Podcasts about heart an ethos

Topics & Time Stamps - Part 2Women going into politics have been obliged to be better men than men (01:15) Indra most inspired by social workers' (mostly women) intuitive understanding of people's real needs and how they unreservedly give themselves to the task of problem solving (02:35) The Big Society (community focused) program in British politics (04:10) What is soft power? The power of narrative or storytelling to generate attraction and therefore relationship, as in the power of the American dream to attract relationship from all over the world (05:58) What is the story we're telling about our reality? (10:60) The ladder nature of Integral stages of development may be trapping us in old language about what development looks like (11:40) When the women in the London Integral circle walked away, and the need to apply the Integral model rather than simply study it and talk about it (12:12) The radical equality of everyone and formative agency: different agencies need to be held in a fluid state rather than in ladder format (16:57) Does Integral need to evolve to serve a wider landscape? (19:47) What is the design of the public space that could honor the full human being, where all the different voices would be heard? (24:22) The axis of a new politics: back to the I, the we, the world; at the heart of the vision is a new way of looking at who we are (26:34) The internet, the fractal emergence of a new vision holding our creative potential and political agency, and  the soft power of how we tell the story (29:52) What gives Indra hope? The miracle of connectedness in this moment (32:37) The power of paying attention to the interaction in this particular moment: that is the life changing, world changing energy that we are looking for and that we need (36:15) Resources & References - Part 2Indra Adnan and Pat Kane, https://newintegrity.blogs.com/files/risw_final4-copy-1.pdf (Re-imagining Social Work) British politician https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Cameron (David Cameron), author of https://amzn.to/3xKVD1O (For the Record), and political agency in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Society (Big Society) program https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nye (Joseph Nye), Head of Kennedy School of Government, advisor to Bill Clinton, https://www.thoughtco.com/soft-power-in-u-s-foreign-policy-3310359 (Understanding Soft Power) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kegan (Robert Kegan), https://amzn.to/3y8XbE3 (The Discerning Heart: The Developmental Psychology of Robert Kegan)* https://integraleuropeanconference.com/integral-theory/ (Ken Wilber's stages of development) https://www.terrypatten.com/ (Terry Patten), https://amzn.to/39C7FTf (A New Republic of the Heart: An Ethos for Revolutionaries)* https://integraleuropeanconference.com/ (Integral European Conference) Integral leaders https://www.dianemushohamilton.com/ (Diane Hamilton), https://www.terrypatten.com/ (Terry Patten), https://www.stevemcintosh.com/ (Steve McIntosh)  Indra Adnan, https://amzn.to/3xHeRFm (The Politics of Waking Up: Power and Possibility in the Fractal Age)* Indra Adnan, founder of https://www.thealternative.org.uk/ (The Alternative Global), a socio-political platform serving systemic transformation * As an Amazon Associate, Deep Transformation earns from qualifying purchases. --- Indra Adnan is founder and co-initiator of The Alternative Global, a socio-political platform serving systemic transformation. AltGlobal publishes a Daily Alternative news blog, develops cosmo-local agency networks (CANs) and connects planetary regeneration projects. Indra is concurrently a socio-psychotherapist, writer, and consultant on soft power. Clients have included the Danish and Brazilian governments, World Economic Forum, and NATO. Her book The Politics of Waking Up: Power and Possibility in the Fractal Age was a Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year in 2021. --- Podcast produced by Vanessa Santos and Show...

