Learning Together with Jackie McInley, March 26-30, 2025

Learning Together
Online 5- day workshop with Jackie McInley
March 26-30, 2025

The overall theme of our workshop was learning together and our first question was: “What are we here to learn?” Being in the present moment was felt to be the place where real learning begins. Our dialogue then delved into the question: “ But what is the present moment?”. Does the mind mistake the past as the present? What we call the present, is actually a reality formed and informed by past experience and prerecorded thought.

Throughout the week we explored several topics including perception, identified thought, and the nature of inquiry itself. An interesting dichotomy emerged when we were wondering together, whether inquiry and awareness could exist simultaneously. Doesn’t awareness need complete stillness and silence, not a conscious process of investigation?

Our workshop ended with our whole impression of existence embodied as the “me”. We explored how we see ourselves as the thinker who thinks: we wondered if it was in fact thought that was “thinking up” the sense of me? As our workshop came to a close, there was a feeling of affection and sharing between us, and that perhaps some real learning had indeed taken place.

Jackie McInley
open-door-worldwide.com