"Integral Reality" Starts Tomorrow

Lesson I, "The Interim World: A Brief History of Consciousness" locates ourselves and our times in transition, 'nepantla.'

Tomorrow is the opening session for a Mutations weekend seminar, Integral Reality: Tools for Enacting Planetary Futures.

Lesson I, “The Interim World: A Brief History of Consciousness” will be a philosophical and mythical invocation, seeking out the threads of a new worldview and tracing them from the dawn of modernity and globalization to our present moment of civilizational crisis.

The idea is to reframe our moment of dissolution, not by pandering to optimism, nor by affirming a deep cynicism about the world. It is a third thing, a bringing to awareness what has been coalescing now for several hundred years.

This third thing, I suggest, is the bridge, the relational world — what Gloria Anzaldúa calls nepantla, a nahuatl word for inhabiting a place between worlds or realities — that teaches us something about the reality we inhabit and the future we seek to enact.

The unfoldment of a new worldview is a complex process, overlapping and interconnected with dazzling numbers of threads that are impossible to hold all at once. We don’t need to. To attempt to do so is folly. We approach this challenge of complexity with an altogether different form of sensing, a ‘mutant’ capacity that I believe lies in each of us and is presently being worked out, actualized in a variety of techniques and practices. What they all have in common is that they have to do with a new array of senses and sensing.

They involve our embodied perception, our being and relating in and with the world, and the metamorphosis of this perception.

What this course aims to do is to bring these underlying themes to the forefront of our awareness, and posit ways that, together, we can enact a new worldview now, in the present. This class seeks to embolden a sense of the possible, and empower our individual and social creative agencies to co-shape planetary futures.

This is not a seminar about hope. It is about trust: a primordial trust in our becoming, a deep affirmation of our belonging-with the world. Gaia is calling us into a more profound, more intensified, and more participatory stewardship.

What we need, then, is a kind of spiritual clarity, a mode of perceiving and knowing this relationship in our hearts and minds.

Over the course of three days (Friday-Saturday), this weekend event will explore tools—both philosophical and soulful-mythical—for enacting a more beautiful world.

All sessions will be recorded. Each one occurs at 9:30 am PT / 12:30 pm ET on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, with a bonus Q&A call on Saturday afternoon (1 pm PT / 4 pm ET).

If you need a discount registration, please don’t hesitate to reach out to me. No one will be turned away.

Thank you. I hope to see you in class tomorrow.