Three events on Easter Sunday! You are welcome to any one of them, two of them or all three!

Suggested Donation for any one event: $15
Suggested Donation for any two events: $25
Suggested Donation for full day: $40

Please pay at the door. Checks and cash only please. Checks to be written to “Boulder Integral”

MORNING: 9:30am-12:30pm – GOOD NEWS FOR HUMANITY AND OUR WORLD

• Sacred Science and Big History: Our Common Creation Story
• Interpretation and Shared Meaning: The Marriage of Faith and Reason
• The 21st Century: Humanity’s Rite of Passage

AFTERNOON: 2pm-5pm – GOOD NEWS FOR INDIVIDUALS AND RELATIONSHIPS

• Spirituality 101: Evo-Brain Science and Evo-Psychology
• The Gifts of Chaos and Death in an Evolving Kosmos
• Tools and Practices for Thriving (”Kick-Ass”) Relationships

EVENING: 6:30 – 9:00pm: Discussion, Evolutionary Parables, Rad video clips, Songs, etc.

Learn about our teachers

Rev. Michael Dowd is one of the most inspiring speakers in America today. He is the author of Thank God for Evolution: How the Marriage of Science and Religion Will Transform Your Life and Our World, which has been endorsed by five Nobel laureates and other leading scientists, including noted skeptics, and by religious leaders across the spectrum. He and his wife, Connie Barlow, a noted science writer, have spoken to 1,000+ groups since launching their itinerant ministry in 2002. At home in both liberal and conservative settings, and uniquely gifted at building bridges between religious and non-religious people, Michael shares the 14-billion-year Epic of Evolution in ways that uplift and expand heart, mind, and soul. His passion is showing how an evolutionary understanding of human nature can inspire and empower each of us to live with greater integrity, joy, and zest for life. Find out more about Michael at www.thankgodforevolution.com

Connie Barlow is an acclaimed author of popular science books and articles, and developer of The Great Story website. Connie’s most recent book, The Ghosts of Evolution (Basic Books), was Amazon.com’s top-recommended science book for several months in 2001. Her previous books, Green Space, Green Time: The Way of Science (Copernicus Books), Evolution Extended: Biological Debates on the Meaning of Life (MIT Press), and From Gaia to Selfish Genes: Selected Writings in the Life Sciences, all explore the nexus of science, spirit, and meaning (check out all of Connie’s books here). She is founding member and webmaster of Torreya Guardians, an internet community of botanists, naturalists, and others dedicated to ensuring the continuing persistence in the wild of America’s most endangered conifer tree: Torreya taxifolia. The June 2008 issue of Orion Magazine included an in-depth article on “assisted migration” for this highly endangered tree, featuring Connie’s leadership in this effort.

Connie is a Unitarian Universalist, and a well-known developer of curricula for children’s religious education programs. Since 2002, she and her husband (Rev. Michael Dowd) have lived entirely on the road, as “America’s evolutionary evangelists”. Find out more about Connie Barlow here.

Michael Dowd’s book Thank God for Evolution

Thank God for Evolution presents in a lively and accessible manner the reasons why it is now possible to view evolution as a call to deep integrity; how a dozen scientific disciplines reveal evolution to be measurably creative, rather than meaningless blind chance; practical methods for using evolutionary insights to achieve greater joy and personal fulfillment; and how aligning with evolutionary trends can guide activists and others hoping to make our world a better place. As a Christian minister, Dowd especially addresses the concerns that Christians have about evolution, but this book contains insights that will appeal to all people of faith and of no faith. Fun and uplifting, Thank God for Evolution goes beyond the current debate to offer up a whole new way of thinking about science and religion.

Endorsements for Thank God for Evolution, by Michael Dowd

“The science vs. religion debate is over. Michael Dowd masterfully unites rationality and spirituality in a world view that celebrates the mysteries of existence and inspires each human being to achieve a higher purpose in life. A must read for all, including scientists.” – Craig Mello (2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)

“Dowd shows that there are many ways to be a spiritual person and that all of them are enriched by an understanding of modern science, especially evolution. This is a creative, provocative book that sheds light on just about any spiritual path one might be on. Many will find their faith revolutionized.” —Eugenie C. Scott, Executive Director of the National Center for Science Education

“In Thank God for Evolution Michael Dowd has produced a thoughtful, timely, challenging-and readable-synthesis of science and spirituality. This compelling book is the product of candid reflection on the religious and ethical significance of evolution and contemporary cosmology in the spirit of Thomas Berry and Teilhard de Chardin. The author’s generosity of soul and depth of ecological concern have allowed him to create a challenging spiritual vision out of an exceptionally wide variety of sources.” – John F. Haught, Professor of Theology, Georgetown University; Author of Deeper Than Darwin; Christianity and Science; And is Nature Enough?

