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Diamond Guidance

March 29 – April 1, 2012
with Avikal Costantino

In this four-day retreat, we will introduce what is called the Diamond Body. This is the vehicle of objective consciousness, the guidance towards our true self. With a compassionate attitude towards ourselves and others, and with clear presence, the Diamond Body enables us to perceive what is true in every situation.
We will explore how to awaken and strengthen the Diamond Body in ourselves. This includes seeing through the specific obscurations in our minds that veil this jewel of consciousness, and thus our perception of our true identity.
The Diamond Body sees without preference. Accessing the Diamond Body allows us to experience the Absolute (The true nature of reality) and gives us the courage to relate the clarity of the mountaintop to the living market place, bringing the individuated soul to the world. Living a conscious life brings lightness and joy to our soul.

This aspect of Being is obscured from the presence and continuous activity of the Superego (Inner Judge) and it’s judgments, habits, and prejudices. Through self-inquiry we learn to disengage from this activity and remain present in the experience of the moment. Supported by the alignment of our attention, awareness and energy, the Diamond Body starts functioning, revealing the true nature of reality in a direct, simple and impersonal way.

Diamond Guidance sheds its light on every aspect of life through understanding, revelation, and embodiment.

Point of Light

May 31 – June 3, 2012
with Turiya Hanover

This retreat will focus on what we call the Point of Light, which is the Essential Identity.
It is different from the Ego Identity or the Personality. It is our Soul or our Individuality. The Core of the Point is pure awareness and pure Freedom.

Our Ego is limited and impaired and when we are cut off from our “Point of Light” we feel lonely, isolated and alienated from existence. But hidden in the depths of our Ego is a memory of what we once were.
That once we were a shining star full of light and love. And we got reduced from that divinity to the limitations of the Ego. Because of that memory our Ego is always in search of that missing Point, whether we know it or not.
When the Point of Light is there we feel majestic, delicate and very light. The Point brings beauty and refinement.
Almaas has said:

"The Point, the Essential Identity, is needed in order to comprehend our experience - to reveal it as a unified whole – because the Point is the organising center of our circle of experience. It is the center of our personal Mandala. It is also the direction of ultimate understanding.

The Issues that come with the Point of Light are our narcissistic issues and the issue of our Soul Mission. Until we have reached the Point we are always looking outside ourselves for love, recognition and acceptance and hoping that the others outside of our self will give us the feeling of being worthy and significant.
This can be very painful in our lives and loves as no one outside of our self can give us the experience of true worth and value. That is an inner, essential experience that can only come from finding our true Self or Point. What comes with that are issues of loss and betrayal?

In this retreat we will focus on invoking the essential qualities of the Point and then working through the Issues that arise alongside the Essence.
Another very important issue we look at is about Meaning and Significance.

We ask what are we here for. We make a distinction between our Ego Mission, which is often related to our family history, and a place where we abandon our self in order to be loyal to our family legacy. And our Soul Mission where we discover what our Higher Individuated Self came here for.
We work with Dyads and meditation and provide the space for deep personal enquiry.

Personal Essence: Merging and Separation

August 2 – 5, 2012
with Rafia Morgan

Personal Essence is sometimes referred to as our essential personality or as a state of being our true self. It is a state where we have discovered and remembered a way to live in the world while being sourced in deep contact with our Essence. It is a space of autonomy and contact where many formerly difficult issues find natural resolution.

In this retreat we will explore two very different and often conflicted needs: Merging and Separation. Merging is our capacity and need to surrender, to melt, to let go and be in Union with another and with the Divine. Freedom is the capacity and need to go our own way, to separate, to be alone, autonomous and individuated as the unique human being one Essentially is. In the Personal Essence we find a source in ourselves where these two parts stop being in conflict but rather function simultaneously in presence.

The Personal Essence is often referred to as the Pearl Beyond Price and is about how we actualize all that we have developed and integrated into our souls as we live a real life.

Dimensions of Love

September 27 – 30, 2012
with Vasumati Hancock

From physical to divine love, they all have different vibrations, personal and impersonal experiences. The heart is where our home is. The more we open our heart, the more we are Love.
The heart is where wisdom and meaning is. We are vehicles through which the absolute comes through and opens up different dimensions…. looking through Gods eyes we find preciousness and magical existence. Love is the life of heart, and the eye of the spirit. Once matured we call it the “Diamond heart”. The Path of the heart is where all begins, the divine spec resides in the heart, and all ends.

In these days we will explore through self inquiry, meditations and inner exploration and experience various dimensions of love. Love is a very rich and a very multifaceted and multicolored essence.

We will explore all the different aspects, and different dimensions. We look and experience unconditional love, nourishing love, merging golden love, passionate and pomegranate love, precious love, loving daylight, and divine Love.
This retreat is extremely rich and insightful, and gives you a deeper aspect of what love is, and with that also what love is not. In a very rich field of preciousness and awareness you will be able to experience all these very nourishing and deepening aspects of love.

„Push towards God, gamble everything for love,
if not leave this gathering.
Half-heartedness doesn’t reach into majesty.
You set out to find God
but then you keep stopping for long periods
at mean spirited guesthouses“.
Rumi