Spending time in this Space, with the suspension of consensus reality and conditional thinking, affords individuals a revelation of their True Nature.  That is not an experience one can expect because expectations come through the intellect, and the intellect has an ideal, a wish that comes from the past.  When you are in this Space where consensus reality is suspended, you get to be you.  That can feel very natural and normal, almost as if nothing is really happening.  Yet much is happening, though at a more expanded level, a level that goes beyond the intellect.
 
During a one-day retreat, I have a sense of mission, but it is one that is very expanded, allowing for the greater exploration of The Consciousness, a deepening, a widening of that experience.  It can also be very healing and transforming for the body.  To be with me for that intense time has a lot of healing effects on the body.  The body gets to go through an accelerated Space where the cells communicate far more easily without the usual interference of consensus reality.  Much happens on a very deep level for a person, and there can be ramifications for months or even years afterward.
 
I feel that each retreat that we do takes everybody to a higher level, a different deepening in the awareness, a realization of greater possibility.  It won't match anything that the intellect expects.
 
If the intellect begins to say, "Nothing is happening," I suggest you not hold onto that, because something is happening all the time.  The intellect will seldom perceive what is actually happening.  If you simply move into the feeling mode, you will feel something happening, even though it won't meet the intellect's expectations.  The words I speak at the retreat are not the depth of what is happening.  You don't have to hear the words.  It is the Space, the energy, the present-awareness that really does the work, and that is hard for people to realize. 
 
It is hard for people to realize that something is really happening all the time, and it is far beyond the intellect.  You cannot put it into words.  We could experience the same effect by sitting here silently, but the intellect would have a difficult time without some input.  In silence, the intellect becomes bored quickly, and says, "Nothing is happening!"  So I talk, and give the intellect some interesting concepts to help keep it out of the way.
 
In this world where people are so much escaping this existence, wanting out, wanting something else, where people may even go on a retreat to try to get away from physical existence, my focus is the physical.  It is about being in the Space physically.  When one is in the Space, not trying to escape the physical, something happens.  The intellect may never know what happens, but something happens.  It involves an acceleration of the body, an expansion of awareness, and it happens not through striving or agenda, but through allowing, moment by moment. top of page

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