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In this episode of Internal Human Orchestra Work (IHOW), the team of Beth Simpson, Eleni Makri, Rob Eising, Rita Lampen, and Aviv Shahar expand the promise and potential of this evolving project by opening the territory of the electric and magnetic natures of the soul in human experience.
As with the Creational Logic episodes in the Current Openings series, and the broader Portals Into the Soul work, we are giving language to recognizable and natural processes. By bringing conscious awareness to these fundamental natures, we further tune our “internal orchestra” into a more integrated symphony, one that flows with life as it unfolds. This orientation naturally leads to the focus of this episode: peak experiences.
Where do the electric and magnetic show up in our daily lives? What are their higher and lower expressions? These questions form the entry point into the inquiry of peak experiences.
Aviv then delineates five types of peak experiences – some of which we may have encountered ourselves, though often in a random or unintegrated way. What they share is a core premise: peak experiences arise when more of our full human orchestra is brought into coherence – the physical, mental, and emotional through heightened focus and intention. When this happens, it can activate a distinctive sense of being vividly alive and present in the moment.
Within the IHOW work, the aim is to support the internal integration of these natural processes, cultivating greater wellbeing and expanding access to peak experiences.
If somebody asked about the universalis project, I would say it’s a new way of being, a new way of partnering on the inside and with the universe at large. We are looking to liberate a whole new set of latent technologies within the human system, and codify and translate them; to build the topographical landscape such that we can liberate even more.
Aviv Shahar
Karen Heney
A lifelong explorer of human expression and liberation through multiple arts. Passionate about integrating all facets of our humanness – mind, body, soul and more – through as many creative pathways as possible. Movement teacher by profession, motivated by love of well being and the glow this brings into life. Active in various international collaborations that seek to deepen and update understanding of the human systems, to cultivate grateful appreciation of the extraordinary faculties we are gifted with, and to develop and pioneer new skills and practices to offer grounding, balance and liberation into greater fulfilment of human possibility.
Kyriaki Nikandrou
When I was a child, staring at the starry night skies, I was filled with awe and wonder, about the mysteries of the Universe, Life, Time, the Human and its place in the Cosmos, trying to connect the dots that link everything with everything… Some years down the line, I still do. I am seeking to be in conversation with others in search for keys, for tools of understanding and application and for the real questions, the ones that become portals to contemplative journeys, leading to uncharted territories that feel like home. I believe we are on a trajectory of multiple and unpredictable changes; it is up to each one of us to rise to the challenge of our times. Now, more than ever before, is the time to be true to ourselves and fulfill our potential.
Aviv Shahar
Aviv serves as the Portals’ sherpa. He curates transformational journeys and is a storyteller of the epochal evolution culminating at this time. Aviv is the Founder of Aviv Consulting, helping leaders unleash strategic innovation, and is the author of Create New Futures: How Leaders Produce Breakthroughs and Transform the World Through Conversation.
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