Please join me on Sunday, May 26^th, 11am PST for a dialog entitled “Let’s Evolve the Way We Change the World” with a man who is truly one of the world’s foremost social change agents, David Gershon.

David has been described by the United Nations as a “graceful revolutionary.” He has worked with world leaders like Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbechev, China’s president, Li Xiannian and Al Gore—as well as millions of ordinary people who have been impacted by his work at the personal, community and organizational level. He is the author of eleven books including Social Change 2.0 and The Low Carbon Diet.

He has conducted extensive, cutting edge research over 25 years on systems change; observing ecologies, neighborhoods, emergency preparedness models, and corporations struggling with change. He was asking some key questions: How can we empower people to voluntarily adopt new behaviors that benefit them, their communities, and their organizations? How can we sustainably operate at higher levels of social value and realize more of our potential as a human species?

David’s answer is Social Change 2.0, a new social change formula based on the idea that people are willing to change if they have a compelling vision and are provided tools to help them bring it into being.  Social Change 2.0 can fundamentally alter they way we go about creating lasting change.

He contrasts Social Change 2.0 to Social Change 1.0, which is best suited for slow-moving, incremental change.The “blunt instruments” of Social Change 1.0 are legislation, financial incentives, and social protest—none of which are up to the task of creating the kind of transformational, 2^nd order change which our current global crises call for.

David says one way to interpret our current climate, financial, and societal breakdowns is that we are doomed, victims of our own behavior and inability to change. Another way is to recognize this as the opportunity we’ve been looking for! Breakdowns of necessity create vibrant receptivity for new systems.

In David’s recent book, Social Change 2.0, a Blueprint for Reinventing Our World, he lays out the five design principles and practices of Social Change 2.0:

1. Empowering people to voluntarily adopt new behaviors beneficial to themselves and society

2. Transforming dysfunctional or marginally effective social systems so they can achieve a higher level of performance and social value

3. Inventing and implementing transformative social innovations

4. Building a more collaborative playing field to maximize the potential of a social system or social innovation

5. Leveraging and disseminating social innovations at larger levels of scale

I’m excited dig deeper into the implications of Social Change 2.0 on Sunday with David and even take away some tools for change in my own life. I hope you will be able to join us!

About David Gershon

David Gershon, co-founder and CEO of Empowerment Institute, is one of the world’s foremost authorities on behavior-change, community empowerment and large-system transformation, and applies this expertise to issues requiring community, organizational, and societal change. His clients include cities, large organizations, government agencies, and social entrepreneurs. He has addressed a wide diversity of issues ranging from low carbon lifestyles, livable neighborhoods, and sustainable communities to organizational talent development, corporate social engagement, and cultural transformation. Over the past thirty years the empowerment programs he has designed have won many awards, and a major academic research study described them as “unsurpassed in changing behavior.”

David used this empowerment proficiency to conceive and organize at the height of the cold war, in partnership with the United Nations Children’s Fund and ABC Television, one of the planet’s first major global consciousness-raising initiatives—the First Earth Run. Building on his background as the Director of the Lake Placid Olympic Torch Relay, he used the mythic power of relaying a torch of peace around the world to engage the participation of twenty-five million people in sixty-two countries, the world’s political leadership and, through the media, an estimated 20 percent of the planet’s population in an act of global unity. Millions of dollars were also raised as part of this event to help UNICEF provide care for the neediest children of the world.

David is the author of eleven books, including the award-winning Social Change 2.0: A Blueprint for Reinventing Our World, and best-sellers Low Carbon Diet: A 30 Day Program to Lose 5,000 Pounds and, with his wife Gail Straub, Empowerment: The Art of Creating Your Life As You Want It. He co-directs Empowerment Institute’s School for Transformative Social Change which empowers change agents from around the world to design and implement cutting edge social innovations. He has lectured at Harvard, MIT, and Johns Hopkins and served as an advisor to the Clinton White House and the United Nations on behavior change and community empowerment issues.

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Sunday, May 26th @ 11:00am Pacific*; 12:00pm Mountain; 1:00pm Central; 2:00pm Eastern 

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On Monday, May 6^th, I was joined by Buddhist scholar, meditation teacher, psychologist, and trauma and attachment expert Daniel P. Brown—a notable event because he rarely grants public interviews!

