Integral Awareness Meditation
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Eugene Pustoshkin

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Eugene Pustoshkin

Eugene Pustoshkin is a clinical psychologist, an alumnus of St. Petersburg University's Faculty of Psychology.

Eugene has been translating and interpreting Ken Wilber's books and works by other authors on Integral Meta-Theory and Practice and Transpersonal Psychology for more than a decade.

He is a co-developer and teacher of Integral Awareness Meditation (IAM).

He is a chief editor of Eros & Kosmos, an Integral and transpersonal online magazine/journal, and a bureau chief & associate editor of Integral Leadership Review.

Eugene acts as an advisor on consciousness research for profi (ex-awarenow) (USA), a wellbeing-on-demand platform.

Eugene maintains private psychological, counselling and consulting practice, and offers individual sessions by Skype to clients from around the world.

Contact email: eapustoshkin@gmail.com

Eugene Pustoshkin is a major representative and promoter of Integral Meta-Theory in Russia. He has a superb understanding of this radically new approach, and he has worked endlessly to get it accepted and spread in Russia (and elsewhere). He has particularly helped by translating many of my works into Russian, and has done a brilliant job with this task. I'm deeply grateful to the work he has done to help promote and spread Integral Meta-Theory, and I can certainly recommend highly any projects that he is associated with.

Ken Wilber

Philosopher, founder of Integral Theory and Practice, author of "A Brief History of Everything", "Integral Spirituality", "The Integral Vision", and "Sex, Ecology, Spirituality" (and numerous other books)

Ken Wilber
Philosopher, founder of Integral Theory and Practice, author of "A Brief History of Everything", "Integral Spirituality", "The Integral Vision", and "Sex, Ecology, Spirituality" (and numerous other books)
Eugene Pustoshkin is a major representative and promoter of Integral Meta-Theory in Russia. He has a superb understanding of this radically new approach, and he has worked endlessly to get it accepted and spread in Russia (and elsewhere). He has particularly helped by translating many of my works into Russian, and has done a brilliant job with this task. I'm deeply grateful to the work he has done to help promote and spread Integral Meta-Theory, and I can certainly recommend highly any projects that he is associated with.

Integral Awareness Meditation

Integral Awareness Meditation (IAM; also often presented as "Integral Meditation" for brevity and in continuation with the Integral lineage) is an integrative approach to mindfulness practice and cultivating meditative states which combines powerful insights offered by various paradigms such as

— Ken Wilber's Integral Psychology & Spirituality¹,
— various integrative approaches,
— as well as various contemplative & psychological traditions (Indo-Tibetan lineages, nondual Tantric and Taoistic energy practices, and mindful presence practices coming from Western psychology and psychotherapy—including transpersonal psychologies and studies of altered states)
— and developmental models (Susanne Cook-Greuter's ego development, Robert Kegan's orders of consciousness, Clare Graves' values systems, etc.).

¹ Integral Psychology and Integral Spirituality are theoretical and methodological approaches developed by Denver-based Integral thinker Ken Wilber. He developed a metaparadigmatic approach called Integral AQAL Framework which helps in cultivating what is called Integral Vision of the world, in which the best of premodern, modern and postmodern truths are integrated in an overarching Integral view.

An essential component of Integral Spirituality is its postmetaphysical stance. The myth of the given—the idea that eternal things are just lying there waiting to be discovered (as opposed to understanding that our consciousness is actually co-enacting phenomena, even in most advanced contemplative experiences)—is abandoned, and a more up-to-date evolutionary and (meta)constructivist perspective on all phenomena is adopted.

This sets up a solid theoretical and methodological foundation for our holistic transformative practices.

Spacious Awareness vs. Narrow Attention in Integral Awareness Meditation

Eugene Pustoshkin & Tatyana Parfenova

Often contemplative practice, meditation, and mindfulness practices are associated with focused, concentrated attention. Concentration (e.g., on breathing) tends to be conceived as a gateway even to mindfulness. (Mindfulness is usually defined as non-judgmental awareness of everything that is arising moment to moment.) There are, however, contemplative practices that stress not concentration as narrowing down of attention towards exclusive staying with a single figure/object but deconcentration and a sort of decentering as gradual or rapid widening of attention in order to gain access to spacious awareness (openness to the entire field which evenly encompasses both foreground and background). In Integral Awareness Meditation (IAM) concentration is always practiced in conjunction with—and on the basis of—deconcentration, with the latter being a primary mode of bringing forth open wide-awake consciousness state that allows accessing different layers of awareness even in novice practitioners. Altered states of meditative consciousness can be easily enacted and developed this way, and energy field resonances manifest as operands at more advanced state-stages of IAM.

This text is a slightly modified abstract that described the Integral Awareness Meditation experiential workshop presented at the online Integral European Conference 2021

Integral Awareness Meditation at
Conscious Evolution Summit 2020

How I can support you in your growth

I can help you in developing a profound connection with your deeper heartfelt presence and psychologically optimistic embodiment, growing into your fuller human potential.

It is done by utilizing extraordinary states of consciousness and peak experiences, spontaneously available to you as well as any human being, if only one learns a proper way to interact with one's own awareness and its flowing processes.

For this we will be implementing a special psychopractical system of Integral Awareness Meditation combined with Integral Psychology, a unique meta-method that synthesizes understanding of many schools of Western and Eastern psychology.

