Thirty-One Leading Spiritual Teachers Form Integral Life Spiritual Center
Dear friends,
For many, the vision of integral spirituality is one of a world in which humanity can finally, after many millennia, come to appreciate and embody the mystery of reality in a powerful, compassionate and sophisticated way that honors the many ways people know and understand Spirit. When religion is ostensibly at the root of so much global conflict, this even may be a key to long-term human survival.
And yet this vision of spiritual evolution has felt out-of-touch when it has not taken its work of the heart and put it into motion in the challenging conditions of a fast-paced world. Like you we seek to bring a higher degree of integration between the head, heart and hands of spiritual evolution at the forefront of contemporary culture. It is with this intention that we are honored to announce the formation of Integral Life Spiritual Center.
Born out of the rich heritage of the former Integral Spiritual Center and finding root in the emerging Integral spiritual tradition, ILSC is designed to be an energetic body that convenes leading spiritual teachers, scholars, activists, business and civic leaders and others to focus on a grounded yet advanced spiritual understanding and practice in community, conversation and civic affairs.
Fellows and Members of ILSC — including Brother David Steindl-Rast, Jean Houston, Caroline Myss, Neale Donald Walsch, Lama Surya Das, Michael Bernard Beckwith, Dr. Rev. Cynthia Bourgeault, Joan Borysenko, David Abrams, Alan Wallace, John Friend, Gershon Winkler, Gabriel Cousens, Gangaji, Eli Jaxon-Bear and many more of our dear friends — are drawn from diverse spiritual traditions and walks of life and include teachers and leaders who are both new to the integral community and who have been with you for years.
In particular, Integral Life Spiritual Center’s mission to bring spirituality “off the mat and into the world” is fulfilled in four primary ways:
- By speaking out and collaborating to take effective action against human rights abuses, including human trafficking, genocide and global climate change.
- By offering the vital conversations about the future of spirituality and religion in the next millennium by guest editing one issue annually of the Journal of Integral Theory and Practice and offering to the Integral Life community leading-edge dialogues between Fellows that can deepen, clarify and evolve our understanding of Spirit’s depth, invitation and trajectory.
- By convening the global integral community at our annual flagship event Integral Spiritual Experience.
- By sharing a vision of integral spirituality with leading edge religious, cultural, political and academic communities around the globe.
Though we have a passionate vision of what can become, we understand that your participation is the most important part of the story. Won’t you join us?
All of the great spiritual traditions teach that true enlightened consciousness must express itself in radical commitment to alleviate and ultimately end suffering. It is with this deep intention, with a goal of forging more compassionate and understanding ways of knowing and embodying the wisdom of all of humanity’s relationships to Spirit, that Integral Life Spiritual Center has been formed.
All ways love, over and over,
Dr. Marc Gafn
Diane Hamilton
Sally Kempton
Robb Smith
Ken Wilber
P.S. There are many ways to get involved with ILSC if you wish to do so. You are the key to advancing integral spirituality in the world.
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Integral Life Spiritual Center
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