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Terry Patten is a philosopher, teacher, activist, consultant, social entrepreneur, and author. Over the last fifteen years he has devoted his efforts to the evolution of consciousness by facing, examining, and healing our global crisis through the marriage of spirit and activism. As a teacher and consultant, he has worked on four continents, led a team at the HeartMath Institute that developed their first heart-rate variability monitor, and is the founder of the "Beyond Awakening" teleseminar series. As a community builder, he founded Bay Area Integral. As a social entrepreneur, he founded Tools For Exploration, a consciousness technologies company and currently, he's involved in restorative redwood forestry and fossil-fuel alternatives. As an author, he co-wrote the book Integral Life Practice with Ken Wilber and a core team at the Integral Institute. His most recent book is A New Republic of the Heart: An Ethos for Revolutionaries.
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Tuesday, April 10, 2018What's Really Happening? An Introduction to A New Republic of the Heart A New Republic of the Heart addresses our current planetary crisis in all its complexity and uncertainty, exploring the nature and implications of global citizenship, and clarifying a radical new understanding of practice and activism.
Tuesday, April 10, 2018What It Really Means to Be 'Woke': Radical Activism Is Spiritual as Well as Political What It Really Means to Be 'Woke': Radical Activism Is Spiritual as Well as Political--It's about balancing the inner work of personal growth and the outer work of political activism.
Thursday, December 25, 2014Part 3 of The Marriage of Science & Spirit: Negotiating the Great Pre-Nup--Zooming Out on Talking Back to Sam Harris In Part 3 of "The Marriage of Science & Spirit: Negotiating the Great Pre-Nup," I begin to articulate a critique of Sam Harris's "Waking Up." His argument is coherent, insightful, and persuasive and may well prove to have tremendous cultural and historical significance. Nonetheless, it's a partial truth; it doesn't acknowledge a whole series of important realities that severely diminish its status and undermine its authority.
Series: The Marriage of Science & Spirit: Negotiating the Great Pre-Nup (3 Articles, 6358 views)
Tuesday, November 25, 2014The Marriage of Science & Spirit: Negotiating the Great Pre-Nup, Part 2: Why Sam Harris's "Waking Up" Matters Part 2 of Terry Patten's blog series, "The Marriage of Science & Spirit: Negotiating the Great Pre-Nup" looks at one of the most brilliant and extreme contributors to the rationalist synthesis, Sam Harris and his recent book "Waking Up." This series is an exploration of the coming together of rationality with spirituality, the "marriage of science and spirit," an event on the scale of the Reformation or the Enlightenment.
Series: The Marriage of Science & Spirit: Negotiating the Great Pre-Nup (3 Articles, 6358 views)
Saturday, November 22, 2014The Marriage of Science & Spirit: Negotiating the Great Pre-Nup, Part 1 Among our most prescient, original thinkers, there's a dawning awareness that the coming together of rationality with spirituality, the "marriage of science and spirit" is the big event happening now in terms of cultural evolution--an event on the scale of the Reformation or the Enlightenment, and there is no deep agreement about the precise terms on which this inevitable marriage will be consummated.
Series: The Marriage of Science & Spirit: Negotiating the Great Pre-Nup (3 Articles, 6358 views)
Monday, August 23, 2010Evolutionary Activism: A Bodhidharma Strategy This essay suggests a 3-part strategy for enlightened activism, named for the ancient Buddhist sage, Bodhidharma.
Tuesday, January 26, 2010News We can't Ignore A structural analysis of the SCOTUS decision throwing out limits on corporation spending on elections. A deep look at how the marketplaces for power, political contributions, attention, money, goods and services interact, creating a single meta-marketplace.
Monday, January 25, 2010Finding Your "Yes" In our inner debates between optimistic and pessimistic perspectives on humanity's prospects, we don't have to handicap the evolutionary horse race. We just need to find an unconditional commitment on the basis of which we can live.
