Terry Patten – The Integral Soul Journey

Terry Patten – The Integral Soul Journey

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An 8-Month Intensive
With Integral Visionary
Terry Patten
New Live Training Starts
Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Are you called to live on the leading edge of evolution, awakening new potentials in yourself and incarnating more divinity
in the world?
Are you curious about how to integrate multiple traditions of spiritual practice in a way that is integrated, coherent and leads to a full-spectrum spiritual life?
In the 20th century, a powerful new theoretical and philosophical framework emerged called “Integral” by sages and scholars, from Sri Aurobindo to Ken Wilber, because it unified more streams of wisdom and knowledge than anything that has preceded it.

Integral theory gives us a powerful lens on reality, offering a multi-dimensional view of the whole tapestry of life.

And now, integral theory is giving rise to a next wave of full-spectrum spiritual practice that is as intimate and personal as it is transcendent. This next generation of practice draws from the sacred essence of major psychological schools and spiritual lineages to form a unified, balanced and powerfully transformative path.

We are calling this new work the cultivation of the “Integral Soul.” It’s a multi-dimensional approach to awakening and transforming all levels of our being and infusing them with grace and love. The path of the Integral Soul leads us towards unification of body and soul, heart and mind, Spirit and personality. It represents an alchemy of many wisdom schools, each honored for their unique contribution to creating evolved human beings.

The Integral Soul perspective offers a comprehensive view of the unfolding of your soul’s journey so that you can become the most holistic, awake and clear being you can be. The path of the Integral Soul is a birthing ground for true evolutionaries – people like you who are living at the leading edge of our culture.

A true evolutionary embraces the adventure of the soul. It unfolds uniquely for each of us, but the evolutionary is always open to new possibilities, willing to engage in authentic practice to reveal new insights and breakthrough understandings.

On the path of the Integral Soul, you learn to surrender to the deeper invisible currents that pattern your psyche, and to conduct that energy into life. You literally learn to become the embodiment of evolution itself, always seeking new possibilities for the creative expression of eros, love and life.

To enter into this state of evolutionary flow requires finding your way into the profound silent presence of your Soul or daemon. You need to learn to allow the deepest currents of your soul’s purpose to flow tangibly through you into reality.

As you do, the universe begins to conspire to support you. You radiate more grace. You are blessed with more intuitive clarity. You incarnate more love. You embody more transcendent wisdom.

You become the head, heart and hands of Spirit – serving as a conduit for Divine energy to work through you to serve the great challenges of our time.

This is what it means to live as an evolutionary on the Integral Soul path.

A Truly 21st Century Approach
The path of the Integral Soul reflects the emergence of a different kind of mysticism, one that awakens us into the boundlessness of our universal True Nature while also opening us to the deep personal presence and guidance of our personal unique Soul Nature.

To really express our Integral Soul requires more than just meditation, yoga or psychological work. It means integrating at least three different streams that represent major lineages of transformational work.

First it means accessing the archetypal dimensions of your consciousness, those explored by pioneers like Carl Jung and James Hillman who studied the inner structures of our collective human consciousness, the powerful subterranean forces that sculpt our lives. Doing so connects you with a psychological understanding that transcends the personality and connects you with the “daemon” – the guiding force of your soul.

Second, it means opening to the transcendent dimensions of your awareness – the Mystery, the pure still Witness consciousness beneath all forms, giving you the view beyond your personality, a glimpse into the heart and mind of God.

Third, it requires honing your rational capacities, the penetrating intelligence that guides wise choices and effective action in the world. As you cultivate this discerning intelligence you become more masterful in your ability to navigate and structure your reality.

These three streams of practice each open you in different ways to the full spectrum of your being – representing all levels and all lines of development – in a way that allows the totality of your Integral Soul to emerge.

And ultimately, they all unify in the alchemical vessel of the heart, with love unifying the streams into a coherent flow of consciousness.

Historically, most spiritual lineages have tended to emphasize just one or perhaps two of these streams, leaving us underdeveloped in others (and therefore compromising our full potential).

It’s time for a more integrated, holistic and balanced approach, which is exactly what you will receive in the groundbreaking new program called the Integral Soul Journey, which builds on decades of practice, theory and exploration at the leading edge of our evolution.

