What you will learn

Module One Awakening to the Call of the Cosmos: What it Means to be an Evolutionary

Why our moment in history is so significant and what it demands of those of us who can recognize it Why evolution depends on youthe quantum shift in perspective that can realign your entire life The unique role of the human being in the evolutionary process Awakening to the unimaginable sense of meaning and purpose that comes from aligning your life with the evolutionary impulse The transformative power of awakening to our evolutionary interdependence and why this single insight gives us access to change in ways we would never do just for ourselves How the evolutionary perspective resolves the tension so many of us feel between the impulse to transform ourselves and the desire to improve the world How to discover an unshakable inner compass to navigate the complexity of life by aligning with the moral axis of the cosmos

Module Two Enlightenment and Evolution: From Being to Emergence

Why being in the now is the least important part of spiritual life, and how to awaken to an experience of authentic presence that includes your desire to create the future Experience the dynamic liberation that emerges through wholehearted creative participation in the evolutionary process How to distinguish between healthy surrender to the Evolutionary Impulse and potentially destructive self-abandonment Discover the synergistic relationship between being and doing and why both are essential for an authentic, integral enlightenment How to resolve the tension between the call to submit to the Absolute and the need to honor your commitments and responsibilities in the world Learn how to abide at the edge of the unknown in order to midwife the unmanifest creative potentials waiting to be born

Module Three Awakening the Will to Evolve: Motivation, Intention, and the Choice to be Free

Learn to identify the two primary competing motivational centers inside you, and how to make enlightened choices even when you dont feel particularly enlightened Why self-fulfillmentor even self-liberationis not a sufficient motivation to catalyze genuine awakening Why you cant simply choose to be enlightened and the choice you can make thats even more important

Discover the fundamental shift in orientation that can enable you to permanently overcome your resistance to change Awaken the four spheres of intention that can propel you to new depths of spiritual awakening and transformation Release a boundless reserve of spiritual passion and energy by learning how to bring your emotional center of gravity into alignment with the Force of Evolution Dramatically accelerate your spiritual development by awakening the usually dormant power of the enlightened will

Module Four Transcending the Obstacles on the Path: Shadow, Ego, and the Primitive Self

Discover your core ego strategies and develop precise evolutionary counter-strategies to undermine them Why making the shadow conscious is a critical foundation for all authentic spiritual work and how to integrate shadow work into your daily practice so that you dont get tripped up by your unconscious Learn how to harness your enlightened will to override the egos destructive tendencies How to maintain your functionality in the world as you allow the false boundaries of your ego self to fall away Sustaining a commitment to evolution: how to stay on the path no matter what challenges come your way

Module Five Evolutionary Spiritual Practice Part One: Unleashing the Power of Meditation

Discover the Ground of Being at the heart of the spiritual quest, and learn simple practices for anchoring your life in this primordial Freedom each day Learn why meditation practice rarely leads to authentic enlightenment, and how you can turn each meditation session into a doorway to awakening Learn how to ground your meditation practice in an evolutionary context, and why this is even more important than which meditation you practice Awaken to the deep and abiding freedom of Being that emerges when you let go of wanting or needing anything from life

Module Six Evolutionary Spiritual Practice Part Two: Beyond the Meditation Cushion

How to create a balanced spiritual life that fully engages all three faces of God The True Meaning of Surrender: moving beyond simply accepting what is and learning to live in alignment with a deeper order Transformative Inquiry Practices: learn how to harness your advanced introspective capacities to propel you to new heights of clarity and spiritual alignment

Engaged Inquiry Practices: discover an active approach to transformation that enables you to defuse, disarm, and deconstruct the ego in the midst of engagement with everyday life Confronting the Human Condition in Yourself: awaken to the always liberating power of radical self-honesty A Commitment to Right Action: Why making a commitment to do the right thing whether you feel like it or not is one of the most direct paths beyond ego

