About The Exploring Consciousness Group

This group began in 2002 as a “Practicing Presence” group inspired by and centering on the teachings of Eckhart Tolle, one of our primary direct teachers. Following that it expanded to include expressions of other great contemporary consciousness teachers who have also influenced our lives and work in the world, such as Adyashanti, Gangaji, Leonard Jacobson, Catherine Ingram, Stephen Levine, Mary O'Malley, Cheri Huber, Marshall Rosenberg, Byron Katie, Sharif Abdullah, and Barbara Marx Hubbard.

Currently, the group is focusing on Eckhart's teachings in support of the 10-week consciousness class that Eckhart recently did with Oprah. In addition to general support in the process of awakening, attendees will have the opportunity to practice and deepen what they are studying in a nurturing, conscious community environment.
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Purpose of the Exploring Consciousness Group
This ongoing group explores varying ways of supporting and deepening our awakening, and the evolution of human consciousness. It is an investigation and inquiry into the nature of truth and reality. Our intention is to shift from living in a state of separation and illusion, from the unconsciously reactive and egoically identified sense of self and its negative programming, to living from wholeness and from our true nature — as a human expression of the eternal divine Essence/Presence that underlies all temporary forms (mental, emotional, physical).   

We practice discerning between conditioned mind’s past and future based thoughts and beliefs that pull us out of the present — out of reality, causing so much suffering; and the awareness and direct experience of What Is — what is truly real in the here and now. 

Through bringing compassionate awareness to our unconscious conditioning and its illusions we can become empowered to choose how to live, release unnecessary suffering, and be more present and connected with ourselves, others and life in general. In this ongoing transformation we can experience the deeper freedom and peace that is available to us regardless of the ever changing circumstances and challenges that arise.

"A group of people coming together in a state of presence generates a collective energy field of great intensity. It not only raises the degree of presence of each member of the group but also helps to free the collective human consciousness from its current state of mind dominance. This will make the state of presence increasingly more accessible to individuals."
                                                                                                                                                      — Eckhart Tolle