“The Path of Conscious Love & Transformation” with Jonathan Steele

In the context of long-term relational commitments we are beholden to the constrictive conditions that hold the potential for not only our most powerful shadow work but also our greatest individual and collective possibility – the birth of what G.I. Gurdjieff referred to as ‘Real I.’ Counter to the egoic drive to transcend our humanity in all of its glory and mess, the path of conscious love invites us to allow our heart to “break wide-open without resorting to despair, resentment or bitterness.”  Our Type structure, held in the mutual trust and safety of these relational exchanges, is made transparent, revealing the Type’s defensive structure as the veil of our greatest gifts.

Constriction or commitment—seemingly a narrow gate from one side—is discovered to be a gate that opens up to an abundance and authenticity that we’ve always longed for. We call forth the “other’s” essence in allowing them to love and accept us as we are (and vice-versa). In the end, only the giving itself matters. Our wings of flight are borne in and through our transfigured wounds held in love.

Drawing from his experience of this path and the Western esoteric roadmaps that inform it, Jonathan will offer a talk on the transformational potential lying at the heart of, and often within the very necessary coarseness of, committed partnerships.