Intra-religious Dialogue Series

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Dear Friend,

At this threshold in time, we are confronted with many challenges to our global health and wellbeing. Underlying the myriad environmental issues and social injustice is the modern illusion of an isolated, separate identity. Thomas Merton called it “the false self,” Beatrice Bruteau called it “the descriptive self,” and Dan Siegel calls it “the solo-self.” With the rise of Artificial Intelligence, we as a species are also being asked to redefine what it means to be human and how to become more human together.

With this context, we warmly invite you to join a 15-week experiment evolving our collective consciousness through Intrareligious Dialogue, beginning on September 13th 2026.

This is not a course in the conventional sense, but a living adventure—a practice of listening, reflecting, voicing, and respecting. Dialogue here becomes a way of remembering: remembering that we are intraconnected, remembering that differences are doorways into wholeness, remembering that our personal awakening is inseparable from the evolution of the whole.

The process will unfold through three interwoven dimensions:

• Individual work — tending the inner soil of awareness, cultivating presence, and opening to transformation. This includes personal contemplative practices and shadow work.
• Work with others — building communities of trust, compassion, respect, and shared inquiry, where diverse voices weave a larger song.
• Work that integrates traditions and is grounded in the Earth — offering ourselves in service to the wider stream of consciousness, to the renewal of collective wisdom, and to the healing of our planetary home.

Across these weeks, we will draw from readings, reflections, and wisdom from many traditions and disciplines—spiritual, philosophical, scientific, ecological—allowing diverse voices to guide us into a more integrated sense of self and a deeper participation in the evolution of our collective consciousness.

Here, dialogue is more than words. It is a practice of love, of presence, of reawakening to our place in the great web of life.

We invite you to bring your openness, your longing, and your presence into this circle. Together, let us rediscover the joy of belonging, the strength of communion, and the possibility of transformation.

“May this circle be a sanctuary of healing, a wellspring of love, and a quiet opening into the mystery of awakening—within us, between us, and for the Earth.”

With warmth and reverence,

CILA

Important: Upon payment completion please share your email ID to Pooja.joshi@cilauniverse.com OR Jim.saveland@cilauniverse.com to receive the zoom link. Alternately, reach out via text or email to the person you received the invite from.