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August 15, 2018
Resting in True Nature, Netherlands: Program 2018
“To know what that true Gself is without social pressure is to know your true nature.” Martha Beck
General details & Registration
Friday 17th August
Morning:
Biotoop:
Welcome, talk, meditation
WHAT IS TRUE NATURE?
Lunch at Biotoop
Afternoon:
3-6 pm: Wildlife Biotoop
OPENING A RECEPTIVE UNIVERSE
Saturday 18th August
“True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There’s no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected. Once you are aware of that you are no longer caught in the idea that you are a separate entity.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
Morning:
Biotoop, talk:
THE POWER OF BLEND
Afternoon:
Meditation on Water (boat trip) – Friescheveen
Sunday 19th August
“I never really did abandon my true self. It’s not like I invented this imaginary person and started to be her..” Amy Lee
Morning:
Biotoop
I AM ALIVE
Afternoon:
Hortus Botanicus Haren
CELEBRATING LIFE
Monday 20th August
“May we have communion with God in the secret of our hearts, and find Him to be to us as a little sanctuary.”
Charles Spurgeon
Morning
Biotoop
SANCTUARY OF THE PHYSICAL
Afternoon:
Hunebed D3 & D4 Midlaren – Rock connection
MAGIC OF GROUNDING
Tuesday 21st August
“Our true nature is like a precious jewel: although it may be temporarily buried in mud, it remains completely brilliant and unaffected. We simply have to uncover it.”
Pema Chödron
Morning
Oudemolen Gravehill Walks, Picnic
DEEP REST IN TRUE NATURE
Afternoon
Biotoop: Satsang & Closing Meditation
July 2, 2018
Nondual Therapy Module 1: Israel, November 1-5, 2018
“If only a world-wide consciousness could arise that all division and fission are due to the splitting of opposites in the psyche, then we should know where to begin.”
C.J. JUNG
Bart ten Berge
Module 1 of the education in Nondual Therapy with Georgi Y. Johnson and Bart ten Berge.
The 5-day training offers techniques and practises to deepen and apply the principles of Nondual Therapy for self-development and work with others.
Topics covered include:
– The psychology of awakening
– The nature of contraction
– Opening of the Felt Sense
– Grounding and consolidation in True Nature.
Georgi Y. Johnson
All attendees receive a complimentary e-book version of Nondual Therapy: The Psychology of Awakening, which serves as a reference to many of the themes touched on in the education.
At the end of the five days, attendees receive a certification in Nondual Therapy from the International School of Spiritual Psychology (ISSP). This is intended to affirm the added benefit of Nondual training in a wide range of caring professions.
Lunch (vegetarian) is included in the price.
Date: 1-5 November 2018
Place: Ha Succa 57, Zichron Yaakov
Time: 9:00 – 17:00 each day with a break for lunch.
To register for the training, contact Georgi & Bart: info@iamhere.life
Read an extract of Nondual Therapy: The Psychology of Awakening on Amazon
Nondual Therapy Module 1: Israel, August 2-6, 2018
“If only a world-wide consciousness could arise that all division and fission are due to the splitting of opposites in the psyche, then we should know where to begin.”
C.J. JUNG
Bart ten Berge
Module 1 of the education in Nondual Therapy with Georgi Y. Johnson and Bart ten Berge.
The 5-day training offers techniques and practises to deepen and apply the principles of Nondual Therapy for self-development and work with others.
Topics covered include:
– The psychology of awakening
– The nature of contraction
– Opening of the Felt Sense
– Grounding and consolidation in True Nature.
Georgi Y. Johnson
All attendees receive a complimentary e-book version of Nondual Therapy: The Psychology of Awakening, which serves as a reference to many of the themes touched on in the education.
At the end of the five days, attendees receive a certification in Nondual Therapy from the International School of Spiritual Psychology (ISSP). This is intended to affirm the added benefit of Nondual training in a wide range of caring professions.
Lunch (vegetarian) is included in the price.
