First class for eecourse in Edinburgh

After 4 months of work, travel,passion,intensity,excitement and fear and everything in between. I started my first eecourse in Edinburgh. There were twelve people people there that had decided to take the course and it was great to just be there going on a journey of transformation. About ten minutes before the class was about to start someone pressed the wrong button on the digital projector and the writing turned to chinese ;) we could not understand how to change it back to English. But after frantically pressing lots of buttons all at once we finally got the show up and running just in time. After the course had finished I learned that someone on the course could read chinese( how amazing is that).

The first part of the class was exploring the difference beetween depth of experience and perspective ( or interpretation) I am constantly amazed how important this distinction is and that what makes us interpret our experience is normaly totally influence by the context in which we are viewing ourself in relationship to.I was reading a piece by Ken Wilber today and stumbled on something he wrote in his book brief history of everything " All surfaces can be seen but all depth must be interpreted. And how we interpret depth is cucially important for the birth of that depth itself. Gracefull and well rounded interpretations of spirit facilitate spirits further descent. Gracefully unpacking the intuition, interpreting the intuition facilitates the emergence of that new spiritual depth.
 On the other hand ungraceful interpretations tend to prevent or abort further spiritual intuitions.Frail or shallow or fragmented interpretations derail the spiritual progress".

Then we explored the idea that enlightenment is not only an experience but a perspective we can choose to take through all changing emotional states. (very important distinction to get and put into practice) Then we looked at how our culture is infected by nascisissm and how that affects us by being overly concerned with ourleves and our little stories. So in-turn this small context for our lives affects the way we interpret our experiance.

Then we explored how we can discover the subject by turning our attention in on itself and dis-identifiying with little objects that arise in our field of attention. This is a profound exercise to do constantly to keep reminding yourself you are not prisoner to your own mind or emotions.

Then we discussed diffenernt types of develpoment and that and that this teaching is concerned with the development of the subject of pure awareness.

I thought that everyone responded well to the class and the material. I am looking forward to going even further in the next class. Remember this is a journey of tensfomation and change and we have only just scratched the surface of human potential.