In light of today’s extraordinary challenges – yet unprecedented opportunities -- more and more of us are looking at ways of bringing together new-paradigm spirituality, holistic healing and social transformation, including reclaiming our freedom/sovereignty for personal and planetary awakening. The intense pressure of the crises we are undergoing is generating a metamorphosis -- of who we see ourselves to be, and all that we can become – we are in the cocoon stage now, but soon the butterfly will be flying!

We are also recognizing that, while we can work together online to weave a shared, coherent vision for this – and that is exciting -- we also need to start embodying this vision in real-life settings – community hubs, collective gatherings and retreats, holistic retreat centres and living, land-based communities, local and global; and that is also very exciting -- a welcome opportunity to get off-line, to meet face-to-face, to deepen our connections, and to start to model new aligned visions for society!

Here let’s talk a bit more first about the vision – namely, what does “integrative nonduality” mean, and how can it flow into sacred activism, serving as the basis for new communities for personal and planetary healing, transformation and awakening?

We could say, first of all, in short (the “elevator version”) – that integrative nonduality embraces and integrates all the multi-dimensional levels of our true Wholeness, from the innermost subtle spiritual levels to the outermost complex material systems, aligning all with their true nondual Source. It addresses the question: how can we bring nonduality (unity consciousness) – the spirit of interconnection and Oneness – into expression at all the levels of our being, including the energetic, psychological, social, ecological and planetary/Cosmic?

 

We recognize that we have multiple dimensions and expressions of our being – different parts and levels, individual and collective – and, while currently there appears to be great conflict and fragmentation in ourselves and our world, all can be informed and transformed by our true nondual nature, the true Wholeness at our core. Everything is an expression of the One holographic Self at the heart of Creation, of which our own hearts are fractal nodes, and can be embraced in that Loving Presence, taken home to their true Wholeness.

A New, Inclusive, Integrative Approach to Nonduality: Embracing All the Levels of Our Being in Love, Compassion, Wisdom and Transformative Action

Nonduality teaches us that everything is the expression of One Divine Essence, and that we are already That, as is everything in creation. These teachings have become very popular in recent times, but often, especially in the beginning, were over-simplified or misused. People might have an awakening to their true Self, but then used that to bypass, or attempt to jump over, their sufferings and wounds at the personal psychological level, as well as the larger societal patterns of dysfunction that affect all of us and have caused many of those sufferings.
 
Personally and collectively, we've matured and evolved beyond the days of spiritual bypass -- trying to escape, ignore, suppress or deny our personal psychological challenges -- and learned instead to meet and transform them, with honesty, caring, love and compassion. With the help of IFS and other profound integrative approaches to psychological and energetic healing, we have learned to welcome our own wounded parts back into their true Wholeness, our infinite eternal Self. 

And now, I believe, we are called to extend ourselves beyond our own personal healing to the healing of our society and planet, in a similar way, with love, compassion and awakened awareness of our true Oneness, rather than denial, bypass or reactive fighting.

This means that the “outer” fragmentation, conflicts, divisiveness and oppositions in our world need to be met with the same love and compassion as our own “internal” parts, and brought home, into harmony and alignment, with the unbroken, unified Self that we and all “others” in the Whole of Creation are.

For connecting with our true Source doesn't mean we don't act in the world, and just simply accept all as it is, with whatever suffering, injustice, oppression or violence that involves. Nondual realization, if genuinely integrated, doesn’t make us passive. In fact, paradoxically, when we come home to the Source of Creation within us, we gain access to the creative power to transform our world. And now, with our world in crisis and our systems collapsing, it becomes more essential than ever to integrate nondual awakening – the realization of our Oneness with each other, all of nature and the Cosmos  -- not only at the personal psychological level but also at the collective social and planetary level. This means building new conscious communities guided by the inner wisdom of the Source of Creation within us.

From Spiritual and Social Bypass to Integrative Nonduality and Sacred Activism 

We recognize that we are multi-dimensional beings, individually and collectively, and that we heal and awaken to our true Self by embracing those different levels, parts and expressions back into the Loving Presence that is their eternal, universal Source and Essence. But this is not the end of the story. For, as we come back home to Source Consciousness, the very heart of creation, we can then leverage the true unity of Consciousness, energy and matter we embody for the sacred transformation of self and society, bringing in a new consciousness and new aligned systems at the spiritual, energetic, psychological, social and planetary levels. 