Date: 2-6th August, 2018
Place: Chashymie, Herzl 26, Zichron Yaakov
Time: 9:00 – 17:00 each day with a break for lunch.
To register for the training, contact Georgi & Bart: info@iamhere.life
Read an extract of Nondual Therapy: The Psychology of Awakening on Amazon
July 1, 2018
A Precious Paradox #nonduality
The mystical journey is full of paradox and this means we can often be surprised by bliss.
Who would imagine that the more the sense of separation dissolves, the greater our vibrant flow of individuality?
Who would expect that the very ingredients of our suffering (in the space between one form and another) can suddenly surface as the bliss of touch?
Who dares hope that a sense of estrangement can unfold into a heart-felt beauty?
The illusion of separation is made energetically of the pain of rejection. And here is perhaps the most notable paradox of all.
In our striving to belong, we tend to reject the pain of rejection. When we reject that living pain from our experience, we actually feed the pain, and it increases. When we reject rejection, we get more rejection.
The invitation to unity is to allow moments of pain, because in that pain we become enriched. It cuts through the essence of True Nature, deepening and unravelling illusions of self. When we let pain live within us, we begin to integrate; to become truly whole; and to relax in the shorelines of universal need.
This simple agreement with all experience can bring a fall-back into peace; a merging with True Nature; and a precious embrace of all we are in a collective moment of the momentous.
June 28, 2018
The Inner Brexit & The Ministry of the Separate Self – A Loving, Nondual Inquiry
This article was published in Uplift Connect.
Creating Connection from Separation
Loneliness: A sense of separation, congealing like a knot in the gut, that pervades the body and mind with a sense of being cut out of time and space. We can be surrounded by people, but still experience the despair of being lonely and lost in the crowd.
The sensation of loneliness can be a condensed mix of sadness and badness that can feel like a physical pain or obstruction. Indeed, research shows that loneliness has medical consequences. Long-term sufferers of loneliness are more prone to heart disease, cancer, depression, diabetes and suicide. And it’s an epidemic, according to US surgeon general Vivek Murthy, to be “associated with a reduction in life-span similar to that caused by smoking 15 cigarettes a day and even greater than that associated with obesity.”
It’s easy to recognize the felt-sense of loneliness and even its lack of correlation with having loads of people around. Loneliness springs from a belief that we’re ultimately separate entities: Separate from the planet and nature; separate from each other; separate from our ancestry; separate from the other gender; separate from joy; separate from our bodies; and separate from life.
But loneliness is clearly not separate, it’s hanging over humanity like a dark cloud that needs to rain. For example, The House of Parliament, a bastion for the belief in the separate “I”, can effuse a daunting mood of loneliness, which Britain’s Minister of Loneliness, Tracey Crouch, experienced as: “A very dark place, a very lonely place.”
Minister of Loneliness? Yes, that’s right. Let’s take in that even some global law-makers are recognizing the horrific consequence and cost of the belief in separate self, and even more innovatively, the importance of a feeling in forming reality.
For far too many, loneliness is a sad reality of modern life. I want us all to confront this and take action to address loneliness endured by the elderly, by carers, those who have lost loved ones – those with no one to talk to or share their thoughts and experiences with. pic.twitter.com/42DbUKuDYb
— Theresa May (@theresa_may) January 17, 2018
The new Ministry was created in 2018 to honor Jo Cox, an opposition Labour MP who was murdered by a Neo-Nazi affiliate in June 2016 as Britain raged over the Brexit vote. According to the Jo Cox Commission on Loneliness, over nine million people in the UK feel lonely. Jo Cox was campaigning to acknowledge loneliness, as well as the suffering of refugees, the importance of community, and in general, the power of belonging in the deeper sense. She said, shortly before her death:
While we celebrate our diversity, what surprises me is that we’re far more united and have far more in common with each other than things that divide us.
