Fire of the Heart

When you're learning you're burning, putting out a lot of heat. When you are all burned up, then you become light - Adi Da

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The Fire of the Heart is a penetrating and profound journey into the radical immediacy and evolutionary potential of Spiritual Awakening here and now.

Anchored in a simple yet illuminating approach to True Meditation, the Awakening Process that Peter describes is direct, contemporary, and includes the totality of manifest existence in its integral embrace.

The writing is fluid and accessible for beginners with no previous experience of meditation or the spiritual path, and also reveals a subtlety about the nature of mind and non-duality that offers infinite depth for even the most experienced aspirants.

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O Fogo do Coração é uma jornada penetrante e profunda à urgência radical e potencial evolucionário do Despertar Espiritual aqui e agora.

Ancorado numa abordagem simples, porém iluminadora, à Verdadeira Meditação, o Processo de Despertar que o Pete descreve é direto, contemporâneo, e inclui a totalidade da existência manifesta na sua abrangência integral.

A escrita é fluida e acessível a principiantes sem experiência em meditação ou no caminho espiritual, e também revela uma subtileza sobre a natureza da mente e não-dualidade que oferece uma profundidade infinita para os aspirantes mais experientes.

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Testimonials of Transformation

A minha pertença ao grupo de homens - Men's Collective - durante 6 anos foi altamente transformadora. Foi tempo de resgatar uma nova consciência acerca de mim próprio e ganhar uma nova liberdade interior, que me permite hoje expressar mais genuinamente quem sou realmente.

Este tempo permitiu-me despertar para a beleza e importância de estar em coletividade com outros homens que procuram viver a partir do seu ser mais genuíno, que procuram viver uma masculinidade mais integrada e harmoniosa, que procuram viver relações íntimas com outros homens, a partir de um lugar de vulnerabilidade, deixando cair as máscaras de uma masculinidade condicionada e tóxica. Pude experimentar o potencial transformador e curativo da partilha aberta e autêntica. Pude desfrutar da enorme riqueza da cumplicidade e do apoio mútuo, como quem guarda um tesouro frágil e, ao mesmo tempo, sagrado.

Ao longo dos anos pude viver momentos e experiências muito diversificadas, que como um puzzle, foram sendo peças que foram ajudando a construir um novo olhar e uma nova consciência sobre mim, mesmo sobre o que é a espiritualidade, sobre o mundo. Cresci na capacidade de resgatar a força e o poder da minha masculinidade, tornando-me um homem mais autêntico. Cresci em confiança e na capacidade de me entregar à abundância da vida. Cresci com o desejo de expressar minha voz de uma forma mais autêntica e espontânea, pois lidei com muitos medos e inseguranças que me faziam acreditar que não era suficiente. Cresci na vontade de me permitir sentir e aproveitar o prazer da vida com toda intensidade e liberdade. Cresci na capacidade de me comprometer com outros homens para assumir total responsabilidade por minha vida.

Tenho uma profunda gratidão e respeito ao Pete Bampton pela sua sabedoria, humildade coerência e fortaleza com que nos foi guiando com os seus ensinamentos profundamente sábios e desafiantes. Com a mestria e o apoio do Pete e do grupo, entrei em lugares muito sombrios de mim mesmo, vivendo momentos de intensa catarse emocional, permitindo-me libertar amarras e condicionamentos muito profundos que não me deixavam ver quem eu era verdadeiramente

Hoje sinto-me um homem muito mais maduro, mais consciente e muito mais feliz. Reconheço que a felicidade que vivo na minha vida pessoal, em particular na relação com a minha companheira, e profissional como terapeuta é muito fruto de tudo o que pude vivenciar ao longo deste ano no coletivo. Foi uma honra muito grande ter pertencido a este coletivo. Obrigado, muito obrigado.

