For millennia, spirituality has been a deeply personal pursuit – monks on mountaintops and yogis in caves. But the world is more social than ever, and interconnectedness is transforming everything, from our family lives to work. Today, we need a spirituality that focuses more on “we” than “me.”
In Evolutionary Relationships, Patricia Albere draws on more than four decades of teaching work to introduce a new kind of spirituality called “mutual awakening” that can be explored with a partner. An “Evolutionary Relationship” is one that drives us, challenges us, compels us to grow and evolve. It is a consciously created connection that is formed between two or more people who mutually commit to explore and develop higher states of perception and awareness together. This book shows readers how to find and transform any committed relationship – whether with a spouse, lover, partner, close friend, or family member – into a dynamic engine for mutual evolution.
Evolutionary Relationships also contains current research on the psychological, cultural, scientific, and spiritual framework for mutual awakening. Albere builds on the work of esteemed developmental psychologists such as Abraham Maslow, Dr. David Hawkins, and Robert Kegan. She cites visionary futurists such as Barbara Marx Hubbard, and she identifies various levels of relating, explaining how these stages serve different human needs. The book also contains an insightful foreword by New York Times bestselling author Katherine Woodward Thomas.
This book is an experiential journey into a new way of relating and a practical workbook for deepening relationships. It includes a step-by-step guide to the author’s “Eight Activating Principles” for mutual awakening and a series of proven practices and methods that she has developed to achieve an Evolutionary Relationship with a partner.
Albere is an internationally known, contemporary spiritual teacher, working at ground zero of an evolutionary stream of spiritual awakening. She is the founder of the Evolutionary Collective and she has worked with over 200,000 people in groups during the past 40 years, innovating the new fields of post-personal development and intersubjective awakening. Albere also hosts the popular “Evolutionary Collective Conversations,” a global talk radio show with over 500,000 listeners, in which today’s evolutionary leaders join her for dynamic dialogues.
“Evolutionary Relationships is a vital, indeed magnificent contribution to our conscious evolution. Patricia Albere takes us by the hand and guides us through the transformative power of relating, with wisdom and brilliance. It’s a major work and essential reading for all of us now.”
~ Barbara Marx Hubbard, author of Conscious Evolution and The Hunger of Eve
“Patricia’s work is truly at the leading edge of 21st Century spirituality.”
~ Stephen Dinan, author of Sacred America and founder of The Shift Network
“Patricia Albere opens a transformative lens on relationship that is truly mutual and co-creative. She outlines the intentions and practices that make this frontier possible at a time when new structures for connecting and caring are essential."
~ Kathlyn Hendricks, Ph.D., BC-DMT, author of Conscious Loving and At The Speed Of Life
“Evolutionary Relationships offers a groundbreaking approach to intimacy and mutuality. Deeply personal, but based in thousands of hours of collaboration with people from all walks of life, Albere takes us to the upper limits of ‘We.’ This book provides not just a vision but an experience of the highest possibilities of human relating.”
~ Keith Witt, Ph.D., author of Integral Mindfulness and Waking Up
“Patricia Albere shares a message that impacts not only our personal relationships but the future of our planet. Her book illuminates our capacity for a higher order of relating that unleashes the power of love and creativity that inherently exists between us as human beings. This profound yet practical book offers clear advice for creating and developing the kind of relationships that can change ourselves, each other, and our world.”
~ Lynne Twist, author of The Soul of Money
“Patricia Albere hands us the kind of intimacy we have been starving for our whole lives. Evolutionary Relationships is a refreshing, enjoyable and innovative guide to
a new mutuality that stands to shape humanity for the next millennium. Required reading!”
~ Rob McNamara, author of The Elegant Self and Strength to Awaken
“Evolutionary Relationships is an ingenious work, transporting us to our innermost essence: Love. Patricia Albere’s innovative practices offer us the means to actualize this love-energy in our individual human relationships and expand it to include our world family. She reminds us that we are indeed One.”
~ Michael Bernard Beckwith, author of Spiritual Liberation and founder of Agape International Spiritual Center
“Meaningful human relationships provide the primary context in which spiritual experience and spiritual growth can occur. In her insightful book, Patricia Albere shares her practical, proven, and inspiring advice for gaining higher and deeper levels of mutuality with our partners. Her book will help readers find the full spiritual potential of their relationships and fulfill the promise of extraordinary love.”
~ Steve McIntosh, author of Evolution’s Purpose and Integral Consciousness
"In this beautifully-written book Patricia shares insights and practices to help you create deeper, more satisfying and fruitful relationships with all the people in your life.”
~ Jeff Salzman, curator of The Daily Evolver online magazine
