Georgi Y. Johnson's Blog: I AM HERE - Opening the Windows of Life & Beauty, page 9

Living Gnosis – Dying Before Death

 

In confusion kernelled in a mask of control, we wore this subtle flesh, that grew tired, heavy and punctured, no longer concealing a deeper nakedness. And when it fell away, I died, yet in dying still, I sing a song of life – that you might truly hear.

Listen, listen, listen, my beloved. For I talk to you through dark curtains of pain that fall between us as if we were two. Listen with the emptier, infinite purity of light – where resistance falls out of its complex of power, and meaning is irreverent. In this listening, the subtler sense appears: not over there, but here, within you, where you and I are one.

You see, you believed you were someone else. But all forms are made of similar stuff. Scarlet finds scarlet and green finds green – each vanishing within the other. Even difference can’t divide: feel how rough longs for smooth; cold longs for warmth; water longs for air; darkness longs for light; and I long for you, although we never met.

We’re made of the same, even in distress of division – even in that, we are one.

Perhaps you don’t believe, but beliefs are histrionic chains. Why drag them around? Where are you taking them? What destiny do these rusted shackles have in heaven?  Sooner or later, you’ll let them fall, so that you may rise.

Seeking unity, we mimicked the mirage. We copied our reflections. And all this seeking birthed the lost child, in lostness tracing the perimeters of a private imago. Seeking somewhere, elsewhere, ahead, behind, above, below, another space, the other side, we cut past from future and present from both. We exhaled otherness and dreaded our own expiration. We imagined birth, life and death without being touched – smoke-screening communion as if we could hold it in states of non-dissolution.

Touch me now, for, in touch, the lonely traveller chasing the shadow of bliss awakens.

Consume the fear that says you must explain, justify, apologize, aggrandize, diplomatize and fantasize a source of all we are. Feeling too much we find we are never enough – the horror of bottomless lack and the freezing of overfill. Yet the wind whispers that we are immeasurable, in this touch, right here, right now in the invisible centre of the intimate core of the heart.

Yes, it hurts, those abrasive edges where illusion rubs against himself with battlefield cries. It seems that without the fight, there’s no light and without otherness, we lose ourselves.  This losing, how we fear it as if the pretence secretly knew that all was always already lost. The game is up.

Yet wait a little longer and listen. When the light of conflict subsides, and the loss is done, we can find ourselves seamless as this formless, luminous glow emanating from the heart of this and every other matter.

Upcoming events with Bart & Georgi worldwide in English

Chashymie Events in English

Events 2018 – 2019
1-5th November:

5-day training in Nondual Therapy  Zichron Yaakov, Israel

Open to all

Saturday 10th November:

Meditation day: Under the Threshold; 9am – 5pm; Zichron Yaakov, Israel

Open to all

13-17th December:

Spiritual Psychology Module 3: Zichron Yaakov, Israel

last chance to join this ongoing course – space for 1 more

Tuesday 25th December:

Evening Meditation: The Physical Miracle. Zichron Yaakov, Israel

Open to all

January 17th – 19th 2019:

Graduate Course: A Receptive Universe: Zichron Yaakov, Israel

ISSP graduates only

Saturday, February 16th 2019:

Supervision Day: The ”difficult” client. Zichron Yaakov, Israel

SP practitioners across the spectrum

April 17-24th 

i-Exist 2019: Awakening as True Nature: Glastonbury, UK – International active spiritual retreat

Open to all

June 6-10th 2019

Spiritual Psychology Module 4 – Memories & Impressions of Birth, Zichron Yaakov, Israel

Ongoing course

July 12-26th 2019

Nondual Therapy/Spiritual Psychology Module 2; Bradford on Avon, UK

All welcome

 

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Impressions of our true nature.

Walking on the beach, one foot after another, leaving footprints where we go, we can look back and grasp at the impressions our feet left in the sand. Impressions appear and disappear. The sand imprinted with our unique footprint in time will lose the impression. The sand where we walked was never separate from all the sand on the each, or all the sand in the universe. Impressions come and go. We remain.

