Saniel Bonder and Linda Groves-Bonder – Waking Down

• Learn how greenlighting allows you to go deeper and freer with Spirit and bodily Life than you might have thought possible
• Feel the difference between transformative cooperation and resigned acceptance of something in you that you can’t change
• Experience going “Beyond the Four F’s” – chronically fighting, fixing, fleeing from, or at best be-friending your “stuff” – and into the peace of greenlighting
• Explore your readiness – and willingness – to dare to stop demonizing your ego, thinking, desire, and reactive emotions
• Learn the underlying principles of why this kind of daring has become both possible and necessary at this evolutionary moment in spiritual history
• Understand why you can’t greenlight in others what you aren’t blessing that way in yourself
• And discover how, when another greenlights you or themselves, you get empowered to go where they’ve gone too
• Tap into the mystery of mutual greenlighting this way, and start to feel the power of Mutuality in the Waking Down journey

• Learn how we humans are ready, maybe for the first time, to heal an ancient spirit/matter split that’s cut us off from our total selves
• Investigate how, for all the great blessings it’s given humanity, much traditional spirituality has sent us on futile quests for states of freedom that aren’t fully free
• Liberate yourself from ancient assumptions that we have to “Wake Up” and somehow divorce ourselves from our mortal humanness
• Get why it’s actually not necessary or even desirable to “Wake Up” before you “Wake Down”
• See whether you’ve been negotiating an uneasy truce with matter and your everyday humanness from the supposedly “pure” spirit side of the split
• Start to fall out of that split and become sensitive to what’s always been underneath: your “core wound” of being simultaneously limited yet also potentially limitless
• Feel into an extremely subtle yet very vital paradox: the more you heal the split, the more you become conscious as the wound
• Enjoy the great relief of seeing that greenlighting your core wound paradoxically heals your spirit/matter split over time
• And begin to delight in knowing that your wound is simultaneously wellness – and that You are emerging as that conscious Mystery in your unique life

• Tap into the unique “spiritual DNA” of the Waking Down transmission that brings your consciousness alive and awake, whole bodily
• Learn a potent exercise, “Your Personal GPS of Effortless Awareness,” that you can practice anywhereto strengthen your intuition of freedom
• Find out about leading-edge spiritual and biological discoveries that reveal a unique seat of conscious awakening in your physical heart – it’s not the heart chakra
• Feel in yourself how this potent access to the oneness of Spirit and Matter can quicken your growth into Divine Embodiment
• Reframe traditional ideals about awakening Consciousness that don’t happen to apply – and so don’t delay your real progress – in this approach
• Learn the crucial difference between energy and consciousness and how both are crucial to radical conscious embodiment
• Begin to experience why, in Waking Down, you don’t need to conjure up the “Being-force” that awakens Consciousness in every cell – you just need to allow and cooperate with it

• Learn an empowering and liberating way of relating to your “broken zones,” the cut-off, disowned fragments of your identity
• Bring the balm of greenlighting into even these most distressing places you go when your buttons get pushed
• Bring the safety and healing strength of mutuality into this part of your hero’s or heroine’s journey
• Find out from your broken-off parts themselves how they always only have been doing their part to protect and carry you through life
• Accept the humbling, mysterious revelation that they aren’t interested in your enlightenment – and don’t need to be
• Experience the compassion for yourself and for all others like you that comes from integrating your broken zones without trying to fix them or to escape from them
• Register how much energy, attention, and awareness get reintegrated into your power to be all of who you are
• See that your broken zones are as real and important to your total, divinely human nature as your spiritual soul, with great blessings and gifts for your life
• And – the biggest paradox – as you continue Waking Down in Mutuality, notice over time that your broken zones do get progressively healed and eased

• Learn how “Other-realization” is equally real and divine as “Self-realization” and equally crucial to your daily serenity and joy
• Become a “holder” of one of life’s great paradoxes – that we are simultaneously the same as, always connected with, and yet different from every other being
• Bring the skills of greenlighting, consciousness awakening, and deeper compassion for your own broken zones into your most important relationships
• Feel the unrealistic ideals and demands you may have brought into relationship from your spirit/matter split start to fall away
• Recognize that for deep truth-finders, integrity and authenticity become paramount and you have to risk the possibility of loss, rejection and separation
• See why you can’t rush into the safety of commitment when you are meeting each other in the emergent mystery of authentic sacred co-discovery
• Discover the light and love of the Divine coming naturally through the eyes of your beloved and your friends and even strangers
• Explore how you can quicken your co-awakening and integration through mutual holding, greenlighting, and deepening reverence

• Learn this simple yet profound practice for encountering and working with both your darkness and your light in daily life
• With any arising issue or concern, reaction or impulse, first “see it” clearly and realistically
• Then “feel it” without flinching away or reactively embracing it – allow its energy to land in your physical and emotional bodies
• Instead of doing anything “to” what is coming up in you, the third step is to “live it,” to animate in consciously, even if it’s a hot-zone emotional reaction
• Learn in that step to find ways and places to “live it” or act it out that you can manage wisely
• Empower yourself with that much courage to dare to identify with your limits, even if this practice contradicts what you’ve learned about transcending
• Discover the freedom in how you then “transcend it” in place, mysteriously releasing its chokehold on your being
• And learn how to “speak it” at appropriate moments and with the right people along the sequence of the other steps
• Honor yourself for seeing the divinity in every kind of response, reaction, impulse and desire in this way – “with the eyes of God/Goddess”

