Purpose

What do I want to do with my life?  What’s my purpose?  Am I missing something? Is there some larger purpose…

Being Becoming

Beyond enjoying the freedom and fullness of existence, do we need to be more?

Consciousness and Personality with Fax Gilbert

A look at how spiritual awakenings define our identity and the evolving effects these transformations can have on the personality.

Core Identity Inquiry Meditation with Fax Gilbert

In this meditation you will be led through a simple self-inquiry process toward a deepening recognition of your fundamental nature.…

Van's Conscious Awareness Guided Exercise, 9/17/15

This audio recording is of an improvised guided exercise (with some explanation) that Van offered his small group one afternoon…

Van's Flute Improvisation, 2019 Teacher Retreat

Van shared this beautiful flute piece at the at the end of the first night of the teacher retreat, Wednesday,…

The Forever Connection

During one of my online sittings I spoke about the fundamental field of consciousness that underlies and supports all of…

What do we mean by consciousness? audio format

Cielle’s video with the title “What do we mean by Consciousness?” is now available in “audio only” format. Click here…

Listen to Van's Talks:

September 18, 2015 – Northeast Deep Dive Retreat: Beholding the Supreme Divine Beloved Dharma Talk July 01, 2015 – Transfiguration…

Listen to Van's Beautiful Flute Playing

Heartful Healing Song Poignant Heart She Calls to Us Love-Bliss of the Heart

Usness

When you said that thing I didn’t like,I didn’t like you for saying it. “Bad person you! Bad!” For saying that poisonous thingthat means somethingsomething about me. And that “don’t-like-it”

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Where Are We Now with Mutuality?

Edited Transcription of a presentation by Fax Gilbert followed by a Discussion of Trillium Teachers at our Teacher Retreat, June 14, 2017 Fax: In light of the events leading up to and

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Restorative Interdependence

June 1, 2024 “I call this approach Non-violent Communication, using the term nonviolence as Gandhi used it — to refer to our natural state of compassion when violence has subsided from the

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Harmony

Regarding “harmony”… in music (as in life) this is never a static thing. Harmony has a vertical and horizontal component, chords and melody, and their combination or synthesis or integration

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Living with Uncertainty

A good deal of our work in Trillium Awakening is about “greenlighting,” saying yes to what is arising. It’s tied deeply into our way to Trust in Being, to radically

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The Heart of Our Process

I am drawn to the rich simultaneity of personal growth and satisfying service to humanity that involvement in Awakened Mutuality confers. It’s not something I choose; rather, it is the

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Real-Life Mutuality

Mutuality. Like “democracy,” it inspires us and evokes our highest ideals for how humans relate with one another. How wonderful, we think–everyone is invited to speak their deepest truth, and

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Daring Mutuality

Question: What is the best way for further development after the second birth and what do you say about using other more traditional spiritual maps as well? Reply: You asked:

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