From a Spiritual Perspective
What is loneliness from a spiritual perspective? Is it inevitable, like death, and can it therefore only be postponed, denied or repressed? Or is something else going on? Certainly, it’s never just loneliness. The sense of loneliness is always mixed up with deeper currents of pain in the form of rejection, grief, shame and guilt.
Could there be a way out? The Dalai Lama claims he never suffers loneliness. We could rephrase this to say that he’s radically free of the illusion of a separate self. Perhaps it’s this belief system–in the absolute separation between us that is the deeper affliction. As the Londoners say: “Mind the Gap”.
If awakened beings like the Dalai Lama don’t feel lonely, then it seems they enjoy the fulfilling interconnection of all expressions of life. Nondual teaching would advise that to allow this experience, we need to let the fixed idea of a separate ‘Me’ fall away. This ‘Me’ will always be lonely in a paradoxically shared field of illusion, because separation defines it.
The software of suffering we collectively carry is punctured with either-or thought structures based on competition. It’s coded with belief structures around ‘Me vs You’, ‘Self vs World’, ‘Kill or Be Killed’.
When the separate self starts to dissolve, an intimacy emerges towards all experience, which of itself flows into a sense of unity. This sense of unity directly affects our experience of being alive. According to Rupert Spira:
Presence itself is so utterly, intimately one with all experience that separation, alienation, non-interaction, loneliness and fear are simply inconceivable… What would be separate from what? Space separate from space? Love separate from love? The ocean separate from water, the sun from light?
In response to the Cox Commission, the British mental health charity MIND is offering a list of eight suggestion to help manage loneliness. We share them here, but with the twist of insights in Nondual Therapy.
Think about what is making you lonely
Inquiry into the kind of thoughts that generate loneliness can lead to an increase in mindfulness, which of itself will disinvest power from the belief in ultimate separation. Relaxing the body and opening the senses, notice how certain repeating thoughts affect our feelings. Examples include thoughts like: “Nobody cares about me”; “I have to do it all alone”. Imagine how it would feel to think the opposite, or without these thoughts altogether. An excellent resource for this is the work of Byron Katie.
Make new connections
In doing the above, we are already connecting to different neural networks, expanding the mind, and releasing the software of suffering. Indeed, the wisdom of interdependence, interconnection and inseparability is a direct antidote to the suffering of loneliness.
Loneliness screams for a connection which is already here but which blocked by stress. For example, our loneliness can seem to be the only thing that connects us to our lost partner. We disconnect from the world and the present moment to try to preserve the connection with the past. Yet if we make a new connection, let’s say to the existential joy shared with our partner, then the need for loneliness is undercut. We become increasingly able to open up in both directions (towards the departed and towards our present environment).
Open up
Opening up is often more easily said than done. To open, we need to relax. For example, to truly open our eyes, we need to relax into the environment. To truly hear, we need to relax into listening. The problem is, that there is this great big, stressed out affliction labelled loneliness in the gut, and it can seem that when we relax, it expands and gets worse. The art is to relax into the sense of loneliness, with a softness and curiosity about the felt sense of an affliction shared by millions.
When we reject the sense of rejection, then we generate more pain of rejection. When we disown the pain of abandonment, then we generate more abandonment. When we isolate the sense of loneliness, we feed the suffering of loneliness. Open up to it, share the sense of it with the universe, the planet and with all existence. If we can do this, we might find that the felt-sense of loneliness is the melody of homecoming.
Take it slow
Loneliness is suffused with the pain of separation. It can seem we are forgotten, lost or cut out of time and space. Because of this when we move too fast, it somatically suggests that there’s not enough time and space for you precisely how you are in naturalness. But you’re not a waste of time and space (no-one is). Give yourself the gift of all the time and all the space. Especially, offer time and space to the contraction of loneliness. Be intimate with it. Share yourself with it and share it with all you meet, whether it be human, animal, mineral or the miracle of the sky.
Be careful when comparing yourself to others
In order to compare yourself to others, you need to first separate yourself from them. In addition, the agenda behind comparison is to check if you’re worthy of belonging, before opening up and risking intimacy. These two beliefs: In being not good enough, and in being comparable, fuel the suffering of loneliness. Habits of comparison will always leave you with a greater sense of rejection.
