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THE LOVE OF THE UNIVERSE HAMBURG,  16-18/9/16 In the talk I gave there, This Virgin Reality, I asked them, as I now ask you: Soon you are going to die, what are you now going to do about it? Come again? maybe to China – interesting! or to Africa, chaos & a new colour, or if you like storms, hells and destruction, even the Middle East? Or instead to maybe survey the lot from a place of peace and joy? If the last, here are a few tips... Someone writes: I am not the person I was before the weekend. [...]

LOVE & BEAUTY, FIRST LEG 17-21/8/16. So we first played the song for this poem written by Chaitanya in 1986, miraculously preserved, and then Domini's version, a track from his 2014 album: 7 Songs of Enlightenment, available in the shop.

CHARIOTS OF THE GODS, 26-31/07/2016. As usual, it was the best group ever. Well, after all, the Teacher, the Work - and the Students - must continuously unfold, and so it does. More like an X-Run, this one, than the usual easy-going Summer Festivals. Writes my son Kozan: "A truly great Group for me." Then he says how great the sense of communion was. Both in and out of the sessions. "When you get a group of 50 or more  humans (we were nearly 70 with staff) who are all a bit in love with each other, it creates such [...]

OPT 4 - A Blog, August '15 - July '16. First session, with Michael, in an hour we travelled a million miles. To Uranus: Greek myth: the personification of the sky, who, as a god, ruled the universe. Then back to earth, sessions with all the Guiding Lights, Tiago, Mishka, Michael, Abava –who every day gave a different Bodyflow session - ingenious, creative, comprehensive, a great Tao walk in the local countryside, led by Michael, a marvellous Tree Meditation. And from the beginning THAT was there every moment, simply because it always is - through Michael, and through those now [...]

June 17-19 '16 A BLOG A tall order! But the order nevertheless taken, and delivered, at least the direction, over these few days. Again & again. In the seminar, we were from Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Holland, Belgium, Denmark, Italy, USA and the UK. And in the house & kitchen, also from The Ukraine and The Czech Republic. But as one of the particpants said at the end - "The whole world was there." It was beautiful and sweet. Angels were there, Jesus and Buddha too. Leaving me with little to do, on my own anyway. At the end, Sunday lunchtime. [...]

THIS INSTANT LIFE AUSTRIA Seminar 3-5 JUNE 2016 A BLOG So, far too soon after our USA exploits - and troubles, I was off on the 7 hour journey from home to Tragwein in Austria. For our annual seminar there. My hosts were Sandipa & Anuradha, which was cosy as could be, the seminar in the same place as last year, in the sticks, but a good place and a great seminar room, even if the accomodation is a bit basic. It was good - and it was somewhat of a struggle for me too, being not yet in the [...]

AMERICA The Ocean of Your Original Nature 18/5 - 31/5 2016 America is Another Country. More so for me even than Russia, Brazil, Ukraine (of course), Australia (of course) or anywhere else I go or have been, to work. South Africa lies in that direction a bit too... The land there matters. The land features, is still in some ways supreme. Such space! Great spaces, nature somehow still predominating. Man balanced on it, still a bit precariously, I'd say. In Europe the land has been deluged by mankind, buried under wars, differences, conflicts (vote to stay in Europe, you Brits!), [...]

The Sea Around Us, The River Within Us Seminar in Copenhagen 6-8 May A BLOG The weather was superb throughout. And it played its part! The group place - new to me even after all these many years with so many group-visits and group-places there - was just fine: central, big group room – I guess around 200 square metres - and other aspects of it okay too - so I'm happy to be going there again in October. Where I stayed, in an apartment, was a bit of a let-down. First it needed - and got - a complete [...]

SAYING YES IN LOVE  22-24/4/16 Berlin. Home from home. Always has been, since I first went there in 1977, in my orange days, a group with almost 200 people. Since then I have been many many times, for a while in the Eighties – every month, since then, always regularly. So I know  most of the hotels in the city by now… And of course groups with  many people, for years a hundred or more, now more modest, but always people attending I’ve known for ages. Friends now. From a lady who got her name in Feb 1985 (one of [...]

11/4/16 to 17/4/16   The last days of X-Run 7, the last X-Run (for now) was as it should be: intense, profound, loving, celebrative, and a delight. Glorious! We were all happy to be there together for all these days, no question. And it gathered day by day, reaching a peak at the end. We managed to explore in new ways too, for instance: searching for the answer to the question Where am I, rather than the well-known one, Who am I? (For many this turned out to be more or less the same question, the same search.) We did [...]