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Kimberley LaffertyKimberley Theresa Lafferty is a seasoned teacher-practitioner specializing in constructive developmental psychology and Indo-Tibetan Vajrayana. She leads multi-year, private spiritual education cohorts with the Confluence Experience. Kimberley co-leads, with Terri O’Fallon, the penultimate Minds I year-long developmental course of Stages International. She is an active Board member for the Association for Spiritual Integrity. Kimberley is also a wife and mother to a young son, living in a remote valley of the North Cascades of North America which deeply impacts her worldview and practice.
This Friday on Evolving Spirit, Kimberley Lafferty is joined by Terri O’Fallon and Kim Barta for a wide-ranging panel on bypassing—where genuine insight or growth can quietly become a strategy for avoiding what’s unresolved. Together they explore not only spiritual bypassing, but also developmental bypassing (using stage-language or “higher views” to skip necessary maturation) and shadow bypassing (using practice to avoid the disowned, reactive, or relationally messy parts of ourselves). The conversation offers clear distinctions, real-world examples, and grounded ways to recognize bypassing early—so our transformation becomes more embodied, integrated, and honest.
Throughout human history, the spiritual or extraordinary experience has appeared in our storytelling, rituals, art, literature and oral wisdom traditions. Reality shifts at some point for all of us. Non-ordinary realities are mysterious, deeply impactful moments of our life, yet we rarely have the place or space to talk about or make meaning of them — until now.” —Kimberley Lafferty
“There are four major stages or phases of spiritual unfolding: belief, faith, direct experience, and permanent adaptation: you can believe in Spirit, you can have faith in Spirit, you can directly experience Spirit, you can become Spirit.” —Ken Wilber, One Taste