Ep. 8 | An extraordinary, heartfelt conversation with spiritual practitioner, teacher, activist, Integralist, and author Terry Patten, who was at the time facing his own mortality following a recent diagnosis of a rare and aggressive cancer. An inner radiance shines forth as Terry, with much graciousness and candor, discusses the call to “get real”—not only personally but also collectively; his deepened perception of the “amazing grace of existence;” the directionality that has guided much of his life; and action inquiry: working on becoming next-stage human beings by experimenting with being the best people we can be. A touching and transformative talk, Terry conveys the deepening understanding coming from living on the edge and transmits a “radical okayness” with everything. Recorded September 21, 2021. Terry Patten was a philosopher-activist, author, teacher and coach, community organizer, consultant, and social entrepreneur. Most recently Terry published A New Republic of the Heart: An Ethos for Revolutionaries—a book summarizing his life's work and offering an approach to facing the problems of our time. Over the last fifteen years, Terry devoted his efforts to the evolution of consciousness: facing, examining, and healing our global crisis through the marriage of spirit and activism. Terry co-wrote the book Integral Life Practice with Ken Wilber and a core team at the Integral Institute in 2008. “I want us to recognize our tremendously strong impulse to draw a conclusion, to think we know. But it's in the NOT knowing—the inquiry, the curiosity, the humility, the beginner's mind—that we create a real opening.” Topics & Time StampsThe call to “get real,” personally and collectively; waking up to the miracle of existence (04:17) With the diagnosis, the burden fell away (21:44) Mortality versus morbidity: many sufferings are worse than death (31:02) The directionality that guided Terry's life and wanting to be “good” (41:11) Encountering his root guru, Adi Da (44:50) The importance of being kind (46:54) Let's bend a knee to something greater than ourselves and LISTEN (53:43) The radical okayness of it all (55:52) Action inquiry and evolving into a new stage of human development (56:27) Resources & ReferencesTerry Patten, https://amzn.to/3HvNthx (A New Republic of the Heart: An Ethos for Revolutionaries)* The nonprofit organization https://newrepublicoftheheart.org/ (A New Republic of the Heart) invites spiritual practitioners and change agents to learn, practice, and collaborate in becoming the next-stage human beings who can rise to our collective moment. https://www.terrypatten.com/ (Terry Patten.com) Rumi, “https://idriesshah.tumblr.com/post/176873974705/the-beloved-one-went-to-the-door-of-the-beloved (The Beloved),” https://amzn.to/3GuBfEy (The Way of the Sufi)* Stephen Jenkinson, https://amzn.to/3gp2B4n (Die Wise)* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adi_Da (Adi Da), American spiritual teacher Aldous Huxley, “https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9861-it-is-a-bit-embarrassing-to-have-been-concerned-with (Try to be a little kinder).” His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, https://www.dalailama.com/messages/compassion-and-human-values/compassion (Compassion and the Individual) Joanna Macy, https://play.google.com/store/audiobooks/details/Joanna_Macy_Great_Turning_Or_The_Great_Unraveling?id=AQAAAEBMujD6bM (The Great Turning or the Great Unraveling: It's Our Choice) https://newrepublicoftheheart.org/offerings/brightening-every-darkness/ (Brightening Every Darkness), 4-part webinar offered in the last weeks of Terry's life, with Terry, Diane Hamilton, Indra Adnan, and Craig Hamilton * As an Amazon Associate, Deep Transformation earns from qualifying purchases. Podcast produced by Vanessa Santos Show Notes by https://www.heidimitchelleditor.com/ (Heidi Mitchell)

Patten has a deep comprehension of the sacred global rite of passage that we, and all humankind, are going through in these liminal times and shares how we can be of help in an insane world. He gives us a context for spiritual friendship, for turning outward in service, and for doing what we can to brighten everyone we come into contact with. He is the founder of A New Republic of the Heart, a co-creative social experiment in Being of Benefit. He's a philosopher, activist, social entrepreneur, and teacher of integral practice and transformation. He has taught Integral Life Practice to over ten thousand people. Terry also founded the consciousness technology company Tools for Exploration and led the team at the HeartMath Institute that developed their first heart-rate variability monitor. He advises businesses addressing restorative forestry, fossil-fuel alternatives, collective trauma, and the reclaiming of personal data and power. His books include: Biocircuits: Amazing New Tools for Energy Health (co-author Leslie Patten) (H.J. Kramer 1988), Integral Life Practice: A 21st Century Blueprint for Physical Health, Emotional Balance, Mental Clarity, and Spiritual Awakening (co-author with Ken Wilber, Adam Leonard, and Marco Morelli) (Integral Books 2008) and A New Republic of the Heart: An Ethos for Revolutionaries (North Atlantic Books 2018)Interview Date: 8/26/2021  Tags: MP3, Terry Patten, grief, heart intelligence, awe, wonder, forgive, forgiveness, be of benefit, Ernest Becker, tribalism, listening, coherence, gratitude, spiritual friends, friends of the heart, jubilee year, humility, Personal Transformation, spirituality, Social Change/Politics, Community

