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Enlightenment  No thought, no reflection, no analysis, No cultivation, no intention, Let it settle itself. This is a quote from Tilopa, a 9th Century Buddhist master. He was a self realized yogi who practiced a set of spiritual practices intended to accelerate the process of attaining Buddhahood.
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50th Anniversary Enlightenment Intensive 2018 July Enlightenment Intensive 29 June - 5 July 2018 Adelaide, South Australia 6.5 Days or 4.5 Days 50th Anniversary of the Enlightenment Intensive 2018 July Enlightenment Intensive 29 June - 5 July 2018 Adelaide, South Australia 6.5 Days or 4.5 Days  The up coming July 4th weekend is the 50th Anniversary of the first Enlightenment Intensive. I recall Charles Berner, the originator of the EI commenting that if the Enlightenment Intensive is still being practiced in 100 years then it will have established it’s mark on the evolution of awakening practices and probably will continue on into the future. I suspect it just might make it to that 100 year anniversary.
I will be facilitating an Enlightenment Intensive to celebrate the 50th Anniversary and I invite you to celebrate with me and a few friends. It will be held on the 29 June - 5 July 2018. You can choose 4.5 days or 6.5 days of celebration. Click here to register for the Early Bird price. If you’re wondering what the Enlightenment Intensive is all about these few words from Pamela who participated in the 2018 Easter EI says it all: Day 3 of the Enlightenment Intensive, finally my mind and body surrendered. At first a feeling of lightness in contemplation and that I was not part of my body, and then explosively a huge thrust of energy occurred from my seat to the top of my head and then out of my head. My head and heart felt enormous and I knew my body could not possibly contain what I had just experienced… I knew exactly who I was. I was in union with God. ‘I am here, I-am-here, I was always here’…. then I broke into laughter, loud raucous uncontrollable laughter that went on and on and on, ‘hallelujah’, a Direct Experience. ‘I’ thought it was so hilarious that I had just dis-covered and experienced the truth about who I really was beyond any intellectual understanding. I’ve been so busy and my mind so crammed with distractions in life that I didn’t give myself sufficient space to spend time with the real ‘Me’. Thank you dyad partners for listening and sharing this experience with me. Thank you Yoah for such clear instruction and guidance." The Little Book of Enlightenment There are 2 WAYS to view this material.
1. Request ENLIGHTENMENT, the FREE eBook: yoah@enlightenment intensive.com.au 2. Enlightenment and the Enlightenment Intensive, Vol 1, by Charles Berner, available in paper or kindle http://www.amazon.com/dp/1492267546 2018 Easter Enlightenment Intensive Follow Up Letter Good Morning, I’m sitting here at 6:50 AM on Wednesday morning with a bright red sun raising up into the sky. This could be the fifth morning of the Enlightenment Intensive as I sit waiting for the meditation room to fill with your Presence, Love and Strength. The sun light is beginning to stream bright through the windows waiting to greet our morning contemplations on the truth of our Self. It’s a very still and very quiet contemplative morning. I hear the echoes of previous days….”Choose a partner to work with. At your first opportunity communicate what you became conscious of during sleeping contemplation……Tell me who you are.”  Our Enlightenment Intensive formally completed several days ago and by now we are all settling back into our daily routines. A few years ago I wrote how to could bring enlightened living into daily life. If you want to read that click the image below.   The Enlightenment Intensive was born when Charles Berner brought together three personal development traditions, Zen sessions (which were Buddhist meditation retreats), Ramana Maharshi’s self enquiry ‘who am I’ meditation and the Relating Dyad Communication Technique. If you want to read more of the history of the Enlightenment Intensive, click here. A couple of years later Berner published a colourful little informational and promotional booklet to explain enlightenment and the Enlightenment Intensive. Here’s what was written on the first page of that booklet:  Enlightenment literally means to put light onto so one can be conscious of what one has set out to experience. Enlightenment is the direct experience of the truth. In the case of self enlightenment, it is the direct experience of the truth of you. By direct experience is meant, by no way or via. Not by seeing, thinking, believing, deciding, reasoning, feeling, or any way 'by way of'. Direct experience of the truth is Enlightenment.  Many years later Charles Berner wrote in Consciousness of Truth that: “Enlightenment is consciousness of a state of direct knowledge of yourself as you truly are. When we think of how we know something, we usually think of consciously receiving information through our senses and processing it with our brains. Direct knowledge (Direct Experience), however, does not involve consciousness, the senses, or the brain. Direct knowledge is very much like this dictionary definition of intuition: ‘the power of the mind by which it immediately perceives the truth of things without reasoning or analysis; immediate knowledge in contrast with mediate (indirect, dependent) knowledge.’ The difference between direct knowledge as it is used here and intuition is that intuition is a power of the mind to know things in or of the world, and direct knowledge is a power of the actual individual by which one knows actual individuals. The experience of direct knowledge is one of just knowing, like the way that you know anything that requires no thought process – your own name, for instance, or where the kitchen is in your house, or how to ride a bicycle. However, direct knowledge differs from these examples in that each of them has had a prior history of learning before entering the realm of intuitive knowledge, whereas the intrinsic, fundamental ability of each of us to directly know is timeless. It is exercised in the eternal realm of the true individual.” Want to read more from Consciousness of Truth, Click Here.        Here’s some very insightful and inspirational feedback and comments from Gitesha, Lany, Mattice, Prem and Jim. If you haven’t yet sent me any comments and observations from the Enlightenment Intensive you can still do so and I will add it to the follow up letter and re-post it.  Gitesha Dear friends I wanted to say a big thank you to you all for being so nice and quiet during my resting periods, so that not even the incy winciest rustling disturbed my deep contemplation-meditation-sleepy-rest…and my awakening! Such a JOY to be amongst soul brothers and sisters gnawing away on the ropes that hold shut the trapdoors to the Infinite! Such a BLISS to serve God in serving each other! Such a PLEASURE to witness life unfolding moment after moment in the midst of US. What I AM?? I am one with the task that is asking to be attended to. I am one with the hand that stirs the pot, and with the other hand that holds the lid. With the fire under the pot keeping it warm and transforming the myriad of ingredients into a melting meal mass. I am the ear that listens for the bell in the other room. I am the fragrantly flavoured scent that lingers so temptingly in the air. I am the ladle that completes the set up on the serving table, that ladle that lies there patiently awaiting the hand of another, many others, so it too can be of service by filling the plate that provides loving sustenance for the one entering into eating contemplation, which whom I am One as well….I am One with him and with her and with them and with ME… And as I communicate this in writing, I notice that I am also these two forefingers so eagerly feeling their way to the right letters on this keyboard, so that what’s written can be read and received by the eyes of the many who are ME in endless variety of individual uniqueness and who may use what is said here as another stepping stone into the Infinite, to that marvellous infinite Allness, that IS, always has been and always will be! With Love and Gratitude  Lany: Another amazing enlightenment intensive. The deeper I go, the intimacy of looking into another's eyes and connecting without mind in the way is the most divine way to relate. What you keep inside will destroy you. Liberation is communicating and by communicating to someone who will recieve you in a non judgmental way it will get dissolved out of the body mind. enlightenment intensives wow  Mattice: What an amazing experience. The English language just isn’t rich enough for me to describe to you what happened, or how good I feel. To cut a long story short I didn’t want to leave. You are right, that moment in a dyad - it is my home. And I can't wait to go back!  Prem Greetings brother !! I want to share my experience of my enlightenment inrensive. In this cold morning air my fingers are cold and trembling my body shaking with prana. This prana is the sense i have of myself ,my connection with life and living. I am a hollow reed .To be with self , to open , is a blessing .Thanks to everyone for the wonderful gifts of love , those transcendant moments when fear dissolves . Much love Prem  Jim: The Transition from will to surrender at an Enlightenment Intensive I would like to write about what happens for me at the transition point between doing a wilful technique and then having surrender take over in a substantial way on an Enlightenment Intensive. Before I get into this, I would like to tell you a few insights that I've had about will versus surrender. These insights usually happen and also get clearer at this transition point between the two. The first insight is that using the personal will is simply the presence of a 'me' being in control and being the doer. There is nothing more to it than this. Both being in control and being the doer are deep impurities in the body, mind and feelings. Its unlikely that such deep impurities will be vanquished forever by attending an EI, but quite likely that there will be a temporary de-identification from them during a dyad leading to substantial surrender taking over. What I mean by substantial surrender taking over is that one is no longer experiencing that there is a 'me' who is the doer or controller of the