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The 200-hour PachaMama Yoga Teacher Training bridges Hatha yoga with Shaolin energetic arts, creating a foundation for a holistic approach to the path of healing and empowerment. Breaking the boundaries of traditional Hatha yoga, this training combines the wisdom of the yoga lineage with contemporary understanding of the body, emotional system, and spiritual practices. This training serves as a platform for self-inquiry, deepened body perception, and ignites a process of genuine transformation.

The union of contemporary healing modalities woven within these ancient forms, deepens the experience of what yoga truly is an art of living, with the clear intention to know oneself and align with truth.

In addition to techniques and training of asana, pranayama,anatomy / physiology, teaching methodology, and yoga philosophy otheraspects of the training will include:

Various forms of healing practices are used in this training to awaken authentic expression and connection to the inner landscape. This exploratory work includes:

The deeper aspects of this training initiates a personal movement exploration that reveals the bodys mysteries. These profound tools activate a deeper understanding of the bodys innate wisdom, allowing one to become more embodied within the yoga practice.

This in-depth training is much more than a yoga experience. It is the path of yoga weaved within deep transformational healing work, earth rituals, community, movement culture and the garden of silence.

Itsupports the shift towards embracing life with awareness, acceptance of oneself, the recognition of oneness and reverence for the earth.

One exclusive aspect of this training is that it is held in PachaMama. This 200-hour Yoga Alliance certified residential training will be supported by the unique expression of village life and the inspiration of a vibrant spiritual community where people meet life in an authentic and sacred way.

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Healing is one of the Greatest Acts of Divine Service

For those who are committed to deepening their spiritual growth and to helping others heal, The Direct Divine Light Healing Program is a two-year certification training in Direct Divine Light Healing, a full-spectrum aura therapy and one of the most dynamic and effective spiritual healing modalities. This program empowers you to help others to heal and accelerate your spiritual growth by deepening your own direct connection to the Divine.

Second in the Institutes three-level training, this program trains students in the sacred art of administering of Divine Light to others, and how to build up their own healing power to be able to facilitate the exhilarated healing currents. Regardless if the goal is to become a professional healer, this program will take participants to greater spiritual heights and exhilarate their Divine unfoldment.

Ideal for doctors, holistic practitioners, massage therapists, and nurses who wish to enhance their healing skills or anyone who wishes to delve deeply into their spiritual nature. A certificate is awarded on completion.

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This winter, Ive been lying low. As a human, Im part of nature, not distanced from it. Winter is a season in which to be quiet, so Ive been quieter. Its a time of dormancy, so Ive slept more. Less bustle, more self-care and reflection.

In late December, a group of us gathered in circle to address wintery questions: What am I laying to rest? and What requires care-filled tending? We also shared sleep-state dreams that felt like they came from Earth herself. Our council was a great reminder of how to look after ourselves as well as what each of us needs to be aware of in the entire web of life. As a contrast to the holiday hustle that was taking place everywhere at the time, we concluded our gathering by dropping into 45 minutes of stillness during which people journalled, napped, meditated, pulled tarot cards for themselves, did energy work on their bodies, and other quiet (non-)activities. Ive carried this cave-like, nest-like sensibility throughout the season and, yes, gotten cranky when it has been interrupted or disturbed. You will have noticed that I didnt even write any blog entries.

Today is Imbolc or Candlemas, a day when a tiny spark of spring is lit, when Brigids creative flame and cleansing well may be experienced. To be honest, Id rather spend more time in the nest-like tending of the cave, yet a part of my mind is curious about whats been gestating in the deep. Hmm, that curiosity is my small spark, I guess. If I spend time with it, divine about it, hold council with it in my journal and perhaps with others in circle, what flame might it generate?

And people are calling me to stir the waters and light the fires, so to speak. Will I offer Circle Way in such-and-such place? Yes. Will I present something about justice in the tarot at so-and-so conference? Yes. Would I be able to blend circle process and the tarot at such-and-such gathering in late spring? Yes. Would I be willing to teach Reiki during so-and-so months? Yes.

So, for me, this is a moment at which one foot is still firmly planted on the stone and blanket of winters restful cavern while two or three toes on the other foot are starting to wiggle and stretch, ready to venture into, or at least point toward, what might come alive in the fields of spring and beyond. The tending wont stop, it will simply take other forms. Less lying fallow, more planting. Less snoozing, more awareness of opportunities and possibilities.

All of this calls forth questions. I plan to use them for tarot sessions for myself, for journalling, and as conversation prompts with friends and circles.

Perhaps one, some, or all of these questions resonate with you. Which one(s)? How will you interact with it/them? Perhaps the cave-tomb-womb of winter has generated very different questions through you. What are they? How will you interact with them? Perhaps theres a meeting between your questions and mine. Perhaps we can explore and enliven them together in a tarot session, in a council circle, or over tea. Whichever, please let me know. Im here. Im setting aside the blanket, lighting the fire, gathering water from the well, and opening the cave door . Will you join me? Where, when, and how shall you and I meet?

Images: The Spirit of Nurture (top) and the Dancer of Beginnings (bottom), both from the Shamans Oracle by John Matthews and Wil Kinghan.

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Sajah Popham, founder of Organic Unity and The School of Evolutionary Herbalism, is a student of the universal truths found within both ancient and modern herbal traditions from around the world. The focus of his work is on integrating ancient teachings for a new paradigm of plant medicine, one that is truly holistic in its honoring of the spirit, energetics, and body of both people and plants. His unique synthesis bridges herbalism not only east and west, but north and south, above and below, into a universal philosophy that encompasses indigenous wisdom, Ayurveda, western Alchemy and Spagyrics, Astrology, clinical herbalism, and modern pharmacology.

Sajahs vitalist approach utilizes plants not only for physiological healing and rejuvenation, but for the evolution of consciousness, for a truly holistic practice of plant medicine. Sajahs teachings embody a heartfelt respect, honor and reverence for the vast intelligence of plants in a way that empowers us to look deeper into the nature of our medicines and ourselves. He lives in southern Oregon with his wife where he teaches at his school, makes spagyric medicines, and practices his art.

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As my Mastermind member, you have an opportunity come to my Spiritual Success Retreat absolutely FREE, if you pay the first 12 months of your monthly subscription in advance (Value 2,500).

This is an amazing 3 day LIVE event where you will experience unprecedented spiritual evolution.

Its during these live retreats that all the really powerful initiations take place. For example, initiation into your Higher Self. This is where you bring your higher self INTO your physical body so that you can communicate with it at any time.

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The Ordained Ministerial Counselor training applies the principles of A Course in Miracles to spiritual ministry. Being an Ordained Ministerial Counselor (OMC) prepares you to fulfill your purpose of serving in this time of the Great Awakening. Upon completion of the Ministerial Curriculum you are qualified to offer Accessing Inner Wisdom Spiritual Counseling as well as to facilitate Pathways of Light Spiritual College courses and 8-week programs.

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You may still feel plagued with fear, anger, resentment, self-doubt and guilt cropping up here and there. Intellectually you know better, but those old, subconscious scripts still seem to be around.

Self-image transformation means changing the way we perceive ourselves. To transform our self-image, we don't need to change what we do. We need to change who we think we are. What we do comes from who we think we are. In A Course in Miracles we are taught to remind ourselves frequently, "God is but Love, and therefore so am I," and "I am not a body, I am free. For I am still as God created me."

