Select the linked section(s) below that most appeal to your donation interests or questions: - Easy Ways to Donate (Online, Mail, Fax, Direct Deposit, Other)
- Why Donate at this Time
- What it Means to Your Integral and Spiritual Lifestyle When You Donate to Integrative Spirituality
- Our Transparent and Responsible Donation Stewardship
- Donate, Personal Property, Planned Giving (Cars, boats, airplanes, jewelry, stocks, bonds, art antiques, real estate, trusts bequests, etc.)
- Become an Annual Supporting Member and get other great benefits
Thank you for for considering donating to our non profit organization. If you want to see our current goals for these donations, click here.
Why Donate at this Time?
- We are helping to support your and many others balanced spiritual transformation and growth.
Your helping to co-create a completely new form of open source integral and evolutionary Universe Spirituality that is spreading new inclusive solutions, principles and processes to it's own rapidly growing membership, to new visitors and to the other religions of the world. This new spirituality is a tremendous source of spiritual leverage, hope and energy that is vitally needed to help resolve the global and local challenges that we and our fellow planetary citizens now face.
If you believe in the tremendous leverage that a healthy, balanced Universe Spirituality can bring to bear to resolve the problems of our personal lives and the world, then donating to help us achieve our goals is also nothing more than an enlightened self interest investment in your own highest truth, values and commitments and future.
You participate in the universal flow of abundance, which is your right and privilege.
Your contributions help create an alliance that unifies us in pursuing spiritual truth, beauty and goodness and the planting of seeds for a different kind of future for the planet.
You receive the tax deduction benefits of contributing to a religious not for profit.
We are financially transparent so that members and contributors are aware of where all funding is directed. To see our current tax return click here.
We always promote wise and balanced donation practices. Click here for our Contribution Guidelines and Safeguards
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Easy Ways to Donate by Credit Card, Fax, Mail and Direct Deposit:
- Donate online by Credit Card two ways for your ease:
- If you have a Pay Pal account, click the Pay Pal Donation icon below or the Donate online by Credit Card link below. If you don’t have a Pay Pal account, it is easy to set one up and making the online donation is just one click after that.
Donate Online by Credit Card
2.) If you’re an Amazon.com user, click the Honor system link below or the Amazon Honor system payment link below. If you have already entered your credit card at Amazon, it is one fast click to make your donation.
Amazon Honor System Payment
- Donate by Mail: Check or Money Order contributions may be mailed to Integrative Spirituality, PO Box 1508, Sausalito, CA 94965. (Integrative Spirituality is the non-profit organization that birthed Universe Spirituality.) Please send the following form along with your contribution. For contribution Form Click here.
- Donate by an on-GOING CONTRIBUTION PROGRAM: Donate monthly and join together with thousands of individuals who choose to integrate our mission into their lives by donating a fixed amount every month. This can be arranged by check, credit card or by direct bank transfer (which also keeps overhead minimized.)
- Donate by Fax:
Click here for a faxable form you can fill out and fax to us with your credit card payment or mail with your check. Fax to 1-866-812-6828.
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- You honor your soul/spirit by supporting a clear integral and integrative path for articulating it's highest values.
- You liberate and pay tribute to your highest self and the Divine within you.
- A portion of your spending becomes aligned to support your best integral visions for a better world.
- Abundance is released and flows like a river for you and others to receive and drink from.
- You make a statement "My life is about more than just accumulation".
- Others are inspired by your support commitment and actions to bring about a better world for self and others.
- When your attention is put on contribution to a common, beneficial and larger union, new and unexpected areas of your life will begin to flourish.
- Courage and strength is developed when one can let go and give.
- Letting go of what you have been holding onto opens up new spectrums of possibilities.
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Whether to Donate or Not to Donate? Our Open Access Culture of Fair Exchange Regarding Our Courses, Services and Events The general rule in spiritual exploration is that somewhere within the first one or two courses, services or events in which you participate you should experience some tangible and meaningful benefit. To produce a personally important and major change in one's life takes about 6 months of both learning and practicing the new spiritual discipline.
Participating in any of our courses, services or events should provide you with some real value and tangible benefits. These benefits and values can be in the form of a changed or improved perspective or attitude, a new commitment or even a new behavior. They also can be in the form of educational or personal support that helps you heal or maintain some new habit to live better. There are many faces to small and large benefits that we believe our courses, services and events can provide to you and best of all --- you are always the final authority who gets to be the judge what that value is!
Free and Open Access to All Courses, Services and Events --- What it means!
We offer all of our courses, services and events to you on a free and open access basis. You do not have to pay something to start them or attend, but if you are benefiting from them that does not mean that they are free from some form of fair exchange. All courses, services or events that we provide are presented on a voluntary donate what you think is appropriate or exchange something of value with us basis. This voluntary donation exchange system is based completely upon both what you feel is appropriate to your financial means and according to the real value or benefit that you feel our courses, services or events have brought into your life.
