You're an evolutionary. You know it because you spend a significant part of every day thinking about how to evolve yourself and how to make the world a better place. You sense that we are facing a critical moment in the unfolding of our human story, and you feel called to participate in creating the pathways to a better future.
If you're like most evolutionaries, chances are you also feel a bit overwhelmed by the task at hand. You sense that there is a much bigger life calling for your participation. Yet, you know that to really participate in a way that will make a difference, you're going to need to evolve in a way that few human beings ever have.
You've realized that evolution doesn't just need more fans and cheerleaders. It needs awake, conscious, wise participants who have evolved themselves to the point that they're capable of serving and guiding the process of human emergence.
You know you're called to be one of these people. You only have two questions:
Where can you get the specific training you need for this kind of evolutionary transformation?
And, where can you find a supportive community of kindred spirits who are committed to living life on the same level as you are?
An Academy for Evolutionaries
Here at Integral Enlightenment, we're committed to one thing: empowering Evolutionaries. That means providing you with the tools, training and support you need to be able to fulfill on your highest calling. We've recognized that most of us who fall under the label of "evolutionary" are people with noble "evolutionary aspirations" who first need to make a leap in our own evolution to become truly awakened evolutionaries able to serve the creative process at the highest level.
We're also acutely aware that traditional paths and practices, as powerful as they once were, have a limited amount to offer those of us who are awakening to this new spiritual calling. We need new practices and perspectives that are in step with contemporary life, and that integrate both ancient and emerging wisdom.
In order to serve this growing need for authentic evolutionary training and support, we've created what may be the first Academy for Evolutionaries—a training ground for people who are already committed to conscious evolution, and who are seeking the tools and support to make their greatest contribution and live a truly awakened life.
Over the past 15 years, we've distilled the core practices and approaches that every aspiring evolutionary needs to make the leap to being an awakened evolutionary.
And now, for the first time, we're bringing all of this wisdom together in a single course.
An Invitation
Imagine being part of a cutting-edge weekly gathering of passionate individuals committed to their own and humanity's evolution. Imagine journeying together to the emerging edges of human potential and learning how to realize that potential in yourself and make it manifest in the world.
If the idea of being part of such a gathering inspires you, we invite you to join us for an adventure of a lifetime.
Over 9 consecutive weeks, a group of us will gather together online and by conference call to push the edge of our individual and collective potential.
Each week, we'll venture into another aspect of what it means to embrace an evolutionary relationship to life.
First, we'll step back and take in the big picture that brought us all together in the first place—our recognition of the precious significance of this human life and our potential to become awakened agents of conscious evolution. We'll immerse ourselves in the enlightened consciousness that is the foundation of all authentic spirituality. And we'll explore the new, emerging evolutionary spiritual vision that is redefining the spiritual path for our time.
Then, we'll take a deep dive into the path itself. We'll explore what it really means to consciously evolve our own consciousness. We'll carefully examine the obstacles that usually stop us on the path. And we'll practice proven techniques and exercises to help us gain the evolutionary traction we need to not only surmount, but ultimately transcend those obstacles altogether.
Once we have a deep and grounded grasp of the path, we'll then jump into the most important question of all: What does it mean to have an evolutionary relationship to every aspect of life? We'll look at the extraordinary transformative potential of evolutionary relationships and cultivate the skills needed to create them. We'll explore how we can bring our work lives and careers into alignment with our highest calling. And we'll discover the essential ingredients to creating "evolutionary culture" in any group we're a part of, and in the world as a whole.
Finally, we'll examine what it means for each of us to take the steps we need to take to bring everything we've learned and everything we've experienced into full manifestation and embodiment now and for the rest of our lives—what it means to truly sustain an evolutionary relationship to life.
What others are saying...
There are no words to describe what a difference this course has made in my life. I am grateful to have this opportunity to interact and learn with like-minded people. Every word that you say in the course resonates with me like music to my soul. I am also grateful that the technology allows me to keep up with the course even though I am many time-zones away. Bless you and thank you.