Transform with an Experienced Guide
Integral visionary Terry Patten is uniquely qualified to guide you in the Integral Soul Journey, offering you both a map and a set of practices that marry body, mind and soul with deep wisdom.

Terry will illumine a spiritual path for you that is both grounded and ecstatic, discerning and generous, powerful and humble. During the 8 months of the Integral Soul Journey, you’ll be blessed with the fruits of his four decades of advanced mystical, intellectual and embodied investigation into the higher reaches of human potential.

Terry worked closely with the Institute of HeartMath, leading the team that developed their first heart-rate variability device. He also worked with philosopher Ken Wilber to translate integral theory (used at the highest levels of business and government) into a truly Integral Life Practice, and co-wrote the source text for Integral Practice.

Even more importantly, Terry embodies 40 years of wisdom as a serious student and teacher of authentic spirituality. His synthesis is unique and transcends the usual head versus heart polarization, to create an integrated, holistic path of synergy. Terry will lead you toward a kind of holographic integrity, a coming together of your whole being as the lived embodiment of your Integral Soul.

What You’ll Experience on the Journey
In the course of the Integral Soul Journey, you will establish a regular integral practice and forge a sacred relationship to your soul. You will also awaken your heart’s deeper intelligence, which is one of the most powerful ways to hear the voice of the soul.

Through a grounded devotional practice, you’ll open into tender contact with the living presence of graceful help in subtle realm. By doing this, you’ll learn how to become an offering to the Source of Grace, such that you can enter into relationship with the unseen forces that are creating this world and subtly influencing your experience.

You’ll strengthen your relationship with the archetypes that can empower, infuse and deepen your soul life as you recognize that even your unconscious moments are part of a magical psychophysical play.

By consciously engaging the archetypal dimensions of your life, you’ll also see the broad arc of your own hero’s journey and the ways in which you are enacting classic, archetypal stories.

You’ll also venture into connecting with your “daemon”– a Greek term for the soul force that has been guiding you. The ancient Greeks say that after your life, after you drink from the waters of forgetfulness, on the basis of your character, the Fates assign your daemon, the guiding spirit of your soul in this life. Then the Fates determine the moment and circumstances of your birth. Your daemon is your constant soul companion and if you learn to listen to it, can guide you to your true destiny and full soul expression.

You will also learn to more deeply honor and develop rational approaches to Soul, which address your inner atheist and skeptic and help you see the path with discerning eyes. Our whole being, including the doubting mind, needs to understand a rational basis for working with the “magical” dimensions of the path.

You’ll cultivate higher levels of awakening through integral spiritual practices, and deeper levels of embodiment through alchemical and shamanic processes as well.

You will gain an experiential understanding of how to benefit from the profoundly intelligent complementarity of these very different kinds of mystical practice, which are usually pursued independently or mixed without discernment.

By engaging these streams of deep practice in an integrated way, the Integral Soul Journey will enable you to experience a more full-spectrum spiritual awakening.

As you open to a relationship with your own soul nature, you’ll begin to see the soul potentials in others. This allows you to behold their beauty, mirror their brilliance and honor their unique embodiment of divinity. And you’ll naturally respond to their humanity with compassion – creating a whole new level of relational potential.

But the only way to do this is by first opening up to the higher octaves of your spirit and the deeper dimensions of your soul – and not just once but again and again and again. It takes practice. Even when you slip into a contracted, anxious, resentful state (as we all sometimes do), practice is possible and it starts, again and again, with self-compassion. There is always a way to keep coming back and nurturing your ability to more fully give the unique gifts that the Divine wants to incarnate through you.

By embarking on an authentic Integral Soul path, you’ll discover a new form of intelligence in your life – one that gives you access to more clarity and more empathy at the same time. You begin to feel Truth in a whole-bodied, visceral way and learn to navigate complex situations with more clarity and greater sensitivity.

You begin to feel an ecstatic current of divine presence pouring through your body and mind in a way that makes you magnetic to what you most want to create in your life and what “It” wants to create with you.

