ACADEMY OF INNER SCIENCE
The Academy of Inner Science (AIS), which was founded by Thomas Huebl in 2008 is dedicated to contemporary mysticism, from which the own life, society and culture are actively created. Aim of the Academy is to connect the wisdom of the inner world with science in the outer world.
"In our society, spiritual competence and intelligence is not part of the central discourse at the moment. It is classified as non-scientific by science and described as esoteric. Like this, a power which could pay a great contribution to the development of our living together, is out of reach." (Thomas Huebl).
The offer of the Academy includes a training in spiritual practice, seminars and the participation in Inner Science Circles.
The central event is the three-year Timeless Wisdom Training. Core areas are meditation and the promotion of interpersonal clarity through Transparent Communication. In summer 2011 the first training has been completed by 70 participants. Another 90 are in the current second training, and this fall the third training is starting.
People who have been assisting Thomas Huebl in his seminars for several years, are giving seminars in Transparent Communication themselves in the meantime. Some graduates of the three-year training have joined what they have learned and their professional qualifications together to new competencies and are now passing these on. Also, there is a range of external speakers
The InnerScience Circles are the link to the different sectors of society and the academic life. This is where people who are working in the health system, in economy, in artistic professions and in the educational system are meeting. They are sharing experiences and are implementing the contents of the Academy into their working field. Together, they are trying out how their work is changing, if interpersonal clarity and the awareness for collective action is considered.
In contact with university institutions research projects are initiated. Here, solutions are created to answer the questions of our time. Intuition and the admittance of knowledge from a not-knowing space are important elements.
Vision of the Academy of InnerScience – The New We
Humanity is presented with challenges that cannot be answered adequately from our current level of consciousness. Answers are available only from within a more encompassing and awakened consciousness. Humans have been in this new phase of evolution for some time: thousands of people across the globe are now responding to the call and the necessity to develop themselves on inner levels. The global development in the next step of human consciousness is already taking place within an international network of movements and institutions.
While developmental processes may be experienced very differently, they all pass through similar vertical stages. They are subject to the principles of a timeless wisdom which is independent of current thinking and fashions. Individual inner experience is an inner exploration – Thomas Hübl calls it inner science.
This inner process changes a person's entire life, their personal relationships, their work situation and their dealings with money and resources, their responsibilities for their fellow humans, for nature – everything. We are inspired to think and say what has not been thought or said before, to plumb the depths of new inner-experience-spaces, to bring together things kept separated for too long, and to find appropriate and vital new answers for all aspects of our lives.
The Academy of InnerScience offers space for individual development of consciousness and is also a platform for new collective thinking, experimentation and research – forming a "new we".
STRUcture of the ACADEMY
The Academy has two main divisions - two merging streams, challenging and supporting each other.
The first division – consciousness – offers trainings and events and is dedicated to the practical aspects of the evolution of consciousness. The InnerScience Circles form the second division – research: study and work groups on subjects such as business and education. New groups are also being formed in the areas of health, creativity and art, as well as aging and death.
The primary offering of the first is the three-year Timeless Wisdom Training (TWT): an intensive introduction leading participants toward their inner wisdom and to an alignment to that which is higher, the one thing that encompasses all. Additionally, the AIS organizes workshops lasting several days for people who would like to contribute to the evolutionary process by exploring mystically-inspired answers within various social arenas.
The second division of the academy is oriented towards exploration and testing – research.
"Research within the AIS does not entail collecting statistics or scientific laboratory experiments. The aim is to question the inner and the external principles of living – those which may seem self-evident. The various experts find inspiration for the respective fields within deep mystical practice. Intuition and allowing knowledge to arise from a not-knowing space are important elements."
Research is organized in work groups: the InnerScience Circles. The results of the Circles are presented and shared with the public through talks, publications and congress. Through exchange and cooperation with international partner organizations, the Circles promote the emergence of a new spiritually-inspired science.
AIS-ELEMENTE DER ACADEMY
To walk the path of inner science most people need support. According to Thomas Hübl, this would include a teacher, a Sangha (a spiritual community), daily practice, a spiritual friend and some form of service to the world – all of which greatly advance the evolution of human consciousness. These supporting elements can be found in all areas of the AIS.
Teacher: Thomas Hübl is the founder, leader and spiritual teacher of the Academy of InnerScience. Teachers who are awake and connected-within support people in their evolution of consciousness. They help to recognize and transform unconscious conditionings and accompany people on their path towards the next higher level of evolution.
Sangha: Most people who have made timeless wisdom central to their lives find exchange with others in similar situations helpful and supportive – even vital. The Sangha, a spiritual community, is a central element in the AIS offering.
For example, all participants in the three-year Timeless Wisdom Training form a Sangha. They support each other in their developmental processes, are individually and at the same time together treading the same path of inner science. The members of the InnerScience Circles, as well as the practice groups for Transparent Communication, also form Sanghas.
Practice: Awakening to the deepest reality only rarely happens spontaneously. Most people require some form of regular spiritual practice. This leads them toward answers to those questions alive within the human collective at any moment. The techniques practiced in the AIS are a possible path leading to an awakened culture, although of course there are many other ways which also contain their own relative truths.
Practicing Transparency: Using Transparent Communication, conversation partners can transform areas of friction, and their unconscious thoughts and emotions into a clear and synchronized communication.
Practicing Vigilance and Wakefulness: Through meditation and contemplation we can anchor ourselves in the now and look beyond our own noses concerning the development of humankind.
Inner Connection to the Evolutionary Impulse: Through the practice of inspiration, creative dialogue, meditation and contemplation techniques, we are enabled to make our future potential come alive in the now, and to contribute to the process of life in a personally responsible way.
Spiritual Friend: For most people on the path of inner science it is very helpful to have a spiritual friend with whom they can exchange ideas and thoughts on the same level. In this kind of spiritual practice-partnership, inner work and reflecting back to each another - encouraging each other to continue on a challenging path - is central.
Service to the World: One effect of healthy spiritual development is that people become more compassionate as they develop, and so expand their radius of effect in the world. They have the natural desire to serve and to "give something back". In the Academy of InnerScience service to the world has a special status. All participants in the Timeless Wisdom Training create their own project in order to serve. Members of the InnerScience Circles share their findings from their research with the public. Participants of the various groups help prepare the annual Celebrate Life Festival as volunteers.
