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.