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The Enlightenment Intensive non-profit ---- Sorry this is not happening this year-- we will have
Sailing Retreat with Paul Borenstein June-August 2017
and be doing Dyad workshops daily-
The Enlightenment Intensive is a three-day residential workshop which provides an opportunity, for you to come into conscious union with the truth of yourself, life, and others. The Enlightenment Intensive technique combines the age-old practice of reflective contemplation with verbal communication in a structured and non-destructive environment.
The Enlightenment Intensive format was developed in 1968 by Charles Berner after years of research into methods by which people could deepen and improve their relationships. To help people accelerate their process of self-discovery, Berner combined contemplation of the questions, Who am I? What am I, What is life, and What is another? with one-to-one communication. Using this process, he discovered that within periods of a few days, his students were having enlightenment experiences identical in kind to those described by people who had practiced silent mediation for many years. Since that time, thousands of participants have accelerated their awakening, increased their communication skills and personal happiness, and improved the quality of their lives through this dynamic and powerful technique.
There is no belief system or particular view of life taught during an Enlightenment Intensive. No one tells you what the truth is. The dyad format gives you an opportunity to go beyond mental constructs and bring your full consciousness into direct contact with the truth. During the Intensive you combine the steady contemplating and communicating and half the time receiving your partner's communication, working with a new partner every 45 minutes. These dyad periods are balanced with meals, walks, physical exercise and rest, inspirational talks, and silent contemplation. However, the majority of the time is spent each day doing the Enlightenment technique described above. Vegetarian meals, snacks, vitamins, and sleeping space are provided.
Enlightenment is not a far-away, esoteric experience attainable only by a few individuals willing to give up home, family, and possessions and spend their lives in caves meditating. It is available to every individual, and it can completely change your life. Though enlightenment transcends definitions and has many levels, enlightened individuals agree that it is a Direct-experience of truth. Unlike insight, conclusions, or belief, it involves a fundamental shift in consciousness, which is separated from thinking, feeling, believing, and reasoning. In enlightenment, there is only union. It is absolute, timeless, and unchangeable. There is no way to make enlightenment happen; yet you can put yourself in an environment where it is most likely to happen. The Enlightenment Intensive provides such an environment. It is by no means the only way for you to come into conscious union with the truth, but is a proven and powerful way. Osha Reader
Here is my personal experience -Capt. Ram-
Realizing...Who am I?
In 1994 I took a dyad workshop and for the next 3 and a half days I asked the
question "who Am I" ...At the end of the last day...I suddenly started
Feeling myself gently start fading into a weightless state I let myself fall
over on the floor, I closed my eyes and found myself far away, yet still in the
room, floating weightless . I was balancing between the physical world and that
place beyond the physical, like standing on a fence, I could go either way .My
body was in a horizontal position in both realities & I floated weightlessly, I
had left the body... I realized quickly I was able to control the direction I
was floating and that I was in more than one place at a time. I realized I could
will the body to die right then and there or I could continue on with how ever
long this body would last.
. I thought about it for a moment & realized why not stay for the few short
years I have left. Being in this physical form is like taking a great vacation
to the soul. All beings will become enlightened as they pass thought the eye of
the needle of death of the body, in to pure Consciousness, and the Absolute,
leaving the body behind.
During the whole experience waves and waves of indescribable pleasure a kin to
the best orgasm you could never imagine, a thousand times more powerful than
anything id experienced before. Much higher than any drugs could ever take you.
I realized I am everywhere and I am everything, all knowing and
all seeing. At the same time I was experiencing extreme energy sensation that
cannot be described ,emanating at all the charkas in the body and was flooding
in and out of me simultaneously at an incomprehensible rate. Imagine having your
head hooked up to a fire hydrant of pure consciousness & having it turned on for
a few hours.
The wisdom of the universe was passing through me, as I realized who I am and
who everyone and everything was... Waves of absolute bliss rolled over and over
me unending, as I was conscious of my physical form and aware that this body was
only a very small part of who I am. I was completely conscious & simultaneously
in all places and all time. I am all things and I am everywhere, all knowing.
Time was nonexistent and somehow I was able to see back in the history of the
planet thousands of years as if it was this very moment. ...I realized the atom
and its protons orbiting around the nuclei was no different that the planets
revolving around our solar system, worlds with in worlds with in worlds all
right in front us but not fully seen or realized, by most humans, that energy
that comes forth out of seemly nothing that creates life is at all levels of
existence, even if we cannot comprehend it.
I experienced the vibration sound of the universe and realized everything had its own level of vibrations, like a stone cast in a still pound ,waves and endless waves rippled through all there is, This was the sound of OMM--- the eternal sound vibrations at every level of existence. Everything had some degree of consciousness including planets, trees rocks, space, everything was one large being, separate only in appearances and only by our thoughts ... I am the hearer of all thoughts, the seer of all images, the knower of all there is - I am the Consciousness, the Pure Awareness of things known and unknown.
Realizing all that I knew of the world before was meaningless as I sensed countless timeless souls in there pure energy form, as many as grains of sand on a never ending beach of the universe ebbing & flowing in a perfect order of love. "Seeing" these souls were like looking into the stars, darkness and pin points of light along with everything manifest and unmanifested in the universe, I realized I knew God. When you experience you are the Absolute there is nothing else. There is no good and no bad, and that everyone and everything is an equal manifestation of God. After a few hours of this I felt the weight of the body coming back as if I was free falling in the air into a pool of water I felt gravity and then swoosh the full weight of the body,
I realized I had to use the toilet or go in my pants so I decided to get up, but when I tried I was unable, so 2 others helped me to the bathroom and from there. I'd been sitting there 3 and a half days all my waking hours asking the question "Who am I" the universe answered and my life changed drastically from that moment on, life would never be the same and it was the beginning of a new way of life for me, Something changed physically in my brain, in many ways, Id been a skilled craftsman all my life and I could not even hammer a nail after that, and had to relearn many things, a lot of the old was swept aside to make room for the new, Integrating this experience is a lifelong process and the ongoing experience of living in the moment will never end for me
This workshope will be held in the Greek Islands will be on August 25-27-2017-not- for profit ,Mastered by Yoah Wexler so one more reason to come sailing in the Greek islands with us...