-M. Singer, Johannesburg, South Africa
This course has changed my life. It caused radical shifts in my way of seeing and living that have not happened for me in my 17 years of spiritual practice. These shifts have enabled me to live life at my edge, inspiring me to show up more fully in the discomfort of difficult emotions and circumstances. By giving me first-hand, direct, somatic glimpses of liberation and hope, these shifts energized me to engage whole-heartedly in practices that evolved my consciousness and have infused my being, my body, and my life with meaning.
-Milagros Paredes, Chelsea, MI
This course was by far the most life enhancing experience I have had. Craig is masterful in creating processes that gently assist in introducing the new evolutionary concepts of the next generation of spirituality.
-Reverend Carrie Lauer, Chatsworth, CA
This course connected with my deepest longings and passion and gave me so many helpful perspectives on ways of being and living the Evolutionary Impulse. I feel clarity, commitment, and zest for life. I highly recommend this course to seekers!
-Cheryl Lehman, Mount Joy, PA
Thank you so much for offering this course and for the quality of your presence to us these past months. Your depth, love, integrity, passion, and clarity come through so clearly. You evoke what's deepest in me, strengthen my trust that I can live from there - and offer practical ways of really living true to what I know at the deepest place. The content of your presentations is tremendous, but the way you are a living role model of what you are teaching is what makes the content so outstanding.
-N. Brubaker, Lancaster, PA
A giant and heartfelt thank you for your moving teaching, for your articulateness, focus, compassion and humility, and the skillful and incredibly generous ways in which you structured the course. It has really held me over the last 9 weeks, allowing me to experience sacred companionship. I cannot say enough about how, under your guidance, every single person has shown up with genuineness and integrity and beautiful soulfulness - whether on the calls or in writing. My heart has been touched over and over again.
-Alison Vida, Salt Spring Island, BC
What a journey and experience--this course blew my mind. Craig, you are so poetic, compassionate, connected, and on the ball all the time that I could not wait to either dial in or listen to the audio recordings. Your teachings are rich, practical, and very, very compassionate and loving. Thank you for being the embodiment of the Evolutionary Impulse. You are a true role model, never succumbing to the dark side but living and teaching every moment from your authentic self--such a rarity in the spiritual community.
-N. S., Boulder, CO
This is a course that is both deep and practical, leading to life-changing shifts in consciousness. Craig is the epitome of what it means to be an "evolutionary"; graciously patient, compassionate, respectful, humble, honest.... all the qualities one would hope to find in someone teaching such a course.
-Debra J., Tucson, AZ
This course has empowered me with a certainty and clarity I've never experienced before. It has pulled me out of victimization. It has shown me beyond any doubt that I always have a choice, and therefore have the power to really change. This is a lot in 9 lessons! This is the fast lane to Integral Integrity, permanently. And it has given me friends, all over the world!