First we draw our consciousness back into our Source, and then it flows out in creation. This is like the in-breath and out-breath of the Cosmos, of which we are each an intrinsic, microcosmic part -- at each moment we are both resting in our nondual Source and also serving as a channel for it to express itself in and as our world. This is true nonduality – the non-separation between the sacred Source and its own Creation. Today, in particular, we are called to be active co-creators in these times of tremendous sacred evolutionary transformation, of which each and every one of us alive now has the privilege to be a part. 

And there are many exciting creative ways to be part of this, with the unique role that flows through each of us rippling out to affect the Whole. This includes the different areas of focus we will be exploring in the community: Integrative Nonduality; Divine Feminine Wisdom; Energetic and Quantum Healing; Cosmic Connections; Sacred Activism; and Building Conscious Communities, plus whatever new directions emerge from our coming together.

Nonduality teaches us that we are already home, and yet we are also always evolving, an ongoing part of Creation. This is the great paradox of the spiritual search, and its liberation. Coming home does not imply passivity or annihilation. On the contrary, once we are home, we find ourself at the helm of the infinite potentials for a new, aligned co-creation with the Source of Creation, our true nature and immortal Self. We enter into the zero-point cauldron of all Creation and its alchemical powers to transmute our world, from the very fulcrum of our being, individual and collective.

Healing Ourselves, Healing Our World: Aligning with the Pure Love Light Source Consciousness in Our Heart

Love and unity are our true nature. These are not just pretty words, but the energy of truth in our own hearts that can heal, transform and awaken ourselves and our world.

Though this current of love has long been dormant in many, we can activate this energy into dynamic action, back into alignment and synergy with pure universal Cosmic forces and the Source of pure Love Light Consciousness that animates us and all of Creation.

We can do this personally, in our own hearts, mind and bodies, and, as a natural ripple effect, collectively, at the local and global social, ecological and planetary levels, creating a movement of dynamic co-creative action through hubs of solidarity, living communities and larger networks of love, unity, synergy and caring.

This reconnection with the Source of pure Love Light Consciousness in our hearts is the fulcrum of the quantum leap in our consciousness and our systems that will heal our fragmented, broken societies and bring about the luminous, loving New Earth so many of us desire, resonating at a much higher frequency of energy and Consciousness.

Our world has become broken because, over many centuries, spirit has been divorced from matter, and spiritual wisdom divorced from how we live in the world -- our social, ecological, economic and political systems. Our healing will come from bringing them together again, restoring the sacred to our own minds, bodies and spirit, and by consequence, the world we create around us.

In fact, we are always co-creating that world from within us, for better or for worse. For many centuries, it's been for worse -- increasingly divorced from, and unconscious of that connection, we've created a very unconscious, distorted and broken world, which has now reached its extreme limit and is collapsing under the weight of its own violence and unconsciousness. This breakdown is our wake-up call, to awaken to our true sacred connection with Source and, from that re-alignment, to bring forth a new world…

By restoring our sacred connection to the Source within us, we are re-storying our world…

Breaking the Spell of the Cultural and Technocratic Tyranny by Awakening to Our True Nature

In practice, how do we do this? We need first of all to divest ourselves of the old belief systems that no longer serve us, both our old social and cultural conditionings, and particularly today the new technocratic forms of mind control and programming (e.g.,via the digital media and AI) that only serve to enslave us, to entrench us deeper in our disempowerment, the illusions and deception that allow others to control us. 

As we free ourselves from these distorted misperceptions of who we are, we come back to who we truly are -- the Source Itself of pure loving, radiant Unity Consciousness. Then we naturally begin to flow and act from there, transforming ourselves and our world, in co-creation with others, who are also awakening to our true nature -- and there are more and more of us now...

Interestingly, loving and forgiving ourselves is the first step, and the deepest, from which all the others follow, releasing all the old self-images and identities that bind us, and freeing ourselves to return to who we really are -- vast, boundless, pure Love Light Consciousness, infinitely powerful and infinitely creative…

Love is the current that flows through our hearts and connects us with the Cosmos...it is through our hearts that we know, and feel, that we are none other than the Whole of Creation.

Love is our Source and the force of our liberation, breaking the spell of the cultural and technocratic tyranny (of separation and both deadening and death-dealing violence) by coming alive in our hearts, and awakening us to our true Divine Oneness…

Shifting Our Mistaken Identity from the Small Self to the Great Self

When we’re born into this world, our identity shifts from the vast space of unlimited Consciousness and potential of the Great Self that we were before we were born, to the small self in a small body, with its very compelling survival instincts overlaid on the lingering sense of connection with the Great Self that many children still sense for some time.

