Integral Enlightenment – Integral Life

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Do you want to make every moment a practice of enlightenment, and all of life into a spiritual experience?

Integral Enlightenment is an authentic, contemporary approach to spiritual practice designed to bring about a transformation of your lived experience of humanity.

It is a path for those of us who appreciate the great wisdom traditions of the past, but feel a yearning for a new spirituality that is informed by a leading-edge understanding of both the human condition and our place in the cosmos.

Craig Hamilton leads the Integral Enlightenment module for those of us who know deep down that spiritual life is about much more than our personal happiness, peace, or contentment and feel disillusioned by the me-oriented, “have it your way” spirituality of the contemporary West. It’s for those who feel compelled to transform themselves not merely for their own liberation, but in order to serve the greatest calling there is—the further evolution of life, humanity, and consciousness itself—and the cultivation of a more enlightened world.

It is no longer an option for the sincere spiritual practitioner to withdraw into a lifetime of solitary contemplation and meditation. We live in a rapidly-changing, conflicted world that needs wholehearted engagement. A new spiritual impulse is arising, compelling us to find our self-transcendence in a commitment to the conscious evolution of the whole.

This spiritual impulse is calling for a new set of spiritual practices. We need a path that not only cultivates inner peace and clarity, but that transforms us at the deepest level of our individuality—the level of our motivations, our will, and our character—enabling us to be truly enlightened actors working together for a better future.

Integral Enlightenment is an approach to spiritual practice that aspires to meet this need by leveraging our unique, modern capacities to meet 21st century individual and collective challenges.

It embraces the wisdom of the great meditative traditions, but also reaches forward to unleash the profound spiritual potential inherent in our recently evolved capacities for self-awareness, introspection, self-authorship and relational intimacy.

In this ILP module Craig Hamilton offers guidance and practices on the following topics:

Exploring the question; what would it be like to live an enlightened human life in our day to day existence?
Why doesn’t our spiritual practice stick when confronted with the constrictions of our lives?
The realization of the nondual state and the illusion of separation
How misrepresentations of nondual teachings are overwhelming our true potential
The first dimension of practice: Allowing things to be
The second dimension of practice: The bridge between experience and action
The third dimension of practice: Radical risk taking
What can come up when experiencing these practices

About the Author

Craig Hamilton

Craig Hamilton is a pioneer in the emerging field of evolutionary spirituality and a leading voice in the movement for conscious evolution. As the guiding force behind Integral Enlightenment, Craig offers spiritual guidance and teachings to a growing international community spanning 50 countries around the world.

His introductory and advanced courses have more than 6,000 graduates to date. These courses are designed to support people who are committed to evolving themselves and our culture, yearn to make their greatest contribution, and seek to develop themselves to embrace this calling.

To provide effective support for these pioneers, Craig created the Academy for Evolutionaries, offering practical spiritual tools and training that are in step with our times and informed by an up-to-date understanding of the human condition. In this unique training ground, Craig brings together core insights and approaches based on decades of on-the-ground research at the leading edge of spiritual practice and inquiry.

Craig’s programs integrate decades of intensive spiritual practice with insights gleaned during his eight years as Senior Editor of the award winning What Is Enlightenment? magazine.

Craig’s work is highly acclaimed by thought leaders and spiritual teachers ranging from Ken Wilber, Michael Beckwith, and Barbara Marx Hubbard to Don Beck and Jean Houston, among many others. He is a founding member of Ken Wilber’s Integral Institute, a member of Deepak Chopra’s Evolutionary Leaders Forum, and was a participant in the Synthesis Dialogues, a 35-person interdisciplinary think tank presided over by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

In his current work, Craig is helping to articulate an authentic evolutionary spirituality — an “integral enlightenment” which illuminates the vital relationship between individual transformation and collective evolution.

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