David Nicol – The Subtle Activist Training

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David Nicol – The Subtle Activist Training
When you join this groundbreaking training, you’ll learn:
Cutting-edge discoveries about how subtle activism actually works — drawing from the latest science about such phenomena as morphogenetic fields and psi research

Advanced practices and lore around subtle activism, as well as information on the skills you need to develop to become more effective

Creative techniques you can engage with a group to activate a collective subtle body — including creating a “higher mind,” “higher heart” and “higher will” — and positively impact challenging situations in the world

How subtle activism can supercharge your spiritual practice with purpose, and create a healthy flow between a focus on self and world

Ways to develop subtle perception, allowing you to navigate higher levels of consciousness

Practical skills for building group synergy that can be applied to any conscious organization

Discover new levels of hope and purpose that illuminate the next steps on your path of personal and professional development.

Specific practices for self-protection, safety, clearing and grounding — which are especially important for dealing with larger traumas in the collective

How to develop real discernment and distinguish healthy skepticism from fear-based doubt.How to go beyond the polarity of doubt and belief to transrational knowing

The ethics of engaging on subtle dimensions for the collective

The 3 keys to building collective intelligence in groups

WHAT YOU’LL DISCOVER IN THESE 7 WEEKS

Course sessions are on Tuesdays at 5:00pm Pacific.
During the 7-Module Subtle Activist Training, David will introduce you to the fundamental ideas and skill sets needed to engage effectively in the practice of subtle activism. You’ll discover how linking your personal spiritual practice to collective transformation can be a crucial step that enhances your spiritual life with purpose and helps you let go of the obsession with self. You’ll learn about the science and theories underlying subtle activism and the critical role this emerging force can play at a pivotal moment in the evolution of consciousness on our planet. You’ll get connected to the fast-growing global subtle activism movement and be able to find your way to plug into this emerging planetary force.
Most of all, you’ll participate in co-creating a potent field of group synergy that will serve as the primary vehicle for our subtle activism work. In each session, you will take part in a short guided meditation to help build the subtle body of our group field. You will also engage with a profound group subtle activism practice (known as Gaiafield Attunement) that will target a number of real-world situations calling for our attention.
Between sessions, you’ll be invited to continue to help build our group field through a simple daily resonance-building practice, supported by text and/or email reminders with links to audio/visual meditative supports. Each session will build upon the last, so that you will become more and more deeply embedded in a resonant group field of dynamic presence.
MODULE 1: SUBTLE ACTIVISM: WHAT’S IT

ALL ABOUT? (OCTOBER 6)

week1.jpgSubtle activism is really an ancient approach, adapted to the structures of contemporary society. From shamanic traditions to esoteric and mystical orders within the major world religions, practitioners have long dedicated their spiritual work to the well-being of all life. However, in our modern, hyper-individualized Western culture spirituality has become largely focused on personal liberation, often to the exclusion of sociopolitical and environmental concerns. Subtle activism is part of an emerging turn in the consciousness movement beyond personal development toward concern for the world as a whole.

During this session, you’ll discover:
What subtle activism is, and how it’s being practiced today

Fascinating historical examples of subtle activism

How subtle activism differs from spiritual activism or engaged spirituality

The historical reasons why spirituality became marginalized to the private realm and why it’s time for that to change

How subtle activism can supercharge your spiritual practice with purpose and create a healthy energetic flow between inner and outer, self and the world

You will also participate in a guided meditation practice to help build our group heart and in a Gaiafield Attunement practice to come into deep resonance with each other and the Earth.
MODULE 2: SUBTLE ACTIVISM & SCIENCE: ADDRESSING THE RATIONAL MIND (OCTOBER 13)

week2.jpgIf you received a modern Western education, chances are that ideas about non-physical dimensions or nonlocal causality — which underlie the concept of subtle activism — will tend to provoke your inner skeptic. Is this real or is it just my imagination? In fact, there is a large body of scientific evidence that supports the existence of nonlocal connections between human minds and between mind and matter.