This course will provide practice in becoming aware of the trance formations that make us act like robots, controlled by unconscious, habitual ego belief systems. You will learn to retrain your mind to develop new mental habits while releasing those old mental programs that are limiting and painful.

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This course seemed simple on the surface; that was deceptive! It was so much more than I expected. I value hugely what it brought up for me. It has led to better relationships with my loved ones and greater inner peace.

This is a very powerful, invaluable course. It helped me learn to identify false self-image beliefs and transform these false beliefs to truth with the help of Spirit.

I felt that through the readings and visualizations, I made a greater shift to the Light within. My self-image improved. I feel more open to love, joy and peace. I really felt that this was a major shift for me.

I learned to look at how I think about myself and change that image with the help of Inner Guidance.

This course allowed me to stop, and become aware of the gaps and differences between what I have manifested into my life and relationships to date, and what I consciously desire to focus on. I gained valuable insights into how and why I set up limiting relationship patterns..

This course helped me realize at still another, deeper level that I make the trance scripts and I can let them go with the help of Holy Spirit. I also enjoyed the experience of deep peace and feeling connected with my Source in the meditations..

This course brought me clarity and a sense of peace about where I am in my life. I was able to focus more clearly on differentiating between ego and my Higher Self, especially in relation to my own issues of worthiness.

As you open to understanding your true purpose, you enter a new time a time of looking at the concepts you are holding about yourself and others and letting them be replaced by the awareness of your unlimited True Self.

Understand how the veils of forgetfulness can be lifted to give you a new sense of life purpose. Learn how to change your beliefs about time. Learn to access long-held thought patterns you picked up as a child, and heal these limited thoughts with the help of the Light within you. Find out why it is important to quiet your mind and listen to your Self, and how you can better serve your true identity as Spirit in this life.

Receive insight on new choices, new ideas, and learn how you can extend the qualities of your true Self in your life. Take an inward journey to a Haven of Greater Awareness to connect and identify with qualities of Spirit, such as universal Love, and feeling deep inner peace. Transcend time and communicate with your unlimited Self. Imagine seeing life differently in the years ahead as you dissolve blocks to the greater awareness of Love's Presence. Practice seeing yourself knowing and expressing your true life purpose.

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Wow. It was such a joyful, elevating experience. The meditations were deep and transforming. It was an enlightening experience, more than I expected.

The exercises were created in such a way that they directly got to important life issues. I felt like I shook hands with myself and my unconscious self. I learned to create a bridge for conscious dialogue with Higher Self.

For the first time in my life I found myself going very deeply into guided meditations. I always brought back some important new information, some new awareness. I was impressed with the gentle and nurturing approach. Growth doesn't have to hurt.

I would recommend this highly as a powerful class for opening to the Higher Self.

I love all the extra benefits of these courses how they are synchronistic with events in my life. I also love the little jewels in each course sentences that are profound. I increased my sense of peace.

It made me aware of my issues and my solutions. I gained insight into the changes I need to make to get back to my True Self. The experience was relaxing, rejuvenating, profound and very enjoyable. The materials are simple, direct and precise.

I have the knowledge and the ability to change my present experiences by changing my thoughts and beliefs about the past, and to have a future of Love, peace and joy. It helped me a lot with meditation. The CDs and the course brought the wisdom I needed to access my Inner Truth.

This course helped remind me why I am in this world and assisted me in remembering/discovering how to return to the reason: My purpose. It has come at an extremely difficult time in life, thus proving extremely beneficial.

I believe that the course opened areas of forgiveness for me to a greater degree than ever before. It allowed me to review and release situations in my life which I still held judgments about. I am aware to a greater extent that my Higher Self is always there to help and comfort me.

In this course you will look at core aspects of your personality which are holding on to ideas that do not come from your true Self. Some of the ways these aspects express themselves include self-righteousness, suffering, victimhood and projecting guilt and blame onto others. If you still find yourself sabotaging your innate happiness, this course will give you practice in identifying and healing those self-defeating aspects. You will learn how to quiet your mind to let your true Self lovingly transform your mind your thoughts and feelings to higher levels of awareness.

As you learn to quiet your mind and listen, you awaken to the real you to your true Self. As you gradually welcome awakening to your inner Spirit, your experience changes to allow in more joy, love and the knowing that you are safe in God. Your true Self is your true nature, the essence of what you are. You will learn to allow in the awareness of your true Self more fully and receive helpful insight. Your true Self is your inner Teacher and will help you transform your thinking to see the outer world differently to live a happier and more purposeful life.

As your thinking increasingly comes from your true Self, you become more gentle with yourself and others. You are able to see past the fearful thinking and resulting behavior in yourself and others, to see the true reality of Love that lies behind all fear. You are able to make choices and decisions from a place of Wisdom and peace.

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It really helped me look at areas in my life that I wasn't facing. The meditation CDs are wonderful and I enjoy listening to them more than once or twice. This course reinforced my values and beliefs in my spirituality.

By becoming aware of the limiting aspects in my personality, I can more clearly choose to hear my Inner Guidance. Receiving the guiding vision of my True Self was very moving and powerful.

This course reinforces the work I am doing with A Course in Miracles. The CDs facilitated getting in touch with my True Self and receiving a vision of the next evolutionary step of my "practice."

This course helped me clear away the blocks that prevented me from discovering my true Higher Self and has freed me to proceed with my personal growth. It has a helpful, building block approach of recognition, healing, cleansing and awareness. The excellent recorded meditations were so helpful in guiding me through inner explorations.

This course is more far-reaching in its scope than I anticipated. It facilitated a change that is an ongoing process. My experience can only be described as miraculous. I stand a changed person on the inside, thereby creating a changed perception on the outside. I gained a deep sense of union with myself and an absolute conviction that I am never alone.

By doing one of the exercises and applying the insights to my daily life, I came to a clearer understanding that I was projecting my limiting personality characteristics onto those whom I seemed to get upset with or angry at. With this realization, it became easier to see myself in those people, whom I used to blame for their 'bad' behaviors. I was them and they were me! Seeing oneness with those who seem to upset or hurt me has been a big challenge for me. But this experience helps me move in the right direction.

All the exercises brought me to deeper and deeper levels of my being. The meditations were profound and moving. I was able to see things so clearly.

The meditation CD helped lead me to the Holy Spirit (inner guidance) naturally, to a profound depth of inner insight, with peace and Love.

There were many ah-ha's, such as: All need for "specialness" is a belief in scarcity a belief that there's not enough goodness or universal abundance to go around.

I realized that my abundance is so incredible that I couldn't even really imagine how great it is. And the Holy Spirit is there to guide my creativity. Each session was so right on. It amazed me how effective they were.

This course will help you feel more confident about trusting your Inner Guidance, spiritual intuition and your ability to know what is right for you. Trust opens the door to living a purposeful life, following Spirit. Trust helps you experience the quiet peace that comes with letting go of fearful thinking. When you trust that your Source is working for you and with you, you relax and allow It to lead you.

Learn how to let go of the doubt that cuts you off from experiencing trust in areas of:

Learn what pushes your buttons, causing you to lose your trust, and how to get back to trusting your true Self as your source of Guidance. Trusting your inner Teacher changes how you see everyone and everything. This trust allows you to see the world from a new perspective of oneness. As you place your trust in your true Self, you see through the false veils of ego thoughts of conflict, limitation and lack. You are unlimited Love and Light. The more you can trust in the Christ within, the more it will be reflected in your life.

