Inquiry Sunday KECC April 1, 2018 Our morning session featured a video of Shakti Catarina Maggi speaking at the most recent Science and Nonduality Conference in San Francisco on the topic of embodiment. A student of Rupert Spira, Catarina integrates awareness as our true nature with being intimately present with our every experience. Her suggestions […]
Paul’s first visit to Victoria was warmly received by a very full room at the K centre. Of course his message was clear and direct, asking us to entertain the possibility that we are not our bodies or the sense of self that has been with many of us since early childhood, and that we […]
The Silent Mind A weekend retreat with Burt Harding March 23 – 25, 2018 at KECC Burt Harding joined us from Vancouver for the fifth consecutive year to present a weekend retreat, this time called “The Silent Mind,” on the subject of self-realization and learning to live as our true nature. He began on the […]
Krishnamurti Study Session Saturday, March 17, 2108 The chapter for study this session was Q & A # 26, “On the Old and the New” in The First and Last Freedom by J. Krishnamurti. Three people were present for the meeting. The question posed to K was, “When I listen to you, all seems clear […]
The March Stillness Within Meetup got together to enjoy a recently released Eckhart Tolle talk on returning to balance. The group was comprised of some who were quite familiar with Eckhart Tolle’s material and some who were newer to the teachings. The talk’s main theme spoke to the challenges and opportunities for finding balance in […]
Today’s theme was Embodied Enlightenment described by RS as the luminous space of Awareness in which our essential nature is not just understood and felt as the witnessing presence of Awareness in the background of all experience, but is known and felt as the light of pure knowing that pervades all experience, that is all […]
Krishnamurti Study Session at KECC Saturday, March 3, 2018 This meeting focused on Q & A section 25 in The First and Last Freedom by J. Krishnamurti. The chapter is entitled “On Action without Idea” and it opens with a question from the audience at one of K’s talks. “For Truth to come, you advocate […]
Eckhart Tolle has provided the world with hundreds of talks, pages and pages of writing and lots of animated antics leaving us laughing out loud. We’ve grown to love his unique expression but also many of his talks have supported us to go deeper and experience less of everything, and more of just this, being […]
Creating More Space in a Fast Paced World UVic Spiritual Awakening Meetup – February 22, 2018 Three of us made our way through the snow to enjoy a bit of meditation and discussion. The topic was a great starting point leading to a rich sharing of different journeys that also seemed to converge. While the […]
Krishnamurti Study Session Saturday, February 17, 2018 We met at the Krishnamurti Educational Centre of Canada in Metchosin to study the second half of the Q & A chapter 24, “On Time”, in the book The First and Last Freedom. The question asked of Krishnamurti is “Can the past dissolve all at once, or does […]