Wow! Well, 2007 was quite a year, for most of the people we met. We have been on the road for most of the time since the Awakening into Oneness Book came out in early May. Ashland, New York (5 times!!!), Stockholm, Stuttgart, Florida. Hawaii... no sooner was the suitcase unpacked into the clothes washer than it was time to repack it all over again. And the theme we heard over and over again was that everything was speeding up. Resolution in relationship, in health, in finances, whatever used to take a few months to work through, now is here and gone again like a frieght train. We heard people all over the planet share with us that if you surrender to what is happening, it is an amazing joy ride. If you resist it at all, you end up as road kill.
It has been no less like that for us. So many completions and new beginnings. Chameli's work has flourished and grown like never before, so her Wild Love website and workshops now have their own organization. If you have been getting newsletters from her, you will continue to do so. We continue to teach the Deeper Love together. We also find ourselves catapulted forward in an endless evolutionary process, with no time off to even enjoy the view!
2008 looks like it will be no less of an amazing time to be alive. We both have new books out this year, and we will both be travelling in the US and Europe. With so many extraordinary miracles every day, please join us whenever you can. We look forward to seeing you!
With all my love, Arjuna
Arjuna, have you joined a cult?
Question:Arjuna, I have been a student of your work for many years. I have taken every kind of course you have taught in that time, and I am a fully certified Living Essence Practitioner. What has always appealed to me about you was your emphasis on needing nothing from outside. So what's with the Deeksha? Have you joined a cult?
Arjuna: It is great to see you here, my dear old friend. We go back a long way, don't we? (pause)
The thing is, that what brings you here today, as a participant, and what brings me here today, as the teacher, is more or less the same. For sure, I get the mic. And yes, I get paid too. And yes, ok, I get a nicer chair. But deeper than all that, I think the reason that I have been doing this for more than 35 years, and the reason you show up to these kinds of events over just as many years is the same. (read more...)
The Deeper Love in Clearwater Florida, February 1-3
The Deeper Love is Arjuna and Chameli's gift to couples and singles to transform intimate relating into a spiritual practice. The work has been born out of their own exploration in their own marriage.
They will, in a compassionate and humorous way, support you in honoring your heart's vision. This is not another relationship approach, another model of how things should look like. Deep in your heart you have a longing, an intuition of how you can live as love, as a gift to all around you. This intensive allows you to uncover that place within you, to share that with others, and to dissolve old habits that inhibit the natural flow of the current of Deeper Love.
This weekend is for those interested in looking at intimate relationship as a divine play. It is suitable for couples who want to go deeper into sacred marriage and for single people who long for a deep and committed union with the beloved.
via phone:
Dial: (605) 772-3500
Use Conference ID: 451325641#
Awakening into Oneness at Unity of Phoenix: Feb 29th to March 2
Arjuna has been invited to the Unity of Phoenix, in Arizona, to share the Awakening into Oneness Intensive, from Feb 29th to March 2nd.
This two and a half day workshop will include a series of four Oneness Blessings from many Blessing givers. Each of the Blessings will be empowered with a different intention: healing relationship, greater focus in work and money, radical awakening, and deepening the connection with the divine. This event is being co-produced by the church and the Power of Q, an organization co-created by Theresa Cordova. She has generously invited everyone on the Living Essence mailing list to participate in this intensive for a reduced price. Visit her site to register.
She is also offering a series of introductory teleconferences to prepare people for the intensive. the next teleclass is on Jan 29th. Details are here on her site.
European Tour: this Spring
Arjuna will be visiting Europe again this spring, visiting England and Germany. Here are the dates and details:
London, UK, March 24-30
Weekend intensive in London March 29-30
Hamburg, Germany April 1-6
Weekend Intensive April 5-6
Munich, Germany April 8-13
Weekend Intensive April 12-13
Details of all courses are on our website.
Get Ready! An amazing movie coming your way!
Here is a sneak preview of an amazing new movie coming out this spring. Several years in the making, this is the most comprehensive film to date about the shift in consciousness which is creeping up on all of us day by day.
Global Oneness Teleconferences
Our Global Oneness Teleconferences have been an amazing way to connect people all over the world with the power of the Oneness Blessing.
