of addiction and the endless empty parade of substitute gratifications, and into the light of spiritual awakening and healthy living.

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The Feeling of Enlightenment: Sex, Spirit, and the New Tantra

Ken Wilber — Fri, 02 Mar 2018 21:26:32 +0000

Ken Wilber offers a stunning keynote teaching about Integral Tantra and the "feeling of enlightenment", giving you a powerful set of pointing-out meditations to help familiarize you with the ever-present luminosity of your deepest and innermost Self, as well as sexual practices that will help you integrate your libido with your liberation.

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The Mysterious Art of Letting Go

Craig Hamilton — Wed, 21 Feb 2018 21:12:29 +0000

Craig Hamilton offers some simple pointing-out instructions to help you "let go and let God". These practices are not designed to try to get you into any particular state of consciousness, but to liberate you from the need to have any particular state or any particular feeling to be free.

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Re-Mystifying Christmas

Fr. John Forman — Fri, 15 Dec 2017 23:13:42 +0000

Jeff and Corey welcome as their guest Father John Forman, Rector of the Burien, Washington Episcopal Church. Father John shares his teachings on how we can embrace the birth of Jesus as a beautiful mystery, thereby accessing its spiritual potency in real time and enabling us to shine the light of Christ Consciouness into the world.

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The Energetic Properties of Beauty, Truth, and Goodness

Steve McIntosh — Thu, 30 Nov 2017 02:34:57 +0000

Steve McIntosh joins us for an in-depth exploration into the energetic qualities of the three primary virtues of Goodness, Beauty, and Truth. Steve describes how these virtues can both enrich our cognitive understanding of the universe around us, while also deepening and reinvigorating our own ongoing spiritual practice.

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No Boundary: A Union of Opposites

Ken Wilber — Sun, 02 Jul 2017 22:36:30 +0000

Ken Wilber explores the intrinsic dualism of the mind, offering a simple but cogent way to "transcend the pairs" and discover the nondual heart of the Always Already.

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Contemplation on Death and Impermanence

Terry Patten — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 20:21:03 +0000

Terry Patten offers a short guided meditation to help you reduce the existential fear, dread, and anxiety surrounding death by shifting your attention and identification to the indestructible presence at the very center of your being.

This post was originally published on Integral Life.