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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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There's a dawning awareness that the coming together of
rationality with spirituality, the 'marriage of science and spirit'
is THE big shift happening now in terms of cultural evolution--an event on the
scale of the Reformation or the Enlightenment. It is the most significant
intellectual and cultural event of our time and it will reshape the future of
human affairs.
A great public debate has commenced about
the terms of this marriage, the 'pre-nup' as it were. Although many
participants attempt to straddle the safe middle ground, the debate roughly divides
into two camps: the strict rationalists
(often called agnostics or atheists) and the trans-rationalists
(including both mystics and developmentalists).
In this series, I'll explore the importance of both sides of this debate, circle back and look at the
sobering realities of our cultural context and our prospects for synthesis, and
then I'll dig deeper into the hidden drama that's unfolding as all of us
(consciously or not) continue to participate in this wrestling match over the
terms of the 'pre-nuptial agreement' for this epochal marriage of science and
spirituality -- which may provide the source code for the great event of our
time -- a transformation of mainstream worldviews.