“The Path to Everything Good” is a riveting transmission of practical spiritual instruction, woven together with scientific and psychological insights, and grounded practical advice. Several listeners wrote to me that they plan to listen to this recording again and again. It’s that rich.

Dan speaks clearly and with great specificity and detail. In the process he does something I’ve never seen done quite so well. High Tibetan Buddhist “Mahamudra” practice (instead of seeming ornate and esoteric and complex) comes across clearly, simply, powerfully, and experientially. Listening to this conversation you may discover a Tibetan Buddhism you’ve never seen before.

In Tibetan Buddhism there’s a cultural convention against describing meditative attainments, but there’s an obscure tradition of “pointing out” instruction that speaks very specifically and in detail about what each stage of the practice is really like, and which offers very practical advice about how to progress, stage by stage, all the way to awakening.

Dan illuminated crucial aspects of the “three maps to awakening” of Tibetan Buddhist “Mahamudra”: 1) the process of building steadiness of concentration, 2) the practice of emptiness until there is stabilization of awakening, and 3) the practice of realizing full Buddhahood—“everything good”.

Dan pointed out that that there are 80 positive qualities of Buddha Mind, and that they can be consciously cultivated. This evolution of awakening practices (going from merely ending suffering to cultivating positivity) can be traced to the “second turning of the wheel of Dharma”—the evolution of Mahayana Buddhism. He likened each turning to a scientific revolution, bearing innovations, discoveries and insights that were absent from the prior stage. He outlined them for those unfamiliar with Buddhism

The First Turning concerns the Four Noble Truths, and liberation from suffering. Dukkha (the mind’s tendency to make more of what it wants and less of what it doesn’t want), Impermanence, and Anatta (no self) are the three insights to awakening on this path.

The Second Turning concerns Emptiness practice. After 500 years of the First Turning, a new insight sprung up —Emptiness, or “just a construction of mind.” Relative truth was distinguished, and the realization that to touch ultimate truth, you have to see beyond the reification of constructs, such as time.

The Third Turning, concerns the essence traditions and the idea that we are always, already awake as part of our hardwiring. The sun (awakening) always shines, but habits cloud over our Buddha nature. The practice is to clear up the clouds.

Dan points out that Westerners, so prone to distraction, need the “elephant path” (so called because training concentration is like training an elephant). He distinguished concentration from the practice of mindfulness, which is marked by a continuity of non-reactive awareness and no intensification. Dan called ADD “a metaphor for modern culture”. Even though highly skilled concentrators from the Tibetan tradition can do 7 things at once, most of us only think that we are “multitasking”. In reality, we are being distracted by each new task or stimulus and eroding the efficiency of our engagement with all of them.

But despite the fact that we are a highly distractible species, “the elephant can learn to settle down.” The anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) is the part of the brain that’s activated in concentration. Because of the neuroplasticity of the brain, practicing the elephant path, increases the strength and volume of the ACC. Eventually with practice, you can stabilize concentration and sustain a capacity to pay careful attention, even in our ADD culture.

Dan discussed the sense of self too. It’s necessary and healthy as a central organizing principle, for coherence and continuity across time, space and state. The problem is that we forget that it’s a representation. There are two consequences to this forgetting:

1. “Grab” — we get severely attached to both negative and positive experiences which leads to suffering.

2. “Obscuration” — The structure of the mind, the self, becomes a cloud over the true nature of awareness. This obscures the “sun” of our primordial awareness and freedom, the most primary dimension of existence that exists beyond time.

Buddhist “Emptiness” practice is to stop thinking of these structures of the mind as independently existing. Then, you see something about the nature of awareness. He described a “high- speed awareness practice of unfindability” where we target the self, emotion, or time and roam the body and being in search of it, until it recedes from awareness. What’s left is the field of awareness itself.

When the Nagarjuna came along and turned the Dharma wheel, he took Emptiness one step further, with the insight that things seem to come and go because of time, which is a construct of mind. This insight means that if something arises, I take the view that it was already here. And if it goes, I take the view that it never leaves. Thus, everything is interconnected because it doesn’t operate temporally in time.