Can we trust the impressions?

We can try to avoid impressions, or we can try to cling onto them. But the very avoidance or grasping itself leaves impressions.

There is only one way to trust the impressions. That way is through opening to them, allowing them in, surrendering, without interference. 

The Window of Now

Sensory impressions happen in the present moment. The can live only in the present moment, just as life itself can be found only in the present moment. We cannot feel the softness of a child’s cheek except in the moment of touch. We cannot hear a bell that will chime later. We will not taste the wine of the coming summer in the spring before that. We cannot think the thought we had yesterday. We can only think an impression of the thought of yesterday.

Thought and feeling happens now. The rest is memory and imagination, impressions left by impressions.

To trust impressions, we need to trust the present moment. The present moment can’t be held, controlled, or repressed, it can only be accepted. Through the present moment, all impressions flow. Impressions have no beginning and no end, while at the same time, they are never stable. They occur outside of the mental conditioning of time, and as such are deeper components of time itself.

When we ask if we can trust the wind, we ask if we can trust the impressions of the wind. The impressions of the wind can manifest only in the present moment. In trusting what is truthful in the now, we trust the present moment which is to trust the impressions happening here. Anchoring our trust in the now, we lose our fear of impressions, which means we can allow our senses to open.

The more we can open space around the identifications and personal identities appearing in the present moment, the more we can open to the love which lights up eternity.

The more we can release the impressions resonating through all our attachments, needs and longings, the more we can be here for peace which echoes through infinity.

The Window of Here

What is this entity, this inside world of who we are, that is able to open? Who is it, the one that is able to allow the spontaneous opening? Where is the opening happening?

If impressions were to be received within a finite space, sensing would not be possible. Without sensing, there are no impressions.

Sensing happens here, within infinite space and at zero distance. From the perspective of human experience, it is infinite on the outside, and also on the inside.

Even the touch of a finger on the cheek, although seeming to be initiated at a place on the skin surface, is experientially composed of impressions. With one touch, there is no inside or outside, only the touch itself, at zero distance.

A touch of a finger on the cheek is an energetic happening through the body, a subtle system that exists in an infinite space. This impression of touch is carried at speed by the central nervous system to the mind where it lives as memory. The greater the spaciousness around impressions, the greater the freedom of the senses to open as organs of consciousness. If we allow and trust the infinity and zero distance of feeling, then the touch of a finger on the cheek can be experienced as bliss.

The mystery of feeling can be uncovered through the realization of the impermanence of spatial borders. The sensing of subtle dimensions of life can be unfurled through the letting go of temporary ideas of form.

The experiential “Here” has no inherent limitation. It is never elsewhere, it is always ‘here’, as the first point of at infinity. Feeling is always “here”. It is never far away. Even the feeling impression of distance is “here”, at zero distance. 

The Hallway of Being

What is the nature of the experience of being here, outside of the conditions of time and space?

Unconditioned by time and space, could this inner being ever be private, or exclusive, with an individual identity, shape or size? Just as we are one in life and being alive, could this being in me be sourced in the same source as the being in you? If so, can that being ever die?

In opening the mysteries of being, we begin to receive impressions of a more subtle nature. Our five senses, habitually turned to what we believed was the “outer” world, turn inward. As they do this, the sense of feeling becomes the leader.

Being here, now, we can close the visual input from our eyes and relax within. We can sink through the silence of the mind, which is here, unconditionally to any thought. We can rest into the comfort of the body, unconditionally to any particular physical sensation. Behind all we hear, all we see, all we can touch, all we can taste or smell, is a felt presence, a presence unconfined by space and time.

The more we are able to allow this presence or sense of being, the more deeply we learn to relax into it as home.

The more we relax into it, the more we can open the confines of time and space.

The more we are able to relax and open the limitations of time and space, the more we are able to receive subtle impressions from deeper layers of ourselves.

The more we come to life, the more life comes to us.