“Michael Dowd has written a book that is at once fun to read and a significant contribution to those who think about God without the blindfolds of past centuries. Dowd affirms science, and shows how a spiritually alive consciousness must embrace evolution and understand it in the wider context of a world filled with the presence of God. It will be faith renewing to many Christians and has much from which people of all faiths can learn.” —RABBI MICHAEL LERNER, EDITOR OF TIKKUN, NATIONAL CHAIR OF THE NETWORK OF SPIRITUAL PROGRESSIVES, AUTHOR OF THE LEFT HAND OF GOD

“Michael Dowd is one of my heroes… I’m pleased to see more and more people address the patterns of human emergence. Michael has made a significant contribution to understanding this critical aspect of human nature.” —DON BECK, CO-FOUNDER OF THE NATIONAL VALUES CENTER, CEO OF SPIRAL DYNAMICS GROUP

$10 (Boulder Integral Members)
$15 (Non members)

A popular view of human mentality outlines a continuum running from unconscious through subsconscious to waking consciousness.  In contrast, many metaphysical belief systems often acknowledge this a valuable place to start but find this model to be limited and shortsighted.  Instead, they propose further layers of consciousness that transcend the simplistic reductionist model.  The term “meta-consciousness” captures this further layer of consciousness.   Most metaphysical systems offer only immediate, subjective experience as evidence for meta-consciousness.  To verify the existence of meta-consciousness, the experiencer must undertake some kind of “path” or “journey” to enlightenment.

Only after much progress — or often not until final completion of the journey — can an initiate verify for him or herself that such a level of meta-consciousness actually exists.  Many systems claim to produce enlightenment, but not all of these claims turn out to be legitimate.  Unsurprisingly, honest seekers often find themselves reluctant merely on the testimony of others to engage in a process that might in the end yield nothing but ashes.  Many doubt such a transcendent realm of meta-consciousness even exists.   But good objective evidence exists for meta-consciousness.  One can find this evidence in the recent, well-conducted scientific research into extra-sensory perception, or ESP.  How ESP evidences meta-consciousness, and what we can learn because of it, is the subject of this presentation.  You will even have the opportunity to try it yourselves in a simple experiment.

BIO
Paul H. Smith, Ph.D. became a psychic spy in 1983, when he was recruited for the Army’ s remote viewing psychic espionage program.  During seven years in the military program he studied under the legendary Hal Puthoff and Ingo Swann, served as a first-line operational remote viewer, wrote the official manual on controlled remote viewing  (’CRV’ — a more disciplined form of remote viewing), and taught CRV to new military remote viewers.  His students include now-famous remote viewers such as Lyn Buchanan, Mel Riley, and David Morehouse.  Paul has briefed and demonstrated remote viewing to senators and senior military and government officials.  A veteran of Desert Storm with the storied 101st Airborne Division, he retired from the US Army in 1996 at the rank of major from his final duty position, chief of intelligence and security for the Military District of Washington.

Paul has a thirty-year history in helping people develop consciousness-based skills, and is dedicated to changing society’ s attitudes towards applied consciousness using the powerful levers of teaching, speaking, and writing about — and organizing around — remote viewing.   President and chief instructor of since 1997 if his own commercial full-service remote viewing training company, Remote Viewing Instructional Services, Inc., he is also a founding director of the non-profit International Remote Viewing Association, of which he presently serves as president.  He has chaired and organized seven of IRVA s annual remote viewing conferences since the organization ’s founding in 1999.