Module Seven Creating Evolutionary Relationships: The Exponential Power of We

How to go beyond collusion and mutual affirmation to create dynamic evolutionary partnerships that both support and challenge you to fulfill your potential The 3 commitments that can transform any intimate relationship into a crucible of evolution Why true intimacy can only emerge in the context of a shared commitment to transcending ego How to go beyond the hidden violence in nonviolent communication and other separation-based relationship strategies How to navigate conflict and disagreement in ways that catalyze the evolution of everyone involved Building the support structures for an evolutionary life: how to create a relational matrix around you that fosters your ongoing growth and awakening

Module Eight Becoming an Evolutionary Force in the World:

The Call to Enlightened Leadership and CoCreativity

Where to find the courage to lead in a world that shuns authority How to hold authentic power in a way that empowers everyone around you Creating evolutionary culture: how to transform any group you are involved in into a matrix of evolutionary emergence How to find the razors edge between conviction and openness that will enable you to follow your vision without becoming wedded to it How to bring your worklife and career into alignment with your deepest values and visionregardless of what youre doing for a living (well within reason) Why authentic leadership can only emerge from a foundation of genuine humility

Its more than a courseits a community!

Everyone needs the support of kindred spirits, particularly when confronting a challenge as daunting as the evolution of consciousness. But, lets face it. Being an evolutionary can be a lonely walk. We represent a new stage of human emergence and, at this point, there arent that many of us around. In fact, particularly if youre new to all this, or live in a small town, you may be the only person of your kind that you know!

When you join this sacred gathering, youll become part of a rich, vibrant community of individuals just like you who are seeking to connect with like-minded souls on an evolutionary path in a private online learning community created exclusively for the participants in this course. This wont be just another online forum where a few brainiacs argue about the finer points of integral theory. This will be a dynamic opportunity for genuine evolutionary engagement. As a part of each weeks curriculum, youll be given exercises for contemplation and reflection, and invited to post your responses on the forum. Youll also be invited to respond in specific ways to the reflections of others, as a way of building the support and connectivity that is such a vital part of the evolutionary path.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is a telecourse?

Telecourses are live courses offered via the telephone and online. Participants from all over the world gather together at a set time in a conference call to interact live with Integral Enlightenment Founder Craig Hamilton. As with any other class, there are lectures, discussions, and live interactions between the instructor and participants. Between sessions, participants are also invited to

post reflections on a special online discussion board and to interact with other participants. What if I miss a class or am unable to attend a course session live? All the telecourse recordings are available by phone, through online playback or by download to your audio player. Many people who take the course are unable to attend the live calls, and they report that their experience is just as powerful. You may also post your questions for Craig to answer on the live callsyoull feel very much a part of our community and enjoy the camaraderie of sharing the journey with other participants. Do I need any special equipment? The only equipment youll need is either a telephone or a computer with an internet connection. If you choose to participate by phone, depending on your telephone service, you may also incur some longdistance charges for the calls themselves.

About Craig Hamilton

Integral Enlightenment founder Craig Hamilton is a pioneer in the emerging field of evolutionary spirituality. In his inspired writings, talks, and teachings, he calls us to awaken beyond the confines of the separate ego and dedicate our lives to the further evolution of consciousness itself. As the guiding force behind Integral Enlightenment, Craig offers spiritual guidance and teachings to a growing international community of thousands of students in 40 countries around the world. Through his online Academy for Evolutionaries, he teaches a series of experiential telecourses guiding participants through a process of spiritual awakening into an evolutionary relationship to life. Craigs work at Integral Enlightenment integrates decades of intensive spiritual practice with insights gleaned during his eight years as Senior Editor of the award-winning What Is Enlightenment? magazine. For 13 years, he participated in the dynamic living laboratory of evolution

known as EnlightenNext, under the direct guidance of its founder, Andrew Cohen, ultimately playing a key role in the leadership of this thriving international spiritual community. In his current work, he is helping to articulate an authentic evolutionary spiritualityan integral enlightenment which illuminates the vital relationship between individual transformation and collective evolution. Craig is a founding member of Ken Wilbers Integral Institute, a member of Deepak Chopras Evolutionary Leaders Forum, and was a participant in the Synthesis Dialogues, a 35-person interdisciplinary think tank presided over by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. His celebrated conversations with other luminaries form the basis of the acclaimed webinar series, The Great Integral Awakening: Pioneering A New Spiritual Path, and Awakening the Impulse to Evolve: The Birth of Evolutionary Spirituality. He has also been a contributor to Shift magazine and co-authored IONS 2008 Shift Report. Craig lives with his wife, Claire, in San Rafael, California. Praise for Craigs work