This “all-at-onceness” is the gateway to Mahayana, the Great Vehicle. And this will change your ethics because you become aware that everything you think and do affects everything in the field. All is interconnected. This is a profoundly different view of the universe than what came before.

Dan acknowledged that any experience of awakening is accompanied by deep compassion and spontaneous gratitude and devotion. However, he pointed out that it is not stable. One must engage in practices to nurture and stabilize it. So there’s another world of practices to bring that awakening to full Buddhahood. Still, for all of us, what’s built into the hard wiring of awakening is compassion and service for others. That is “the path to everything good.”

Toward the end of the dialog, a caller asked Dan to further elucidate the high speed awareness practice of, “Emptiness of Emotions”.  He responded by taking us through a powerful exercise of roaming through the body-mind for the underlying emotion. Following fear, we can come to the realization that fear is actually alertness.

The high point of the conversation for me came at the end, when Dan gave a gorgeous explication of the mantra of the Heart Sutra, wherein he outlined the whole path to awakening, hidden in plain sight, by the few poetic words of the mantra: “Gaté, Gaté, Paragaté, Parasamgaté. Bodhi! Svaha!”

I invite you to listen to the full dialog here.

Join us on Monday, May 6th at 5pm Pacific for a dialog with Daniel P. Brown entitled “The Path to Everything Good”.

I highly recommend you tune in to this dialog, for two important reasons:

First, Dan Brown is a remarkably erudite, compassionate, and articulate psychologist, Buddhist scholar, and meditation teacher, who very rarely gives public interviews. I’m excited and honored to invite you to encounter him.

Second, I’m confident you’ll gain valuable, deep insights from Dan’s discussion of the nitty-gritty step-by-step process of awakening as set forth in the Indo-Tibetan mediation tradition and rendered accessible in his precise, easy-to-understand language.

I had the opportunity to meet and to practice with Dan this past January when I participated in an extraordinary 8-day retreat he led with John Churchill in Boston, focused on the unique “Pointing Out Way” through which he introduces students to the high Tibetan pure consciousness practice called “Mahamudra”.

In addition to his illuminating lectures and guidance, I had several personal and wide-ranging conversations with Dan. We talked about many things, including the animating question of this series, “How can higher consciousness and spiritual practice enable human beings to rise to meet the unprecedented challenges of our time?”

Dan points out that each of the four primary levels of the Mahamudra path has something useful to say on this topic. His way of talking about it expresses his unique gift. Although he knows the ancient Tibetan teachings in detail (having translated many of the source texts) and he cleaves very closely to the tradition, he describes them in very clear, direct, no-nonsense language. He is an Irish working-class son turned world-class Harvard psychologist and sports fan, not an exotic person from a distant culture, so he is able to bring the precious gem of these teachings alive in a remarkably accessible way.

Here’s the essence of how Dan lays it out:

The first stage of the path is concentration, which is an antidote for the distractability that is epidemic in our lives now. We have become a culture of distractability. We multitask which creates the illusion of doing more but it costs us in terms of awareness, clarity, awakening and even ordinary productivity.

The second stage is basic emptiness training. Recognizing the emptiness of self and all that is arising helps us recognize and free ourselves from all the thoughts, feelings and experiences in everyday life that have “grab”, which is the cause of suffering in everyday life.

The third stage is understanding our profound interconnectedness with all of life. This is the basis of ethics, the transformation of competitiveness and aggression. When it truly shifts our perception, it’s an antidote for selfishness— the worldwide epidemic lack of consideration for others and the environment.

The fourth and ultimate stage is the fluorishing of everything good. This is “Buddha training”, the level of practice where you systematically release all negative karmic impressions from the “storehouse mind” until there are none left. That is “Dharmadhatu” or exhaustion, also called “the stainless mind”. It matures into a clean experience of life in which there are no more negative states at all, just the 80 positive qualities of a Buddha mind.

You’ll discover that there’s a whole path to Awakening available in the tradition of Buddhist meditation, much more deep and profound than many people realize. It goes far beyond just being less reactive and more calm and present. Mindfulness is important, but awakening and enlightenment are what changes everything.