Paul’s book, “Reading the Enemy s Mind: Inside Star Gate ­ America s Psychic Espionage Program ” (Tor/Forge 2005) was the Book Bonus Feature and Editor s Choice Selection for the March 2006 issue of Reader s Digest.  He co-produced the acclaimed DVD-based  “LearnDowsing” training program.   Paul’s education includes a BA from Brigham Young University and an MS from the National Defense Intelligence College (both in Middle Eastern studies), and a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin, writing on consciousness, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of science.  He has spoken on the subject of remote viewing and parapsychology at various national and international conferences, and had numerous radio and television appearances, including A&E, The History Channel, CBS Sunday Morning, and Coast to Coast AM, among many others.

For more information,  see Paul’s website at http://www.rviewer.com or call (toll free) (866) 229-7847.

Venue: 2805 Broadway Street, Boulder, CO 80304 (info@boulderintegral.org)

Over the last 30 years, many forms of Buddhist-inspired psychotherapy have emerged to help men and women process their shadows, triggers, blockages, and repressions, so they can become better functioning adults. And while many of these programs have helped people have healthier egos, they have a much less impressive track record for creating and sustaining spiritual insight in their practitioners. This lecture will explore:

• Therapy not grounded in the truth of impermanence is counterproductive to both the therapeutic process and the spiritual path.
• Your angst is your liberation. Anxiety, dread, depression, anger, resentment, jealousy, and insecurity are the very doors that will lead you away from egoic suffering and into true freedom.
• What you can do to use your own angst as the means of your liberation.

Jun Po Roshi spent many years in the intense practice and study various psychotherapies and doing Men’s Work, unpacking his own shadow material. What he realized was that no matter how skillful, therapy that treats the ego as real strengthens attachment, creates ongoing suffering, and blocks spiritual insight.

The implications of this are profound for our relationship to our own ego, to our spiritual insight, and to our ability to take our seats as Awake, embodied spiritual beings. Come join us for a provocative and deeply engaging lecture into spirituality and therapy in the 21st Century.

Jun Po Roshi is the 83rd Patriarch in Rinzai Zen, and was the first dharma heir to Eido Shimano Roshi. He has extensively studied numerous schools of psychotherapy and is an elder in the ManKind Project (MKP). He has created, according to Ken Wilber, the “first true innovation in Zen in 1,000 years” through the creation of Mondo Zen™. www.MondoZen.org

Poetry Reading by Jason Matthew Turner

Friday 1/22;  6:30 – 8:30 pm
$10 BI Members – $15 Non members
Venue: 2805 Broadway Street, Boulder, CO 80304
Email: info@boulderintegral.org

Here’s a chance to meet and hang out with Diane Musho Hamilton, one of the most gifted teachers in the Integral World.  Diane has led many spiritual retreats and trainings, both in her role as a fully-ordained Zen priest (she was given dharma transmission by her Zen master, Genpo Roshi, in 2006), and as a leading student of Ken Wilber’s through the Integral Institute.  She is a core founder of iEvolve: Global Practice Community and a co-director of Integral Life Spiritual Center.  She is well known as an innovator in facilitating group dialogues, especially controversial conversations about culture, religion, race and gender relations.

Diane Hamilton and Jeff Salzman are dear friends, and have lovingly collaborated as integral teachers and pioneers for many years.  The evening at Boulder Integral (Friday 1/22;  7 – 9 pm) will be a casual conversation between the two, and an opportunity for you to share your questions and insights on what it is to walk the path of Integral Dharma.  Join us!

Poetry Reading
Jason Matthew Turner is a traveling poet and photographer. His expression invites spiritual insight into the human condition, as well as the higher reaches of our evolving potential. He believes deeply in the power of art as an agent of personal and cultural transformation, and has performed all across the United States, including at Washington University in St. Louis, MO, and the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors in New York City. Learn more at http://evolutionaryartist.blogspot.com.

January 31, 2010
2pm – 4pm
Boulder Integral Members – $10
Regular Entrance – $15

Event will be held at
Boulder Integral Center, 2805 Broadway Street, Boulder, CO 80304 (we are in the north/west corner of Broadway and Balsam)
Limited parking only. Car-pooling and the SKIP bus highly recommended.

Best selling author Sara Davidson, and international peace activist, Rabia Elizabeth Roberts, will talk about their recent trip to Afghanistan. They arrived in Kabul believing the U.S. should withdraw its troops, but after 8 days their presumptions were turned upside down.