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I increased my awareness, commitment and TRUST in Spirit, learning to see that Spirit does the work and I just need to be mindfully connected in a place of peace, allowing it to take place.

I learned so much about myself. This has been the best course for me yet. I learned to locate the things that trigger mistrust for me and how to trust Spirit more.

I was reluctant to take a correspondence course, preferring the group sharing environment. I was very pleased with the opportunities and insights I received by doing individual and guided facilitated study. I would now recommend correspondence as a very valuable experience, and I would correspond again in the future.

Trust has been an issue with me in the past. I believe that by doing this course, I attained a new level. The experiential work allowed me to feel trust in a way that is wondrous and new. It is the experiential meditative exercises which made this course come alive for me.

The meditations are profound. I play the meditation CDs over and over, and each time I hear them differently. So I have an actual "physical way" to realize the layers that exist and work with myself at each level.

I gained a renewed trust in Self, extending that trust to everything and everyone. I became aware of areas I want to let go of and areas I want to focus on to make stronger in my life.

It helped me realize how powerful my thoughts are and how important it is to monitor my thoughts. I was able to release some doubt I had in communicating with my Higher Self.

It helped me let go of doubt and fearful beliefs of separation, and to trust my inner powerful Light and true Self. I can trust in Love to heal all things.

I learned to trust my inner Self, listen to It, and relish the beauty It gives me. Simply amazing!

Within everyone is a desire to return to Love, our Source. In our search for Love, we may look to someone outside of ourselves to give it to us. In this stage we are not aware of the Love within. We don't recognize our inner worth, our Light, our own perfection. As long as we continue to look outside ourselves to fill this sense of emptiness, we will feel unfulfilled.

When you realize that you have not found Love by looking for it from others, you are ready to go into a new stage of your life. You are ready to walk into an expanded awareness of Love. You are ready to consistently express your true unconditional loving nature. You are ready to wake up to What you are. In this course you will practice healing and releasing your barriers to Love. With the support of others, you will experience the depth of unconditional Love which lies within you. You will learn how to tap into this reservoir and bring Love to situations in your life which need healing.

You will learn to let go and let Love take over, seeing the world from a new perspective. You recognize that Love is giving, not getting. As Love extends from you, the sense of scarcity and lack gently falls away. Extending the Love that you are is your top priority. It is what you are here to learn and teach. You will focus on opening up to that Love and letting It shine through. Love is the healer. It will change your life.

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It helped me remember that love is everywhere and that I can share love without fear or anxiety. The processes were uplifting and inspiring. I feel peaceful all over again.

This course helped me remember that everyone, including myself, perceives the world based on our fears, feelings of lack and inadequacy, etc.... That we can only allow in the amount of love that we feel we desire. This allows me to see situations in a manner that is more serene for myself and others. This is a course I will definitely repeat for myself.

It was a very love-filled experience. I absolutely loved the material and exercises. It had a nice balance of meditation, processing and reading material.

This course helped me feel more comfortable in expressing the positive things I feel about other people. It also provided an unusual opportunity to receive positive comments about myself in a comfortable, safe environment, which helped lower my defenses.

I realized that I have looked for love outside of myself and do not see myself as a vessel of love. The experience of having the group tell me that I am worthy and deserving of love was profound. I truly value this experience.

The sharing with my inner child experience helped me recognize that I am love and loving.

My inner child received a healing and incorporated some new, healthy qualities. I now have a greater desire to love others. It helped me move through resistance to receiving love. It also helped me realize the value of extending love at all times.

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This course gives an overview of the important ideas and lessons presented by A Course In Miracles. You will to learn to tell the difference between ego thoughts and the thoughts of your true Identity. You will learn to choose peace instead of conflict, Heaven instead of hell.

Learn a process that helps you see past the physical form to the Light in everyone. It helps you forgive the people in your life whom you find difficult to love. Take an inventory of your patterns of right-minded and wrong-minded thinking and practice shifting your thoughts toward right-minded thinking with the guidance of the Holy Spirit in your mind. Focus on the true Self in others and experience how that focus helps you recognize the true Self in you. Learn how to transform upset feelings into a healed perception with the help of the Holy Spirit.

The Holy Spirit's teaching is a lesson in remembering. Let us join together in our remembering. It takes just a little willingness.

This course also includes a 3-CD set (MP3's with the downloadable e-course) of Gary Renard explaining ACIM in a full day workshop.

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Before this course, I didn't know anything about A Course in Miracles even though I had tried to do some reading on it. Now I feel like I have a very good overview of ACIM. It was very enlightening for me. I have more clarity about the ego and forgiveness.

This course brought healing on many levels. I experienced a deep healing with the Forgiveness meditation. I have been working with ACIM for over 10 years, yet this course brought greater understanding and clarity with it.

The Forgiveness and Recognizing Illusion & Reality meditations were especially meaningful for me. I want to work with them more.

All the meditations were valuable. I was particularly moved by the exercise in which we practiced seeing the Light in each other. It was a deeply beautiful class that called upon me to see the Truth in all situations.

My experience has been one of relaxing and opening to the concepts a deep peace an open pathway. This has been very different from the way I first entered the Course.

This course helped me experience insight into myself and my belief system. I now realize that the only thing that needs to be healed is my belief in separation from God. Once this is healed, all seeming lack in my life will disappear.

You don't have to experience life as a serious, stressful, day-to-day grind. In this course, you will identify the mental habits you may have developed which create tension, guilt and self-doubt. See how inappropriate expectations cloud your ability to experience unconditional love.

Learn how you are unconsciously telling others how to treat you, to fit your unconscious expectations. Discover ways you may still be following the unconscious expectations of others or trying to live up to unhealthy models of perfection. See how learned childhood responses become unconscious knee-jerk reactions. Learn how to release these reactions for a happier life. Realize that you are not your programming. Consciously choose how you want to feel and how you want to think. Connect with your Inner Source of direction. Learn to be in peace and be happy.

This course will help you allow more constructive inner scripts which empower you. You will learn to perceive yourself and the world in a way that brings happy experiences of unconditional love, no matter what is happening around you.

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Activation is something most of us have experienced at some point on our path. It happens when we allow ourselves to come under the influence of someone who has more access to the infinite reality of True Being than we do. When such a person also has the mysterious ability to activate our own innate awakened awareness they can reveal deeper dimensions of our own True Self to us.

In the great wisdom traditions, this activation was often referred to as transmission or initiation and it has always been considered an essential component of any path to awakening.

Although many of us have experienced our enlightened nature being activated by a more awakened human being, what we may not realize is that to truly become grounded in enlightened consciousness, most of us need regular reactivation until our own true nature becomes so apparent to us that we no longer lose touch with it in the midst of the challenges of daily life. For some of us, this reactivation needs to occur repeatedly over several years. For others, it may require decades to achieve stability.

This is why, in the great traditions of the past, the earnest disciple would often decide to leave the world behind to live in a monastery or ashram in the company of a spiritual master. This gave them the precious opportunity for the repeated activation that is so crucial to sustain an embodied awakening.

Activation continuously awakens our heart, mind and soul. And this, especially when coupled with regular meditation rooted in the Pillars of Profound Spiritual Practice, gives us the courage and strength to deeply embrace reality as it is and transcend our unconscious habits of existential struggle and resistance.

