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Richard is the host of Never Not Here
NNH set to capture events this Fall
(If you want to help financially to make these endeavors a reality, it will certainly be appreciated.) You may know that I thoroughly enjoy to record the content and feeling of an event. Three possibilities are opening up this fall.
1. Jac O'Keeffe has invited me to Toronto September 11th and 12th. Rob, who is hosting the event is all for it. Maybe we can pick up a talk with Mike Thielman, who lives up that way. These will definitely all be broadcast on both Livestream and Ustream. Jac O'Keeffe is presently in a 1 month long retreat with 26 people. I want to find out what happened.
3. I have been invited to New York City on November 7th to film and broadcast a full day with Jeff Foster. There must be many teachers in the NY area, and this trip could expand to talk with some more people, any suggestions? Contact them and help me set it up. So far Greg Goode, Rick Linchitz and Loch Kelly have agreed to do a recording. Who else do you want to hear from?
Mind Body Spirit Expo in Philadelphia
(Two videos, click here to open page) I have been made aware of this expo in Philadelphia Oct 22 - 24. A similar titled fair that I visited in Chicago kind of left me cold in past years. in fact, many of the speakers and topics seem to be motivated "what I need to get", what I need to add to my life to make it right. You could say motivated by our basic fear (of course that's a potent call to action).
http://www.mindbodyspiritexpo.com
Here are two that might be an exception.
One is Neal Donald Walsch, whose books I have not read. But this Youtube talk about fear sort of sets the tone to most of the rest of the Expo.
http://www.nealedonaldwalsch.com
Friendship Series 8, with Carlos Boisselle
Carlos is a breath of fresh air. When I was with him I felt no need to wrap my head around any of the "trusty explanations" . We were just meeting in the moment and have the simplest conversation. I guess we played a game called, What is Here Right Now?
He is full of Joy. If you are close to Long Beach CA, it would pay to look him up.
UjaAlwaysNow(at)Gmail.com
Friendship Series 7, with Michiel Kroon
Michiel has participated with NNH since the start of the web casts. Just a simple view may be the most effective at easing life. That ease is what allows total imbibing of that what IS, without any reluctance or fear. Perhaps it's the gateway of the satguru within.
Sophistication and explanations seem to do the opposite.
Tendancies, the mechanism that holds us in "our Illusion"
What is it that keeps us in seemingly endless cycles of repitition? Is it our turning away from any possible breakthrough?
Andreas from Sweden shares: Oh the talks with Dr. Shankar have been wonderful. Never heard him before, watching the first with just you and him made me burst into laughter. He seems to be authorative in his approach, questioning our beliefs - exposing them to us very directly.
- I enjoy hearing him say that life has its own way - whatever comes to man, it's just a reflection of life and that's how it has to be. Really doesn't get that complicated
- I would like to ask you - did you feel that some people were disturbed by his straightforwardness? That he seems to dismiss some questions before they are actually really formulated
- I myself take it as a way of pointing to what's relevant in his teaching - or "unteaching" of the mind.
I answered to him: Yes, I think that you are right that some people are disturbed by his directness. It is too bad that they miss out on his revelation, by clinging to ideas that they know and accepting only the hoped for verification of those thoughts. We can all take a lesson from how the human mechanism works. Even you and I are blocking new input on some subtle (or not too subtle) level. Yet Dr. Shankar is emphatic that there is nothing to "DO" about it. Let's just be open for that understanding to occur??
Excerpt from Dr. Shankar's 1st book, Kaivalya Gita
Life moves the body from cradle to the grave. Watch the movement. Understand that life expresses experiences as thoughts in the mind and not in life. Understand that life expresses many people in front of you, with all their minds, their duality, their past and their experiences, which confront your mind, to create a story of life! Understand that language is merely a tool to communicate an illusory story. Life happens and goes on happening; this happening is nevertheless a transformation of energy. So enjoy the illusory story as it happens and while it lasts. Enjoy life that is without a story every moment, as well as the illusory story of the moment! Understand that the story will also contain making plans to enjoy a story!
Dr. Vijai S Shankar, 3 broadcasts from Houston
1. Next Web Cast weekend of April 3rd - 4th, 2010
Dr. Vijai S Shankar, 3 broadcasts from Houston
Saturday April 3rd 2010, 12:00 - 1:30 and 7:00 pm til 8:30 pm Central Daylight time
Sunday April 4th 2010, 12:00 - 1:30
Broadcast on LiveStream and UStream on our two video pages. This is where you watch.
2. April 10-11th, Gangaji in Chicago (not an NNH broadcast)
3. April 25th 1:00 pm, Mooji from London (broadcast)
4. April 30th to May 3rd, 5 broadcasts with Paul Hedderman from Chicago, weekend intensive, (come in person.)
5. May 9th 1:00 pm Jeff Foster from UK, (broadcast)
Friendship Series, 6th episode with Kevan Myers
I met Kevan last year in India, when I was filming both non-duality teachers and other people that I found to be "rich in life experience". I intended to make a series called NATURAL INTELLIGENCE with that material.
Sometimes we seem to hold an awakening experience as something very special, which must mean that it is hardly available to us. Of course with such a viewpoint, it would be hardly available to us. Kevan's website is:
http://www.DancingYeti.BraveHost.com
You can email him: DancingYetiPoetry (at) gmail.com
About Kevan Myers