Five Day Retreat with Scott Kiloby “Embodying Awakening” November 25-30, 2016. We were fortunate to have Scott join us for the third year running, this time for a five day intensive retreat exploring his Living Inquiries method of self inquiry. Scott is the founder of the Kiloby Centre for treatment of addictions in Palm […]
Eckhart Tolle – Our Human Destiny The November Stillness Within Meetup was well attended by 14 members. Due to a technical glitch we watched a rebroadcast of a talk called Our Human Destiny. As usual it was an exceptional talk. Eckhart emphasized the illusory nature of our reality and all the daily […]
Krishnamurti Study Group Saturday, November 5, 2016 Four of our core group met to study chapter 20 in The First and Last Freedom by J. Krishnamurti. The topic was “Time and Transformation”. K goes into depth investigating whether transformation can come about within a time-oriented strategy to bring it about. Do we change […]
Inquiry Sunday November 6, 2016 Sunday was a full day of “inquiry”, with morning and afternoon sessions bringing out a good number of participants. Eight of us watched three videos on the subject of “the holographic universe,” beginning with an interview between Jeffrey Mishlove and Michael Talbot, author of the book The Holographic […]
October’s Stillness Within Meetup featured a recorded talk by Eckhart Tolle which focused on the challenges and opportunities emerging from our relationships with others. Eckhart explored how more and more people are beginning to experience a shift from an egoic, thought-based identity to the realization of what Eckhart calls the essential Being nature. The […]
Science and Nonduality Weekend October 21-23, 2016 Eight people attended the various presentations available from this year’s conference in San Jose, California. There were no major technical problems and the weekend unfolded in a relaxed manner, with most of the six participants who took in the entire weekend attending almost all the events. […]
Krishnamurti Study Group Saturday, October 15,2016 This session we studied Chapter 20 in The First and Last Freedom by J. Krishnamurti. The topic was “Time and Transformation”. Four of us gathered on a windy Fall day to read and discuss K’s words about the nature of chronological and psychological time. Is there […]
Victoria Krishnamurti Event Church of Truth, October 9, 2016 On Thanksgiving Sunday only one person joined me for the afternoon event. We read a handout from Freedom from the Known, then watched a video on Awareness from the Evelyn Blau series Beyond Myth and Tradition. Krishnamurti spoke about awareness, concentration, and attention, emphasizing […]
Krishnamurti Study Group Saturday, October 1, 2016 This week we completed our study of chapter 19 in The First and Last Freedom by J. Krishnamurti. Seven people were present for the session, which focused on the topic of “Self-Centred Activity”. In the text, Krishnamurti points out that the activity of the self creates […]
Inquiry Sunday October 2, 2016 The Inquiry Sunday is comprised of a morning and an afternoon session. Seven people attended the morning showing of the film The Holographic Universe, which describes the latest findings of quantum physics in relation to the question of how reality is perceived and understood by the human brain. […]