Often we have a suggested donation listed for our courses, services and events. This is only a suggested donation level and is subject to the principles in this summary regarding the importance of fair "energy" exchange within our community. Any suggested donation amount that we might list for a course, service or event is determined by several factors:
1.) the reasonable costs to both create and administrate the course, service or event,
2.) our best estimate of what a person at the average income median can reasonably afford in our area (Our median income area is the San Francisco Bay area of the United States.) for...
3.) the value that we have seen that the course, service or event can reasonably deliver.
If you were located in a different country or in a different area of the US, this suggested donation amount that uses the average income median of your area would therefore change to be more or less expensive than the San Francisco area. Our suggested donation amount also allows you to increase that amount or decrease it if you have a greater or lesser income than the median income that we use to set the suggested donation amount in our area. This whole voluntary donation exchange system is based upon the honor system and a complete trust in your fairness of judgment.
Whether to Donate or Not to Donate?
If you DO receive a real value or benefit from any of our courses, services or events and you feel that they have improved your life in some tangible way, please do support us by exchanging "energy" with us in some way so that we too may continue to exist and grow! Individuals who take our on and offline courses or services or attend our events do provide an important portion of our total mission financial support. And, your fair exchange for them helps support the vital right livelihood for all of those individuals who create, administrate and delivers our courses, services and events!
As a mini-culture, living community system and a reflection of the deepest natural patterns and laws of the universe, our organization holds that maintaining fair and appropriate "energy" exchanges in life with all the sources that support one’s life is not just vital to our personal well being. It is also vital to the planet on all levels! We realize that our members and visitors come from many different economic levels and completely trust that they will joyously donate to us according to both their means and the value that they have received in exchange from us. And, we will receive those generous and kind donations with equal joy!
Non-Monetary Donations Gladly Accepted
Some individuals cannot afford any monetary donation, but they always can exchange their donated labor or services with us to maintain the healthy practice of fairly exchanging something of value for something of value. Therefore, we are flexible and always also open to hearing about special authentic need situations where no exchange is possible at all and, where our organization can help.
Click here to learn more about how to donate and exchange energy with us to support our amazing mission and beautiful community.
For critical information on the 14 billion year old, evolutionary time proven energy exchange principle of life and how using it can dramatically improve and super-charge your life’s success, click here.
For information about becoming a member of our evolutionary open source spiritual organization, click here.
What if You did not get Something of Value or Benefit from Your First Course, Service or Event?
Our community culture strongly supports fair exchange as a thoroughly proven basic evolutionary success law of life. Therefore, if you did not get some real value or benefit from our courses, services or events, please do not donate! To ask you to donate in this situation would demonstrate a real value incongruence and disconnect within our organization. But....
Try it once more?
If you did not get a real value or benefit in your very first course, service or event we do recommend that you may want to try one more of our courses or events that you feel is best suited to your current needs. If after that second course, service or event you still do not receive some value or benefit to your life for which you want to joyously exchange energy and support with our organization, then we simply ask that you do not participate in any more of our courses, services or events.
Why?
To continue taking our courses, services or events is to say in essence that you are a member of our community or becoming one. Being an authentic community member always requires effort, contribution and commitment. Supporting what is supporting you is part of being an authentic community member.
To continue taking courses, services or events beyond the second course, service or event without fair exchange according to the very flexible and situation sensitive principles set out in this fair exchange summary would put an unfair drain on our community resources as well as our other authentic community members who are financially supporting our mission. Continuing to take any of our courses, services or events beyond the first or second without fair exchange would be to take advantage of both our organizational openness and to freeload upon our generous members and staff and is completely inappropriate in our on or off line communities!
We feel that to not openly educate visitors and potential new members to our community early on in their exploration of us about our shared and flexible community values concerning appropriate and healthy fair "energy" exchange practices would be both negligent on our part and --- far more importantly it would ignore the thoroughly proven spiritual and secular universal success law about what makes life work, communities grow, missions flourish as well as reciprocal fair exchange related resentments, conflicts and even wars prevented!
Our openness about this issue serves your highest success and empowerment as well as the highest success and empowerment of our community as it serves the world. If the natural reasons for the above principles are not clear, we strongly recommend that you examine the critical information on this 14 billion year old, evolutionary time proven energy exchange principle of life for yourself and prove to yourself how using it can dramatically improve and super-charge your life’s success. To do that, begin by clicking here.
Other Ways to Donate, Personal Property, Planned Giving
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Our Responsible Donation Management
Contributions to Integrative Spirituality are treated with a special stewardship and the utmost respect for your intent. All donations will be used in a manner consistent with our stated goals, values, mission and in accordance with the highest administrative practices of not for profit spiritual organizations. Donations received in excess of our operating budget and costs, will be held in reserves and invested in a socially responsible manner.
Transparency is important. To see our current tax return, click here.
To see our Board of Directors, click here.
To see our simple plan on how we will use your donation to achieve our mission, click here.
This contributes to:
- Conscious allocation of resources in investments with values.
- Replenishment instead of depletion of resources.
- Multiplying abundance and making a difference within a context of sufficiency.
- Prospecting a sustainable future for society and the environment.
To learn more about socially responsible investing click here
To learn more about the advantage of the tax benefits associated with donating click here
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