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March 7, 2016
The Way of Happiness Bart & Georgi in London, April 2016
Inspiration, nonduality and healing with Bart ten Berge and Georgi Y. Johnson.
Is happiness our birth right? Where is it lost? Can we be happy even in difficult conditions? How does uncovering our inherent happiness serve as a compass to lead us home on the inside, while also allowing greater fulfilment in living?
Registration:
Bart ten Berge & Georgi Y. Johnson
The Way of Happiness includes meditation, discussion, healing techniques and awakening to deeper layers of ourselves in form through unconditioned source awareness.
Hosted at the Friends Meeting House in Hampstead, the workshop is in one of London’s most beautiful areas, with easy transport and refreshments nearby.
Bart and Georgi are international spiritual teachers with a background in nonduality, spiritual healing and spiritual psychology.
The seminar takes place shortly before the i-Exist active spiritual retreat with Bart & Georgi in Glastonbury. More details here: http://perception.inner-growth.org/i-exist-one-glastonbury-united-kingdom-2016-active-spiritual-retreat-stonehenge-satsang-nonduality/
You can watch an interview with Bart & Georgi on Conscious TV here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CORT1bE027Y
On Friday we meet at 13:00 and continue until 21:00, with a break for dinner at 17:30.
On the Saturday we meet at 9:00 and continue until 17:00, with a break for lunch at 13:00.
Cost of the Workshop: 190BP for the two days.
For more details and to register: info@iamhere.life
March 6, 2016
February 15, 2016
Consciousness, Gravity and #Nonduality
To date, gravity is one of the least understood aspects of our physical universe. In quantum physics, the fundamental particle called the “graviton” is critical to quantum physics yet is still unproven. This particle is needed in order to bridge discoveries of quantum physics with Einstein’s general theory of relativity.
Einstein’s theory was recently affirmed, with the world’s first detection of a gravitational wave – a ripple in the fabric of time and space created by massive events in the universe. Yet this fabric of time and space – so intimately connected with gravity, is not just a scientific postulate. It’s about the first-hand, existential impressions of you, here, now, and is critical to how we perceive ourselves to be alive.
The first and last authority on the nature of time, space and gravity is conscious experience. Only you can experience the wonder of gravity, by allowing it – here and now – and by exploring the physical and energetic effects of this force at the source of creation.
We are trained to ignore gravity, though its imprint is found through every layer of living experience, be it mental, physical or spiritual. Often gravity – a fundamental aspect of living experience – is framed as being in direct opposition to our freedom. The good stuff is “up”, the bad stuff is “down”.
To the spiritual seeker, the experiential realization of the sense of gravity can be a shift-maker.
In terms of the common sense of gravity, we are all sustained by the earth’s gravity field, just as we are falling together with earth as it orbits the sun.
If we believe in life before birth, then entry into the gravity field of the earth, through a body bound by the laws of physics, is a core part of perceived “reality” as a physical human being.
Yet how do we experience the pull of gravity? Is there any part of experience which is weightless, i.e. not subject to the pull of gravity? If yes, how does it feel to be there?
The physical doorway to experience gravity is through the senses. Beyond the classical five senses of sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell, we also have a sense called equilibrioception. The organ of equilibrioception is the vestibular labyrinthine system found in the inner ears.
When the body is at rest and supported, it’s possible to open this sense by allowing the surrender to the gravitational pull, and receiving impressions of the weight of the body and its orientation towards the planet.
These impressions at first can be simply physical. We can notice that where there is stress, there is resistance to gravity. There is a physical reflex to clench the muscles of the body upwards, as if rejecting the physical pull of the earth. This energy of rejection is at the core of stress.
The formula is simple. When we relax, the physical senses open up. The more the senses open up. As we notice the weight of the body as it relaxes into gravity, (and sink into that), a new weightlessness opens up in other, more subtle dimensions, such as feeling awareness and consciousness.
Are feelings prone to gravity?
The sense of gravitational pull can move beyond the physical.
