The Marriage of Spirit
Enlighten Your Life
With Brad Laughlin and Leslie Temple-Thurston
An Online Immersion
September 9 - October 21, 2026
Includes three live Q&A Zoom calls with Brad
Course Introduction Webinar - Video Replay Coming Soon
Brad Laughlin and Dr Helané Wahbeh (IONS Director of Research) recently hosted our introductory webinar, exploring the life-changing practices at the heart of The Marriage of Spirit teachings.
If you missed the live event, you can still access the profound recording and discover the power this new course unlocks.
The video replay will be available to watch right here very soon. We will also send a notification to our mailing list the moment it goes live. If you haven’t already joined our community, please sign up below to be notified when the video is available.
Published over 25 years ago, The Marriage of Spirit has helped thousands of people to awaken and live their fullest potential.
The simple yet life-changing practices have ancient roots and a modern application. Combining the yoga of the mind with spiritual psychology cuts through decades of struggle in a short amount of time.
This course is built from Leslie's original audio recordings—the living source material behind the life-changing book. It's the same transmission, now structured for a deeper dive.
Whatever you're here for—more peace, better relationships, the career you know is waiting, or full awakening—these practices accelerate the path extraordinarily.
What You’re Actually Learning
The architecture of consciousness. Not abstract theory. A blueprint you build from. Once you see how the mind is structured, your patterns stop owning you
How to tell who's talking. Your personality? Your eternal Self? The difference is everything
The neutral Witness. Not detachment as numbness. Detachment as freedom. The Witnessing practice transforms daily life
Inward learning. Stop being schooled by hardship. Learn the lesson in consciousness, and outer circumstances resolve—faster than you'd believe
What Changes
Speed. Swift, lasting shifts instead of years grinding the same grooves
Stability. World events, personal challenges—you navigate them differently when you're anchored in something real
Heart. Unity stops being a concept. It becomes the way you experience people and the rest of the natural world
Balance. Not the fragile kind you manage. The kind that holds itself
What’s Included
Five downloadable audio teachings by Leslie
Three live teaching and Q&A Zoom calls with Brad
One guided meditation by Leslie
Two guided meditations by Brad
Home practices for each session to help you integrate the teachings
The Marriage of Spirit—Enlightened Living in Today´s World ebook and audiobook, by Leslie and Brad, as course companions
Transcripts of each course session
All audios and PDFs are yours to download and keep!
“This magnificent book rivets an extremely original understanding of the sacred marriage and the complex role of the shadow. It should be in the backpack of every authentic spiritual seeker.”
—Andrew Harvey, author and spiritual teacher
The Five Course Sessions
The five course sessions by Leslie are streamable and/or downloadable as audio recordings. Each session includes a transcript and home practices.
In addition to Leslie's teaching sessions, there are three live teaching and Q&A Zoom calls with Brad on Wednesdays at 9-10:30am US Pacific Time:
September 23, 2026
October 14, 2026
October 21, 2026
These calls will also be recorded and made available to view in your own time.
Session One: The Marriage of Spirit Principles
Self-discovery isn't self-improvement. It's the art of finding the Self that existed before the fall into separation—the one that was never broken. This session lays out the architecture: why you keep running the same patterns, where they actually live in consciousness and how to clear them. Not by fighting them. By seeing them. The practices are simple, the shift immediate—and you're free.
Session Two: The Polarity Processing Practice
Spiritual bypassing looks like practice and feels like progress—clinging to the light right up until you realize the shadow has been running the show the whole time. Polarity Processing works the other way around: You don't transcend the negative. You include it. Every judgment you hold, every reaction that owns you, is a polarity you're trapped inside. This practice gives you the tool to hold both sides at once—not to fix them, but to let them resolve back into the unity they never actually left. It's the fastest way to stop being driven by what you've been pretending isn't there.
Session Three: The Upward and Downward Spirals
We've all spiraled downward one too many times. One bad experience, and we're in the hole—replaying it, sinking deeper, wasting hours or days on something that was never worth it. That's the downward spiral, and it's not random. It has a structure—common to all, but with a signature that's yours alone. Once you see how yours operates—the triggers, the sequence, the collapse—it stops being something that happens to you. It becomes a map you can read. Most people just keep getting lost in it. This session builds on the polarity work from Session Two: The upward and downward spirals are two poles of the same egoic pattern. Seeing both without clinging to either—that's where the real shift begins. But first, you learn to stop falling.
Session Four: The Triangles Practice
Some practices take effort. This one takes three minutes and a willingness to feel. The Triangles practice is the simplest tool in the system—and for many, the most powerful. You take a polarity, and instead of just holding the tension, you find the word that resolves it—a word you don't invent but discover, already waiting at a higher octave of the pattern. When it lands, something shifts. Not intellectually. Somatically. The heart opens. States that usually take retreats or even years on the cushion—love, joy, compassion, gratitude, forgiveness—become accessible, then familiar, then home. It's not bypassing. It's not affirmation. It's alchemy, and it works fast.
Session Five: The Squares Practice
You don't need to relive something to resolve it. Some inner work can keep you digging through the past, hoping this time it heals. Squares work differently. They let you complete an experience in consciousness without living it out again physically. The charge dissolves. The pattern releases. What was taking years of struggle can shift in a single sitting. Leslie was given this technique by her inner guides decades ago. It healed her chronic fatigue syndrome—which never came back. Since then, people have used Squares for everything from discovering deeper peace and taking quantum leaps in awakening, to manifesting fulfilling careers, successful relationships and financial abundance.
Testimonials
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Read below what our worldwide community of CoreLight students want you to know.
“If you are ready to focus on your spiritual path in a dedicated way, there is no better guide than Leslie Temple-Thurston's THE MARRIAGE OF SPIRIT.”