During this comprehensive 8-month journey, Terry will share with you fascinating insights and practices on subjects such as:

• How to develop an ongoing dialogue through which your soul’s purpose is revealed to you, then refined, clarified and allowed to mature.
• The simple keys to not only doing spiritual practices but to living your whole life as a practice.
• How your soul’s daemon is the archetypal “strange attractor” of your deeper character.
• The emerging mechanics and meanings of the integrated soul-and-spirit practice journey.
• How to create effective Integral ritual and ceremony.
• The “siddhis” (or spiritual powers) that can emerge from profound sustained integral practice.
• A vision for understanding the holographic nature of conscious participation in our full-spectrum psychophysical reality.
• The easiest and most basic morning ritual incorporating movement and stillness – that will immediately change the dynamics of your everyday life.
• The virtuous tantric cycle: how waking up liberates awareness for plunging deep, which in turn liberates energy for waking up.

What You’ll Discover in this 8-Month
Advanced Program
Class sessions are twice a month on Wednesdays at 12:00pm Pacific.

There will be 16 class sessions over the course of 8 months.

This course will enable participants to engage the transformative practices of integral spiritual awakening, while also diving deep into a sacred relationship with their soul nature or daemon.

During the 8 months, Terry will take you step-by-step through the advanced practices which will help you gain an experiential understanding of how to benefit from the profound complementarity of these very different kinds of mystical practice, which are ordinarily pursued independently, as if in tension with each other.

Each LIVE training session will build harmoniously upon the next, so that you’ll develop a complete, holistic understanding of the practices, tools and principles you’ll need to establish a regular integral practice, forge a sacred relationship to your soul, and build your relationship to the soul dimensions of your destiny.

Each core module will last 1-2 months, with about 2 classes per month led by Terry (90-minutes each). Unlike other courses we have offered, this advanced program with Terry will not follow a strict program, but will unfold organically – meaning that Terry will move more and more deeply into the curriculum described in the 4 modules below, but not sequentially. Instead, each session will cut deeper, spiraling down, moving spontaneously in an authentic unfolding investigation of emergent aliveness into an ever-deepening engagement with this multidimensional integral journey of the soul.

This advanced training is a rare opportunity to practice at a much deeper level with an evolutionary teacher who is gifted at working with the group field and responding to the needs that arise in the moment based on his intuition, which creates an atmosphere of discovery, adventure and enhanced transformation.

Our whole 8-month journey will enable us to deepen into a soul level brother-sisterhood, making it possible for us to meet one another and to be met at the depths of our process of becoming the ones we have been waiting for.

If you are truly ready to dive deeply into unifying your archetypal, transcendent and rational dimensions as a mystical path, this 8-month advanced program with Terry Patten is the perfect training for you.

Module 1: Committing Body, Mind, Heart and Soul to Your Evolutionary Journey
4 sessions (May 13 & 27, June 10 & 24)

Our practice becomes truly integral when we enact it every day, not as a dutiful burden, but as a natural expression of love and attraction. An evolutionary practice is about coming alive, growing, awakening, not about re-enacting rote habits that look outwardly like “spiritual practice.” So we will go to the roots. We’ll establish an authentic basis for making agreements to break our unhealthy habits and to build enlivening ones that we can practice every day. That basis is a felt loving relationship with the mysterious source of grace. So we will come together with each other to strengthen and refresh our ability to contact the Mystery, the source of our inspiration for practice.

Because practice is paradoxical, we will clarify a whole series of important integral distinctions that will help keep our practice from the common traps that result in subtle stuckness, numbness or abstraction. These key distinctions are what enables integral practitioners to be relaxed, loose and spontaneous, and also grounded and focused, even while our hearts are continually re-ignited by love and inspiration. Most importantly, we will make sure we understand the framework of integral insights that ground our evolutionary practice, and we will distinguish the two primary dimensions of that practice, liberating our energy and attention not just for our awakening into Spirit but also for our deep journey into relationship with our Soul.

