689: Into the Shadow
An Introduction To Integral Spirituality, With Wes Bertrand
We know there are some tough topics here. Today we ask you to listen with an awareness of something that feels unsolved, unhealed, or with access to a painful memory that had great impact.
WAS IS SPIRITUALITY?
Nathaniel Branden - raising the level of your consciousness to reality
practical and grounded (Jeff Brown)
transcending, not bypassing
Inhabiting the wound
So what is the wound?
Panel with Alanis, Peter Levine, Gabor Maté, Richard Schwartz and Dan Siegel.
WHAT IS Trauma?
Alanis - keeps us from living from our essential selves
Richard - impact, not event, vulnerable parts get hurt and locked away
Peter - when we can't return to our previous state, breech in our protective barrier
Gabor - physical manifestations
Dan - sustained attacks on the capacity to integrate
unsolved trauma leads to impaired integration
chaos and rigidity in the body, in relationships
epistemic trust breaks down
WHAT IS THE ROLE OF THE BODY?
"The truth about our childhood is stored up in our body, and although we can repress it, we can never alter it. Our intellect can be deceived, our feelings manipulated, and conceptions confused, and our body tricked with medication. But someday our body will present its bill, for it is as incorruptible as a child, who, still whole in spirit, will accept no compromises or excuses, and it will not stop tormenting us until we stop evading the truth.” ― Alice Miller
Somatic Experiencing: When people are willing to learn from the body, they can use this to prevent further outbreaks
HOW DO YOU HEAL TRAUMA?
Alanis - therapy, movement, empathetic listener, creation,
Richard - honoring protective parts, listening to them, parts frozen in time, dealing withe abuser for the child and taking the child to a comfortable place
Gabor - healing is integration. Healing is wholeness. healing is softening that compassion can bring
Dan - path to healing is integrative
GROUNDED SPIRITUALITY - JEFF BROWN
- primary cause of our anxiety is not our thoughts, not the monkey mind; that's just the symptom
- shifting out of unhappiness is not a cerebral process. It's full body
- spirituality means reality
Music:
"Acka Raga" Shocking Blue
"I'm Not Alone" Widespread Panic
"What's It Like" Sure Sure
Integral theory is largely focused on consciousness studies, psychology, research supported spirituality, and social sciences. Ken Wilber and other integral theorists draw from over 100 separate schools of thought in the fields of consciousness, psychology, meditative traditions, philosophy and sociology.
In this series we'll explain the Integral approach to:
* An Integral Approach to Politics
* Evolution and the 4 Quadrants of reality
* The Stages of Development
* The Lines of Development
* The States of Consciousness (discussed today)
* Types of Personality (discussed today)
Mentioned:
Complete Liberty
Complete Liberty Podcast
On Integral Theory:
What is Integral Theory?
The Good, the True, and the Beautiful
The downloadable version of The Ideas Into Action Summit is now available.
Visit sspuniversity.com/ideasintoaction to learn more about the presenters, topics, bonus materials and encore presentation.
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