Our self is a co-constructed cultural & individual phenomenon. We interpret our experience through previously known symbols & chains of meanings. Each stage assures radical shift of meaning-making structure which incorporates previous stages’ experience. Interstage transition is not subject to awareness and, as many other mental processes, is guided by the unconscious and shadow. Meditation enacts potentials of what is not yet known. It liberates us from our tendency to be our habitual form, including both our stage and personality with its habits of energy regulation (via, e.g., defenses). Thus, combining psychotherapy with meditation training can enact more mature ways of coping with psychological material (including shadow integration). It also cleans up awareness for grounding our zone of proximal development. Our inability to work with states of consciousness hinders our reconfiguration at more mature stages. Among other things, we’ll work on developing this ability.

In this Integral Awareness Meditation (IAM) experience we will dive into essentials of expansive contemplation that allows you to integrate deeper states of consciousness (including flow & non-dual states) with everyday activities—such as not just your personal meditation practice but also work, interpersonal communication, and group energy field awareness. You’ll explore thoughts, feelings, sensations, and visions related to each major consciousness structure enfolded into your own being and how it manifests in the shared relational We-space. Our sensory perception, body felt-sense, feelings, and cognitions can form a coherent experiential Wholeness. This IAM process is a delicate experiential container for self-liberation of individual and groups in the non-dual field of primordial awareness. We will be learning to embody transpersonal consciousness in our experience of relating to each other, being mindful of subtle-energy fluctuations.