body, mind and feelings. There are, of course, shallow forms of surrender where doer-ship and the controller are still somewhat in place, but are in the process of being de-identified from and/or purified. That's not what I mean by substantial surrender in this case. In substantial surrender, actions still happen, but they occur spontaneously without the perception or experience that an 'I' is doing it. Right at the point when this substantial surrender has 'grabbed hold' of the body, mind and feelings, the second insight that comes is that there was no will used to begin with. In other words, there is no such thing as a personal will. That is, being the doer and being the controller are not only impurities, but they are also an illusion. One is in effect under the 'cosmic spell' that one is using one's will when all along everything was happening spontaneously out of It's own power to act. This brings up the question, “Why call the enlightenment technique a wilful technique to begin with?”. My answer to this is so that a distinction can be made between when the illusion of the doer and the controller are in place and when they are not in place as in the case of actual surrender. Since this particular impurity is a very deep one for most of us on the planet and is most often happening for us, it can be useful to make a distinction between will and surrender. Now that I've described these insights, I'll go onto talking about the experiences I've had at the transition point between will and surrender. When using my will, I perceive that I am the one doing the enlightenment dyad technique. I am the one contemplating. I am the one sitting opposite my partner. I am the one being the listening partner and I am the one being the communicating partner. Yet, at the transition point between will and surrender, all this changes. Who or what is contemplating and doing the technique? If not me, then how is it happening? The revelation that has dawned upon me is that the collective non-physical 'field' that appears as the Enlightenment Intensive is doing the technique through each and every one of the EI participants. It was always so to begin with. When a glass of ice is taken from the North Pole and then transported to a warm and tropical environment, the ice turns to water to match its environment. The atoms and molecules in the glass of ice begin to behave or act differently in the tropics. They start vibrating to match the vibration in the warmer environment, and sooner or later, the ice appears to change into water. Yet in essence, its still the same ice. It is only the appearance that has changed. In the same way, sooner or later the will turns into surrender at an EI, or so it seems. It is the same molecules and atoms, but now they are aligned with the new non-physical field they are associated with at an EI. So then, why is it that some participants thaw out into a state of surrender quicker than others? Well, you can think of the impurities of doer-ship and control in the body, mind and feelings as insulated layers of foam surrounding the glasses of ice. Each glass has a varying thickness of foam around it than other glasses. Therefore each glass of ice will thaw out at a different rate much like layers of impurites temporarily peel off at different rates by EI participants de-identifiying from them. I'd now like to finish off by telling you the personal ramifications of these experiences and insights. One ramification of realising that it is the non-physical field manifesting as the EI that is doing the technique and not me is that it allows me to relax sooner that part of the mind that exerts force to do the technique. Ultimately, I'm not doing the technique anyway, so its a very good start to at least soften and ease all tension about doing it from the very beginning. In the place of using force and firm brainpower to do the technique, I increased my surrender to and faith in the collective non-physcial presence that is the EI. Could that non-physical field 'take care' of me as a participant to such a degree that it did the technique for me? The revelation so far is a definite 'yes'. And boy, does the EI field do a good job at doing the technique. Hello surrender.  Asana and Mudra  The complete English translation of Asana and Mudra by Swami Kriplavananda has been recently published and can be purchased at Barnes and Noble at this link: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/asana-and-mudra-swami-kripalu/1127763710?ean=9781944037796 OverviewAsana and Mudra by Swami Kripalu Swami Kripalu was arguably the most accomplished kundalini yoga master in modern times. He revived an ancient form of yoga taught to him by his guru, whom he later discovered was Lakulisha, the 28th incarnation of Shiva. He called this yoga sahaja, or natural yoga, which is also known by many other names, including surrender yoga and kundalini yoga. Kripalu practiced natural yoga for over 30 years, 10 hours a day without fail. In the end, he achieved nirbija samadhi, the highest goal of yoga. The hallmark of natural yoga is that it is spontaneous. Once the practitioner surrenders to the Divine and the life energy is awakened in the body, asanas and mudras, pranayama, sound and song, dance, thoughts