Gravity is embedded through our spiritual psychology. We “fall” in love. We also “fall” out of grace. We “fall” asleep, and we wake “up”. Spiritual seekers often describe the experience of “free fall”, as the bottom falls out of their habitual sense of self. Others will talk about transcendence, as if the they had “risen” beyond the earth’s gravity field. (Did you ever hear anyone claim spiritual descent?) Dreams of falling are collective, and are conventionally put down to birth trauma. Yet dreams of weightlessness and flying also appear across cultural borders.
The up (heaven) and the down (hell?) are encoded not only through religious metaphor, but also in terms of our psychological orientation in space. We reach ‘up’ towards God. Hell is beneath our feet.
Gravity can be experienced through a “heaviness of heart”, or a sense of weight around the mind. Someone who is deeply confused around guilt, responsibility and obligation, will often move with head bent and have pain in the shoulders in the manner of Saint Christopher, who carried the world upon his back.
This kind of energetic weight experienced through the felt sense is calling us to surrender into gravity. In the surrender to gravity’s pull, transformation occurs in the separation between physical and existential. The physical moves down through the body and to earth; and the existential rises, to be reabsorbed by living energy.
Gravity Awareness
How does pure awareness, unconditioned by thoughts and feelings, respond to gravity? If we are in free fall, and there is nothing above or below and nothing to the sides, are we not perfectly still?
The spiritual movement of “letting go” doesn’t mean ignoring an energetic sense of weight or heaviness. On the contrary, it involves allowing our awareness to be in and around that heaviness, with softness and loving presence.
When felt experience is ignored, it becomes unconscious. It gets caught in an energetic freeze. Paradoxically, a loving inner awareness is the alchemy behind letting go. This is because the awareness which is able to allow feeling impression, is also that which can easily release energetic weight into freedom. This unbounded awareness is far more vast and alive than any mass of feeling which is conditioned by time and space. Through an expanded, permissive, feeling awareness, “heavy energy” is given the freedom to move according to physical laws.
In allowing the physical sense of gravity, a spaciousness opens up. Who is the one that senses weight? What is this, that can surrender to the pull of gravity? From where are we able to truly rest in peace within the physical universe? Does this awareness also have a subtle weight?
When we come to peace, resting in the unity of earth’s gravitational field, it can be worthwhile to connect to the collective experience of weight or gravity within others that we know. We can expand this to a sharing of the sense of gravity with all living things: animals, trees, birds, and sense what happens. Nothing is excluded.
The opening of awareness to the sense of gravity has the potential to release unconscious resistance to life. This opens a greater vitality through a deepening embodiment as human, which is naturally accompanied by a greater freedom within physical form.
Spiritual teacher Georgi Y. Johnson is author of I AM HERE – Opening the Windows of Life & Beauty. You can watch an interview with her on Conscious TV here. You can also connect with Georgi through Facebook, Twitter and Youtube
Consciousness, Gravity and Stillness: a Nondual Exploration
How would it feel to be free within the law of gravity? Not just floating like an astronaut, but really free, with heart, mind, body and soul?
If we are in free fall, and there is nothing above or below and nothing to the sides, are we not perfectly still?
We are trained to ignore gravity, though its imprint is found through every layer of living experience, be it mental, physical or spiritual. Often gravity is perceived to be in direct opposition to our freedom. The good stuff is “up”, the bad stuff is “down”.
When it comes to the riddle of why we are here, whether from the view of science or the perspective of the spiritual seeker, the mystery of gravity will be part of the wondering. To the spiritual seeker, the experiential realization of the sense of gravity can be a shift-maker.
In terms of the common sense of gravity, all of us, irrespective of our individual flavor, are sustained by the earth’s gravity field, just as we are falling together with earth as it orbits the sun.
If we believe in life before birth, then entry into the gravity field of the earth, through a body bound by the laws of physics, is a core part of perceived “reality” as a physical human being.
Yet how do we experience the pull of gravity? Is there any part of experience which is weightless, i.e. not subject to the pull of gravity? If yes, how does it feel to be there?
Beyond the myth of five senses
Aristotle, whose categorization of perception into 5 senses survived modern science.
The doorway to experience gravity, as to all experiences either inner or outer, is through the senses. But what are these senses – the physical doorways through which we receive impressions of the physical universe?
