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

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 Pete's 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

My membership in the Men's Collective for 6 years was highly transformative. It was time to recover a new awareness about myself and gain a new inner freedom, which today allows me to express more genuinely who I really am.

This time allowed me to awaken to the beauty and importance of being in a collective with other men who seek to live from their most genuine being, who seek to live a more integrated and harmonious masculinity, who seek to live intimate relationships with other men, from from a place of vulnerability, dropping the masks of conditioned and toxic masculinity. I was able to experience the transformative and healing potential of open and authentic sharing. I was able to enjoy the enormous richness of complicity and mutual support, like someone guarding a fragile and, at the same time, sacred treasure.

Over the years I was able to live very diverse moments and experiences, which, like a puzzle, became pieces that helped to build a new perspective and a new awareness about myself, even about what spirituality is, about the world. I grew in the ability to recover the strength and power of my masculinity, becoming a more authentic man. I grew in confidence and in the ability to surrender to the abundance of life. I grew up with the desire to express my voice in a more authentic and spontaneous way, as I dealt with many fears and insecurities that made me believe I was not enough. I grew in the desire to allow myself to feel and enjoy the pleasure of life with all intensity and freedom. I have grown in the ability to compromise with other men to take full responsibility for my life.

I have deep gratitude and respect for Pete Bampton, for his wisdom, humility, coherence and the strength with which he guided us with his profoundly liberating and challenging teachings. With the mastery and support of Pete and the group, I entered very dark places within myself, experiencing moments of intense emotional catharsis, allowing me to release very deep ties and conditioning that prevented me from seeing who I truly was.

Today I feel like a much more mature, more conscious and much happier man. I recognize that the happiness I experience in my personal life, particularly in my relationship with my partner, and professionally as a therapist is largely the result of everything I have been able to experience throughout these years in the Men's Collective. It was a great honour to be part of it. Thank you, thank you very much!

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