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Integral Spirituality: A Fitting Path

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AUG 9th 2025 9am-4pm

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The Whole Universe is completely integrated and evolving;

embodied, embedded, enacted and extended by Spirit.

And YOU are that.

Ken Wilber's

"Ups" of Integral Spirituality

Growing Up     Waking Up     Cleaning Up     Opening Up     Showing Up

Growing Up: The Great Adventure

The Whole Universe at every level and in every instance is Becoming. Do you think it's even possible that you aren't? What and who will you become? When and how will you do it? Will you ever finish? Should you even want to finish? Why would you?

Becoming is the most exciting and satisfying thing you'll ever do! 

Waking Up: Delicious Appetizers

• What is religious faith, and why is it everywhere? Identify your own!

• Discover another way to understand the Universal state and structure.

• Move past needless arguments about the nature and existence of God.

• Uncover the perennial wisdom at the core of all religious traditions.

• Learn about different intelligences and ways of knowing.

• Gain insight into the nature and role of consciousness.

• Find your way to face loneliness, grief and addiction.

• Learn the important difference between "unique" and "special."

• Move past inflexible tyrannical dogma.

• See how to transcend and include traditions.

• Transcend and include "either/or" thinking with "both/and" non-dual awareness.

• Recognize the convergences of science, philosophy, psychology, and theology.

And more . . .

Cleaning Up: Dealing With . . . Stuff

Some people think religion is a bunch of . . . stuff. Well of course it is! After all, people are full of it. And we love it, because it's our stuff, and nobody's gonna take it away from us! Right? We love all the petty, annoying, repetitive, meaningless chickenstuff that pops up everywhere - including in your mind - that keeps gumming up the works and covering up what's important. We love the mean, spiteful, vengeful horsestuff that feeds the anger and the endless "ping-pong" matches of conflicts and wars. But most of all, we love the King of All Stuff, Bullstuff, which is everything that just ain't so - and makes up most of our other stuff, too.

Sure, we've all got our stuff, and we love it, but wouldn't it be more kind and better all around to just pull it all out in the sunshine and turn it into fertilizer before we choke on it or dump it on our neighbors? Who knows? Maybe something good will grow!

--JW 

Opening Up: Going Above & Beyond

Is this all there is? Really? No! It just seems that way because the walls we build to protect us also imprison us. So, get a ladder, climb up, and look over the top. Wow! What a view! Things on our side of the wall look so different from up here! And just look outside at all the other places we can go, and all the other ladders we can climb! Their perspectives may be different, but they all take us to the same place!

Showing Up: How are you?

In a town called Youville, not far from here,

Lived a You named Youzit, full of worry and fear.

He'd hide and he'd shrink, he'd duck and he'd dive,

Never quite feeling fully alive.

But then he decided, "Enough is enough!

I'll Show Up for life, even when it gets tough!"

He stood tall and proud, with his head held high,

Ready to face the Youville sky.

He laughed and he danced, he sang and he played,

No longer afraid of the choices he made.

He listened, he shared, he cared and he grew,

Showing Up fully in all that he'd do.

So remember, dear Yous, as you go on your way,

To Show Up completely in all that you say.

Be present, be true, be authentic, too,

For that's when the light of life shines through!