Through our senses, we sense life and become conscious of our environment. Yet since Aristotle classified physical perception into five distinct senses in De Anima, the belief that we are limited to only five channels – vision, hearing, smell, taste and touch – has become something of a collective fallacy.
Even before we move to the meta-senses (the so-called 6th sense), we have a host of sensory capabilities beyond the archetypal five.
Among the less broadcast sensory faculties are some very familiar faculties with very fancy names. These include Thermoception: the sense of hot and cold. Another is equilibrioception. The organ of equilibrioception is the vestibular labyrinthine system found in both of the inner ears. In technical terms, this organ is responsible for two senses of angular momentum acceleration and linear acceleration (which also senses gravity).
The sense of equilibrioception – especially the sense of gravity, weight and mass, is particularly beautiful to explore in meditation and inner inquiry. When the body is at rest and supported, it’s possible to open this sense by allowing the surrender to the gravitational pull, and receiving impressions of the weight of the body and its orientation towards the planet.
These impressions at first can be simply physical. We can notice that where there is stress, there is resistance to gravity. There is a physical reflex to clench the muscles of the body upwards, as if out of agreement with being on earth. The formula is simple. When we relax, the physical senses open up. The more the senses open up, the more we receive impressions of life. We become responsive.
Are feelings prone to gravity?
This sense of gravitational pull can move beyond the physical.
Gravity is embedded in our unconscious minds, through archetypal language. We “fall” in love. We also “fall” out of grace. We “fall” asleep, and we wake “up”. Spiritual seekers often describe the experience of “free fall”, as the bottom falls out of their habitual sense of self. Others will talk about transcendence, as if the they had “risen” beyond the earth’s gravity field. (Did you ever hear anyone claim spiritual descent?)
Dreams of falling are collective, and are conventionally put down to birth trauma. Yet dreams of weightlessness and flying also appear across cultural borders.
The up (heaven) and the down (hell?) are encoded not only through religious metaphor, but also in terms of our psychological orientation in space. We reach ‘up’ towards God. Hell is beneath our feet.
Gravity and Spiritual Healing
Gravity can be experienced within the “heaviness of heart”, or a sense of weight around the mind. Someone who is deeply confused around guilt, responsibility and obligation, will often move with head bent and have pain in the shoulders in the manner of Saint Chistopher, who carried the world upon his back.
This kind of energetic mass and weight experienced through the felt sense is calling for the surrender to gravity. In the surrender to gravity’s pull, transformation occurs in the separation between physical and existential. The physical moves down through the body and to earth; and the existential rises, to be reabsorbed by living energy.
Letting go doesn’t mean ignoring an energetic sense of weight or heaviness. On the contrary, it involves allowing our awareness to be in and around that heaviness, with softness and loving presence. When felt experience is ignored, it becomes unconscious. It gets caught in an energetic freeze. Paradoxically, allowance into awareness is the alchemy behind letting go. The reason for this is poignant: the awareness which is able to allow a feeling impression, is also that which releases it into freedom. Letting go means not trying to control, restrain or deny experience.
Through an expanded, permissive, feeling awareness, “heavy energy” is given the freedom to move according to physical laws. In allowing the physical sense of gravity, a spaciousness opens up.
Who is the one that is sensing weight? What is this, that can surrender experience to the pull of gravity? From where are we able to truly rest in peace within the physical universe? Does this awareness also have a subtle weight?
When we come to peace, resting in unity with earth’s gravitational field, it can be worthwhile to connect to that same experience of weight or gravity within others, where ever they are now. We can expand this to a sharing of the sense of gravity with all living things: animals, trees, birds, and sense what happens. Nothing is excluded.
The sense of gravity is not included in the classical five senses, yet it’s realization as part of the liberation of the nature of experience seems to be both powerful and worthwhile. It has the potential to release unconscious resistance to life. This opens a greater vitality through a deepening embodiment as human, which is naturally accompanied by a greater freedom within physical form.
