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ONE An introduction to Nondual Therapy November 10-12, 2016 Zichron Yaakov, Israel

“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.G. Jung, The Essential Jung: Selected Writings

November 10, 11, 12, 2016, Haren Netherlands

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Moving deeply into the felt sense of energetic contractions and consolidating in the non-dual positions through which therapy and healing can occur.

Facilitators: Georgi Y. Johnson & Bart ten Berge

Venue: Chashymie, Zichron Yaakov Israel

Time: 9:00-17:00 each day.

Cost: 1350 NIS

The workshop covers:

The split between self and other and the emotional dualities
Opening and realization of nondual positions
Energy work and healing out of nondual positions

More info and registration: bart@inner-growth.org

A vegetarian lunch and refreshments are served on all  three days.

 

I-Exist FAQ

Getting to and from Glastonbury


What accommodations are fun and affordable?


I’m worried I’m not strong enough to keep up. How strenuous is it?


Will you give background information on the places we see and visit?


Entrance tickets and other costs


Driving on the left? AGH!


Google Map, Directions


Getting There

If you are planning to fly in, the sooner you book, the cheaper. The closest airport to Glastonbury is Bristol, although there tend to be more bargain deals to London’s main airports (Luton, Gatwick, Heathrow and Southend). When you are registered, you will be invited to a Google Doc. to fill out details. At the same place, you can see who else is flying in where, with the possibility of sharing rides or car rentals.

By public transport, it’s important to order coach and/or train tickets in advance. This can make a dramatic difference in cost. Castle Carey is the nearest train station to Glastonbury. From there it is possible to travel by bus (line 667) to Glastonbury.

The cheapest and easiest way to travel from London to Glastonbury is by bus (20BP)

If you fly to London there is also a very cheap coach (bus+toilets) to the centre of Glastonbury once a day.
For all the Dutch folks, the Eurostar costs 59 Euros to London from every train station in the Netherlands. We heard it costs the same as if you travel by plane and it’s about the same time to travel from door to door.

Travel to London from main airports:  from Heathrow airport you can take the underground to the city centre, but if you fly to Luton. Stanstead and Gatwick – you can take the easybus.com coach service which is the cheapest option. For those of who travel to Southend airport – (in Essex), the only means to travel on is by train.

Keep in touch so we can make travel as easy as possible for everyone!

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Places to Stay

The best by far is to take the residential option and stay in at Abbey House, where we have most of our group meetings. As this includes three meals a day and refreshments, it works out far cheaper than going solo. However, private rooms are limited in number, and are given on a first come, first served basis. So speed is of the essence here!

Elsewhere, camping is the cheapest option – with UK campsites these days boasting good facilities are Wifi. (It’s also a way to sink deep into nature!) There is the Isle of Avalon Campsite, and the Paddington Farm organic camp site (which can cost as little as 7BP a head). At Paddington Farm, a group could rent a whole Yurt together. There are also animals and activities for children (I-Exist kids) there.

If you’re looking for the more relaxed and traditional B&B, check prices first at AIRBNB, where there are many delightful options, (including self-catering).

Some of our guests are already booked at St Annes B&B, so it’s full already. But the delightful chef and host Mathura has another B&B across the road, which is vegetarian and worthwhile. Contact St Annes, for more information about it!

Last we heard, there are still rooms available within the guest houses of the Chalice Well Gardens. As this is our venue for the last two days, it could be lovely to stay there (beyond the astounding beauty of the gardens and magic of the wells).

In general, try to be within Glastonbury itself, as this is more fun and more practical in terms of meetup times for venues and excursions.

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Physical Health

There are many participants who are older and have physical limitations, so we make every effort to provide enjoyable, fulfilling lighter options to the tougher walks. We will divide the group when needed for easier routes etc. As long as we are aware of the limits of each participant, we truly believe we can make this fun for everyone. So communication is the most important factor in planning!

