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In 1994 I took my first intensive. I was training martial arts with a
man named Peter Ralston. He spoke quite openly about his enlightenment
experiences and how they had transformed his martial arts ability. I
had been studying Aikido at this point for about 20 years and I was deeply
impressed with Peter's ability and understanding. What he said about
enlightenment intrigued me. I had read about Zen and other
enlightenment traditions but had never found anything that clicked for me.
Peter led retreats of the same kind as the ones on which he had experienced
enlightenment and I decided to take one from him. The retreat - an
enlightenment intensive - was, well, intense. But I hung in there and on
the last day I had an enlightenment experience that literally blew me away.
I had never experience anything like it before and yet it was completely
familiar, because it was me and yet I "saw" it everywhere and in everything.
It felt at the time like being reunited with something I thought I had lost
forever. Because of that taste I took many other intensives in an
attempt to understand more fully what I had seen. I now know it was
what I had been looking for all my life and, in a way, what had been looking
for me.
It is because of those experiences and the new
consciousness that resulted that I decided
to start offering intensives here in the Midwest: I want to give
others the opportunity that was given to me to discover for themselves who
and what they are because I know just how important that "knowledge" can be.
It can literally transform your life. So in 2003 I started training with Lawrence Noyes,
who has trained most of the Intensive leaders in this country,
and led my first intensive in 2005.
I am confident that my staff and I can support you in
opening to the truth as deeply as you are able. We have spent many
hours "in the trenches" and know from personal experience the process of
inquiry, its many joys and difficulties. And we have had the privilege
of helping many people wake up. So if you feel called to investigate
what the Intensive might have to offer you, I urge you to contact me with
any questions you might have:
Contact
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