Terry Patten is the founder of A New Republic of the Heart, a co-creative social experiment in Being of Benefit. He's a philosopher, activist, social entrepreneur, and teacher of integral practice and transformation and has taught Integral Life Practice to over ten thousand people. Terry also founded the consciousness technology company Tools for Exploration and led the team at the HeartMath Institute that developed their first heart-rate variability monitor. He advises businesses addressing restorative forestry, fossil-fuel alternatives, collective trauma, and the reclaiming of personal data and power. His books include Biocircuits: Amazing New Tools for Energy Health (co-author Leslie Patten) (H.J. Kramer 1988), Integral Life Practice: A 21st Century Blueprint for Physical Health, Emotional Balance, Mental Clarity, and Spiritual Awakening (co-author with Ken Wilber, Adam Leonard, and Marco Morelli) (Integral Books 2008) and A New Republic of the Heart: An Ethos for Revolutionaries (North Atlantic Books 2018)Interview Date: 8/26/2021     Tags: MP3, Terry Patten, grief, heart intelligence, awe, wonder, forgive, forgiveness, be of benefit, Spiritual Friends, gratefulness, generosity; care, courage, creativity, beloved community, Personal Transformation, Spirituality, Social Change/Politics, Community

Philosopher and author Tim Freke joins Terry to explore the personal, cultural, and global implications of an integration of our best rational and spiritual understandings of reality. Tim Freke is an English philosopher and author of 35 books, including a Sunday Times bestseller and Daily Telegraph 'Book of the Year'. He is the founder of ‘Unividualism’, which combines evolutionary science and deep spirituality to offer a visionary new understanding of the nature of reality and the purpose of life.  Tim and Terry begin by revisiting fundamental philosophical questions of eros, entropy, telos, and consciousness itself. Then, they examine our current existential crisis in the context of history — considering the nature of “chaos” and the tendency for each generation to imagine it’s living in the “worst of times.” Tim especially points to how our personal awakenings draw us into a care and benevolence for everyone and everything, and how this may be our biggest evolutionary advantage.  They then explore the implications of “paralogical” (both/and) thinking, Tim’s concept of “unividualism,” and how joy and grief coexist at the knife-edge of emergence, knowing that everything we love might be both collapsing and evolving and emerging into sublimity. Ultimately, Tim suggests that the whole point is the miraculous process of evolutionary emergence, where something that has never existed before is birthed into being — again and again. If emergence is the nature of the Divine, then what is emerging is… God! For more information on Tim Freke and Terry Patten, check out the following resources: Tim Freke’s Website Tim’s overview of Unividualism Books by Tim Freke Terry’s nonprofit website A New Republic of the Heart Terry’s book, A New Republic of the Heart: An Ethos for Revolutionaries Terry Patten’s website

Terry Patten explores the delusion, anxiety, loneliness, and fear experienced across our culture as well as the potential for sacred, next-stage friendship to be a key leverage point for healing the madness. Terry also invites members of the New Republic of the Heart practice community to share their experiences participating in a daring social experiment in transformational relating and co-creativity. Ultimately, Terry and others extend a special invitation to listeners. Here are some of the questions he explores: How can we best understand the wildly challenging collective madness that is gripping so many people around the world?  How do we “go sane” amidst the madness?  How can we find deep “spiritual friends” — people who are humble and open, and who can meet us at the heart amidst whatever craziness arises? Which experimental practices and ways of relating can catalyze the wisdom, coherence and heart allies that our predicament requires? How can we keep growing our capacities to reassert our relationships and heal our cultural divisions — even to the point of healing people falling into collective delusions? It's one thing to talk about these things — and it's an entirely different thing to actually live them. For that we need friends. We each need a tribe of like-minded and like-hearted souls — our spiritual friends amidst this cultural madness. If you are a practitioner, if you have gifts to share, and/or if you want to join hands with other serious practitioners, this session is the event where we are extending you a wholehearted invitation. We are a co-creative practice community of practitioners and change agents from 20+ countries, and we welcome you.  BeingofBenefit.com — Learn More and Join Our Social Experiment For more information on Terry Patten and A New Republic of the Heart, check out the following resources: A New Republic of the Heart – Social Experiment Community A New Republic of the Heart – All Membership Categories Terry’s book, A New Republic of the Heart: An Ethos for Revolutionaries Terry Patten’s website