During these 4 sessions, you’ll:

Awaken into a life of ongoing loving contact with the Mystery of Existence.
Learn the easiest and most basic form of a daily practice that will immediately change the dynamics of your everyday life – a simple morning practice ritual incorporating movement and stillness.
Discover the simple keys that enable you to not only do spiritual practices but to live your whole life as practice.
Contact a strong, clear source of inner toughness and discipline that frees you from the endless push-pull between inner parental voices and rebellious impulses.
Discover the virtuous tantric cycle: how waking up liberates awareness for plunging deep, which in turn liberates energy for waking up.
Understand the clear philosophical foundations that make sense of truly Integral Soul Work.
Module 2: Facing Your Dragons and Surrendering to the Sacred
3 sessions (July 8 & 29, August 12)

Our love relationship with the Mystery has a universal quality, but it also has a very personal side. We are each living an incomplete story we can become willing to face fully, and then to bring to a wholesome resolution and a new beginning. We must consent to become the hero of our own lives, but, paradoxically, this is not something we can do via effort. Every hero’s journey involves a call (a contact with our true identity, our soul nature) and then a series of encounters with allies and challenges. It also requires a journey to the underworld for a battle with our nemesis. We can’t do that superficially; it requires letting go of who we have come to know ourselves to be, and facing the fearsome monsters that are most intimidating.

What has marginalized our soul is not just the system and consumer culture, or even politics and media – even our intellectual and spiritual identities are at play. So we will set the stage for a profound letting go, and an existential confrontation that opens us to the presence of the part of us that has been waiting to be lived. We will open into relationship with the deepest dimensions of ourselves, and the soul trauma that makes it so hard for us to trust the process of our own lives. Out of that, we will find our way to the existential depth from which it becomes authentic to invite our soul to claim all of us. We will create the rituals through which we can invite a new and truly sacred phase of our lives to begin.

During these 3 sessions, you’ll:

Discover how transcendental spirituality is no substitute for your relationship to your soul.
Open your heart to contact with the deepest source of your unique character and purpose.
Learn to listen and to ask: cultivating a profound ongoing silent prayerful feeling-dialogue with your soul.
Discover the transformational power of a deep lifelong sacred relationship with your soul.
Module 3: Honoring Your Soul’s Daemon and Living Its Wisdom
5 Sessions (August 26, September 9 & 23,
October 7 & 21)

A sacred relationship with your soul cannot be developed via a method or technique. It is an elusive living relationship, and it has existed all our lives. It takes a momentous leap for the soul to replace the conventional ego as the center of our experience. Thus, we will come together in a way that will support each of us in finding our own unique way to initiate and cultivate this sacred relationship, to allow it to grow and blossom at deeper levels, and to become the organizing, harmonizing principle of our whole lives.

Each soul has its own unique shape and mood and character and requirements, and it dwells, like a wild animal, at the margins of the civilized world that our conventional minds have tamed and think we know. And each moment in the journey of the soul is unique. So we will join together to wade, step by step, into the deep waters where our soul can progressively reveal itself and guide us. We will explore the sacred art of dwelling in the presence of our soul, of waiting and listening with true openness and humility, so each of us can discern the strangely familiar true voice of our soul.

During these 5 sessions, you’ll:

Learn to discern the voice of your soul or daemon amidst the cacophony of “pretender voices.”
Develop the existential seriousness necessary to wait in silence as long as it takes to discern your soul’s authentic voice and character.
Learn to engage the art of living a life that cultivates a real relationship with your unique soul, while growing in health in an integral fashion.
Establish a profound, growing, intimate love-relationship with the deepest dimensions of your being.
Learn how to live from your soul, and to nurture, sustain and deepen that soul life over weeks, months and years.
Connect to the deepest source of creative power that lies at the very core of your soul.
Module 4: Expressing Your Soul’s Purpose as a True Evolutionary
4 Sessions (November 11, December 2 & 16,
January 6, 2016)

Our souls have deep reasons for having drawn us right here, right now; purposes that are only revealed to us on “soul time.” The drama of our life reveals its hidden logic only to the patient, watchful heart. And yet it is not just a matter of discovery. We’re co-participants in the revelation of the soul; our choices matter, at the deepest level. Your soul is the deepest part of your unique character, and yet your character is always evolving, based on your choices. So we have good reasons to pay close attention to the unfolding plot of our soul life – the story is not already written. A sacred drama is unfolding.

