There is a new intergral community on the scene and it is called iEvolve. iEvolve was created to fill the gap left when Integral Intsitute eased off on producing Integral seminars about a year back. This new entity has been set up by several of Integral institue’s teachers and founding members and it defines itself as nothing less than a “Global Practice Community”. A global community and a global sangha with a commitment to both personal and global evolutionary practice. How cool is that?
The Face Of Our World
We here at Integral Aikido expect that iEvolve will be producing some great events and doing some great work ahead. Keep your eyes open for future exciting Integral happenings from iEvolve including a big international Integral retreat in Berlin this fall around the theam of “healing the worlds wounds”.
For any true practioner it is important to have a commitment to your practice. And being a practice community iEvolve has laid out what it means to be a practioner in such a commnuity. Here are iEvolve’s 10 commitments to practice:
1. The Commitment to Personal Story:
The iEvolve journey begins with a recognition of the unique path of each person, to the specific experience, and innate dignity of every human life.
2. The Commitment to Awakened Heart:
Awakened heart is set of meditative practices which open the practitioner to the subtle dimensions of the heart, fostering the fullness of love and compassion.
3. The Commitment to Big Mind:
Big Mind, developed by Genpo Roshi, is a simple skillful means which points the person beyond ego consciousness and towards the realization of their true, expansive nature.
4. The Commitment to Unique Self:
Unique Self is a typology identification practice containing maps and technologies which allow a person to identify the nature of their Unique Self and in doing so identify and embrace the Unique Life Mission for which they were born on this planet in this time and this place.
5. The Commitment to Shadow Work:
Shadow Work is an intensive surfacing and cleansing practice, which shatters the lies of shadow and allows the person to once again tell the truth about who they really are. iEvolve shadow work directly causes a person to reconnect, evolve, purify or simply reclaim the dis-owned shadow dimension of their authentic and unique self.
6. The Commitment to Awakened Eros:
Awakened Eros is an embodiment practice in which the full power, aliveness and wisdom of the human body is accessed and integrated into the fullness of the person’s life.
7. The Commitment to State and Stage Evolution:
States and Stages are both an experiential and mapping practice. In state practice a person gains access to state experiences, which tells the person something important about their true nature and mission in the world. In stage practice a person studies the trajectory of human evolution in the life of the individual and in the lifespan of human history and culture along the major lines of development. In so doing, one is able to identify both their own location and to set concrete goals for the next stage of their evolution.
8. The Commitment to Social Service:
Social Service practice is the commitment of iEvolve as a Global Community and as individuals to commit significant time to the betterment of the lives of others.
9. The Commitment to Skillful Means:
Skillful means practice are a set of understandings, insights and technologies that foster effective communication, teamwork, and relationship building skills.
10. The Commitment to Devotion:
Devotional Work Practice serves the Divine within us and beyond us by recognizing, praising, honoring, connecting and disclosing that very divinity.
“When we change the way we look at things, the things we look at change.”
Max Planck
