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Honouring our Teachers
We honour our teachers, and
their lineage. These include all the great mystic teachings that
hold the promise of heaven here on earth, whether we call it samadhi
or nirvanas or whatever. These include the Sufis and the teachers
of the Central steppes of Asia, Buddhism, Christianity and Zen.
In particular we wish to
honour in respect and gratitude:
Rumi, poet,mystic seer and inspirational teacher of the ecstatic, whose soaring paeons of praise for all that is greater than us, more explosive and unifying to the Source and passionate for life than any other. He lived in Turkey in the thirteenth century and if you want to know him read Andrew Harvey's The Way of Passion.
Carl Jung whose courageous personal search into uncharted spiritual and psychic areas has reshaped our views of the unconscious (both personal and collective) and of the awesome power of the basic archetypes. Without Jung's systematic investigations and extraordinary lucid insights much of what we received from the east could not have been so easily integrated into Western thought.
Baba Ram Dass, American author of our first guide book, Be Here Now. His caring and sensible approach to life, his constant honesty about himself and his search for the truth, has inspired us from the first time we connected with him in 1969.
Our loved and most revered
teacher and friend, Ahrara Bhakti
Carisbrook , who popularized
breathwork in Australia and adapted it to bring through the transpersonal
and spiritual levels. She introduced fundamental work around the
Inner Child and the pleasure principal that supports all resistance.
More recently she has led the way in Essence retrieval and Soul
work that connects us with our Selfhood. She has trained many
hundreds of people in Transpersonal Breathwork and connected modalities.
We have worked with her since 1984, and continue to follow our own
inner journey through her wisdom and understanding.
For more on the Transpersonal, or
read Chapter
ten in John's Notes to Transformation.
Her teacher, Mr.
Georges Gurdjieff, was one of the
first to bring the knowledge of the east to Europe and introduced
basic concepts without which the Work would not be possible, such
as Divided Attention.
Ali Hameed who,
under the pen-name of A. H. Almaas, systematically examined the
foundation energies within us, our "original face" as
it were, and created the energy-based Diamond approach to inner
work.
Drs Hal and Sidra Stone,
who created the technique of Voice Dialogue and were key influences
on us starting our first workshops in 1989, and who honed our skills
in working with energies and energetic nodes.
Pat and Betty Yates, of
MacQuarrie Beach, highly regarded spiritual healers whose lives
are dedicated to removing unwanted spiritual entities and
Satya Sai Baba
whose inspirational and loving presencehas inspired us.
Behind him lie the greater and unfathomable forces and powers that
align with the consciousness of the universe - in short, the God-Force
that is our soul's journey.
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