*photo from Chuck McKenna

“For those who do not belong to a religious community, are interspiritual, or spiritual but not religious, one may feel lost without the ideals of an established tradition. Yet, there is a sacred path, interior to every person, an organic constellation of wisdom imprinted in each soul. This universal process or path is occurring in our depth. It involves spiritual transformation—purifying old habits, stages of growth, and opening one’s heart to love. The motivation of inner transformation is to receive and act upon the presence of the sacred within us, thus opening ourselves to a life of wisdom and meaning.”

― Beverly Lanzetta, “Turning One’s Life Around,”

Unpublished Lecture, April 13, 2022. 

Shared Spiritual Heritage BIPOC Learning Cohort

The Fetzer Institute’s Shared Spiritual Heritage BIPOC Learning Cohort, including Charis Foundation’s co-founder Netanel Miles-Yépez met at the Fetzer Institute in Kalamazoo, Michigan, from July 23-26, 2024, to dialogue on the spiritual infrastructure of the future.

Upcoming Offerings

Soul Dreams Circle

Discovering the Feminine Language of the Soul

in Dreams and Spiritual Experiences

Throughout history, certain individuals have carried the wisdom of the symbolic realms on Earth. These messengers of the inner worlds utilized dream interpretation as a powerful tool to aid in healing and living in harmony with one’s destiny and the natural world. The feminine aspect of our being has a natural affinity for this symbolic dimension of life. Unlike our masculine linear thinking that dissects details for understanding, symbols encapsulate entire messages within a single element, offering synthesis and simplicity from a different dimension of existence: the inner realm or the Feminine. This is why symbols often appear in dreams.

Learning to interpret the language of our inner selves through dreams, visions, and spiritual experiences is a natural path to self-knowledge and transformation. This practice deepens our intuition, aligns us with our core spirituality, and infuses our lives with meaning. Dream study allows us to connect with our inner teacher, our Soul, and gradually understand its profound messages. This inner journey also fosters interspiritual bridges, promoting peaceful understanding and acceptance of others and ourselves.

We invite you to join our Soul Dreams Circle, an enriching series of ten bi-monthly, 120-minute meetings. We will explore different types of dreams and spiritual experiences. Each session begins with a short centering and moment of silent meditation, followed by a time to learn, share, analyze, and listen to the messages that our souls bring to us.

If you are interested in joining, please start documenting your dreams and intuitive and spiritual experiences from now until our first circle, or continue recording them in your dream journal. We will be working with both old and new oneiric material.

September 2024 – January 2025

2nd and 4th Wednesdays each month

4 – 6pm PT / 7 – 9pm ET

$120 for the course

For more information and to register please email

 alejandra@charisinterspirituality.org

Taught by Alejandra Warden, our Charis Circles Director

To learn more about Alejandra please visit: https://charisinterspirituality.org/alejandra-warden

The New Monastics Podcast

In this episode, Psychology East and West: A Retrospective on a Dialogue between Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche and Ram Dass, we do a retrospective on a dialogue that took place in 1974 during the first summer session of the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado. The dialogue was called “Psychology East and West” and explored a number of differences in understanding and approach to the notion of ego between so-called “Western psychology” and what were then thought of as “Eastern” spiritual traditions. The participants included the well-known spiritual teachers, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche and Ram Dass, as well as the co-founder and Vice-President of Naropa, John Baker, and the therapist, Jim Green. The dialogue was moderated by Duncan Campbell.

The full dialogue can be heard on the Ram Dass — Here and Now podcast: Ep. 112, The Notion of Ego with Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche

The New Monastics Podcast can be found on Spotify, Apple, YouTube, iHeart radio, and more.

Nature’s Corner from Charis Mandala Sanctuary