The people they talked with made it clear that peace, for them, requires more than withdrawing troops or sending more. Rabia will address how the progressive community can help Afghans, especially women, attain the peace they want, and Sara will relate the human stories from their trip.

Seating will be limited so , so please rsvp to website-feedback@saradavidson.com

Sara Davidson is the bestselling author of Leap! What Will We Do with the Rest of our Lives? and Loose Change, the definitive book about growing up in the ’60s.  As a journalist, novelist, TV writer and radio host, she’s earned a reputation for writing cutting edge pieces about the way we live. Read more at www.saradavidson.com

Elizabeth Rabia Roberts, Ed.D. is an educator and social activist who has worked for more than 40 years on issues related to peace, justice and environmental health. She is co-founder of the Boulder Institute for Nature and the Human spirit and directs its new Path of the Friend program. She has taught at Harvard University’s School of Education and was a founding faculty of the Naropa University’s MA in Environmental Leadership. in 1999 she and her husband, Elias Amidon, sold their Boulder home and began an open-ended international pilgrimage of service and teaching. After 9/11 this work took them increasingly to Muslim countries. Over the past years she has worked in Iraq, Iran, Palestine, Syria, Jordan and most recently Afghanistan. She plans to return to Afghanistan to work with women there in April 2010. She is co-editor of the anthologies Earth Prayers and Life Prayers.

• We’ll have plenty of food and drinks, but in the spirit of community, it would be great to bring something along to share.
• You may bring along a sleeping bag if you don’t want to drive after the party. We have plenty space to crash for an after-party zzzz-zonk!
• Tickets are selling fast! Purchase your tickets soon (link below). We’ll be selling tickets also at the entrance on the night of the party (if there are any remaining). Please bring printed confirmation as your ticket.
• Parking is an issue anywhere in Boulder. We have our own limited parking to the south and west of the center. Please car pool with a designated driver.  Street parking is available. Please be respectful of the neighborhood.  We are located at the north/west corner of Broadway and Balsam.

For 21 days you will be instructed, inspired and supported to eat and live, guided by the Nutritional wisdom of your Healthy ancestors, your body’s innate wisdom, and scientific evidence.

You will learn a way of living that produces:

• Weight Loss of 8 to 15 lbs
• Radiant Health without medicines
• A beautiful toned body
• Balanced energy and strength
• Greater self-control and discipline
• Freedom from cravings and addictions

“Food Is Your Best Medicine” teaches you to markedly improve your Health and energy by improving the way you eat. You are also informed and encouraged to exercise, to study and journal, and support one another during the course.

Every session provides a high level of inspiration and education by Dr. Cropley. Charley’s passion comes through in his lectures! He presents information in a way that simply cannot be matched by reading it. You will leave each class feeling highly motivated and fully committed to live what you have learned. The amount and quality of information you will receive in each class is phenomenal.

For 21 days you will study and practice a way of eating that will make sense to you and that you can follow for the rest of your life. Additionally you will learn about such topics as Truths and Fallacies about Weight Gain; Raw Foods; Food Combining; Carbohydrate and Fat Metabolism; Myths about Cholesterol; The Psychology of Eating; Strengthen Self-Control using Kindness, and much more.

Additionally you will receive an “online” course book that you can print out for yourself. This course book is “in the trenches” practical. It includes detailed instructions and menus for each day of the course, recipes, shopping lists… You will also receive access to a special website that will include even more inspirational and educational information.

OVERVIEW OF THE EATING PROGRAM

You will adapt your eating program to the level of challenge that you feel best suits you at this time. There is absolutely NOTHING you are required to eat or not eat. Most people will follow an eating program that begins with a core diet of fruit, nuts, seeds, oils, small amounts of grains or starches and generous amounts of vegetables and animal or vegetable proteins. The program is adaptable for both vegetarians and non-vegetarians. You may or may not choose to exclude potentially allergenic foods such as milk, wheat, sugar, yeast etc.

Allow about one hour per day for homework and to prepare basic foods.

