Essence of Being

Evolving Consciousness with Darren King

Darren King

Consciousness in Community
Online Course

consciousness in community

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Consciousness in Community is a 12-week online course beginning in February 2026. This course brings into focus what we all share at the core of our being; how to allow that essential essence to direct our actions in the world; and how this common center serves as the foundation for dynamic, authentic, generative communities.

This class centers on interactive engagement with the principles of radical transparency, as we walk side-by-side through a transformative journey—not only as individuals, but as a community.

Course Description:
We will begin our journey by identifying and exploring the Essential Self—the aspect of each of us that exists prior to and beyond spacetime, arising directly from the Ground of Being as a fractal of Original Mind. The Essential Self serves as a stabilizing core, and when given primary authority within our experience, naturally organizes thoughts, emotions, and impulses, enabling clarity, coherence, and resilience.

We’ll then examine how existing internal patterns have been shaped by our past experiences, and how intense or overwhelming situations can cause certain thoughts, emotions, or habits to become “stuck.” While these past experiences exceeded our capacity—emotionally, mentally, or energetically—at the time, we will explore how to skillfully integrate them into the core of our being, freeing up resources to respond creatively in the world moving forward.

We’ll also discuss how to observe and learn from our own internal dialogue, recognizing that we function as a community of subpersonal perspectives. What we experience as contradictory thoughts are not errors, but distinct viewpoints, each configured to support the Self in its own way. From this vantage point, we learn to understand the broader context behind our thoughts and feelings, allowing us to update and coordinate these internal tendencies into a flexible, integrated system.

From here we’ll discuss community dynamics specifically, exploring how participants who engage deeply with this process emerge well-equipped to enter into authentic, evolving relationships with others. Grounded in the shared reality of the Essential Self, we can embrace radical transparency, recognize fundamental commonalities, and act as mirrors for one another, supporting growth and alignment with this transcendent, foundational Self. This is what evolved consciousness in community looks like.

Course Details:
* Meting virtually via Zoom video on Tuesday nights @ 7 PM Eastern/11 PM UTC
* Start date: February 17th, 2026
* All sessions will be recorded and provided to course participants
* Access to a private online group forum included for course participants
* The cost of the course is $199

A Path of Awakening

We live in a world oriented upside down and inside out; a world operating under the illusions of separation and scarcity. When we look at each other as competition for finite resources, we inevitably take on adversarial perspectives. Furthermore, when we see the planet as a commodity to do with as we please, we obliterate our own deep roots with the earth, further obfuscating our true nature, and we—along with the planet and the many plants and animals that are a part of it—suffer as a result.

The overarching truth is that everything is connected—intrinsically. Again, separation is an illusion. And not just separation from each other, but—even more consequentially—separation from the field of shared consciousness of which we’re all a part. In the most real sense, we are the integrated Oneness of everything and everyone, much more so than we are these temporary vantage points housed in “biosuits.”

If that’s true—one might ask—why do we feel so alienated from each other and from the surrounding cosmic community in our modern day? Why do people report feeling lonelier and more disconnected than ever? If our true nature is one of indivisible unity, why do so many report feeling the very opposite, and in greater numbers, and to greater degrees than ever before, despite living in a world with unparalleled technological connective potential?

Well, simply put, we perpetuate and further entrench this hollow-feeling illusion by our actions, by the very way we live our lives. And when it comes to the unprecedented connective tissue of technology, this has often only served to amplify more of the same, because it has been tuned to exacerbate tensions, encourage superficial resonance, and drive tribalism across the planet. It is far from being a neutral tool at this point, because it is being controlled by a superstructure that benefits from keeping people small, fearful, and—ultimately—disempowered.

All the while, the deeper reality—one that transcends this superficial existence—awaits us, tantalizingly just outside our grasp. For as all the saints and sages of human history have reported, that unifying Oneness—called variously the ground of being, the Kingdom of God, nirvana, the Pleroma, Source, Unio Mystica, Atman/Brahman, and many other names—is already available, indeed could never not be available. For it ultimately is all there really is; the rest, again, being the product of illusion.