Gravity and ScienceTo date, gravity is one of the least understood aspects of our physical universe. The fundamental particle named the “graviton” is critical to quantum physics yet is still hypothetical. This particle is needed in order to bridge discoveries of quantum physics with Einstein’s general theory of relativity. Einstein’s theory was recently proven, with the world’s first detection of a gravity wave – a ripple in the fabric time and space created by massive events in the universe. This fabric of time and space – so intimately connected with gravity, is not just a scientific postulate. It’s about the first-hand, existential impressions of you, here, now.
The first and last authority on the nature of time, space and gravity is conscious experience, beyond, before and after any mental thought. Only you can experience the wonder of gravity, by allowing it – here and now – and by exploring the physical and energetic wonder and care of this force at the source of creation.
Georgi Y. Johnson is a spiritual teacher and author of I AM HERE – Opening the Windows of Life and Beauty. She is presently working on a new book: Stillness of the Wind, an Introduction to Nondual Therapy.
A Conscious Collapse into the Matter of Gravity
When it comes to the riddle of why we are here, whether from the view of science or the perspective of the spiritual seeker, the mystery of gravity is always going to be part of the inquiry. At present, the fundamental particle called a Graviton is still hypothetical. The world’s first detection of a gravity wave announced this week has told us about the gravitational effect of rips in the fabric of time and space undulating through our universe. And all of us, all of us, are held here together with our feet on the ground, standing upright in balance so as not to fall down – falling with the force of earth’s own gravity field.
To the spiritual seeker, the experiential realization of gravity can be a shift-maker. The doorway to gravity, as to all experiences either inner or outer, is through the senses. It is through the physical senses that the windows of perception open to the material impressions of a material world. It is through the physical senses that the windows of perception also open inward, to allow impressions of a more subtle nature, from dimensions beyond what we have historically considered material. Through our senses we sense life. Through the opening of our senses, we become more conscious within our environment. Through our senses we learn to allow the unknowable, or to know it again, from the open door of a beginner’s mind.
Yet since Aristotle classified physical perception into five distinct senses in De Anima, the belief that we are limited to these five channels of physical perception – vision, hearing, smell, taste and touch – has pervaded our belief systems to the edge of experiential limitation. Even before we move to meta-senses (the so-called 6th sense), there is widespread debate about how many senses a living thing has, and according to which definition. In the book The Twelve Senses, Albert Soesman introduces Anthroposophy through Rudolf Steiner’s study of the senses. Yet the idea that we go beyond the limitation of five (and could be over a thousand) is now scientifically mainstream.
Among the less broadcast sensory faculties are some very familiar faculties with very fancy names. These include Thermoception: the sense of heat and the absence of heat (cold) by the skin and internal skin passages, or, rather, the heat flux (the rate of heat flow) in the body. This of course has a direct experiential quality in meditation, healing and spirituality. Another is equilibrioception. The organ of equilibrioception is the vestibular labyrinthine system found in both of the inner ears. In technical terms, this organ is responsible for two senses of angular momentum acceleration and linear acceleration (which also senses gravity), but they are known together as equilibrioception. A connected but distinct sense, which many meditators will recognize as adjusting during shifts in consciousness is Proprioception. This is the kinesthetic sense, that provides the parietal cortex of the brain with information on the movement and relative positions of the parts of the body. It’s how you sense where your body parts are in space at any given moment, within their general interconnectedness.
In allowing the sense of gravity, a spaciousness opens up.
The sense of equilibrioception – especially the sense of gravity, weight and mass, is particularly beautiful to explore in meditation and inner inquiry. When the body is at rest and supported, it’s possible to open this sense by allowing the surrender to the gravitational pull, and receiving impression of the weight of the body. These impressions at first can be simply physical. We can notice that where there is stress, there is a withholding of relaxation to gravity. There is a physical reflex to clench the muscles of the body upwards, in a way, out of agreement with being on earth. This sense of gravitational pull can move beyond the physical though. It can be felt within the “heaviness of heart”, or a sense of weight around the mind. .
In allowing the sense of gravity, a spaciousness opens up. Who is the one that is sensing weight? What is this, that can surrender experience to the pull of gravity? From where are we able to truly rest in peace in its natural mass or vibrational density? Does this one that is still aware also have a weight?