-Brahmani H.J. Maestracci, Treuzy-Levelay, France
What You'll Learn
The Eight Core Modules of the Integral Enlightenment Course
Awakening to the Call of the Cosmos:
What it Means to be an Evolutionary
- Why our moment in history is so significant and what it demands of those of us who can recognize it
- Why evolution depends on you—the quantum shift in perspective that can realign your entire life
- The unique role of the human being in the evolutionary process
- Awakening to the unimaginable sense of meaning and purpose that comes from aligning your life with the "evolutionary impulse"
- The transformative power of awakening to our evolutionary interdependence and why this single insight gives us access to change in ways we would never do just for ourselves
- How the evolutionary perspective resolves the tension so many of us feel between the impulse to transform ourselves and the desire to improve the world
- How to discover an unshakable inner compass to navigate the complexity of life by aligning with the "moral axis of the cosmos"
Enlightenment and Evolution:
From Being to Emergence
- Why "being in the now" is the least important part of spiritual life, and how to awaken to an experience of "authentic presence" that includes your desire to create the future
- Experience the dynamic liberation that emerges through wholehearted creative participation in the evolutionary process
- How to distinguish between healthy surrender to the Evolutionary Impulse and potentially destructive self-abandonment
- Discover the synergistic relationship between being and doing and why both are essential for an authentic, integral enlightenment
- How to resolve the tension between the call to submit to the Absolute and the need to honor your commitments and responsibilities in the world
- Learn how to abide at the edge of the unknown in order to midwife the unmanifest creative potentials waiting to be born
Awakening the Will to Evolve:
Motivation, Intention, and the Choice to be Free
- Learn to identify the two primary competing "motivational centers" inside you, and how to make enlightened choices even when you don't feel particularly enlightened
- Why self-fulfillment—or even self-liberation—is not a sufficient motivation to catalyze genuine awakening
- Why you can't simply "choose to be enlightened" and the choice you can make that's even more important
- Discover the fundamental shift in orientation that can enable you to permanently overcome your resistance to change
- Awaken the "four spheres of intention" that can propel you to new depths of spiritual awakening and transformation
- Release a boundless reserve of spiritual passion and energy by learning how to bring your emotional "center of gravity" into alignment with the Force of Evolution
- Dramatically accelerate your spiritual development by awakening the usually dormant power of the "enlightened will"
Transcending the Obstacles on the Path:
Shadow, Ego, and the Primitive Self
- Discover your core ego strategies and develop precise evolutionary counter-strategies to undermine them
- Why "Shadow Work" is usually a distraction on the spiritual path, and how you can "make the shadow conscious"
- Learn how to harness your "enlightened will" to override the ego's destructive tendencies
- How to maintain your functionality in the world as you allow the false boundaries of your ego self to fall away
- Sustaining a commitment to evolution: how to stay on the path no matter what challenges come your way
Evolutionary Spiritual Practice Part One:
Unleashing the Power of Meditation
- Discover the Ground of Being at the heart of the spiritual quest, and learn simple practices for anchoring your life in this primordial Freedom each day
- Learn why meditation practice rarely leads to authentic enlightenment, and how you can turn each meditation session into a doorway to awakening
- Learn how to ground your meditation practice in an evolutionary context, and why this is even more important than which meditation you practice
- Awaken to the deep and abiding freedom of Being that emerges when you let go of wanting or needing anything from life
Evolutionary Spiritual Practice Part Two:
Beyond the Meditation Cushion
- How to create a balanced spiritual life that fully engages all three "faces of God"
- The True Meaning of Surrender: moving beyond simply "accepting what is" and learning to live in alignment with a deeper order
- Transformative Inquiry Practices: learn how to harness your advanced introspective capacities to propel you to new heights of clarity and spiritual alignment
- Engaged Inquiry Practices: discover an active approach to transformation that enables you to defuse, disarm, and deconstruct the ego in the midst of engagement with everyday life
- Confronting the Human Condition in Yourself: awaken to the always liberating power of radical self-honesty
- A Commitment to Right Action: Why making a commitment to "do the right thing" whether you feel like it or not is one of the most direct paths beyond ego
Creating Evolutionary Relationships:
The Exponential Power of "We"
- How to go beyond collusion and mutual affirmation to create dynamic "evolutionary partnerships" that both support and challenge you to fulfill your potential
- The 3 commitments that can transform any intimate relationship into a "crucible of evolution"
- Why true intimacy can only emerge in the context of a shared commitment to transcending ego
- How to go beyond the hidden violence in "nonviolent communication" and other separation-based relationship strategies
- How to navigate conflict and disagreement in ways that catalyze the evolution of everyone involved
- Building the support structures for an evolutionary life: how to create a relational matrix around you that fosters your ongoing growth and awakening
Becoming an Evolutionary Force in the World:
The Call to Enlightened Leadership and Co-Creativity
- Where to find the courage to lead in a world that shuns authority
- How to hold authentic power in a way that empowers everyone around you
- Creating evolutionary culture: how to transform any group you are involved in into a matrix of evolutionary emergence
- How to find the "razor's edge" between conviction and openness that will enable you to follow your vision without becoming wedded to it
- How to bring your worklife and career into alignment with your deepest values and vision—regardless of what you're doing for a living (well... within reason)
- Why authentic leadership can only emerge from a foundation of genuine humility
It's more than a course—it's a community!