and feelings all arise on their own. The practitioner merely observes what is happening. After the life energy has been awakened, the kundalini awakens by the grace of God or guru and travels up the spine, systematically piercing and evolving all the chakras. By this means, body and mind eventually become completely pure. Kripalu believed that natural yoga is the source of all other yogas and should be accorded the highest place. In this book, he combines his own experiences with what he learned from his guru, scripture, Ayurveda, and the modern sciences. He believed both in God and in science. He saw yoga as a science which has its own rules as the modern sciences have theirs. For Kripalu, the spiritual and physical merge in yoga; the evolution of the mind and body is also the evolution of the soul. This book is addressed to practitioners of both the surrendered and willful paths of yoga. It describes the asanas that occurred to Kripalu spontaneously and gives detailed instructions on how to practice them. It also includes chapters on mudra, pranayama, and all the other components of yoga practice, as well as chapters on anatomy and physiology, psychology, and ayurvedic prescriptions for the healing of thirty diseases. It is truly an encyclopedia of yoga. Includes 227 color/b&w photos. Editorial Reviews
"To live near one of the greatest saints of India is an experience of profound grace. Rarely does such an evolved being exist on this plane. And here he was in the spring of 1977, Swami Kripalvanandji, lovingly known as Bapuji, living among us at the spiritual community named for him." —Yogi Amrit Desai "Nothing could have prepared me for my first encounter with Swami Kripalu. As the 69 year old Kripalu walked into the room, my mind was catapulted into a state of focused awareness deeper than anything I'd ever experienced. My first startled thought was that he looked surprisingly like my grandfather, who was also bald and pencil thin. But the similarities stopped there. Swami Kripalu was a lightening bolt wrapped in an orange robe." —Rick Faulds, author of Kripalu Yoga: A Guide to Practice On and Off the Mat "His Holiness Swami Shri Kripalvanada was the greatest yogacharya of the 20th Century. He meditated 10 hours a day for 30 years, a stunning feat, in pursuit of the Divine Body. He is revered in India as one of our greatest saints." —T.R. Patel, Doctor of Ayurveda, author and yoga instructor, Ahmedabad, India From the Publisher Self Realization And I realised that I AM HERE!
I am here and there is no better company than my self! I am magnificent! I have everything I will ever need. And I mean EVER. Easter Enlightenment Intensive 30 March - 3 April 2018 4.5 Days Adelaide Hills, South Australia  COME, join the band of enlightened rouges, rebels and mischievous merry makers, For the Enlightened One, all that exists is nothing but the Self ... Saints, Prophets, Holy Mothers and Priestesses join hands and heart knowing that, For the Enlightened One, all that exists is nothing but the Self... COME, you wise, intelligent, holy, beautiful, all-encompassing, self-existent one, You know and I know you know that the Enlightened One knows, All existence is nothing but the Self ... Cleanse the dust from your soul, empty your mind of grief, heal your wounded heart Quench your thirst from the pool of your own Conscious Direct Knowing, And share your overflowing and all embracing loving heart with me and a few friends ...  The Enlightenment Intensive Retreat is the journey of directly knowing who you are.
The Retreat practices include a self enquiry 'who am I' meditation with a tantra-style communication process that rapidly accelerates participants toward the stage of yoga consciousness called samadhi, enlightenment or self realization. Contemplative activities include the Enlightenment Dyad Technique, silent contemplation, outdoor walks, insightful lectures, healthy vegetarian meals and more. The Retreat inspires openness, trust, joy, acceptance, love and understanding while encouraging one to soften what is ridged and inflexible in the body, mind and feelings. The setting is a meditation rich, zen-like environment that focuses attention firmly and lovingly towards expanding direct conscious awareness of the true self. I invite you to explore the potency of the Enlightenment Retreat for your personal and professional spiritual development. Self Realization Beyond thinking or imagining ... Beyond reasoning and intellectualizing ... Beyond even feeling ... Beyond All Mind ... Self Realization 2018 Easter Enlightenment Intensive
30 March - 5 April Adelaide Hills, South Australia 2018 Easter Enlightenment Intensive  EASTER Enlightenment Intensive Adelaide Hills 30 March - 5 April 2018 6.5 Days or 4.5 Days More Info: www.enlightenmentintensive.com.au EARLY BIRD TUITION DISCOUNT extended to 22 February When you meditate or contemplate on your true self, you naturally begin to withdraw your attention from outward influences and you begin an inner journey of self inspection. If while engaged in this process of self inspection, you also stay in contact and present to another what you become conscious of, then the process of enlightenment or self realisation is dramatically accelerated.