Comparison leads to competition and in no time, the left hand is competing against the right and we’re back in the limited belief structure of ‘Kill or Be Killed”.
As Krishnamurti wrote:
To live without comparison is to remove a tremendous burden. If you remove the burden of comparison, imitation, conformity, adjustment, modification, then you are left with what is.
Check how you are feeling
Yes. How you are feeling matters to us all, and to the whole existential universe, so it should also matter to you. Our feelings are at the heart of the matter. Feelings affect our levels of stress; our mental freedom; our sense of peace; and our ability to connect to others.
Indeed, feelings and emotions are the substance of our reality–how we experience being in the world. When thought says: “I don’t want to BE here”, let yourself check in on the feeling of that. Loneliness or isolation is just the tip of the iceberg. As the loneliness unfolds, it could well reveal a deep pain of rejection, and when this unfolds, it could release a powerful longing to belong. This longing to belong–to God, to others, to the planet, to your own life–is the compass to the loving, seamless sense of unity in community indicated by Rupert Spira, the Dalai Lama, Byron Katie, Krishnamurti and so many others. Of itself this wisdom of unity births compassion (for better or worse, we’re in this together).
Get some help
It sounds simple, but it’s often not easy. To open up to help from the outside, we have to admit a degree of helplessness within ourselves. Some have spent lifetimes avoiding the sense of helplessness due to a traumatic confusion between helplessness and power abuse.
Again, move slowly, honoring your feelings. The allowance of the sense of Helplessness is intimately entwined with humility (letting go of the idea of the separate ‘Me’) and the wisdom of interdependence or togetherness. Only when we release control and the habit of conformity and relax into the helplessness, can the deeper call for help be released. This is because precisely what we need is hidden within this denied helplessness. In the words of Rumi:
Prayer is an egg. Hatch out the total helplessness inside.
When the unified field hears that call, a response will come. In unpredictable, uncontrollable ways, life always takes care of itself.
Read others’ stories
When we connect our sense of loneliness with the loneliness of people around us, a melting occurs. We’re also one in the suffering of loneliness! In this process of unfolding, we need each other, and the stories of others can be a tremendous support. But don’t stop with stories of loneliness, move on to stories of awakening. And you don’t have to read, you can tune in to Conscious TV, Buddha at the Gas Pump, UPLIFT or any of the other channels of light.
Let’s imagine that what has been called “An epidemic of loneliness” is totally connected with a torrent of spiritual awakening to the unity of all we are, together with the falling away of the sentient limitations embedded in beliefs of separation. It could be that the sense of loneliness arises like smoke from the burning embers of the separate self, or the private ‘me’ with its separate suffering. Perhaps loneliness is the symptom of a deeper awakening that signifies our evolution into a more essential community born through the wisdom of unity. Could it be that the collective trance of separation is melting and that this dark space of aloneness is weather on the way to oneness?
All about Compassion
Suffering is a catalyst for spiritual awakening and spiritual awakening is a catalyst to compassion. Compassion is another word for Together (Com) in suffering (Passion). Compassion is perhaps the most powerful healing drive available to modern man, and with loneliness, it brings the felt-sense of unity that makes all difference precious. When we can have compassion with compassion, how much faster we’ll be free of loneliness!
In the words of the Dalai Lama:
If you wish to overcome that feeling of isolation and loneliness, your underlying attitude makes a tremendous difference. Approaching others with the thought of compassion in your mind is the best way to do this.
Georgi Y. Johnson is author of Nondual Therapy: the Psychology of Awakening. Her website is http://www.iamhere.life
June 26, 2018
Unfolding Love – Dialogue Between Georgi & Will Pye
TruthLover #6 with Georgi Johnson – 24th June 2018
June 25, 2018
Nondual Therapy, Consciousness and Spirituality
The TruthLover podcast+webinar is presented by Love & Truth Party (www.loveandtruthparty.org) and features author and spiritual teacher Will Pye (www.willpye.com) in dialogue with fascinating visionaries and luminaries exploring Consciousness, the Nature of Reality, Awakened Activism, Individual Awakening and Collective Evolution, Science and Spirituality.
