ILP questions...

Hi all

If you didn't make it to the meet-up last night, you missed out on an excellent evening. In our February meeting at the Quaker room we talked about a focus for the group for the year, namely to explore what it means for us to _be_ Integral, individually and as a group, and to help each other be more integral, including having an Integral Life Practice, and exploring the concept of 2nd Tier for ourselves and others.

In the meeting at my place between Quaker Hall meet-ups, we were going to start going through the ILP book that was suggested as a good text to work with. Unfortunately the initial group of eight who attended the previous meeting dwindled down to just me for this meeting...

Last night there were three of us -- one new person, Tim from Sydney Integral who was in town to visit, and myself -- and we spent the evening talking about our personal practices within the four core modules of ILP, namely Body, Mind, Spirit and Shadow, sharing what it is we currently regularly do for each of these four, and thinking about what one practice we might add to each of these four areas.

So for everyone who came to the first meeting of the year all enthusiastic, and hasn't made it to either of the meetings since, here's your chance to catch up, and to reflect on what has happened.

Questions:

A. What sort of practice do you do regularly do to build up or explore your
1. Body
2. Mind
3. Spirit
4. Shadow
and how regularly do you do it?

B. What is a practice that you might add to each of these four areas?

C. What is it in your Shadow Self, do you think, that has come in the way of you making it along to the last two meetings?


Next meeting is on Thursday the 19th of March at 7.30 in West End.

See you there.

Ralf

PS If you'd like to pick up a copy of the ILP book before then, drop me a line or give me a call and we can work out a mutually convenient time. R

personal practice

Hi all

A reminder that our next meeting is 7.30 pm on Thursday the 19th of March, to go deeper into the Integral Life Practice book. I'm happy to lead discussion, so if you haven't got your copy of the book yet, or haven't had a chance to read the first few chapters yet, that's fine. For preparation it would be great if you could think about the questions from my last post. I haven't seen anyone replying to those yet -- if you want to explore further what might be meant by them, or where your personal regular practices might fit, or what shadow exercises might be suitable for question C, feel free to email :-)

Here are the questions again. R


A. What sort of practice do you do regularly do to build up or explore
your
1. Body
2. Mind
3. Spirit
4. Shadow
and how regularly do you do it?

B. What is a practice that you might add to each of these four areas?

C. What is it in your Shadow Self, do you think, that has come in the
way of you making it along to the last two meetings?


Ralf

ILP

Hi all

A short reminder that the next meetup is on Thursday the 5th of March at 7pm

Quaker Meeting House
10 Hampson St
Kelvin Grove Q 4059
http://tinyurl.com/co5nfl

RSVP at http://kenwilber.meetup.com/278/

We'll be going further into Integral Life Practice, and how we can support each other as a group in being more integral in our lives. I'll be bringing spare copies of the Wilber, Patten, et al text with me for anyone who wants a copy. They came to $26 each.

One topic, among the many, that came up last meeting, was going into second tier, and here are a couple of links for those who weren't familiar with the terms:

• Altitudes (the opening sentence is a bit
  rich, as the comments after the article also attest to, but the summary itself is good)
  
• Stages or Levels
  

I hope you can make it.

Ralf

PS A reminder also that we have a yahoo group for discussion that you are very welcome to join, or email me and I'll add you to it. -R