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Transpersonal Psychology

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RESIDENTIAL WEEKS

 

 

Generally,these happen in beautiful settings in Pembrokeshire at the rate of three a year. They offer us valuable and important opportunities to gain insight and understanding into the human condition with all its frailties and enormous potential. As well as drumming, movement and voice-work there is always a main theme but currently we are finding ways to connect with the inner teacher and see this faculty reflected in the landscape and the events of our lives. We look at the material that emerges together in the group where appropriate and see it within the perspective of a greater whole. In the mornings those who wish to, meditate together before breakfast. The main working session falls between breakfast and lunch. Afternoons are free and are a valuable time to assimilate and work with the material of the morning session or to walk, rest, be creative or what you will. Evenings are a good time in which to look at dreams, the hidden teaching, messages and clues to be found in often familiar stories, old and new or to sit together in silence.

 

 
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Advent Retreat

 

This year, 2011, there will be an Advent Retreat at Minsteracres - a retreat centre in a relatively remote area of Co. Durham

 

 

The web-address is: http://www.minsteracres.org/         Postcode DH8 9RT

The event will run from after lunch on Thursday 8th until after lunch on Sunday 11th December. 

The focus of our time there will be:-

In Advent we learn how to open up the way to a more profound awareness of our own god nature.

It is more than coincidence that we should do this at the darkest time of the year.  Only when external distractions are removed and we face our own inner darkness can we find the inner light that is our own god-consciousness.

During our time together, we will explore the creative nature of the void through visualisations, sound and movement mandalas and other meditation techniques to further our understanding of the process of creation.

Cost £180        Deposits £40.  Potentially the provisional eight places are taken. If places are firmly booked Brian will approach Minsteracres for additional places. This is not assured since they are usually closed at this time and are extending their 'season' to accommodate us. Places will be allocated on first-come-with-deposit, first-served basis.

 

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Working with the Primal Pattern

A short series of meetings on the Third Monday evening of the month beginning 21st February  2011

The Primal Pattern lies behind all events, circumstances and phenomena. It is everywhere but for the most part we fail to recognise its presence and are therefore unable to connect with its powerful and miraculous manifestations

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Using dreams, myths and legends, the course helps us to recognise the pattern with special reference to our own lives. 

 

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TOWARDS THE DEEP CENTRE 

The concept of the Deep Centre (a Jungian term) is closely related to the Zero-Point-Field, the Holographic Creation and Bohm’s Implicate Order. Einstein demonstrated that energy and mass, time and space were all inter-related but it was Bohm who indicated that the innate sense of order and relationship that could be observed to underpin the whole creation had to be a manifestation of consciousness.

 

This course presents many different exercises and techniques through which we will learn to recognise, draw upon and work with Deep Centre energy. We will see how it can be engaged at different levels, each with its own potential and how the body can become a reliable conduit once other aspects are in place. Bringing greater awareness into the body is a vital aspect of this work. We will work individually, in pairs and with the group as a whole to achieve this. The size of each group is limited.

 

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SHAMANIC STUDIES 

Shamanic Studies are held as day or evening courses. They include drumming and chanting and exercises to loosen our attachment to time and matter, added to which a powerful approach to ritual is envisaged, in which it will be easy for people to participate. All this should open up the psyche to a more direct and practical contact with the Inner Teacher. This will be via exercises presented in each session, indicating where and how we might connect. 

The Day Sessions will give us more time for making inner journeys and connecting with our inner knowing.

 

 

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TAROT

 

The tarot images date back hundreds (some believe thousands) of years and may originally have been developed as a sort of code - a visual 'teaching aid' to help students access their own inner knowing. 
 
The approach is not to simply teach the use of the cards as a way of divination, but to help us to find the deeper meanings behind the images so as to access our own 'inner knowing' -  our psycho-spiritual awareness of the world around us. 
This, in turn, can lead us to 'see' more easily the probable direction any given situation might take.

 

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MEDITATION

 

 

There are many ways to meditate. A meditative state should come naturally to all people, though some may find it difficult. Here, in the company of a small group of sympathetic and reassuring people, you will receive the help that you need in order to find an approach to meditation that is right for you.

 

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OTHER DIMENSIONS

 

The majority of people settle for living in a three-dimensional world, whilst being dominated by the imperatives imposed by the fourth dimension of space-time. For some this is not enough. Phenomena addressed from this perspective do not make sense and give rise to endless futile questions and debate. Physicists require eleven dimensions in order to interpret the universe as they encounter it. 

In the transpersonal, psycho/spiritual world we may find answers and solutions that enable us to put everything into some sort of perspective and forge a creative relationship within the limitless parameters of Consciousness and Being.

It is possible to go beyond the limitations imposed by materialism and discover a relationship to the creation that is cohesive, integrated and unified. There are many ways in which this may be achieved. Some of them will be explored in our ‘Other Dimensions’ days at Kings Mount, Oxton. Through movement and stillness, sound and silence, images, symbols, painting and visualisation and by connecting with the energy and teaching issuing from the Primal Pattern we can connect with the multidimensional world, which alone can make sense of all that we can encounter.

 

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CONTACT

Phone 0151 200 2728 or   email:-  info@briangill.org

 

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