The most strenuous of the activities are:

•Climbing Glastonbury Tor (it’s a short steep climb but is really worthwhile – the perspective is amazing – and can be taken slowly)

•The processional walk through the rocks of Avebury (it’s a longish walk but on relatively flat ground)

•The Wookey Hole hike (This is on Saturday afternoon. It has its challenging moments but we are happy to make an alternative route for part of the group. We all meet up at the pub at the end. The intention is to absorb the energy of the land there, more than to exhaust the body!

THE SPOKE & THE WHEEL Georgi Y. Johnson

THE SPOKE & THE WHEEL

As long as we believe in survival more than life, the wheel turns.

As long as we believe disgust makes us pure, the wheel turns.

As long as we believe hatred shelters love, the wheel turns.

As long as we believe freedom must have terms, the wheel turns.

As long as we believe peace demands war, the wheel turns.

As long as we believe anger cancels fear, the wheel turns.

As long as we believe innocence needs another’s guilt, the wheel turns.

As long as we believe togetherness is a choice, the wheel turns.

The wheel turns, as we fail to remember how our heaven is another’s hell.

Yet everywhere, the unchanging center is alive. Here, right now, recall you are the spoke through which the prodigal magnificence spins. Right now, here, unchanging and blissful, beyond all expectation, where death-less. incalculable bliss lets the illusion spiral out.

Georgi Y. Johnson

 

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WATER REFLECTING – Georgi Y. Johnson

WATER REFLECTING

Beneath the skin, tissues sing

ancestral fear, seizures of despair,

skeletal leaves; long dead things,

on rivers of blood, spit and care.

Breath catching stories uttering

archetypes of betrayal and death;

abandoned limbs and heart fluttering

a chaos of form, a storm ahead.

But as fluid, mist and frozen water

cut flesh with known routine –

love from touch, son from daughter,

notice the noticing now, so pristine.

Even war-hungering oceans are empty,

perfectly still as morning sky,

stillness reflecting a senseless frenzy,

still waters of life, still fragrance of “I”.

Georgi

NEEDLE’S EYE

NEEDLE’S EYE

When worlds gets small, give space.

When persons fall, touch grace.

Where hearts are broken,

let light flood in.

Where words aren’t spoken,

let feeling sing.

As I’m the freedom playing

zig-zag in the children’s park

and waiting in darkest dark

of a dead man’s eyes.

As I love through the filth,

the beauty, the atrocious bliss

of the 4D cinema scream

of all we pretend to kiss.

As I love in the emptiness of the sea,

the infinite, needle’s eye of one

who is splendidly free.

Georgi Y. Johnson

OASIS OF PEACE – i-Exist Glastonbury 2017 Program

Preliminary Program.

Cost & Registration

Abbey House, Chilkwell Street, Glastonbury

Tuesday 11th April

17:00 Glastonbury Walk & Dinner

Happy ingathering at Abbey House and informal orientation walk together through the town of Glastonbury, sharing the joys (with vegetarian options) of the local prize-winning fish and chip shop. (Optional)

20:00 – 22:00

OASIS OF PEACE

Welcome and evening meditation.

Abbey House Group Room

Wednesday 12th April

WHAT IS PEACE?

08:30 Breakfast

09:30 Session What is peace?

11:00 Refreshment break

11:30 Session Meditation, opening inner doors to peace

13:00 Lunch

14:30 Glastonbury Tor Walk & Meditation “Opening the Channel”

16:00 Afternoon tea followed by free time

18:30 Supper

20:00-22:00 Evening Session

 

Thursday 13th April

Sunrise beneath Glastonbury Tor

LIVING PEACE

06:30 – 08:00 Morning Walk The Veils of Avalon

08:30 Breakfast

09:30 Session How peace comes to life.

11:00 Refreshment break

11:30 Session Meditation.