Terry Patten is the author of A New Republic of the Heart: An Ethos for Revolutionaries, as well as Integral Life Practice, which he co-wrote with Ken Wilber. He founded and leads a thriving practice community that recently published: Being the Change: Action Research Findings from a Global Social Experiment. He has taught Integral Life Practice to over ten thousand people, founded the consciousness technology company Tools for Exploration and led the team at the HeartMath Institute that developed their first heart-rate variability monitor.

Purpose guide and psychotherapist Jonathan Gustin joins Terry to explore the vital processes of discovering and actualizing our soul’s purpose, in clear and practical terms, to benefit our world in crisis. Jonathan builds upon our recent episode with Bill Plotkin by offering important distinctions between purpose, vocation, and pleasure. He also describes what he calls integral awakening, using his “three worlds” model of consciousness, in which the “lower world” represents our descent to soul, our discovery of our true name and place beneath personality, and our ongoing process of becoming a unique gift to whole.  Jonathan is a purpose guide, psychotherapist, and teacher. He is the founder and lead teacher of the Purpose Guides Institute, which guides people to embody their purpose as a gift to life and trains purpose guides to facilitate the transformation of humanity to a “soul-embodied species.” Jonathan serves as adjunct faculty at John F. Kennedy University in the Consciousness and Transformation Studies program and he has taught meditation in a variety of environments, from universities and prisons to corporate businesses and hospital systems. Jonathan has also co-taught alongside Joanna Macy, George Leonard, and Bill Plotkin. Here are some additional questions we explore:  How can the “three worlds” model of consciousness (lower world, middle world and upper world) clarify a lifetime of maturation? How is our unique purpose both an expression of and a gift to the whole?  How does the “imaginal matrix” function as the “spiritual soil” for our soul growth? Is our deepest fulfillment really found in “giving ourselves away” and being “thoroughly used by life?” Do friendships, communities, or even species have collective purposes? How does collective purpose evolve amidst crises? For more information on Jonathan Gustin and Terry Patten, check out the following resources: Intro to Purpose Discovery - A Free 90 minute Live Mini-Workshop with Jonathan Gustin  Purpose Guides Institute website The Purpose Octagon Terry’s nonprofit website A New Republic of the Heart Terry’s book, A New Republic of the Heart: An Ethos for Revolutionaries Terry Patten’s website Also:  You’re invited to a major online teaching event on Wednesday, Feb 3 at 12 Noon PST: "Spiritual Friends Amidst Cultural Madness: The Power of Our Grateful Generosity." Terry will share new insights about navigating our fragmenting world and how a key leverage point for making a real difference is our capacity for generosity and friendship. He will also be joined by the co-creators of our "social experiment" community at A New Republic of the Heart — and together we will offer a glimpse into the ways we are experimenting at the leading-edge of spiritual friendship. Click here to register or receive the recording. 

In light of the inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, host Terry Patten shares spontaneous reflections on endings, new beginnings, hope, despair, the spiritual tasks of this time, and how we can refuse to put anyone out of our hearts. We hope that you appreciate this episode, and, most importantly, that you are finding your own way to a renewed and inspired civic engagement during the current transition. Also:  We invite you to join become a Friend of State of Emergence on our website (if you haven’t already) by making a monthly contribution to help the podcast thrive. You will then receive access links to our future live Q&A events every month with Terry and others. We hope you’ll join us! For more information on Terry Patten, check out the following resources: Terry’s nonprofit website A New Republic of the Heart Terry’s book, A New Republic of the Heart: An Ethos for Revolutionaries Terry Patten’s website