What is Enlightenment? Charles Berner on Enlightenment Joyce's Enlightenment Experience  After some very intensive work I was joined in union with another. it took me by surprise. I could feel my partner in me. What an experience! It was nothing I had done before. It was like a firework…a skyrocket that exploded into a million starts that fell on me and I knew Truth. it’s all very powerful. I felt such peace within myself…..this love I have been given has made up for all the love I felt I messed before in life. Thank you god for bringing me to this point in my life to experience this.
Joyce India; 1993, Enlightenment Intensive participant; 30 Day Journey of Enlightenment and Love India Tour Gitesha's Healing Meditation  https://www.facebook.com/Live-Internet-Healing-Meditation-Group-945280025558853/ Have a taste of Gitesha's weekly Healing Meditation that is broadcast live to a private group every Monday evening on internet radio. Relax the body, clear the mind, uplift the spirit and deepen into the Truth of Yourself. You are welcome to join us. Contact Gitesha on gitesha@iprimus.com.au
Enlightenment and Kindness  EASTER Enlightenment Intensive
Adelaide Hills 30 March - 5 April 2018 6.5 Days or 4.5 Days More Info: www.enlightenmentintensive.com.au EARLY BIRD TUITION DISCOUNT by 15 February 2018 Easter Enlightenment Intensive 30 March - 5 April 2018 6.5 Days or 4.5 Days Adelaide Hills  As you fix your gaze upon Another
And wonder deeply into the Mystery of Life You can see directly into your Soul And find your Best Friend Looking back at You. Still your mind Relax your body Open your heart And feel deeply into Presence. I invite you to explore the potency of the Enlightenment Intensive and it's power to energise your Spiritual Evolution. with love Yoah 2018 New Year Enlightenment Intensive Follow Up Letter Dear Friends and Lovers of Enlightenment, I’ll keep this part of the follow up letter to the 2018 New Year Enlightenment Intensive very brief so my communication is more likely to be received and not disregarded since we all experience an abundance of incoming communications from multiple sources that may feel, at times, a bit overwhelming. It seems to me that there is a curiosity to know ‘WHO AM I’ and what life is. It appears that it is an evolutionary and universal stage of consciousness in our collective life on planet Earth. Thank you for participating and persisting in the quest to know your SELF and for sharing this curiosity with me. Here's a photo of one of our close relatives displaying the emerging curiosity of self consciousness that leads to Self Knowing.  I’d love for you to write a summary of what you became conscious of and perhaps how you intend to integrate that into your daily life. I’ve received a few that I’ve included in the 2018 NY EI Follow Up Letter and will add any others that I receive. with love Yoah Images of the 2018 New Year Enlightenment Intensive  The NEXT Enlightenment Intensive: Easter Enlightenment Intensive 30 March - 5 April 2018 Adelaide Hills, South Australia Participant Feedback I will continue to add your Enlightenment Intensive comments as it arrives to my email: yoah@enlightenmentintensive.com.au Jim What I became conscious of during the Enlightenment Retreat was the life energy of the body collectively and all at once falling itself towards the spine as if the spinal column had its own gravity. I also became conscious that this energy which was culminating at the spine had an upward flowing tendency. As I continued to surrender to the truth while sitting in dyads, I noticed that the muscles of the body, particularly the abdomen, but also the ones associated with the throat and the perineum were contracting involuntarily and by their own intelligence. These muscles supporting and surrounding the spine felt like they were wringing out the spinal column like a soaking wet towel being twisted into a helix. However, instead of the “droplets' falling downward, they were rising into the head. The main motion of the life energy in the body during the retreat was therefore centrally inward and upward. While this occurred, the predominant sensate experience during the retreat was bliss. So much of it and so continually did it roll on that it was deemed completely ordinary and a default state of the body. What is of significance though is how this energy dynamic was influencing the mind. The more contraction and the more upward flow, the more space would spread throughout the mind, harmoniously neutralising all in its path. Thoughts, feelings, emotions, experiences and desires that I would usually notice in the every day happenings of the mind, were gone. What I mean by gone is that I was no longer conscious of them. By the time this centrally located life energy reached the eyebrow area, the last of the human faculties started silencing and calming themselves into themselves. The individual consciousnesses at the eyes, the ears, the mouth and the nose would fall back into themselves and then segregate into a unity of exquisite sensitivity ability in the centre of the head. That’s a long string of words but it’s the best I can do to describe this ‘vacant action potential’. Therefore, not only were the contents of the mind gone, but the very consciousness that beheld them was vacating inwardly and centrally. Above I have described what happened to the body and how the mind was affected by what