Our guest today is Georgi Johnson, a spiritual teacher, therapist and writer based in Israel. Together with her partner Bart ten Berge, she gives trainings around the world. She also offers therapy/consultation sessions online. Born in the UK, Georgi is author of three books: Nondual Therapy: The Psychology of Awakening; I Am Here: Opening the Windows of Life & Beauty and Stillness of the Wind: a Collection of Nondual Poetry. Georgi is part of the International School of Spiritual Psychology based in Netherlands, an early participant in the emerging Love & Truth Party, and is often the inspiration behind the I AM HERE movement of awakening in the online community.
June 21, 2018
June 20, 2018
Waiting to Awaken. When Will I Be Free?
The question shows a sense of despair in being unable to accelerate or cause a desired spiritual outcome. Perhaps we’ve compared ourselves to others who are ‘awakened’ and have experienced a sense of failure. Perhaps the question arises out of a deeper, repeating theme of not being good enough.
Both the traumatized sense of despair and the sense of failure can only spiral through inner conflict. The conflict around helplessness resists helplessness with the insistence that it must be possible to “do” something to accelerate awakening. The conflict around not being good enough resists the judgement of failure by splitting the psyche into two: one side perpetually tells the other side that it’s not good enough. This whole movement of splitting is of course also ‘not good enough’, so the dense energy of failure accumulates.
“When we condemn the feeling of being bad, we increase the sense of badness. When we despair at our despair, despair increases. When we reject our inner conflict, we add the energy of conflict to conflict.
The shift of liberation occurs when we let ourselves radically agree with whatever feeling or emotion is arising, even if that sensation is a numbness. Only with this soft agreement can the melting begin – of our own perceptive source into the contraction and of the contraction back into the source of itself.”
Between attending a myriad of workshops and gambling on divine grace, there is another movement, which is in receptivity. Workshops, teachers and therapists are all around us. Spiritual information floods the internet. But we need to be ready to receive it – to open up and let it in. Likewise, grace is everywhere – even within a contraction or a conflict. But we need to be ready to open to it and receive it.
This is the death valley of the psyche, because in order to open to receive what we perceive as good and rewarding, we need to also open to precisely that which we have spent ions avoiding. To open to grace, we need to also open to our sense of despair, and to let our sense of despair open and unfold through our awareness. To open to the positive effects of a training or therapist, we also need to allow receptivity, opening to our sense of helplessness – even sharing our sense of helplessness – that intimate, dangerous, shameful vulnerability which has formed the ground of our personality.
“Universal power can only arise through the clear, open space of radical powerlessness.”
Think of the psyche as a pipe. It’s awaiting the promised influx of grace that will reform it from the inside out. But the pipe has all kinds of filters and blocks. These block are conditions on receptivity.
We’re ready to ‘receive’ divine blessing, but not if it comes with personal despair. We’re ready to receive powerful teachings, but not if they arouse a sense of helplessness.
The pipe simply can’t channel the grace of universal resources unless it’s ready to allow what appears unendurable – the prospect of our worst nightmares. These fears, and the underlying sense of sadness and badness are never as awful as we dread, when we actually allow them to move through us. The suffering of fear is simply fear. It’s not inherently connected to other flavors of experience. Fear is nervous energy. When we fear nervous energy, we deny it, which creates an uncharged voltage in which we suffer more.
A third factor in awakening that is often overlooked (in the dichotomy between effort and grace) is hidden in plain sight. This is the tremendous power of connectivity. The question of how to find awakening is so often based on a continued belief in an ultimately separate self (a disconnected self that seeks individual awakening). Yet we’re not separate. We share emotions, atmospheres, thoughts, states of being and also the pure existential absence of all these. In the realm of Nondual Qualities (such as love, peace, care or freedom) differentiation disappears. The transmission of Nondual Qualities is easily possible if we allow it, both locally and from a distance.