If I had to pick one teacher to take a deep dive with around conscious evolution and evolutionary spirituality it would be Craig Hamilton. He is attuned to the frequency of the Impulse of Evolution. He empowers us to make the shift from ego to essence, and from essence to emergence as an expression of the Impulse itself. This is very rare. To be one of his students in depth is a great privilege. Besides all that, he will care about you and stay with you for the long haul of your self evolution.Barbara Marx Hubbard, Foundation for Conscious Evolution

Craig Hamilton is a genuine pioneer in evolutionary spirituality and its application in practical wisdom. I highly recommend you check out his work at your earliest opportunity!Ken Wilber, The Integral Vision

It is rare to find a spiritual teacher who imparts the depth, the clarity, the humility, and the wisdom that Craig Hamilton does. Craigs transmission of the very spirit of evolution reaches right down into the core Self, awakening his students desire to reach their highest evolutionary potential. If you have the good fortune to learn from him, I wholeheartedly encourage you to take advantage of it. Michael Beckwith, Spiritual Liberation Fulfilling Your Souls Potential

Craig Hamilton is a living example of everything he teaches: one who combines passionate commitment to the evolutionary path along with dedicated practice of the core integral ways that expand and deepen the human mind, heart and soul. His superb and sensitive teaching gives the participant both inspiration and potent methods to pursue the path of enlightenment and thereby to profoundly make a difference in both self and society.Jean Houston, A Passion for the Possible

Craig Hamilton is a fresh, original voice calling for nothing less than the reinvention of spirituality for the 21st century. If you want to discover what it feels like to be the very impulse of evolution, spend some time with Craig. His inspiration is contagious! Dr. Brian Thomas Swimme, California Institute of Integral Studies

Remarkably poised, flexible, dynamic and passionate, Craig Hamilton is a wise voice in the emergence of integral enlightenmenta new spirituality deeply committed not just to awakening, but to actionfurthering human evolution and sustainability.Terry Patten, Integral Life Practice

I am humbled, awed and inspired by the depth of wisdom, clarity and integrity that shines through Craigs remarkable teaching work. He provides a rare portal through which any sincere seeker can gain access to authentic spiritual illumination.Claire Zammit, co-creator of the Feminine Power Global Community

Craig Hamilton is an insightful and engaging teacher whose artful blend of spiritual insight and personal experience all delivered with a disarming warmth and humor will leave you challenged to question and inspired to act. I highly recommend his work.Michael Dowd, Thank God for Evolution

What Youll Receive:

Nine Weekly 90-minute Live Course Sessions with Craig Hamilton

In these live virtual seminars with Craig, youll discover the liberating principles and practices of integral-evolutionary spirituality. Each week explores a new vista of possibility, supporting you in making the next step in your process of evolutionary transformation. Course Sessions will take place on Mondays at 5:30pm (Pacific Time) The first course session will take place on Monday April 30th and the last session will be on Monday July 2nd (there will not be a live course session on May 28th, in observance of Memorial Day). All course sessions will be recorded and available for your listening convenience online or for download to your computer or audio player. Twelve 90-minute Live Q&A Sessions with Craig Hamilton

Every week, Craig will answer your questions about the course material and how to apply it to your life. Many participants report that these Live Q&A Sessions are as valuable as the Course Sessions. In addition to getting your own questions answered, you can listen to Craigs dialogues with other participants, illuminating the evolutionary principles as they apply to our personal experience. Live Q&A Sessions will take place on Thursdays at 5:30pm Pacific Time. For those who live in Europe or cannot attend the weeknight sessions for any reason, Craig will also offer four special Q&A sessions twice monthly on Sunday mornings (10AM Pacific time) during the course. As the course unfolds, you will have unlimited access to the recordings of all of the Q&A Sessions (listen online or download the mp3 files to your iPod or audio player). Live Interactive Practice & Reflection Sessions