Ecopsychologist, wilderness guide and author Bill Plotkin joins Terry to consider the human crisis as essentially a crisis of immaturity — that true human adults and human elders are both extraordinarily rare today. Bill speaks to what is truly required for us — as individuals, and collectively — to grow from our extended adolescence into mature human adulthood. He describes the challenging, and sometimes hazardous, spiritual process of “soul initiation,” which demands the dissolution of our current identities and metamorphosis of our egos into mature co-creators, each of us born to serve a unique niche in our ecological, psychological and social worlds.  Bill explains in rich detail the key understandings, models, and processes that guide his facilitation of soul work in his Animas community. He also shares new insights from Carl Jung’s The Red Book about the “feminine” aspects of the psyche, the difference between “soul” and “muse,” and experimental dreamwork. Ultimately, he points to a profound basis for hope — the living Earth has already provided what the world needs by creating us. He says we who are here now are the medicine the earth needs, if only we undergo the transformation it takes to deliver it. Bill Plotkin is an eco-depth psychologist, wilderness guide, and agent of cultural regeneration. As founder of southwest Colorado’s Animas Valley Institute, he has, since 1980, guided thousands of women and men on the journey of soul initiation. His previous books are Soulcraft: Crossing into the Mysteries of Nature and Psyche, Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World, and Wild Mind: A Field Guide to the Human Psyche. His new book, The Journey of Soul Initiation is a field guide, based on the experiences of thousands of people, describing the principles and evokes the varied lived experiences of the riveting and sometimes hazardous odyssey of soul initiation, using many vivid stories and an in-depth exploration of Carl Jung’s Red Book. Here are some additional questions Bill and Terry explore:  What is the “descent to soul”, and how does it relate to the journey of soul initiation?  What are the necessary stages of the “soul initiation” process? What becomes of our consciousness and societal and ecological roles as the process is fulfilled? Might we be more effective in evolving culture by aiming for “human maturity” instead of “consciousness development?”  What is our soul’s purpose, and why is that necessarily poetic or metaphorical?  Why is the common idea that our purpose is our vocation a misconception?   What is it to create a delivery mechanism for our soul’s purpose? What is the nature of the much deeper maturity that lies beyond all that? For more information on Bill Plotkin and Terry Patten, check out the following resources: Bill Plotkin’s organization, Animas Valley Institute Bill’s new book, The Journey of Soul Initiation: A Field Guide for Visionaries, Revolutionaries, and Evolutionaries Bill’s book, Soulcraft: Crossing Into the Mysteries of Nature and Psyche Bill’s book, Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World Bill’s book, Wild Mind: A Field Guide to the Human Psyche Terry’s nonprofit website A New Republic of the Heart Terry’s book, A New Republic of the Heart: An Ethos for Revolutionaries Terry Patten’s website Also:  We invite you to join Terry and other listeners of State of Emergence for a live Q&A and conversation and Saturday, January 23rd at 10 AM Pacific. To participate, simply become a Friend of State of Emergence on our website (if you haven’t already) by making a monthly contribution to the podcast. Then, you’ll receive access links to next Saturday’s session and our future Q&A events every month. Our first session (in December) was lively, deep, and inspiring, and we hope you’ll join us next time!

Dr. Janet Smith Warfield interviews Terry Patten, philosopher, activist, consultant, coach, teacher, social entrepreneur, and Amazon Best-Selling Author of A New Republic of the Heart: An Ethos for Revolutionaries, and co-author, with Ken Wilber and a core team at the Integral Institute, of Integral Life Practice.

In this conversation, I’m speaking with Terry Patten. Terry is a leading voice in the integral movement as an author, speaker, and teacher focusing on the marriage of personal and political transformation. We talk about the relationship between Integral Theory and Metamodernism, the use and misuse of irony & sincerity, and why we should vote, even if it’s statistically meaningless. Terry is a true evolutionary activist and it’s a real pleasure to have him on the show. And if you appreciate where Terry is coming from I highly encourage you to check out his most recent book, ‘A New Republic of Heart: An Ethos for Revolutionaries’. It’s a wonderful read, and Terry has just a few weeks ago begun new non-profit based on the ideas of the text. It’s a very inspiring vision that I expect listeners of this show will resonate with. If you’re curious to learn more you can check out the link below. And If you’re enjoying Emerge and you’d like to express your appreciation you can check the show description for a link to become a supporter or can share the show with your friends so that more people are included in these valuable conversations. Thanks y’all, and enjoy the show. ❤️❤️ Terry’s personal website: terrypatten.com Terry’s new non-profit based on a New Republic of Heart newrepublicoftheheart.org --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/emerge/support

