The Power of Self-Knowing: An Open Circle Online Meeting

Why do we dim the light of our knowing? Why do we give power away to authorities outside ourselves, forgetting that we hold access to direct knowing through the inherent intelligence of our own light of awareness? Perhaps now is the time to consider connecting to the power of self-direction and inner wisdom, a birthright with which we have all been graced, rather than keeping the light of self-knowing dimmed. Together we will explore the place from which self-knowing arises.

Being a Light Unto Oneself

Nurit speaks with Spiritual Mentor Susanne Marie about the impact of lineage and what to watch out for in the spiritual arena. The two shed light from their own experiences and encourage “Being” as opposed to following blindly a mind-based teaching. For information about Nurit, please visit treeofsilence.com.

The Unconditional Nature of Love

Our essential nature, which rests prior to all concepts, is unconditioned Being. When our essential nature is known and felt through the heart, life is viewed through the lens of unity. We feel a deep intimacy with everything. In fact, we appreciate that our “own” essential nature and that of everything are one and the same. This manifests in our behavior and experience as allowance, acceptance, welcoming, and a deeply felt intimacy with what is.

Standing On Your Own Two Feet: A Seattle Evening Meeting

An evening meeting with a Seattle non-dual group which was a prequel to a powerful weekend intensive. It takes maturity and a courageous willingness to come to stop looking outside of ourselves for ourselves. Are you ready to stand on your own two feet, stop wavering and go one pointedly towards what you want?

Berkeley Open Circle Meeting: The Cosmic Body

As we practice resting in that which is prior to content, we strengthen our capacity to know ourselves as all of creation. But first a solid base needs to be established on which consciousness is no longer glued in identification with what it is focusing on. This broadens one’s capacity to sense into oneself as the whole, no longer solely a personal identity, but knowing oneself as everyone and everything.

What Does Meeting in Sacred Mutuality Mean?

Life is evolving, asking us to rise up to embrace our inner autonomy and to meet as equals in service to the whole. The old paradigm of a few teachers serving as ‘wisdom holders’ is ebbing. We are transitioning from a hierarchical way of meeting others in Truth with the teacher on top, to an egalitarian one in which we meet in a circle, inviting each another to express our own knowing, gifts, and strengths. In this new paradigm, the teacher can serve more as a facilitator, supporting participation and helping others to access their own wisdom.

Seattle Friday Evening Meeting: Part of a summer weekend intensive

Topics:

  • Learning to develop a sense of what is true, a place inside that is already free of pain and already at peace.
  • Consciousness is indiscriminate. It isn’t driven by will force, so it goes wherever attention is placed. When it is placed on awareness itself, it learns to rest as That.
  • There is an evolution to consciousness that is occurring, we are deepening. The embodiment of spirit into matter is a deepening that consciousness is opening up to.
  • Placing attention on the felt sense of ‘I’ helps dissolve the separate self sense. Realization reveals that we are sensing Beings.
  • There are different types of awakening. There is really no end in sight. We all have aspects that are already awakened and open.

A Mothers Day Open Circle Meeting in Berkeley, Part 1

A Mothers Day Open Circle Meeting in Berkeley (in 3 parts). Topics include the falling away of the sense of self (when it is a healthy letting go versus resulting from trauma), as well as letting go of control when it comes to personal will falling away. Resting in the unknown is the general theme of this meeting.

A Mothers Day Open Circle Meeting in Berkeley, Part 2

A Mothers Day Open Circle Meeting in Berkeley (in 3 parts). Topics include the falling away of the sense of self (when it is a healthy letting go versus resulting from trauma), as well as letting go of control when it comes to personal will falling away. Resting in the unknown is the general theme of this meeting.

A Mothers Day Open Circle Meeting in Berkeley, Part 3

A Mothers Day Open Circle Meeting in Berkeley (in 3 parts). Topics include the falling away of the sense of self (when it is a healthy letting go versus resulting from trauma), as well as letting go of control when it comes to personal will falling away. Resting in the unknown is the general theme of this meeting.

Buddha at the Gas Pump Interview

Rick Archer interviews Susanne Marie on Buddha at the Gas Pump. In Susanne Marie’s first interview, she describes how oneness was already known as a child, and how this awareness slowly and painfully ebbed away resulting in a seeker being born and the story of how this was eventually seen through.

Video here.

Receiving One Another – Susanne Marie in Dialog with Reenah Sun

Vulnerability is an entry point into the heart of being. As consciousness evolves, we are given ever greater opportunities to turn towards meeting ourselves more fully. The invitation to meet oneself with love eases the transition as we make a shift from operating out of fear into one of moving from love.

Video here.

Interview with Friends in Presence

From Friends in Presence: “A postcard conversation from two friends in presence, Susanne Marie & Jen Peer Rich talk about recognizing presence in others as actually recognizing the one we all are, and we get down and dirty into the nitty-gritty of presence. We also explore qualities of consciousness coming together in a unique symbiotic intermingling as one love.” Video here.