Immediately after each Course Session AND after each Q&A Session, Craig will host a 30 minute Interactive Session, where you can interact by phone in small groups with other students around questions designed to deepen engagement and inquiry around the material from that week. We use the innovative MaestroConference platform for these sessions, which enables us to break you into groups, just like a live workshop. NOTE: The Interactive Sessions are live discussions, so you will need a phone or skype to participate in the discussions. You can also listen

to the Interactive Sessions over the web and engage the questions as a personal, guided reflection practice. A 9-Week Series of Guided Meditations in a virtual Evolutionary Practice Community

Youll have access to a sequence of online guided meditations and meditation instructions to support you in building a strong practice foundation for living an evolutionary life. (Virtual guided meditation groups are scheduled 5 days a week at several different times to accommodate multiple timezones but may also be downloaded at any time) Access to our custom-designed exclusive online community forum

Engage online with other course participants in this supportive learning community. As you go through the course, you will be able to join with new friends online to share your breakthroughs and insights, and support them in opening themselves up to their highest evolutionary potential. Through this collective engagement, you will experience the exciting connection that comes through doing deeply transformative work in community. PDF transcripts of each course session

PDF transcripts are a great resource to go back to and quickly reference key concepts and answers to frequently asked questions as you step into living an evolutionary life.

Special Guest Faculty Workshops

In addition to your weekly Course Sessions with Craig, youll also receive exclusive course resources & tools, including special Guest Faculty Audio Workshops with Ken Wilber and Barbara Marx Hubbard. These pre-recorded workshop sessions will help to deepen and broaden your experience of the course material.

Guest Faculty Workshop 1 Potentials and Pitfalls on the Spiritual Path with Ken Wilber

While many of us have a good understanding of what a spiritual life is, moving from an idea to a lived reality is a jump that many of us struggle to make. Ken Wilber, the worlds foremost authority on Integral and spiritual consciousness, will help us to better understand what prevents us from living a more full expression of ourselves. In this virtual workshop, you will hear Kens thoughts on: Why merely understanding Integral and spiritual ideas isnt enough to cause transformation How meditation and spiritual insight, viewed incorrectly, can slow or halt personal evolution How our values and worldviews influence our spiritual insight

How psychological shadows can sabotage spiritual unfolding and evolution Ken Wilber is one of the most widely read and influentual philosophers of our time, credited with creating a genuine world philosophy. Kens has a deep expertise of most of the worlds mystic traditions, and has explored academically and experientially the many states of consciousness that different spiritual practices produce. He is the author of 25 books, the founder of Integral Institute, Inc., the cofounder of Integral Life, Inc., and the Senior Fellow of Integral Life.

Guest Faculty Workshop 2 The Universe In Person with Barbara Marx Hubbard

Life is full of challenges but thats not necessarily a bad thing. Evolution is both a vastly creative force and the cause of local, cosmic and sometimes catastrophic crunches. The trick is to be aligned with evolution itself, to find our right position in the evolving world and within our evolving self. In this virtual workshop, Barbara will share with us: How our perspective shifts from crisis to creative when we see ourselves not as a localized self but as an expression of The Universe in personal form. Why it is that when we commune in an evolutionary context, a higher intelligence emerges. Experience the cosmos as yourself in a profoundly moving guided Evolutionary Meditation Barbara Marx Hubbard has been a powerful creative force in the development of emerging human potentials for over sixty years. A pioneer in the field of conscious evolution, she was instrumental in the creation of many visionary organizations, including New Dimensions Radio and the Association for Global New Thought. She is the author

of Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential and Emergence.