was happening in the body. However, it is also worth mentioning that there were brief periods when what happened in the mind also affected what was happening to the energy of the body. This was when a desire would occur by passing under the radar despite the strong energetic upward flow that was constantly wiping such desires clean from the mind like car window wipers on ultra high speed. For example, there was one time I was sweating and heating up due to all the inner bodily activity and there was a wish to cool down. I resisted the heat and preferred coolness in that instant. The next thing I noticed was the upward tending energy would fall below the eyebrows and down into the body again. That is when I would feel distinctly the discomfort and come back into the experience of being a human body. Before that downward flow, there was just the noticing of the beginnings of a desire returning as if coming to me from a distant place. You may have picked up thus far that I haven't made mention of any revelations of truth or samadhis or or direct experiences or conscious union with reality. What I have described above is what happened to the body and the mind. Based on these exact above experiences, I can conclude that the freedom from any attachment in consciousness, the emptiness of mind, the profound introversion of the senses and consciousness toward the centre of the head, and the upward flowing energy of the body are all environmental attractants that increase the likelihood of Enlightenment occurring. They are environment attractants just like dry kindling, strong winds, and a steaming hot day are all environmental attractants for a fire starting to blaze. They are not determinants, but most definitely attractants for such a situation to take place. Sarah Dearest Brothers and Sisters of Truth, It was a true honour and pleasure to participate with you all on this intensive. I feel great love for all of you. If you would like to connect with me I am on FB under Sarah Emily-Anne in Alice Springs. I would love to hear from you fellow truth seeker! I have been re-reading my book “True Feminine Power” since I came home and am surprisingly realising that it is actually a really good integration tool for after an Enlightenment Intensive. Whether you are male or female we both have a true masculine and feminine side in differing percentages. I feel a bit awkward saying all this cause I haven’t started promoting the book yet as it still needs a lot of editing. I also want to add a bunch more chapters about mas/fem relating. But I feel comfortable with you reading it even though it’s not fully ripe yet. I hope it can benefit you in further integrating who and what we truly are in life. “True Feminine Power” is available at most online bookstores, even as an ebook for just a few dollars. I look forward to seeing you again and doing more important work together. I am most likely traveling through qld this year on a road trip so stay in touch and might see you soon! Lany Thanks to Yoah and Gitesha from the self foundation Adelaide for organizing such a great enlightenment intensive and all who came awesome energy and love and clearing. Wow fabulous retreat overflowing with love divine connection people ready to receive without judgement clearing the untruths of our conditioning to become our true selves. Happiness doesn't come from what you have it comes from knowing who you are to the core without the mind interfering. So good to look deeply into another's eyes and have no mind just peace and love. We really can't imagine our true beauty with these mortal eyes. I will never forget what I feasted my mortal eyes upon. The radiant beauty that was myself! Get ready enlightenment intensive coming up in Castlemaine date to be confirmed. Greg (Staff) Following the EI I noticed others willingness to engage and assist me. My body is more sensitive to foods and my sleep is similarly affected. I’m aware of habitual attitudes that limit my involvement in life and in my creative flow. Openness has become paramount in consciousness. I am more generous with my praise and willingness to communicate. Prema Working on What am I, the object of my contemplation had been the judgment function (budhi) in all its gloriousness and nastiness. It kept coming up and I kept communicating it. Eventually things slowed down, became calmer and finally, it no longer appeared. All that remained was my intention to directly experience the truth, surrender and then let the truth come. Towards the end of the dyad I took another stab surrendering to the truth and then, I literally lost myself for a few moments. I was no longer there. No seeing, no hearing, no thinking, no feeling. I was gone. Submerged in a state of pure being without even being reflective or observing or conscious of it. I had been gone home. Non-duality. When my senses started to come back into action and I became aware of the noise in the room and felt my eyes looking again, I waited for a few moments to find words. Nothing came up. My mind was completely quiet and empty still. I slowly said to my partner, I am one. Then the gong sounded and I got up and walked out for working contemplation. Everything still felt in slow motion and so I walked slowly, continuing to be open to what had just happened. As I came outside and slowly moved down the driveway my attention was drawn into the upper part of my head and