About Dan Brown

Daniel Brown is the Director of The Center for Integrative Psychotherapy in Newton MA, an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School, and the author of 14 books including Transformations of Consciousness (with Ken Wilber & Jack Engler), a new book on Mahamudra,  Pointing Out the Great Way:, and two books of public dialogues with H.H. The Dalai Lama.

He has done extensive study in the Pali, Sanskrit, and Tibetan languages and has spent many years translating numerous important Tibetan meditation texts. He has studied meditation practice for 38 years, beginning with reading Patanjali’s Yogasutras and its main commentaries in the original Sanskrit, then studying Burmese Theravadin Buddhist mindfulness meditation, and then deepening via many practices across over three decades of dedicated practice in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition.

As a Western psychologist he spent 10 years translating conducting outcomes research on beginning and advanced meditators. He has taught meditation retreats for 20 years. He is also an internationally recognized expert on attachment, trauma, memory, and hypnosis.

HOW TO PARTICIPATE:

Monday, May 6th @ 5:00 PM Pacific*; 6:00pm Mountain; 7:00pm Central; 8:00pm Eastern

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Join the Dialogue: About one hour into the dialogue, we’ll open up the lines and you’ll have the opportunity to interact with us directly over the phone or via instant message. Here’s what to do:

To interact live by voice, dial into the conference line number and wait until we ask for a question from someone in your region, or

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The Beyond Awakening Team

On Sunday, April 7^th consciousness pioneer Dr. Stanislav Grof joined me for an illuminating conversation we titled “Waking Up at Sunset”. He spoke as a scientist, rational, balanced and cautious, and also as a human being full of inspiration, care, and earned spiritual wisdom. But what was most striking to me was his humble surrender to the mystery of what we simply cannot know now about the nature of consciousness and reality. It was a pleasure and an honor to engage with someone who has done so much to create a safe space for the larger cultural experiment that has unfolded since we first opened the “doors of perception”.

Stan began by telling the story of what originally motivated his research into non-ordinary states of consciousness. In 1956, at a time when he was bumping up against the field of psychiatry’s limited ability to effect true, lasting healing in patients, he volunteered as a subject in an experiment in which he was given LSD and subjected to powerful “brainwave-driving” stroboscopic light pulses. This experience catapulted him into a powerful life-changing experience of Cosmic Consciousness wherein he felt “completely extinguished.” He became passionate about exploring and understanding what he later named “holotropic” states of consciousness became his calling.

Stan was not interested in all “altered states” as they were then called, but in a specific subset that have healing, revelatory, and heuristic functions. “I was flabbergasted that there was no name for these states,” Stan said. “They were lumped together with delusions, referred to as “altered states” and treated as pathological.” So he coined the term “holotropic”, meaning “moving toward wholeness” to point to the transformative and integrating potentials of these states.

Stan also emphasized that he speaks as a researcher, not a guru. He was not proclaiming “the truth” about how things are, but rather reflecting what he has observed with people in these states.

I asked Stan about the ontological implications of holotropic states. He pointed to his book “The Cosmic Game” where he documented his observations that people in non-ordinary states frequently begin to ask fundamental existential questions like Who am I? What is it to be human? What is the nature of this universe? Have we lived before?  Is there evil? Stan gathered more and more data and found it significant that the character of these insights were inter-subjectively identical. The resultant view of the universe and our place in it is entirely different from the materialist scientific worldview, but it does closely correlate with the “Perennial Philosophy” described by Aldous Huxley. These insights also cross-correlate with the emerging quantum-relativistic paradigm, the holographic brain described by Karl Pribram, David Bohm’s implicate order, the connectivity hypothesis of Ervin Laszlo, and Rupert Sheldrake’s morphogenetic fields. In this view, awareness is not an epiphenomenon of material processes but the foundation of all knowledge, and infinitely larger than how it’s viewed by western psychology and psychiatry.