Terry Patten is a community organizer and has dedicated his efforts to the integral practice of evolving consciousness through the marriage of spirit and activism. He founded and leads Bay Area Integral, which gathers and supports an integral community in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is the co-author with Ken Wilber and core team at the Integral Institute, of Integral Life Practice (Integral Books 2008). He is the author of: A New Republic of the Heart: An Ethos for Revolutionaries (North Atlantic Books 2018)Tags: Terry Patten, Black swan events, wicked problems, Bill McKibben, Climate Change, denial, humility, curiosity, mutual respect, affection, love, feat, evolution, Darwin, thriving, Einstein, William McDonough, questions, paradox, Rilke, uncertainty, Peace/Nonviolence,Social Change/Politics

TERRY PATTEN, author of “A New Republic of the Heart: An Ethos for Revolutionaries” speaks and consults internationally as a community organizer, philosopher, and teacher. Over the last fifteen years he has devoted his efforts to the integral project of evolving consciousness through practice, and facing, examining, and healing our global crisis through the marriage of spirit and activism. Patten is also a social entrepreneur involved in supporting restorative redwood forestry, innovating new technological alternatives to fossil fuels, and creating new currencies for a sustainable economy. He is the author most recently of A New Republic of the Heart: An Ethos for Revolutionaries.

TERRY PATTEN, author of “A New Republic of the Heart: An Ethos for Revolutionaries” speaks and consults internationally as a community organizer, philosopher, and teacher. Over the last fifteen years he has devoted his efforts to the integral project of evolving consciousness through practice, and facing, examining, and healing our global crisis through the marriage of spirit and activism. Patten is also a social entrepreneur involved in supporting restorative redwood forestry, innovating new technological alternatives to fossil fuels, and creating new currencies for a sustainable economy. He is the author most recently of A New Republic of the Heart: An Ethos for Revolutionaries.

This week on Love and Revolution Radio, we speak with Terry Patten about how to work for heart-based change. Terry comments on his book, a New Republic of the Heart, and explores inner and outer transformation with us on the show. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ "Find some friends with whom you can do thing to make a difference. Find ways to work within the system, against the system, and around the system. And do it knowing that you're in solidarity with the future of life and everything that is good and true and beautiful in this world." - Terry Patten About the Guest: Terry Patten speaks and consults internationally as a community organizer, philosopher and teacher. He's spent the past 15 years working on the integral project of evolving consciousness and healing our global crises through spirit-based activism. He's also involved with restorative redwood forestry, creating alternatives to fossil fuels, and building up sustainable economies. Music by: "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio (Used with permission) www.dianepatterson.org A New Republic of the Heart by Terry Patten https://www.terrypatten.com/a-new-republic-of-the-heart/ Resources Listed in the Book (A Great List - Check It Out!) https://www.terrypatten.com/resources/ Nonviolence Minute Excerpt: http://www.hopedance.org/home/awakenings/3112-the-soul-of-activism About Your Co-hosts: Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. She is the author of Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit: www.sacredinstructions.life Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, The Roots of Resistance, Billionaire Buddha, and The Way Between. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance. http://www.riverasun.com/