During this session, you’ll learn about:
The fascinating research by scientists associated with the Transcendental Meditation organization into the Maharishi Effect, and their findings about how meditation groups can affect social harmony

The Global Consciousness Project, which measures the effect of collective consciousness on a global network of random number generators

Intriguing results from psi and distant healing research

How to distinguish healthy skepticism from fear-based doubt

Ways to go beyond the polarity of doubt and belief to transrational knowing

You will also take part in a guided meditation to help build our group higher mind and in a Gaiafield Attunement practice to elicit personal and collective wisdom on the phenomenon of doubt itself.
MODULE 3: THEORIES OF SUBTLE ACTIVISM: COLLECTIVE FIELDS OF CONSCIOUSNESS (OCTOBER 20)

week3.jpgHow might subtle activism work? How could our spiritual work possibly influence modern societies, with their vast size and complexity? The idea of subtle activism runs counter to our regular perception of the world as a collection of seemingly separate material objects and to the materialistic assumptions of orthodox science. But science itself has come to recognize not only the profound interrelatedness of all things at more basic levels of reality, but also the complex connection between consciousness and world. This week we’ll consider various leading-edge theories that have been developed to explain the nonlocal nature of consciousness.

During this session, you’ll discover:
The significance of biochemist Rupert Sheldrake’s theory of morphogenetic fields and Carl Jung’s theory of the collective unconscious

The fascinating psychedelic research of Christopher Bache, including his theory of how individuals in non-ordinary states can bring healing to the human species mind

The theory behind the Maharishi Effect research

Dion Fortune’s esoteric theory of magical activism

You will also participate in a guided meditation to help build our group will center and in a Gaiafield Attunement practice to connect with the essential quality of Basic Trust.
MODULE 4: PRINCIPLES OF SUBTLE ACTIVISM: HOW TO ENGAGE IN COLLECTIVE TRANSFORMATION SAFELY & WITH INTEGRITY (OCTOBER 27)

week4.jpgSubtle activism is an extension of our spiritual practice into the collective realm. Opening to these broader social fields can raise new questions about how to engage ethically and safely. How should we best approach our subtle activism practice? What is the right orientation to take? How can our engagement on collective levels be integrated seamlessly into the rest of our spiritual lives?

In this session, you will learn:
The ethics of engaging on subtle dimensions for the collective

How to participate safely in the practice of subtle activism

The principle of non-attachment to outcome

The principle of humility: owning the dark places inside ourselves

The importance of engaging from wholeness

You will also participate in a guided meditation to connect our group heart, mind and will centers and in a Seeds of Peace Attunement focused on the Middle East.
MODULE 5: SUBTLE ACTIVISM & THE EVOLUTION OF CONSCIOUSNESS (NOVEMBER 3)

week5.jpgWe have reached an extraordinary threshold in the human and planetary story. Alongside the threat of the global ecological crisis and the potential collapse of current socio-economic systems, there are seeds all around us of an emerging planetary wisdom civilization. What can we do to nurture this nascent planetary awareness? How might the practice of subtle activism help catalyze the process of planetization?

In this session, you will learn about:
The Noosphere: Teilhard de Chardin’s extraordinary vision

The Integral Earth Community: David Berry’s notion of our transition to the Ecozoic Era

The Reenchantment of the Cosmos: Could humanity be poised to re-awaken to the spiritual intelligence of the universe?

How the practice of global meditation can serve as a collective initiation into planetary consciousness

Why chaos theory suggests that a profound collective shift could happen far more quickly than we think

You will also participate in a guided meditation to purify our group will and in a Water Attunement to open to deep guidance about a pressing issue on the world stage (we will select the particular issue based on world events at the time).
MODULE 6: WORKING WITH GROUP FIELDS (NOVEMBER 10)

week6.jpgAlthough we can practice subtle activism as individuals, our impact is radically amplified when we practice together as a highly coherent group field. The art of pooling our consciousness together to discover higher forms of collective wisdom in relation to the challenges facing our species is the leading-edge of subtle activism practice today. The group field can be developed and refined in such a way that it becomes a new entity in its own right, and an extraordinarily potent vehicle for personal and collective transformation. As Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh famously said, “The next Buddha may be the sangha.”

In this session, you’ll discover:
The 3 keys to building collective intelligence in groups

The evolutionary significance of moving beyond individualism to conscious collectivism

Why practicing in group fields allows easier access to humanity’s collective unconscious and to higher dimensional energies

An exciting and magical process that has emerged in David’s work to develop the subtle body of a group and to apply its spiritual capacities for collective healing

You will also participate in a guided meditation to purify our group heart and in a Gaiafield Attunement intended to consecrate the venue of the December Paris Climate Change Conference.
MODULE 7: HOW TO CREATE YOUR OWN SUBTLE ACTIVISM CIRCLE & BE PART OF THE MOVEMENT (NOVEMBER 17)

week7.jpgAs Club Budapest President Ervin Laszlo recently said, “Subtle activism is an idea whose time has come.” Although the term subtle activism is still new, a movement is emerging worldwide to harness the power of our collective consciousness in service of a global shift. The movement is very young, fresh and open to creative ways of engaging with it. Are you feeling the call? If so, how might you take the next steps on your path as a subtle activist?