The good news is that this reality need not remain just outside our grasp. We can adopt a lifestyle that puts us more in alignment with it. We can employ practices that melt the illusory nature of the construct like fog in the presence of the morning sun. These are tried and tested techniques of transcendence that help to wake us up from the dream. They reacquaint us with a truth that was never far from us; a truth that stands alone as—ultimately—all there really is.

Over the course of the 12-week Techniques of Transcendence online course, we will move beyond the abstract and into the actual practices that tune us into the unified field. We will identify both the ways of being that perpetuate the illusion, as well as those that attune us to what and who we truly are. Through the compounding effect of a shared field of consciousness—arising wherever “two or more are gathered” with intention—we will identify and practice these techniques of transcendence. In the process, we will uncover/recover a sense of belonging we’ve always known in the deepest recesses of our being.

Techniques of Transcendence Online Course

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Techniques of Transcendence is a 12-week online course beginning in September 2025. The format involves a mixture of presentations/lectures, guided meditations, individual practice, and group interactions. Join Darren as we move beyond the abstract and into the actual techniques that clear distortions and tune us into the underlying unified field. In the process, we will uncover/recover a sense of belonging we’ve always known exists in the deepest recesses of our being.

This course draws upon what one might call a gnostic understanding of reality. The gnostic path speaks to an inner spiritual journey centered on direct knowledge (gnosis) of ultimate reality, rather than faith, dogma, or external authority. It’s a path of awakening that marks a return to one’s true origin in Source/divinity.

In this course we will walk through the following stages of inner liberation:

Disillusionment: Realizing the promises of the world (pleasure, status, ideology) are empty.

Remembrance: Recalling or receiving inner knowledge of the true home.

Purification: Letting go of attachments, false identity, and ego structures.

Ascent: Moving through the barriers (archontic levels or psychic veils) that obscure full awareness.

Reunion: A return to the Source—the Pleroma, the Fullness—via inner union.

Course Details:
* Meting virtually via Zoom video on Tuesday nights @ 7 PM Eastern/11 PM UTC
* Start date: September 9th, 2025
* All sessions will be recorded and provided to course participants
* Access to a private Signal group is included for course participants

Frontiers of Experience Online Course

*Registration Now Closed*

Frontiers of Experience is a 12-week online course that will delve into how various contact modalities not only stretch what conventional Western civilization understands to be possible, but – for those who’ve experienced them – also serve as gateways into a vastly broader, deeper and richer experiential understanding of the self and the Cosmos.

Join Darren as we explore the nuances of each of these different frontier experiences, while also weaving together a tapestry that speaks to a reality pregnant with potential and promise. In addition to opening and closing “bookend” sessions, each week will see us explore a different modality from within this overarching framework:

  • Charting a Course of Inquiry
  • OBEs/Astral Travel
  • NDEs (Near-Death Experiences)
  • Psychedelic Experiences
  • Shamanic Journeys
  • Telepathy
  • Clairperception/Remote Viewing
  • Precognition
  • Channeling & Mediumship
  • Dreams & Dreamwork
  • Contact with NHI
  • The Participatory Cosmos

* Meeting virtually via Zoom video on Thursday nights @ 7 PM Eastern/11 PM UTC
* Start date: February 20th
* All sessions will be recorded and provided to course participants
* Access to a private Signal group is included for course participants
* The cost of the course is $229

Kosmic Awakening Online Course

*Registration Opening in 2025*

Kosmic Awakening is a 12-week course beginning in February 2025. The format involves a mixture of presentations/lectures, guided meditations, group dialogue, and interpersonal and individual practice work. Join Darren in this follow-up to the Expanding Awareness course, as we dive more deeply into the perspectives and practices that prepare us to meet this most consequential of moments in human history.

How can we practically integrate and embody the timeless wisdom that enables us to cultivate deep discernment and leverage a kosmic awakening? And how can we do this together, in shared “we-space”, practicing the principles of radical transparency? These are precisely the matters we’ll be exploring in the Kosmic Awakening course!

* The group will meet virtually via Zoom video conference on Thursday nights at 7 PM Eastern/11 PM UTC. Start date: TBA.
* All sessions will be recorded and provided to course participants.
* Access to a private Discord channel is included for course participants.
* The cost of the course is $199.