In the light of activation we realize, again and again, that we are already awake. We were awake before we were born, and we will continue to be awake after we die. Suddenly our energy and attention are liberated into a mystery beyond comprehension.

When we stop struggling with the way things are our consciousness soars into uncontainable freedom.

Most of us know deep down that we benefit in tangible and life-changing ways from spiritual activation. But, unfortunately, our cultures emphasis on independence and individualism often leads us to minimize the very real interdependencies that exist, including our potential to be positively and unalterably influenced by another human being.

Additionally, in modern life, most of us have few opportunities for the profound and regular reactivation we truly need to stabilize our awakening.

The monthly retreats in this program give you the opportunity to experience the repeated reactivation that you need to live a life of freedom and illumination. Craig and Jeff have both done decades of intensive spiritual practice that has given them each a solid grounding in the mystery of being.

Activation will occur during these events in two distinct but interrelated ways.

The first is through precise instruction and guidance leading you directly into an experience of awakened mind. By carefully directing your practice and responding to your questions, Jeff and Craig will guide your attention past false assumptions, limiting beliefs and unconscious habits into the subtle and direct recognition of your own true nature.

The second way activation will take place in this program is through a mysterious transmission of deep inner faith and conviction in the reality of our true nature. This subtle transmission of the truth of wholeness can occur in dialogue and in silence, but however it occurs, it is always unmistakable in its illuminating power and immediacy.

The activation that will occur on these retreats will not be limited to what Craig and Jeff bring into the field, but will include contributions from each of us. Many of the participants on this program will bring decades of spiritual practice and experience with them and together we will create a powerful activating field of awakened awareness.

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Peruvian Earth Regenerative Healing & Ceremonial Arts With Renowned Peruvian Shamanic Healer and Transpersonal Psychologistdon Oscar Miro-Quesada

17-week Live Video & Audio Training Starts Wednesday, December 6, 2017

Its clear to anyone with eyes that planet Earth is hurting. Our people. Our ecosystems. Even Pachamama herself. They are all sending out signals of very real distress.

As someone who is sensitized to the plight of our planet, you are no doubt troubled by what youre witnessing.

How, you ask, can you be of highest service in helping shift humanity into a new, earth-honoring possibility?

The answer begins with realizing your own gifts as a shamanic practitioner someone who is able to work with energies, intentions, and the spirits of nature.

Developing your shamanic skill set empowers your own humble acts of service, fueled by the natural forces and energies of Pachamama.

Thats how YOU begin to offer the sacred medicine our world desperately needs through simple acts of wisdom, kindness, and heartfelt ritual mastery of shamanic forces and powers.

You walk a path of profound beauty, imagination, myth and ritual... in which you fall deeply in love with the winged ones, swimmers, crawlers, and the 4-leggeds, listen as much as you speak and heal with your presence as much as with your words.

You become one of the courageous 2-leggeds heeding the call to a life of reverence for the Earth, Great Mother of the human family.

Its particularly valuable now that we draw from the wisdom of traditional Andean people, who know themselves as Runa, Children of Pachamama, Mother Earth.

They understand we live on a planet where gods, goddesses, and myths are alive in the landscape. Its all part of Mother Earths multi-layered divinity revealed through the beauty and magnificence of her physical body.

Aware that Earths landscape is a sacred geography, traditional Andean peoples see life as an act of loving presence and reverence in partnership with All Our Relations. As humans, we are beholden to respect the wisdom ways of Mother Nature and beautify our world for future generations.

This ecological path of shamanic wisdom is governed by a universal law known as Santu Kamachi Qelqa our Dharma, our lifes purposeful mission as two-legged children born from the generosity of Pachamamas dreaming womb.

To gracefully embody the spirit of this living wisdom, we must first learn to heal our human estrangement from the sacred dimensions of life, restore our essential wholeness, and reclaim our Truth that aligns our lives with Love.

In this way, we prepare ourselves as evolutionary catalysts in service to healing the heart of Gaia-Pachamama.

The Reverence, Ritual & Renewal Advanced Program will apprentice participants in long-forgotten shamanic rituals related to the proper ceremonial activation of sacred powers and spirit bridges into Pachamamas subtle energy body.

Called Seqe an, "spirit pathways," by Perus ancestral wisdom keepers, the ritual sustenance of this luminous planetary matrix is considered a vital human contribution for maintaining Mother Earths health as well as a means of informing the evolution of all sentient life on Earth.

Ancient temples and sacred ceremonial sites around the world are like hyperspace portals or multi-dimensional wormholes from astrophysics. They are outward, visible signs of an invisible, numinous order.

Called a waka ("earthen sanctuary"), these repositories of sacred power play a part in the human effort to define the cosmos, name the divinity or higher principle behind it, and experience the interdependence of self, culture, and nature.

As ancestrally sanctioned places of veneration, every natural landscape shrine, revered pilgrimage destination, stone cairn, and artful ceremonial offering sustains the complex web of our collective spiritual heritage upon Pachamama.

By performing the earth-honoring rituals you will learn in this advanced Universal Shaman course you gain access to multiple dimensions of Being, helping you understand your essential Self through a direct experience of the sacred in life.

You will dramatically empower our human re-membering as a united planetary family with a common origin in the starlight of the cosmos.

don Oscar has distilled the cosmology of his kamasqa and Paqokuna ancestors into ritual practices that enhance your path of healing service to Pachamamas sacred web of life.

If you recognize the truth in the above description and the calling in your bones to be of shamanic service, we invite you to join our global community to engage in Earth-regenerative and soul-restorative practices passed down by our Andean ancestors.

Reverence, Ritual & Renewal offers an unparalleled opportunity to receive shamanism teachings never before shared in a virtual setting, from Peruvian curandero and great lover of life, don Oscar Miro-Quesada.

don Oscar is one of the leading lights in 21st century shamanism, pioneering this modern, yet ancient path. He speaks humbly from his heart in a way that anyone can recognize as the voice of the soul. He creates rituals that draw from his Peruvian Pachakuti tradition that also weave in the wisdom of other peoples.

He teaches us how to live in new-but-ancient ways: connected with the daily blessings of life, filled with love and committed to acts of precise shamanic service.

The stories from don Oscars life are truly miraculous, and yet, his demeanor is humble and filled with gentle laughter.

Hes a respected kamasqa curandero and altomisayoq adept from Peru, as well as co-author of Lessons in Courage: Peruvian Shamanic Wisdom for Everyday Life. Hes also Fellow in Ethnopsychology with the Organization of American States and a United Nations Invited Observer to the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.

don Oscars advanced studies in modern psychology have given him the tools to understand the common threads of shamanic teachings and weave them together into a more integrated framework. He blends ancient traditions with modern evolutionary understandings to create a holistic, integral synthesis.

This results in a unique and beautiful gift to you: a chance for you to harvest the most important insights, practices and perspectives from millennia of shamanism to integrate them with modern psychological and spiritual teachings, and to apply it all to living your highest potential.

If you want to go deep into the wisdom held within indigenous shamanic traditions, but are unable to spend months in remote rain forests or mountaintops, this 17-week virtual apprenticeship is your best opportunity to be in weekly communion with a powerful spiritual teacher who is bringing together relevant and essential wisdom for our modern lives.

You will gain a unique exposure to Peruvian Pachakuti practices that are designed for healing yourself and the larger world.

