Groundbreaking Pathways
for Inner Exploration
Hello friends,
Kyriaki writes today on behalf of the Portals team to introduce two special conversations: "Resilience and the Crisis of Belief" and " The Universalis Project #15 - Pathways to Universal Life." We believe these dialogues are precious gifts for anyone deeply interested in personal and spiritual development — especially during these times as we transition between epochs. Both conversations offer groundbreaking pathways for inner exploration. Along with these conversations, we are publishing the piece titled “The Self-Appraisal Practice – Resilient Self-Authoring”, where we deepen our understanding and practical application of these themes.
In the hectic pace of modern life, how often do we pause to reflect on the big picture, assess our life’s trajectory, and consider new possibilities? These conversations provide powerful tools for a transformative spiritual journey.
“Resilience and the Crisis of Belief” details the Self-Authoring Appraisal Process — a dynamic inner inquiry that rejuvenates, updates, and opens new avenues of connection and possibility.
"Pathways to Universal Life" demonstrates a circle meditation process that illuminates a connective journey of discovery, revealing how it liberates and amplifies the conductivity of our inner light.
In “Resilience and the Crisis of Belief,” Aviv Shahar and Jeff Vander Clute delve into:
The Three Crises of Belief
What are their natures and how do they emerge?
The Updating Self-Appraisal Process
How does the self-appraisal work? Why is it essential at this liminal frontier — where an old epoch is fading, and a new one is emerging?
The Study of Resilience
What insights do your recent experiences and challenges offer about your resilience?
What brings you genuine happiness and energy? In what areas might you be susceptible to psychic infection, and why?
The Appraisal Opportunity Landscape
Where can you apply and practice your appraisal?
Which relational, health, practical, developmental, and life opportunities are entering your appraisal landscape?
An Appraisal of the Five-Year Epoch Journey
How do we evaluate this emerging journey?
How can an international virtual lab help us explore the evolving current of this epoch?
At the heart of this process lies a generative practice — a daily affirmation:
“No, I am not limited to who I was yesterday. Today, I get to be the co-creator of life, and I have the power to re-author my story.”
As Jeff Vander Clute reminds us:
“Life is an open system. The universe is an open system. How do we dance with life in an open system? We are here offering understandings and modalities for how to dance with life in openness; and in openness each of us can show up fully, resiliently, and creatively.”
Learn more by listening to the conversation or click here to read the article that weaves together the main threads of this dialogue.
In “The Universalis Project #15 – Pathways to Universal Life,” Aviv Shahar, Karen Heney, and Kyriaki Nikandrou embark on a subtle experiment that mirrors the inner discovery of an abiding meditation circle. This meditative group process invites you into a quiet inner space where each participant gets to find their voice inside a shared contemplative discovery. There is an intimate, unique, and profound quality that emerges from the generative field and ecology we co-create.
Aviv describes it this way:
“What we invite in this ecology is discovered through feelings, sentiments, and deeply listening as we hover in the liminality of not knowing, because right there, in that synaptic cleft of possibility, something else can find us.”
The meditation process guides us through evocative verses, each serving as an intimate gateway to your unfolding self. It weaves a tapestry of revelations about the unseen methodology of circle meditation, easing the shift from the referencing brain to a whole person merging and melting, awakening the inner lives, and activating latent circuitries and sense organs.
We ask: Where can we begin to see the emergence of a Universalis human? How do we participate in this birthing process? What constitutes its womb?
We begin to realize that the Universalis possibility and activation occurs inside us and between us; it is our evolving inner wiring that forms its nurturing womb.
Help us expand this abiding discovery by spreading the word and sharing this newsletter with your friends.
with care and value,
Kyriaki Nikandrou
and on behalf of the Portals team
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