The next Global Oneness Teleseminar will be on
10 am Saturday January 19th in San Francisco,
11 am Saturday January 19th in Denver,
12 noon Saturday January 19th in Chicago ,
1pm Saturday January 19th in New York,
6pm Saturday January 19th in London,
7pm Saturday January 19th in Berlin,
11:30 pm Sat Jan 19th in Golden City, India
and 5am on Sunday Jan 20th in Sydney, Australia
The topic will be Oneness and Relationship.
Join Arjuna and some very special guests from all over the world. You can ask questions in real time, and there will be a Global Oneness Blessing.
We ask a small donation of $7.95 US to cover the costs involved
We will be launching the new Living Essence Website, which has been under development for many months. New on this site will be:
A new bright look
Events calander integrated with our online shopping cart, so you can register for events online
online photo gallery with latest pictures from all our events
online audio and video files dating back to 1992!
Global Oneness Forum where you can meet and chat with other who share an interest in awakening
"In the Media" section, where you can see everywhere that Arjuna and our work has been featured in the media
expanded links area
links to Amazon.com for all the music and books we recomend in out courses
Check back regularly to www.livingessence.com to see this site when it goes live
The Return of the Living Essence Training
Arjuna has been teaching the Living Essence Training since early in 1995, and has trained more than 650 practitioners in that time. We have graduates all over the US, in Germany, Sweden, Australia and many other countries. The tools that have been taught in the training have up to now been based on Arjuna's first book Relaxing into Clear Seeing, which came out in 1995. Since that time, Arjuna has become aware that things move much faster these days, awakening becomes easier and easier.
Arjuna's next book, due out this spring, contains 72 short and simple practices to bring us fully out of the mind and into radiant presence. The new Living Essence training will also resume in 2008, based on the new practices in the book.
The training will be comprised of three levels, each lasting one week.
Level one will be a training in spiritual counselling: helping others to find the right tailor made practices.
Level 2 will deepen these counselling skills, but also prepare you to facilitate a small practice group.
Level 3 will train you to lead one day events.
We will open registration soon. If you know that you want to be one of the first people to register, contact us.
Practice of the Month: Talk Gibberish
Arjuna's next book will be published by Sounds True in the spring of 2008. Leap Before You Look is a series of 72 simple practices you can do any time in your daily routine to shift back into natural presence.
Here is another taster for you to try out:
Talk Gibberish
Whenever there is disagreement or disharmony in the family,
Or any time at all just for the fun of it,
Switch to gibberish.
You will all continue to communicate
And connect fully with each other,
Just stop making any sense.
Express everything that needs to be expressed inside you
Using nonsense words.
Keep going like this for a minimum of five minutes
Or for as long as fifteen minutes.
Have fun, be generous in your nonsense.
When you are done,
Try to remember what the problem was
With a straight face.
When we connect, there are always multiple dimensions occurring simultaneously in the interaction. All at once, our minds are trying to make sense of things, wanting to be right, pressing our own agenda, and defending against others. This is where we often get lost as a family, and are left feeling separate from our loved ones simply because we do not agree, often on an ultimately unimportant matter.
When you switch to gibberish, the logical dimension of connecting is transcended, but the energy still flows. Now the communication has no logical purpose any more, it is just a way of allowing energy to flow for its own sake. You will discover through this practice that this is in fact much more fun and nourishing communication, and even that you feel closer to people when the logical has been flushed away.
We have used this practice often in our family. We have a code wordwhen things get too serious or intense, someone just says “Gibberish.” Then we keep the conversation going, with just as much gusto as before, but now instead of being logical we are simply phorshemphashing troobalddee mosrhfung.
It might be disorienting, like it was just now, if a logical sentence and train of thought suddenly ghoopangs mooshfartoo foorgantoble. What happened? It breaks the continuity of the mind, and we find ourselves manbang nooshbarat forbantbit. But that is the point, to break the stranglehold of the mind.
Try it out, you may feel much goosberiestier and share a great deal more foongatsong together when you abandon being reasonable and dive wholeheartedly into morshfangtooble shangsorbetty.
We send you all our love, and look forward to seeing you soon.
Arjuna Ardagh, and the Living Essence Foundation
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