13:00 Lunch followed by free time

16:00 Afternoon tea

16:30 Glastonbury Abbey Meditation – Opening the Timeless 

18:30 Supper

20:00-22:00 Evening Session

The Red Well

Friday 14th April

PEACE THROUGH GENERATIONS

07:00 – 08:00 Morning Meditation The Chapel

08:30 Breakfast

09:30 Session The Healing Power of Peace

11:00 Refreshment break

11:30 Session Meditation.

13:00 Lunch followed by free time

15:00 Session Healing Waters, introducing the Chalice Well

16:00-18:00: Chalice Well Gardens visit and meditation 

18:30 Supper

20:00-22:00 Evening Session

Saturday 15th April

DIMENSIONS OF PEACE

08:30 Breakfast

09:30-17:30 Day trip

Wells Cathedral (morning), Lunch in the gardens,

Walk through Wookey Hole and Ebbor Gorge 

18:30 Supper

20:00-22:00 Evening Session

Sunday 16th April

PEACE & TRANSFORMATION

05:30–17:30 Day trip

Stonehenge – Meditation within the Circle

The Barrows – Neoleothic buriel tombs, picnic lunch

Avebury – Sacred Walk to the Circle, Meditation and visit to the Red Lion Pub

18:30 Supper

20:00-22:00 Evening Session

Monday 17th April

THE RECEPTIVE UNIVERSE

07:00 – 08:00 Morning Meditation The Chapel

08:30 Breakfast

09:30 Session Relaxation & Opening

11:00 Refreshment break

11:30 Session Meditation.

13:00 Lunch followed by free time

15:00 Session Oasis of Peace, introducing the White Well

16:00-18:00: White Wells (The sacred feminine) visit and meditation 

18:30 Supper

20:00-22:00 Evening Session

Tuesday 18th April

08:30 Breakfast & Goodbyes

Registration

The Joy of Embodiment with Bart & Georgi, Netherlands 7-9/10/16

The Joy of Embodiment
Facilitated by Bart ten Berge & Georgi Y. Johnson
Friday October 7th-9th, 2016
De Biotoop, Haren (Nr. Groningen), Netherlands

in English.

Three days exploring and opening the joy, freedom and fulfilment of authentic embodiment.

The starting point and end point of self realization is where consciousness manifests through physical matter, whether it is in the creation of the universe, or through the cells of an individual body. This meeting point of consciousness and matter unlocks the doors to freedom through physical manifestation,

Working at the somatic layer of cellular memory and deep relaxation into physical presence beyond comfort and discomfort, The Joy of Embodiment will bring the formulas to release, realize and liberate unconscious contractions of spirit that separate us from the full experience of individuality within unity.

The workshop combines recent discoveries of science with experiential exploration into through the wonder of being here, in human form, and the inherent bliss in reunion through the physical body. Each day runs from 10 am to 6 pm, and includes a vegetarian lunch and refreshment breaks.

Cost for the 3 days: 360 Euros.*

Curious? You can already meet Bart and Georgi and explore the atmosphere of their teaching on the Chashymie YouTube Channel.

*Sliding scale: in support of community, reductions of up to 10 percent are offered for students who have attended other workshops within the past 6 months, as well as to couples, students and those presently of low income.

 

Chashymie is an international school of Nonduality, spiritual healing, and inner-growth. Bart ten Berge is educated as a medical doctor, psychologist, homeopath and spiritual healer. Georgi Y. Johnson has a background in Jungian psychotherapy, Nonduality and spiritual healing. She is author of the book I AM HERE, Opening the Windows of Life & Beauty, a study of the three layers of awakening consciousness: mind, heart and body. Trainings given by Chashymie are licensed through the International School of Spiritual Psychology (ISSP).

The Joy of Embodiment with Bart & Georgi, Netherlands 30/9-2/10/16

The Joy of Embodiment
Facilitated by Bart ten Berge & Georgi Y. Johnson
September 30th – October 2nd, 2016
De Biotoop, Haren (Nr. Groningen), Netherlands

in English.

Three days exploring and opening the joy, freedom and fulfilment of authentic embodiment.