Youll participate in distance-healings to help detoxify and purify lands and communities in distress as well plus don Oscar will guide you in the fascinating work of accessing the healing energy of sacred sites throughout the world.

Ancient temples and sacred ceremonial sites are like hyperspace portals, which don Oscar describes as outward and visible signs of an invisible, numinous order.

These waka (earthen sanctuaries) are repositories of sacred power, which play a part in the common human effort to define the cosmos; name the divinity or higher principle behind it; and unite self, culture, and nature.

The rule of no realm is mine... But all worthy things that are in peril as the world now stands, those are my care. And for my part, I shall not wholly fail in my task if anything passes through this night that can still grow fair or bare fruit and flower again in days to come. For I too am a steward. Did you not know? Gandalf, from The Lord of the Rings (1954-55) J. R. R. Tolkien

don Oscar will be live streaming video of selected teaching sessions deepening your connection with him and the community and increasing the potency to his wisdom transmissions. This live video connection will be easy to use and is designed to increase your learning and transformation.

Course sessions are on Wednesdays at Noon Pacific.

Each weekly LIVE teaching and training session will build harmoniously upon the next, to give you a complete, holistic understanding of the shamanic tools, practices and principles.

This advanced apprenticeship is specifically designed to apprentice you in long-forgotten rituals related to the proper ceremonial activation. Through these rituals, youll harness and bring forth a host of sacred healing powers and spirit bridges into Pachamamas subtle energy body.

Called Seqe an, spirit pathways, by Perus ancestral wisdom keepers, the ritual sustenance of this luminous energetic planetary matrix is considered a vital human contribution for maintaining Mother Earths healthful physicality as well as a means of spiritually in-forming the evolution of all sentient life.

Note: If you have not experienced Oscars Universal Shaman teachings before, youre welcome in this advanced training; however, you must build a basic mesa as a mandatory prerequisite before the course begins. Instructions are supported by a video teaching and also outlined in the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition (PMT) Basics Guide, which are both included in your registration.

MODULE I: The Andean Cosmovision

Wisdom Transmission: Historical overview and legendary mythic insights about the ever-present lived experience of Creation as a soul animated sphere of interdependent relationships and balanced dualism sustained by the principle of sacred reciprocity known as Ayni.

Imaginal Journey: A don Oscar facilitated visionary sojourn through the multiverse of Perus perennial shamanic wisdom.

Wisdom Transmission: Teachings on gratitude inspired sacrificial obeisance to Pachamamas ancestrally venerated spirit pathways and natural landscape shrines.

Imaginal Journey: A don Oscar facilitated visionary process for the spatio-ritual embodiment of earthen sanctuaries revered by Perus kamasqa wisdom traditions.

Wisdom Transmission: Teachings on the importance of internalizing our external perception of elemental reality as a transpersonal springboard in fulfillment of our souls destiny.

Ritual Demonstration: The PMT Pachamama Renewal Process

(No Class December 27)

Youre encouraged to use the session time to apply what youve been learning. Engage in the practice of the PMT Pachamama Renewal Process (preferably outdoors and barefoot) a minimum of three times before our next class. Youll receive ongoing support from the sanctioned teachers and don Oscar on the online community group.

MODULE II: Travels Behind the Veil

Wisdom Transmission: Teachings on the nature of Sombra, or Causal/Higher Mental Body, as understood and used within the northern coastal and central highland curandersimo traditions of Peru, focused on influencing the temporal dimension in our shamanic healing work.

Imaginal Journey: A don Oscar facilitated ritual befriending and willing of ones Sombra in shamanic healing service.

Wisdom Transmission: Teachings on the nature of the Ensueo, or Astral/Higher Imaginal Body, as understood and used within the northern coastal and central highland curandersimo traditions of Peru, focused on influencing the spatial dimension in our shamanic healing work.

Imaginal Journey: A don Oscar facilitated ritual evocation and projection of the Ensueo process in shamanic healing service.

Wisdom Transmission: Teachings on the nature of the Desdoblamiento, or Aetheric/Source Sentience Body, as understood and used within the northern coastal and central highland curandersimo traditions of Peru, focused on influencing the higher vibrational matter/energy dimension in our shamanic healing work.

Imaginal Journey: A don Oscar facilitated conscious soul releasement ritual for encounter with shamanic healing alliances beyond our physicality.

Youre encouraged to use the session time to apply what youve been learning. Select the apprenticed skill you most resonate with in this module and engage its ritual use a minimum of three times before our next class. Make sure to keep a journal of your experiences for sharing with others who selected the same skill. Youll receive ongoing support from the sanctioned teachers and don Oscar on the online community group.

MODULE III: A Labor of Love

Wisdom Transmission: Teachings on traditional highland Andean views and practices related to the importance of providing prayerful nourishment to our shamanic spirit helpers.

Imaginal Journey: A don Oscar facilitated visionary sojourn to meet and offer obeisance to the Tirakuna, the protectors and watchers of natural places of shamanic power.

Wisdom Transmission: Teachings on understanding the mystical dynamics at play when establishing relationships of trust and service with the ancestral Paqokuna landscape deities through the sacred ritual use of Mamakuka (Coca leaves).

Imaginal Journey: A don Oscar facilitated story of the legendary origin and ritual shamanic use of the three leaf coca kintu as an embodiment of Andean ethos.

Wisdom Transmission: Teachings on the shamanic wisdom behind the creation and traditional use of three distinct ceremonial approaches to living in balanced soul relationship with Mother Natures unseen spiritual powers.

Ritual Demonstration: A Pachakuti Mesa Tradition inspired despacho ritual to serve as sanctified earth honoring nourishment and gratitude offering to Pachamama.

Youre encouraged to use the session time to apply what youve been learning and engage in your own PMT inspired despacho ritual(s). Youll receive ongoing support from the sanctioned teachers and don Oscar on the online community group.

MODULE IV: Our Shamanic Self

Wisdom Transmission: Teachings on the millenary origins and contemporary adaptation of a ceremonial art for shamanic cultural unification known as the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition Link Up Ritual.

Imaginal Journey: A don Oscar facilitated guided practice of the PMT Wednesday Link Up Ritual.

Wisdom Transmission: Initiation into the the pre-Columbian Andean mythic knowledge contained within the prayerful ritual creation of a sacrosanct stone cairn known as an apacheta for releasing our human burdens as well as connecting our shamanic service to the will of our apukuna.

Ritual Demonstration: A Pachakuti Mesa Tradition based ritual for the creation and shamanic sustenance of a personal apacheta.

Wisdom Transmission: Teachings on the shamanic pilgrimage as both vision quest and rite-of-passage aligned with the perennial wisdom traditions born of Perus highland Paqokuna shaman-priesthood.

Imaginal Journey: A don Oscar facilitated Viaje con Sombra visitation to ones primary regional sacred landscape shrine or Apu to receive a bestowal of kamasqa (creative shamanic power) in soul awakening service to your Shamanic Self.

Youre encouraged to use the session time to apply what youve been learning. Engage in the creation and consecration of a personal apacheta as preparation for our final class. Youll receive ongoing support from the sanctioned teachers and don Oscar on the online community group.

A Pachakuti Mesa Tradition inspired ritual alignment with the harmonizing powers and evolutionary forces of the Andean Cosmos, followed by a wisdom integrative soul nourishing Q&A live sharing with don Oscar.