COOKING CLASS – “SIMPLE NOURISHMENT”

This class will teach you how to make 4 to 7 days worth of nutritious, delicious, practical dishes in one food preparation session. You will also receive practical training in how to supply your home, as well as how to eat at work, while traveling and at social engagements. You will gain a deeper understanding about what the actual impact of certain foods really has on your energy, weight and Health. This information will not be covered in “Food Is Your Best Medicine”. What you learn here will be invaluable to you during the 3 week course and for the rest of your life. I cannot over emphasize the value of this class.

INFORMATION

LOCATIONS OF ALL CLASSES WILL BE AT

Boulder Integral: 2805 Broadway St. Boulder, CO 80304

Sun (1/10) Cooking Class: Location is tentative and subject to change.

Please carpool if possible as parking is limited!!

(and it’s better for our environment!)

• Tues, January 5: 6:30 – 9:00 pm*
• Sun, January 10: 12 – 5 pm Cooking Class 3 – 5 pm
• Wed, January 20: 7:00 – 9:00 pm
• Wed. February 3: 7:00 – 9:00 pm

For details on dates, times, and registration, please click here.

To learn more about Dr. Charley Cropley, visit www.charleycropley.com

For questions, please contact Nan Fitzgerald, 303.818.7982,  Nanfit1@yahoo.com

Intro to Integral Theory and Practice

Sunday, March 7 or Sunday, June 13

1 – 5 pm

$85 (Boulder Integral Members)
$95 (Non-Members)

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR MARCH 7 INTRO
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR JUNE 13 INTRO

• Heard about the Theory of Everything?
• Or evolutionary enlightenment?
• Tired of the same old left vs right, good vs bad, yes vs no arguments we hear all around us?
• If you are considering attending the Integral Incubator, this might be a great way to kick off the five-day intensive…

The Intro to Integral Theory and Practice is a class for people who want a quick, efficient download on the emerging worldview that seeks to integrate the gifts of all other worldviews:

• The gifts of science and religion
• The gifts of the East and the West,
• The gifts of the Ancients, the Moderns, the Post-Moderns

The goal — and indeed the result — of this integration, is a view and a way of living that is larger, deeper, more flexible and wise. At Boulder Integral we recognize this as a new stage in the on-going evolution of consciousness and human culture, and seek to explore and enact it in our lives. Through the Integral Incubator and other programs, we are pioneering the development of various kinds of integral practices, designed to help people become more aware, in touch, and capable of skillful action.

This four-hour class focuses on the key element of Integral theory: evolution. We will show patterns of history that make sense of our human heritage, and also deeply inform and inspire smarter solutions to today’s global challenges. We will also map the stages of personal evolution that starts with each of us at birth, revealing insights, and indeed energetics, that accelerate our personal evolution in real time. Soon we’re surfing the rising wave of Emergence itself!

Intro to Integral Theory and Practice is taught by Jeff Salzman, co-founder of Boulder Integral and leader of the Integral Incubator, and Nomali Perera, longtime integral life practitioner, and certified Integral Coach.

Jeff Salzman is lead teacher at Boulder Integral as well as part of the founding circle. He is co-founder of CareerTrack Training, and has worked in adult education / transformation for twenty five years. For three years Jeff worked side by side with Ken Wilber building the Integral Institute, an international center for integral theory and application. A Divinity School dropout, he has a Masters Degree in Indo-Tibetan Studies from Naropa University. Jeff is devoted to the Integral Worldview and to helping it arise in people’s mind/bodies through the world of Boulder Integral. At the present time Jeff is the primary benefactor of our enterprise and is responsible for the programming at our center. He can be reached at jeff@boulderintegral.org.

Nomali Perera is a member of the founding circle of Boulder Integral. She manages events and general operations, with a keen eye for the look and feel of the center. Bitten by the integral bug, Nomali moved from Sri Lanka to Boulder, Colorado in 2002. She has a BA in Contemplative Psychology & Religious Studies from Naropa University, an MA in Nonprofit Management from Regis University, Denver, and recently graduated as a certified Integral Coach from Integral Coaching Canada. Prior to her current position at Boulder Integral, Nomali worked at Ken Wilber’s Integral Institute.  She can be reached at nomali@boulderintegral.org.

