Terry Patten was a philosopher, author, activist, social entrepreneur, consultant, coach, and the author of the groundbreaking book, A New Republic of the Heart: An Ethos for Revolutionaries.

As an author, he co-wrote the book Integral Life Practice (with Ken Wilber, Adam Leonard and Marco Morelli) which distills ancient and modern practices into a contemporary transformational lifestyle. He has also authored three previous books and over two dozen book chapters, magazine articles and academic papers published in peer-reviewed journals.

As a philosopher-activist, he has long been a leading voice for facing, examining, and healing our global crisis through the marriage of higher consciousness and activism. As creator and host of the webcast “Beyond Awakening,” he has explored the biggest questions of our time in over a hundred public conversations with some of the world’s most prominent and dynamic thought leaders.

As a teacher and coach, he has introduced thousands of people to Integral Practice in person and over the web where he created and taught the online courses, Integral Spiritual Practice, Living the Integral Heart, An Integral Soul Journey, and Awakening Your Revolutionary Heart. And he has helped hundreds of people activate a transformative practice, realize awakened consciousness, and discover and fulfill their life purpose.    

As a community organizer, he founded and leads Bay Area Integral, which gathers and supports an integral community in the San Francisco Bay Area. His roots as an organizer go back to his childhood. He was raised in an intentional community founded “as a witness for peace and brotherhood”, the York Center Community Co-operative outside Chicago, and he spent the first fifteen years of his adult life doing intense radical spiritual practice in the ashram founded by Adi Da Samraj.

As a social entrepreneur and consultant, he founded the pioneering consciousness technology company, Tools For Exploration, led a team at the HeartMath Institute that developed their first heart-rate variability monitor, and he is currently involved in businesses engaged in restorative redwood forestry, developing fossil-fuel alternatives, addressing collective trauma, and creating new currencies for a sustainable economy.

Terry died Oct 30, 2021 as he lived: with open arms and open heart, offering his own passing as something that we all can learn from so that we can actually face the death of species, ecosystems, and perhaps complex life on this planet.

He said that this life threatening time was also “life brightening,” so infused with love, beauty, and recognition of the preciousness of every living moment. Terry was a true spiritual warrior.