When we come to peace, resting in the arms of the earth’s gravitational field, it can be worthwhile to connect to that same experience of weight or gravity within others we know, at this moment, where ever they are now. We can expand this to a sharing of the sense of gravity with all living things: animals, trees, birds, and sense what happens.
The sense of gravity is not included in the classical five senses, yet it’s realization as part of the liberation of the nature of experience seems to be both powerful and worthwhile. It has the potential to open the gates of resistance to life as our physical brains are able to experience it, allowing a deepening embodiment and in direct proportion, a greater freedom within physical form.
A sexual afterthought:
In all our explorations of different physical sense perceptions, we found the region of sexuality and procreation persistently ignored. The sexual senses and the sense of reproduction would seem to utterly fundamental to the study of human perception. If anyone has found resources or can offer an explanation for this scientific blind-spot, it would be greatly appreciated.
February 13, 2016
February 11, 2016
Softly into Beauty 17/2/16. Synchronized Online Meditation with Bart & Georgi
Join Bart ten Berge & Georgi Y. Johnson in person or through the internet (ZOOM meeting) for this live and online event in which we will share silence, peacefulness and healing.
The evening will take place physically in Zichron Yaakov, Israel in English.
Feel free to register for the event at MeetUp.com
Online participants are invited to go to ZOOM.US and log into Meeting ID 827-386-9941, to participate virtual form. The Satsang online address is: https://zoom.us/j/8273869941
Please send us a mail to bart@inner-growth.org if you are planning to join in through the internet so we can give technical support and keep an eye on the 50-person limit on attendees (we will widen it if necessary).
To get the right time from your area, go here.
ZOOM is very easy to use, quite stable, and we hope will be a beautiful, glob…al way to take part 
In the refreshment interval, Zoom participants will be able to ask questions and/or share.
This event is at core a meditation meeting of friends in Israel to support centering in spaces beyond the stress, entanglement and attachments of daily life. It is a delight to also share the event with our friends around the world and to add that synergy in real-time beyond the confines of space.
Meditation evenings include a short talk, 30 minute meditation, a break for refreshments, sharing and a 10 minute guided meditation to close.
Meditation styles are up to individuals but a structure will be offered based on energy positions within the Spiritual Psychology System.
Suggested contribution to cover costs: 40 NIS. Payment for online participation of $10 is welcomed via PayPal
For more details and to be added to the WatsApp Group: SMS: (972)524297196
In English. Facilitated by Bart & Georgi.
January 30, 2016
Spiritual Psychology: a Multidimensional Healing Alternative
Spiritual psychology differs from conventional psychology in that it recognizes not only the healing power of spiritual aspects of experience, but also the spiritual nature of profane experience.
“The experience of cosmic unity – being one with the universe – is an extremely powerful healing mechanism. There is nothing in psychology and psychiatry that has come close to it. Unfortunately, we would presently diagnosis that as a psychosis and tell people to stop it. We are interfering with a very powerful self-healing process.”
Dr. Stanislav Grof
Classical psychology and psychiatry tends to relate to the psyche as an individual and separate existential entity, not as an interdependent part of a collective psyche. This can have a serious whiplash in affirming beliefs in separation, isolation, and all the attending sufferings of despair arising from what is fundamentally an illogical and unscientific belief.
The prevalence of healing scenarios where individuals across countries and generations have been able to move through changes and into a happier and more fulfilled life through releasing that belief in individual separation were what gave fire to the work of C.G. Jung and has birthed new schools of psychological thought, including transpersonal psychology.
The typical psychological paradigm still taught today is that this individual, separate psyche is born at the moment the baby takes its first breath. No experience of the birth process or life prior to birth is admitted. To Sigmund Freud, a new-born baby is a tabula-rasa, a slate clean of any prior experience. Despite scientific evidence that even though a sea slug has been proven to have the mechanisms of memory, impressions of pre-birth and birth experience in humans cannot be possible.
“Mental training of meditation is fundamentally no different than other forms of skill acquisition that can induce plastic changes in the brain.”
Davidson and Lutz.
The separate psyche, according to classical psychology, begins with physical birth and ends with physical death. It is bounded in time and restricted in skin to the individual’s physical body. This preconception leaves many in processes of grief, or struggling with traumatic states, without resources. It rejects the psychic aspects of ourselves, as well as the empathic. It assumes a philosophical certainty over life and death and then applies this as a therapeutic model.
