Imagine lying on your death bed and looking back over your life, remembering all of the wonderful things you’ve done and all of the challenges you’ve faced. The exhilaration, the friends, the love, the triumphs, the traumas …

Can you imagine looking back on the awesome, life-changing spiritual journey you took each year for five years on the Pacific Coast of California with a group of loving friends from around the globe, where you learned, loved and celebrated each New Year as a symbolic renewal of the amazing life you’d been given?

Now is the time for you to make a commitment to that life, to this journey …

Explore the 5-year journey here!

Year 1 - The Personal Spiritual Journey: Your Unique Self

December 30, 2009 - January 3, 2010 | Pacific Grove, CA | Asilomar

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As a five-year journey, we ask each member who attends Integral Spiritual Experience to make a heartfelt commitment to the exploration. This may be one of the most exciting, profound and life expanding journeys that any of us experience in our lives…

If you are ready to feel alive and invigorated in the world, filled with gratitude for the gorgeous unique gifts you can bring to the ongoing evolution of Spirit and humanity, please join us on this flagship adventure and inquiry into 21^st century spirituality. Integral Spirituality is a path that can integrate the inquiries, wisdom and practices of every major spiritual tradition, east and west, with the best of science, philosophy, and psychology, bringing them together into the cutting edge spiritual vision, path and practice.

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FEATURED CONTRIBUTORS

Buddhism

Lama Surya Das is one of the foremost Western Buddhist meditation teachers and scholars, one of the main interpreters of Tibetan Buddhism in the West, and a leading spokesperson for the emerging American Buddhism. He is a bestselling author, poet and chantmaster and a sought after speaker and workshop leader.

Diane Musho Hamilton is a gifted mediator, facilitator and teacher of Zen and Integral Spirituality. She is a core founder and faculty of iEvolve: Global Practice Community and is a co-director of the Integral Life Spiritual Center. She is the lead trainer on Integral Life Practice and has worked with Ken Wilber and Integral Institute since 2004.

Patrick Sweeney is a lineage holder in the Karma Kagyü lineage, given by the Vidyadhara, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. He is also the head of Satdharma—meaning "genuine dharma"—a Buddhist organization created with the purpose of propagating Chögyam Trungpa's unique transmission.

Christianity

Brother David Steindl-Rast is a Benedictine Monk, author and speaker who has lectured on five continents. He received Vatican approval to participate in Buddhist-Christian dialogue, and has studied with prominent Zen teachers. He is a recipient of the Martin Buber award, and presently, serves a worldwide Network for Grateful Living, through Gratefulness.org. (pending confirmation)

Hinduism & Yoga

Sally Kempton, formerly known as Swami Durgananda, is recognized as a powerful meditation guide and as a spiritual teacher who integrates yogic philosophy with daily life. She is the author of The Heart of Meditation, and writes the popular Wisdom column for Yoga Journal. A teacher in the tantric tradition of Kashmir Shaivism Sally conducts conducts workshops and retreats on applied philosophy and meditation. She is also a core founder and faculty of iEvolve: Global Practice Community.

Krishna Das has brought devotional yogic chanting with a Western influence to the world for the last several decades. Sharing his heart through music and chanting is the basis of his spiritual work; his way of serving the Divine within himself and others. He has recorded 13 albums to date, and travels the globe performing kirtan, concerts, and chanting retreats. He has taught with Ram Dass and sung for many saints and yogis throughout the world.

Integral Spirituality 

Ken Wilber is the most widely translated academic writer in America, with 25 books, translated into some 30 foreign languages, including the recent Integral Spirituality.  He is the first philosopher-psychologist to have his Collected Works published while still alive, and is an internationally acknowledged leader and the preeminent scholar of the Integral stage of human development. He is the founder of Integral Institute, Inc. and the co-founder of Integral Life, Inc. Live via videoconference.
 

Dr. Marc Gafni is a cutting edge, gentle and provocative spiritual artist and teacher, public intellectual, bestselling author, television personality, social activist and lover of people. He is a rabbi and teacher of Kabbalah and Evolutionary Spirituality and received his doctorate from Oxford University. He is also a core founder and faculty of iEvolve: Global Practice Community.

Judaism

Rabbi Miriam Maron is an ordained Rabbi, and a spiritual healer and mentor in private practice. She performs sacred dance and teaches intensives on Jewish Kabbalistic and Shamanic healing modalities. She is also a prolific singer and songwriter with seven albums featuring Jewish healing and mystical songs and chants.

