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 Grace Honore 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, Doug Seeley, John Heron, Emir Salihovic, Paul Weiss, Grace Honore, Jake Chapman, Shivam O'Brien, Lila Paradigm group, Joseph Rubano and Satyen Raja.

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 London 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

Wednesday, April 2, 2025 - presenter Edrid

Edrid will be our presenter on 2 April. He was the first presenter two-and-a-half years ago when we began this series of monthly gatherings and presented again in January 2024. Edrid was present at the very first Enlightenment Intensive that occurred in 1968. His first presentation focussed on Charles Berner, including his relationship with Scientology and the formation of the Institute of Ability. This time Edrid  will be sharing his own experience as a participant, as a leader, as a trainer of other leaders and about the effect of Enlightenment Intensives upon himself and others.

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About Edrid

Edrid was a physics student at USC when he met Charles Berner in 1963. Charles introduced him to the nature of mind and that became a central focus from then on. He was a founding member of Charles’ Institute of Ability, studied clearing and started mastering EIs in 1969, co-mastering with Forest Dalton. He continued mastering and co-mastering ~70 Enlightenment Intensives, interspersed with taking about the same number, and held master training courses with Osha Reader. 

Forest introduced him to Cha No Yu tea ceremony, a mindfulness practice, which he continued practicing for many years. He received Shaktipat initiation from Yogeswar Muni in 1975 which resulted in a major life change. He studied advaita vedanta with Master Subramunia and Pure Land Chan Buddhism with Chinese master Tsuan Hua, and has a mystical connection with Haidakhan Baba. He was also drawn to Charles Berner’s LILA Paradigm and studied that in depth for several years. 

In 1998 he had another important spiritual experience and from that point focused mainly on the Dzogchen path of Vajrayana Buddhism. He studied Bön Dzogchen with Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche (Zhang-zhung snyan-rgyud), and received important transmissions from Kenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche. For the past two years he has been broadening his education by studying quantum physics, general relativity, cognitive science, neuroscience, and philosophy.

He is retired now, having completed a career in computer design and technical writing. He lives with his wife, Anatta, near Portland, Oregon. He has three wonderful grown children. He plays the guitar and sings in a band that has been together for about 15 years, and is active in promoting music and the arts in Oak Grove where he lives.

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Website: www.sandoth.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 7, 2025 - presenters Luke & Matthew Farren

Bio

Brothers Luke & Matthew Farren began a daily practice of prayer and meditation over 30 yrs ago, their journey including long term engagement with 12 step recovery programmes & Zen Buddhism and later Jungian Psychology, Focusing, Clearing, Christianity and Platonic mysticism.

Despite proficiency in various types of meditation, neither had a ‘direct experience’ until attending Enlightenment Intensives, 10 years ago. Recognising the transformation that enlightenment brings when discovering one’s fundamental adequacy and connecting to the source of our meaning and hope, they set out to share the gift of EI’s with others like themselves - the fallen and the lost, as an antidote to the modern meaning crisis.

Their Enlightenment Intensive training saw them study and train with Daizan Roshi in the UK, attending frequent EI’s firstly as participants and then as helpers. They completed their monitor training with Jake & Eva Chapman and completed the master’s training with Lawrence Noyes in the US.  

Hero’s Journey is the practice organisation under stewardship of the two brothers and is oriented towards the Truth in service of the highest Good. It presupposes a pre-modern vision of man as ordered to communion with reality.

They have recognised the dyad as a pure form of dialectic as Plato intended it, the lost art of educing innate wisdom from within the individual, which is foundational to Western civilisation and both the philosophical & religious traditions that have sustained it. 

Over the last 5 years they have regularly hosted weekly Tuesday evening dyad Zoom sessions and quarterly EI’s in the UK as well as annual retreats in Mexico, Guatemala and more recently Ephesus in Turkey. 

Their vision is to found a new organisation with charitable status that is congruent to the West's historical lineage of mysticism in order to bring dyads to a wider audience, including institutions such as prisons and to those in recovery from alcoholism and addiction. Their aim is to bring to consciousness the Enlightenment Intensive as a rite of initiation, lost to the modern world.

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Luke and Matthew’s presentation

"The Dyad’s Unknown Heritage and Relevance in the Recovery from the Meaning Crisis"

Join Luke & Matthew Farren of Hero’s Journey, as they present the dyad as antidote to the modern ‘meaning crisis’, a spiritual disease. They also represent the dyad as a pure form of dialectic as Plato intended it - the lost art of educing innate wisdom from within the individual, which is foundational to Western civilisation and both the philosophical & religious traditions that have sustained it. The Enlightenment Intensive is shown to be an illuminative rite of mystical initiation, with the purpose of direct cognition of a transcendent reality, a profound change of heart offering a new beginning and orientation in the world.

They will also talk of awakening as foundational in the setting of recovery from addictive patterns and the archetypal heroic journey naturally arising within the Enlightenment Intensive. 

Website: heros-journey.co.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"