The starting point and end point of self realization is where consciousness manifests through physical matter, whether it is in the creation of the universe, or through the cells of an individual body. This meeting point of consciousness and matter unlocks the doors to freedom through physical manifestation,

Working at the somatic layer of cellular memory and deep relaxation into physical presence beyond comfort and discomfort, The Joy of Embodiment will bring the formulas to release, realize and liberate unconscious contractions of spirit that separate us from the full experience of individuality within unity.

The workshop combines recent discoveries of science with experiential exploration into through the wonder of being here, in human form, and the inherent bliss in reunion through the physical body. Each day runs from 10 am to 6 pm, and includes a vegetarian lunch and refreshment breaks.

Cost for the 3 days: 360 Euros.*

Curious? You can already meet Bart and Georgi and explore the atmosphere of their teaching on the Chashymie YouTube Channel.

*Sliding scale: in support of community, reductions of up to 10 percent are offered for students who have attended other workshops within the past 6 months, as well as to couples, students and those presently of low income.

 

Chashymie is an international school of Nonduality, spiritual healing, and inner-growth. Bart ten Berge is educated as a medical doctor, psychologist, homeopath and spiritual healer. Georgi Y. Johnson has a background in Jungian psychotherapy, Nonduality and spiritual healing. She is author of the book I AM HERE, Opening the Windows of Life & Beauty, a study of the three layers of awakening consciousness: mind, heart and body. Trainings given by Chashymie are licensed through the International School of Spiritual Psychology (ISSP).

Nonduality, Spiritual Emergency & Spiritual Bypass

The development of nondual psychology demands an inquiry into the phenomena of both spiritual emergency and spiritual bypass. In this article, we propose that Nonduality, while offering beautiful tools through which trauma can be alleviated, also risks accentuating the traumatic split through insistence on certain philosophical precepts such as the absolute nature of consciousness. We suggest that spiritual bypass – not only of individual trauma, but also ancestral and collective – has a spiritual, psychological and social consequence.  In conclusion, we propose that THAT – the source of consciousness which includes unconscious states, coma and deep sleep, be espoused as the most healing non-dual position for trauma work and PTSD.

TRAUMA

By definition, trauma is a word signifying breakage, separation and disconnection. Although this severance is often accompanied by the sense of shock, this shock can be encapsulated in a traumatic moment or event, or it can be seen as the effect of repeated shocks. When Brian Dias and Kerry Ressler of Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, [Ref]  investigated the effects of trauma as passed onto mice for generations, that experiment involved the repeated exposure to a set of circumstance. In this case, when there was a smell of cherry blossom, the mice were given an electric shock. This procedure was repeated numerous times until just the smell of cherry blossom was sufficient to trigger stress hormones in the animals.

As such, trauma can be viewed as a kind of learned behaviour resulting from the identification of a collection of parameters. It can be through inculcated, repeated association of certain sets of circumstance with stress and danger, and/or it can be anchored in one key event which at that time was uncontainable and therefore created a severance from the normative environment.

Traumatic feelings and emotions can be aroused by the repetition of any part of the collective circumstance. In this case, the cherry blossom in itself became enough to induce stress, just as (of course) an electric shock without cherry blossom would also be stress-inducing. The animals were not tested for other signatures of the environment i.e. the cage, the gloves of the lab technician, the distinctive smell of a laboratory environment as part of the accumulated traumatic stimuli.

While the identification of danger signals (eg. the smell of blossom) has classically be seen as a mental association, the experimental evidence indicates that it is due to sensory perception, not thought. That is to say, even without any ‘mental’ investigation, the autonomous nervous system, alerted through the sense of smell, activates stress hormones associated with the flight or fight response. The thinking mind initially has no part in this: the traumatic activation is pre-conscious, pre-lingual, instinctive and presents and reacts at a core level of physical survival through the sensory and nervous systems of the organism as a whole.