Everyone needs the support of kindred spirits, particularly when confronting a challenge as daunting as the evolution of consciousness. But, let's face it. Being an evolutionary can be a lonely walk. We represent a new stage of human emergence and, at this point, there aren't that many of us around. In fact, particularly if you're new to all this, or live in a small town, you may be the only person of your kind that you know!
When you join this sacred gathering, you'll become part of a rich, vibrant community of individuals just like you who are seeking to connect with like-minded souls on an evolutionary path. In addition to the weekly calls, you'll participate in a private online social network created exclusively for the participants in this course.
This won't be just another online forum where a few brainiacs argue about the finer points of integral theory. This will be a dynamic opportunity for genuine evolutionary engagement. As a part of each week's curriculum, you'll be given exercises for contemplation and reflection, and invited to post your responses on the forum. You'll also be invited to respond in specific ways to the reflections of others, as a way of building the support and connectivity that is such a vital part of the evolutionary path.
And all of us here will be actively involved in making sure the community experience remains true to the spirit and goals of the course.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a telecourse?
Telecourses are live courses offered via the telephone and online. Participants from all over the world gather together at a set time in a conference call to interact live with Integral Enlightenment Founder Craig Hamilton. As with any other class, there are lectures, discussions, and live interactions between the instructor and participants. Between sessions, participants are also invited to post reflections on a special online discussion board and to interact with other participants.
What if I miss a class or am unable to attend live on Saturdays?
All the telecourse recordings are available by phone, through online playback or by download to your audio player. Many people who take the course are unable to attend the live calls, and they report that their experience is just as powerful. You may also post your questions for Craig to answer on the live calls—you'll feel very much a part of our community and enjoy the camaraderie of sharing the journey with other participants.
Do I need any special equipment?
The only equipment you'll need is either a telephone or a computer with an internet connection. If you choose to participate by phone, depending on your telephone service, you may also incur some long-distance charges for the calls themselves.
About Craig Hamilton
Integral Enlightenment founder Craig Hamilton is a pioneer in the emerging field of evolutionary spirituality. In his inspired writings, talks, and teachings, he calls us to awaken beyond the confines of the separate ego and dedicate our lives to the further evolution of consciousness itself.
Craig began his spiritual journey in the ashrams and monasteries of the East, but it was his liberating encounter with an authentic Western teaching of enlightenment that provided the catalyst and container for his own transformation. For 13 years, he lived and worked in a dynamic living "laboratory of evolution" under the direct guidance of EnlightenNext founder and spiritual teacher Andrew Cohen. Ultimately playing a key role in the leadership of this thriving international spiritual community, he has served for years as an inspirational and guiding force in the spiritual lives of practitioners around the world.
In his current work, Craig integrates decades of intensive spiritual practice with insights gleaned during his eight years as Senior Editor of the award-winning What Is Enlightenment? magazine. Through his writings and teachings, he is helping to articulate an authentic "evolutionary mysticism"-an "integral enlightenment" which illuminates the vital relationship between individual transformation and collective evolution. He outlines the principles and practices of this new, evolutionary spiritual path in his forthcoming books, The Future of God and Integral Enlightenment.
