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Sharing it elsewhere will get you banned!Brought to you by the participants of the Integral Spiritual Practice – Terry Patten (8-week course) GB ()This ebook has been donated to this GB and I decided to let it free access so you can understand the power of Terry Patten proposal, on the line of Ken Wilber…https://www.terrypatten.com/Seekers, finders, lovers, thinkers, practitioners, and rabble rousers—welcome.Terry PattenThis website is here to serve as an “awakening node” in a wider network of nodes catching fire with a call for wholeness in response to our planetary crisis.Here I share my latest talks, writings, and teachings—and news from my work helping conscious individuals and organizations navigate the transitions, transformations, and revolutions of this accelerating time on Planet Earth.My team and I plan to soon launch a community page for dedicated students, practitioners, and supporters of the “new republic of the heart” I write about in my latest book. If you would like to register your early interest in our community, please let me know here. I also have a podcast in the works, and upcoming events where our evolutionary tribe can gather to deepen our community of practice in person.If you are new to my work, here is an overview of the major themes you’ll encounter on this website and in my book:Tipping PointA New Republic of the Heart book coverA New Republic of the Heart: An Ethos for Revolutionaries begins with an unsparing look at what is actually manifesting now. It clarifies that humanity is now confronting “super wicked” problems that combine an ecological crisis with a sociocultural crisis. And new technologies are reverse-engineering our neurological hardwiring, distracting and hypnotizing us, shrinking our attention spans, trapping us by our aversion to what we fear, and making it almost impossible for us to see what is in front of our faces. This tipping point implies the necessity of Whole System Change. On the one hand, this means that it seems impossible to avert large scale disaster. On the other, blessedly, that means that each of us is in possession of an opportunity to “be the change”Unknowing and JoyI often say, “Things are far too serious for us to lose our sense of humor.” Many potential wonders are also in store for us; the whole history of evolution shows us one miracle after another. I spell out the potentials for both positive and negative disruption. But then I also point to the great Koan of our time, which can be the birthplace for evolutionary emergence. So I recommend we all be grounded in awareness that we simply don’t, and can’t, know enough to be pessimistic. And to the extent that expectations can become a self-fulfilling prophesy, it’s a moral imperative that we stay positively oriented, and open to the subtle miracles that are also part of the situation. Additionally, my narrative is grounded in trust of life and gratitude for the miracle of this moment.Hartwig, HKD, Wisdom – Seeds of Light [via Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0]Reuniting the Inner Work with the Outer Work, and an Invitation to Awaken from NarcissismI critique and reject inner work that doesn’t also express itself in outer work. And I critique those who focus on outer work without recognizing that inner transformation is also necessary. We can’t be effective without being transformed, but our transformation is self-indulgence if it doesn’t enable us to “be the change” more powerfully and effectively. So I make a clarion call to all of us who have fallen into the error that makes our spiritual practice self-focused in pathological ways. I am saying, “Time’s Up! It’s time to redeem the IOU we wrote when we chose to change our consciousness, thinking that was what would really change the world. Now it’s time to bring our awakening to bear in the real world. Awakening must get “woke.”A Truly Integral Evolutionary VisionMy work hinges on an understanding of how radical wholeness expresses itself in active compassion that restores wholeness wherever it is disturbed. It breaks new ground in the way it spells out how wholeness has agency, and resurges, like an immune response, in the face of our accelerando of complexification, fragmentation and stress. It spells out in detail how we can make every moment a practice of wholeness. In fact, it reunites transcendental spirituality with the spirituality of the soul, the spirituality of human relationships, and with sacred activism. It shows people, in detail, how to be united in heart, mind, soul, body, and relationships—and how that expresses itself in a new, expanded definition of activism.Joelle Hatem, Love Revolution [via Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0]Integral Activism, Communities of Practice, and Citizenship in a New Republic of the HeartI also seek to expand our definition of activism to include not just in-the-system, and against-the-system activism, but also around-the-system activism—which reunites the “beloved community” of those living whole lives of compassion, community builders, social entrepreneurs, conscious businesses, and everyone transforming their own and others’ lifestyle choices—plus much more. Importantly, it expands our past focus on individual practice to our communities of practice. Together we can be more powerful agents for the whole-system change that is needed in this time.I am pointing to relationships, friendships, conversations, and cooperative mutual surrender—the practice of shared inquiry, in which our commitment to practice allows us to enter into more profound “we-space” and mutual cooperation, and also to serve wholeness and a flourishing future. Our practice aspires to co-create an awakened community of practice that can stand, like Gandhi or Dr. King, as the moral center of a movement of social transformation. Thich Naht Hanh famously said that “the next Buddha may very well be a Sangha”, one that we co-create by becoming friends and fellow citizens of a ‘new republic of the heart.’https://www.terrypatten.com/welcome/THIS IS A CONTRIBUTORS ONLY GB