Stan noted that Western psychology views the psyche as the product of genetic factors influenced by our biography since birth (“postnatal biography”). He discovered that the cartography needed to be expanded to include “perinatal” experiences (memories of what the fetus experienced in the womb and in the stages of the birth process) and “transpersonal” experiences, which include unity consciousness, mystical experiences, archetypes, the collective unconscious and past lives. His expanded cartography of the psyche was influential in the formation of the field of Transpersonal Psychology.

Stan became especially interested in the healing potentials of holotropic states. He pioneered LSD psychotherapy. And his discovery was that under optimal conditions of set and setting, these states allowed the psyche to spontaneously integrate, with dramatic healing results. He and his wife, Christina Grof, worked together, drawing upon this new map to develop Holotropic breathwork, a non-drug method of inducing holotropic states for psychophysical healing.

I asked about several major critiques of non-ordinary states, particularly what distinguishes valid revelation from delusion.  Stan acknowledged that every powerful modality has its shadow side and it’s vitally important to create a favorable context for holotropic states. He distinguished the responsible use of these substances as a part of a spiritual quest, especially when accompanied by serious spiritual practice from the recreational use of these substances at parties and raves, or by spiking the punchbowl with LSD. He concluded by arguing that in the scientific quest for knowledge “we should start with consciousness, since that’s all we really know. Even the science of astrophysics is really the story of our experience of stars.”

When I had spoken to Stan beforehand, and described the presenting question of Beyond Awakening: “How can higher consciousness enable human beings to rise to meet the unique challenges of our world in crisis?” He had related two very different, profound, and self-validating intuitions about the nature of reality that he and others have reported in high “holotropic” states. Toward the end of my private dialog we discussed these possibilities. And then Stan responded to listeners’ questions.

I invite you to listen to the full dialog here.

Also, you can read a recent paper that Stan Grof is offering free of charge to the Beyond Awakening community. It summarizes his life’s work in a single 60-page manuscript. It’s titled “The Revision and Re-Enchantment of Psychology: Legacy of Half a Century of Consciousness Research” You’re invited to download it here.

Please join me Sunday, April 7^th for a dialog, entitled “Waking Up at Sunset” with consciousness pioneer Dr. Stanislav Grof, one of the world’s most respected researchers into non-ordinary states of consciousness.

Stan’s fascinating journey into non-ordinary states of consciousness began in 1956 with LSD research in Prague, Czechoslovakia, where he received his medical training. His research expanded there and continued, focusing on psychedelic therapy at Johns Hopkins in Maryland after he moved to the USA in 1967. He was one of the most prominent, earliest, and most enduring serious researchers to do extensive psychedelic research and psychedelic therapy.

Out of that work he developed an extensive cartography of altered states of consciousness and became one of the founders of the field of Transpersonal Psychology. From 1973 until 1987, he was Scholar-in-Residence at Esalen Institute where he and his wife Christina developed a powerful non-drug form of self-exploration and psychotherapy called Holotropic Breathwork. And this just touches the surface of his amazing career.

Stan has written:

“After more than fifty years of intensive study of holotropic states of consciousness, I have come to the conclusion that the theoretical concepts and practical approaches developed by transpersonal psychology, a discipline that is trying to integrate spirituality with the new paradigm emerging in Western science, could help alleviate the crisis we are all facing. These observations suggest that radical psychospiritual transformation of humanity is not only possible, but is already underway. The question is only whether it can be sufficiently fast and extensive to reverse the current self-destructive trend of modern humanity.” 

I recently met up and had lunch with Stan. We have connected on several occasions since we first met 25 years ago, but we hadn’t talked in years. Some of his writings and methods have been important, clarifying and influential in my personal journey. Our lunch conversation was wide-ranging, playful, informative, and a lot of fun. He has a serious understated demeanor, but he remains incisive, humorous, and full of insights and stories.

What an amazing life he’s lived! And what a contribution he’s made to the fields of conscious evolution. He shared stories of his relationships with diverse famous figures, people ranging from Carl Sagan to John Lilly to Timothy Leary to Natalie Wood.