In terms of body-mind, the activation is (in the first instance) more at the level of body than of mind, which acts as a support to either reassure the system, or to implement a response to the stress signals of the nervous system.

MIND

The evolutionary role of mind in the field of trauma would therefore seem to be in service of:

The relaxation of the system when actual threat is not fulfilled, or not present at all;
The liberation of the system from the fear of separation (trauma), through the choice to process direct sensory perception of what is ‘real’ in the environment of the ‘here’ and ‘now’;
The support of the meta system in presenting a sense of continuous conscious perspective during the shock of separation, allowing a transcendence out of conflicting dimensions of form.

This vital, evolutionary role played by mind would seem to be affirmed by the use of the witness position as the one safe and least physical space during the phenomena of dissociation. When the rupture is extreme, a third point is found through the disembodied “witness” of events, through which traumatic events are viewed from beyond the regular parameters of space and time. As such, mind, or higher mind, would seem to have an evolutionary function in the passage between dimensions, from physical life, for example, to non-physical form. In this, interruption of the process of dissociation through medication or other non-organic means is counter-intuitive, with the possibility of causing long-term harm in the further confusion and disempowerment of the inherent intelligence in body, heart and mind of the organism as a whole.

When dissociation is supported rather than combatted, a door is left open for the gradual reconnection of the mind and the whole field of association into the new framework presented post-traumatic split. Rather than a widening rift from the environment caused by medication, stigma and psychiatric isolation, core integrity, the freedom of choice, and the possibility of soft and supported re-embodiment is left open.  It is important to remember that although dissociation, like other mentally unusual states, could seem daunting when viewed from the outside, the person themselves is still witnessing all events around the body with a great clarity – for better or worse.

Consciousness

However, even this witnessing perspective is lost when consciousness is lost through ‘black-out’, whether this is a physical loss of consciousness or the result of traumatic shock. In this area, which is over the cliff edge of mental perception or witnessing, we see trauma-related phenomena such as memory-loss (often emerging as unexplained short, mid, or long term memory lapses). This area directly signifies the ‘unconscious’ mind: the horrific stuff that the mind has actively decided to forget, to blot out, including fears that we don’t even know we have; feelings we are unable to feel; obstacles to thinking processes which objectively seem confused, but to the subject seem natural.

In this, a nondual ideology that espouses the notion that a waking consciousness is “Absolute” unwittingly closes down the tremendous healing resource found in the allowance of the deeper logic, mystery and healing requisite of the “unconscious” mind uncovered by Freud, Jung and affirmed therapeutically for a century.

These multi-generational rhythms, survival responses and (correct or incorrect) intuitions of danger will continue to dictate and arouse thoughts, feelings and even spiritual experiences based on what is fundamentally an origin of trauma – the shock of separation. In addition, denial of these demons of the emptiness will lead to increasingly paradoxical behaviour between mild dissociation (disguised as ‘transcendental states’) and physical release (hidden as a kind of spiritual relapse), as the spiritual need of embodiment is blocked by the unprocessed traumas at the gateways of the physical senses.

The originating trauma now widens the split, separation or duality. Now, it is not only between the individual and the environment on the horizontal plane, but also between the world and the witness, or the spirit and the body, heaven and earth, in the vertical dimension. As the originating trauma seeks release, this split widens, demanding an ever-increasing supply of bliss, spiritual ‘high’ or worldly appreciation in order to maintain the elevation, while at the same time engineering an increasing amount of pretence, hypocrisy and spiritual ego in the quest to continue denying the more instinctive, bodily aspects which seek expression.

In this way, a close analysis of the dynamics of trauma, especially as it is passed on through the epigenetics of the very cells of the body and brain from generation to generation, will affirm that the grasping to states of “consciousness” as the perennial reality is likely to create an additional traumatic split, or duality, in lived experience.