In alignment with the traditional manner in which Peruvian shamanic teachings are conveyed from teacher to student, don Oscar requests that all course participants be open and receptive to his ever evolving and emergent style of teaching.

To maximize your lived integration of this very valuable corpus of millennial wisdom practices, make an effort to be fully present in the moment and witness the shamanic soul medicine being offered, trusting you will be able to revisit the details as needed via the recordings and transcripts.

Youll be expected to have assembled a basic Pachakuti Mesa by our first class session following the instructions in the PMT Basics Guide found in your Pachakuti Mesa Tradition Basics Toolkit which is included in your registration for the course. To ensure you have enough support to have your mesa assembled before the course begins, youll be invited to attend a video orientation call which will also be available as a recording on your Course Homepage.

Youll need to gather certain ceremonial items over the 17 weeks to deepen your personal ritual space. Materials can be found, purchased, or lovingly gathered from the earth. Supplies will be engaged during class sessions and also applied during each practicum week. In addition, to receive the most benefit from this program and the powerful practices youll be initiated into, youll be encouraged to spend at least 30 minutes outside of class time each week in transformative practice.

Some of the Supplies Youll Need to Participate in the Course:

don Oscar will provide more detailed instructions about gathering your supplies upon your registration in the course.

In addition to don Oscars transformational 17-week live virtual training, youll receive these powerful training sessions and bonus materials. These bonuses will complement what youll learn in the course and take your initiation and work with your mesa to an even deeper level.

Yola Dunne, Chelsea, Qubec

Steve Guettermann, Montana

Eve B., Switzerland

The course arrived synchronistically to me, I needed re-equilibrium for my elements and a way to gain spiritual mastery on my own. More confidence and healing the shadows. A purifying fire and deeper contact with my divine Self. Just shine and get in contact with Source! Bendiciones! May I remember, experience, and be! Begoa, Catalonia, Spain

My whole life has changed. Im absolutely more present and aware of the magic that surrounds us. It is no accident that I found the shamanic path and ultimately don Oscar and his teachings. It has been a blessed re-membering of who I am and a call to action. Anonymous

The course was exactly what I needed, I wanted to enrich and expand healing techniques, applicable in occasional healing sessions provided for friends and myself. I did not need to ask any questions, all mine were asked by other participants and so fully and amazingly elaborated on by don Oscar. Im so happy to be living a new beginning with Pachakuti Mesa in my space. THANK YOU! Malgosia Urbanowicz, Burlington, Vermont

The benefits of this and other courses with don Oscar have been to bring me into peace in my soul and allow me to be more fully who I am. I am more centered and draw my energy from Pachamama and Source rather than from others. My connection with the unseen world grows and deepens as does my connection with the galactic energies... The joy of this course goes on and on! Miriam, Syracuse, New York

I received so many healings, dreams and energetic shifts in all aspects of my being and walking my spiritual path. So much wonderful knowledge imparted and imbued. Thank you! Shaun Ryan, Los Angeles

don Oscars teaching were heartfelt, and profoundly strengthening at the spirit level. I was so excited to tune in each week and feel the love that accompanies this sacred work. This course offered me the opportunity to be fully engaged with my soul purpose, while focusing my action and intent through the ritual of the mesa. Astraea, Perth, Western Australia

I have taken many classes with don Oscar, in person and with The Shift Network. This class, even though the material was not new to me, still raised my vibration and elevated my light body. His transmissions come through clearly and I feel them. The feeling lasts for days. Amejo Amyot, Saratoga Springs, New York

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Eckhart Tolles books The Power of Now and A New Earth have not only sold millions of copies and been translated into dozens of languages but theyve earned him the title the most popular spiritual author in the [United States] by The New York Times. Hes gained worldwide popularity amongst the masses and widespread admiration from movie stars, celebrities and famous musicians. Annie Lennox of the Eurhythmics said that he has some kind of special quality that Ive never seen before. One student of his work asked in an online forum, has he appeared in your dreams as well? Oprah included The Power of Now in her 2000 book club, helping to launch it to the number one spot on the NYT book list a few years later. They also teamed up in 2008 to produce a 10-week webinar on the teachings of A New Earth. Millions of people from around the world tuned in for this first of its kind techno-spiritual phenomenon. Never before was so much wisdom instantly accessible and easily understood.

Given the central role Tolle plays in modern spiritual thinking, his ideas have world-wide implications. He is one of many modern day teachers who emphasizes internal transformation as the central most important part of global transformation. As a result he makes quite exaggerated statements about the relationship between a privatized psychological shift and the larger transformation of the planet. His solutions are simplistic and border on irresponsible, especially when so much is at stake. Understanding the details of his spiritual framework and how his personal experience of transformation influenced it sheds light into Tolles thinking.

Awakening

Tolles framework and approach are shaped by a profound awakening experience he had when in his early twenties. After this powerful inner shift Tolle claims to have lived in a state of uninterrupted deep peace and bliss for around five months. He studied spiritual texts, worked with teachers and eventually spent two years in a state of profound joy while sitting on park benches. He was realizing that his shift in thinking had peeled back the layers to reveal the ever-present I am: consciousness in its pure state prior to identification with form. Tolle had discovered something of immense value and was now ready to share it with the world.

Tolles Vision of Social Change

Given the profound nature of Tolles personal awakening and the incredible sense of peace and joy that he felt one can see why he makes a direct link between his own private experience and social transformation. Indeed, if there is a defining theme in his work it is just that: internal spiritual transformation leads to a better, more peaceful and just world. More so, Tolle identifies a shift in the inner world as the only significant factor in social change.

The primary factor in creation is consciousness. No matter how active we are, how much effort we make, our state of consciousness creates our world, and if there is no change on the inner level, no amount of action will make any difference. We would only re-create modified versions of the same world again and again, a world that is an external reflection of the ego.

This line of thinking is problematic. For example if someone were organizing to change the racist institutional structures in society but yet hadnt changed on the inner level Tolle is stating that their work would be futile. Of course people with lots of inner baggage contribute immensely to the transformation of the world and similarly, those who have done years of therapy, are deeply in love with healthy families are responsible for supporting some of the most harmful policies. He proposes that once people awaken to the deepest experience of Being the world will somehow drastically change.

We are not separate from our world, so when the majority of humans become free of egoic delusion, this inner change will affect all of creation. You will literally inhabit a new world. It is a shift in planetary consciousness.

We first need to ask, when one becomes free of egoic delusion what will their positions be on abortion, health care or foreign policy? Wont this new world merely reflect the views of those who describe it, like Tolle? Egoic delusion is vague and its unclear what this means in the context of social transformation. In an interview Tolle admits to have $4 million dollars just sitting in the bank. What is the best ego-free use of that money? Becoming free of egoic delusion does nothing to provide answers to the most complex moral questions we face. Thus, it is inaccurate to suggest that once we are all free of ego we will inhabit a new world. In order to believe Tolle, you have to think that anyone who awakens will necessarily share the exact same social, political and cultural ideology. Secondly, forget about ethical systems, community, protesting or frameworks for engaging with others, everything one needs to play his or her part in the creation of a new world can be found within. He states, The light of consciousness is all that is necessary. You are that light. Global transformation has never been easier.

