Dates: Wednesday, November 9th, 2011 7:00pm – 9:00pm

Prices: $20 Suggested Donation

OneSpirit Elective: Credit Not available

Distance Learning: Not Available

Description:

A new, naturally evolutionary framework for understanding reality and participating in life is emerging in many fields. This orientation is "organismic," based in a whole-organism rather than a mental perspective. One of its first clear expositions has been Rupert Sheldrake's "new science of life," rooted in the organismic recognition of morphic resonance and morphogenetic fields. Other cutting-edge organismic approaches include Richard David Hames's five "literacies" of global leadership, which goes beyond both conventional and relatively integrative or holistic management practices, and maverick physicist Nassim Haramein's "Resonance Project," proposing a post-Newtonian orientation to theoretical physics and cosmology that may even be post-quantum.

One of the most exciting and powerful organismic developments in the whole field of spirituality, awakening, and personal transformation has been pioneered by Saniel Bonder and Linda Groves-Bonder and the international "Waking Down in Mutuality" movement that Saniel founded in the early 1990s. They use the acronym "ROSE" to identify the bio-spiritually natural and evolutionary attributes of such spirituality. It is "Radical," coming from the root-source of both our spiritual and material natures; "Organismic," characterized by whole-being processes and shifts; "Sentient," attuning to all dimensions of consciousness yet always deeply identified with our bio-material nature, rather than dissociative; and "Emergent," always newly appearing and continuously evolving in each one's unique, co-creative participation and experience.

Come and join Linda and Saniel for a direct, personal, highly enlivening and empowering, initiatory introduction into your own "ROSE" work or potential paradigmatic path. In this evening session they will focus on each of the three principles of Waking, Down, and Mutuality. Their presentations will be balanced with plenty of Q&A and also experiential exercises in unique processes of "Heart-gazing," "Six-Step Recognition Yoga," and "Greenlighting." Saniel and Linda love interacting with people and, as spiritual teachers, are highly personable and accessible. This is going to be a deep, memorable, possibly life-changing evening. You'll encounter cutting-edge ideas that may challenge some of your most taken-for-granted assumptions. Yet the whole event will be conducted and held in a heart-space that fills the room with mutual honoring, love, and respect for who each and all of us are, and are becoming.
http://heartgazing.com, http://sanielandlinda.com

Saniel Bonder is the author of Healing the Spirit/Matter Split and the founder of the Waking Down in Mutuality work. He has been a pioneer in the widespread embodiment and mutual, evolutionary exploration of awakened consciousness for over a decade. After he received a B.A. in Social Relations from Harvard in 1972, a quest for spiritual enlightenment had become the focus of his life. During the years of his search he benefited from both Eastern and Western teachings and transmissions — as well as from the training in integrity, tolerance, compassion, and perseverance he received from his parents and secondary school mentors. His quest culminated in December 1992 in the awakening he calls his Second Birth. A year and a half later he entered the mysterious further intensification of bodily and cosmic enlightenment in love that he refers to as “the White Heat. ”Since awakening, Saniel has dedicated himself to democratizing this embodied, nirvanic aliveness and exploring with others how to create a sane human culture on its foundation. Saniel calls the total advanced teachings he and Linda personally offer “The White-Hot Yoga of the Heart,” or, more simply, “The White-Hot Way of Trust.”

Recently he has begun to speak of this total orientation as “Radical Organismic Spiritual Evolution™” or, with an acronym, “ROSEwork™. Saniel is also a tantric and a shaman, an eco-entrepreneur, an activist for nuclear disarmament, a golfer, and a flute player.

Saniel is extremely proud of the transitions he and Linda and their Heart-colleagues in the Waking Down in Mutuality community have accomplished. Please see The Spirit of Our Work, letters about this transition Saniel has written over the past year and more, and other relevant communications at www.wakingdown.org. With Linda, Saniel is a founding member of the Integral Institute and a charter member of the Integral Spiritual Center.

Linda Groves-Bonder is Saniel’s full partner in The White-Hot Yoga of the Heart transmission and teachings and a Founding and Senior Teacher of the Waking Down in Mutuality work.

Linda was never attracted to join any formal spiritual organization but rather gravitated to an experiential path, learning life lessons through meditation, reading, and attending seminars and workshops. Upon first attending Saniel’s meditation gatherings in October 1994, she was deeply attracted to his work. She soon became moved to teach, eventually giving up her career to concentrate in transmitting and teaching the Waking Down in Mutuality process. Linda swiftly became a partner to Saniel not only in practical instruction of others but also in deep “holding” of the White-Hot Being-force and spiritual space of the work as a whole. In the Waking Down community she is honored for her immense compassion for all creatures and all Life.

Linda is a founding member of the Integral Institute and a charter member of the Integral Spiritual Center . Linda is also the author of Conversations with Margaret: A True Story of Self-Love, Conscious Awakening, and the Power of the Heart. Please see her page at www.wakingdown.org.

Faculty:

Saniel and Linda Bonder

If you have questions about registering for this course, please contact One Spirit Learning Alliance by email to info@onespiritinterfaith.org or call 212-931-6840 x 0.