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• Unique Self Emergence Workshop with Barbara Alexander

  
  

  This workshop will introduce the Unique Self Emergence Process through practices that are immediately applicable in your life. You will leave this intensive with a clear map to guide your own Unique Self emergence, one you can work with immediately. By engaging in a series of core practices, participants will gain an embodied experience of the three states of consciousness that characterize the journey from Separate Self to Unique Self. You will also gain a vision for how the Unique Self Emergence Process might be used to facilitate emergence in individuals, couples and groups.

  In this two day workshop you will:

  • learn the basic principles of the Unique Self Teachings.
  • explore how Integral Theory, Developmental Psychology, the Enneagram, neuroscience, as well as the ancient and modern spiritual traditions, are woven into the process
  • discover how the USEP’s core practices facilitate the journey from Separate Self to Unique Self.

  Join us in an experience that will open your heart & imagination to the creative possibilities of the process.

  WHO: Change Agents (coaches, therapists, consultants, spiritual directors & clergy) who are interested in the USEP and in the certification program that begins in January 2018.

  WHEN: Friday September 22nd from 9:30 am – 9:00 pm and Saturday September 23rd from 9:00 am – 4:00 pm

  COST: $40.00, which includes snacks & lunch

  RETREAT FACILITATOR: Barbara Alexander and a team of certified USE Facilitators

  DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATION:  September 13, 2017

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• Mystery School of Love July 2017: Changing the Source Code

  
  

  by Kerstin Zohar Tuschik

  A couple of days ago, many of us returned from the fifth annual Mystery School with Dr. Marc Gafni in Holland. Still basking in the aftertaste of it, we are in the process of integrating it all into our bodies and our lives.

  At the Center for Integral Wisdom, our mission is to evolve the source code of culture by evolving the memes and distinctions that govern both our personal and collective lives. The Mystery and Wisdom Schools are our Dharma labs for the new distinctions that we are developing and learning how to deploy into culture to evolve the source code.

  As our Academic Director Dr. Zachary Stein has stated so beautifully in a previous blog-post:

  “Across the centuries, mystics have convened mystery schools on the edges of civilizations and worldviews. Intentionally small and remote, peopled with trusted initiates, these schools have been the storehouses of innovations in consciousness, sourced in ancient traditions, guided by a memory of the future. Off stage and out of sight, a few have always been preparing seeds for planting in the compost of the rapidly degenerating culture of the so-called civilized.”

  Mystery School is where we come together as evolutionary mystics, the Wheel of Dharma turns, new dharma is coming down, SHE dances, and we can literally feel the source code shift.

  Mystery School is not a personal growth seminar. And yet, paradoxically, personal transformation happens at much higher rates than at any personal transformation event. All of us committing to evolving the source code of culture, to the conscious evolution of the all, is exactly what fuels our own transformation with the power of the all.

  Once we realize that we are not separate from, but unique embodiments of, the Evolutionary Impulse it all starts to make sense.

  As long as it is about MY transformation, I separate myself from the all and I am narcissistically lost in ego. Once I begin to serve the evolution of the all, that same impulse becomes alive in me and my own transformation becomes a byproduct of the evolution of the all.

  When you read my testimonial below and the ones of my colleagues linked to at the end, keep in mind that they are written with great delight from within the energy of the Mystery School. They are not 3rd person accounts but rather 1st person mystical testimonials.

  Each year at the end of the Festival we say: This cannot get any better! And then it does get better. And OMG, we did it again! This was the most awesome Mystery School of Love EVER!!!

  Deepest bow to CIW President Dr. Marc Gafni, our dharma teacher, who opened the space again and again, every morning, every moment with open heart, penetrating insight and clarity, deep humility, devotion, purity, and holy audacity. He has been more humble, devoted, pure, open, and audacious than ever, serving the dharma, serving the Goddess, serving the collective field and the awakening of every single human being in the room and on this planet while dancing with us to the end of love, the end of shame, and the leading edges of culture.

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• Unique Self Somatology – A New Universal Scientific Spiritual Path

  
  

  By Mary Ann Gray Voorhies

  Unique Self Somatology is a path that is not tied to any one culture.  The main thrust of the practice is to overcome “bad” habits or habits that do not serve us well.  In somatic language this is called habituation.  The goal of this somatic learning is somatic freedom.  It occurs by reprogramming the whole brain.  Clinical Somatic Education is a discipline that helps to reprogram the sensory motor cortex.  When the reprogramming of the frontal lobe/neocortex occurs and when both of these disciplines are practiced together, this is called somatology or holistic somatics.  The reprogramming of the neocortex is commonly known as growth and spirituality.

  I have practiced both of these disciplines and am certified in both of them.  Education for Living seminars is a series of workshops that helps to provide somatic experiential learning that leads to more wisdom, self-understanding, love for others, and somatic freedom from automatic knee-jerk behavior.  It also leads to freedom from emotional suffering as clinical somatics leads to freedom from physical suffering. My passion in life is to help to spread these two new fields of somatic learning.

  Just as Marc Gafni talks about the democratization of enlightenment, I too, envision through the practice of these two somatic disciplines that the process of becoming more healed and whole human beings can happen at a remarkable rate.  This freedom from our own conditioning is what Thomas Hanna called THE FAIR STATE.  In the article WHAT IS SOMATICS?  Thomas Hanna said that somatics is optimal, physical, and MENTAL health.  He also says that this is a great leap for mankind and because of the knowledge that we have now, we have landed upon a new continent.  In his book BODIES IN REVOLT, he talks about the fact that the human race is evolving and mutating.  And it is because of our new somatic understanding that somatology will provide a giant leap for mankind.

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