Integral Life Practice Starter Kit

[Algernon]

Has anyone here used the ILP Starter Kit?

It looks interesting, but at $250, it's a bit pricey. But if it delivers even half of what it promises it should be well worth it.

Any reviews, pro, con, or mixed, will be appreciated.

From MyILP.com :

What Integral Life Practice will do for you:

* Increase your physical health and energy level with the 3-Body Workout™, a daily practice that integrates strength training (physical body), energy practice (subtle body), and feeling to infinity (causal body).

* Catalyze your spiritual growth with Big Mind™ Meditation, a profound experience of your highest self and biggest heart, using an elegant integration of Zen and Western psychology.

* Restore emotional balance and relational joy with the 3-2-1 Shadow Work Process™, a quick and powerful technique for revealing—and integrating—hidden or "shadow" aspects of yourself.

* Provide mental clarity with the AQAL™ Framework, the most comprehensive map of reality available.

* Allow you to take anything you’re already doing and place it within a comprehensive framework that finally makes sense of it: a place for everything in your life!

[Steve Pavlina]

I received a review copy a while back and went through it... with the possibility that I might recommend it here on this site. I didn't think highly of it. I found it rambling, disjointed, and suffering from low production values. It has nice physical packaging with a good thump value, but the content seems like it was just thrown together haphazardly. It consists mainly of people sitting around talking, using complex jargon to make it sound like they're discussing something grand.

ILP has a habit of putting goofy labels on very basic ideas. For example, the 3-2-1 process is just a cutesy name for looking at situations from three different perspectives: first, second, and third person. I think most intelligent adults can grasp that concept in one sentence without having to sit through an hour-long DVD.

Unless you're in desperate need of a cure for insomnia, I'd pass on this product. I'm glad I received a free review copy and didn't have to pay for it; I'd have returned it otherwise.