Terry Patten is a philosopher, teacher, activist, consultant, social entrepreneur, and author. Over the last fifteen years he has devoted his efforts to the evolution of consciousness by facing, examining, and healing our global crisis through the marriage of spirit and activism. As a teacher and consultant, he has worked on four continents, led a team at the HeartMath Institute that developed their first heart-rate variability monitor, and is the founder of the "Beyond Awakening" teleseminar series. As a community builder, he founded Bay Area Integral. As a social entrepreneur, he founded Tools For Exploration, a consciousness technologies company and currently, he's involved in restorative redwood forestry and fossil-fuel alternatives. As an author, he co-wrote the book Integral Life Practice with Ken Wilber and a core team at the Integral Institute. His most recent book is A New Republic of the Heart: An Ethos for Revolutionaries.