Terry Patten is a lifelong practitioner of both contemplative spirituality and real-world activism whose new book, A New Republic of the Heart: An Ethos for Revolutionaries–A Guide To Inner Work for Holistic Change, gives us lucid instructions for how we can start to ask the hardest questions and engage the toughest problems in our age of global transformation.https://www.terrypatten.com/a-new-republic-of-the-heart/I met Terry in 2005 when he was teaching how to recognize and integrate the psychological “shadow,” our repressed unconscious, at a seminar for Ken Wilber’s Integral Institute. His warmth, humility, and generosity of spirit is palpable in this conversation, and reflects the decades of experience that has inspired his latest writing…it’s an honor to have Terry on the show, thirteen years after he transformed my life by teaching me how to engage and love the hardest, most unpleasant parts of my own mind.In one of Future Fossils Podcast’s most vulnerable episodes yet,We Discuss:- How to deal with new problems that none of us have the abilities to handle on our own, or even by thinking together?- How do we actualize our true potentials and what roles do others play in this?- The need for personal transformation in order to meet our civilization-level challenges.- There is no formula. It’s all an adventure. But you can’t ignore any of it.- (How/) Can Global Warming and other urgent “wicked problems” be a planetary koan?- Does social media provide an adequate venue for the difficult and vulnerable conversations that we need to have?- The leap of faith that is group improvisation in art and collective sense-making.- What does it really mean to “Follow Your Bliss?” What role do heartbreak and genius play in this?- The need for the secular and spiritual communities to come together in respectful mutual discussion in an era of vicious disagreement.- How the ideological defense of conspiracy theories AND mainstream narratives gets in the way of effectively focusing on our most urgent realities…and how to evolve beyond the media environment that prefers inflammatory grudge matches over compassionate mutual learning.- What do we do if we never get “reality” back, and people’s points of view just keep diverging? How can we come together on coherent strategies if we can’t come to a consensus on the basic facts?- Who inspires Terry Patten as exemplars of heartful and soulful transformational activism?“We live in a culture that is in deep, deep denial…[Global Warming] is talked about all the time on the evening news, but it’s denied just as much on the evening news. You aren’t really talking about it if your voice isn’t breaking with emotion. We’re kind of in this mass consensus trance that doesn’t allow us to break through into effectiveness. It’s a time that calls for revolutionary engagement, and yet…”“How to stay reality-bound in our post-truth era is at the center of things.”“Love is going to have to find a voice that’s even more powerful and authoritative than the voice of righteous indignation and anger. Love is going to have to reassert its natural authority…whether it’s a great hospice project or it’s the process by which we turn all of this around, the heart is at the center of it.”Subscribe on Apple Podcasts:https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/future-fossils/id1152767505?mt=2Subscribe on Stitcher:https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/michael-garfield/future-fossilsSubscribe on Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/2eCYA4ISHLUWbEFOXJ8C5vSubscribe on iHeart Radio:https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-FUTURE-FOSSILS-28991847/Join our Facebook Discussion Group for daily news and conversations:http://facebook.com/groups/futurefossilsSupport the show (and an avalanche of other mind-expanding media):http://patreon.com/michaelgarfield See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Terry Patten talks to Ken Wilber about his new book, A New Republic of the Heart: An Ethos for Revolutionaries, inviting us to align our “inner work” with our “outer work” and establish sacred activism as both a fundamental component of our ongoing Integral Life Practice, as well as the ultimate expression of that practice.

Terry Patten is an Evolutionary Leader in service to conscious evolution and a leading voice in the emerging fields of integral evolutionary practice, leadership and spirituality. He speaks and consults internationally - inspiring, challenging, and connecting leaders and institutions worldwide. Over the last fifteen years he has devoted his efforts to the integral project of evolving consciousness through practice, and facing, examining, and healing our global crisis through the marriage of spirit and activism. With Ken Wilber and a core team at the Integral Institute, Terry co-wrote Integral Life Practice, which distills ancient and modern practices into a contemporary transformational lifestyle. Terry's new book is entitled, A New Republic of the Heart: An Ethos for Revolutionaries. Visit http://integralspiritualpractice.com.  Get the Inclusion Revolution CD by Sister Jenna.  Like America Meditating.  Visit www.AmericaMeditating.org.  Download our free Pause for Peace App for Apple or Android

Today Jeff talks with integral teacher Terry Patten about his latest book, A New Republic of the Heart: An Ethos for Revolutionaries. Patten is pioneering a robust and dynamic new form of activism that fuses the “inner work” of personal transformation and awakening with the “outer work” of service and commitment to social justice. He calls this evolutionary activism. Such activism can include social entrepreneurship, conscious business, community building, lifestyle innovation, and much more. It interweaves spiritual evolution with social and political engagement and recognizes that the two are interdependent. The purpose of evolutionary activism is to create whole system change. That means transforming everything from our economic system to how we have conversations. “Changes in consciousness and culture may be as essential to our shared future as reducing our dependence on fossil fuels,” says Patten. It is with integral evolutionary activism that we can bring about the profound transformation of self and world that our era requires. Get your copy of “A New Republic of the Heart” here.