Yet how many have directly experienced the immediate healing impact of awakening in the present moment, beyond the restraints of past and future? How many have enjoyed altered states of consciousness through all kinds of circumstances that have changed their lives? How much anxiety and physical and mental stress is generated by this belief that we are caught, in an absolute sense, in time and space, relying on bad past experiences in order to fear the future?
The assumption of individual separation also separates the therapist from the client, setting up a power structure in which the client (who is not OK) is treated for their (clearly separate) suffering by the therapist (who is A-OK).
While most therapeutic contact is helpful, due to the client’s willingness to let down the barriers of isolation around the separate self, there is a limitation on the healing potential of the shared awareness of client and therapist together in working with energetic forms that emerge in the living, present moment. Also, a growing dependency can be witnessed within the therapist on “crazy” people to affirm his or her separate ‘sanity’. The stress and despair of separation and unhealthy identification can set in, even in a therapeutic setting.
“The playground got bigger. The playground is now the universe.
Dr. Stanislav Grof
In the emphasis on the separate psyche, classical psychology negates the energetic impact of feelings and emotions in the environment. It treats emotions and feelings as insubstantial in the sense that if the client stops paying attention to them after speaking them out, they will go away. It also treats this living, energetic dimension as personal, denying the transpersonal perspective where the anger experienced by one individual, for example, could be inseparable from the anger that is resonating through his or her environment. By personalizing a sentient process, this approach isolates the individual, possibly adding shame, guilt or loneliness to the suffering. It also reveals a belief system in which emotion defines the individual, which further divides the individual from the powerful healing resources on the inside, such as life, consciousness, or inherent peace.
In addition, today’s widespread psychological paradigm excludes the archetypal forms researched by C.G.Jung; the healing potential of releasing energy trapped in past life experiences; and the now scientifically validated evidence of trauma inherited not just through conditioning, but through genetics. From the fundamental belief in the separation of the individual psyche from the whole, multiple healing resources are shut down, and subtle condemnation sets in.
According to pioneer of Transpersonal Psychology Dr. Stanislav Grof, the phenomena of the personal, remembered story is just scratching the surface of what it is to be human.
“We thought that if we just clean up a little of what happened in our childhood, then everything will be fine,” he said at a 2015 lecture at the Science & Nonduality Conference (SAND) in California. “But the playground got bigger. The playground is now the universe.
“The experience of cosmic unity – being one with the universe – is an extremely powerful healing mechanism. There is nothing in psychology and psychiatry that has come close to it. Unfortunately, we would presently diagnosis that as a psychosis and tell people to stop it. We are interfering with a very powerful self-healing process.”
Grof talks of intrinsic spiritual sources within the psyche. These sources, he says, have “a powerful self-healing potential. If you go into a non-ordinary state of consciousness, it mobilizes an inner radar that will find contents in the body with a strong emotional charge. When these are in the right connection to the threshold of consciousness, we can use this energy for processing. There is a radar. We don’t have to make the decision. We become co-adventures, and we have to trust that there is a self-healing intelligence that is far from anything we can come up with in our different schools of psychotherapy.”
Spiritual psychology has a foundational trust in the intelligence of life as the greatest healer, in its natural tendency towards harmony and the resonance found throughout the physical universe. It trusts the ‘inner radar’.
Spiritual psychology also differs from conventional schools of psychology in its emphasis on the energetic presence of feelings and emotions. These are observed as energetic phenomena playing out at a causal layer to thoughts and beliefs. To put it simply, when there is angry energy, we have angry thoughts. Feelings of love and well-being, on the other hand, birth loving thoughts. As feelings and emotions are seen as energetic forms, it introduces skills of non-verbal communication, in which energetic correspondence or transmission can reach an authenticity where words and thoughts fail.
As such, words such as ‘sadness’ (as an example) are not labels, but invitations to a certain energetic frequency. We all recognize the energy of sadness. It doesn’t need a label except as a contractual pointer towards that energy. Yet without the feeling of sadness, the word would be senseless. The therapeutic priority in spiritual psychology is in allowing the resonance of sadness – the feeling quality of it – through all layers of reception and expression, which can include voice, feeling and touch. In this way, sadness (in this case) can come to life, rather than solidifying into depression.