Intro to Integral Theory and Practice

Sunday, March 7 or Sunday, June 13

1 – 5 pm

$85 (Boulder Integral Members)
$95 (Non-Members)

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR MARCH 7 INTRO
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR JUNE 13 INTRO

• Heard about the Theory of Everything?
• Or evolutionary enlightenment?
• Tired of the same old left vs right, good vs bad, yes vs no arguments we hear all around us?
• If you are considering attending the Integral Incubator, this might be a great way to kick off the five-day intensive…

The Intro to Integral Theory and Practice is a class for people who want a quick, efficient download on the emerging worldview that seeks to integrate the gifts of all other worldviews:

• The gifts of science and religion
• The gifts of the East and the West,
• The gifts of the Ancients, the Moderns, the Post-Moderns

The goal — and indeed the result — of this integration, is a view and a way of living that is larger, deeper, more flexible and wise. At Boulder Integral we recognize this as a new stage in the on-going evolution of consciousness and human culture, and seek to explore and enact it in our lives. Through the Integral Incubator and other programs, we are pioneering the development of various kinds of integral practices, designed to help people become more aware, in touch, and capable of skillful action.

This four-hour class focuses on the key element of Integral theory: evolution. We will show patterns of history that make sense of our human heritage, and also deeply inform and inspire smarter solutions to today’s global challenges. We will also map the stages of personal evolution that starts with each of us at birth, revealing insights, and indeed energetics, that accelerate our personal evolution in real time. Soon we’re surfing the rising wave of Emergence itself!

Intro to Integral Theory and Practice is taught by Jeff Salzman, co-founder of Boulder Integral and leader of the Integral Incubator, and Nomali Perera, longtime integral life practitioner, and certified Integral Coach.

Jeff Salzman is lead teacher at Boulder Integral as well as part of the founding circle. He is co-founder of CareerTrack Training, and has worked in adult education / transformation for twenty five years. For three years Jeff worked side by side with Ken Wilber building the Integral Institute, an international center for integral theory and application. A Divinity School dropout, he has a Masters Degree in Indo-Tibetan Studies from Naropa University. Jeff is devoted to the Integral Worldview and to helping it arise in people’s mind/bodies through the world of Boulder Integral. At the present time Jeff is the primary benefactor of our enterprise and is responsible for the programming at our center. He can be reached at jeff@boulderintegral.org.

Nomali Perera is a member of the founding circle of Boulder Integral. She manages events and general operations, with a keen eye for the look and feel of the center. Bitten by the integral bug, Nomali moved from Sri Lanka to Boulder, Colorado in 2002. She has a BA in Contemplative Psychology & Religious Studies from Naropa University, an MA in Nonprofit Management from Regis University, Denver, and recently graduated as a certified Integral Coach from Integral Coaching Canada. Prior to her current position at Boulder Integral, Nomali worked at Ken Wilber’s Integral Institute.  She can be reached at nomali@boulderintegral.org.

Dec. 10th, 6:30pm
$10 (for members)/$15 (non members)

Joyful, peaceful, serene, transparent, interdependent, fully present, timeless, aware … feeling loved, lovable and loving.

Author and dear friend of Boulder Integral, Jim Warner, will guide us on the journey to this Holy Grail state of conscious, full-out loving. Jim will both share his own story and draw from the stories of the thousands of leaders he has guided at retreats and in transition seminars.

Drawing from his recent book, Facing Pain – Embracing Love: The Map to Authentic Living, Jim will present the difficult tradeoffs we face as we strive for both worldly success and intimate connection. These include: success vs. significance; accumulation vs. stewardship; competition vs. compassion; guardedness vs. forgiveness, and control vs. surrender.

About Jim Warner

Jim Warner’s insights are grounded in a rare combination of experience and empathy. Between 1980 and 1992, Jim led the start-up, growth and sale of Precision Visuals, a successful Boulder software company. Today, as founder of OnCourse International, he is a dedicated coach, guide and facilitator to leaders and companies facing challenging transitions. Having worked with more than 2,000 high achievers – as well as hundreds of their spouses – in retreat and workshop settings, Jim is a recognized expert at helping individuals, couples and teams achieve greater self-awareness, authentic, productive communication, and more fulfilling relationships – for more satisfying, productive lives.

Jim is the author of Facing Pain – Embracing Love, Aspirations of Greatness, and the audio series When Having It All Isn’t Enough. Jim has been married 33 years and enjoys enriching relationships with his three adult children. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan as well as an alumnus of Harvard Business School.