Evolutionary Relationships: Unleashing the Power of Mutual Awakening - Softcover

Albere, Patricia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1937465233 ISBN 13: 9781937465230

Publisher: Oracle Institute Press, 2017

Synopsis

For millennia, spirituality has been a deeply personal pursuit - monks on mountaintops and yogis in caves. But the world is more social than ever, and interconnectedness is transforming everything, from our family lives to work. Today, we need a spirituality that focuses more on "we" than "me." 
 
In Evolutionary Relationships, Patricia Albere draws on more than four decades of teaching work to introduce a new spirituality called "mutual awakening" that you can explore with a friend, lover, spouse, or partner. With practices to guide you and lessons to inspire you, this book helps you become more available to yourself, your partner, and our world.
 
WHAT IS AN "EVOLUTIONARY" RELATIONSHIP?
 
Life is defined by relationships--we're deeply social creatures. But not all relationships are created equal. An "Evolutionary Relationship" is one that drives us, challenges us, compels us to grow and evolve. It is a consciously created connection that is formed between two or more people who mutually commit to explore and develop higher states of perception and awareness together.
 
This book will show you how to find and amplify the "evolutionary relationships" in your own life. Perhaps more importantly, it will show you how to transform any committed relationship--whether with a spouse, a lover, a partner, a close friend, or family member--into a dynamic engine for mutual evolution.
 
PRACTICING MUTUAL AWAKENING:
 
The book is centered around an in-depth exploration of Patricia's 8 Activating Principles of Mutual Awakening.  You'll be guided, step-by-step through each of the following principles with exercises and practices:

1. Engagement: A genuine interest in what happens within the relationship. Saying "yes" to being fully connected.
2. Commitment: Dedication to each other and to the relationship, expressed as a willingness to "stay on the inside" even if something is not working.
3. Truth: A shared love of truth and transparency, and a desire to explore reality openly together.
4. Trust: The ability to generate trust together (even while knowing that we inevitably will disappoint each other), and a willingness to allow this field of mutual trust to restore a more universal trust in life itself.
5. Openness: A presence and availability for whatever arises in the moment, which allows the field of the relationship to offer all of its possibilities.
6. Essential Uniqueness: Embracing the distinct dimensions of each other's identity that allows your relatedness to flower. Authentic essential autonomy is developed and strengthened inside the sacred communion of the relationship.
7. Contact: A deep respect for each person's essential, unique being that touches each person's soul outside the boundaries of the personality. 
8. Mutual Influence: The desire to positively affect each other. This sacred intent creates a field of sensitivity and responsibility that allows the relationship to thrive on multiple levels and dimensions.

About this title

About the Author:

Patricia Albere is at ground zero of an evolutionary stream of spiritual awakening-one in which we learn to go beyond individual psychology and transformation into a new space of mutual awakening or 'inter-being' or 'we-mysticism'. She is the founder and director of the Evolutionary Collective and an internationally known contemporary spiritual teacher and author. Her unique discovery of the essential components that create an awakened 'we space' is transforming our understanding of what is possible in the space between us. Patricia has worked with over 200,000 people in groups in the last 40 years. Her mastery as a transformative teacher is now innovating a new field of 'inter-subjective awakening' and post-personal development.

Review:

"Patricia Albere is five steps ahead of us. ... Her vision is fresh, compelling, and above all hopeful."
-Katherine Woodward Thomas, NY Times Bestselling author of Conscious Uncoupling


"Evolutionary Relationships is a vital, indeed magnificent contribution to our conscious evolution. Patricia Albere guides us through the transformative power of relating, with wisdom and gentle brilliance. It's a major work and essential reading for all of us now."
-Barbara Marx Hubbard, author of Conscious Evolution


"Patricia opens a transformative lens on relationship that is truly mutual and co-creative.You'll find yourself nodding, breathing more deeply, and diving in to learn and integrate revolutionary new connections that both nourish and contribute to a new world." 
-Kathlyn Hendricks, Ph.D., BC-DMT, author of Conscious Loving 


"This book offers a groundbreaking approach to intimacy and mutuality. Deeply personal, but based in thousands of hours of work and collaboration with extraordinary people from all walks of life, Patricia Albere takes us to the upper limits of 'We.'"
-Keith Witt, Ph.D., author of Shadow Light


"Patricia Albere hands us the kind of intimacy we have been starving for our whole lives. Evolutionary Relationships is a refreshing, enjoyable and innovative guide to a new mutuality that stands to shape humanity for the next millennium. Required reading!"
-Rob McNamara, author of The Elegant Self 


"Patricia has been conducting research into what it is to evolve in mutuality other people. This book is a report from the frontiers of her explorations. What she has discovered is that love is not just an emotion but an evolutionary force that drives all toward greater connection and wholeness."
-Jeff Salzman, author of How to Get Results from People 


"Human relationships are not static, but have evolved over the course of history depending on the nature of the human mind in any given era. Patricia Albere is a pioneer of this field, and in this fascinating book she invites us to explore what this emerging self-transformation may come to mean in our own relationships."
-Carl Johan Calleman, PhD, author of The Purposeful Universe


"Patricia has made the next step in our collective evolution completely clear. This book is a rare combination: articulating a truly new-paradigm way of relating, but in a completely simple and step-by-step way. It will be of equal interest to those seeking to evolve society and couples wanting more depth and intimacy in their relationship."
-Tim Kelley, author of True Purpose 


"Today, a growing number of thinkers are relating to evolution not simply asa scientific theory about the origin of species, but as a lens through which to understand the nature of our complex and fast-changing world. Patricia is one of the first to bring it to bear on the dynamics of human relationships."
-Carter Phipps, author of Evolutionaries


"Relationships are the threads that weave the social tapestry of the world, and evolving our capacity for relatedness is critical if we are to move beyond the many crises that confront us. This profound yet practical book offers clear advice for creating and developing the kind of relationships that can change ourselves, each other, and our world."
-Lynne Twist, author of The Soul of Money


"In this insightful book, Patricia Albere shares her practical, proven, and inspiring advice for gaining higher and deeper levels of mutuality with our partners. Her book will help readers find the full spiritual potential of their relationships and fulfill the promise of extraordinary love."
-Steve McIntosh, author of Evolution's Purpose


"In the same way personal computers and smartphones opened vast new realms, Patricia's work reveals new forms of relating. I predict this book will change the course of human evolution."
-Martin Rutte, co-author of Chicken Soup for the Soul at Work

About this edition

• Publisher: Oracle Institute Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1937465233
• ISBN 13: 9781937465230
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 252