Craig is a founding member of Ken Wilber's Integral Institute, and a participant in the Synthesis Dialogues, a 35-person interdisciplinary think tank presided over by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. A master of the art of spiritual dialogue, his celebrated conversations with other luminaries are regularly heard by New Dimensions Radio's seven million listeners, and form the basis of the 14-part webinar series, "The Great Integral Awakening: Pioneering A New Spiritual Path." A frequent contributor to Shift magazine and co-author of IONS' 2008 Shift Report, he is also co-writer and story editor of the forthcoming documentary film The SHIFT.
Craig lives with his wife, Claire, in Berkeley, California, where he offers instruction and guidance in meditation and other aspects of evolutionary spiritual practice.
Praise for Craig's work
Craig Hamilton is an important new voice for enlightenment, awakening, and a revolution in consciousness that has the genuine possibility of transforming our world. With the wry humor, incisiveness, clarity, and wisdom of an emerging master, Hamilton speaks with equal power to both the searching mind and the questing heart.
- Rabbi Marc Gafni, author of Soul Prints and The Mystery of Love
Remarkably poised, flexible, dynamic and passionate, Craig Hamilton is a wise voice in the emergence of integral enlightenment—a new spirituality deeply committed not just to awakening, but to action—furthering human evolution and sustainability.
- Terry Patten, author of Integral Life Practice
Craig Hamilton is an important, articulate voice helping to illuminate the contours of the thrilling frontier where science and religion meet. He is an insightful and engaging speaker whose artful blend of spiritual insight, scientific data, and personal experience all delivered with a disarming warmth and humor will leave you challenged to question and inspired to act. I highly recommend his program.
- Reverend Michael Dowd, author of Thank God for Evolution
Craig Hamilton is an original thinker and a skilled communicator who sees broadly and reflects deeply. He holds the unique ability of imparting great insights and presenting these so clearly that hearing and knowing are outcomes. His work with our graduate students has been brilliant, their rapt attention confirming his impact.
- A. Harris Stone, President, The Graduate Institute
Interested in Learning More?
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The Key to Evolving Beyond Ego
How to Make the Change that Changes Everything
What you'll learn...
- The most important inner shift you can make to bring your life into alignment with the evolutionary process
- What it means to "evolve beyond ego" and how to know whether you are making progress in breaking free from the limitations of the "false self"
- How to discover the highest purpose for your life, and how to make sure your actions are aligned with that greater purpose
- How to make the leap from being an "aspiring evolutionary" to being an "awakened evolutionary" (and how to know whether you've already made it)
Register Today for our 9-week Telecourse!
Integral Enlightenment
Awakening to an Evolutionary Relationship to Life
9-Week Telecourse
Wednesdays, October 14th - December 16th, 2010
5:30 - 7:30pm Pacific time
Listen live by phone or online or download the recordings anytime.
What You'll Receive:
- Nine 90-minute class sessions with Craig Hamilton, including talks, interactive exercises, and an opportunity to ask questions
- Nine 30-minute small group interactive sessions
- Seven 90-minute Q&A sessions with Craig Hamilton
- Unlimited access to the recordings of all class sessions (listen online or download the mp3 file to your iPod or audio player)
- PDF transcripts of each class session
- Participation in a private online learning community and social network created exclusively for participants in this course
- A Free audio download of Craig Hamilton's forthcoming Guided Meditation CD: Meditation for Evolutionaries
- A Free digital copy of the forthcoming book: The Great Integral Awakening: Pioneering a New Spiritual Path, featuring dialogues with 15 of today's leading integral luminaries
- A 2-month membership in our Evolutionary Practice Community (includes access to regular live guided online group meditations and meditation instruction)
- Access to "Awakening to Your Life's Purpose: An Integral Approach to Finding Your Calling and Making Your Greatest Contribution" a recent panel discussion featuring Marc Gafni, Terry Patten, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Claire Zammit, and Craig Hamilton
Investment: $297
(Payment Plans, Student Discounts, Couples Rates, and Group Discounts Available - email us for more details)
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