In our final session, you will:
Learn how to create your own subtle activism circle

Hear about exciting subtle activism initiatives from a number of leaders in the field

Discover how you can become an anchor for subtle activism practice in your city or local area

Learn how you can tap in on a regular basis to ongoing forms of subtle activism practice

You will also participate in a guided meditation to purify our group mind and in a Radiant Joy Attunement to bring light to the world’s capital buildings.
THE SUBTLE ACTIVIST TRAINING BONUS COLLECTION

In addition to David’s transformative 7-week virtual program, you’ll also receive these powerful training sessions with the world’s leading visionaries and teachers. These bonus sessions are being offered to further complement what you’ll learn in the course — and take your understanding and practice to an even deeper level.
SACRED & SUBTLE ACTIVISM

AUDIO DIALOGUE WITH ANDREW HARVEY

AndrewHrvey.jpgHow do you marry your deep inner joy to pragmatic action to transform our existing economic, social, and political institutions? What is the relationship between spiritual practice and inspired worldly action? Where is the meeting point between subtle and sacred activism? Join mystical scholar and activist Andrew Harvey in lively dialogue with David Nicol on these and other questions on the intersection of spirituality and activism.

Andrew Harvey is an author, speaker and founder/director of the Institute of Sacred Activism, an international organization focused on inviting concerned people to take up the challenge of our contemporary global crises by becoming inspired, effective and practical agents of institutional and systemic change, in order to create peace and sustainability. He has written and edited over 30 books and received many awards, including the Benjamin Franklin Award and the Mind Body Spirit Award.
EARTH TREASURE VASE GLOBAL HEALING PROJECT

AUDIO DIALOGUE WITH CYNTHIA JURS

CynthiaJurs.jpgFor the past 25 years, Cynthia Jurs has been on an incredible odyssey, knitting together a global mandala of communities via the “Earth Treasure Vase Practice,” a sacred Tibetan Buddhist method of communal healing. The practice involves filling a consecrated clay vessel with prayers and sacred offerings, and then burying them in key places in the Earth. Cynthia has brought this practice to 30 sites worldwide since 1990. In this one-hour dialogue with David T. Nicol, Cynthia shares her remarkable story, and discusses the implications of this practice for the field of subtle activism.

Cynthia Jurs is a Buddhist teacher who received Dharmacharya transmission to teach from Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh in 1994. Also a practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism, she has studied with many great masters and has spent much time in retreat practicing in both the Vajrayana and Zen Buddhist traditions for the last 30 years. She directs the Open Way Sangha, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, teaching retreats and leading groups in meditation, “engaged buddhism” and spiritual activism. In 1990, Cynthia undertook a pilgrimage to meet a 106 year-old Tibetan lama living in a cave high in the Himalayas that transformed her life. She asked the old man in the cave, Charok Rinpoche, “What can we do to bring healing and protection to the Earth?” He instructed her in the practice of the Earth Treasure Vases; a practice dedicated to bringing healing and protection to the Earth by filling consecrated clay vessels with prayers and offerings and burying them in places of need around the world. She was given 30 of these consecrated clay vessels and told to fill them with sacred offerings and prayers, take them to places in need of healing and bury them according to the tradition.
Inspired by her travels with this practice, in 2008, she founded Alliance for the Earth, to support the emergence of a global community committed to the healing and renewal of the Earth. As director of the Earth Treasure Vase Global Healing Project, Cynthia has facilitated collaborations with young activists and indigenous elders in communities all around the world in this unique ritual that strengthens community, invites prayers from everyone and catalyzes unpredictable solutions.
CITY OF LIGHT

DIGITAL ART BY DARIO FIDANZA

DarioFidanza.jpgThis digital art piece provides a stunning visual referent of a cityscape subtly infused with the light of consciousness. Use it as a desktop or screensaver for ongoing inspiration. It was specially commissioned in August 2015 for the theme of subtle activism.

Dario Fidanza is a bold, visionary design artist with over 12 years experience in the fields of graphic design and visual communication