Tolles bold claim rests on the belief in a vast realm of intelligence beyond thought, that once accessed will guide and direct the planetary transformation through humans. In short, God is evolving through us. It is in this space if Being that such universal experiences as beauty, love, creativity, joy and inner peace originate. This energy is the intelligence, the organizing principle behind the arising form. Tolle uses the terms Source, the Unmanifested, consciousness, God and Being interchangeably to describe this realm or force. This intelligence has designed the world through its continual unfolding. The Unmanifested flows through human formbecomes conscious and thus fulfills its destiny. The human form was created for this higher purpose, and millions of other forms prepared the ground for it. God created humans to fulfill Gods divine destiny.

What keeps us separated from this Source according to Tolle? Its simple: identification with the mind. By this he means incessant mental chatter, confusing our true identity with form or labels and the obsession with the false egoic self. This is nothing other than evil. He states, If evil has any reality it is has a relative not an absolute, reality this is also its definition: complete identification with form physical forms, thought forms, emotional forms. This false identification leads to ignorance and beliefs of separation and hence the complex global challenges that we currently face.

In The Power of Now, Tolle suggests there are various portals into the Unmanifested which lead beyond the limited identification with ego. They include: connecting to the body, dreamless sleep, surrender, the now, space and silence. Opening ourselves to pure consciousness via these methods, we can play our part in the unfolding of the divine will.

Without the impairment of egoic dysfunction, our intelligence comes into full alignment with the outgoing cycle of universal intelligence and its impulse to create. We become conscious participants in the creation of form. It is not we who create, but universal intelligence that creates through us.

Tolle claims that when he is speaking it isnt him but rather the pure power of presence that is speaking through him. Its interesting as this is an almost universally shared claim made by many other gurus, preachers and religious leaders. Many mainline Christian ministers claim that God is speaking through them. And of course Neale Donald Walsch claims in Conversations with God that God actually dictated several books worth of material to him. Yet God seems to be saying very different things to Tolle, Walsch and Pat Robertson. How can this be?

As we have seen, Tolle believes that God is evolving through us to awaken his or her divine planetary will on earth. How does he substantiate this theory? He doesnt. The only evidence he can point to for his theology is that more and more people are abandoning mind-dominated religions. This is evidence, according to Tolle, that a new consciousness is arising through us. Its not convincing. Besides, around the globe mind-dominated religion is spreading quickly. He gives more insight into his cosmology.

But what we are doing here is part of a profound transformation that is taking place in the collective consciousness of the planet and beyond: the awakening of consciousness from the dream of matter, form, and separation. The ending of timeOn our planet, the human ego represents the final stage of universal sleep, the identification of consciousness with form. It was a necessary stage in the evolution of consciousness.

This is almost incomprehensible. How does he know what the evolutionary stages of consciousness are? What is the relationship between evolved consciousness and capitalism? When we no longer identify with form will all injustices be eradicated? If not, and if it is possible for us as a species to be awake while simultaneously living in an and being complicit with an oppressive industrial society then we should seriously question the social and political dimensions of spiritual transformation.

Why cant this divine evolutionary impulse awaken us to the reality of things that actually matter like deforestation, pollution, racism, homophobia or imperialism? Why couldnt experiencing Being and connecting to our divine source actually provide us with tangible knowledge and concern about the ravages of industrial capitalism instead of disembodied, abstract and politically neutral states of presence? Tolle and others like Ken Wilber and Andrew Cohen believe that God evolves through everyone Tea Partiers and KKK members, white liberals, black feminists, Chinese Taoists and queer activists to merely discover their deepest and truest self. Unfortunately this divine act does extremely little to actually move us towards global and planetary change. If it helps everyone equally then it empowers everyone at the social, political and ideological perspective they are based in and is essentially neutral. Aligning ourselves with an ever-present divine evolving impulse is vague, empty and will still reflect ones social and cultural values and prejudices. Its like going to therapy to discover deeper states of psychological truth. Of course anyone can benefit from therapy, but this wont make them challenge the worst injustices around them. There are of course millions of Americans oblivious to the realities of racism and injustice who have done profound inner transformational work and who have connected with the light of consciousness.

Elsewhere, Tolles work is littered with unsubstantiated vague claims like, All egoic structures are destined to collapse, and We are breaking mind patterns that have dominated human life for eons. Who is the we and what are mind patterns? Where do they exist? What is an egoic structure?

Tolles magical thinking reveals itself more clearly when he gives examples of exactly how internal transformation can affect social transformation. He states, The pollution of the planet is only an outward reflection of an inner psychic pollution: millions of unconscious individuals not taking responsibility for their inner spaceAs within, so without: If humans clear inner pollution, then they will also cease to create outer pollution. While this may intuitively feel right, it is of course nonsense. Some of the most passionate advocates of environmentalism have lots of inner psychic pollution. Likewise, many people who are irresponsible with the environment are very evolved, loving and caring people who have done extensive personal transformation work. Tolles correlation with inner and outer pollution is profoundly abstract and vague. Its entirely meaningless, overly simplistic and irresponsible. Its literally no different than a right-wing conservative saying the reason why there are so many abortions in the United States is because of inner psychic pollution. What does this really mean?

In A New Earth Tolle goes so far as to claim all of the atrocities associated with Communism could have been avoided had their been a shift in their inner reality, their state of consciousness. Again, his absolutism in regards to the power of internal transformation is quite extreme. If communists would have only stilled their minds, connected to their bodies and dis-identified with their false egoic self he believes countless lives would have been saved. Its important to understand that when Tolle is referring to shifting inner consciousness, he is specifically talking about stilling the mind, not shifting inner social or political consciousness. Of course the issues are far more complex than Tolle presents. No simple solution like cultivating presence, stillness or embodiment would have changed a profoundly complicated socio-political experience that spanned vast territory and numerous decades. Furthermore, he falsely believes that spiritual awakening supports his social and political positions.

Tolle is suggesting that what communists needed and what environmental polluters need is internal spiritual transformation not education, training, relationship building, diversity training, political understanding, environmental awareness or anything else. Why? Because Tolle believes in an all-knowing divine power that once channeled knows exactly what to do. This universal intelligence is unfolding and working through humans. If only environmental polluters and communists were to connect with God the world would be a much better place. For those who successfully do, they are contributing to more joy, peace, creativity and happiness on the planet. Spirit is unfolding in a direction and it supports Tolles social and political agenda and reflects his social location as a wealthy, heterosexual, white male with $4 million in the bank and a Jaguar in his driveway.

The reason, of course, that environmental experts dont recommend mind-body practices like meditation or yoga in order to stop worldwide pollution is because they are entirely unrelated. If we were to take Tolle seriously we should instruct environmental educators to stop teaching about pollution and start teaching about how to connect to Being. However, stilling the mind will make someone pollute less just as it would make someone a better chef. Otherwise, wed expect anyone who engaged in mind-body practices to eventually share the exact same social and political ideology. Again, the divine will of the universe could have resolved this if it only could awaken people to the realities of social injustice not just instill within them an abstract and politically neutral state of presence.

Dangerous Minds

For Tolle the mind is a huge problem. He believes the reason that we have poor art, literature and music is because the world is mind dominated. It is in turning off the mind and stopping thoughts that we find salvation. This is however quite problematic. While certainly people can benefit from stilling the mind, to say that a busy mind is the cause of industrial capitalism or pollution is nonsense. There are lots of people with busy and cluttered minds who are on the forefront of social justice movements. Also, there are many people who have done lots of work to quiet their minds and yet still are supportive or in the least complicit with awful things. Inner calm is not synonymous with anti-capitalistic sentiments. Again, he is identifying a particular social/political agenda or outcome with presence. If only we turn off the mind then society will be better. Yet this is absolutely not the case. Members of the Tea Party can benefit from mindfulness just as left-wing anarchists can. Furthermore, creativity (one of the things Tolle values and is a result of stilling the mind) can be accessed by anyone for any purpose. Increasing the amount of creativity in the world wont support the political ideas of Mr. Tolle. People can be creative in harmful ways.

