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#4191 -
Tuesday, March 15, 2011 - Editor: Jerry Katz
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In this issue are featured an invitation to the upcoming Paradoxica Nondual Psychology Conference and an introduction to the newest volume of Paradoxica: The Journal of Nondual Psychology.
2011
Paradoxica Nondual Psychology Conference
June 16 & 17
Anderson Hall 100, University of Lethbridge
Lethbridge, Alberta
CANADA
Plan on joining us for the 2nd annual Paradoxica Nondual
Psychology Conference June 16 & 17, 2011 in beautiful
Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. We already have booked feature
nondual authors and presenters Jerry Katz and Scott
Kiloby for 90 minute experiential workshops as well as
returnees Will Joel Friedman, Trent Leighton, Brian
Theriault, and Gary Nixon. Honore France & Carmen Rodriquez will
also be doing a special presentation on First Nations wakening.
Registration is easy, just go the Paypal button at the following
link:
http://www.paradoxica.ca/index.php/conference
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I feel this conference will allow for close connections and
gathering. It won't be as big as the Science and Nonduality
Conference. Perhaps 100-200 will attend.
Founder Gary Nixon, PhD, R.Psych, is Associate Professor,
Director, Addictions Counselling Program, Faculty of Health
Sciences, at the University of Lethbridge. He has created a
virtual department of nondual psychology within a traditional
university in the middle of Alberta, Canada.
This should be a stimulating conference removed from established
centers of nondual discourse and education, and where pioneering
work in the field of nondual education is being implemented. This
is an opportunity for psychologists, therapists, and anyone
interested in living from the nondual viewpoint, to further open
their minds and hearts. I envision lots of interaction with the
speakers and among each other, making this event impactful and
memorable.
Enroll now:
http://www.paradoxica.ca/index.php/conference
Paradoxica also
publishes Paradoxica: The Journal of Nondual Psychology
The 3rd Volume just came out. Gary Nixon writes the opening
editorial:
Editorial for Volume 3:
THE GIFT OF PARADOXICAL FEARLESSNESS
Written by GARY NIXON
After awakening we can be in a place of what Byron Katie (2007)
described as a perpetual state of gratitude or what Adi Da (1978)
pointed to as an ecstatic place of divine humour as we transcend
the need to continue in independent form and now realize nothing
is necessary. But puzzling for many of us even after awakening is
the fear that can keep knocking at our door.
We lose our gratitude, humour and let go surrendering as we once
again get caught up in the fixated state of fear. Even after
“awakening” we can spend much time managing, escaping,
and resisting our fear. And yet, fear is still arising and we
feel defeated by fear. As Adyashanti (2006) described, we get to
a place of constantly saying “I can’t, I can’t, I
can’t……” But, we do not let this wisdom in.
We keep on trying to manage fear. One day though, a person
realizes the truth of “I can’t” and gives up
managing truth, as the realization there is nothing that can be
done is felt. All of a sudden the realization “I
can’t” is accepted and one allows him or herself to be
totally effaced to fear. Nothing can be done, and a person dies
to all separate self strategies and just sits there in the truth
of “I can’t.” And here is the grand paradox, by
realizing there is no escape and sitting in fear with no
strategy, and doing nothing, the truth is revealed. As Gangaji
(2005) explained, fear is found only in the resistance to its
existence, because when one sits with fear one finds “Fear
is energy. Fear is space, Fear is the Buddha. It is Christ’s
heart knocking at your door” (p. 175). By letting go of all
of our strategies to manage, resist and escape fear, and sitting
in fear, and doing nothing, fear is revealed as nothing but our
spacious awakened nature. So, dying to fear, sets us free.
As we move into our third issue, and prepare for our second
international conference, working with issues after awakening
such as fear becomes a huge invitation as so many of us are
implicated by the need to keep working on our issues after some
form of awakening. Whether it is moving from a partial awakening
to a more full awakening, getting caught in being attached to the
nondual, still having some emotions and stories to work through
or still finding oneself caught in “grabbing” at our
separate self identity and survivalhood, the key is for each one
of us to still keep working on our issues so that we don’t
get caught in some obvious shadow issues that stunt our day to
day abiding in nondual being. Let us not make the mistake of so
many before us, who have announced their “awakening” or
“enlightenment” to be perfect and refused to keep
working on issues as they arise in day to day life and got into
terrible binds of denial and idealized transference. Let us keep
on with our authentic embracement of working through our issues
as they arise in day to day life.
References
Adi Da (1978). The enlightenment of the whole body. Middletown,
CA: Dawn Horse Press.
Adyshanti (2006). The five truths about truth. Campbell, CA: Open
Gate Publishing.
Gangaji (2005). The diamond in your pocket. Boulder, CO: Sounds
True.
Katie, B. (2007). A thousand names for joy. New York: Three
Rivers Press.
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Read Paradoxica: The Journal of Nondual Psychology,
Volume 3:
http://www.paradoxica.ca/index.php/volume-3