Dear Friends,

This is a reminder notice about the upcoming weekend intensive at Claymont during July 16 – 19, 2009. The theme for the weekend is "Presence and Prayer".

In this three-day weekend devoted to spiritual inner work, we will delve into the two great streams of practice: presence and prayer. Beyond all the methods, what is the essence of presence? Beyond all the forms, what is the essence of prayer? Exploring these questions experientially, working with the inner energies involved, we… Continue

Addiction is a brain disease, not just a failure of willpower.
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"I am already given to the power that rules my fate. And I cling to nothing, so I will have nothing to defend. I have no thoughts, so I will see. I fear nothing, so I will remember myself. Detached and at ease, I will dart past the Eagle to be free.”
Carlos Castaneda

The Work says that as long as we enjoy chiefly negative emotions we are cut off from all contact with Higher Centres. I assure you that at a certain stage of the Work even a moment's indlulgence of negative emotion towards others will cause you to lose force and even destroy for the time being everything that you aimed at in the Work - sense...
As was said once, to become thoroughly negative is like an explosion in a delicate chemical laobratory through which everything that is being made, being… Continue

struggling lately - I was starting - well, I still am, to feel optimistic about my future life after the difficulties of the last years - but have been almost brought to a standstill after a really bad fall over a pothole and kerb!! - which, after an equally heavy fall last year, has aggravated an injury from an accident 25 years ago. To cap it all, I cut my foot so can barely walk or move at all just now. That is taking a while to heal and I am all bound up!

I am thinking that nothing happens… Continue