Rabbi Gershon Winkler is a charismatic teacher who has devoted much of the past two decades to writing and teaching about the lesser-promulgated wisdoms of Judaism and to Hebraic scriptural interpretation. He is the founder of the Walking Stick Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the recovery and preservation of indigenous Hebrew spirituality. He is also an author of fourteen books on Jewish law, lore, mysticism and theology. 

World Spirituality

Dr. Jean Houston is a scholar, philosopher and researcher in human capacities and one of the principal founders of the Human Potential Movement. A powerful and dynamic speaker, she holds conferences and seminars with social leaders, educational institutions and business organizations worldwide. She is a prolific writer and author of 26 books, founded the Foundation for Mind Research and the Mystery School, served as an advisor to UNICEF, and currently serves as a consultant with the UNDP.

Unique Self "Calling" Contributors

Arjuna Ardagh is an Awakening Coach and trains others to be facilitators of Awakening through the Awakening Coaching Training.  He is the author of seven books, including the 2005 bestseller, The Translucent Revolution.

Linda Groves-Bonder, along with husband Saniel Bonder, is a teacher of the "WholeHEART Way," as well as a core transmission-lineage holder and Senior Teacher of "Waking Down in Mutuality." She is also a professional jazz and cabaret singer and songwriter.

Saniel Bonder has helped people fulfill their quests for a spiritual enlightenment they can naturally integrate with everyday human activity and relationships—and with their deeper life-purposes. He is the founder of the “Waking Down in Mutuality” teachings and, with his wife Linda, is co-creator of the "WholeHEART Way."
 

Dr. Gabriel Cousens is an author and one of the world's foremost authorities on living food nutrition, holistic lifestyle and complementary medicine. He is Founder/director of the Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center in Patagonia, Arizona, and the Culture of Life online community.

 Rabbi Avram Davis, Ph.D. is the founder of Chochmat HaLev, Center of Jewish Spirituality, an active congregation serving over 250 households in the San Francisco, East Bay area. He is also the co-founder of the Jewish Arts and Culture School.  He has written several books on Jewish mysticism and meditation.

Sofia Diaz is a hatha yoga master, a lineage holder in the Balasaraswati lineage of the South Indian temple arts and a recipient of numerous meditation empowerments in both Tibetan and Shakta Tantric traditions. She turns the body wisdom practices she is empowered in into accessible teachings and practices for the modern western mind. Being an inspired woman practitioner, the rigors of her practice have resulted in great clarity and expertise in the domain of Feminine Spiritual practice, which she has been generously teaching for 27 years. She is also a core founder and faculty of iEvolve: Global Practice Community.

John Forman, OblSB, is a postulant for Holy Orders preparing for ordination to the priesthood in the Anglican Communion. He is also a Benedictine oblate of Mt. Angel Abbey and a Eucharistic minister. John has served as an advisor or consultant to numerous religious communities and organizations as well as to individual ordained, professed, and lay men and women. John is also a contributor to Integral Christian Ministry studies and the Managing Partner of Integral Development Associates.

Craig Hamilton is an author and teacher working to articulate the vital relationship between individual transformation and collective evolution. For 13 years, he lived and worked under the guidance of EnlightenNext founder and spiritual teacher Andrew Cohen, and served as the Senior Editor of What is Enlightenment? magazine. 

Jim Marion is the founder and Director of the Institute for Spiritual Awareness in Washington, D.C. He is also the author of Putting on the Mind of Christ: The Inner Work of Christian Spirituality. He studied for the Catholic priesthood, and later undertook divinity studies at the interdenominational Hartford Seminary.

Terry Patten is a Certified Integral Coach and a co-author of the book Integral Life Practice. He has worked for many years with Ken Wilber and Integral Institute. He is committed to serving the emergence of Integral consciousness—by writing and educating, and by helping conscious individuals and organizations negotiate extraordinary transitions.

Frances Vaughan, Ph.D., is a psychologist and a trustee of the Fetzer Institute. She is the author and co-editor of books and articles on psychology and spiritual growth. A pioneer in transpersonal psychology, she has studied several spiritual traditions and has served as President of the Association for Transpersonal Psychology and the Association for Humanistic Psychology and is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association.
 

Vidyuddeva is a Zen priest in the Soto lineage who has facilitated meditation workshops in prisons and alternative learning centers for violent youth. He has offered various classes and workshops on integral transformative practice, and has been a consultant and guest speaker at various high schools, colleges, and religious organizations throughout the Midwest.

Roger Walsh, M.D., Ph.D., has spent nearly a quarter century researching and practicing in the world’s great spiritual traditions. His critically acclaimed book, Essential Spirituality, is a summary of that wisdom, outlining the seven spiritual practices common to the world's major religions. He is currently a professor of psychiatry, philosophy, and anthropology at the University of California at Irvine.