Under “the illusion of separation” human beings are portrayed as isolated entities, forever doomed to compete for scarce resources. The modern myth of physicalism worsens this perspective, suggesting our existence is meaningless and that our “beingness” will be reduced to ashes once our physical bodies dissolve. Essence of Being seeks to reconnect individuals with their true nature, emphasizing the interconnectedness of everything and everyone. As fractal expressions of Source consciousness, not only are human beings eternal in their essential nature, but we are also part of an interconnected web of life, and, as such, have access to ever more granular levels of subtle information about the overarching shared field of consciousness.
Re-discovering our true nature involves both acquiring new skills and cultivating dormant capacities left underdeveloped in a left-brain-focused, technological society. Unlearning distorted perspectives that shape modern life is also essential. To this end, Essence of Being provides transformative offerings, including online courses, in-person workshops, and one-on-one coaching, to equip participants with the skills for a quantum leap in human “being-ness”. The mission is grounded in a cosmo-centric vision emphasizing shared responsibility, personal maturity, intersubjective experience, and interpersonal cooperation.
In short, Essence of Being aims to restore purpose and dignity to the human experience by fostering a more expansive understanding of our essential nature. This perspective shift in turn transforms our understanding of our connection as a species, as a biosphere, and as part of the enfolding cosmic community. This overarching shift is vital to address the daunting shared challenges outlined earlier. Ultimately, Essence of Being aspires to create a new world inhabited by a new humanity.
You have to ask yourself the question ‘Who am I?’ This investigation will lead in the end to the discovery of something within you which is behind the mind. Solve that great problem and you will solve all other problems.
~ Sri Ramana Maharshi
Goals
To lead people towards a felt understanding that the cosmic order, as an extension/expression of Source, is both arising from and evolving towards (evolution/involution) a unity expressed in truth, beauty and love.
To lead people towards a revelation of nonduality, recognizing that everything and everyone is intrinsically connected, eventually leading to a direct, felt understanding that a perspective of rigid individuality and self-separation is both partial and ultimately illusory.
To teach and equip people around the skillful means of toggling between relative and absolute perspectives as we navigate this particularly tricky evolutionary phase of our development.
To inspire and unite people around a shared sense of purpose and identity as members not only of the human species, but of a larger cosmic community.
To demonstrate how unmoored individuality and its accompanying sense of separation has led (both directly and indirectly) to the majority of the problems we now face, both as individual human beings and as a human collective living as part of an intrinsically and thoroughly interconnected biome.
To inspire and equip people to interact differently with each other through a shared commitment to radical and relentless (but always voluntary and gracious) transparency. This new modus operandi is essential in order to facilitate a robust subtle-sensing capacity in human beings, often expressed in increased psi abilities (abilities present but very often dormant and/or underdeveloped in people).
To help people identify limiting beliefs that have formed through lived experience (and inherited patterns) that prevent them from drawing from and activating their full energetic potential, and to make clear how the consequences of such limiting beliefs are not only personal but also inevitably impact the health and vitality of the collective.
To help people see themselves as eternal beings passing through numerous iterations of incarnation as part of a process of essential-self evolution.
To help people see how personal energetic growth also contributes to the growth of collective human consciousness (expressed as holons as part of the cosmic win-win).
To help people identify and subsequently work through energetic blockages – often described as “shadow” – that often manifest as disproportionate or less than ideal reactions to trigger events, in order to reclaim trapped, cycling energy for the purpose of a more fully empowered state of being.
To facilitate an understanding of the spiral nature of development both for individuals and collective groups, scaling all the way up to the identification of a “center of gravity” for an entire civilization.
To facilitate a more holistic understanding of human development by communicating about the various “levels and lines” of personal growth, making clear that numerous kinds of intelligence can be identified, and that people demonstrate different levels of capacity for each of those various lines of intelligence.
To educate and equip individuals regarding how certain contact and/or non-conventional state experiences can initially provoke “fight or flight” responses from the early evolutionary brain. While these experiences are often both initially ontologically and existentially shocking, they can also provide the opportunity for the broadening and deepening of perception and ultimately of perspective and identity.
Methods
The above goals will be facilitated through a combination of lectures/presentations, small group practices, individual practice/reflection, and one-on-one coaching.
The teaching and practice format will move progressively through a curriculum, but will also demonstrate the spiral nature of development by revisiting earlier material/growth points from a more elevated, fully informed, and evermore multi-perspectival vantage point.
To forge a strong sense of unity and shared purpose, ideally a combination of online/virtual course/practice work and in-person workshop retreats will be included in the program.