Self-Enquiry Enlightenment Intensive and Awareness Intensive Meetups

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A Request for Support

We intend to continue offering these gatherings free of charge and would like some help to cover costs. If that is something you feel moved to help with, please see our Donate page. Thank you!

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For New People without Experience of Self-enquiry Dyads

As a new person, you are warmly invited to attend all the presentations which occur at the beginning of each monthly event. To participate in dyads in breakout rooms (the second part of each event), it will be necessary for you to be introduced to the particular dyad technique we use. There is an opportunity for this during the first dyad period so that you may then, if you wish, join the second dyad practice with another participant. For more information and an explanation of terms used, see ‘New to Dyads?’

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With special thanks to Osha Reader, Lawrence Noyes, and Janeane Weprin for their support and suggestions. Dedicated to Murray Kennedy and Edrid for their inspiration and personal guidance. Dedicated to Osho. 

If you have any queries, please email us at info@selfenquirydyads.org 

The Presentations

Each month an Awareness Intensive Leader from the Osho communities or an Enlightenment Intensive Master will present an informative and inspiring talk about various aspects of these intensives and of the dyad process.

“Awareness Intensive (AI)” is the name used in Osho communities; the process is the same as in other communities where they use the name “Enlightenment Intensive (EI)”.

Each monthly presentation will include the unique, and often inspiring, personal experiences of the presenter.

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There are many benefits of these intensives, especially how they are an opportunity for you to discover and “directly experience” the truth of who and what you actually are, of what life is, of what love is, and of what others are.

This process is suitable for every sincere seeker of truth in their lives, regardless of religious or spiritual orientation. Care is taken so that no belief system is introduced or taught. Only a method is provided to facilitate effective and satisfying personal enquiry and experience.

Previous Presenters

These monthly gatherings started in April 2022,  So far we’ve had presentations by Edrid (a student of Charles Berner, the creator of Enlightenment Intensives); Murray Kennedy leading a tribute to Jeff Love; Lawrence Noyes, Ganga and Garimo, Simone Anliker from Global Dyads, Zen Reverend Pitaka Christie Close, Forest Dalton, founder of the Love Intensive, Avikal Costantino, Colleen Santini, Smaran Stockard, Bill Savoie, Osha Reader, Russell Scott, Emma and Barry McGuinness, Murray Kennedy, Yoah Wexler and Doug Seeley.

Event Dates and Times

All events in this Zoom series occur on the first Wednesday of each month.

Events begin at:

• 8pm Central European time
• 7pm UK time
• 2pm in Eastern USA/Canada  
• 11am Pacific Time  

Privacy: If you would like to remain anonymous on the Zoom call, please see Privacy on Zoom.

Next Presentation in this Series

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Wednesday, April 3, 2024 - presenter John Heron

John will be talking about what to do with and how to relate to your direct experience after the Intensive. When it's addressed at all, this generally gets called integration with the intention of bringing the direct experience into your daily life. Since a direct experience is alive and wild and the idea of integration is essentially to mix the absolute (direct experience) with the relative, wild, alive nature tends to get covered up by the mundane and the connection fades. We will discuss strategies and practices to develop and deepen direct experience outside the context of a formal Intensive.

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John was introduced to the intensive by Edrid at Origin in the mid 90’s and trained with them there as a master (mostly monitor) about 10 years ago also at Origin. You can contact him at jheron@gmail.com​

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The presentation will be followed by two dyad sessions.

Join the Zoom Call

A few minutes before the event start time (we have music playing 15 minutes before the start), click the link below:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83979867311?pwd=aFJjTkN5b0FzRDYvMkNVTkFjZmVnUT09

Meeting ID: 839 7986 7311

Passcode: 768440

Future Presentations

Wednesday, May 1, 2024 - presenters Emma & Barry McGuinness

Dyads: Evolving one’s spiritual practice using dyads; adventuring into the unknown together

There is profound potential within the dyad technique of partnered contemplation and communication. This talk is about using dyads to quest into the unknown of one’s spiritual journey. And a huge part of that is the difference your listening and attention makes. 

Dyads direct us to the edge of what we consciously know. Going beyond that edge and making the most of a dyad takes courage, honesty, and a conscious decision to open both to ourselves and to our partner. When we do that, It opens the door to true connection, compassion, and meaning.  

How do we give the most to a dyad? 

How to design dyads to suit your intention? 

We will be drawing on our experience of using dyads in our own lives, in dyad groups, and our one-year course in surrender.

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About Emma

Alongside leading Intensives, Emma works with young people as a careers advisor in universities and schools.  She took her first enlightenment intensive in 1989.  It wasn’t until her third Intensive that she experienced who she was. 

This was also the intensive at which she met Barry, and they have been mastering intensives since 1993. In 2007 they built a house in Bath, UK in which to run Intensives and have been running them there ever since. 

Emma has a particular love of long intensives. Her life was profoundly shaped by participating on them throughout her 20s. She now leads a longer intensive each summer.

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About Barry

Barry is a retired research psychologist who took his first Enlightenment Intensive in 1991. He then undertook the Masters Training course with Jake and Eva Chapman in 1992, and led his first Intensive in 1993. He and Emma met on an Enlightenment Intensive and have been married since 1995.

Website: ei-bath.info

Facebook Page: Enlightenment Intensives in Bath, UK

Some Appreciation

"Thank you so much for this!

I'm training to be a Master and all this early history helps me learn more about the nature of the intensive.

Warmly, MM, US"