As our life proceeds and various conditionings and experiences impact us, sometimes very traumatic, our small ego-self does its best to protect us, but that sense of safety it tries to give us becomes attached to a very reduced sense of who we are, which then becomes a self-perpetuating trap. Yet in truth our real safety and freedom comes not from defending that small sense of self and its trap, but by exiting them, into who we truly already are -- infinite, vast Love Light Source Consciousness, extending to and embracing within our own true Self the Whole of the Cosmic Creation.

Evolving New Holistic, Integrative Spiritual Activist Paradigms that are Heart-Centered, Unifying and Empowering

Many ideas have been introduced into New Age Spirituality that are disempowering (as were many ideas already in the old religions), but true spirituality is very empowering -- love in practice and love in action.

Part of what is so empowering about true spirituality is that it flows from within us -- no one from the outside is imposing it upon us. It flows from our own natural connection with the Divine and the whole Cosmos, through the Infinity Point of sacred Love Light Source Consciousness that lives within our own heart.

We can live in unity, and living communities -- from the personal, local to global levels -- that flow from this universal Infinite Love Light Source Consciousness that we truly are,
each with our own unique diverse roles in its great evolutionary, co-creative unfolding…This unity, and communities, would be based, not on a deadening conformity, or a forced top-down robotic uniformity, but the unity-in-diversity, that flows naturally from our core, and brings forth the highest potentials in each of us…

This is such an exciting vision: creating living communities, and sacred action in the world, that flow from the very Source of Creation within us, realizing its/our highest potentials in creative and co-creative manifestation.

Extraordinary as it may seem, each of us has the template for the entire evolution of the Cosmic Creation encoded in our DNA, waiting to be activated and unfolded. Every atom and every cell in our body contains the whole of this holographic universe…This is the magnificent new vision of interconnection and Oneness that is coming home to us today, and opening up incredible new dimensions, up until now still dormant within us but ripe now for us to access.

As spirituality is literally written in our genes, any kind of genuine healing, personal or collective, necessarily has a spiritual basis. "Spirituality" doesn’t mean a religion, institution or codified tradition but the recognition of our interconnection and Oneness, at all levels of our being -- and the desire to experience it, and live it, as fully as possible. That sense of connectedness is so intrinsic to our health, well-being and even our creative powers -- because it is the truth of our being, so we cannot live well without it!

Many people shy away from the idea of spirituality these days, because religions and traditional spiritual paths have often abused their powers and given spirituality (very understandably) a bad name! But one could say this is all the more reason to take the power back in our own hands and create our own new-paradigm spiritual approaches...taking what's best from the past but evolving in new, more empowering, authentic and co-creative directions. And the clues for that are coming from all sides -- new quantum physics and neuroscience, ancient mystic and shamanic traditions, as well as, and most importantly, from within us...(with a little help from our higher-dimensional Cosmic friends!)

Extending Personal Growth at the Energetic and Psychological Levels into Social and Planetary Transformation

Realizing our true Self -- the radiant light and love that emanates from the Source of our being -- is not a means, then, for escaping this world but the power that can transform it. Self-energy is the power of love and compassion that can melt the hard boundaries of fixed, obsolete forms, systems and perceptions, and suffuse and reinvent them from the clear light wisdom of our true Source. In this way our actions in the world no longer come from our own short-sighted reactive (and often counter-productive) self-interests, but flow from the deepest wisdom, love and power of our true infinite eternal Self, effecting true transformation, and a profound awakening, both personal and collective.

As the small self merges into the Great Self, we see that our own self-awakening and growth need not – and cannot -- be confined to the inner and personal levels alone. When held in the larger context of our true all-embracing Oneness – with Self and all its creation – they can ripple through the “inner” energetic and psychological levels into the “outer” levels of social and planetary transformation, bringing us into alignment with the natural and Cosmic rhythms of which we are inherently a part, each of us playing our essential role in the Whole.

This creates a dynamic evolutionary spiral, or torus, by which inner transformation informs outer transformation, and the outer returns to the inner, until the division between inner and outer itself dissolves, and all is experienced as One eternal Consciousness expressing Itself as one ever-evolving Cosmos. 

Quantum Co-Creative Revolution: Revolutionizing Our World from the Inside Out

As we return home to Self, the Source of our true Wholeness, its energy, like a vibrant radiant wellspring, can flow through us to transform the “outer” levels of its own Self-expression – including the social, ecological, planetary and Cosmic levels -- bringing them into natural harmony, integration and alignment. In this way re-alignment at the “inner” levels inform and transform the “outer”; and in turn transformation at the “outer” levels returns to inform the inner, in a synergistic, toroidal, evolutionary spiral of the One Eternal Self itself, expressing itself as the dynamic evolution of ourselves, our planet and the entire Cosmos. 

