Craig Hamilton: Integral Enlightenment - The Change that Changes Everything

How do we really wake up? Is it:

  • Gradual growth, maturing in body, mind, and spirit? OR
  • A radical reorientation of our entire relationship to life, a change that changes everything
  • Or does it have to be BOTH?

What does an “integral enlightenment” look like? How can we integrate the need for broad-based, gradual self-development with the call for a radical and immediate leap beyond the separate sense of self?

In this experiential evening, evolutionary pioneer Craig Hamilton will share how his own efforts to reconcile this dichotomy have given birth to a radical new approach to spiritual life that “transcends and includes” both paths. Join us as we explore what it means to awaken the usually dormant power of “the enlightened will,” and in so doing, bring about a revolution in our relationship to change itself.

“While we may not have the capacity to simply choose in this moment to be enlightened,” Hamilton writes, “there is a choice we can all make right now that is even more important—the choice to align our will, our passion, our heart and soul with the divine evolutionary impulse itself, which is none other than the moral axis of the Cosmos. When we make this glorious leap, our entire life becomes a vibrant, radiant expression of a Mystery we can never comprehend. In this realignment at the core of our being, we discover the true meaning and purpose of human life.”

Craig Hamiilton is one of the Integral world’s most dynamic teachers. He is the founder of Integral Enlightenment and host of The Great Integral Awakening. He was a longtime student of Andrew Cohen and editor of What Is Enlightenment? magazine, a founding member of Ken Wilber’s Integral Institute, and a participant in the Synthesis Dialogues, a 35-person interdisciplinary think tank presided over by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Craig brings deep mystical experience and understanding into action. He lives with his wife, Claire, in Berkeley, where, in addition to offering courses and workshops, he is available for private spiritual coaching. Learn more at www.IntegralEnlightenment.com.

When: Thursday, September 24th, 2009, 7:00-9:30 PM
Where: Northbrae Community Church, 941 The Alameda, Berkeley (near Solano Ave)
(directions: www.northbrae.org/directions.htm)

Suggested donation: $15 ($10 for students)