You can now participate in this five-day retreat virtually from home. During this retreat you will work develop the spiritual power that makes real breakthrough possible. Deep spiritual practice brings us to a space of inner stillness and peace that gives us tremendous potential to do work in the invisible realms of spirit.
We will set the a foundation of deep meditation and then turn our focus to a higher dimensional unfolding that results in subtle awakenings of the spirit. In the higher realms of spiritual work we move beyond the experience of ordinary reality and learn to facilitate our own awakening. In the earlier stages of the path the focus of the work is on grace and surrender, but as we begin to work in the subtle realms of the soul we learn to embrace a more active role in the awakening process.
When we initially begin on the path we are embedded in our ordinary sense of self. We see ourselves as a conscious human being who is limited to the lifetime of a single physical body. Within that identity there is little we can do to awaken ourselves because adherence to that identity is exactly what we are waking up from.
The first stage of awakening involves finding a way to be perfectly content with the way things are and then giving up control to a process of awakening that unfolds freely and uninhibitedly within us, but this is not the end of spiritual work. Beyond this initial surrender work can begin in the invisible realms of spirit.
The second level of work is what we will focus on during this retreat. Specifically we will open our awareness to the truth of who we are beyond our familiar sense of self and actualize the true spiritual power of the higher dimensions of being.
The work we will engage in begins as we see that beyond our ordinary sense of self and realize that we are a point of awareness existing beyond the bounds of time and space. From this vantage point our meditation leads to a profound state of detached rest. By relaxing into a deep acceptance of the way things you will build a powerful sense of presence in your awareness. The inner vision that becomes available to you is strong enough to pierce through our habitual ways of seeing and feeling and reveal aspects of reality that had previously been invisible to our eyes.
We will use this penetrating gaze to examine every aspect of ordinary experience to see how it is created and maintained by ideas and assumptions that can never be questioned by our limited sense of self. This will be an experiential exploration that stretches us into new sensibilities.
Most importantly, we will discover how to use the power of presence to see the inner workings of spiritual growth and direct ourselves into heightened states of awareness. By exploring these extraordinary states both individually and together we bring a higher and more subtle reality to life between us.
I am happy to offer you this opportunity to participate on retreat in this virtual format.
Sincerely,
