534. Meeting of Founders and Members of the Association for Spiritual Integrity

Buddha at the Gas Pump

Rick Archer

Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Spirituality, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 29 January 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Meeting of Founders and Members of the Association for Spiritual Integrity Forty-five spiritual teachers, members of “The Association for Spiritual Integrity”, met for four hours prior to the start of the 2019 Science and Nonduality Conference. For the first couple of hours, we engaged in a deep, honest discussion about the challenges teachers face, seeking to learn how we might better support one another. We then broke into six groups, each focusing on a particular topic. Then we reassembled and recorded the remainder of the meeting. This video includes: Introduction by Rick Summary of discussions in each of the six breakout groups. (1) Bringing forth women and feminine empowerment. (2) Ongoing growth for teachers and continuing education, trauma, attachment, and shadow work. (3) Creating community and peer support (4) Healthy power dynamics and dual relationships (5) The Ethics of the Spiritual Community (6) The importance of awareness of teacher misbehavior and discerning between real misbehavior and false accusations. A personal or professional commitment expressed by each teacher in the meeting. Summary and Transcript of this meeting Recorded October 24, 2019 YouTube Video Chapters: 00:00:00 - Introduction and Purpose of the Meeting 00:01:04 - Discussion and Breakout Groups 00:01:57 - Appreciation for Gifted Leaders 00:02:52 - ASI: Continued Education and Growth 00:03:54 - Incorporating Yin Teachings into SAND 00:05:09 - Supporting Each Other in the Process of Bringing Balance 00:06:15 - Creating a Safe Space for Teachers 00:07:22 - Online Teacher Assessment and Community Support for Spiritual Teachers 00:08:23 - Increased Support and Accountability 00:09:26 - Creating a Referral Listing for Affordable Retreats 00:10:28 - Difficulties with Dual Relationships and Power Dynamics 00:11:31 - Power dynamics and emotional triggers 00:12:42 - Keeping data on ethical behavior and misbehavior of teachers and guides 00:13:37 - Awareness of Misconduct 00:14:37 - Bringing forth the importance of the feminine and women's voices 00:15:39 - Spending time in silence and self-reflection 00:16:35 - Commitment to Women's Video Conference Group 00:17:35 - Organizing Information and Workshops 00:18:20 - Commitment to Authentic and Heartfelt Communication 00:19:13 - Personal Commitments to Self-Care and Understanding 00:20:05 - Creating Online Safe Spaces for Peer-to-Peer Interactions 00:20:58 - Commitments to Marginalized Communities and Openness to Learning 00:21:48 - Committing to Integrity and Love 00:22:49 - The Teachings of Don Juan Matus and Padmasambhava 00:23:48 - Commitment to Awareness and Empowerment 00:24:51 - Commitment to Service and Divine Embodiment 00:25:59 - Recommitting to Integrity and Healing for All 00:27:00 - Commitment to Personal and Professional Evolution 00:28:03 - Supporting and Connecting with Each Other 00:29:05 - A Beautiful Thing We're Creating 00:29:54 - Appreciation for support and resources

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0:00.0	The Welcome to Buddha at the gas pump.
0:26.6	My name is Rick Archer.
0:28.7	I won't elaborate on what Buddha the gas pump is,
0:31.1	but what I would like to say is that we're in a rather unusual meeting,
0:35.3	the likes of which may never have happened before, which is a gathering of maybe
0:39.5	30 spiritual teachers who have come for the Science and Non-Duality Conference, but we decided
0:45.5	to meet before the conference to discuss some of the issues that are dear to the heart of
0:50.6	the Association for Spiritual Integrity, which I helped found along with Jack O'Keefe
0:56.1	and Craig Holliday a couple of years ago. And Miranda McPherson and Marianna Kaplan have since
1:02.9	joined our advisors and board of directors. So we've had a meeting for the past couple of hours
1:09.3	in which we've discussed a number of things,
1:12.0	and we then broke out into smaller groups to focus more deeply on about five specific topics
1:18.7	that had come up during the first couple of hours.
1:21.7	Now we're back together, and we're going to tape this part of it and offer a little report from a member of each of those
1:29.7	five groups as to what was covered in that discussion.
1:34.7	And then we're going to go around the room and everyone is going to give a one sentence
1:38.6	commitment that they would like to carry out into their lives after the conference that was
1:47.3	perhaps inspired by the discussion we've had today. So I'm going to hand the mic to Mariana.
1:54.3	I think, Rick, you shared the essence of what we're going to be offering here. But I just want to appreciate that on a
2:04.5	day like today that this amount of, you know, gifted, talented leaders chose to spend four and a half
2:12.2	hours together. And I think that we really did hear a lot of vulnerability and openness.
2:20.1	And we may not have solved the issues, but the, you know, really important themes have been brought forth.
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