Miranda Macpherson & Lisa Ferguson ~ Engaged Nonduality: Power, Abuse and Spiritual Bypassing

Let’s Talk about Power, Abuse and Spiritual Bypassing:
How Spirituality Can Help Us Address Harm and Create Change

An Engaged Nonduality Event
With Miranda Macpherson and Lisa Ferguson

Engaged Nonduality recognizes that awareness and response are not separate. The same ground of being that reveals our shared nature also moves as a compassionate, embodied response. In this view, the crises of our time—including racism and systemic injustice—are not distractions from awakening but invitations to live it.

We are in a moment of cultural reckoning about abuse and power.

The Epstein files reveal the way power and abuse, misogyny and racism, have been part of the underlying structure of our society.

Nondual teachings could be used to avoid these topics, or to retreat from taking action. However, they also have great potential to inform how we can skillfully interrupt harm and foster cultural change that benefits us all.

It can be challenging to face the underlying patterns of domination that are active in our society now. And we have a precious opportunity to allow ourselves to be deeply moved, to tend to our hearts, and to engage in skillful action.

In this event we’ll explore the resource of our true nature in discovering fresh, creative responses to harm. We’ll invite us to come into a healthy relationship with power and accountability as an expression of nondual compassion.

Together we’ll explore:

• How intercepting abuse is a natural human response—and what holds us back from this natural instinct.
• How “spiritual bypassing” keeps systems of domination intact and what we can do instead.
• Ways to recognize and use power consciously—whether in leadership, family, or community roles.
• How to act from integrity and our deepest knowing in the face of systemic and personal harm.

Bios

Miranda Macpherson is a contemporary spiritual teacher who has been guiding others into direct experience of the sacred for over thirty years internationally. In her twenties she founded the OneSpirit Interfaith Foundation in London, where she trained and ordained over 600 ministers and counsellors. Today Miranda leads the Living Grace Global Sangha, leads retreats internationally, broadcasts extensively and serves as core faculty at The Shift Network. She is an advisor to the Association for Spiritual Integrity.

Unapologetically feminine, joyful and down to earth in her way of being, Miranda is dedicated to loving people all the way back into the freedom and wholeness of our True Nature. Further, Miranda invites others to become more graceful human beings, embodying creative, peaceful and wise action that serves our loved ones and the human family in these enormous times.

Miranda’s books include The Way of Grace: the Transforming Power of Ego Relaxation (Sounds True), Boundless Love (Rider) and Meditations on Boundless Love (Sounds True), and the Cultivating Grace Card Deck. Miranda is also a kirtan musician and singer with 2 mantra albums – Streams of Grace and The Heart of Being. Find out more at www.mirandamacpherson.com

Lisa Ferguson, Ph.D., integrates awakening, healing, and action in her work on Engaged Nonduality: how our spiritual recognition is embodied in response to planetary crises, injustice and suffering. Through groups, 1:1 sessions, and public events, she holds space for personal and collective awakening and skillful action.

Lisa has worked closely with John Prendergast as a mentee and co-leader of Engaged Nonduality offerings, and has facilitated a meditative inquiry group for several years.
Based on her experience as a change agent and organizer, she founded Climate Compassion in 2015 to support the inner and outer work of responding to our planetary crises with wise action and a compassionate heart.

About The Engaged Nonduality series
This Engaged Nonduality series, hosted by Lisa Ferguson, explores how nondual wisdom may respond to our world in crisis. We live in a time of multiple intersecting crises that threaten the wellbeing of all life, including climate breakdown, unaligned tech and AI, injustice, war and authoritarianism. The recognition of nonduality has much to offer in these times, including a deep knowing of our wholeness and shared Being, as well as opening to the wellspring of our wise and creative response.

Sliding Scale: $15 to $40
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