If there were a purpose to life, it would be this: to know connection and separation directly, to experience both so completely, that all sense of separateness falls away.

Beneath our different lifestyles, personalities, beliefs and experiences, there is something shared.

Many spiritual traditions point to this in different ways - consciousness, awareness, presence, being, oneness, God, or simply life itself.

When 'this' is directly experienced, existence is open, joyful and whole. Loneliness, incompleteness and suffering cannot be. There is a sense of connection with life, free from the feeling of being a separate individual moving through a separate world.

Yet connection is often only experienced in certain moments, or under certain conditions, and seems inaccessible in many everyday situations.

This site explores the lived experience of connection and separation, and sessions offer an opportunity to explore and clarify specific instances of both in direct experience.

Writings describe how connection is available in the immediacy of experience, how separation is created and maintained, and how concepts such as respect, belonging and meaning obscure it.

The guidance and the work is to look directly at experience, and to see through the stories of the mind, to the simplicity of what is.

Writings

The writings on this site are organised into three areas:

Fundamentals
Foundational understandings that outline the difference between thought and direct experience.

Concepts
A selection of everyday ideas that shape experience when they are believed to be describing reality (such as respect, belonging, fulfilment, purpose).

Relationships
How common and separating concepts appear and influence our perception of specific relationships, including familial, romantic, 'professional' and spiritual.

Consider starting here

If this is your first time here, consider beginning with the 'Fundamentals'. These are core articles that establish the framework for the rest of the writing.

• The Experience of Connection and Separation

• The Ego

• Stories vs Experience

• Blame and Explanation

• Fear, Want and Resistance

• Congruence

• Clarity and Responsibility

• Knowing Through Experience

• Map of Consciousness, by David R. Hawkins

Sessions

Conversations are in service of clarity. Together we explore what is actually being experienced, and where stories are obscuring reality. There is no particular method or system, and the conversation responds to what is present.

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