This means that when a therapist or teacher is empty enough to allow universal resources to move through them, the whole field will be affected, including clients and students, near or far. Therapeutically seen, it’s enough just to hold a client’s presence in the heart during meditation, to feel the movement of qualities rushing through the channel of the psyche as a motion of need. Here, one of the key blocks to the channel of the psyche is the belief that it’s not possible. But have we ever checked it out? Have we ever dared risk opening to the great presence of another and truly, deeply, unconditionally allowing them inside?
In this natural interconnectedness and interdependence, there is both grace and learning. The effort required is again in the area of receptivity, the unconditional shift to allowance of whatever comes forward in thought, feeling or sense perception – as if each spark of experience were returning home to the great fire of being.
Not an affliction, but a blessed reunion.
April 13, 2018
The Sentient Universe of Nondual Therapy
What is this miracle of being here as a human? Is this only a spiritual question, or is it also a psychological one? Isn’t our psyche (Greek origin, ‘Soul’ ) the direct manifestation and the field of experience for all things ‘spiritual’?
Yasmin draws her breath. She has been in Nondual Therapy for some months after years of failed treatment for depression left her on the edge of suicide. The multiple rapes from her family in the Middle East; the life-threats, humiliations and beatings had left her frozen. After a spiritual awakening, she is now in a process of self realization, piece by piece, unfolding the psyche back to the existential esteem of True Nature.
But that day, she’s different. She looks terrified, as if I might beat her. After a period of small-talk about the Nondual source, she begins to relax. She’s breathing shallowly and keeps averting her eyes. It’s painfully awkward for her. Softly, with unconquerable helplessness and purity, a core suffering begins to sing. It’s the terror of the unspeakable, and she’s speaking it out. She’s telling of the stunned horror of violation in becoming aware as a brutalized girl that her mother was aroused by spying on her in the shower. Beyond the long history of rape and violence from the men in her family, a crack in the normative personality is now opening to reveal an even darker field of betrayal and loss – a break in the sacred connection of trust between mother and child.
Yet Yasmin accessed the existential quality of trust to tell me her experience. She endured the unendurable, and with one awareness, we surrounded the ineffable vibration of horror buried deeply and intimately within her psyche, feeling it together. This was the session where Yasmin became liberated of sexual slavery and began to anyway live in purity; to anyway allow the love for her children; and to anytime rest in boundless peace. Through shared awareness, and speaking the unspeakable, a golden road of compassion opened towards her own personality, that includes her mother and her mother’s mother, as well as all victims of the treacherous conflict between male and female. In that magical moment, Yasmin became free, without conditions, free to continue the collective human path of healing.
Perhaps we can recall those moments when we meet another human being in the authentic core of suffering. Out of the isolation of pain, a subtle wonder is opened, where the precise resonance of suffering is experienced in togetherness. Such moments sustain and empower us, opening strength to face the inconceivable, endure the unendurable, and gain insight into what seemed unknowable. These are moments when the ‘me’ and ‘you’ dissolve even beyond the edge of intimacy. There is no therapist, no client, just ‘this’.
When we feel deeply seen, heard and felt by another person, it brings tremendous comfort. Stress loses its tyranny over our system and the possibility of relaxation beyond the sense of isolation means our awareness can expand beneath, beyond, above and behind fixed patterns of emotional reactivity. In such moments, where the consciousness in two rests as one, we’re born again.
This is part of the magic that happens in every therapeutic encounter. Out of compassion, empathy emerges and when empathy disappears and the two become one in the resonance of being alive, healing is happening. Every human being intuitively knows how to hold space for the experience of another, even without diplomas. Yet in Nondual Therapy, there is a paradigm shift in recognition. Silence is not a forced, non-interference, but rather it’s a pluripotent resource, an invitation to fall into the felt sense of ‘being’. Consciousness is not a brain function, but is beyond both thought and agenda, suffused with healing power. Peace is not a side-effect of problem solving, but is the resource through which painful divisions unfold and resolve. .
