Inquiry Sunday at the Centre, April 1, 2018

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 for dealing with problems and issues are usually to bring awareness to our experience and to feel it fully without analysis or dissociation. What happens if we are with and in our experience in this way? The experience itself is not a problem and can be enjoyed as the living movement of aliveness itself. The six participants engaged in some exploration of the emphasis given by the talk, sharing perceptions and appreciations of the insights offered.

In the afternoon we enjoyed a presentation by Paul Hedderman, a “spiritual teacher” from northern California who has come through the process of recovery from several addictions, been involved with the AA and NA organizations, and also studied and integrated the spiritual teachings of Ramana Maharshi and others. His main emphasis is to shed light on the mistaken assumptions we make about who we are and, by seeing clearly who or what we are not, to come to the knowing of what we truly are. We see what we are not from what we are, and the seeing itself is the truth of ourselves. Paul has a unique delivery which is both wise and humorous, profound and entertaining. There was a large turnout of thirty five people for the appearance of a man obviously well respected and appreciated. Some of us noted a basic similarity to the teachings of J. Krishnamurti, who’s booklets were available for the guests to take with them. It was a lively and meaningful meeting and a very enjoyable day. It looks like Paul will return to give a weekend retreat in the future.