We are in many ways the luckiest, most privileged people to have ever lived, and yet we face some of the most bewildering and morally important challenges. Why were you called into your unique place in this gorgeous turbulent world at this wonderful and terrible time in human history and evolution? What are the special contributions you were called here to make?

During these 4 sessions, you’ll:

Develop an ongoing dialogue through which your soul’s purpose is revealed to you, then refined, clarified and allowed to mature.
Evolve in your loving relationship and transparency to all that is greater than yourself.
Learn how to live your soul’s purpose in mutuality – in deep connection with other souls.
Become a participant in a larger, deep, invisible community of souls and become able to participate intimately with them when opportunities arise.
Conspire with the larger forces that are currently engineering our evolutionary synchronicity, allowing them to animate your unique role in the drama of our time.
The Integral Soul Journey Bonus Collection
In addition to Terry’s transformative 8-month advanced program, you’ll also receive these powerful bonuses and training sessions with the world’s leading visionaries and teachers. These bonus sessions are being offered to further complement what you’ll learn in the course – and take your understanding and practice to an even deeper level.

Integrating Soul and Spirit
Audio Dialogue with Ken Wilber

The world-famous Integral philosopher in conversation with Terry Patten about the philosophical basis for Integral spiritual practice and the relationship of Integral Soul Work and Integral Non-Duality. Ken and Terry will examine how practitioners can deepen their practice by engaging with the subtle animating information and energy dynamics that play such an important role in the unfolding of our lives.

Ken Wilber is the most widely translated academic writer in America, with 25 books, translated into some 30 foreign languages. Ken is an internationally acknowledged leader and the preeminent scholar of the Integral stage of human development and is widely regarded as the “Einstein of consciousness.”

Divine Romance and the Journey of the Soul
Audio Dialogue with Sally Kempton

The Divine Lover takes a unique form in every spiritual journey. So it is a practice to discover the current form and full aliveness of the Inner Beloved and Lover in your life. Explore the profound art and rapture contacted by kindling the sacred fire of Divine Romance. Learn what it is to be courted by your Divine Lover, to court your Soul’s Beloved, and how profoundly this can transform your emotional life.

Sally Kempton is known and loved for her ability to transmit meditative states and create transformative shifts in others. A former monk in an Indian order, she teaches internationally and was the author of the Yoga Journal column, Wisdom, for many years. Sally has a deeply mature understanding of the interface between deep spirituality and self-actualized living. She herself lives the path she teaches. Her books, Meditation for the Love of It and Awakening Shakti: The Transformative Power of the Goddesses of Yoga, have become classics – and have revolutionized thousands of people’s experience of their inner life.

The Soul of Emergence
Audio Dialogue with Barbara Marx Hubbard

Emergence is not just an abstract impersonal process. Even the ancient Greeks could sense that the soul is drawn forward towards its unique destiny. They called it the telos of the daemon. Today, we use terms like the “strange attractor” to describe the forces that pull us from beyond. But there are also profound evolutionary impulses that well up in us, as if from below. In our soul journey, truly novel capacities, opportunities, allies and destinies sometimes emerge. What are these dynamics? What is the deep nature, the soul of emergence itself?

Barbara Marx Hubbard is a visionary, social innovator and evolutionary thinker who believes that global change happens when we work collectively and selflessly for the greater good. As a prolific author and educator, Barbara has written seven books on social and planetary evolution. She has produced, hosted and contributed to countless documentaries seen by millions of people around the world. In conjunction with The Shift Network, Barbara co-produced the worldwide “Birth 2012” multi-media event that was seen as an historic turning point in exposing the social, spiritual, scientific and technological potential in humanity.

The Dance of Opposites
Audio Dialogue with Andrew Harvey

A tantric embrace of opposites is the essence of the soul journey and also its destination. Our soul travels into the presence of what cannot be known conceptually, but only through an ordeal, a journey, in which we are plunged into the soul’s “primary colors,” experiences that seem dynamically opposite and contradictory. The soul travels through darkness and light, agony and joy, birth and death, passion and tranquility, love and grief, hope and despair, courage and submission. In this dance of opposites, the soul comes more and more to experience a secret unity that is God.