Nondual Therapy has emerged at a critical junction in our evolution. On the one hand, the treatment of psychological suffering with psychiatric medication can be ineffective and anaesthetizing. On the other, the levels of stress, depression, loneliness and despair throughout the western world are becoming epidemic. Britain has even opened a Ministry of Loneliness to try and fix the agony of the belief in separate identity. Yes, the suffering of the illusion of the separate self now has its own governmental department in the land of the Brexit (although the country has never been so crowded).
Nondual Therapy rests on four corners of insight, which are unconsciously at play through all healing modalities. It brings this world-view to the foreground, offering a kind of liberation in human experience that is beyond all frontiers of separate identity.
Negation is an illusion
It’s impossible to undo, uncreate, or extinguish anything that has happened or that is already happening. This sounds simple, yet it has tremendous psychological consequences. How much energy do we invest denying our anger, in fear of our fear, and/or pretending to be someone other than the miracle of what we are in naturalness at** any moment. Denial, repression and
suppression are recognized as part of the suffering dynamic of all psychological schools, yet often, those same schools invest in the idea that the personality is a stable identity and that it can be improved, conformed or better conditioned to make life easier. Nondual Therapy honours and recognizes the integrity of all experience in the moment, including all emotions, including those feeling sensations (such as jealousy, hatred and destructiveness) that we would all rather avoid.
Our purpose is evolutionary
In conventional therapy, qualities such as peacefulness, an open heart, a silent mind or a sense of freedom are often seen as amicable side-effects to a process of conditioning the personality into social compatibility. Nondual Therapy works the other way around. It acknowledges what it calls ‘Nondual Qualities’ or the qualities of consciousness as the deeper source of all identity and personality. Thanks to the psychological dissonance of our era, many are awakening to this True Nature and to its qualities. Some speak of unbounded awareness, other of the infinite quality of love; some teach freedom, others the resource of silence. Some open the channel of existential purity, others of gratitude. These qualities are prioritize by Nondual Therapy as accelerators of healing. Clients are encouraged to move into their frequency through connection (either within their personal experience or outside of themselves in nature, or in others).
Nondual Therapy is based on the insight that we share the same life, and that we’re all expression of one True Nature, although the nature of those expressions is radically unique (It’s a golden ticket, if you like, to the true individuality that never was isolated from the whole).
The resource of True Nature
Nonduality radically recognizes the illusion of the separate self. Nondual Therapy dives into the nature of this illusion. When Nondual insight states that nothing is separate, then how does the illusion of separate individuality arise and what is it made of? Why, even after spiritual awakening to ‘higher consciousness’ do we still suffer, sometimes even more? Here lies the wisdom of Nondual Therapy, which can be found in the phenomena of psychological contraction, which is so close to the miracle (or preservative measure) of creation. Our psychological suffering, including patterns of repetition and negative states can be understood through the simply metaphor of what a muscle does when it’s shocked: it contracts. Yet what is contracting psychologically is the flow of True Nature. To quote the book, Nondual Therapy: The Psychology of Awakening:
“Out of seamless unity, pure stillness or the omnipresence of silence, a need emerges which is a subtle form of primal experience. Experience is a disturbance, a contraction within the whole. In the Jewish Lurianic Kabbalah, creation is described as a process of contraction (‘tzimtzum’ in Hebrew) in which the infinite contracts to allow the concurrent manifestation of the finite. This contraction of primordial light reveals ‘vacant space’ or emptiness which is the facilitator of all form.” (p.18)
Psychologically seen, these contractions show up as experiential flavors of suffering, caught in the polarization of the illusion of the separate self. A contraction of existential innocence, for example, shows up as a stress-related felt sense of guilt and accusation. A contraction of existential purity will be experienced as the duality of shame and disgust. A contraction of existential trust will be experienced as within the energetic duality of loyalty and betrayal.
