Van: "Integral World" Aan: Onderwerp: Spiritual Intimacy Datum: zaterdag 17 januari 2015 20:51 INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST =========================== http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 545 Amsterdam, January 17th, 2015 ADVANCED SPIRITUAL INTIMACY - Prologue: Urdhvaretas - Yoga's Path of Complete Maturation of Ensouled, Engendered Bodies - STUART SOVATSKY As a juvenile probation officer, social worker, and marriage and family therapist since 1972, I have worked with three generations of individuals, couples, and families, from tragically locked-up teens going awry in the sad chaos of broken homes (both wealthy and impoverished), to thirty- and forty-year-olds spreading their hopes for love among two or three simultaneous, polyamorous or serial-monogamy partners, to the ever more numerous and grayer, fifty- and sixty-year-olds on their third go-around, living alone, away from their “previous families” and skittishly Internet dating, having real or Facebook affairs with married persons or laptop relationships with “live” porn stars. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/sovatsky1.html THE BUDDHA AWAKENING, INTEGRAL EXPANDING, AND A SECOND AXIAL AGE FOR HUMANITY - DUANE ELGIN Ken Wilber declared that one of history's most important spiritual teachers, the Buddha, was “half-enlightened” because he realized only the experience of cessation and not the full, non-dual experience of integrating emptiness and form. This article examines the evidence for this assertion and concludes that the Buddha was fully awakened as his experience joined the un-manifest generative ground with the realm of form in a singular flow of interdependent co-arising. Importantly, when the Buddha's awakening experience is considered along with the world's wisdom traditions, it provides insight into a second axial age around which the world can pivot into a more sustainable and promising pathway into the future. A huge area of untapped potential awaits development if Integral theory recognizes the Buddha's awakening as interdependent co-arising. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/elgin3.html To SUBSCRIBE to this Integral World Newsletter or change your email address, click here: http://www.integralworld.net/pommo/user/subscribe.php To UNSUBSCRIBE, update your account by logging in. For explanation, see: http://www.integralworld.net/nl_faq.html