Patricia Albere – Mutual Awakening 2016

The 20th century has been called the “century of the self.” It ushered in an age of subjectivity and individuality. What Sigmund Freud and other early psychologists illuminated was an inner world as vast and rich as the outer world. The 21st century will open up the shared inner world of intersubjective consciousness in the same way that the 20th century opened up the individual inner world of subjective consciousness. There is a vast universe of inner being that is shared between us and is ready for exploration. It’s the space where relatedness exists — the space “between us” or “We-space.”

The possibility of “awakened mutuality” depends on our individual ability to meet others beyond the constraints of limiting ideas and beliefs. In this session, you’ll experience the power of the practice of mutual awakening that has become the core principle for developing our capacity to enter into this consciousness reliably. You will be initiated into a powerful practice of awakened mutuality that will be worked with throughout the three months.

In this new paradigm, mutuality is paramount — rather than focusing only on our individual capacity to be with life and each other from only our 100% sense of responsibility (or in the negative sense, blame). We now begin to pay attention, together, to how we are influencing each other and the mutuality we share. Mutuality is where our souls overlap, the confluence of our consciousness. There is an expansive world to explore when we mutually agree to be consciously related. We’ll explore some of the activating principles that turn on the power of our relatedness.

In order for awakened mutuality to reach its full potential it must rest on a sacred commitment with each other. In this session, you’ll learn to always stay on the inside of relationship and avoid the isolating “us/them” consciousness that so often separates us from others.

We see the world through a pre-existing paradigm or worldview that shapes our experience of reality entirely. When there is a shift into a new paradigm, the world changes shape, and who we are and our experience is transformed. Our lives and concept of ourselves function on a different plane. The world is on the precipice of a shift into an evolved paradigm. We’ll distinguish the elements of a paradigm and the power of a true shift for you and for the world.

The pursuit of evolutionary spirituality leads to a more connected sense of identity, one that Harvard Psychologist Robert Kegan has called the “self-transforming self.” In this session, you’ll experience a sense of self that flows through time in a process of ongoing self-transformation.

Most of us have been trained to work through the willful achievement of goals and forwarding of our agendas. In this session you’ll discover a different way of being in the world in which the living intelligence of our relationships reveals the appropriate way forward for this moment. In this space things occur that are beyond what we ever could have imagined as goals for ourselves. You will learn what cosmocentric care is in relationship to emergence.

We’ll explore the five different levels of unity and learn the powerful difference between traditional impersonal unity states and the kind of unity that arises from essential uniqueness and particularity. Teilhard de Chardin, Sri Aurobindo and George Gurdjieff all emphasized that the evolution of consciousness moves towards being more “personal” — but not the usual sense of “personal.” What is the spark of divinity, the origination point of our existence that is distinct and utterly unique… and how do we discover that in each other? We’ll explore the “soul tincture” of our essence together — which happens to be the root of essential love.

The mystic is initially awakened with a kind of discontent, an ache, a longing that begins to burn and drive them into a new relationship with love and with the Divine. How do we recognize this soul-desire in its desire for the sacred in each other and the multiple Beloveds? By surrendering into this longing that has the power to transform and transfigure us so that fulfillment is truly possible, we become capable of something greater.

The mystic is driven by love for the truth and compelled to experience reality directly. In this session, you’ll learn to recognize and embrace the “love of truth” that brought you to this point in your spiritual journey.

Our mystical experiences are the markers that lead us along the path to awakening. In this session, you’ll learn the unique characteristics of these experiences and give voice to the realizations and breakthrough insights that have guided you. We’ll illuminate the two essential qualities for We-mysticism.

The Christian evolutionary thinker Pierre Teilhard de Chardin described evolution as occurring through a succession of creative unions that result in new forms of being. In this session, we’ll work with the principle of “creative union,” and show how it comes to life in this consciousness. We’ll practice mystical co-creation and explore it’s significance for the future evolution of humanity.