When the qualities of True Nature can be sensed, the release of the contraction is accelerated, as guilt begins to flow back into innocence, shame into purity and so on. True nature is unpacked as a compendium of healing elixirs for an array of psychological patterns of suffering. The book Nondual Therapy includes a compendium of 35 psychological contractions and the Nondual Qualities into which they are released.
The personality is a temporary, transpersonal expression
Nonduality has a popular tendency to create new dualities, and no forms of ‘spiritual’ personality through the creation of a Nondual, separate self, free of suffering, liberated of all personality. This is clearly a new breed of illusion. Awakened beings suffer, precisely because they are awakened to the suffering that is here, one could even say, awakened to the suffering they experience here.
From the perspective of Nondual Therapy, suffering is an evolutionary service which we share. The transpersonal doesn’t refer to the negation of personality, but rather to the undeniable interconnectedness of all phenomena. That is, your passive aggression in the room, is also sensed by me. In an atmosphere of despair, I will also experience despair (or its partner, hope). The energetic frequencies of emotions and psychological suffering are not left out of the transpersonal field. We’re in it together. What Nondual Therapy does is teach us to dance in the ocean of the human psyche, without sacrificing connection to the source of it all (True Nature, Consciousness, Existence, Life). Nondual Therapy is literally ReSourcing suffering into the omnipresence of True Nature. This means we consolidate in a deeper freedom, which means a freedom to be here, also amid the grief and loss of a human community.
Spiritual teacher Adyashanti has pointed to the magic of compassion that arises in every healing encounter – a compassion that is at source of all possibilities of imaging ourselves to be isolated from the universe. “There’s not necessarily a therapist and a client,” he says, “That doesn’t mean that there’s not therapy taking place.” In the transpersonal field, where therapist and client disappear, healing is happening. Where each felt sensation – whether it be of the most exalted peace, or the darkest night of abandonment – is free of the dualistic divisions of the separate self (meaning it need have no excuse, agenda, subject or object), transformation and reunion with True Nature takes place of itself and as needed. Those are the magical moments. When our client is no longer a client, and they are suddenly, radically free to live.
Georgi Y. Johnson is author of the book Nondual Therapy: The Psychology of Awakening . Together her partner Bart ten Berge, she gives trainings in Nondual Therapy around the world. She is also available for online mentorship. http://www.iamhere.life
April 2, 2018
Nondual Therapy with Georgi & Bart: Module 1, Frome UK, 12-16 July 2018
“If only a world-wide consciousness could arise that all division and fission are due to the splitting of opposites in the psyche, then we should know where to begin.”
C.J. JUNG
Bart ten Berge
Module 1 of the education in Nondual Therapy & Spiritual Psychology with Georgi Y. Johnson and Bart ten Berge.
The 5-day training offers techniques and practises to deepen and apply the principles of Nondual Therapy for self-development and work with others.
Topics covered include:
– The psychology of awakening
– The nature of contraction
– Opening of the Felt Sense
– Grounding and consolidation in True Nature.
Georgi Y. Johnson
Participants are able to stay on-site (in private or shared rooms) at the Lighthouse hotel where the training is hosted. All attendees receive a complimentary e-book version of Nondual Therapy: The Psychology of Awakening, which serves as a reference to many of the themes touched on in the education.
At the end of the five days, attendees receive a certification in Nondual Therapy and Spiritual Psychology from the International School of Spiritual Psychology (ISSP). This is intended to affirm the added benefit of Nondual training in a wide range of caring professions.
Lunch (vegetarian) is included in the price.
The Lighthouse, Frome
Cost of course: 650 British Pounds.
Date: 12-16th July, 2018
Time: 10:00 – 18:00 each day with a break for lunch.
To register for the training, contact Georgi & Bart: info@iamhere.life
For information about the workshop/retreat venue: http://www.lighthouse-uk.com/
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