This dynamic ontological relationship between the inner and outer levels of our being, individual and collective, all radiating from Source Consciousness, is illustrated by the toroidal model, the Spheres of Co-Creation. This model can also be used as a database and collaborative, co-creative platform bringing together initiatives working at all these levels in a collective quantum holomovement for personal, social and planetary transformation.  

 
 

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The Spheres of Co-Creation and its Multiple Uses – Personal, Community, Local and Global

 

1. For hubs, communities, and larger social networks: A practical way of mapping, at the hub or community level, the practices, resources and connected organizations that the group is involved with, in all of these spheres or levels, complementing each other's work, in synergistic co-creative networks. It can also be used in this way for bringing together larger local, regional and even global movements, of people and organizations, however diverse, yet all united around their common goals of peace, freedom, caring, communion, planetary renewal and well-being, fulfilling our highest potentials, individually and collectively.

2. At the personal level, the SoC also offers both a big-picture vision and a practical framework for our own focus and action. Its toroidal model offers that big picture -- a way of seeing, at a glance, the interconnected, dynamic, synergistic levels of our being, inner and outer, all radiating out of the pure universal Love Light Source Consciousness at our core. At the same time it can help us identify where our own passion, talents and contribution lie, our own unique role in service to the Whole. It then also offers immediate connections that help us realize these goals, together with others and organizations working at these levels, all mapped onto the collaborative model so that we can find and collaborate with each other.

3. Thus the SoC can help bring individuals, organizations and movements together, as well as the inner and outer dimensions, personal and collective, all emanating from the sacred Source of pure Love Light Consciousness at our core, in service to the healing, awakening and transformation of the Whole of Creation, a quantum holomovement of co-creative revolution

 

Integrating Divine Feminine Wisdom and Women’s Rising Evolutionary Leadership

Where does the integration of Divine Feminine Wisdom come into the picture?
 
In response to the current global crises, the patriarchal traditions (including the nondual teachings of both classical and neo-Advaita) have mostly said “Just witness it – it’s all illusion anyway.” At the same time, many women spiritual teachers, mystics and healers are using a very different language and coming from a different vision, responding in a more positive, life-affirming way – that these are the times we’ve been waiting for, an unprecedented opportunity to both awaken to our true nature and transform our world. 

This both/and approach -- inclusive, embracing, visionary and invitational -- heralds the resurgence of the spirit of the Divine Feminine, suppressed for many centuries. These inspirational women leaders are working with higher frequencies of consciousness and energy, as well as transformative action, to meet, transmute and overcome the global crises, bringing in a New Earth of love, peace, communion, caring, and social and planetary regeneration. We will highlight the work of these visionary women, as an essential part of our integrative nondual approach, bringing the balance of feminine wisdom and energy into the collective consciousness (of course there are also men bringing in this feminine, inclusive and loving spirit, and we include them too!)

Healing, Integrating and Transforming the Multiple Levels of Our Being – Spiritual, Energetic, Psychological and Social: Exploring New Nondual Integrative Approaches

In the community, we will explore how all the levels, inner and outer, are connected, and how we can bring each level into alignment and integration with their unified Source and each other, using the Spheres of Co-Creation as an informal guideline. We would also focus, one by one, on each level – Nondual Consciousness, Energetic, Psychological, Ecological, Economic, Socio-Political, and Planetary/Cosmic, featuring the best teachers and their practices at each level. Ideally some of these teachers could come in person, but if not we would either use online audio-visual teachings for which they have given us their permission, or invite their associates or senior students to give live presentations/workshops. 

We would practice a multi--dimensional model as well (derived from the larger SoC model) for integrative inner work, tracing back the connection between the social, psychological, energetic and spiritual levels, and re-aligning them from the inside out. In this contemplative exercise, we would move progressively inwards from 1) the outer level of our identification with the material body/outer world, to 2) the deeper psychological level (working with IFS parts and archetypal patterns), to 3) the still deeper energetic level (working with chakras, toroidal fields and Cosmic sacred geometries, and the radiant light that projects them), to 4) the nondual Consciousness at our innermost core. We would then move back out again, re-infusing the outer levels with the vision and inspiration flowing from that innermost Source.

We would also explore other new integral approaches based on nonduality, including various meditations and practices from the Infinite Source Creations, Nondual IFS, and others.
Contemplating, embodying and weaving between the different levels of our being -- Self and its parts, individual and collective – can in itself begin to ignite and effect profound integration, inspiration, insight and action. This can be done as an individual practice but its creative power is exponentially amplified in a collective, co-creative field, such as in a community hub, collective retreat, or a living community.