Spiritual Psychology Module 1 UK: 12-16th July 2019

The Spiritual Psychology Education offers carefully structured exercises, meditations, knowledge, and training to allow increasing depths of happiness and freedom. This grounded, integrated system for inner growth, healing, and spiritual psychology liberates fear and allows for the joyful reunion of individual purpose with true nature. The education brings the skills and wisdom needed to become a practitioner of spiritual psychology and/or to deepen the feeling connection with any chosen way of life. 

This is a unique chance to study with Bart ten Berge AND Georgi Y. Johnson in the United Kingdom. Hosted at the Quakers Meeting House in the lovely town of Bradford on Avon in Wiltshire, Module 1 of Phase 1 is perhaps the most profound of all the modules within the seven-year system. In the five days, you’ll learn exercises and meditations that support the relaxation and opening of the felt-sense through contacting the subtle energy body. Safe, grounded and friendly, these workshops are the first step in reuniting with the source of all we are:: the first step in the direction of home.

About Georgi & Bart

Born in Holland, Bart ten Berge is a qualified medical and homeopathic doctor with some 30 years experience pioneering, teaching and transmitting the system now formulated as the Spiritual Psychology Education. British-born Georgi Y. Johnson is the author of a series of books on spirituality and healing, refining and integrating the ancient insights of nonduality and timeless mysticism into the practice of psychology. Together and individually, they teach and give private mentorship around the world.

The ISSP Education in Spiritual Psychology consists of three phases, with each phase forming a complete training. To begin a subsequent level, the previous level must have been completed, or a similar course followed (to be approved by the facilitator). All three phases are individually certified by the ISSP and are recognized by the CRKBO (The Central Register for Short Vocational Education) in the Netherlands.

You can read more about education in spiritual psychology here.

For questions and/or to register, contact Georgi at: info@iamhere.life

Nondual Therapy UK: 12-16th July 2019

Save the date!

A 5-day training in Nondual Therapy with Georgi Y. Johnson & Bart ten Berge: Module II.

In this workshop we will offer:

Exercises using breath and mindfulness that support the unfolding of contractions in the psyche

How to recognize trauma and how to support the process

Inviting and liberating the four entities within the psyche: ‘self’, ‘beloved’, ‘neutral person’ and ‘enemy’.

Bodywork: recruiting movement to work with the fight/flight/freeze reflexes within contractions 

Partner work: the physical touch as a channel of Nondual Qualities and the energetic touch of consciousness.

9-5 pm each day, with a break for lunch; Sunday 2:30 – 10 pm

Cost:  £580

Deposit:  £200

To register: info@iamhere.life

Quaker Meeting House, 
1 Whiteheads Lane
Bradford on Avon
Wiltshire BA15 1JU

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i-Exist 2019 Progam: Awakening as True Nature

Wednesday 17th

20:00:

Welcome, briefing and opening meditation

 

Thursday 18th

5:30 am

Optional Early morning walk

Gog & Magog

Morning

9:30 am

Class & Meditation

Lunch at Middlewick

Afternoon

2:30 pm

NUNNEY CASTLE

Evening

8 pm

Evening Meditation/Sstsang

Friday 19th

Early morning walk

Morning

9:30 am

Class + Meditation

Lunch at Middlewick

Afternoon

Free

Evening

8:00 pm Glastonbury TOR

Saturday 20th

Morning

9:30 am

Class + Meditation

Lunch at Middlewick

Afternoon

Free

Evening

7:00 pm

Moon on lake meditation

Shapwick Heath Walk

Sunday 21st

Morning

Stonehenge – Meditation inside the stone circle

EASTER LUNCH at Overton Bell

Afternoon

Avebury

Evening

Free

Monday 22nd

Morning

Wellow Neolithic burial mound

Pub lunch

Afternoon

Meditation on the Avon

Chartering a private boat to tour Bath, the surrounding nature, to meditate on the water and visit a local pub to eat.