Andrew Harvey is an author, speaker and founder/director of the Institute of Sacred Activism, an international organization focused on inviting concerned people to take up the challenge of our contemporary global crises by becoming inspired, effective and practical agents of institutional and systemic change, in order to create peace and sustainability. He has written and edited over 30 books and received many awards, including the Benjamin Franklin Award and the Mind Body Spirit Award.

Join the Global Community

The Integral Soul Journey is not only the most advanced form of online training currently available, it’s also a thriving global community of learning and practice.

Join your fellow students and practitioners from across the world in the live interactive conference calls and in our online community to support and learn from each other while you integrate transcendental spirituality with the mystical path of soul work – both essential journeys to our fullness as divine beings.

This international community is also at the leading edge of a global movement of people who are committed to manifesting a better world for all beings. This emerging planetary movement is rooted in an open heart and stands for the principles of mutual support, cooperation, harmony and reverence for all of life.

Here’s What You’ll Receive
Sixteen 90-Minute LIVE Class Sessions with Terry Patten
(about 2 per month)

Experience a rare opportunity to mentor and learn with one of the world’s most renowned integral visionaries from the comfort of your own home. Each live class session helps you create the specific skills and abilities to establish a regular practice and come into conscious relationship with your soul. Live sessions are on Wednesdays at 12:00pm Pacific.

Sixteen Audio Recordings of
Class Sessions

After each class, the audio will be available for you to download in high quality MP3 format. This way, you’ll never have to worry about missing a session, and you can listen anytime and anywhere – on your iPod, in your car and at your convenience.

Sixteen PDF Transcripts of
Class Sessions

In addition to the high quality MP3 audios, you’ll also receive the entire class transcription in PDF format after each session is completed. This way you can review, print and highlight the most important insights and practices that you’ll learn.

Sixteen 30-Minute Interactive Group Practice Sessions

Following each class session there will be a live 30-minute interactive practice session, where you will be placed in an intimate group with several other participants on the conference call to interact, share and do additional practices to help further integrate the weekly lessons.

Interactive Exercises and Questions for Each Lesson

After each lesson, you will then have the option to do homework exercises, practice new tools, and answer questions in order to accelerate your learning and integrate each week’s lesson.

Online Community

Our exclusive Facebook online community is the perfect place to continue your learning after each class. Here, you can ask additional questions, interact with your fellow students – and get access to additional resources to take your learning experience to an even deeper level.

The Integral Soul Journey Bonus Collection

Integrating Soul and Spirit
Audio Dialogue with Ken Wilber
Divine Romance and the Journey of the Soul
Audio Dialogue with Sally Kempton
The Soul of Emergence
Audio Dialogue with Barbara Marx Hubbard
The Dance of Opposites
Audio Dialogue with Andrew Harvey
An Unprecedented Opportunity to Join The Integral Soul Journey
We at The Shift Network feel deeply honored that Terry Patten has chosen to partner with us on this LIVE online Intensive. As you may know, this is a rare opportunity to learn directly from a renowned integral visionary and connect with a global community of like minds and hearts who are doing this important and transformative work.

Through this powerful online format, you’ll not only save time and money on workshop costs (plus travel, accommodations and meals – which would cost thousands of dollars), you’ll be able to benefit from Terry’s incredible teachings and exercises from the comfort of your home – at your own pace!

If you are serious about radically transforming your sacred spiritual practice as you explore the ever-unfolding evolution of your Soul, you owe it to yourself, your loved ones and our world to take this one-of-a-kind training with Terry Patten.

About Terry Patten. . .

Terry Patten is the founder of Bay Area Integral and a key voice in integral evolutionary spirituality, culture, leadership and activism. He co-developed Integral Life Practice with Ken Wilber and a core team at Integral Institute and was the senior writer and co-author of the book Integral Life Practice: A 21st-Century Blueprint for Physical Health, Emotional Balance, Mental Clarity, and Spiritual Awakening. He worked closely with the scientists and leaders of the Institute of HeartMath in the 1990s and even led the team there that developed their first heart-rate variability monitor. He hosts the acclaimed online teleseminar series Beyond Awakening, where he has engaged leading-edge conversations with many of the world’s most renowned thinkers and teachers. He speaks, consults and coaches on four continents and via the web.