Early Registration Offer

Additional Resources to Support Your Course Experience

When you register before April 10th, youll also receive an exclusive Early Registration Package that includes an audio panel discussion with Jean Houston, David Gershon, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Jeff Salzman and Craig Hamilton on Awakening to Your True Purpose and Vocation, and a downloadable copy of Craigs Meditation for Evolutionaries CD. Early Registration Offer Ends Tuesday April 10th

Early Registration Bonus 1Awakening to Your True Purpose & Vocation An Integral Approach to Finding Your Deepest Calling and Making Your Greatest Contribution to the World
A Specially Produced and Recorded Panel Discussion featuring: Co-founder of the Human Potential Movement, Jean Houston, Internationally Acclaimed Change Agent, David Gershon, the Grandmother of Conscious Evolution, Barbara Marx Hubbard & Visionary Social Entrepreneur, Jeff Salzman

At this very moment, millions of people, from all corners of the globe are searching for ways to align themselves with a higher calling and a deeper purpose. We are longing to live lives of purpose and meaning. We sense that theres no time to waste and feel a deep sense of urgency around giving our greatest gift to the world. And yet we find ourselves struggling, passionately searching, for exactly how to make a meaningful difference and finally live the life we

were meant to live. How do we find our way to creating a life and a livelihood that expresses our deepest values, greatest vision and highest contribution? In this panel discussion, with an extraordinary group of thinkers and change agents, you will learn: How to discover your higher vocational calling How to see and navigate the tension between what you currently do, and what you would like to be doing How your choice of vocation can help you move from evolving yourself to evolving our world Why doing what you love is only the first step to a meaningful and sustainable vocation How to bring that calling into the world, to create true and lasting change in society Jean Houston, Ph.D., has been a leading figure in the cross-cultural study of spirituality and ritual processes for many decades, and has written or co-written over a dozen books. Her Mystery School empowers individuals to transcend and transform the local self so that the extraordinary can manifest in our lives. Barbara Marx Hubbard is the co-founder and chairperson of the Foundation for Conscious Evolution, which is helping to build a bridge to the next stage of human evolution by helping individuals see beyond their current confusion and crisis to the new capacities that have also arisen. An evolutionary educator, speaker and social innovator, she is the author of six books communicating the new worldview of conscious evolution. Jeff Salzman is lead teacher and co-founder at Boulder Integral and has worked in adult education/ transformation for twenty-five years. His Integral Incubators help men and women find their deepest calling and bring it profitably and successfully into the world. For three years Jeff worked side by side with Ken Wilber building the Integral Institute. David Gershon is the founder and CEO of Empowerment Institute, and is considered one of the worlds leading authorities on behavior change and large system transformation. For three decades, Davids Empowerment Training Program has created transformational changes in individuals, organizations, and society at large.

Early Registration Bonus 2: Craig Hamiltons Guided Meditation Audio Collection: MEDITATION FOR EVOLUTIONARIES

Featuring 4 distinct guided meditations with Integral Enlightenment Founder Craig Hamilton, this audio collection is a powerful support for your spiritual practice and a comprehensive introduction to the process of evolutionary meditation. Many course participants report that these meditations have infused their spiritual practice with a depth and dynamism theyve never experienced even after years of more traditional meditation practice. The Ground of Meditation This guided meditation connects us with our original inspiration for entering into spiritual life. By aligning with the primal force of creation in the universe, we discover for ourselves the divine imperative to meditate, become aware of awareness itself, and begin to meditate within a vast, all-inclusive context. Opening to the Great Perfection Why do we meditate? In this guided contemplation, Craig asks us to consider three pillars for our practice: to break the bonds of our own conditioning and ignorance, to uplift the whole of humanity through our sincere effort to progress on the spiritual path, and to align with the Great Perfection at the heart of the cosmos thereby becoming an active agent of conscious evolution. Allow Everything To Be As It Is Let all transient experience fall away. Allow everything to be as it is and become aware of the greater context in which all things arise. In this guided meditation and contemplation, Craig invites us to discover the resting place beyond the mind, beyond feeling, and beyond time. What is apparent, that isnt normally apparent, in this place of pure awareness?

Awakening the Impulse to Evolve From the Big Bang to the formation of planets, plants and people, from black holes to the mystery of consciousness, all of creation is an expression of the Evolutionary Impulse. This guided contemplation invites us to fully inhabit this primal, creative forceas ourselves: to experience ourselves as one with the past, present and future of the cosmos. Course Starts April 30th.