If necessary, this learning can be done implicitly, through interesting dialogue and dialogical meditations.

My work is developmentally informed by various schools of psychotherapy, adult (vertical) developmental psychology, as well as by various wisdom traditions and systems.

How we can work together

You can invite me to your city to facilitate a workshop in Integral Awareness Meditation (IAM) and/or Integral Psychology on such topics as:

• Integral Awareness Process, an integral meta-paradigm of practical psychology, communication, and self-transformation that sees whole life as a meditation process;
• a practical and existential use of AQAL Integral Framework for your personal and interpersonal transformation;
• transpersonal & existential investigation of the potentials of your deeper self-awareness;
• integral shadow work, including a very special form of 3-2-1-0-process;
• vertical development through stages and horizontal development through states of consciousness—including the processes of "growing up," "waking up," "cleaning up," and "showing up";
• etc.

We also can have a one-on-one Skype/Zoom session, using an integral feeling-awareness to explore the hidden potentials of your lifebody—and explore any of those topics and beyond.

Integral Awareness Meditation session with Eugene

A 15-min Integral Meditation session

An example of a short session in Integral Meditation (a basic introductory level of the system) offered for AwareNow—a wellbeing on-demand platform

A 20-min Integral mindfulness-based therapy session

An example of a short Integral Awareness session for a psychological issue offered for AwareNow—a wellbeing on-demand platform

Integral Meditation Session

Presentation at The Science of Consciousness Online Conference (September 14, 2020) organized by The University of Arizona Center for Consciousness Studies

Further Reading

Articles by Eugene Pustoshkin that describe essential aspects
of the Integral approaches:

• “Integral Meditation as a Method of Inducing Altered States of Consciousness in Mindfulness, Psychotherapy and Daily Functioning"; co-author: Tatyana Parfenova (The Science of Consciousness Online Conference, September 14, 2020)—abstract and video.
• “Integral Meditation" (awarenow wiki, 2019)
• “Integral Psychology" (awarenow wiki, 2019)
• “Integral Psychotherapy" (awarenow wiki, 2019)
• “AQAL" (awarenow wiki, 2019)

Workshop Descriptions

• “Integral Meditation for Waking Up & Growing Up" (European Transpersonal Association (EUROTAS-2018) Conference, St. Petersburg, September 19–23, 2018)

Eugene Pustoshkin's blog in English

For me [Integral Awareness Meditation] was an eye-opening experience. I always struggle with calming my mind during meditation, that's why I was so grateful with this technique. Being able to take my whole experience and work with it allowed me to enter a beautiful trance state that felt just right for me. So organic and so powerful. I taught some of my friends the equalizing of the visual field and they were amazed. I recommend this simple and direct technique to all the monkey minds out there, this is right for ya!
Diego Zúñiga Pino (Chile)
Social entrepreneur and organizational coach; creator of the group facilitation methodology Espacios Humanos that connects people to their inner power through serious games; participant of the Integral Meditation workshop (facilitated by Eugene Pustoshkin) at the Integral European Conference 2018

Hello IEC friends, old and new!

I have attended and greatly enjoyed all of the prior IEC conferences, but will unfortunately not be able to attend IEC 2020. I will especially miss Eugene Pustoshkin's Integral Meditation workshop.

Eugene is an amazing teacher and facilitator, who uses a psychopractical system of [Integral Awareness Meditation]. This stuff is real and useful! Eugene empowers workshop participants to enter into, and work with, non-ordinary states of consciousness, and to recognize that this ability was always already theirs.

Eugene's workshops are highly experiential: he leads participants to open their doors of perception a little wider and to experience their psychospiritual exploration in an embodied way.

Eugene fosters understanding among workshop participants by establishing a strong morphic field within the group (Christopher Bache would be impressed, I think).

Eugene's methods are based on solid research and experience. You only need to check out some of his writing in the Integral Leadership Review, to see that his practical enactment of AQAL is based on solid scholarship.

And finally, my description of Eugene's approach would not be complete without mentioning his amazing ability to focus attention – and thus energy. If you are curious about this, I encourage you to arrange for an individual session with Eugene.

I wish you all a great conference!

— Veronika Bohac Clarke
PhD, Associate Professor, Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary, Canada; Editor, Integral Theory and Transdisciplinary Action Research in Education (IGI Global, 2019)

Participant of the Integral Meditation workshop (facilitated by Eugene Pustoshkin) at the Integral European Conference 2018. She also took individual online meditation sessions with Eugene.

I myself got a great amount of value from the [Integral Awareness Meditation] lately. Equally redistributing awareness throughout all sensory/mental channels made a huge difference in my daily experiences. <…>

Again the most impact recently was the inclusion of Integral Meditation. Meditating with my eyes open automatically transferred to so many situations in my life. It made it kind of easy to get into a meditative state during work, walking, eating, or whatever else. Becoming more aware of my peripheral vision changed all my habitual fixations or avoidances in subtle ways in just weeks. This helped me get my work done even when I was feeling tired, which usually would have led to procrastination. I did not have to push myself through any more discomfort though. I simply became more aware of my reactions to my increased restlessness during sleep deprivation.
— Tim Schneider
health psychologist, business psychologist, entrepreneur, meditator), “How to Take Your Meditation to the Next Level"