• Learn how Waking Down takes you through an evolutionary revolution that reveals the divinity even in your most limited, challenging, all-too-human patterns
• Become accustomed to a rhythm of growth that includes periods in a “golden chrysalis” where who you’ve been and how you’ve done your work “rots” away
• Understand the principles of dissolution, disintegration, disenchantment, and disorientation as profoundly positive, evolutionary gateways into emergent new life
• Anchor yourself in deep acceptance of these rhythms of death and rebirth, which go on after the Second Birth awakening just as much as before and leading into it
• Start to see, feel, and understand how your future self struggling to be born into your present can look, act, and feel exactly like your past self intruding into your present
• And begin to appreciate and feel the ordinary mystery of your transfiguration into increasingly radiant presence as a divinely human being, a “Human Sun”

• Come full circle into recognizing that what you are living out by Waking Down in Mutuality this way fulfills our most ancient premonitions of divine life on Earth
• Learn the wisdom of the long-ago seers who perceived that “there is a Light that shines beyond all things, beyond even the highest heavens – it is the Light that shines in our Heart”
• Explore the ranges of masculine and feminine identity in each of us, from the most local, personal and human to the most transcendental, infinite and divine
• See how your whole spectrum of identity is rooted in the very core of your heart and is now rapidly integrating and emerging
• Feel how over time your process will move beyond purifications of old shadow material and become increasingly infused with the bright blessedness of divine love and joy
• And recognize that every part of your personal transformation is helping you prepare for your most profound service to humanity and all life as an Awakened Agent of Change

Ken Wilber is today’s preeminent theorist of a comprehensive Integral view of human personal and cultural development. The whole purport of Integral understanding and practice naturally points and leads to greater wholeness and increasing embodiment of advanced traits and qualities of human development. Ken has also long appreciated and advocated Saniel and Linda’s work and the contribution of Waking Down. It’s been about five years since they got together to speak about these matters and compare notes; this promises to be a very lively, revealing, and potent conversation.

Ken Wilber is the most widely translated academic writer in America, with 25 books, translated into some 30 foreign languages. Ken is an internationally acknowledged leader and the preeminent scholar of the Integral stage of human development and is widely regarded as the “Einstein of consciousness.”

Terry and Saniel have known each other for nearly 40 years. They share a revolutionary fervor for changing the world, now well tempered and informed by their many decades of transformational work. More than that, they share an appreciation for the mysteries of the Heart – our total divinely human reality that is also, even biologically, centered in our literal hearts. As fellow awakened teachers, they dive in this dialogue into an exploration of these mysteries that probably will be like none other you’ve encountered – and hopefully will be of great value to your own presence and participation in life.

Terry Patten is a leading voice in the emerging fields of integral evolutionary leadership and spirituality. In his cutting-edge writings, talks, and teachings, he not only inspires transcendental awakening, love, and freedom, but also calls us to accept and incarnate our full humanity. This expresses itself in a profound sense of purpose, spiritual inspiration, and evolutionary activism.
Terry is a member of Deepak Chopra’s Evolutionary Leadersgroup, a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Integral Theory and Practice, and serves on the board of the Wellsprings Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom. He holds degrees from the University of Michigan and John F. Kennedy University.

Roughly a generation apart in age, Saniel and Linda (“Boomers”) and Stephen and Devaa (“Gen Xers”) share among other things a passion for helping people find their ways into and then sustain truly intimate sacred relationships. Saniel and Linda have frequently taught a process they call “The Tantra of Trust,” and Stephen and Devaa, singly and together, have helped lead or host many Shift Network events and trainings on how to make relationships work in the deepest and also most practical ways. In this conversation, the four of them will explore the keys that stand out to them for each of us to attend to in this tender and central part of our lives, whether we are presently in an intimate partnership or not.

Stephen Dinan is the CEO of The Shift Network and a member of the prestigious Transformational Leadership Council and Evolutionary Leaders groups. As the former Director of Membership and Marketing at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, he was the driving force behind the Shift in Action program, which grew to 10,000 paying members, and the One Minute Shift video series, which was seen by more than one million. He is also the author of Radical Spirit and a forthcoming book Sacred America. Stephen directed and helped to create the Esalen Institute’s Center for Theory & Research, a think tank for leading scholars, researchers, and teachers to explore human potential frontiers.

Rev. Devaa Haley Mitchell is the Founder of the Inspiring Women Summit and Co-Founder of the Soulful Women programs. She is a core part of the teaching faculty at the Shift Network and is an expert in women’s awakening and leadership. She also works as a spiritual guide with ongoing programs through the organization she founded, Radiant Essence Services.

You’ll receive the audio download and e-book version of this potent book on the essential challenge of 21st century spirituality: uniting transcendental awakeness with full valuation of the Earth, life, the body, and all relationships. These lively conversations reveal the core of Saniel’s pioneering work to help us bring our enlightenment all the way down to Earth and out into a divinely human destiny of awakened service that hundreds of people are now embracing.