LORILIAI BIERNACKI, PhD.

Author & Prof. Religious Studies

The Worldview of Wonder

Wonder can mean many things to many of us. Explore what Loriliai Biernacki, Professor, Department of Religious Studies, University of Colorado at Boulder, has written about the meaning and role of wonder in excerpts drawn from her recent book, The Matter of Wonder: Abhinavagupta’s Panentheism and New Materialism. In these excerpts, Hindu scholar Biernacki features the worldview of Abhinavagupta, a philosopher and mystic born in 950 CE in Kashmir. His ancient philosophical writings on panentheism are closely aligned with the worldview that informs and enlivens ITP.

Roger Marsh

ITP Mastery Teacher, ITPI Dir. of Training & Consulting

What I Love About the ITPI Worldview

ITP sees human beings as essential and integral components for the world’s positive evolutionary advance. As we connect with and cultivate the Divine inside each and every one of us, little by little, we bring more and more of that Divine into our own lives and out into the world. Roger Marsh, ITP’s Director of Training and Consulting, shares his thoughts about the ITP worldview.

Jill Robinson with Rhiannon Catalyst

ITPI member & author

Embracing our Collective Purpose to Unite Humanity – Excerpt from The Holomovement

Integral Transformative Practice has long embodied an evolutionary worldview “giving context to a practice pointing us toward the realization of our greater capacities.” As Christina Grote and Pam Kramer write in Living an Extraordinary Life: “Humankind is seen as part of a universal evolutionary unfolding, and we each play our unique part in that unfolding. We can experience the joy of being fully ourselves and fully connected to the cosmic movement of which we are an integral part. Who we are and what we do matters!”

In the following excerpt, taken from The Holomovement anthology, co-authors Jill Robinson and Rhiannon Catalyst consider why honoring and nurturing our truest selves is critical in our collective transformation.

The Worldview of Evolutionary Panentheism

The idea that divinity is present in all things and manifesting itself through the immense adventure of evolution helps account for the mystery of our surplus capacities, our yearning for God, our inextinguishable creativity, or sense of grace in human affairs. It helps explain our quest for self-transcendence and humanity’s proliferation of transformative practices. Every culture in every age has invented ways to realize their kinship or oneness with divinity.

– Michael Murphy, The Future of the Body

Michael Lifshitz

PhD., Prof. of Psychology,

McGill University

A Visualization Practice for Seekers and Sages

We are all seekers and we are all sages. In the space of our minds, we are both. Are you a seeker today? Are you seeking an answer or a next step? Experience this practice led by researcher Michael Lifshitz. On May 10, Michael and fellow researcher Josh Brahinsky, joined us for a Seekers and Sages session. They described how we use imagination in our lives and with our interconnectedness to one another.

Charlotte Hatch

ITP Mastery teacher

Energy Arm – Leonard Energy Training Exercise, with Charlotte Hatch

Explore how the powers of clear intention and relaxation allow your personal spark of the divine to be realized. In this LET exercise led by ITP and LET teacher Charlotte Hatch, notice how your body can align harmoniously with what you hope for yourself and others. This practice, based on the martial art of Aikido, demonstrates the extraordinary abilities resting inside ourselves waiting to be tapped into for greater wholeness and empowerment.

Max Gaenslen

ITP Mastery teacher

Practice of Evolutionary Love, with Max Gaenslen

The worldview of ITP is based primarily on the extraordinary nature of love. In this exercise, experience the power of love for your whole being and for all of life and notice how you feel.

As the spark of the divine wakes up inside, explore how this loving energy has the power to heal and support your transformation, bringing alive your unique imprint into the world. The practice, led by ITP Mastery teacher Max Gaenslen, demonstrates the significance of loving yourself as a portal to loving others and all of life.

Judith Closson

ITPI member

Community Spotlight on Judith Closson

Back in the 90’s, Judith Closson attended a class at Esalen Institute led by George Leonard and Michael Murphy. This led her to the Mill Valley ITP group, CITP, and the beginning of new outlooks about life. “In general, I live consciously in a state of much more awareness,” says Judith.