Leader: Ken and Elizabeth Mellor
Dates: 15th to 18th June, 2012
Times: 9.30 am to 5.00 pm
Venue: In Melbourne Area (See below)
THE NATURE OF REALITY
Exploring What is Real and What is Not
Take a break (You deserve it!)
The middle of the year offers an ideal opportunity to discover what is important to us. All of us need regular stopping times in order to connect with our-selves. And unless we take the time, we will be deprived of the benefits doing so gives us. The self feeds us with our life energy, our abundance, and our understanding of the significance of the current events in our lives. Rest is required for us to stay connected to this.
A highlight of the Workshop will be the occasional Silent Darshan with Ken and Elizabeth - an intense sharing of healing and awakening consciousness. This will enhance restoration, promote your balance and ease - and encourage full integration with our deeper selves.
The Nature of Reality
These days we repeatedly encounter people manipulating reality in many different ways. Think of a short list:selling faulty products or over claiming their value in ways that seriously impact the unwary consumer:
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Politicians deliberately lying and distorting the truth
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TV programs in which the actors lie to each other repeatedly (often to get a laugh)
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Advertisers who use language and visual images in ways designed to exaggerate or distort the benefits of products they are selling
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Lawyers (TV lawyers in particular) lying and making up stories in order to create 'reasonable doubt' the reality of which is usually 'unreasonable doubt' ... and so the list goes on.
At the everyday level, many people actually accept or seem to accept all of this as if there is nothing to be concerned about. Clearly, though, as we review the consequences of this kind of behaviour and our acceptance of it, we will come to a different view:
- Liars leading countries and laying waste to other people's lives
- The encouragement of glib dishonesty on the part of all TV viewers so their reflexive lies degrade their everyday relationships
- Selling faulty products or over claiming their value in ways that seriously impact the unwary consumer
- The release of guilty people by the courts leaving them free to 'offend' again ...
Also, think of this: these days, many people repeat the mantra 'perception is everything' and don't think the pervasive unreality in our communities matters. It is little wonder that spiritual sages and saints have long talked about the world as an illusion. Yet all of this does matter because it is truth and reality that always determine long-term outcomes.
At the same time, and even more fundamentally, in relation to spiritual awakening, the consequences are very serious. True awakening entails embracing truth, however difficult or uncomfortable that may be. And the challenge in this day and age is: how do we live reality (the truth) in a world filled with unreality? During the workshop we will explore this question deeply through a concentration on fundamental issues:
- What reality or truth is
- What 'competing realities' are and how to deal with them
- How we can find out what is real when we are uncertain
- Knowing fundamental truth.
Fortunately, there are effective ways of discovering what is real, what the truth is. The first step is to live what is real, then to become alert to what we and others are doing that is unreal or untruthful; the second step is to challenge unreality so we don't get hypnotised by it; and the last one is to live the reality/truth of our lives.
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Fee Details:
The total cost is A$640.00 payable to The Awakening Network.
A non-refundable deposit of $160.00 is required when making a booking. The balance of $480.00 is due on the day.
Participants will need to bring their own lunch. See Venue details for other optoins.
Attendance: You can attend for less than four days if you need to.
Contact the office for information and any other enquiries: contact@awakenw.net or +61357938477