Rui Ribeiro, Portugal

Working with Pete is akin jumping of a cliff, it is a deep dive into the unknown. In the process my ideas about pretty much everything, my sacred cows, my inherited belief systems, are being shattered. In that radical deconstruction I am left with little but the intensity of Life and Consciousness Itself. It can, at times, be an ordeal of excruciating pain, but it is also humorous and joyful as I find myself overwhelmed by a deeply liberated Happiness sourced in Love itself. Pete is a daring and unconventional teacher, a fiercely fearless man whose passion for freedom has been tested over and over through an extraordinary life of spiritual practices and challenges. He is in love with the spontaneous flow of the creativity of Life and it is through that surrender that he lives and teaches me. Pete is also an elder who offers a desperately needed raw model of masculinity that guides me and many others to reclaim their true and authentic masculinity.

Bernard Erken, Belgium

What I found here is the authentic transmission that Freedom and Happiness are not to be sought but are the most fundamental expression of who we inherently are. In my experience, the dawning of this understanding has been and still is utterly shattering, overwhelming and ground breaking. And as I endure the burning of my false ideas and presumptions, I am left with a broken heart that is bursting with joy, fullness and gratitude. It is also my experience that this Awakened context is the very ground in which we live, meet, inquire and grow up together. It is the very basis of our shared commitment as well as the basis for a new emerging culture that we are living in between us and as us, founded on love, truth and trust. As ideas of limitation and separation are simply obliterated, we are collectively overwhelmed by love for a great Mystery, each other and the world.

Joel Besace, France

Peter is an extraordinary teacher and a human being with a lot of depth, humor, integrity and most importantly, unique capacity to transmit the profound spiritual truth and the joy of awakening. First meditation retreat guided by Peter that I attended in 2019 radically changed my life, i got in touch with the quietness of my own being and happiness of being alive like never before. Attending retreats and talks with Pete always brings me to the inherent recognition of fullness, expansion and freedom, sparks curiosity, and challenges all my limiting beliefs. I'm very grateful for having Peter's guidance in my life, while discovering who I truly am and fully living it in manifestation – in a woman's body, in a messy world today, prior to all conditioning and free from it all!

Alexandra, Russia

When I read testimonials that say "this changed my life" I am always suspicious. But in this case I have no choice but to say exactly that: this retreat changed my life. I know it sounds cheesy but due to this retreat my life changed. That's a fact! This retreat showed me what I was missing. A brotherhood, an intimacy between men. The immediate safety to just drop every mask and be real was so impressive that I wanted more. I learned a lot about how I was acting as the "nice guy", forgetting about the warrior in me.

A big thank you to Pete, he is an amazing teacher and guided this retreat just perfectly with strength and yet an open heart.

(A recommendation: only join one of these retreats if you are available for your life to be turned upside down)

Viktor, Germany

Finally! I have been looking for something like the Men's Collective for such a long time! All I was able to find before this experience was a series of techniques, names, approaches which were great but at the same time so limited. The Awakened Life Project is something completely different. It is just Being. So simple and profound but so often there is so much resistance at the same time. Truly beautiful to discover profound connection with other men, to open our hearts because the only goal of everyone is to help each other to grow. In this context of trust and willingness to avoid nothing we can be vulnerable, get challenged in our beliefs, be supported and inquire and at the same time support and challenge others on the real topics that are limiting us from becoming an authentic man: patriarchy, selfishness, control, power, lust and so on.

Marco Nilo, Italy

Learning with Pete in Awakened Life Project was a truly profound journey. When I ask myself why that is, I can only say because we did't stop at what we thought we knew already. We were constantly looking beyond conventional norms and because of that we are discovering each other and ourselves always new and fresh. The way I look at masculinity and femininity today has nothing to do with the way I looked at it 10 or even 2 years ago. I am so relieved to let go of a false sense of strength and superiority towards men. Through that I have been discovering a softness and power that is not controlling, but rather surrendering, and that can embrace the qualities that men have to offer.

Pete was been instrumental in facilitating that shift within our collective Sangha and also within me personally. He held a space where we can explore pretty much everything without taboo. This is very important to get to the root of things. I have witnessed countless times how through that something is set free collectively and we are all lifted beyond limitation and separation to a higher level of consciousness.

Sandra, Germany