Tolle believes that when the mind is still one can listen to and be guided by divine inner guidance. However, intuition is not detached from ones social and cultural conditioning. It is most certainly shaped by the values, morals, beliefs, customs and practices that have already influenced the intuitive feeling. The intuition of a KKK member in approaching issues of race is vastly different than the intuition of a Black Panther member. Any sort of universalizing divine quality that Tolle believes will speak to a particular social or political agenda is pure fiction.

What happens when you still a busy mind in Nazi, Germany? You have a still minded person living in and supporting an oppressive state. Same goes for Imperialistic countries like the United States.

Awakened Doing

At the end of A New Earth, Tolle describes his understanding of how acting in the world lines up with ones inner purpose.

Awakened doing is the alignment of your outer purpose what you do with your inner purpose awakening and staying awake. Through awakened doing, you become one with the outgoing purpose of the universe. Consciousness flows through you and into this world. It flows into your thoughts and inspires them. It flows into what you do and guides and empowers it.

He names three modalities of awakened doing, which without whatever we do will be dysfunctional and of the ego. They are acceptance, enjoyment, and enthusiasm. He believes these modalities represent a frequency of vibration and claims that we need to be in one of these states at all times. In fact, our suffering is caused by our lack of being in them.

There is a danger to Tolles simplistic belief that acceptance, joy and enthusiasm lead to awakened doing. It can easily lead one to believe that whatever they are doing is aligned with the creative principle of the universe as long as they are enthusiastic about it. The only compass or gauge of whether or not something is moral or non harmful is the individuals internal mind. Rather than basing ethics on dialogue, relationships or structural inequalities Tolles system is entirely dependent upon the cultivation of acceptance, joy and enthusiasm. These are vague and meaningless terms when trying to determine whether or something is, for example, racist or sexist.

Conclusion

Resistance to the Now as a collective dysfunction is intrinsically connected to loss of awareness of Being and forms the basis of our dehumanized industrial civilization. Eckhart Tolle

A friend recently told me that he believed spiritual awakening would make someone become more progressive politically. I asked him how far left would it make them go? Left-wing anarchist, liberal democrat, socialist? He didnt know. But he believed it would make them more compassionate and likely to want to serve others. Yet, these are not domains of the left. I know many right-wing Christians who have dedicated their lives to serving others, but yet maintain homophobic, sexist and patriarchal attitudes. There were common citizens in Nazi Germany who volunteered and did service. There are many conservatives who are compassionate. My friend, like Tolle, confused spiritual awakening or a renewed sense of love with a particular political agenda.

Love isnt progressive, socialist or limited to any political position. People of all ideological persuasions fall in love, make love, experience love and act in love. Is global transformation really based on raising the love vibration on the planet? After all, Glenn Becks latest gathering was called Restoring Love. There was lots of love amongst Protestant and Catholic Christians in Nazi Germany. Love for spouses, children, families and God. People were kind, caring and compassionate to members of their own kind while turning a blind eye or supporting to the horrific crimes of the state. What frequency did their love vibrate on and how did it matter in the larger scheme of things? Love is not the sole property of either progressives or conservatives. If both a pro-choice and a pro-life activist group based all of their methods, techniques and actions in love who would win?

According to Tolle what is most urgently needed to address the thought addicted insane world is the cultivation of presence. Global transformation hinges upon awakening to our deepest, most essential being. How might one begin to discover this? As weve mentioned through stilling the mind or other embodiment practices. Also, For some, Tolle claims in A New Earth, a glimpse of awakening will come while reading this book, as it is Designed to draw you into this new consciousness as you read. He continues, Again and again, I endeavor to take you with me into that timeless state of intense enlightenment. If you were worried about the authenticity or truth of his teachings, he clears up the matter by stating his book is not derived from external sources, but from the one true Source within, so it contains no theory or speculation.

Like many others Tolle mistakenly conflates presence with justice. People can cultivate presence and still the mind and yet live in a society that is racist, sexist and based on capitalist exploitation. Presence is not anti-thetical to a dehumanized industrial civilization. There can be lots of nice people who are calm and do things in a sacred manner and yet be completely oblivious to the ways in which the surrounding culture pollutes, oppresses and marginalizes people.

As was the case with Zen Buddhism in Japan during and before WWII, the cultivation of stillness, compassion and love can co-exist with the worst fascism and imperialism. The entire institution of Zen Buddhism the masters, monks and professors supported the cruel and colonizing efforts of the state and emperor. They defended the wars of compassion, gorged themselves in killing and advocated merging the small self with the larger self of the state. This was all done within the monastical, academic and ethical systems of Zen Buddhism. Furthermore, most white people in the history of U.S. have believed themselves to be loving, caring, compassionate people. Many have even engaged in spiritual practices for decades now, yet have been complicit in all sorts of racist, bigoted and Imperialistic actions in America. White people arent more aware of their own racism or racist past because theyve cultivated presence or live in the Now.

Certainly Tolle has transformed the lives of many people. Millions have benefited from his teachings. The physical and mental benefits of mind-body spiritual practices are clear. Yet, this just makes the point Im trying to illustrate much clearer. It doesnt matter what political or social persuasion one is, anyone can benefit from individual transformative practices. To suggest that engaging in these practices is thus aligning with a certain political direction of the divine will as Tolle does is simply untrue. Again, anyone who stills the mind or cultivates presence would necessarily end up at the same social and political positions. Wed all end up like Tolle. Thats not my definition of a transformed planet.

Teachings like those of Tolle are overly simplistic and irresponsible. To say that the global problems of the world will be solved if we all still the mind, connect with Being and live in joy, enthusiasm and acceptance is incredibly naive. His ideas are based on magical thinking, not unlike The Secret and many other pop-spiritual philosophies. He claims that by just allowing the present moment to be it will miraculously transform your whole life. Even if one addresses their shadow through therapy or other transformative work, this still wont lead to the global transformation that Tolle speaks of. These teachings make larger than life promises and conflate inner transformation with external transformation when in reality people with varying political positions can equally benefit from spiritual/psychological growth and still maintain their perspectives and actions regardless of how harmful they are.

Claims that the divine is working through us to fulfill the evolutionary mission of consciousness are so abstract they are meaningless. Most significantly the will of the divine always reflects the social, political and ideological positions of those making the claims. Saying this doesnt mean Im against spiritual practices or individual transformation just as me saying that poetry wont save us doesnt mean that Im against poetry. Rather it is important to pull these two domains of internal and external transformation apart to clearly see what has erroneously been projected onto them.

We are already facing immense global challenges, which are seemingly only going to get worse. Getting in touch with God, love, Being or Source wont save us now. Spiritual awakening wont solve the problems we must confront. The issue is not lack of Being or unwillingness to be in the Now. Instead of fetishizing internal transformation as a global panacea or promoting the idea that God is evolving through us lets build the networks of relationships and communities of resistance necessary to survive the coming planetary challenges.

This article originally appeared at Tikkun Magazine. Reposted with permission.

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