it became very light, a blinding white light. My body felt like it had lost gravity and instead of walking I felt I was floating above ground. I turned around. Greg, the chief monitor was looking at me. I looked back towards him and nodded, as if to say, I'm ok and I felt a gentle wave of loving emotion wafting through me. I am one without the I. Towards the end of the working contemplation I sat down for a few minutes. My body was completely still, effortlessly so, I felt like an empty building with a wide open still perfect nothingness gently floating through. The sense of weightless lightness of the body continued for a while longer. Later, when I sat down for my next dyad I still did not really know what else to say, but I was certain that the truth had closed over me then, and I had really been gone. There was a tear in the time and space processing continuum. There was no I. ... is no I ... in that oneness. As I continued to present what had happened, the energy accumulated above the eyebrows and I experienced a state of 'seeing without the eyes', being conscious of and in contact with my partner without the process of using my eyes and ears. A kind of flow of truth kept going on. Gitesha Dear beautiful friends, What I became conscious of on yet another level of clarity and tangible experience within myself is: THAT I EXIST and that my existence is blessed, loved supported, taken care of and smiled upon from all directions. That there’s no beginning and no end to me, that I and all others are divine, that I AM THE SHINING ONE, who is ONE with my divinity and with my humanity, and that my reason for being here is bringing THAT, the Grace of God that lives in Me, and as Me, in it’s ever purer form into expression in this world, and to all others in this dance of life. Thank you, beautiful ones, for dancing with me.
In Memoriam  Anthony Osborne 69, passed away in the early hours on 25/11/2017 While sitting in quiet contemplation on day four I finally surrendered all I was. My way of being, my meditation, my spiritual life, my whole being. Then suddenly I started laughing. What a joke! How funny! I was trying to find myself while all the time I was here and had been here all the time. Now I know myself. Prayer of Transition https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZBlVcks72M Summary of the Main Barriers to Enlightenment Distractions from Phenomena Remedy: Concentrate more deeply on the task at hand. Without chasing after the phenomena or running away from it, stay open to a conscious direct knowing of who you are while keeping your intention to directly know yourself. Not Observing the Obvious Remedy: Have you ever lost your car keys, glasses or your phone. You hunt and hunt looking for it and never notice that it's just on the table in plain sight? That's what it's like to not notice the obvious in respect to who you are. The remedy is to not lose your intention and to stay open to finding what you lost. Karma Remedy: If you don't feel you deserve it then open your heart and do it for others. Do it for those you love. Pre-Conceived Ideas Remedy: Give up your ideas of how it's supposed to be; set them aside. Stay open to the unknown while keeping your intention for a conscious direct knowing of your Self. Lack of Persistence Remedy: Giving up is the greatest cause of failure in all of life's endeavors. Don't confuse intention for the truth with straining, forcing and pushing. Relax the mind/body while doing the Enlightenment Dyad Technique. Intellectualizing Remedy: No where in the Enlightenment Dyad Technique instructions does it say to 'think or figure out' who you are. Contemplation is more a 'dwelling or resting upon' who you 'think' you are. Take more time contemplating followed by communicating only what occurs as a result of contemplating upon the object of your enlightenment. Participant Services & Links The LINKS page of my website contains the Services and Profiles of past Enlightenment Intensive participants. Below are the services and contact details for a few Divine Individuals from the 2018 New Year Enlightenment Intensive. I would like to add you to this page and to the LINKS page if you wish. Contact me so we can make it happen.
 sarah.emilyanne@gmail.com Sarah Author of True Feminine Power  bpanne@flinders.edu.au Prema Individuals & Couples Counselor and Therapist I have been involved in personal and spiritual growth work since 1975. I trained as an Enlightenment Intensive Master and in Mind Clearing with Lawrence Noyce and Mona Sati Sosna in the eighties and learned from Charles Berner from 1988 - 1994. In the late nineties I completed a Masters in Counselling and a post grad. cert in family systems therapy. I have training and experience in Jungian Therapy, Art therapy and Brief Solution Therapy. Between 1996 and 2013 I taught at university level for under- and post graduates at Adelaide University, South Australian University and Flinders University in the fields of counselling & caring practices and effective communication. I have completed a phd in practical theology. I am an ordained minister in the Uniting Church. During this time I have worked in residential aged care and congregational ministry. I have recently retired, however, I occasionally respond to personal requests to support a person, couple or team through a crisis. Books
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