What is an Enlightenment Intensive?

It is a three-day, residential retreat designed to maximize the probability that participants will have an enlightenment experience. It uses a process that is a combination of an Eastern Zen method of spiritual practice and a Western communication technique.

This powerful combination is very effective in speeding up your chances of having a direct experience of truth itself. You are not required to do any type of therapy, join anything or perform any mystical practices or rituals.
It is not a religion nor is it part of any other system.

Doing this work, you experience the Truth directly, your self, you don't have to believe in any dogma or teachings or spend years meditating under the guidance of some teacher or isolate yourself in a monastery, although this process can be very compatible and complementary to other methods and practices.

Do you know who you really are?

The objective of the Enlightenment Intensive is not to answer this question intellectually but to experience it directly.

During the Intensive you will simply be contemplating the true nature of the self, using the question, "Who Am I” and then communicating the results of your contemplation to a partner. Then you listen while your partner contemplates and communicates to you one of the following questions:

Can you tell me: Who You Are? What You Are?  What Another Is? or, What Life Is?

Participants, who have done Intensives before, may also work on other questions such as; "What Am I” "What is Life" or, "What is Another".

History

The Enlightenment Intensive format was developed, in California, in 1968 by Charles Berner. Since then, it has spread to many countries around the world.
Over the last 34 years thousands of people of all ages, from many different sections of society, cultures and religious backgrounds have had profound experiences while participating in Enlightenment Intensives.

What is Enlightenment?

Enlightenment is realizing the truth directly. Having direct contact with the truth of your self, life or another.
It is a moment of Union with Truth, Absolute Truth - that is beyond words, thoughts, feelings, senses, intuitions and beliefs. Beyond any methods we normally use for knowing.
In this state of consciousness there is no process by which one is aware - one is in direct union with the Truth of what is.
It can be sometimes confused with an insight or other kinds of heightened experiences but these are indirect experiences and different than a direct union that is Enlightenment, which is something beyond a full experience through the senses (what we see, hear, feel, think, believe, reason, sense or intuit).
There is no separation between the experiencer and the thing experienced - they are the same. Nor, is there any sense of having ‘come into’, or ‘arrived at’, that experience.
When a direct experience happens there is no doubt or uncertainty.
It always occurs in a timeless instant, always in the present moment, and always changes one’s state of being into a more enlightened or awakened state of consciousness.
Enlightenment can occur to anyone, in any circumstances, in the normal course of life and often does.
When a direct experience of self, life or another happens, it is referred to as an enlightenment experience.

Some practical reasons for participating in an Enlightenment Intensive

• To experience the peacefulness of a mind empty of thought
• To know the truth of who you really are and what you are really about.
• To connect directly with your own Divine Guidance and Inner Truth.
• To have more confidence in truly presenting the truth of who you are to others.
• To live more consciously in the Truth of who you really are, and to have a more free and open contact of Truth with others.
• Clearer insights into the dynamics of your relationships with others and with your life.
• A deeper understanding and respect for others.
• Wherever you are, on your spiritual journey, this work will increase your potential for an “Enlightenment” experience.
• Any growth work that you are doing or want to do will be greatly enhanced and accelerated.

Some comments that have been made by participants who have done Enlightenment Intensives:

“I begin to have a better understanding and more profound knowledge of the perfection of the Universe”.
“I started to see each moment in life as a new and unique experience and I'm less likely to be stuck in limited beliefs now”.
“My life purpose started to become clearer and I had more confidence in truly presenting the truth of who I am to others”.
“I was able to connect more quickly and deeper to my true self and to others”.
“My ability to survive and cope with the challenges of everyday life has improved dramatically”.
“I can let go of what others think of me and accept and love myself more deeply and unconditionally than I have ever done before”.
“It's helped me to have more courage to be more fully present in the truth of who I am and to be able to give more love unconditionally”.

The purpose of the Enlightenment Intensive is to give you maximum support to simply be your self so you can directly experience the true nature of who and what you really are, what life is or what another is, in just three intense days.

It is highly recommended that anyone who is seeking Self-Realization or the Divine Truth of “what is”, to seriously consider doing an Enlightenment Intensive.

If this is something that you (or someone you know) are interested in attending, or, if you just have questions about the Enlightenment Intensive, you can:

Contact me at (250) 767 6367       or        E-mail:  josephine767@yahoo.com

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