From Vision to Hubs to Living Communities

In this way we are beginning to lay the groundwork for a 1) vision of integrative nonduality 2) the themes and activities for hubs and live gatherings, as well as 3) a future international holistic, sovereign living community for personal and planetary healing, transformation and awakening, based on integrative nonduality, sacred activism and Divine Feminine wisdom.

Possible locations or points of contact: India, Nepal, Peru, Costa Rica, Bali, Thailand, Mexico, Guatemala, Ecuador or others…we welcome your suggestions (of countries, venues for a retreat, gathering or community, and/or aligned ecovillages/communities…).

If this inspires you, please feel free to join us in our Telegram group, where we are currently building the vision, and organizing the logistics for a potential future living community… Here is the group description and link:

Spiritual Holistic Freedom Communities Co-Creators Telegram Group

https://t.me/+TvpeGyTzV1g1ZDY1

Welcome! This group is for anyone interested in helping to find or co-create a potential future community/ashram based on new-paradigm spirituality, holistic healing and freedom/sovereignty. Our aim is to explore and evolve new directions in Integrative Nonduality and Sacred Activism, discovering, living and serving from our true Self -- of infinite, eternal Love Light Source Consciousness -- in the world, for the healing, transformation and awakening of self, society and the planet.

Our themes include the realization of the Infinite Love Light Source Intelligence within us; the activation and integration of Divine Feminine Wisdom, personally and collectively; Quantum Energetic Healing; discovering our Multi-dimensional Cosmic Connections; and Building Conscious Communities, that ground and embody these themes, as sanctuaries of light on this planet and seeds for a living future.

In addition to support for our spiritual awakening and energetic and psychological healing, through daily classes, sharing circles, workshops and retreats, the community would also provide the physical and material support of clean organic, home-grown food, pure structured water, clean energy, herbal and natural remedies, clean tech and digital privacy, an alternative currency system, and structures for decentralized, co-creative self-governance.

In this way it would explore a new model for society, supporting and enhancing both inner and outer freedom, wellbeing, and awakening, as well as ecological and planetary regeneration – a whole-systems, holistic quantum transformation of both our consciousness and our living systems.

Our aim is to create a living community/ashram putting these directions into practice, and perhaps inspire a greater, interconnected network of such communities in different places, each with their own flavor, emphasis and organic unfolding.

When we truly discover we're Whole, we act on behalf of the Whole...with our world in crisis and systems collapsing, it's time more than ever to realize and embody our true interconnection and Oneness with each other, all of Creation and our eternal Source...and ground this in our living communities, planting the seeds for the New Earth so many of us today desire!

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Related Resources 
Infinite Source Creations – David Clements
https://infinitesourcecreations.com
Internal Family Systems
"IFS founder Dr. Richard Schwartz once said, “IFS helps people become bodhisattvas of their psyches.” Over years of guiding clients, he noticed that what IFS calls Self resembled what spiritual traditions refer to as Buddha Nature, Christ Consciousness, or Divine Essence."
https://ifs-institute.com/
Integrating the Wisdom of the Divine Feminine
Shakti Centre for Integrated Spiritual and Social Transformation https://shakticentre.blogspot.com
1.    Adi: Green Tara Guru at www.greentara.guru.org
2.    Patricia Cota-Robles: Era of Peace at www.eraofpeace.org
3.    Guruji Ma: Light Omega at www.lightomega.org
4.    Jennifer Tyler: Full Circle Family at www.fullcirclefamily.us
5.    Miranda MacPherson: www.mirandamacpherson.com
6.    Jocelyn Starfeather: We Are Sacred Planet at www.wearesacredplanet.com
7.    Anne Baring: The Divine Feminine and Kinship with All Creation at www.annebaring.com
8.    Heather Linn: The Emerald Wisdom School at https://www.emeraldwisdomschool.com 
9.    Net of Light: www.netoflight.org
10.    Jude Currivan: https://www.wholeworld-view.org/
11.    Vandana Shiva: https://navdanyainternational.org/
12.    Dr. Sue Morter: https:// https://drsuemorter.com/

We would also connect with teachings from men who are particularly attuned to the holistic, heart-centered spirit of the Divine Feminine, and the unity of all with quantum, Cosmic Consciousness, such as Jean Hudon (https://www.earthrainbownetwork.com), Kenneth Schmitt (https://quantum-energetics.org), David Clements (https://infinitesourcecreations.com), Gregg Braden (https://greggbraden.com), Dr. Joe Dispenza (https://drjoedispenza.com) and others who would like to be allied with this project.
If you would like to be part of this, or know more about it, please contact Kavita Byrd at kavitaji25@yahoo.com, or see my website https://shakticentre.blogspot.com  
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