Evening

Free

Tuesday 23rd

Morning

9:30 am

Class & Meditation

Lunch at Middlewick

Afternoon

Chalice Wells + White Well

Evening

Closing sharing & Meditation

Wednesday 24th

Leaving Middlewick

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Awakening as True Nature: i-Exist 2019. April 17-24 2019.

Awakening as True Nature
i-Exist active spiritual retreat with Bart & Georgi
Wednesday April 17 – Wednesday April 24th, 2019.
Middlewick Farm, Glastonbury UK.

PROGRAM

Often, we find we’re defined by where we suffer. Our self-image, our experience of life and consequently our reality gets formed by patterns of stress based on chain reactions of discomfort. Yet each day and in each moment, and every night we rest in True Nature because if we didn’t, it would be unsustainable. True Nature is the space that allows any experience to form; it’s behind our eyes, within our listening and at the core of our togetherness.

The magic comes when we stop identifying with limited views of ourselves and refrain from anticipating suffering, and rather learn to awaken within the benevolent freedom of the present moment. Combining pleasure, relaxation, meditation and exercises to open the senses, i-Exist 2019 is designed to awaken a new identity – an identity not birthed by the pain of separation but through the exquisite sweetness and freedom of True Nature.

This year, we will touch the skies from Glastonbury Tor, We’ll meditate on the light reflected from the outer river and the inner river. We’ll enter the inner circle of Stonehenge and commune with the deeper atmospheres of our planet. We’ll visit ancient castles, festive pubs and so much more.

See the provisional Program to check how i-Exist 2019 is unfolding!

i-Exist 2019 has exclusive use of Middlewick Holiday village, which includes an array of cottages and glamping options to choose from. Middlewick is just underneath Glastonbury Tor and is not far from the ancient trees of Gog and Magog. It’s an area of outstanding natural beauty, and when we’re all worn out, there’s also a sauna and pool to relax in. Check the Middlewick site and let us know your accommodation option. You can book a whole unit to yourself, or you can choose to share with others.

Remember, it’s first come, first served! 

Cost

The cost of the retreat includes lunches at Middlewick and all related visiting costs.

The full cost is 880 euros (excluding accommodation).

If you pay the full amount for the retreat before January 1st 2019, there is an Early Bird Price of 750 Euros

The accommodation cost will be according to your choice and will be added to the retreat fee.

For more information, for registration and to check if your desired cottage is still available, contact us: info@iamhere.life

 

Alchemy of True Nature: October 5-7, 2018, Netherlands

Alchemy of True Nature
October 5-7, 2018
ISSP, Biotoop, Haren, Netherlands
With Bart ten Berge & Georgi Y. Johnson

The qualities of our True Nature – such as freedom, truth, peace, love, purity & innocence – have a powerful transformative impact on contractions within our psyche. By connecting with these qualities – and channeling them towards areas of denser energy – we unleash the full healing potential of our True Nature.

Unlimited and unconditional, these qualities have the power to transform demons into angels and our most secret zones of suffering into even deeper blessings. This workshop will offer time and space to work to the depth with contractions in the psyche, through opening the connection with the qualities of True Nature.

A three day intensive to inquire deeply into the transpersonal formulas of transformation in the release of energy contracted in the psyche.

The workshop will include:

The psychic splits created by rejection and other defense mechanisms
How contractions move through generations, searching a precise elixir
Dialogue with contractions as living, autonomous forms
Identifying a contractions desire, and its deeper need.
Locating the elixir of fulfillment inside a contraction
Meeting the celestial potential of a contraction
Hybrids of contractions and qualities.
Releasing both form and transformation into silence, stillness & emptiness

Refreshments are available all day, as well as a vegetarian lunch.

Time: 10:00 – 18:00 each day

Place: ISSP, Biotoop, Haren, Netherlands

Cost: € 350

Alchemy of True Nature: October 5-7, Haren, Netherlands

Alchemy of True Nature
October 5-7, Haren, Netherlands
With Bart ten Berge & Georgi Y. Johnson