Beneath our different lifestyles, personalities, beliefs and experiences, there is something shared.
Many spiritual traditions point to this in different ways — consciousness, beingness, God, or simply life itself.
Ordinarily for most, attention rests on how things appear. This site explores what is there when we look beyond such appearances — to essence.
When essence is connected with, there is a sense of connection with life, free from the feeling of being a separate individual moving through a separate world.
Yet, for most people, connection is often experienced only in certain moments, or under certain conditions, and seems inaccessible in many everyday situations.
This site explores the lived experience of connection and separation, and sessions offer an opportunity to explore and clarify specific instances of both in direct experience.
The writings describe how connection is available in the immediacy of experience, how separation is created and maintained, and how concepts such as respect, belonging and safety obscure it.
The work and the invitation is to look beyond the superficial, through the stories of the mind, into the essence of what is.
The writings on this site are organised into three areas:
Fundamentals
Foundational understandings that outline the difference between thought and direct experience.
Concepts
A selection of everyday ideas that obscure experience when they are maintained to be accurately describing reality (such as respect, belonging, trust, purpose).
Relationships
How common and separating concepts appear and influence our perception of specific relationships, including familial, romantic, 'professional' and spiritual.
If this is your first time here, consider beginning with the 'Fundamentals'. These are core articles that establish the framework for the rest of the writing. They include but are not limited to:
Beyond the Superficial, Connecting with Essence
The Felt Quality of Experience
Two Extremes
Conversations are in service of clarity. Together we explore what is actually being experienced, and where stories are obscuring truth. There is no particular method or system, and the conversation responds to what is present.