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What Brings Me Joy Is . . .

Sharing the Challenge, Fun & Joy of Exploring our Lives, Relieving our stresses and Experiencing our Expansions As We Ease into Ever More Expansive & Inclusive Identities... Revealing Ever More of Who We Really Are.
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I was on top of the world ! I had a beautiful wife and daughter, I had been in business with my father for the last 10 years and we had built a large dairy operation of which I was a 50% stakeholder and ... I had the plans, in hand, for building a 52' catamaran which I was going to sail up the Amazon.

“How lucky could I get?” … I thought.
I was
"Sitting On Top Of The World" !!

Then, to my aghast & confusion, my world started collapsing around me. Within a year my marriage was on the rocks, my father and I were going "head to head" and our dairy operation was coming apart at the seams and on it’s way down “for the count”.

I started practicing Transcendental Meditation to help relieve the stress.

“How could this have happen to me!?” … I kept asking myself.

My perspective of reality (that I had been so certain of) and my sense of "Me" or "Who I was" was being extinguished. My world wasn't working anymore. “I had been so certain … of myself. How did I not see this coming?” "What was I Not Seeing?"

I was determined to step back, take a broader look, figure this out and get to the “root cause” of my mistakenness. “Getting back out there” and "Showing the world what I could Do" was all that mattered to me at that time. The stress was rising, rage, hate and other emotions were bubbling to the surface as the Traumas from childhood were coming into view. Along with meditating, I started looking within more intently … "How am I to understand this?" … What am I not seeing?, Who or What am I, Now?

This was quickly becoming a deeper, more fundamental issue than the one’s that I was used to tackling. I decided to give myself several months (or however many it would take) to see through this, get clear and get "back on track".
That was 30+ years ago.

During that 30+ years, besides soaking up a plethora of spiritual / self help books, exercises & therapies, I ventured through many TM courses, spent several years training with L Ron Hubbard's Scientology and merged into and delivered Harry Palmer's "Avatar" courses.

"The Art of Self Inquiry" came into being as my attention, over time, naturally flowed to a handful of questions and proclamations that were taking me right to the core of my issues and dissolving them. I began sharing this with others, individually and in small groups, and I found that it was working well with anybody that was drawn to and resonated with the "Looking Within" process.

Once I started “Looking Within” and “Seeing & Feeling More” ... of me,
I fell in love with the process. I found that “Looking Within” is actually much more than a means for dissolving “problems”. Looking Within (or Self Inquiry) can be seen as a process of psycho/physical integration, a process of becoming whole, a process of conscious evolution, a process of coming to know one’s Self, a process of Re-Vitalizing our lives
and ...
It can also be seen as
"A way back Home”.

It’s also an evolving skill and a spiritual practice that could be called "The Art of Surrendering". It’s also a way for groups of people to get together and connect on ever deeper levels, experiencing what could be called True Communion and
the Re-Vitalization of our lives.

This is why
Facilitating open-hearted explorations
into the experiences & depths of our lives
satisfies my soul,
pleases my heart
and brings me Joy.

Ron