Spiritual psychology has a foundational trust in the intelligence of life as the greatest healer, in its natural tendency towards harmony and the resonance found throughout the physical universe. It trusts the ‘inner radar’.
Too often, conventional psychology tends to move from a premise that life is a kind of chaos that needs to be mastered or controlled through mental instruction or correct thought patterns. This finds expression in psychiatry and the use of drugs to control behaviour and to delineate experience.
While a particular suffering or affliction can be accentuated with a remembered story, the story itself is not seen as the definitive origin of the story, but rather one symptom of a thread of learning that continues until the contracted energy is released and the deeper cause of the affliction realized.
Is a thought an expression out of the silence, or a repression of the silence? The first – the thought which gives form to the unique atmosphere of silence at any given moment – will lead to greater self-understanding and freedom. The second will lead to more thoughts and increasing confusion.
In spiritual psychology, the conventional boundaries of the separate self are no longer empowered as absolute.
Instead, it allows for collective mind, consciousness and shared awareness. Seen through the eyes of a spiritual psychologist, the individual is not a clearly defined, separate entity, but a transforming channel of a variety of energies and healing potentials. As such, neither suffering nor salvation are exclusively private affairs, but part of a much wider story of inter-being.
To summarise, spiritual psychology:
Is transpersonal, recognizing the transient and impermanent nature of individual form.
Arises out of the assumption that life or consciousness has a healing intelligence that surpasses mental construct.
Allows that the cause of suffering or affliction is at root ‘spiritual’ in nature, as is the healing needed.
Recognizes transpersonal and generational events as coexisting players in a personal affliction.
Prioritizes the energetic forms and contractions of feeling and emotion at a causal layer to thought forms and mental agendas.
Views consciousness as independent of the individual brain, rather than as created by the brain.
Education, mentoring and consultations in spiritual psychology are offered world-wide by ISSP – The International School of Spiritual Psychology, which is pioneering the bridge between conventional medicine, psychology, psychiatry and therapy, and spiritual and energetic wisdom and method.
January 24, 2016
Nondual Therapy, Experiential Pathways, Nondual Dimensions
“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
Nondual therapy is the natural child of spiritual psychology and nonduality.
Somewhere between the nondual realization or awakening and the regular person’s life, there is a dramatic healing impact, leading to more freedom of mind and feeling, deeper emotional intelligence, and a greater sense of well-being.
“If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?” George Carlin
Out of the nondual awakening, a healing process begins, which can be both a revolution and/or an evolution. This work is intended to support that process, through all the layers of liberation from limitations of mind, soul and body.
Duality is fundamental to our physical universe. Just as we have two arms and two eyes, we have a left side and a right side, a front and a behind. Our planet is existing between North and South poles, and even the smallest particles of matter operate through polarity.
These natural polarities naturally come to balance and harmony within form, but on top of this natural duality, human beings have the freedom to create artificial polarities. These artificial polarities – such as the separation between the individual self and the world – scar the free flow of energy throughout the whole system through creating energetic contractions, conflict, discord and energetic entities of suffering.
“One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.”
Alan Wilson Watts
The release of disharmony between polarities and the return to naturalness depends on non-intervention – not grasping and not pushing away. Yet disentanglement is hardly possible from the perspective of the entangled knot. The freedom needed for the restoration of harmony always depends on the time and space to rest in a third position, beyond the local duality.
Instinctively, we know this. It’s that moment when we turn to a loved one and rest our duality battle in her non-judgemental arms. Or it’s that time when we reach out to a higher power to help us, to be lifted out of the narrowing spiral of a suffering form.
Nondual therapy brings the experiential pathways to move more easily and safely into dimensions beyond duality, revealing a new breadth of freedom in form as the limitations of old patterns are by degrees released and transformed.
We make out of the quarrel with others,
rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves,
poetry.
William Butler Yeats
To find out about online sessions in Nondual Therapy and Awakening, click here.
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