As we chatted about the inquiry that organizes the Beyond Awakening series (how higher consciousness can enable the human species to rise to meet our current challenges) Stan responded by confessing that his way of relating to the question relates back to two profound self-validating intuitions about the nature of reality:

—On one hand, he’s concluded that he can and should simply experience and feel and trust the all-pervading wisdom of Divine Intelligence. He’s seen, directly and obviously, that the whole world is pervaded by Divine Intelligence, and that this Divine Intelligence is in control, and no human strategy can outflank that Greater Principle.

—On the other hand, in different moments he’s experienced a parallel, equally powerful vision about the nature of reality. In this alternative view of things, Divine Intelligence has set the Kosmos into motion, and pervades it, but it’s a complex pattern of causes and effects and karmas unfolding in a way that can produce ANY kind of permutation as its result.  Seeing things this way, we can’t necessarily trust that things will all happen for the good. No. In fact, Divine Intelligence needs an opening to shape existence and consciousness so it can evolve in the most healthy ways possible. And thus the world, and Divine Intelligence needs us to create those openings, and to serve as vehicles for it.

I’m excited to return to this conversation and take it deeper this Sunday, and I hope you will be able to join us!

You can read a recent paper by Stan entitled “The Revision and Re-Enchantment of Psychology: Legacy of Half a Century of Consciousness Research” here.

About Stanislav Grof, M.D., Ph.D.

Stan Grof, M.D., Ph.D. is a psychiatrist with more than fifty years experience researching the healing and transformative potential of non-ordinary states of consciousness. His groundbreaking theories influenced the integration of Western science with his brilliant mapping of the transpersonal dimension. On October 5, 2007 Dr. Grof received the prestigious VISION 97 award granted by the Foundation of Dagmar and Vaclav Havel in Prague.

He is one of the founders and chief theoreticians of Transpersonal Psychology and received an Honorary Award for major contributions to and development of the field of Transpersonal Psychology from the Association for Transpersonal Psychology in 1993.

Currently, Dr. Grof is Professor of Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in the Department of Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness in San Francisco, CA, and at Wisdom University in Oakland, CA.

Dr. Grof was born in 1931 in Prague where he received an M.D. from Charles University and a Ph.D. (Doctor of Philosophy in Medicine) from the Czechoslovakian Academy of Sciences. Between 1960 and 1967, he was Principal Investigator in a psychedelic research program at the Psychiatric Research Institute in Prague, Czechoslovakia.

In the United States, Dr. Grof served as Chief of Psychiatric Research at the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD. He was also Scholar-in-Residence at Esalen Institute.

Dr. Grof’s extensive research includes experiential psychotherapy using psychedelics and non-drug techniques, especially the holotropic breathwork (a method he developed with his wife Christina), alternative approaches to psychoses, understanding and treatment of psychospiritual crises (“spiritual emergencies”), the implications of recent developments in quantum-relativistic physics, biology, brain research, and other avenues of the emerging scientific paradigm, for psychiatric theory and consciousness studies.

Among his publications are over 150 papers in professional journals and many books including Beyond the Brain, LSD Psychotherapy, Psychology of the Future, The Cosmic Game, and the newly-released When the Impossible Happens and The Ultimate Journey, as well as many more.

HOW TO PARTICIPATE:

Sunday, April 7th @ 10:00 AM Pacific*; 11:00am Mountain; 12:00pm Central; 1:00pm Eastern

*Find Your Local Time

Please Note: There will be a limited number of lines available on the live conference call, so we encourage you to listen online if possible. To make sure you can get through by phone, we encourage you to dial in early.

ACCESS INSTRUCTIONS

• To listen live by phone, dial:  206-402-0100  (alternate #: 501-707-0312)
• Then, enter Access Code: 272072#
• To listen live online go to: http://instantteleseminar.com/?eventID=39970254
• To download the audio after the teleseminar is complete go to the Beyond Awakening Audio Page

Join the Dialogue: About one hour into the dialogue, we’ll open up the lines and you’ll have the opportunity to interact with us directly over the phone or via instant message. Here’s what to do:

To interact live by voice, dial into the conference line number and wait until we ask for a question from someone in your region, or

Send us your question via instant message in the teleseminar window on your computer

Send us your questions and comments before or during the live dialogue by posting them on our Beyond Awakening Community Facebook page

We look forward to your attendance!

Sincerely,
The Beyond Awakening Team