Structure of Program

Ken Wilber will set the stage by situating Waking Up within the broader context of the five paths to wholeness as explored in his new book, “Finding Radical Wholeness.” He will provide illuminating talks that weave together these interconnected dimensions:

• Waking Up refers to the process of transcending the ego and realizing the true nature of consciousness. It’s about awakening to the timeless, formless awareness that is the ground of all being.
• Growing Up involves the development through various stages of psychological and spiritual maturity, expanding our capacity for complexity, perspective-taking, and compassion.
• Cleaning Up addresses the shadow aspects of ourselves—the unconscious patterns and unresolved emotions that can hinder our growth—by bringing them into the light for healing and integration.
• Opening Up is about cultivating our multiple intelligences, and nurturing the many talents and capacities available to us.
• Showing Up means fully engaging with the world around us, bringing our awakened awareness into action to contribute positively to society and the planet.

By understanding how these paths interrelate, you’ll gain a comprehensive framework for cultivating radical wholeness in your life.

Meditation Practices with Dustin Diperna

Drawing from centuries-old Tibetan meditation traditions, Dustin Diperna will lead you through two days of deep practice focusing on the dimension of “Waking Up” within an integral context.

Day 1: The Path of Tranquility

• Stabilize the Mind: Engage in traditional tranquility meditation to cultivate calmness and mental clarity.
• The Elephant Path Exploration: Dive into Asanga’s “Elephant Path” from 506 AD, one of the oldest and most comprehensive systems of concentration in the Buddhist tradition.

Day 2: Awakening Insight

• Insight Meditation: Focus on awakening to the deeper nature of your own mind through guided insight meditation practices.
• Introduction to Mahamudra: Learn about the basic stages of ordinary insight in the Mahamudra tradition, illuminating how these practices lead to recognition of your innate awakened mind.
• Q&A with Ken and Dustin: Go right to the source and ask Ken and Dustin your most pressing questions.

Asanga’s Nine Stages of Staying is one of the oldest and most comprehensive systems of concentration in the Buddhist tradition.

Why Attend?

• Learn and Practice with Ken Wilber: Gain direct access to Ken’s teachings, insights, and personal guidance throughout the retreat.
• Integrate Timeless Wisdom with Integral Theory: Merge ancient Tibetan meditation practices with Ken’s modern integral framework for a holistic approach to awakening.
• Deepen Your Practice: Receive all the instructions necessary to continue and deepen your meditation practice in everyday life.
• Experience Personal Transformation: Cultivate equanimity and open the possibility for profound personal growth under the tutelage of one of the foremost thinkers in consciousness studies.

Embark on Your Journey to Radical Wholeness

Don’t miss this unique opportunity to connect, learn, and practice with Ken Wilber and Dustin DiPerna. Embrace the fullness of your being and take a significant step toward transformative growth and radical wholeness.

Reserve your spot now and be part of this extraordinary experience.

About Ken Wilber

Ken Wilber is a preeminent scholar of the Integral stage of human development. He is an internationally acknowledged leader, founder of Integral Institute, and co-founder of Integral Life.

If you haven’t already heard of him, Ken Wilber is one of the most important philosophers in the world today.  He is the most widely translated academic writer in America, with 25 books translated into some 30 foreign languages.  Ken Wilber currently lives in Denver, Colorado, and is still active as a philosopher, author, and teacher, with all of his major publications still in print. 

What makes Ken Wilber especially relevant in today’s world is that he is the originator of arguably the first truly comprehensive or integrative philosophy, aptly named “Integral Theory”.  As Wilber himself puts it: “I'd like to think of it as one of the first believable world philosophies...” Incorporating cultural studies, anthropology, systems theory, developmental psychology, biology, and spirituality, it has been applied in fields as diverse as ecology, sustainability, psychotherapy, psychiatry, education, business, medicine, politics, sports, and art.

"If ordinary people don't perceive that our grand ideas are working in their lives then they can't develop the higher level of consciousness, to use a term that American philosopher Ken Wilber wrote a whole book about... The problem is the world needs to be more integrated, but it requires a consciousness that's way up here, and an ability to see beyond the differences among us."
-President Bill Clinton

Wilber explains the need for an Integral Approach in the following way: In our current post-modern world, we possess an abundance of methodologies and practices belonging to a multitude of fields and knowledge traditions. What is utterly lacking however, is a coherent organization, and coordination, of all these various practices, as well as their respective data-sets. What is needed is an approach that moves beyond this indiscriminate eclectic-pluralism, to an “Integral Methodological Pluralism” — driving toward a genuine “theory of everything” that helps to enrich and deepen every field through an understanding of exactly how and where each one fits in relation to all the others. Through the Integral approach, we reveal the previously unseen possibilities for a better, more compassionate, and more sustainable future for all of us.

In short, the Integral Approach is the coherent organization, coordination, and  harmonization of all of the relevant practices, methodologies, and experiences, available to human beings.  Ken Wilber states “You can’t [realistically] honor various methods and fields, without showing how they fit together. That is how to make a genuine world philosophy.”

The twenty-first century literally has three choices: Aristotle, Nietzsche, or Ken Wilber.”
– Jack Crittenden Ph.D., author of Beyond Individualism

Ken Wilber is also the founder of the Integral Institute, which is the first organization fully dedicated to advancement and application of the Integral Approach in relation to contemporary global issues. It was formed in collaboration with over 200 scholars and experts, specializing in education, politics, business, medicine, psychology, spirituality, as well as, law and criminal justice. The Integral Institute is currently partnered with Fielding Graduate University.

In 2007 Wilber co-founded Integral Life, a social media-hub dedicated to sharing the integral vision with the world wide community, as well as documenting and catalyzing the progress of the integral movement.

“The most comprehensive philosophical thinker of our times.”
–Tony Schwartz, the president, founder, and CEO of The Energy Project, and the author of What Really Matters: Searching for Wisdom in America

About Dustin DiPerna

Dustin DiPerna is a Harvard-trained scholar of world religions. He currently serves as adjunct professor at Stanford University where he teaches classes on meditation, human flourishing, and purpose finding.

Dustin first met Ken Wilber 20 years ago and is considered a leading expert in Integral Theory. He is a senior teacher of Tibetan meditation practices and studied with his main meditation teacher, Daniel P. Brown, for 16 years. Dustin and Dan co-taught Mahamudra and Dzogchen meditation retreats together until Dan’s passing. Dustin teaches regularly in the US, Europe, and China.

His books on integral theory and spirituality include Streams of Wisdom, Evolution's Ally, and Earth is Eden. An avid lover of art, design, and nature, he lives in California with his wife, Amanda, and daughters, Jaya and Rumi.

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