The ICN Writings
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Integral consciousness is the holistic awakening and integration of our innate ways of knowing—mental, emotional, intuitive, and embodied—reconnecting us to the deeper, mystical reality within and around us.
You’re Never Alone — Meeting Your Spirit Guides explores the transformative practice of connecting with spirit guides as loving, empowering companions, modeled by Jesus' own interactions with non-physical beings like Moses and Elijah to seek guidance, encouragement, and strength.
Discovering Your Mystical Body explores integrating spiritual awareness through four primary centers—heart, womb, feet, and head—enabling a holistic and embodied mystical spirituality that connects us to divine presence within and around us.
ICN Foundational Identities" explores the importance of choosing a collective spiritual identity, such as Christianity, to foster shared belonging, community, and deeper spiritual connections, while integrating evolving practices and traditions in a modern, inclusive context.
Practicing Community – Part One" reflects on the journey from traditional church life through disillusionment and religious trauma to seeking and building authentic, mystical spiritual communities that nurture depth, connection, and divine immediacy.
What, in the World, is Holy Spirit?" redefines the Holy Spirit as the life force and energy of divine consciousness present in and as human consciousness, moving beyond traditional theology to explore its mystical and experiential reality through biblical insights and evolving understanding.
The Whole-Body Mystical Presencing series explores integrating mindfulness with embodied spiritual awareness—combining heartfulness, wombfulness, and bodyfulness—to cultivate holistic presence and divine participation in every moment of life.
Spiritual Energy: Living in the Energy of Christ explores the embodiment of divine consciousness as spiritual energy, emphasizing its presence in Jesus' life and offering practices to attune to this dynamic flow for renewal, empowerment, and deeper connection to the divine within and around us.
Awakening Spiritual Energy and Ecstasy: Taking the Lid Off God emphasizes integrating stillness and ecstatic spiritual practices to awaken transformative divine energy, fostering deeper union with God, spiritual vitality, and empowered social change.
The Magic and Mystery of Spiritual Healing advocates for a compassionate and balanced approach to spirituality, suggesting that intentional 'spiritual bypassing' can provide access to deeper divine presence and mystical healing, bypassing the barriers of pain and trauma that often bind us to cycles of self-cleansing and delay true inner transformation.
The Loving Evolution of Christianity and the World envisions an Integral Christianity that integrates inner transformation with external action, creating a generative network of holistic collaboration to address global challenges and foster love, justice, and sustainable change.
Devotion to God in the Integral Christian Community invites a reimagining of worship beyond traditional royal court metaphors and physical postures like kneeling, encouraging a heartfelt, progressive devotion that aligns with modern sensibilities and transcends hierarchical or performative approaches to God.
Spiritual Transmission in Integral Prayer explores evolving prayer practices by integrating traditional verbal prayer, contemplative silence, and embodied spiritual presence to cultivate mystical love, deeper connection with God, and communal spiritual energy.
Growing Up in the Jesus Path Series: Introducing the Tribal Magical Worldview explores the evolution of spiritual consciousness from the tribal magical stage—rooted in ancestral beliefs, superstitions, and fear-based rituals—toward more integrated and holistic stages of faith and understanding within Christianity.
Discovering Reality Through Knowing and Not Knowing: The Beauty of Unknowing highlights the integration of ordinary, spiritual, and apophatic knowing, inviting us to move beyond concepts and words into the profound mystery and presence of God through silence and unknowing.
Moving from Toxic Beliefs to Transforming Ones explores the necessity of deconstructing harmful religious beliefs and practices, following Jesus' example, to foster a more authentic, inclusive, and transformative faith that aligns with progressive Christian values.
Waking Up to Oneness explores Jesus' teachings and mystical experiences of Oneness, emphasizing the awakened spirit-breath-consciousness that connects humanity with divine love and unity beyond understanding.
Holding Grief & Glory reflects on Paul Smith's embrace of life's struggles and triumphs, his spiritual legacy of love, transformation, and unity with Jesus, and his enduring presence as a guide and source of joy from the other side.
Spiritual Knowing—Then and Now explores the evolution of mystical experiences and spiritual gifts as windows into higher consciousness, emphasizing their relevance and accessibility for personal and collective transformation today.
Christian worship often doesn't resonate with cultural creatives because it tends to emphasize institutional rituals and hierarchies over the deep spiritual connection, authenticity, and inclusive community they seek.
Integral Prayer is a holistic spiritual practice integrating traditional, relational, and embodied prayer, uniting the transcendent, personal, and inner faces of God to awaken divine consciousness and foster communal connection.
The evolution of the Integral Church embraces a journey beyond traditional and modern frameworks, integrating mystical experience, spiritual community, and the wisdom of diverse traditions into a dynamic, co-creative, and inclusive Christianity for a transformative future.
Advent is a sacred season of anticipation and spiritual awakening, inviting us to embody Christ consciousness, nurture divine potential within, and co-create a new reality of hope, love, and transformation in the world.
Adventing Christ Consciousness is an active, participatory journey of embodying divine presence, integrating the human and cosmic Christ within us, and birthing transformative love and wisdom into the world.