Each week in the series focuses on healing and embracing our shadow as individuals and as organizations. In Part 3 of this four-week series, we take a look at the shadow through the Lower Left quadrant of the Integral lens. Today we will be focused on Wilber's Lower Left quadrant (the collective interior, our shared language, our ways of meaning making, our relationships). We will look at how the collective shadow plays out and how we can use it to our benefit.

This four-week series invites the listener to learn about our "shadow" through the Integral Theory. In Part 1, the focus of our shadow was healing and embracing our shadow as individuals and as organizations, the Upper Left quadrant. Part 2 focuses on the Upper Right quadrant, our bodies, and the systems and process within organizations. From before we are born, we encounter a never-ending stream of experience. Some we digest in a healthy way, and some remains undigested. The total sum of our undigested experience is what we refer to as our "shadow." To experience the fullness and wholeness of who we have come here to be, we must be willing to do our shadow work. To confront a person with their shadow is to show him or her their own light!

From before we are born, we encounter a never-ending stream of experience. Some we digest in a healthy way, and some remains undigested. The total sum of our undigested experience is what we refer to as our "shadow." To experience the fullness and wholeness of who we have come here to be, we must be willing to do our shadow work. 

To confront a person with their shadow is to show him or her their own light. Join Rev. Kelly as she embarks on a four-week journey of healing by embracing our shadow as individuals and as organizations.

We oftentimes find ourselves faced with questions that seemingly have no answer or spiritual truths that might appear impossible in the face of very challenging experiences. In this episode, Kelly and Rima talk about how to reconcile the practice of living with nothing and no one against us with the very real experience that bad things do sometimes happen. Many people are wondering about these difficult questions, especially as so many have been taking to the streets to voice their discontent with the current way we live and work together as a human family. We are sharing this discussion in hopes that it illustrates how to reconcile the notion that nothing and no one is against us, while still working for a better world.

In this episode guest Bruce Sanguin discusses his book, The Emerging Church: A Model for Change and a Map for Renewal, as an important practical guide for both ministers and spiritual seekers who are desiring to shift their culture toward a progressive form of Christianity. The book is peppered with insights from leading-edge science, including the science of emergence, chaos theory, quantum physics, field theory, spiral dynamics and evolutionary science. Tune in for a vision of Evolutionary Christianity and what is emerging.

Faith, as approached here, is not necessarily religious, nor is it to be equated with belief. Rather, faith is a person's way of leaning into and making sense of life. More verb than noun, faith is the dynamic system of images, values and commitments that guide one's life. It is thus universal: Everyone who chooses to go on living operates by some basic faith. Listen and discover how faith has developed in your life and will continue to do so!

Just in time for the holidays, Rev. Kelly Isola takes a deeper look at one of the most famous Christmas stories of all time that began as a classic Dr. Seuss book: The Grinch Who Stole Christmas. The Grinch's story is our own story of opening our hearts, healing our pain and coming together in community. Learn what some of the characters represent in this timeless Christmas classic.

The extraordinary events in our world continue to unfold, so we are taking a look at 2011 with a Year in Review from an evolutionary perspective. Joining Rev. Kelly Isola in conversation for this episode are Jeff Salzman, co-founder of Boulder Integral, and creator of The Integral Incubator, and David Riordan, vice president of Media Development for Integral Life, Inc. Listen in as we try to make integral and spiral sense of the ongoing revolutions in our world.

The stories of Jesus’ birth are the foundation of the world’s most widely observed holiday. Christmas is celebrated by the world’s 2 billion Christians, not to mention the many non-Christians who celebrate it as well. Because of the importance of Christmas, how we understand the different stories of Jesus’ birth matters. What we think of them—how we hear them, read them and interpret them—matters. These stories touch the deepest of human yearnings: for light in the darkness, for the fulfillment of our hopes, for a different kind of world. In this episode, Rev. Kelly takes a look at the historical meanings in their first-century context and the contemporary meanings for Christian understanding and commitment today.

In this episode, Rev. Kelly brings to life her own writings, titled "The Great Fullness of Life." Through song, meditation and contemplation, enjoy a unique and profound look at gratefulness and thankfulness as part of our evolutionary dance between our humanity and divinity.