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awaken with us

Beyond psychotherapy
by John bottone

Here's a recent offering from Trillium Awakening teacher, John Bottone. He helps us understand embodied awakening in the context of transpersonal dimensions of psychological growth. Check out his videos below!

"Maslow said that the top need on the "hierarchy of needs" was self-actualization. And self-actualization suggests, "I'm doing what I want to do in the world. I'm successful in the world.  I've developed a sense of skill." Later in his work he decided that self-actualization in that sense was not the final step in human development.  And he added self-transcendence as the highest need of human development.  Self-transcendence means that there's a stage when we start to feel an impulse to discover what is larger than the ego. 

And that's the transpersonal dimension. You know there's something bigger than us organizing this, something larger than the ego that is at play here.  And there's that impulse to start to explore our spirituality past the self-actualization stage.

The Trillium Awakening transmission is very catalytic.  What it catalyzes is embodiment and opening to consciousness, to the larger awareness.  That opening to consciousness is very much the transpersonal.  We start to experience ourselves as not limited to this human body, that actually we're larger than that.  We're more expansive than that.  And we start having an awareness of consciousness as holding us and directing us-- something larger that is holding us, directing us--the awareness that we really are spiritual beings.  All the dimensions that open up through the Trillium work really are the transpersonal dimensions."   ~~ John Bottone
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"Once true and total Being clearly gets the green light to realize and express itself fully, it begins to overhaul the whole organism, the whole circuitry and wiring of life-patterns."   ~ Saniel Bonder
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  • Home
  • News
  • About
    • What is the Trillium path?
    • Sittings and Transmission
    • About Trillium Olympia
    • TA Olympia Statement on Black Lives Matter
    • WBR Clarification Conversations
    • Local Governance Roles
  • Newcomers
    • Welcome Essay: Imagine
    • Getting Started
    • Next Steps
    • Your First Trillium Sitting
    • Joining the Oly Circle >
      • Why join the Oly Circle?
      • How to join the Oly Circle?
      • Member Agreements
      • Disclaimer
    • Working with Teachers & Mentors
    • Levels of Participation
  • Events
    • Olympia & NW Events
    • Event Descriptions
    • Trillium Events Policies
    • Silent Wellspring
    • Past Workshops >
      • Riding the Wave, July 2020
      • CREATE! our Mutual Liberation, July 2020
      • CANCELLED - 2020 Trillium Transmission Immersion
      • Krishna Gauci, Feb 2020
      • Embodying Mutuality, Oct 2019
      • Krishna Gauci, Aug 2019
      • Fierce Ardor Intensive, May 2019
      • Embodiment Retreat, Feb 2019
      • Transfiguration Retreat, Aug 2018
      • Allan & Gena, Mar 2018
      • Create with Joanne, Feb 2018
      • Margit & Joanne, Feb 2018
      • Marla Durden, Oct 2017
      • Cielle & Jeffrey, Sept 2017
      • Max & Tatini, June 2017
      • Divine Feminine, Joanne & Margit, May 2017
      • Krishna Gauci, Mar 2017
      • Margit Bantowsky & Joanne Lee, Nov 2016
      • Geri Portnoy & Susanne West, July 2016
      • Van Nguyen, Apr 2016
      • Rod Taylor, Feb 2016
      • Steve Boggs & Don Freas, Nov 2015
      • Saniel & Linda, Sept 2015
      • Krishna & Vivian, Aug 2015
      • Fax & Sharon, June 2015
      • Allan & Gena, Mar 2015
      • Krishna, Nov 2014
      • Geri & Susanne, Sept 2014
      • Ted & Hillary, Apr 2014
      • Rod Taylor, Mar 2014
      • Sylvia Woods, Oct 2013
  • Contact
  • Resources
  • Members Only
    • Mutuality Circle Roster
    • Community Calendar >
      • July 2022 TA Oly Redwoods Trip
      • 9-6-21 TA Oly Redwoods Trip
      • 4-10-21 Hike, Trillium Trail
      • 9-7-19 Hike, Naches Peak Loop
      • 7-27-19 Hike, Staircase
    • Current SMC Roster
    • Documents & Resources >
      • Conflict Resolution & Mediation
      • Driving Directions
      • Effective Reflection Skills
      • Nesting
      • Nectar Night
      • Poetry
      • 2nd Birth Stories 2017
      • 2nd Birth Stories 2014
      • Visitor Hosting
      • Creative Works
      • Lead Link Election Resources
    • Facilitator Resources >
      • Mutuality Circle "Invocations"
      • SMC topics
      • Benefits of Facilitation
      • Facilitator Capacities
      • Facilitator Guidelines
      • Additional Skills & Considerations
  • In memory of...
    • John Tatman
    • C.J. Mortinson