So much love to you all.  My new book, Leap Before You Look, has been out for two months now, and we are getting delightful responses from so many people.  I wrote this book to offer the most practical tips I knew to support people to live translucently.  Just yesterday I was on Haines Ely's radio show, he is a friend here in Nevada City.  People were calling in to the show with questions and responses.  I hear so many people feeling impacted by the changes that we are now facing as a race.  Rising gas prices, rising food prices, falling property values, unemployment: many people who called in were feeling a sense of despair and fear, and then not knowing how to be with that.  We feel it’s so "unenlightened!"  Whenever external circumstances get tougher: whether because of divorce or bereavement or bankruptcy or any number of things, there is an opportunity.  This is where what we had labeled as "spiritual" becomes very practical, down to earth and real.  When we can find ways to face that which we had been avoiding, we are discover new dimensions of freedom. 

In a few days the new incarnation of the Living Essence Training starts here in Nevada City.  Somewhere around 30 people will gather here to prepare to become facilitators of awakening, of freedom from the limits of the mind.  We are very excited to see this new process unfold, and if you will not be there, we will send you news of the training when it is complete.  Chameli and I will also be leading a Deeper Love retreat here where we live in Nevada City in August.  We hope very much to see you soon, and to support each other in rising to the challenge of a new humanity.

With Love,

Arjuna

The idea of co-creation sounds very simple. In the workplace it would be the boss and the employee. In a marriage it would be a man dominating a woman, which is commonplace in most parts of the world. In education it is the teacher who has the knowledge, giving it to the student. In religion it is the priest dominating the congregation. Spiritually we often accept this as a good thing: the guru in a higher plane than the devotees/followers, giving them the assumption that they are learning something that they don't already know. That is the "dominator model," which has set the tone for humanity for thousands of years.

There has been an acceptance of a very hierarchal view of human beings, people being more evolved or less evolved. Of course our whole economy is run on the dominator model, rich people taking advantage of poor people to keep them poor and hard working. (more...)

If you have taken a weekend intensive with Arjuna, or even been to an evening event with him, you may have experienced that he has a "knack" for helping someone shift out of the mind and into the dynamic energy of the present moment.  Arjuna has always maintained that anyone can be present with another in this way: what is needed is not so much tools and techniques, but a certain disposition, a way of being with oneself and with another so that the natural state reveals itself effortlessly.  We will send you a report after this training is completed, and let you know how it went. 

Please consider joining us for the next training September 29th to October 4^th. 

Love can be set free.  It may take courage and the relinquishing of comfort, it may take an honesty deeper than our habits.  Once love is liberated from the confines of apparent safety, we discover it has its own wild wisdom.  It can be fierce or tender, it can be sexual and also vast and still, it can be known as joyous celebration and as the deepest pain washing us clean.  Deeper love leaves the well trodden paths, it leads us to secret sacred places hidden in the wild lands.

Sexuality and Relationship can be the most accelerated dive back into our inner depths, bringing freedom beyond the familiar, opening a window to the divine far beyond our concepts.  It can also become the greatest distraction, a painful prison of compromise and broken dreams.

We have discovered that sexuality and intimacy do not need to be haphazard.  Through the willingness to risk new expressions, through a deeper recognition of the heart’s true longing, and through the practice of specific disciplines, we have been surprised again and again by what is hidden and waiting behind the familiar.  Deeper love has broken down the walls, now it calls to share these discoveries with our friends. 

Please join us for this Deeper Love intensive.

The next weekend intensive is next month in Haiku, on the northern shore of Maui.  Coming soon are also weekend intensives in Tampa, FL, and at the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, NY.

Awakening Into Oneness Intensive, Maui, July 25-27

Leap Before You Look Intensive, Tampa, FL, Sept. 5-7

Leap Before You Look Intensive, Omega Institute, NY, Sept. 19-21

Alex: Who is the ideal reader for this book, Leap Before You Look?

Arjuna: The ideal reader is anyone who has just even begun to realize their habits of thinking; the conditioned habits of the mind are not reliable, anyone who has had even a glimpse or realizing I am not my mind. The mind is there, it can’t be switched off, but it is conditioned. It is incredibly similar to the mind of my mother and father. Anyone, who just for a moment has realized, I am not the mind, I am something much more mysterious than that; something that doesn’t really have limits. Anyone who has begun to realize their true nature; this book is written for them. Leap Before You Look will guide them through very pragmatic means – it will guide them to live that realization more and more vibrantly.

The book is not a “me” gift, as in “I bought something for me”.  Instead, I consider it a gift to one and all, so that your husband or wife or boyfriend or girlfriend or your children or your community, of if you’re an entrepreneur, your clients and your colleagues and your employees will receive the full gift of presence. Presence showing up and giving itself, which is what everyone is really longing for. Many people today feel that it is what the world must step into. We have to evolve as a race from separation to oneness.

Alex: How do we get the most out of this book?

Arjuna:  The very most, it doesn’t mean everyone has to do this, but if you really wanted to go the full Monty, and get the very most out of the book, then the best way to use it would be with a group of friends. Personally, I’m not always the best authority for what is the best practice for me. What is going to choose if I choose my own practice is habit, and the habits are the very things the practices antidotes? While this may not be for everybody, the ideal way is to get together with a circle of friends on a regular basis and for each person to have a time when they are the focus of the circle, where the whole circle can decide what is the best practice or practices for that person. In doing this, everybody, including the person doing the practices can agree. That is a pretty advanced way of doing it. Incidentally, that practice is described in Practice 68, Real Support.

Equally, you could simply read through the book, cover to cover, and feel into what would be the best practice. You can experiment with different practices. The thing to remember is: the practices that are going to be the easiest for you are probably not the best practices, because that’s just going to reinforce where you are already imbalanced. The practices that will be most useful for each person will be the ones that seem most challenging. 

Listen to the entire Interview here

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Stand facing your partner or a good friend.
Decide who will go first.
One of you will speak, and the other will receive.
Let your bodies be relaxed and comfortable,
your arms hanging loosely by your sides,
your legs relaxed so that your knees are not locked.
Look softly into one of your partner’s eyes.
For the one receiving, you are going to be absolutely present,
just looking, receiving, hearing, without any reaction at all.
You’re going to be like the sky, open and receptive
for the one speaking.
Looking into one of your partner’s eyes,
give a commentary on the present moment.
You’re going to report on what is seen,
what is heard, what is felt in the body.
You can report on thoughts, on judgments, on memories,
but make sure you report them as thoughts.
Speak only of what is being experienced exactly now.
After five minutes, fall silent for a few seconds
and then switch roles. (more...)

We send you all our love, and look forward to seeing you soon.

Arjuna Ardagh, and the Living Essence Foundation

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