The deeper freedom, whether seen psychologically or spiritually, must be in the ability to move fearlessly with the surrender of consciousness into its own source, which, by reflection allows for its easy and unconditional re-emergence. To deny the black-out resource of extreme shock is to twist the nature of trauma, to distort our method in healing trauma, and to deny the precise exit point (the unknown, unfelt, unperceived) through which life is able to re-emerge in freedom.

In addition, scientific evidence accumulates testifying to the dramatic healing quality of deep sleep (dreamless, unconscious absence) in healing depression, anxiety, grief and even in the regeneration of stem cells which are vital to all physical health. The dreamless sleep, non-aware, free even of the witness position, is a therapeutic resource present moment by moment, in the now, as unconscious mind.

Although waking consciousness can rest in a nondual position, it is always in a polarity with its own negation. Only with a radical revision of what is meant by the word ’consciousness’ – to include total absence of consciousness, or the non-perceiving source of all perception – could the word then be used as Absolute. Yet such a redefinition of the English word would unnecessarily confuse centuries of psychology and medical definition. We therefore continue to advocate the trilogy of perception as described in I AM HERE – of consciousness, awareness (spatial, sentient perception) and perception through emptiness, together with THAT which is at the source of perception itself, unconditional to form. THAT, dreamless unconscious ‘sleep’ exists as a continuum, prior to all perception as well as through, within, behind and at source to all manifestation of form, whether gross or subtle.

THAT

THAT precludes definition – as anything (including even the subtle vibration of pure awareness, as well as thoughts, feelings and sensations) that can be experienced is not THAT. At the source of perception and experience, THAT can experience all forms as manifestations of itself, and yet all forms are not THAT in purity. Like the eye that cannot see itself, or the knife that cannot cut itself, THAT is the core nondual position, which in itself is a non position as it is in no way an end-point. Beyond both time and space, THAT is a continuum through all time and space, just as it is the one, indispensable ingredient to all forms and all configurations of time and space. While describing THAT can make it appear as some kind of rare attainment, it is however, ubiquitous, more here than here and more now than now. It remains continuous regardless of experience – whether it be advanced senility or a transcendental state of consciousness. THAT can never be lost and never found. It can’t be sought, as it is at source to the one that seeks. It can only be allowed. Although in itself imperceivable (as it is the absolute subjectivity), the effects of allowing the surrender beyond consciousness into THAT are dramatic, including a quickening of karma and the acceleration of the vibration of perception.

Interestingly enough, when a traumatic state is entered, although there is experienced a severe breakage between one form and another (such as the inner sense of ‘self’ and the environment), the experience of THAT can come very much to the foreground. With it’s accompanying odour of truth and formless reality, THAT which shows in the space of the rupture of form, seems to endow a profound truth and deeper sense of reality to the traumatic state. When a subject enters a state of trauma, therefore, he or she can experience a tremendous sense of righteousness and separate truth, as if this reality (that on the horizontal plane separates him or her from the world) is actually more truthful than normal, daily integrated experience. This is because often trauma involves ‘looking in the face of death’ and to many, the atmosphere of THAT can be psychologically position as the death-truth of every form.

Yet THAT is not a destroyer, it is the source of life, and the recognition of its rightful place at source of consciousness, life and a universe of constant transformation and harmony, can be the game-breaker in healing trauma. Through reuniting THAT which was revealed in the face of trauma with THAT which is prevalent in every moment of perception, as a direct source of consciousness and life itself, a new kind of self-consolidation and wholeness can emerge.

NETWORK OF LIGHT – Georgi Y. Johnson

NETWORK OF LIGHT

Take heart, don’t deny,

That network of light

where sparks

of the awkward brave

conceive through

unbecoming –

(That sacred loss

of all they could

separately be).

Bequeath That sacred

truthful, network of light

which reunites earth

with unformed prayer

dissolving inside

each particle of dust

a source of unconfined

(and most honest)

lust.

Let me

softly release a beguiling,

bewildered night,

as fiction blindly formed

by it’s own fantasy,

In plain sight,

naked, for all to see,

Choose to Be.