Individual Transformation

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The Selling of the Soul

Journal Article

Addictions are an indication of where we still long to be loved. What the selling of the soul has in common with trouble and craving is the instant gratification that the ego thrives on.

Unlearning Together

Journal Article

...We’ve entered the era that the Hopis predicted in their prophecies of the “great purification,” the unstoppable entropy of not only our external political, economic and ecological systems, but above all the unexamined assumptions underlying those systems.

Diary of a Watts Princess: A Memoir of Hopes and Dreams

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As I watch the news today, old feelings of fear and hopelessness engulf me once again. As a thirteen-year-old girl, I saw my neighborhood, Watts, burn. Then I wondered what would happen to my home, to my life, as embers from the fire floated in front of my face. I wondered who I would be if I lived through the chaos of urban anger and despair. That night, I wondered what my purpose in life would be.

Imago Integralis: The Aesthetics of Integral Life

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By now, the Integral Worlds approach has been richly developed. It has been applied to enterprise, community, economics, development, research, and many other fields. Our active network of transformation agents and centers grounded in this integral approach stretches from Nigeria to Zimbabwe, from Sri Lanka to India, from Brazil to Paraguay, from Jordan to Egypt, from Slovenia to Australia, and beyond.

Theatre of Transformation

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The philosophy and operating principle of Theatre of Transformation is to create circles of solidarity. Circles of solidarity are created in Theatre of Transformation programs through the empathy generated between ‘us’ and ‘them.’ They are extended as we realize that ‘they’ are ‘us.’ The characters we meet through enacted testimonies begin to inhabit, inspire, and influence us to enact change.

Releasing the Potential of Our Life Force Energy

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It’s 1986. I’m 27 and I have travelled to a small island off of the west coast of Canada for […]

A Dark Night of the Soul and the Discovery of Meaning

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By Thomas Moore A dark night of the soul is a kind of initiation, taking you from one phase of life into another. You may have several dark nights in the course of your life because you are always becoming more of a person and entering life more fully.

Collective Presencing: A New Human Capacity

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This is the first in a series of articles introducing the phenomenon and practice of Collective Presencing, a new capacity evolving in humanity at this time. Great thinkers have foreseen its coming—we recognise it in Aurobindo’s descent of the supramental and Teil-hard de Chardin’s noosphere. But what exactly do those terms mean? Where these gifted individuals intuited and envisioned the birth of this new collective capacity at the dawn of the last century, we are now starting to be able to describe it from experience. While many might recognise the phenomenon from transpersonal group work and other such practices, so far as we are aware, this is the first attempt to articulate it as a path and a set of capacities that can be intentionally developed.