—Amazon review
“Leslie Temple-Thurston’s book, The Marriage of Spirit, was life-changing for me at a time when I was lost on my soul journey. The Squares process gave me a way to get back on track.”
—Christine O
“Leslie Temple Thurston writes from experience, offering tools for achieving emotional balance as one proceeds along the path of awakening.”
—Jo G/Amazon review
“More than any spiritual path I know of, this work is about self-empowerment. Combining a unique set of ego processing tools with profound mystical truths, Leslie’s teachings invite us to harness the inner fire of awakening in a path she calls “going God-direct.” Above all, this is heart work—a journey of love, to love and for love!”
—Gary B
“The Marriage of Spirit is the bible of non-duality! Ultra-clear explanations of how we hold polarities in our awareness fields. I recommend it to everyone I mentor as a “must read.”
—Lucia Rene
“This book will change your life. Internally and externally. No matter how much work you've done on yourself—you will learn new practices here that will open you up to consciousness in ways yet imagined.”
—Kim C/Amazon review
“The CoreLight teachings have enriched my life on every level, and I am infinitely grateful for the blessings that flow in and through my world as a result. The spiritual training CoreLight offers points the way to a deep, abundant, grounded and eternal sense of connectedness to all things that abide within each of us.”
—Cynthia A
“Leslie and Brad offer profound insights into love, compassion, integrity and what it means to live as an empowered human being in this changing, beautiful and messy world.”
—Jeanne N
“My spiritual growth took giant steps towards wholeness, healing and integration. . . . This work is revolutionary and life-changing, and I recommend it to any soul that wants to live in union and oneness.”
—Sue D
Also included
Newly edited, rarely-seen video of Leslie
Study Guide to help you get the most out of the course
Syllabus summarizing core teachings
Sample Audio Excerpts from the Course
Good to Know
There are three live teaching and Q&A Zoom calls with Brad on Wednesdays September 23, October 14 and October 21, 2026, at 9am US Pacific Time. If you can't attend live, you can submit questions in advance and access the recordings
All of the course audios and PDF materials are yours to download and keep
You will have full access to the course platform for six months from the start date of the course
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Yes, there will be three live teaching and Q&A Zoom calls with Brad on Wednesdays September 23, October 14 and October 21 2026, 9am US Pacific Time. If you can't attend live, you can submit questions in advance and access the recordings.
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Brad will offer three live teaching and Q&A Zoom calls. You can submit your questions in writing, and they will be added to the pool of questions that Brad will respond to. While it´s not possible for Brad to respond to all questions, he does read them all. Leslie is fully retired and will not participate live in this course.
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The course is for beginners and the advanced. There´s something here for everyone. No special background or level of study is required. All are welcome.
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One meditation by Leslie, which is also available on our webstore:
Two meditations by Brad:
Witnessing
Short Witnessing Reset
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Here are the differences:
The Marriage of Spirit course includes five audios that were in the course formerly called Spiritual Warrior Training Part 1, which no longer exists in its previous form. That course is now simply called Spiritual Warrior Training and does not include The Marriage of Spirit book or audios
We have edited and improved the sound quality of all of The Marriage of Spirit course audios—the source material for the book
There are three live teaching and Q&A Zoom calls with Brad
We have added three guided meditations to this course. See the FAQ above for more information
We have created new home practices for each of the five sessions and provide two additional PDF handouts to help you integrate and apply the teachings in your life
You´ll also receive a Study Guide to help you make the most out of the teachings
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We provide a User Guide to help you navigate our online course platform. If you need support with course enrollment or other technical issues, please email courses@CoreLight.org
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You will have full access to the course for six months (or 182 days) from the date the course begins. If you register after the course begins, you will have access for six months from the date you register. All the audio teachings, transcripts, home practices and guided meditations are downloadable and yours to keep. Videos are not downloadable; they are viewable only for the six months of your course access.
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There are five sessions with a total running time of approximately 4 hours of listening.
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Yes, there are transcripts of the audios which you can download and keep. They also include key themes with timestamps for easy reference in the text.
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We understand that for many, today´s global financial situation may not be conducive to paying full price for an online course. Therefore, we are happy to provide a limited number of discounts for those who demonstrate need. Before applying, please attune inwardly and assess whether or not financial aid is truly necessary for you. We rely on an honor system and mutual trust. If you would like to apply, please send your request for a discount to courses@CoreLight.org, and you will receive a short questionnaire to complete and return to us.
Frequently Asked Questions
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About Leslie Temple-Thurston
Now fully retired, Leslie became a teacher of enlightenment in 1988. She wholeheartedly dedicated her life to inspiring and guiding people toward spiritual awakening at this most important and pivotal moment in humanity’s evolution. Her primary message has always been about love and awakening to a new paradigm of heart-centeredness.
Through her events, books and extensive audio recordings, Leslie has mentored thousands of spiritual seekers committed to the work of transformation and awakening to higher states. Her legacy of unique, pioneering, enlightened teachings—simple methods for becoming conscious of the luminous core of enlightenment within us—is available at CoreLight.org.
About Brad Laughlin
As a spiritual teacher for over two decades, Brad ’s dedication is to the transformation of consciousness and to helping people discover inner peace, love and joy amidst profound world change. He facilitates developing these qualities through unique, potent, self-inquiry practices which open the heart and foster connection with the natural world.
Brad believes that the greatest gift we can give the world is our own awakened consciousness and that global change can happen through individual willingness to change. He is the author of Living With Enlightenment—A Journey of Love. With his life-partner, Leslie Temple-Thurston, he is co-founder of the nonprofit CoreLight.org and its humanitarian arm, Seeds of Light, which serves South Africa’s marginalized communities, including orphans and vulnerable children.
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